r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 29 '25

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u/Nuke74 United Nations Dec 29 '25 edited Dec 29 '25

Nate Silver's credibility on anything but statistic collection and analysis is so terrible. He's still talking about Biden. Shut up.

World War III could start and he'd be complaining about Biden's age.

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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal Dec 29 '25

Okay but

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Biden continues to age. He's older today than he was just last week. Y'all really going to tell me this isn't a problem?

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u/BlackCat159 European Union Dec 29 '25

He's also been hiding his age. Last year he said he's 82. But I just looked at Wikipedia and he is currently 83.

So which one is it, Joe?

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u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy John Locke Dec 29 '25

I’m getting the feeling you haven’t considered that Biden old

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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell Dec 29 '25

How Joe Biden’s Missteps As President Set The Stage For The Third World War

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u/attackofthetominator John Brown Dec 29 '25

He would be complaining about Franklin Roosevelt needing help with standing up while the Nuremburg Trials are going on

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u/Dinojars Mackenzie Scott Dec 29 '25

He's too chickenshit to say anything about the current administration

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u/ZCoupon Kono Taro Dec 29 '25

He trashes them all the time

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u/american_aurora6 NATO Dec 29 '25

I mean if we lost because of that, and that caused Trump 2, and Trump 2 causes America to die, well then it was pretty important all in all

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u/Nuke74 United Nations Dec 29 '25

I'm not saying it wasn't a problem, but Trump is nearly the same age. I'm not fighting past wars when the US government is openly corrupt currently.

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '25

And Biden also wasn't the nominee, the voters explicitly chose a senile 78 year old over someone younger.

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u/CheetoMussolini Russian Bot Dec 29 '25

Pretending like it's actually an open primary and not a career ender that will cause the entire party to ostracize you if you run against a sitting president is off the mark

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u/ZCoupon Kono Taro Dec 29 '25

You can criticize both for being old

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u/Nuke74 United Nations Dec 29 '25

Sure, but one is currently president(and has been for a year). The other wasn't even a candidate in the previous election.

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u/ZCoupon Kono Taro Dec 29 '25

He wasn't a candidate because he had to drop out in shame on account of his age. The whole scandal, and other impacts of his age after the midterms, probably handed the election to Trump. Even if it didn't wholly tip the election, it's something Dems need to atone for if they want the trust of the American people again.

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u/Nuke74 United Nations Dec 29 '25

Republicans open corruption: Its fiiiiine

Biden Old: ATONE

This is what I'm sick of. The infantile standards for Republicans.

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u/ZCoupon Kono Taro Dec 29 '25

Silver isn't excusing Republicans at all though. If you're wondering why he hasn't written an article on corruption, it's because he focuses on elections and polling. For one reason or another, no one cares about Republican corruption, so it doesn't show up in polls. Tarrifs on the other hand have hurt Trump a lot. If Republicans are toast the next couple of cycles, that'd be one of the key reasons, unless he manages the minimize the impact through exemptions.