https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/biden-digging-in-presidential-race/678961/

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    r/politics thread

    Emphasis mine.

    “I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and did the good as job as I know I could do,” Biden said in what was probably the most quoted line—and not favorably—from his Friday-night interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “That’s what it’s all about” is how Biden ended that thought, which seemed to unleash a furious internal cry from so many viewers: No, that’s not what this is all about.

    C’mon, man.

    “That is the answer that most concerned me,” Representative Adam Schiff, Democrat of California, said Sunday morning on NBC’s Meet the Press. “This is not just about whether he gave it the best college try.” Wasn’t this, supposedly, about the fate of democracy? Existential threats and all the big words and phrases that Biden and his campaign have been tossing out for months? You have to wonder, in retrospect, if they were sincere about how must-win this election really was, given how cavalier Biden sounds.

    I like how they edited out goodest to just good. He definitely said "I gave it my all and did the goodest job..."

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      3 months ago

      A lot of old people that know they've got maybe a couple years left stop giving a fuck about almost everything.

      My guess is that Biden probably doesn't give a fuck what happens after he's gone because he knows he's dead soon. I doubt he believes he'd survive the entire term.

    • LocalOaf [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      I saw the clip from the interview and he definitely said "goodest," why are they all pretending he said something else when it's still something incorrect that still makes him sound like a confused old man that's losing his language faculties? pepe-silvia

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        3 months ago

        goodest is more easily mockable, it's still shit but making the best of a bad situation while having no respect for the people they're misleading. laughing at the rubes and dabbing on the rest