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President Joe Biden told Democratic governors during a meeting at the White House on Wednesday that part of his plan going forward is to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m. so that he can get more sleep, according to three sources briefed on his comments.

not beating sleepy joe allegations tbh

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[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah he's not dropping out. Rbg all over again lol. Wonder what it will take for libs to stop supporting the democratic party.

Random story but a friend of mine (who's south Asian so not your standard kkk trump supporter) is hoping trump wins because Trump will put money into the stock market and he will benefit. My friend makes 70k a year... This is how completely out of touch people are.

[–] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Trump will put money into the stock market

The stock market literally reached an all-time high under Biden, and most Americans are still struggling. Because 90% of stocks are owned by the top 10%...

[–] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Technicaly ATH under Biden but relative growth Trump still had a sizeable lead, counting both from election day up to COVID and since COVID to election day.

The only thing BIden offers to the market is a relative predictability about future wars specially against China. Otherwise the "market" prefers Trump in almost every scenario.

[–] Droplet@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

All the mainstream economists and economics journals were wrong about the economy, if only people still haven’t memory-holed the constant dooming about recession throughout 2022-2023. They were all wrong.

The fact is that Trump’s growth occurred under a low inflation zero interest rate environment that Obama started. Biden’s presidency has been plagued with record inflation and fastest rate hikes since Volcker shock, yet the stock market continues to grow like never before…

I cannot stress this enough: the neoclassical model is a complete bunk, and it’s amazing that policy makers continue to treat Milton Friedman like a god and his words gospels.

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well, logically, if we put like 100 quadrillion dollars into the stock market then the 10% of stocks owned by the bottom 90% will still rise a ton and everybody will become billionaires. I reckon Trump will do this after he finally enacts his Iraqi Dinar Equalization Bill; I've been holding onto a suitcase full of these things for far too long

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Health

In 1999, Ginsburg was diagnosed with colon cancer, the first of her five bouts with cancer. [...] By February 2020, the cancer had returned but this news was not released to the public. However, by May 2020, Ginsburg was once again receiving treatment for a recurrence of cancer. She reiterated her position that she "would remain a member of the Court as long as I can do the job full steam", adding that she remained fully able to do so.

She died four months later on September 18.

[–] Monk3brain3@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What can you say? Clearly her death was totally unexpected. She still had another 10 years of being a ghoul in her lol

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I dissent!"

"Are you fucking kidding," replies the Grim Reaper.

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[–] Droplet@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My friend (also south Asian) just got his US citizenship earlier this year and he said the first thing he’s gonna do is to vote for Trump.

[–] TemutheeChallahmet@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

These people were probably winnable by Obama, but Joe just has no sauce

[–] TemutheeChallahmet@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

South Asians and Hispanics are in fact the standard kkk Trump supporters

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol the governors are leaking this shit.

[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

gruesome newsome smelling blood in the water

[–] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Nah it was J. B. Pritzker, channeling the spirit of Huey Long.

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

Sun? Downing.

Campaign? Joever.

It's democrat party time.

[–] chauncey@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good thing nothing important ever happens after 8pm.

LMAO they're admitting he's only coherent during the day

[–] jonne 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He called Putin and Xi and they promised not to launch any nukes after 8pm.

[–] fox@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Moscow time

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 46 points 1 year ago

Xi, all you gotta do is wait until 8pm EST to hit the button. xi-button

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the title was "events after sundown" - it would be a straight up Onion headline. Man, we are fucked.

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

He's just a sleeepy little bean. A smol boi who needs his nap nap. A genocidal monster who has murdered hundreds of thousands.

Peak "bumbling white man" .

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

actually just like me fr

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He’s someone I ~~can grab a beer~~ catch some Z’s with

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2024 campaign event: Nap with the President! There will be no questions.

[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For the love of god don't replace the "N" with an "F".

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Guamer@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First gooner president when?

[–] cmhickman358@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

You think Chester A. Arthur wasn't gooning 24/7?

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is proof Trump has lost a step in his old age.

If this were 2016 he would have riffed on this at his events and really gotten the crowd busting up.

Now he's just going through the motions smh

[–] ped_xing@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you sure he isn't saving his heat for 8:01?

[–] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lovely, now he's just like my parents. Is he going to give a presser on the need to serve prune juice at state dinners? Maybe do an at length interview with the Post on the need to have a walk-in bathtub installed at the White House.

[–] ped_xing@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's frustrating is how he's not like my folks, near the same age. They're getting their steps in, adjust to European time as fast as anyone else and one can go full-on Putin with the history lectures, nailing detail after detail with no regard to how late it's getting. And yet the media portrays the concern about his brain being pudding as ageism. It's not about old people in general, it's about this particular old fuck who doesn't know which Biden he is.

biden-alert

[–] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Different people are different. I have an 85 year old inlaw who is physically feeble but still has a sharp mind. She has Fox News brainworms, but can hold a conversation and remember things that happened yesterday. She walks slow, but still wins family poker nights.

I also watched my 70 year old grandmother riddled with dementia try to eat a banana without peeling it.

This is not ageism, it is acknowledging reality.

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This is a fucking simulation.

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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Article 25 when?

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

I avoid any social events after 8 pm too, but of course I'm not asking people to give me tens of millions of dollars so I can stay in as the head of government.

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[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what if something happens in the waking hours of 9 pm. what then joe.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

man who absolutely must be in the race for leader of the empire: i do not display cognitive functioning during night time

[–] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

I thought this was fakenews at first

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Thankfully world events stop occurring after 8PM Biden time

[–] Sasuke@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

wow, i love a president who practices self-care!

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Maybe Joe should move to China. The government has reduced the amount of homework so sleep time can increase.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

America is Joellapsing.

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[–] moonlake@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Based and snoozepilled sleepi blob-sleep niko-sleep toriel-snooze

[–] Sasuke@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

this is so bad even the biaoqing-copium libs on r/politics are saying it's joever

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