For those who can’t be bothered to watch the video: Biden talks with Trump supporter, signs a presidential hat, trades for the Trump supporter’s hat, briefly wears it.
Also jokes about being so old he forgot his name, tells the guy “hell no” when asked if he wants him to sign the Trump hat, and tells people not to eat dogs.
Also it wasn’t a “unity gesture”. It was a funny moment for the people in the room and/or was intended to make the Trump convert more comfortable.
Either way, it was absolutely fine in context. The only concern is how it could be taken out of context, and fuck that. I’m tired of walking a tightrope worrying about what Fox News might say.
If it was a “unity gesture”, it was for that one guy. It wasn’t for the Fox News audience.
“I’m tired of walking a tightrope worrying about what Fox News might say.”
I’m going to give you some advice that my great aunt Edna gave me 35 years ago, when I went to my first day at kindergarten, and the other kids made fun of me.
“Fuck 'em! Fuck the whole lot! Who gives a shit what they say? They probably poop the bed everynight!”
You’d be surprised how often that advice applies to current situations.
Guess who won’t be bothered to watch the video?
MAGA idiots.
Could you fucking not?
Fuck Biden for not realizing how the MAGA crew is going to weaponize this photo op.
What on this Earth has led you to believe that they need actual true events to weaponize. Where have you been living that you think something actually needs to be true or to have occurred for them to weaponize it?
Absolutely nothing has led me to believe that things need to be real for right wing propaganda, since I don’t believe that.
Doing something for real means that the actual real media will report on it and that could have an impact on low engagement voters who watch the real news and not Fox News or other right wing propaganda. The fact that it is on the real news means it is more easily weaponized against those low engagement voters, which Dems need to win.
Oh no. Are we forever to dance around the next moronic thing they decide to turn into propaganda? I hope you don’t have a cat.
No, but we don’t have to shoot ourselves in the foot either.
Biden putting on a Trump hat is juat about the dumbest fucking thing he could do right now. It is like Biden waving a confederate flag or hugging Putin.
You’re nuts lol
This small interaction will have an equally small affect on anything. If anything, it helped show one Trump voter that Biden is just a dude who can good around
I thought whoever did this shop was pretty funny
Guh huh look at me in the rapist hat. What a gesture
If you watch the video it’s a sweet and nice moment.
Biden has always had a good sense of humor. I remember the memes from 2010, he was funny then too.
Yeah, but the trump campaign won’t make sure that everyone has carefully watched the video to see how sweet a moment it is. They will just use the image of Boden wearing a Trump 2024 hat.
I know the Maga right will go nuts with this, but, maybe that’s good? Maybe it will show how deranged they are to the people who can be swayed?
Uhg and groan. Listen 9/11 wasnt about solidarity between political parties. I mean the event did allow the parties to craft the Patriot act, and sell away alot of our freedoms for the lie of security… but i consider that a bad thing. It’s this attempt to find common ground with the republicans that has got me so upset at this political climate to begin with. 9/11 is in remembrance to those that died, don’t use it for anything political
If you watch the video, he wasn’t using it for anything political. He’s doing low stakes crowd work. He’s chatting with people, gives a guy in a trump hat a signed hat while making some self deprecating jokes and good natured insults to the guy in the trump hat. Definitely makes like he’s going to steal the guys hat, and puts it on for a second for a bigger laugh.
Optics good, bad, or neutral, it wasn’t a planned “solidarity” thing like the headline makes it sound.
A better headline would have been “Biden borrows trump hat for laugh at lunch following 9/11 memorial event”
Fair enough. I’m just going to find something else to think about. Been worked up after unfavorable canidate talk
I saw someone share a photo of this and assumed it was photoshop!
Life is photoshop. We’re all in the matrix. Except this is wish.com matrix.
The Machines in our timeline discovered that we would instinctively reject their artificial world if it wasn’t stupid enough.
