You’re missing the point. When the other side refuses to go after Trump for his very obvious and much more serious flaws, you either sit down and accept that your candidate is probably going to lose or you do something about it.

“I know? We didn’t have an old incumbent in office in 2016, but we still ended up with a compromise candidate.”

The problem with declaring you are a one term POTUS is that in inherently compromises your negotiating power on the world stage—-instead of having to wait you out 8 years, they’d only have to wait you out 4 years (or less), so I understand why he did it. And no party likes to give up the usual incumbent bump unless…

“I don’t know that he “barely” criticized trump, but again I only watched a little bit of it (TDS has never been my thing). I also hesitate to go with the narrative that we have to start being more like the right wing media. The way they “push the narrative” is through blatant lies and fear-mongering. Is that really…

“Everybody sees it. lol We all know what’s going on. You’re not the only one with a brain.”

Two flaws with that:

So you want to blame Joe for not stepping down. Fine.

First of all, I never once said anything about people not discussing this in forums—-not sure where you got THAT from. This is about an influential host on an influential show critiquing Biden for something we are already aware of (he’s old) and reinforcing the narrative into everybody’s head.

“Could’ve addressed this sooner, but we all stopped holding the government accountable on election day.”

“Once again: it is not the media’s job, nor has it ever been the media’s job, to overlook the flaws in your favorite candidate just because you view it as necessary for the greater good.”

In a normal situation, absolutely. However, when you are facing the ominous proposition of Trump regaining power, decimating the government and instituting a Christofascist state, some things have to be held off on.

Oh really? Make sure you inform the right wing comedians who DO make it their jobs to do favors for Trump.

Downplayed? He spent an entire segment attacking both for being old and barely even touched on Jan 6th, the numerous unrelated criminal indictments, and didn’t even mention Trump’s recent promise to be a dictator.

Joe isn’t likely to step down, but should we really be attacking him when, as Jon said, he is the only thing keeping us from disaster?

“Stewart, the architect of that stupid “rally to restore sanity””

I think, perhaps, you don’t realize what will happen to this country should Trump win in November.

Man, he didn’t do Joe any favors tonight. And kinda downplayed the threat that Trump presents if he were to win.

Reagan was the virtuoso. Should never had let him go.

Not too far off. The Beat Generation were known as the godfathers of modern death metal.

Ronald Reagan was in the Beatles???