Here are the drawbacks to voting for these two candidates. As for people who think Biden’s age is a drawback, look at what he’s accomplished as president — and imagine what he could accomplish with a Democratic majority in the Senate and House.<\/p>\n
Thanks to Keith Olbermann<\/a> for helping me remember some of these.<\/p>\n
Biden<\/strong><\/td>\n| Trump<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Supported Israel’s war on Gaza<\/td>\n | Led an attempted insurrection against the US government, leading to 7 dead and many injured and his own vice president coming dangerously close to being hanged<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Lied over and over about how the 2020 election was stolen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Sexually assaulted at least one woman<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Defamed the woman he sexually assaulted, over and over until he was fined $83 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Stole classified documents from the White House and refused to give them back<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Revealed classified information to at least one foreign individual<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Encouraged people not to wear masks during the pandemic, leading to hundreds of thousands of more deaths in the US than otherwise would have occurred<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | He and his team, failing to wear masks, spread Covid-19 wherever they went — Herman Cain died from it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Waits until he sees the reaction to what he says and then decides whether to claim he was joking<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Headed a company that was so fraudulent his business license was taken away in New York and he was fined $354 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Shouldn’t even be on the ballot because if you read the 14th amendment it says you can’t be on the ballot if you supported an insurrection<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Scammed his followers out of millions by telling them he was investigating fraud in the 2020 election<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Historians ranked him 45th out of 45 presidents of the US<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Claimed that he had a health care plan when he didn’t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Ordered transgendered people out of the military<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Violently disapproved of football players taking a knee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Threatened to defund sanctuary cities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Called the news media the enemy of the people<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Insisted a hurricane would hit a certain state when it wasn’t going to, and defaced an official map with a marker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Blamed wildfires on not enough raking of the forest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Ignored the Emoluments Clause, allowing himself and his business to benefit monetarily from his position as president<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Looked at the sun during a solar eclipse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Claimed Obama was not born in the US<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Stated he couldn’t release his tax returns because he was being audited, which was a lie<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Threatened to nuke North Korea and Iran, on Twitter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Revealed classified information to Russian individuals when no one else was in the room<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Talked privately to Putin, an enemy of democracy, a bunch of times<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Boasted about acing a test, even though that test is only given to people who might have dementia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Sided with Russia when it was found that Russia interfered in the US election<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Lied about the Wall that he wanted to build between US and Mexico<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Attempted to deport Dreamers, people who were born in the US to undocumented parents<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Pulled out of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, which had 195 countries in it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Attempted to withhold money to Ukraine until they did him a political favour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Allowed people in his administration to use private email servers, even though he only won the election because Hillary Clinton did that and people were upset about it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Insulted the memories of soldiers killed in battle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n | <\/td>\n | Insulted and threatened protestors, for example the people protesting the murder of George Flloyd<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Sabotaged the US post office in an effort to reduce the number of mail-in ballots which favour Democrats<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Accused various Democratic politicians of treason, with no evidence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Refused to say that he would accept the outcome of the 2016 election and the 2020 election<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Appointed justices to the Supreme Court who were not worthy, who lied during their hearings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Got his Attorney General to create a summary of the Mueller Report that twisted its contents<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Put kids in cages, separated from their parents, at the border<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Inspired violence in his followers with his racist rhetoric<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Refused to denounce anyone, no matter how terrible, as long as they liked him — like David Duke, former leader of the KKK<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Attempted to intimidate judges and witnesses who were just doing their job and telling the truth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Violated the Hatch Act by engaging in political activities throughout his presidency<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Failed to read the daily briefing that other presidents get, due to a lack of attention span and a lack of caring about the job<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Abused the pardon power, pardoning people that like him rather than people who deserve it<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Demanded loyalty oaths from people who worked in his administration — loyalty to him, not the country<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Only ran in 2016 to boost his visibility, and only ran in 2024 to avoid the legal consequences of his actions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Appointed people who were unqualified to significant positions, including family members<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Lied about the crowd size for his inauguration, Obama’s was bigger<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Attempted to buy Greenland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Cut corporate taxes to their lowest level since 1939, which didn’t do anything good for the economy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Impeached twice, by people who had evidence that he committed high crimes and misdemeanors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Presided over the longest government shutdown in history<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Managed to overturn Roe v. Wade with his Supreme Court picks, resulting in abortions being severely curtailed in many states<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Lied about being a self-made man, his father gave him $413 million<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Incapable of speaking at the level we expect presidents to speak at, look at any of the debates — compare how Trump speaks to how George W. Bush speaks, and we thought he was not so smart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Claimed he had immunity from prosecution of any crimes he committed while president, with no evidence such a thing existed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | His own wife is unsupportive of his reelection efforts, she hasn’t been appearing at campaign events<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Has lost whatever competence he once had, he repeatedly makes mistakes about who’s president, the date of the election, and whether World War II has already happened<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | Threatened retribution on his political enemies, even going as far as quoting Hitler<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | Here are the drawbacks to voting for these two candidates. As for people who think Biden’s age is a drawback, look at what he’s accomplished as president — and imagine what he could accomplish with a Democratic majority in the Senate and House. 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