Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) went after former President Trump for his legal woes in an interview on MSNBC Saturday. “I’ll take the individual who’s 81 over the guy who has 91 felony c…

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) went after former President Trump for his legal woes in an interview on MSNBC Saturday.

“I’ll take the individual who’s 81 over the guy who has 91 felony counts,” Swalwell said, making a reference to President Biden’s age in an interview on MSNBC’s “The Katie Phang Show” on Saturday.

“It’s not about two individuals,” Swalwell continued, speaking about the 2024 election. “It’s about the idea of competence versus chaos, or even greater, freedom versus fascism. If we make it about those ideas, and what they mean in our daily lives, we’re gonna win.”

Swalwell’s comments come after Trump was ordered to pay almost $355 million in penalties in a civil fraud case and amid increased scrutiny faced by the president on his age and memory in the wake of a special counsel report on Biden’s handling of classified documents. The report noted that Biden had problems with memory and recall.

  • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
    241·
    9 months ago

    I can’t help but assume you don’t work in politics and have zero experience with this

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      515·
      9 months ago

      That is true. Do you?

      I would have thought him being a rapist and wanting to be a dictator would be better reasons to convince people not to vote for him.

      • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
        111·
        9 months ago

        Do you think this one sentence was the only opportunity every Democrat had to talk about this?

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          58·
          9 months ago

          I think Democrats are not talking about Trump being a rapist very much and not talking about how he wants to be a dictator enough. And instead are going for what they think are pithy soundbites.

          “Don’t vote for the rapist” seems like a pretty good sell to me.

          • Nudding@lemmy.world
            15·
            9 months ago

            Are they talking about the genocide enough or is that one of the topics you’d like to sweep under the rug?

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              23·
              9 months ago

              Sounds like you’ve already decided I support Israel, so I doubt anything I say about that would change your mind.

              But do feel free to support that decision with evidence.

              • Nudding@lemmy.world
                15·
                9 months ago

                If you’re supporting Biden, you’re supporting Israel. Do I need to explain how that train of thought works?

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                  21·
                  9 months ago

                  Please tell me which candidate that has a chance of winning that I should vote for in order to keep the traitor rapist wannabe dictator out of office. I’ll consider voting for them. Because I don’t like genocide either. And I don’t want to see my queer daughter being part of the Republican genocide they dream about.

                  • Nudding@lemmy.world
                    13·
                    9 months ago

                    I’m not here to help you morally justify your vote. You’ll have to live with your choice for the rest of your life.

                    Surely you have other options besides genocide abroad and genocide domestic.

      • jaemo@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        9 months ago

        Perhaps the zeitgeist of a large swath American voting public is opaque and inscrutable to you then. But that’s not a bad thing. Sympatico with those views could be far worse.

        But you’re debating the catchiness of a phrase. There might be nobler fights out there to choose. Is it not enough that the rep in question is speaking out against a wannabe dictator? Or are we going to split into factions concerned with the degree of condemnation and the minutiae of what words he used to condemn him with?