ADDED: My son John is live-blogging at Facebook, here.
AND: After the debate, the commentators on CNN seem to all be on the same page proclaiming that Biden was dismal and that Democrats are panicking and planning to figure out how to replace Biden. I didn’t think Biden was that bad. I thought it was bad, but not that bad. So it seems to me that the commentators and the Democrats — these panicking Democrats — were ready to go with this attack. This seems completely phony and planned to me.
पोस्ट्स
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«सर्वात जुने ‹थोडे जुने 422 पैकी 201 – 400 नवीन› नवीनतम»Woof woof, that magical dog!
And I'd be happy to have the election settled by 18-hole medal play.
One round at Pebble Beach with a PGA rules committee from the same tees.
I'm guessing Trump would shoot under 85 (I did and he's better than me) and Joe would be at least 150.
"Trump was a fool for agreeing to these stupid debate conditions, just like he was a fool for his previous stupid Cabinet appointments. Stupid is as Stupid does."
Is there going to be a comment in this thread that better exemplifies our LLRs? Now imagine the world where Trump declined the challenge to this debate under these conditions- what do you think Lonejustice would have written about that- do any of you, including the LLRs, think Lonejustice would have written that Trump made a smart move in declining the debate?
Biden voice is almost gone.
The drugs are wearing off...
Great close to that segment by Biden. It's the worst question in journalism. ("Will you accept the results of the election?" Of course the answer is always 'Sure, if it is a fair election...") The thing to do with that subject is to always turn it to Trump's wildly false and crazy claims that 2020 was "stolen."
"I wish he was a great president because I wouldn't be here right now."
Trump said. heh.
I also want to know more about the dog!
I think the moderators are asking questions that really interest voters. It’s very frustrating that neither candidate answers the question. Trump is a pitiful debater, and he is mopping the floor w Biden.
Biden blaming Trump for things that happened on Crooks Joe's watch.
classic.
Whew! We made it.
CNN did well, as I said.
Trump could have been crisper. Biden was a train wreck.
I can't shake the feeling I'm watching an updated version of the USSR where the aged leader is obviously a crumbling wreck but everyone knows he'll still win 98.5% of the vote. . . . .
Now thank God CNN is giving us the run down on what ACKSHUALLY happened. Trump lied many times - delusional ! But: Biden failed to fact check him, so there's that.
Meanwhile Trump and Biden stand there and listen to this. Humiliating.
CNN is kicking off their post debate coverage by saying President Biden lost.
AMAZING
Biden answered questions, even if he did stutter and hesitate, but he knows his stuff. Trump did his song and dance didn’t answer questions, regurgitated the same nonsensical crap, he is a loser and a whiner.
MSNBC/ NBC spin: Biden has a cold.
lol.
From VodkaPundit (Stephen Green) drunkblog .. Michelle Obama is trending.
Inga jumps in for some last minute old man-crook butt sniffing.
I don't know what is more hilarious tonight- Biden's weak, weak performance or Chuck's comments in this thread. I am going to have pull a Chuck and bookmark this thread- or even screen-capture it.
Good gravy. Biden brings up Charlottesville. The the first post debate panel on CNN characterizes it as TRUMP lied about it.
Watching CNN - David Axel rod's supply is wet in weird places. What's up with that?
CNN basically calling for Biden to be replaced
"Biden answered questions, even if he did stutter and hesitate, but he knows his stuff. "
Biden knows his stuff? That's what you took away from this? I don't know what to say.
*Axelrod's suit
Anthony 9:40 - yes. They are going to replace Biden, -OR- fortify the Cheat machine - ala USSR.
Van Jones is nearly speechless with disappointment at Biden's performance. This is stunning
Biden is getting pulled. What a catastrophe.
Collective Soviet Democxrat media: "Trump responded with falsehoods!"
My belief that Biden will not be the candidate was strengthened tonight.
He's being slaughtered on CNN right now.
Ok, CNN is all in on Biden being replaced. Holy smokes
Michelle
Hillary
New-sum
Kamala? - bets?
"Biden knows his stuff? That's what you took away from this? I don't know what to say."
I guess it depends on the definition of . . . "stuff."
LOL! The Biden team is already out there telling people Joe had a cold- maybe they should have claimed it was Bird Flu.
This was a terrible performance by Biden- he wasn't as confused as he usually is but, Jeebus, did he look and sound old and frail and I can't really remember him at any time tonight rebutting anything- just repeating stuff over and over. I think Biden needed an audience more than Trump did- the lack of an audience probably changed the way Trump approached this thing tonight- Trump was more Interview Trump than Rally Trump- a big plus for him if I am being honest- no malarkey!
The pressure on Biden to withdraw will be enormous after tonight. I can imagine Shelob and Hair Gel Gruesome are starting to initiate their plans. Newsom should have run in the primaries- he would have defeated Biden easily- now it is going to be a mess getting Biden to step aside.
I don't disagree that this was a planned "hit job" but they're also bringing up how the Biden campaign's focus groups had Trump's numbers going down because of his tone, attitude, lies, etc. That was the most in control and having the least negative tone I think I've ever seen from Trump, especially in a debate context.
Peter Daou
@peterdaou
It is criminal political negligence that Democrats rigged their primary to nominate Biden, who looks half-alive on the debate stage facing Trump.
I figured Rich wouldn't show up to this thread. What a puddintane.
According to my copyrighted scoring system, the results thus far are:
Trump: INFINITY
Brandon: Dick
BillieBob Thorton said...
"Angry Brandon is making an appearance"
That's probably the steroids. Prednisone is great for infections. It has a side effect of focusing your thoughts. It also screws with your emotions.
Who ever thought that this debate would help Biden should be fired.
Joe’s out.
Can the democrats reform RFK Jr.a little bit and install him as the nominee? He's a nice guy, his wife is pretty, that should be enough...
CNN post debate discussion is going after Biden as if he were Caesar and they all just happen to have shiny, new knives.
"I figured Rich wouldn't show up to this thread."
How many times did he tell us Trump wouldn't show up?
"Here we go with the Trump lying; abortions "after birth." "
Square this circle Chuckles.
Biden says the government should not be involved. It should be the woman and the doctor.
Now some women will choose a late term abortion... you know, the thing the left says just doesn't happen.
So, no government intervention absolutely allows partial birth abortions.
If Biden still denies that he should have to set a limit (subject to LIFE of the mother).
But he won't and neither will any of the pro choice Democratics.
How many times did the moderators tell Joe you still have so many minutes left?
Translation: Joe doesn’t have much to cheer about.
I would love to watch an actual debate. Hasn't happened in my lifetime, and I watched Kennedy Nixon. The whole format sucks. Have a. real debate. Moderated by someone capable, not the typical Stalins propagandist.
Never watched more than 5 minutes of any of these things.
No one is willing to debate ideas anymore. Not in the Senate, or the house or any politician.
MSNBC: "Trump lost too!"
Oh Lord, coming up live on CNN - Kamala Harris.
Now we know why the collective left desperately didn't want Trump to show up.
Somebody get lyin' Chuck a valium before he explodes.
After this they're gonna have to go subbing
Cause we just saw a catastrophic drubbing
He's not conceding
But there's no concealing
This was as ugly as baby seal clubbing
"No one is willing to debate ideas anymore. Not in the Senate, or the house or any politician."
I don't think they're capable of it. Our "leaders" are not the best and the brightest.
disappearing comments
Ukrainian orphan blood ain't cuttin' it anymore.
Mary Beth - RFK jr. isn't a Soviet Arabella mob-whore.
So - no.
The knives are finally out. It will be fascinating and instructive to see who will be the eventual Democratic candidate. I can't imagine that it wasn't decided already for quite some time.
Jamie said...
Ok, CNN is all in on Biden being replaced. Holy smokes
I decided to check out CNN as well - they admit Biden is a disaster but cannot bring themselves to say anything positive about Trump (except the Kentucky guy [Reynolds?} and some bald guy). Biden lied about Charlottesville (so much for Snopes giving him an in-kind contribution before the debate) but most of the panel talked non-stop about Trump's "lies" and now they are in super panic mode - convinced that swapping in a new candidate will solve the "Trump" problem. As in, Trump, currently at 47% approval rating.
Can Trump beat Whitmer?
Do the Donks have the equivalent of Hugh Scott and Barry Goldwater waiting to walk over to the White House?
He showed up, he stood up and he put several sentences together.
That was the bar and he met it.
Four more years.
Of Kamala.
"Our "leaders" are not the best and the brightest."
The incentives are all wrong. Perhaps, if the government was run as it was originally designed...
Dr. Jill bears a lot of responsibility. She doesn’t want all the bennies and trappings of power to disappear. Fuck the country!
Beyond train wreck.
Beyond spin.
Beyond help.
Two calls.
Obama.
Then Gavin.
"The incentives are all wrong. Perhaps, if the government was run as it was originally designed..."
Exactly.
"The incentives are all wrong. Perhaps, if the government was run as it was originally designed..."
Exactly.
Build Biden back better.
"Can Trump beat Whitmer?"
I doubt it. I fear tonight just elected a Democrat president. We just don't know who yet.
Two thoughts
1. What to do about kamala?
2. I thought I caught a hint of a suggestion of an idea on the cnn panel that a compromise might be in order. Both parties should replace their candidates.
Dems: "we will if you will"
Reps, I would hope, "go fuck yourselves"
John Henry
Morning Joe, Mika and “Dr.Jill” hardest hit.
"The incentives are all wrong. Perhaps, if the government was run as it was originally designed..."
Exactly.
Wow, Chris Wallace can not say anything nice about Biden.... "he came up empty tonight".
Stunning
Of course they hate Trump more than ever, it's just annoying them now that they have to put all their energy into getting some newcomer up to speed.
It’s certainly of no comfort and it’s a national embarrassment that an old man ready for hospice is our CiC.
G. Newsome on MSLSD saying he has Biden's back!
This is hysterical.
CNN is now pivoting to a Fetterman campaign - the individual doesn't matter. We'll be holding the strings so don't worry.
I'm not okay with Joe Biden giving Black families, and just Black families, $10,000 to buy their first homes. I doubt 87% of the population is okay with this.
A week ago I would have said; "They'll never replace Biden this late in the game!"! Now, I'm not so sure. Back then I would have said; "Who are they going to get? They're all way too hard Left." Now, I think it's more a matter of who'd be crazy enough to step in at this point. The only way they could get any traction after this shitshow would be to move back towards the center. That will send their current loony voter base completely over the edge. It will be political suicide for whoever they get.
"Build Biden back better."
[In the voice of Richard Anderson] Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic moron.
MSNBC is downright funereal.
It reminds me of election night 2016
CNN. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
they just can't believe that Biden is, in fact, as decrepit/blundering/empty-headed as every casual viewer has known for months. Fuc*in morons for burying their head in the sand.
Politico: Biden is Toast
NYT: This is a disaster.
The Biden administration, such as it is, is going to jail Donald Trump. By then Biden will have withdrawn from the race and Gavin Newsome is gonna be handed that nomination. All the wild crazy shit I was reading about in 2021 are gonna happen. There has to be a reckoning.
CNN is all about replacing Biden. Always couched on BOTH Trump* and Biden are not qualified.
*Apparently every word out of Trump's mouth, including the and and, were lies.
Anderson Cooper is pushing against Harris. I like Cooper s, as progressives go - I hope he keeps pushing.
Harris is doing her best but she can't overcome Biden's terrible performance. Cooper is pushing her about Biden's performance now versus when SHE debated him in 2020. Good for him.
And she is still looking backwards, just like Biden.
Quote of the night.
Trump: "We knock on wood wherever we may have wood"
Frank Luntz, focus group, 14 undecideds.
12 out of 14 say they are now leaning Trump.
This will go viral and Joe is done:
https://x.com/Brick_Suit/status/1806523856431264249
"Biden answered questions, even if he did stutter and hesitate, but he knows his stuff. Trump did his song and dance didn’t answer questions, regurgitated the same nonsensical crap, he is a loser and a whiner."
Dude, Joe is done.
Which exposes the lie that he was ever competent to begin with.
Who's been running the show?
I didn’t think Biden was that bad.
Narrator: He was that bad.
Agree with The Professor. It was a shock to flip on MSNBC and hear the entire panel surrendering. Never expected that from them.
Biden was no worse than he’s been for the last 3 years. Therefore his Great Replacement has been carefully planned out. But that confounds me as to why Lawfare has been used on DJT. Maybe it’s just been Hillary’s murderous spirit seeking Arkancide revenge.
I'm going to get up extra early tomorrow am just to see what Althouse posts (I'm always 3-4 hours too late)
The CNN panel after the debate was unanimous, that Biden's ship isn't just taking on water, it is sinking.
Glug gulg glug don't let that whirling propeller cut you in half on its way down.
Let Chuck, Inga, Rich Left Bank, Freder et al chew on that.
After all your lies, the LEAST you can do is commit seppuku, preferably with a dull clam knife.
The democrats just had a virtual "Convention" to get Biden on the Ohio ballot.
Whoever the replacement is wont be on the Ohio ballot.
I agree that Biden did better than I expected. Although that was a fairly low bar. One of my "life long New York Jewish Democrat" friends (his characterization not mine) though Joe looked old and withered--but mostly spoke the truth. Well my mileage varied on whether Joe was "mostly speaking the truth".
And yes CNN's panel was seemingly eager to flush the Biden nomination down the drain.
Everbody, take two aspirin and see how you and the rest of the nation feel tomorrow.
"Whoever the replacement is wont be on the Ohio ballot."
I bet they will.
"We have the capability to make the world's first bionic moron."
Brilliant. Thank you, Yancey Ward.
I have this vision of Biden trying to step into an SUV in ultra-slow motion as the soundtrack goes yang-yang-yang-yang-ning-ning-ning-ning-wong-wong-wong-wong.
donald said...”The Biden administration, such as it is, is going to jail Donald Trump. By then Biden will have withdrawn from the race and Gavin Newsome is gonna be handed that nomination. All the wild crazy shit I was reading about in 2021 are gonna happen. There has to be a reckoning.”
Roughly half of the states would sue to secede were that to happen. Oh, we’ll ask nicely first—forcefully with direct language. Failing that—well, guns.
Nicholas Kristof: I wish Biden would reflect on this debate performance and then announce his decision to withdraw from the race.
A week or two ago I cynically hypothesized to a friend that the reason the Dem poobahs pushed for such an early debate date was to see if Biden could remain competitive with Trump.
If not, then they would still have time to come up with a potentially more viable candidate at their Convention.
Damn, I wasn't nearly as cynical as I thought!
Adios, Scranton Joe: To paraphrase Dean Wormer in Animal House: being senile, tired and weak is no way to go through life, son!
It might have been planned but it's wasn't phony.
The people I watched on CNN and MSNBC were genuinely disturbed.
I watched a little of the debate without sound and thought Biden did something less than terrible - slack-jawed early and angry later but relatively alert and under control.
Boy was I wrong.
The clips on CNN of him phasing out were informative.
"Visiting Angels, America's choice in home care..."
If they replace him with Gavin, Kimberly G. knows where all the bodies are buried...
Biden performed according to the form sheet. Nothing he did had not done by him before.
Dude, Joe is done.
Best comment on the thread ... responding to Inga.
Huge lol
This is bad. Jill has to help Joe off the debate stage after it's over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0djN1AR7UNk
Shades of Election Night, November 2016 in the pained, hangdog looks on the Democrat media tonight. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch, lol.
Jon Stewart: A lot of people have resting 25th Amendment face
too funny
Time for some campaign songs. “ HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE. THE SKYS ARE CLEAR AGAIN. SO LETS SING A SONG OF CHEER AGAIN. HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN.
Does anyone know the phone number for Adult Protective Services in Atlanta?
Iman: I wish Nicholas Kristof would reflect on this debate performance, how shocked and unprepared he was for this and fuck right off.”
Those who assume that Joe will step aside and the nomination will then be given to someone waiting in the wings (e.g., Newsom, Whitmer, Michelle Obama, Hillary (!!!!) ) need to tell me how the Democrats will get Kamala Harris to also step aside. She’s going to demand something big.
"Ok, CNN is all in on Biden being replaced."
24 hours ago, these people all supported FJB.
Rhetorical question: How could anyone possibly take anything these people say from this point on seriously? Either they realized Joe was a turnip all along and went along with it or they didn't and are just now finding out. Neither is a good look.
ha ha ha
Iman at 11:29
ditto!
How many people were totally taken unawares of Biden's decline at the debate because they have been completely sheltered by the MSM? From comments I am reading, even the media seems to be shocked at what they saw, having excused Biden's previous issues as cheap fakes. Can 90 minutes of undeniable frailty hold up to claims of cheap fake?
I do feel sorry for the people on the left. You are behind by 6, at your own 30 yard line with 1 second on the clock. Time for the hail Mary. But it isn't Pearson down field, and Staubach is not winding up his big right arm.
"Dems just pulled a mob hit on their own president and nominee"--Walter Kirn
This is bad. Jill has to help Joe off the debate stage after it's over.
That was pretty bad, but find the clip of Jill and Joe onstage at their post debate party. Jill actually says to Joe "Honey you did great. You answered all the questions." -In the exact same tone I used when my three year old finished their crayon drawings for preschool. It actually made me feel bad for Joe Biden.
So, who will save the Dems?
Not Kamala. Gavin? But 1. white male and 2. Kamala. Michelle? Doesn't want it.
Solution, as I recommended way back: Oprah!
The Hill: Tonight's debate ended Joe Biden's political life
So I feel like at this point in the story it is about time for loyal Democratic voters to start a chant of,
I believe that he can win.
I believe that he can win.
I believe that he can win.
Ann Althouse said "This seems completely phony and planned to me."
I agree. I don't know what that plan is but God help us all.
Not exactly phony. This was their "Plan B" if Biden couldn't pull another SOTU-level performance out of his pants.
Panic
Panic
Panic
Deep Panic
and
Full Blown Panic
KJP is gonna have a tough time of it in the morning.
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?
The lefty's dream of Biden channeling Ali's rope-a-dope strategy just got knocked to the canvass for a full 10-count.
All they got is Trump told a "pure. total lie". Is it truly pure? 100%, total, no impurity lie? Can you at least admit it is more like 99 and 44/100 pure lie? (HT Eddie Rabbitt)
Of course, like with any trench-coated, watch-seller on the streets of New Yawk, the Rolex might not be completely genuine.
Just last week, last week (!), Joe Scarborough asserted Dementia-Glitch is the best Joe Biden: intellectually and analytically sharper than he's ever been. Evah!
Its almost as if ALL the lefty talking heads and New Soviet Democratical apparatchiks have been lying to us non-stop for years!
"From comments I am reading, even the media seems to be shocked at what they saw, having excused Biden's previous issues as cheap fakes."
Shocked? How is it possible to be in THE NEWS BUSINESS and not know about this?
How is it possible to be in THE NEWS BUSINESS and not know about this?
Never underestimate people's propensity to lie to themselves because they are unwilling to accept reality.
Joe Biden won the democrat primary 3894 to 43.
I don't know what the issue is.
A "6 handicap"!
LOL
https://x.com/PGATUOR/status/1806532214303195304?t=OesDrfmeCW-pUjsZFT9dvw&s=19
Now I understand why Joe Biden kept saying “the idea”. He was trying to say it was a bad idea for him to be up there debating Trump.
Trump was not his worst, but a good, sharp debater could have come away with a clear win.
Biden refusal to step down will place him with Nader in the history books as people who handed Republicans the Presidency. Every candidate deserves to be seriously primaried not matter their age or party. Rule by the incumbent has benefits (can achieve something now they know how it works) but must be balanced.
If a major 2024 D candidate ran this spring and debated, we would be counting the days until the Trump loss instead of the (now) win. Biden cannot debate again, but almost has to after that confused turd he took.
The initial reaction to proposing this early debate was correct. It was a casting call for the incumbent president of the United States. The idea was not Joe Biden’s. I bet $1.55 it wasn’t.
If not a casting call, a re-reading.
Seems like Biden made Trump's day.
https://www.tiktok.com/@bidenhq/video/7369194947565620522?lang=en
"Gotta watch out for those woodland fascists with Hawaiian torches and spinning Swastikas toys."
The whole family seems to be possessed by the devil, dr Jill the head of the snake
Blogger Saint Croix said...
Jon Stewart: A lot of people have resting 25th Amendment face
too funny
6/27/24, 11:25 PM
It started off pretty good, had the usual out-of-context quote gags, pretty even handed with the remarks...then he just seems to check out and bring out the usual lefty canard that is taken as an article of faith by that side at the beginning of the Trump segment. Stating, without evidence, that everything out of Trump's mouth is a lie. *yawn*. He made a good point about the debate format sucking when the moderators changed the topic in the middle of the veterans discussions, and then missed the closure (IMHO) with a lame discussion on debate drugs (and a gratuitous dig on Ben Carson...at least bring up 5-5-5!).
If only he had had one of those Maher moments of sanity and chosen funny things to rag on Trump the way he did Biden (and he had plenty of material to choose from) it could have been a great 15 minutes. I rate it higher than Biden's performance but worse than Trump's tonight.
Who was the target audience? Bernie bros?
Eric Erickson: The verdict fired up the base. Polls show republicans are now more willing and likely to talk to pollsters. The convicted felon message only meant something to the base that’s never going to vote for Trump anyway.
There is almost a tradition for incumbent President to perform horribly at the first debate.
Kerry had his way with W at first debate in 2004.
Romney wiped the floor with Obama at first debate in 2016.
W and Obama were young and strong enough to come back for more debates and win a second term.
Biden most likely will not be capable to improve.
So we shall expect the worst. There will be no more debates and all the efforts will be put into election fraud, to produce 80 million votes for Biden one more time.
Correction,
Romney wiped the floor with Obama at first debate in 2012.
BOOM. They sent this tweet only MINUTES after Biden lied about having their endorsement.
Border Patrol Union - NBPC
@BPUnion
To be clear, we never have and never will endorse Biden.
9:33 PM · Jun 27, 2024
Denial is truly an astounding, psychic force. How Democrats of every stripe coerced themselves to not see what was obvious to everyone else is unbelievable. Therefore, I don’t believe it. This was a set up intended to take Biden down. My guess is that Obama’s minions, such as David Axelrod will lead the way in knocking down Biden.
Biden offered to debate Trump with onerous rules the Biden team thought he wouldn't accept. Trump called their bluff.
Now Trump should ask when the second debate will be held.
The next question the world should be asking is how can Biden continue as Commander-in-Chief?
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
·
Or hear me out... it's Chuck Todd and mass media who has put out a caricature of Biden who doesn't exist.
Maybe conservative media isn't the story here.
Trump War Room
@TrumpWarRoom
CHUCK TODD: "Biden looks like the caricature that conservative media has been painting ... you saw it before your eyes!"
Biden: "We finally beat Medicare." Say what?
Trump definitely going to jail now.
Reading through the comments this morning, I see that Chuck has completely absorbed all the Progressive talking points and will go down in flames spewing the hate, division and lies of the left until he dies. His TDS is so out of control, he is seeing things that aren't there, and crying that things are happening as many here have said. Enjoy the downfall of your guy Chuck. He is what you pinned your hopes and dreams on.
Is it time to charge Jill Biden with Elder Abuse yet, because THIS was a clear case if there EVER was one.??
so are D's replace Biden but let him continue in office as lame duck?
I bet all the lefties here feel really stupid right now blaming the right for faking Joe Bidens rapid dementia instead of blaming Jill Biden for forcing her dementia patient on the world for the riches and luxury she enjoys living in.
so CNN did a globally promoted fashion show for New Clothes and Emperor had wardrobe malfunction!
do TV shows still emit EM waves? will people on StarShip Enterprise be able to see this way out in future?
The Biden campaign's biggest mistake was accepting having a debate with Trump at all. This bell can't be unrung. They can no longer hide and stage-manage their candidate. Most of us have known for a long time that Biden is not suitable for the job now, much less until January 2029. This debate just showed that to the entire country in real time.
So what's the over/ under in days as to when Kringe Jean-Pierre faces the press? My guess? At least five days.
Defend THIS chuck. Prove it.
Biden: "A young woman who just was murdered and he went to the funeral and the idea that she was murdered by an immigrant coming into, they talk about that. But here‘s the deal: There‘s a lot of young women to be raped by their, by their in-laws, by their, by their spouses, brotherss and sisters."
The morning after. There has never been a more one-sided Presidential debate blowout in my lifetime.
* Trump declared the winner by all sources.
* Democrats aggressively seek to replace Biden.
* Betting odds shift heavily to Trump.
The Democrats were warned about Biden...no one to blame but themselves...
Good aggregation here:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/your-zerohedge-guide-tonights-trump-biden-debate
Jill damns Joe with faint praise: ‘You answered every question… you knew all the facts’…
"Good boy!!! (pats head) Here's a treat for you. Good boy!! "
Clyde said...
The Biden campaign's biggest mistake was accepting having a debate with Trump at all. This bell can't be unrung.
The Biden campaign were the ones who WANTED this debate, thinking Trump wouldn't do it. THIS is all on them.
"LAS VEGAS — Tonight's presidential debate ended abruptly when Donald Trump was served with papers notifying him that he had been indicted for the murder of an elderly man on CNN."
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-indicted-for-murdering-elderly-man-on-cnn
"It was worse than disastrous. It was sad, it was humiliating. Biden looked like a hospice patient who got lost on his way to the bathroom. That was probably the biggest thing: He looked and sounded awful. In past debates, Biden maintained eye contact with the camera when Trump spoke; he seemed focused and strong. This time, he rarely made eye contact; he looked down, mouth slack. He gave the impression of a very old man. His voice was weak, his answers garbled and incomprehensible—certainly to anyone who doesn’t spend their life following politics. If he had effective moments, and there might have been a few, they were lost in the overall horror." - Joe Klein
The sad thing is there will be no reckoning in the MSM for all the gaslighting they’ve inflicted upon us. This debacle has stripped them naked as well. That’s why they’re panicking so badly.
"It was in fact as consequential as any presidential debate in history, and the worst night for an incumbent in history. It was a total and unmitigated disaster for Mr. Biden. It was a rout for Mr. Trump. It wasn’t the kind of rout that says: If the election were held tomorrow Donald Trump would win. It was the kind of rout that says: If the election were held tomorrow Donald Trump would win in a landslide." - Peggy Noonan
The fundamental problem for the Dems right now, is after that performance how can Biden drop out yet still serve out the rest of his term in the White House?
If he's incapable of running for office, he's incapable of being in office.
Which means Kamala becomes president and Kamala becomes the nominee.
And she was polling even worse than Biden.
"Mr. Trump came across as calm, sure-voiced, focused. His demeanor wasn’t insane. He was low-key but high-energy. He obeyed the rules, amazingly, to his benefit. He showed respect for the moderators. If not quite genial he was collected, and he offered a new tack on why he’s running: He didn’t want to, but Mr. Biden, unfortunately, is such a disaster that Mr. Trump has to come back and save the country. “His policies are so bad . . . he will drive us into World War III.” World leaders neither respect nor fear him." - more Peggy Noonan
It’ll be interesting to see what happens with the phony Trump indictments from here…. All eyes on Garland….
Morning Joe ought to be a hoot this morning.
"the effort for a second Biden term was obviously unwise and the reality of the disaster we have witnessed shines a harsh light on the level of make-believe that we have been subjected to since the Afghan withdrawal of 2021. Democrat politicos are waking up feeling like it's December 8th or September 12th this morning, and they only have themselves to blame. We now finally see the man behind the curtain, and he is no longer fit for service. He should be at the beach, playing with his grandchildren. Doing this to him is abuse. It must stop." - my cat, Alice.
What happened last night was an embarrassment for our country. Bidens backers and handlers should be in jail for foisting this guy on us.
I didn't watch it, but from Althouse's take, I am reminded of Bill Clinton's deposition, maybe it was, when they all announced their fear of what would happen, then the tape was released, and public opinion whipsawed.
I don't trust the media not to have such a plan cooked up.
Narayanan said...
so are D's replace Biden but let him continue in office as lame duck?
6/28/24, 3:42 AM
I'll freely admit I may be wrong in thinking this but I suspect the panic is genuine. While I'm sure the Jurn-o-list still exists, the folks paid to spew DNC propaganda on CNN et al aren't the party movers and shakers and aren't involved in the deepest private conversations among the leading pols and donors. If this was a planned move to defenestrate Biden, they ain't privy to that fact. I think there was some genuine reasoning based on the SOTU and other appearances that Biden could fake it till the election. The Biden camp was banking on Trump turning in a performance akin to his first 2020 debate without realizing that the side-by-side press conference format they insisted on was going to help focus Trump and sharpen the distinction between the two men.
Narayanan brings up the elephant in the room. Biden could have bowed out anytime before last night and stayed in the White House til January 2025. At this point there's no credible way to say he must be replaced as the nominee without simultaneously admitting he should be 25th'ed or resign. I'm also applying a corollary to the famous Ben Stein quip (if something can not go on forever it will stop.) A thing that could happen but hasn't must have been stayed for a reason. The most obvious reason for Biden not being replaced earlier is not some conspiracy to do it now but there was and is no consensus on which potential replacement is both acceptable and capable of running better than Biden against Trump. As far as I can tell the Biden camp issued this challenge and picked the unusual dates themselves. This wasn't forced on them by anybody in or out of the Democrat Party.
Certainly the Dems may now decide that they have to try to get Biden off the ticket but the question is going to be how much it helps them. The optics of bypassing Harris, who would be the obvious choice if she was elevated by a resignation, and leaving the doddering husk in office are going to be ugly. A floor fight at the convention in mid-September is going to be similarly ugly, involve legal challenges to getting the nominee on ballots in unfriendly states, and leave the nominee with only about eight weeks to mount a campaign against a Republican party that is probably as solidly united behind a candidate as it has been since 1984.
They might be able to do it but I think it's a stretch to assume this was part of some grand plan.
Humperdink said...
Trump definitely going to jail now
And make the banana republic persecutions of Trump even more obviously directed from the very top of the Democrat Party? I don't think the Democrats are quite that dumb but .. then they are Democrats.
Blogger Gusty Winds said...
Biden is not on the ballot come November. That's why the "debate" is early.
BINGO!
"If this is Biden, who’s been running our country? Like, practically, who’s been doing the job job of it? Jill Biden? The White House handyman? The interns? Karl Rove? A random Houthi? I’m not mad, I just want to know. Because the people who have been pushing to keep him in office certainly know he’s this bad, and they must like it that way. Weak and confused, he can be used, kept as a pet moderate. Interns, release the old man, just tell us your demands, and we can figure something out." - Nellie Bowles
After this debate, any person who thinks Biden has a chance of winning the presidency is completely delusional. Biden is far too old to be president. He has always been too politically inept to be a leader.
Time for an open convention.
Easy to see all the LIES media/dems been telling.
For years. Lies 24/7.
Lies.
CNN tries to rehab their reputation by running this fairly.
No Sale.
After last night China, Russia, Cuba, North Korea, Iran and every terrorist group in the world must be thinking now is the time to act. Taiwan is wondering when China is making a move. We live in dangerous times brought to us by the democrats.
Biden will 'win' anyway. He has to, there are trillions of dollars at stake, and of course the plan for world conquest, and our elections are basically on the "honor system." Biden is a made man with the neocons, trusted absolutely. Do we want another JFK, who couldn't be trusted to listen to them, or Dick Nixon, who had the goal to think that he had the power to make foreign policy with regards to China and Taiwan? No! It's trusty Joe Biden, "our democracy" is at stake!
When they say "our democracy," think La Cosa Nostra.
Comment of the night: Ann Althouse said: I didn’t think Biden was that bad
Rich said: "Time for an open convention."
Open convention? Democrats? Surely you are joking. The fix will be in long before the convention.
Rich: "After this debate, any person who thinks Biden has a chance of winning the presidency is completely delusional. Biden is far too old to be president. He has always been too politically inept to be a leader.
Time for an open convention."
LOL
It took the entirety of the automaton democraticals a mere 10 seconds to receive their talking points from The Central Committee and go from years of proclaiming Biden the most fit and on the ball he has ever been and "Democracy is on the line!" to calling for the immediate removal of Biden and discarding the dem primary results and tossing those millions of votes in the trash!
We are watching in real time as the democratical party Supreme Soviet and deep state henchmen preparing to "disappear" comrade biden.
It started off pretty good, had the usual out-of-context quote gags, pretty even handed with the remarks...then he just seems to check out and bring out the usual lefty canard that is taken as an article of faith by that side at the beginning of the Trump segment.
I can't tell you how many times I've started to watch a clip, fallen in love with it, gotten excited, posted a link on the Althouse board, and finished watching the video, only to see it turn to shit from the moment I left.
At least 20 times that's happened to me.
What made Jon Stewart's bit so funny was how he would set up the joke, and let Joe Biden tell the punchline. And not just Biden, his CNN mockery was too funny.
The Trump hostility was predictable and boring. But all the Biden stuff? Stewart wanted Biden to succeed so bad. And he would just sit there and say nothing after a Biden clip ran. And the libs in his audience were laughing so hard.
I treasure Stewart because he has comedian instincts and almost always goes for the laugh. He's at his funniest when he's ragging on his own side. I agree with you, though, the second half of that clip sucks beans.
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My two cents ... the mainstream media finally admits that Biden is no longer fit for office.
Ann Althouse said: I didn’t think Biden was that bad
Well, she said he was bad, but not panic emergency crisis bad
I knew what she meant
I missed the first 15 to 20 minutes of the debate. So I missed the real horror show, apparently.
I think the drugs kicked in, because Biden didn't freeze up much in the bit I saw. He was incoherent and jumping around. Anyway, I thought his debate was bad, but I thought the moderators would spin it and say they were both bad.
I was surprised by the CNN panel. And really they were just reporting on their phones blowing up and how the Democrats were in a panic. I didn't expect them to be honest.
One, two, three, four…
What’s that smell? (BIDEN!)
What’s that smell? (BIDEN!)
What’s that smell? (BIDEN!)
What’s that smell? (BIDEN!)
So it seems to me that the commentators and the Democrats — these panicking Democrats — were ready to go with this attack. This seems completely phony and planned to me.
I had the opposite reaction. To me, the Democrats have been phony for months and months, pretending that nothing was wrong. I felt like I was finally getting some honest commentary on Biden's unfitness for the White House.
“Watching CNN - David Axel rod's supply is wet in weird places. What's up with that?”
Supply? Of bullshit?
GregGutfeld
@greggutfeld
i woke up this morning as if i had a nightmare. did last night really happen? was it as bad as i thought? did the democrats do this on purpose? could they have been as blind as we assume? were they in denial? or is this why the debate was held so early? because they knew this had to happen? so many questions.
"If this is Biden, who’s been running our country? Like, practically, who’s been doing the job job of it? Jill Biden? The White House handyman? The interns? Karl Rove? A random Houthi? I’m not mad, I just want to know. Because the people who have been pushing to keep him in office certainly know he’s this bad, and they must like it that way. Weak and confused, he can be used, kept as a pet moderate. Interns, release the old man, just tell us your demands, and we can figure something out." - Nellie Bowles
Obama has been running our country. That's the secret they can't reveal. Because it's illegal as shit.
Did someone say BLOODBATH?
When the polls come out, that's when they'll really panic
If a major 2024 D candidate ran this spring and debated, we would be counting the days until the Trump loss instead of the (now) win. Biden cannot debate again, but almost has to after that confused turd he took.
If you fuckheads hadn't stolen it in 2020, you wouldn't be in the shit show you're in now.
Own it.
Will Biden pull a Bill Clinton and hang on until the furor dies down?
"and they must like it that way."
Remember Robert Mueller? Of course they like it that way, a figurehead in place so that they can run things in peaceful darkness. It turned out, when he was brought up to testify, that not even Robert Mueller knew what Mueller knew.
@typingtalk, I can remember a couple of famous threads back in days of very light to no moderation with comments that ran into the multiple hundreds. I'm tempted to say one got at or over a thousand but it's been a while so I could be misremembering. This'll be a lengthy thread by the standards of most others but probably not a record.
Seems like only yesterday when the dems were claiming ancient Ruth Bader Ginsberg was doing SEAL Team workouts that male "reporters" claimed they couldn't complete!
Its just non-stop lies from the Animal Farm lefties/dems.
The thing about 2020, is that everything was already known about Biden before the primaries, the laptop was already out, when the Democrats could have picked someone else, who might be coasting to a second term right now, but for some reason, we can all guess at, it was a matter of "fierce urgency" that Joe Biden, and only Joe Biden, be president.
Sorry, it was Axelrod's suit that was wet! At first I thought he was sweating in strange places - the caption bar at the bottom of the screen hid his armpits - but later I noticed his glasses also had drops of water on them. I'm figuring he'd been out in the rain somewhere.
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