Why face up to the smallness of Joe Biden when confronted with the ludicrous hugeness of Donald Trump?
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"Most of the prominent Democrats with whom I speak have been concerned to the point of panic about how inept they’ve found [Biden's] campaign."
Said Frank Bruni in a "Round Table" discussion at the NYT, "Trump Is Blocking Out the Sun: Three Writers on the Political Impact of the Guilty Verdict."
And there's this gem from Olivia Nuzzi: "The eternal problem for candidates running against Donald Trump is that he sort of photosynthesizes any and all attention to grow bigger and stronger and block out the sun for everyone else around. He manages to define the terms of the conversation, and because he lives in his own reality, these things do not matter as they would for any other candidate."
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Yet these concerned democrats apparently can't find an alternative to President Biden -- about whom they are "concerned".
O'Hare is closed due to fog. We'll just fly around out here over the lake waiting for something to happen.
Orange Mandela
do that voodoo dat you do
you are in their heads
Maybe it’s not the campaign. Maybe it’s the policies and results. Been to the grocery store or gas station lately?
I wonder if anyone has told Joe that oftentimes when he speaks he makes no sense, that his words are often garbled and unrecognizable, and that he often uses the wrong name when referring to other people or places. Also that he at times will fade off for no apparent reason. These events happen virtually every time he speaks. Has anyone actually informed him how often these things happens, and asked him if he thinks that that is ok for a US President to do, someone with an enormous amount of responsibility?
Joe’s the president, with the bully pulpit. His being blocked out is his own doing. His oratory skills are just not there.
I've grown so cynical about this administration that I'm convinced the Biden campaign is trying to lower the bar so far that Joe can simply shuffle across it for the debates.
I don't blame Trump for wanting some kind of drug tests before the debates.
Donald Trump is the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. Rampaging through New York, blocking out the sky.
Ghostbusters (1984) - The Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man Scene | Movieclips
Biden was SELECTED in 2020 to be the "safe old white guy puppet" and viable alternative to Trump. Biden has always functioned as the bought-and-paid-for harmless white guy symbol for Democrats. That's why he was selected to be Obama's VP too.
Pick a small, malleable, and invisible man and he performs as a small, malleable and invisible man. Gavin Newsom's 2024 shadow campaign is the backup plan...Newsom is a next generation small, malleable, and safe white guy Democrat. This is how a party dominated by puppet master billionaire oligarchs and poor people who depend on government money must function.
After a sham trial and 34 felony convictions for undefinable crimes the Spanish Inquisition would not countenance for two seconds, the NYT now seeks to damn the God Emperor for blocking out the sun. What the fuck is wrong with those Eighth Avenue circus freaks? Can't they simply be grateful for more positive measures against THE MENACE FORMERLY KNOWN AS GLOBAL WARMING™ than anything done by Lord Zero and his foole?
If Joe Biden had goverened as a moderate (you know, the candidate he ran as), he would not be in the pickle he is in.
Alexander went in person to see Diogenes, and he found him lying in the sun. Diogenes raised himself up a little when he saw so many people coming towards him, and fixed his eyes upon Alexander. And when that monarch addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, "Yes," said Diogenes, "stand a little out of my sun."
hillary clinton
the lady knows what she likes
the head hedgehogger
In further news, that actually made me LOL when I read it, a founding member of the Black Panther Party has endorsed Donald Trump for president. Says he is an ally of the black people. What is that sound I hear in the distance? Could it be leftist heads exploding?
Ann said…
“…the ludicrous hugeness of Donald Trump”
Properly spelled “yugeness”.
When that reporter asked him about how he felt about Trump's claim to be a political prisoner, he displayed that creepy smile, more of a rictus, he looked more like a buzzard than a human. He's not endearing, he is obsessed with power, obsessed with war. He thinks he found a cheat code for fighting WW3 without suffering the fate of LBJ, it was actually Soros who wrote back in 1993 that the US would use Eastern European young men to fight its war with Russia, and Soros thought that this was a great thing, and so does Biden.
Biden was SELECTED in 2020 to be the "safe old white guy puppet" and viable alternative to Trump. Biden has always functioned as the bought-and-paid-for harmless white guy symbol for Democrats. That's why he was selected to be Obama's VP too.
All of this may be so on the surface, as supporting arguments, but the reason that they rammed Joe Biden specifically down our throat was that the security state has been building towards this war with Russia since the fall of the USSR, the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine was a CIA op, it didn't take, and the Ukrainians just voted back in a Russia friendly government, then the Maidan coup didn't take, and the voters voted in Zelensky by a landslide, on a promise of peace with Russia, and Trump was vilified, because he probably would have made that peace, leaving Ukraine intact, and neutral, and ushering an era of peace and prosperity for Europe, when the neocons and the CIA had been working to create this war for decades. Biden and Blinken didn't care about any promises that Zelensky made to the voters of Ukraine and could be trusted to get this war underway, and that is the real reason it could only be him.
What is the tab the people, (taxpayers), of America have paid for this democrat party lawfare against Trump? Any numbers out there? Bueller, Bueller?
Let me translate a phrase Olivia used: “his own reality” means “outside of and contra to The Narrative.”
Everything is Trump’s fault, according to Democrats and their MSM stenographers.
Biden is a large candidate the size of a small candidate.
Funny combo. Althouse gives us a beautiful OrangeMan sunrise. And the NYT curses that they just...can't...blot...it...out. Beautiful.
The left keeps trying to come up with some sort of psychological pathology to account for Trump’s support.
He’s right on just about every policy issue, which is the real source of his support.
Interesting quote from Nuzzi. The upshot is that Trump is better than everybody else at a core activity everybody is trying to master, but she says it in a way that denies Trump any credit. It’s just this unfortunate reality for Trump’s challengers.
""Most of the prominent Democrats with whom I speak have been concerned to the point of panic about how inept they’ve found [Biden's] campaign.""
Nary a word about Biden's ineptitude.
They were warned. They ignored the warnings. Now they still think they know better the solution while never apologizing for ignoring the warnings.
But, but, but, but, but president Emeritus Trump is an advertising enough
John Henry
Commie Videos and You a Law Professor said...
"Biden is a large candidate the size of a small candidate."
OK. That's good right there.
It ain't ludicous if it's working.
I read the interview with the Black Panther and two things came out to me:
One he didn't sound all THERE. HE sounded sort of Joe BIDENISH. Nowhere near as bad but not completely in control.
the other thing that struck me was that the Black Panther said he had known Donald Trump since College days since the 60s. That seems like a fairly good track record to know someone.
It does give Brandon a basis for ads "trump supported black homegrown terrorists. In the 60s"
John Henry
James madison was a terrorist
Well done above commentariat- yes Dave, they lose bigly on policy yes focus on style. Yes Quaestor they botched the style with the climate change own goal. They are inept in every way…
Good thing they’ll cook the vote so none of this matters…
A Bruni ‘round table’ discussion. Appropriate for a food critic…
It's been said more than a few times but bears repeating. (I see Leland making reference to it above.)
If the Democrats, including their propaganda arms, had treated Trump only as badly as they had treated any other Republican president he'd be ending his second term with the entire GOP mad at him, and they'd be teed up to elect any of a dozen plausible candidates President this year. But they got it into their heads, maybe because he beat their girl like a red-headed stepchild riding a rented mule, that they not only could but should set out to destroy him. They're finally starting to figure it out.
Well, Biden's age and frailness is no longer an issue for Democrats, at least in New Jersey:
Representative Donald Payne Jr., who died from a heart attack in April, won Tuesday night's Democratic primary for New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District with 99% of the vote.
I don't want to hear one more word from Democrats about how Trump could serve as President from prison until they explain their vote here.
Biden has an inept campaign?
To ask that question is to ignore the 55-year public life of this inept, selfish, greedy individual who, as Robert Gates pointed out, has always been wrong of policy issues.
But he's always been right in making sure that he became rich.
If they worry about the ineptitude of his campaign, imagine how the rest of us think about the ineptitude of his presidency.
Biden just fake-closed his open southern border.
There's that! Media to pimp the lie.
Does it really count as a Round Table when all the people hate the same person and love the same dementia patient?
"Biden is a large candidate the size of a small candidate."
This is my favorite comment of 2024 to date. Thank you, CVYLP.
DJT is akin to a Godzilla creature who only becomes stronger and feeds off the energy bolts and weapons used against him. The Democrats have the looked of the confused scientists and politicians that only now are realizing it.
"Biden is a large candidate the size of a small candidate."
Ha ha ha. I was trying to think of a way to use "large boulder the size of a small boulder" here and couldn't think of it. Now that you've said it, it seems like the only way it could be.
Biden is a withered small prop-candidate, given drugs and scripts... that are mostly big lies.
Biden is already baked into the Biden campaign.
Photosynthesis? Now the Bad Orange Man is making his own chlorophyll? Is he a mighty oak? Is Joe by contrast a slippery elm bending this way and that whenever his handlers tell him? Who knew that photosynthesis was an important part of a campaign?
Something has changed in the past two days. There is this article at the NYT's and also an article at the WSJ. Center, above-the-fold, front page.
"Behind Closed Doors, Biden Shows Signs of Slipping"
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/joe-biden-age-election-2024-8ee15246?mod=hp_lead_pos7
The article appeared yesterday evening and has remained there for over eight hours. Normally when the WSJ is reluctantly reporting on a subject, the article is posted on the lower left, below the "fold" and only remains visible on the front page for a couple hours before disappearing from immediate notice.
The article is long, has statements by both named sources and those who prefer to remain anonymous. The article also allows comments which is usually not done when the article even mildly criticizes Biden or another Democrat.
The Democrats seem to be looking for a way to replace Biden now that their lawfare against Trump has backfired.
The Democrats seem to be looking for a way to replace Biden now that their lawfare against Trump has backfired
An interesting observation but we have seen before stories from the propaganda arms that acknowledge the fatal flaws, then nothing is done about them. Liz Warren is still a Senator, Adam Schiff still a rep. Joe Biden is still the candidate, Weekend at Bernies and all…
They keep throwing logs on a fire hoping the fire will get tired give up.
The Biden campaign was never the means to get Biden reelected.
Donald Trump is the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. Rampaging through New York, blocking out the sky.
As the great David Burge/Iowahawk put it on TwiXter -
This is the point in the 1953 sci-fi movie when the "authorities" realize that the electrical power lines and atomic bombs have only made the monster stronger.
Would be seriously concern if I was a Dem senator running in a red state.
Ohio, Montana? Anyone checking in on these guys?
""The eternal problem for candidates running against Donald Trump is that he sort of photosynthesizes any and all attention to grow bigger and stronger and block out the sun for everyone else around."
That's one of those clever, acerbic comments that sounds good rolling off the tongue, but really doesn't make sense when it's examined. I'm starting to think that the apparatus has some serious blind spots.
The problem with Joe Biden isn't a lack of sunlight - it's a lack of wattage.
Good thing they’ll cook the vote so none of this matters…
To paraphrase a calculus term, the numbers for Trump are trending outside the margin of cheat. As I elucidated yesterday, party registration and tightened laws in the few states that matter are exceptionally trending outside the margin of cheat. Doesn't mean some unforeseen dirty trick won't push the advantage back to Team Hate America, but continued pessimism at this point about The Big Cheat part 2 is somewhat ameliorated by actual facts.
Also the 1974 classic who robot
The article is long, has statements by both named sources and those who prefer to remain anonymous
My favorite part is that ALL the Democrats who criticized Joe Biden got a good talking to from the WH and then dutifully (and confusedly) called the reporter to say, "Uh, I don't know, they just asked me to call and say Joe's fine." And the reporters included these revised quotes along with their initial assessments in the article, further emphasizing the panic at the DNC. Beautiful journalism there.
"The eternal problem for candidates running against Donald Trump is that he sort of photosynthesizes any and all attention to grow bigger and stronger and block out the sun for everyone else around. He manages to define the terms of the conversation, and because he lives in the real world instead of the artificial world of the DC-New York corridor, these things do not matter as they would for any other candidate."
I fixed it for Olivia.
This can’t be true. I just ready a lengthy cover story article in Time about what an experienced, sharp, worldly leader Biden is. He “bristled” at any suggestion otherwise. Inept leaders don’t bristle.
The New York media needs to get its story straight.
Sherrod Brown (D-Ohi0), incumbent senate candidate was mocked by his R opponent Bernie Moreno. Moreno said if Sherrod Brown saw Air Force One landing in Ohio, Brown would catch the first flight out of the state.
Screwing things up is kinda baked into the Democrat cake. They go out of their way to attract mediocre people and in the end it shows.
>> the numbers for Trump are trending outside the margin of cheat.
When they replace Joe, either at the convention or through a "medical issue", all of that goes out the window.
I still say it's only 50% likely that it's Joe vs Trump. There are too many forces trying to get BOTH of them off the ticket.
I suspect Hillary is just waiting for the phone call... and that makes it a MUCH closer race. Well inside the margin of fraud.
You know that moment when you are playing with your toys and you realize for the very first time that they are toys? I think the Dems were able to play with the way computers and networking and video games extend us and people are simply becoming aware that that toy is a toy. I mean, for example, stacking all news stories in a certain order to influence responses doesn't work as well when people look to see how all the news stories are being stacked to influence responses. That's when news anchors start to resemble barking seals. But that all depends on realizing how your mind is working when extended in certain ways due to computers and their reach. People aren't so overwhelmed by the simple newness of their own responses and aren't reacting like children to toys. But the Dems still think no one knows why the candy is on the low shelves by the grocery checkout counter.
It's twoo! Its twoo!
Big Blimp Trump
"[B]ecause he lives in his own reality, these things do not matter as they would for any other candidate." "As they would for any other candidate" (or President) is the justification for every illegal, immoral or entirely unjustifiable act taken against Donald Trump since he announced he candidacy in 2015. Do the Times poohbahs not recognize that they themselves live in their own reality, and that reality is at war with the reality of a very large number of their fellow citizens?
Too bad they'll never replace Biden with Tulsi Gabbard. She could be the first PILF.
The Democrats have made several strategic mistakes- trying to put Trump in jail is just one of them. I expect Merchan next month to try to sentence Trump to either jail or home arrest to take him off the campaign trail. However, the biggest mistake was not replacing Joe Biden in the primaries. Any competent candidate with name recognition would have defeated Biden in the primaries but the DNC blocked all those possible candidates. I think they believed that, if they had to, Biden could be replaced at the convention should it look like he was losing beyond the possible margin of fraud. However, that looks like it might not be possible- any replacement now starts to look too desparate to succeed- any new candidate is now just stuck with the smell of Biden shit all over him/her.
Our institutions have been corrupted. All of them. That happened once progressives, leftists, captured the institutions so decisively. Education, entertainment, news. From there government and commerce. That reality is hidden to some degree by the limited successes of reactionary forces, themselves pulled leftward quite radically. It's to the point that absurd propagandists are surprised by the appeal of truth over ends justify the means and nihilism.
John Borell said...
If Joe Biden had goverened as a moderate (you know, the candidate he ran as), he would not be in the pickle he is in.
Not true.
Trump won the 2020 election 75 million to 62 million voters. That was the result of "deomcrat moderate."
After comparing Trump's presidency to Biden's presidency that gap in voter count has widened to 80 million voters to 55 million voters give or take.
They are importing new voters now and going straight to despotism because that is their only option.
Leland said...
Well, Biden's age and frailness is no longer an issue for Democrats, at least in New Jersey:
Representative Donald Payne Jr., who died from a heart attack in April, won Tuesday night's Democratic primary for New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District with 99% of the vote.
I don't want to hear one more word from Democrats about how Trump could serve as President from prison until they explain their vote here.
6/5/24, 7:03 AM
Shows exactly why they are fine with the corpse living in the White House today.
JaimeRoberto said...
If they worry about the ineptitude of his campaign, imagine how the rest of us think about the ineptitude of his presidency.
6/5/24, 7:06 AM
EXACTLY!!!
WHY would ANY ONE be concerned about 'the ineptness of the Biden campaign'??
When your votes are manufactured, people appeal Doesn't Matter.
ONLY THING they need to be good at is scanning (and rescanning (and REscanning)) fake ballots
Considering the Biden campaign is completely full of shit; based on coordinated state and federal lawfare...and a pile of lies, it seems to be going quite well. Plus the Biden campaign, as in 2020, knows they have a targeted absentee voter fraud effort in place.
The also have state entities like Wisconsin's liberal Supreme Court which will reinstate drop boxes for the stuffing. I'd imagine coordination with the Paul Ryan wing of the GOPe is in place, and there will be a challenge to Trump at the Milwaukee convention in July. The timing of the sentencing is no accident.
Are Democrats and the GOPe worried they can't pull off the voter fraud again?
Who cares how inept his campaign is? His vote fraud operation is unbeatable!
Money Manger said...
This can’t be true. I just ready a lengthy cover story article in Time about what an experienced, sharp, worldly leader Biden is. He “bristled” at any suggestion otherwise. Inept leaders don’t bristle.
The New York media needs to get its story straight.
6/5/24, 9:07
Oh, is that the one he told he could take, because he is more physically viable than anybody else?? That one?? (funny, Time still praises the guy who acts like he thinks he is Robert DeNiro talking tough)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-says-hes-more-physically-viable-than-time-reporters-interviewing-him-i-can-take-you-too
Most "prominent Democrats" are not involved in the universal mail in ballot vote harvesting plans of the Biden campaign, nor their effort to control counting of votes in key states. Since that is what will win Biden the election, why bother with any other aspect of a campaign? It worked in 2020. It will work in 2024. The only way to stop it from winning is for the Republicans to out-harvest and start rioting if the vote count isn't absolutely transparent, auditable, and refereed.
"he lives in his own reality"
One of those weird prog things: here's a guy continually assaulted from all sides by lawsuits and MSM attacks, yet he "lives in his own reality."
O'Hare is closed due to fog. We'll just fly around out here over the lake waiting for something to happen.
Is that why the Democrats keep sending Biden to Milwaukee?
"Why face up to the smallness of Joe Biden when confronted with the ludicrous hugeness of Donald Trump?"
Why face up to the astounding smallness of Joe Biden when confronted with the hugeness of Donald Trump?
What a difference in slant adjective selection makes.
Did Bruni get the Bruno tag? Wondering whether that is a subtle comment of some kind: associating Frank Bruni with Sacha Baron Cohen.
Face it, Biden in the Presidency was always going to look like a little kid in his dad's shoes.
More misunderstanding from the NYT: Should Biden Downplay His Own Success?
by Paul Krugman
"There’s overwhelming evidence that most Americans’ negative views about the economy don’t reflect their lived experience."
See WaPo, it is all in your head. Look at the evidence and don't have negative views of it, and you'll be fine.
Trump is large. He contains multitudes.
ah olivia who went to work for anthony weiner after he had removed all doubt the first time, lol,
Trump has got to be the most famous living person in history, maybe living or dead. How many people know who he is, 5 Billion, 6 Billion? And it's not even his doing or what he has done. It's mostly because of his opposition making him famous. They are addicted.
Joe's undeniable smallness is a result of acting like a small man, and being defended by other small men doing small, illegal, unconstitutional, and clearly corrupt things that small men in power do.
Small is as small does.
You know what big is?
Being assaulted daily by the entire government, media, academia, and legal system and refusing to give in while only gaining wider support. The definition of greatness being thrust upon a man.
Scott Adams describes Trump as an 'Energy Monster' who feeds off of it all.
Think Godzilla getting stronger when they nuke him...
Do Biden and the DNC have campaign offices on the ground in battleground states?
Do Trump and the RNC?
Trump will hold a fund raiser for tech execs in San Francisco Thursday. Attending costs $50,000. Some are paying $300,000 per person and $500,000 per couple to join the host committee. Apparently, it's sold out.
Try to find a news story covering the fact that a whole bunch of formerly reliably liberal, Democrat tech execs want to hear Trump speak and give him lots of money.
https://x.com/i/status/1798204063768867204
This is big deal, but CBS covered it with a story about a giant chicken that will be brought there to mock Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/anti-trump-inflatable-to-roost-in-san-francisco-during-planned-fundraiser/
Hope and Change, baby!
The Biden campaign is inept? Just the campaign? They're not panicking about the whole damn Biden administration being so inept that they make Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane look like Elliot Ness?
The Democrats have now accepted the fact that in order for Beiden to win he must become a duplicate of Trump and adopt all his policies.
Who did this?
https://x.com/KatCornay/status/1798150353059188909/photo/1
typingtalker said...
Yet these concerned democrats apparently can't find an alternative to President Biden -- about whom they are "concerned".
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Oh, it'll likely be Newsom. He's bunged up California, so naturally the next step is to bug out before it falls apart completely and get up to the Presidency. There's still a long way to go before were at the desired 'Hunger Games' scenario, with DC ruling over the country and the states/districts in poverty and thrall to Capital City... and Newsom's photogenic enough to lead the lemmings over the cliff.
Blogger Mark said...
Do Biden and the DNC have campaign offices on the ground in battleground states?
Hillary didn't. It was covered in the same book about her campaign that noted her campaign purchasing the Steele Dossier. Yet we still had to pretend the dossier was real for 3 years, because the left couldn't believe Hillary lost for being so stupid as to refusing to campaign in battleground states.
"He manages to define the terms of the conversation, and because he lives in his own reality, these things do not matter as they would for any other candidate."
The reason why the Left hates Trump so, is because he acts just like they do.
See all teh lefties claiming "no evidence" or "no one disputes" when there's tons of evidence, and we all dispute.
I wish Trump was better grounded in reality. But his absolute refusal to go along with the Left's lies is one of his more endearing traits
I stick with my position: The Democrats will not replace Biden before the election.
They can't
They either replace him with Kamala Harris, who's an utter disaster who's even worse for them than Biden, or else they completely lose either the "black vote" or the "female vote" (or both, if they replace a black female with a white male like Newsom).
Joe / Jill carefully picked Kamala as the only national politician so much worse than Joe that the Democrats wouldn't be willing to dump him for her.
As neither Joe nor Jill is willing to give up their spot, teh Dems are simple screwed.
I'm mostly with Greg the Class Traitor. I don't know that it was a deliberate plan on the part of Joe and Jill. Such scheming seems a bit beyond their talents. Clyburn basically backed them into a corner in South Carolina after (IIRC) Biden blurted out that he would 'consider' a black woman for VP. There's no method to dispose of an unwanted VP during their term without their consent, however grudgingly given, so the only thing left is to kick her off the ticket at the convention. They can't do that and keep Biden without setting off a thermonuclear political bomb. If the Democrats had been able to agree on a successor to Biden, Harris or not, it likely would have happened by now.
I'm mostly with Greg the Class Traitor. I don't know that it was a deliberate plan on the part of Joe and Jill. Such scheming seems a bit beyond their talents. Clyburn basically backed them into a corner in South Carolina after (IIRC) Biden blurted out that he would 'consider' a black woman for VP. There's no method to dispose of an unwanted VP during their term without their consent, however grudgingly given, so the only thing left is to kick her off the ticket at the convention. They can't do that and keep Biden without setting off a thermonuclear political bomb. If the Democrats had been able to agree on a successor to Biden, Harris or not, it likely would have happened by now.
I think the plan was for these ridiculous trials to generate the "convicted felon" headline and then for a bunch of dishonest polls to show a "sudden shift" away from Trump, but it has backfired badly, in that a surprising number of not only Normies, but also sort of generic, non-ideological Democrats (i.e., here in Mass., middle- and working-class people of Irish or Italian or Greek ancestry who always vote the straight D ticket because their families always have*) were disgusted by the too obvious dishonesty of the whole thing, so that even deliberately cooked polls showed Trump's support increasing.
Obviously whatever Merchan pulls out of his butt regarding "gag orders" or "house arrest" has the potential to influence things, but I think the next big wild card is the Republican convention: it seems as if it is being set up for there to be serious Antifa-coordinated violence there. The problem for the Democrats is that the more visible their paramilitaries are, the less support their party gets. BLM-Antifa riots were good for intimidating Attorneys General and Judges / Justices, but they don't do much to push public opinion in the direction of the Dems.
*Most of the actual support for Trump from these people isn't really based on that much concern about the rule of law, etc., but on the massive inflation we've suffered over the past 4 years, in which the prices of a lot of food staples have pretty much doubled: I paid $5 for a gallon of milk yesterday!. But the idiotic verdict is working as a nucleation site for the large-scale reaction.
gilbar said...
“WHY would ANY ONE be concerned about 'the ineptness of the Biden campaign'??“
Concerned? Heck, I’m cheering it.
Trump lives in a reality the left dislikes and, seemingly, is frustrated they cannot control as they do with just about everything else.
That's the entire basis for the lawfare they have unleashed against Trump and Trump's army. All previous tactics failed miserably. And the lawfare is backfiring spectacularly. Now Biden's son Hunter is in a serious predicament, in that to find him not guilty would further indict a justice system that is selective, not impartial.
Biden has had a reputation as stupid and a liar since 1987. The Democrats made him Chair of the Judiciary Committee because he was capable of what he tried to do to Clarence Thomas. They hate black conservatives. They filibustered a black woman judge when Bush tried to nominate her for the DC Circuit. They did the same to a highly qualified Hispanic judge. Both would have been prominent "firsts." A black woman and a Hispanic. They would not even allow her on the DC Circuit.
Representative Donald Payne Jr., who died from a heart attack in April, won Tuesday night's Democratic primary for New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District with 99% of the vote.
So the dead can not only vote (D) they can run as (D).
Good to know.
"Good thing they’ll cook the vote so none of this matters…"
Mmmm. That's getting harder and harder to do. Michigan and Wisconsin are the two battleground states that look like a lock for Biden unless the Republicans can get more feet on the ground and get more people to the polls. And also if they could outlaw Zuckerbucks. Pennsylvanis did and it's looking better for Trump there.
I've signed up to be a poll watcher at one of the bluer citie here in Illinois.
Greg the Class Traitor said...
"I stick with my position: The Democrats will not replace Biden before the election."
I agree. The people controlling him have too much at stake now to change.
It's amazing the denial I see in so many of my far-left Democrat friends about Biden. They absolutely refuse to believe that he isn't mentally sharp, may have acted inappropriately in the past or that many of his policies are bad for the country.
As a Libertarian, I'm a realist and if my candidate sucks, I admit it. And most Libertarian candidates suck; they're just not ready for Prime Time.
I thought that Gary Johnson was a good candidate in 2016, but then he got tripped up by a reporter who asked him what he thought about Aleppo. (He didn't know it was a city in Syria with a massive refugee crisis.) At this point in history, everyone knew about the refugee crisis in Syria, but no one knew the name, Aleppo. Within 24 hours every reporter and anchor in the media became an instant expert on Aleppo and dogged Gary like there was no tomorrow. They were so proud of themselves that they had torpedoed his campaign, but by doing that, they may have tipped the election to Trump. (Gary was a former Republican and would have taken more votes away from Trump than Hillary.)
That's the problem with having party extremists call the shots in an election. They'll put on their ideology blinders and drive the car right off the edge of the cliff.
Agree, loudog (Sublime reference?).
Mike Barnicle disingenuously asked Gary Johnson, "what are you going to do about a leppo?" as if it were two different words. It was designed to trip him up, imho. If he wanted to be fair and clear, he would have asked "what are you going to do about the Syrian refugee crisis?"
And yes, I voted for Johnson in 2016, then Trump in 2020, and I would crawl over broken glass to vote Trump in 2024.
"Most of the prominent Democrats with whom I speak have been concerned to the point of panic about how inept they’ve found [Biden's] campaign."
How they found it? I'll bet it involved both hands in broad daylight.
>>The Democrats will not replace Biden before the election. They can't
Sure they can. Biden has a "medical episode" which makes it impossible for him to run.
They open the voting at the convention with Kamala as "the preferred candidate".
All the blue state delegations vote unanimously for her. A carefully planned "Just enough" of the red state delegations where the D's have no hope of carrying, abstain or split their vote.
Darn if they don't have to have a second ballot. Oh shucks.
Now the D's can claim they tried to give the nomination to Kamala and she fell just short. A few more ballots with Hillary climbing each time and darn if if it's not Hillary again!
Trump will hold a fund raiser for tech execs in San Francisco Thursday
You know why, right? Biden has promised to implement an 25% "unrealized gain tax" on start-ups that will just kill VC business in Silicon Valley and all over really. Entrepreneurs will only support liberalism until the fascist fangs come out, and Joes choppers are showing. I doubt "unrealized gains" can be taxed under our current Constitution, but then I used to believe Bills of Attainder were Constitutionally prohibited too. Silly me. Now we know!
"Biden has promised to implement an 25% "unrealized gain tax" on start-ups"
They're planning that for everyone. So, get ready to start drawing money from your 401k or IRA to pay the taxes you owe because it didn't lose money. Oh, wait a minute. If this is implemented its sure to lose money.
"There's no method to dispose of an unwanted VP during their term without their consent, however grudgingly given" Christopher B. (12:51 pm)
Chris, have you not heard of Agnew? If the Dems are serious, they could easily "find" a crime by Harris to get rid of her as VP. She doesn't seem to be very bright, but I think they could explain it to her so she'd understand and resign.
Re: Biden's campaign. I agree there is no there there. But I think that's because there is no there there in Biden.
President Joe But Anyway
Might be confidence in the rigging.
Jabfly's had time to expand his multistate plumbing attack.
DanTheMan said...
>>The Democrats will not replace Biden before the election. They can't
Sure they can. Biden has a "medical episode" which makes it impossible for him to run.
i've said before, and i'll say it again..
Biden will TRAGICALLY die.. PROBABLY the 1st night of the convention.. Possibly ON tv
Chris, have you not heard of Agnew? If the Dems are serious, they could easily "find" a crime by Harris to get rid of her as VP. She doesn't seem to be very bright, but I think they could explain it to her so she'd understand and resign.
Yes I know about Agnew getting ditched to install Gerald Ford before Nixon resigned, which is why I said "however grudgingly given." The Democrat Senate is not going to convict and remove Harris, assuming the Republican House would assent to impeaching her to fix the Democrat's problem. In any scenario you come up with short of impeachment or assassination, she has to agree to resign.
"Biden has a "medical episode" which makes it impossible for him to run."
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He can barely shuffle.
DanTheMan said...
>>The Democrats will not replace Biden before the election. They can't
Sure they can. Biden has a "medical episode" which makes it impossible for him to run.
They open the voting at the convention with Kamala as "the preferred candidate".
All the blue state delegations vote unanimously for her. A carefully planned "Just enough" of the red state delegations where the D's have no hope of carrying, abstain or split their vote.
Darn if they don't have to have a second ballot. Oh shucks.
Now the D's can claim they tried to give the nomination to Kamala and she fell just short. A few more ballots with Hillary climbing each time and darn if if it's not Hillary again!
You have a really rich fantasy life.
Kamala is "next in line"
There will be hell to pay with the entire DEI crowd if Biden is tossed, a nd she doesn't get the nod.
Take a look at the WNBA
Take a look at all the black female players who are more interested in attacking Caitlin Clark, than in having the WNBA be more popular because of her.
Now, imagine what happens w/ black female voters if Kamala is toss for Hillary, or anyone else who isn't black and female
"Now, imagine what happens w/ black female voters if Kamala is toss for Hillary, or anyone else who isn't black and female"
Kammy unleashes the AYCE word salad.
walter said...
"Now, imagine what happens w/ black female voters if Kamala is toss for Hillary, or anyone else who isn't black and female"
Kammy unleashes the AYCE word salad.
It's doesn't really matter here what Kamala does.
What matters here is that, just like those black female WNBA players who'd rather have empty stands and no Caitlan Clark, rather than have full stands and financial success, but owe it to a "pretty white girl", black female voters in large numbers will not go to teh polls and vote, or else leave "President" blank, rather than vote for some "white savior" male or female who the Dems moved in "so they could win".
And every one who doesn't go to the polls for this is a loss for every single down-ballot Dem candidate
Making the "cure" worse than the disease
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