Total Panic
By minute 13 the truth was there for the nation to see. Joe Biden is unfit for office. Don't get me wrong, the radicals who are running the country through him could keep on doing it even if he was dead. It just does not play well with the American public and democrats know how important perception is. Last night democrats watched in shock as Joe Biden struggled to articulate policy specifics, statistics and rebuttals, often stumbling or misspeaking. To add injury to insult, the Biden campaign’s demand that each candidate’s mic be muted when it wasn’t their turn to talk actually hurt Biden. Unlike 2020 when Biden was uninterrupted this time, we got to see how badly he could stumble.
The New York Times top reporter, Peter Baker reported it this way: Biden’s voice was hoarse and halting. His answers were often unclear, and he struggled to finish his thoughts. “Rather than dispel concerns about his age, Biden “made it the central issue.” One democrat strategist said: “Biden is about to face a crescendo of calls to step aside, Joe had a deep well of affection among Democrats. It has run dry.” "Trump “won it by forfeit,” the Times Opinion columnist Carlos Lozada wrote. “The Biden of 2020, even the Biden of this year’s State of the Union, did not show up.” Dan McCarthy argued that “Trump won as the more commanding presence, with a tighter focus on his themes, particularly immigration.” The calls for Biden to step aside will surely come.
On the other hand, there are 11 weeks until the second debate. Biden could possibly come back in that one. Obama did it. Then again, Biden is no Obama. My advice to Donald Trump is to make more favorable demands for that second debate and if he doesn't get them, he should pull out of it.
There were about 15 topics discussed last night. the first 6 were what Americans care about, the rest were raised to help Biden, but it was to no avail. Issue 14 was about "age," but by then everyone saw what they needed to see. Sadly, what the tv audience didn't see was Jill Biden helping Joe off the stage when it was over.
The biggest lie of the night was Joe Biden once again raising the "fine people on both sides" hoax which was recently & finally debunked last week by Snopes.
I want to thank CNN for the muting the mic rule and special thanks to JBB for the live coverage.
In other news:
The Supreme Court ruled that a bankruptcy settlement with the Sackler family, makers of OxyContin, could not shield family members from lawsuits
Separately, the court temporarily halted a Biden administration plan to halt air pollution while a lower court considers it, effectively suspending the policy for months or years.
The court also limited some of the power of the Securities and Exchange Commission ruling that a common way it enforces laws against fraud violated the right to a jury trial.
The justices temporarily let women in Idaho get emergency abortions.
The judge overseeing Trump’s classified-documents case said she would revisit a previous ruling that was important to the prosecutors’ case.
Israel ordered people in part of eastern Gaza City to evacuate as part of an operation against Hamas fighters who have returned there.
The former school district police chief in Uvalde, Texas, was indicted and arrested over his actions during the school shooting there in 2022. The attack killed 19 children.
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There’s no way whoever is in charge of this presidency didn’t know this man was suffering from serious cognitive challenges. Imagine using someone this way.
A total disastrous exhibition of elder abuse to achieve an agenda....................
George stole your 'joke'
Some find it funny
I find it to be the usual ignorance/arrogance - agnorance
Devastating and brutal new Trump shows truth about Biden.
The Trump Campaign Released an Ad After the Debate. It's 'Devastating.' (townhall.com)
What a beautiful campaign ad.
I guess we can tell Garland that the Biden audio from the Hur investigation will no longer be necessary.
You've got that right
So, how long before it's all called a "deep fake"?
'Joe Biden is unfit for office'
The Projection
Is what we should call today's gop/gqp
Could someone with clout with Trump get a hold of him and pass this along? It is sound advise and he needs it!
No second debate unless the Biden camp agrees to Trump's rules!
LOL! That would really slam the door in the face of the Biden campaign!
It is your advise; now if someone can tell Trump and make him listen!
The man still reminds me of my father- pig headed to a fault once he gets his mind on something. Trump very likely smells blood in the water; and is telling his people "I can't wait for round 2 to finish Joe off!"
I really wish this is someone other than Trump as the Republican nominee; but none of the others candidates will do what must be done if elected. Outside of Vivek (who I am still not convinced would run the country like he talked) all of the others were more interested in currying Establishment favor- which means sweep the last eight years under the rug, and continue with business as usual.
For better or for worse Trump is the Republican nominee; and he is going to run the show like he wants.
If nothing else Trump is the genuine article.
I wish he would take more advice, but he has made a lot of lemonade via lemons.
CNN got criticized for not fact checking the debate.
I actually thought they did better than they ever had.
It is all over the internet. It got out.
Anyone watch this and still feel like defending Joe? Notice the man moving quickly to Joe's other side as he starts down the stairs? That is how pathetic Joe is now. CNN probably did want the lawsuit if he fell. I could imagine the producers screaming- "Who the fuck thought steps would be a good idea? He was supposed to exit opposite of Trump! Would someone tell the damn moderators to go meet Joe at the steps before he makes it all the way down and can't make it back up them!"
You know what really would've been better, if Trump turned around, noticing Biden needed help, and helping Jill get Joe down the steps.
I'll never forget when then President Trump had finished a speech in mid-winter at about 20 degrees and was endlessly taking reporters' questions. One of the Republican congressional leaders was shivering and mentioned the temperature. Trump offered him his topcoat.
Yes, that would have been a Trumpian gesture.
The headlines would have read "Trump physically attacks Biden during debate".
I think both Trump's and Biden's secret service would have tackled him before he even got close.
If I were Trump I would have my own privately paid for security detail. Especially after the Mar-a-Lago raid.
Oh please.
You missed that?
A trumpian gesture. Fucking hilarious.
So chivalrous.
Was it a guy he offered his top coat to?[✘]
What part don't you believe?
That Trump isn't such a narcissist that he would take off his topcoat in freezing temps thinking it wouldn't affect him; and show off to the press how tough he is? Or that Trump wouldn't show up a Republican Congressional leader in front of the press?
Notice I didn't say that Trump offered him his topcoat out of concern or kindness.
Really, then you would think that would make Trump more palatable to Democrats.[✘]
Thank you, Sir.
How chivalrous.
I'm sure he does those kinds of things ALL THE TIME
Sir!
lol
Jill Biden helps Joe off stage after disastrous debate showing: ‘This says it all’
As the CNN cameras cut away.
It was only one step down to the floor............optical illusion makes it appear as though there are more than that.
And yet he needed assistance to do that.
I think Van Jones summed it up perfectly. I could only watch the first fifteen minutes before the I had to turn away. For Biden’s sake, and more importantly for the country’s immediate future, he needs to accept reality and gracefully step aside.
Let the nominee be decided on the floor of the upcoming convention. Unprecedented, but necessary at this stage, as no President should be elected by default.
I'd say that right now a brokered convention for the democrats is a 50/50 possibility.
Gosh, sounds like you have finally seen what others have been saying for a while now.
Congrats.
Who would you like the Democrats to select as their nominee?
Serious question, as I really don't see a deep bench for them.
I feel a little better about the Republican side's bench in case something happens to Trump; but they are all Establishment hacks- so it would go back to the same old same old. Democrats could breath easy knowing the last 8 years would be forgotten.
I think the normal route would be to go with Harris.
Which would be a total disaster.
Whitmer and Newsom aren't in positions to get the nation's votes, either.
“Serious question, as I really don't see a deep bench for them.”
Agreed.
Just as the GOP has by and large deferred to trump, the Dems are equally fractured. Whitmer, Newsom, Harris, et.al all come with baggage as does every candidate.
I’d like Whitmer today, but just my opinion, though a Klobuchar/ Buttigieg ticket would certainly elevate the discourse.
Amy Klobuchar
Whitmer is more in my doghouse than Biden.
I live in Michigan and can personally attest to the damage her Covid policies (which she and her husband ignored) have done.
A major reason Whitmer won reelection in Michigan so easily is Republicans ran a complete anti-abortion candidate. I mean she didn't want any abortions. Made it very easy to vote against her. Republicans as a whole need to remove their heads from their third point of contacts on the abortion issue.
Which is why Whitmer wanted to run against her and the reason to start running ads against Dixon even before the primary to signal the democrats to vote for Dixon on the open primary ballot.
Same here, she locked down the economy but not the people, when she did that, through fear, people from the southern cities fled north, since they no longer had a job to hold them in place, to their vacation homes. When this happened you could see, through daily covid case reports, the virus moving north up the I-75 corridor and the first cases up here were workers in gas stations and also oddly enough nursing homes, still trying to figure out how the nursing home cases happened.
Agreed Democrats crossed the line to vote in the Republican primaries for Dixon.
Democrats also used the system to get several of the top Republican candidates removed from the ballot.
It is 2024 and Nessel has just brought the case to court. Two years and not a single damn trial. Democrats really know how to game the system. Maybe the trial(s) will actually take place before the next governor elections.
Whitmer forced nursing homes to take people who tested positive for Covid. Putting them with residents who were Covid free.
And that would explain it.
Being from Michigan I am well versed on Whitmer's short comings; and she has several.
Beside the fact she has an evil look to her.
That's hilarious coming from the maga worshippers
Today's gop/gqp is the face of evil - with the anti-christ as their savior
You don't like them?
Who?
I wonder if "Morning Joe" still thinks "Joe Biden is better than he ever has been in his career and his critics are making things up?"
Be interesting to see how far in the tank for Biden some news agencies and pundits go in defending Biden.
They are in a tough spot. I think they want him to step aside on his own. At this point they don't want to push him aside.
They are done with lying to us about how sharp he is.
The Biden sycophants will never stop lying for him.
They may hold their noses while doing it.
President Biden is mentally sharp.
#34's brain is non-existent
All I can say is "WOW!"
So you didn't watch the debate
Well, he has been dead for over 50 years
Must be. Guess I missed the memo letting us know it was post a JOKE day
I've seen dull and rusty bayonettes that are sharper than Biden lately and especially this last Thursday!
Last week they told us any such films were "fake."
This week I am surprised they are not saying CNN and the debate is fake news
You're right. We can expect anything tomorrow.
So, will the 2024 election be a referendum on Donald Trump or a referendum on Joe Biden?
Democrats have exerted a lot of effort, skirted a lot of law, and flirted with autocracy to make the 2024 election all about Trump. But Joe Biden has always been the weak spot in Democrats' grand strategy; Biden refused to be the President that wasn't there. The media reported that Biden's preparation strategy was to goad Trump but that fell apart quickly because Biden is so easily goaded himself. Biden was an easy mark for Trump whose only strategy, apparently, was to remind the electorate that the 2024 election will be a referendum on Joe Biden. Biden is the sitting President, after all.
What we witnessed last night was the distilled, concentrated essence of Joe Biden's ego in action. Yes, Biden's voice has grown weak and his body has lost its vigor but Biden's enormous ego still came through. Biden revealed that he has not changed over the last 40 years in politics; Biden remains as dangerous as he was the first time he ran for President in 1988. Biden has been preparing for this moment for decades. Is it any wonder that Joe Biden has pushed the world into chaos and conflict in only three years?
The SCOTUS just ruled that "Chevron" is overruled.
Federal agencies cannot make law.
Good news and they could rule on the immunity cases today too.....................
That is really going to piss the EPA off.
The issue that brought it before the Court was about a federal rule requiring Atlantic herring fishermen to pay to have observers onboard. A rule that was instituted simply because the regulating agency couldn't afford to pay their own observers.
You are in tight with Trump, can you arrange for me to have an interview with him. You can come and sweep his remains up with a broom and dustpan when I'm done.
People like you are led around by the nose, so to speak, on subjects like this.
Let me try and educate you for a moment, futile as that is.
People like you conflate Trump's later comments with the entirety of his comments. On the day of the rally and violence, Trump was remarkably absent other than to make a statement from golf course.
This was on Saturday, the day of the white supremacist rally, not three days later at Trump Tower. In fact, the only reason for the Trump Tower statement was that his Saturday comments had been so roundly condemned, including by prominent Republicans.
On Saturday, when it happened, Trump was silent for a long time, even as the violence was on national television. In one of Trump's first tweets about it , Trump wrote "Charlottesville, sad."
This is from Trump's initial statement , on late Saturday afternoon
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides. It’s been going on for a long time in our country. Not Donald Trump, not Barack Obama. This has been going on for a long, long time.”
Notice Trump, in his first statement on Charlottesville emphasized "on many sides" by repeating it. He said the hatred and bigotry were coming from many sides. This was in reaction to a rally-turned -violent that was organized, beyond a doubt, by some of the worst white supremacists in the country.
Should I go on Vic, because I can.
sources for quotes
Donald Trump’s incredibly unpresidential statement on Charlottesville
What Donald Trump said about Charlottesville
Trump condemns Charlottesville violence but doesn’t single out white nationalists
The endless defense of the indefensible, is well, endless.
Be careful "next week" just came early.
Should I go on Vic, because I can.
You can go on at length, but Trump was talking about people on both sides of the statue controversy. Do I have to link Snopes again?
No, because smart people know the dog whistles #34 blows. Smart people know it had nothing to do with fucking statues.
Smart people took the time to watch the debate last night.
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Snopes is talking about one sentence from his Tuesday statement.
If you knew a damn thing about this incident you would know that.
But why did Trump mention "both sides" at all? Because he was scared shitless that his white grievance base would be offended if he singled out the white supremacists for condemnation.
You should write a novel with an imagination like that.
BECAUSE THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO THE STATUE CONTROVERSY!!!
So you can't admit that Biden lied even after it has been confirmed he lied.
“Mr. President - we must call evil by its name,” tweeted Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado. “These were white supremacists and this was domestic terrorism.”
That was on Saturday, in response to Trump's initial statement.
I'm so tired of people here not knowing what the hell they are talking about.
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No. There are no sides - there is no 'statue controversy' - how trumpian of you.
Not as tired ,weak and lost as Biden looked. With his mouth agape, mumbling and meandering and losing his train of thought, Joe couldn't project leadership last night.
Indeed, the white supremacists, I would say are about 99% of his base, including many in the gop.
"Who do you want me to condemn? Who?" the president asked Fox News moderator Chris Wallace, in an extraordinary exchange during the first presidential debate in September 2020.
Trump: "Sure, I'm willing to do that."
The "rally" was organized by white supremacists. They had the permit to protest in the park where the statue was that day.
Trump as president of the United States should have known this , especially since the night before the neo-nazis held a torchlight march around the statue shouting "Jews will not replace us".
Of course Trump doesnt know a damn thing about anything.
Then why was antifa allowed there?
Trump as president of the United States should have known this , especially since the night before the neo-nazis held a torchlight march around the statue shouting "Jews will not replace us".
Trump knew that the request for a permit and the incident that followed was all caused by people who were offended by certain statues erected to the ancestors of other people.
Orrin Hatch was directly referring to Trump's Saturday afternoon statement.
And.....................
This is nonsense.
I will end with Trumps words on the afternoon of the violence
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides."
He specifically attempted to equate "both sides" of a white supremacist rally, by claiming that "hatred" was coming from both sides.
Case closed.
Me too
I am tired of people here thinking their opinion is gospel. You know who you are.
You do realize that what you quote doesn't say there are fine people on both sides. Trump clearly said that all sides have bad people, too. And Trump was absolutely correct.
Why are Democrats so laser focused on evil? Is that some sort of new secular orthodoxy? Or is it nothing more than than virtue signaling demagoguery? Democrats' dog whistle morally doesn't seem to be motivated by progressive considerations.
He’s been spouting that lie since day one. I don’t expect facts to change that.
In a news conference after the rally protesting the planned removal of a Confederate statue, Trump did say there were "very fine people on both sides," referring to the protesters and the counterprotesters. He said in the same statement he wasn't talking about neo-Nazis and white nationalists, who he said should be "condemned totally."
No, Trump Did Not Call Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists 'Very Fine People' | Snopes.com
Yes, he did
The 'author' of this 'article' and his buddies?
So, all you got is another Alvin Bragg prosecution. Even Joe Biden couldn't use the 34 felony convictions to his advantage. All that time, money, and effort to score a political point and Biden drops the ball.
Must have been a proud moment.
Wow. You are determined to stay in the wrong on this issue. And all butt hurt because he didn't say EXACTLY what you wanted him to say.
Did Donald Trump defang the abortion issue?
Democrats have been claiming that the issue of abortion has given them an insurmountable advantage for both the Presidential election and in down ballot races. Trump was pressed on the issue and clearly stated that he agreed with the SCOTUS decision on mifepristone and he agreed with the SCOTUS decision that the issue should be addressed at the state level and not the Federal level. Trump's stance on abortion was far more moderate than Democrats have been telling everyone.
Biden accused Trump of overturning Roe v. Wade while Trump took credit for overturning Roe v. Wade and forcing the states to decide the issue. The moment presented a stark contrast between big government and small government social policy. And in the contrasting context of last nights debate, Trump was the moderate. Trump claimed Biden had adopted the radical position of no restraints on abortion and Biden did not rebut Trump's claim. In fact, Biden doubled down on the radical rhetoric of abortion advocacy.
I can't wait to vote for Biden.
The growing anticipation and excitement has made you almost giddy.
It is almost unfathomable to me how anyone could be excited to vote for Biden after last night.
You know this how?
BTW? I would vote for Biden if he was caught snorting coke off a dead pirates wooden leg in a Motel 6.
lol
It's hilarious how supporters of the former 'president' hold him to no standards whatsoever.
Ironic...
Motel 6 isn’t how the Bidens role. Hunter could show Dad the power of smoking crack. Snorting is so last century.
No kidding. He could murder a hooker in the middle of the day on 5th avenue and one third of Americans would vote for Biden,
I believe you
I don't think the pity vote is what he was going for but go for it.
I can't wait to vote against him.
How hot is it there for all the maga cult morons?
What do these scummy turds know about Liberty? And Patriots?
It is about the same as Maryland.
So yes - you know what they say about mad dogs and Englishmen
Mad dogs and Englishmen - What's the meaning of the phrase 'Mad dogs and Englishmen'?
The expression ‘mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun’ refers to the perceived naivety of the English in their disregard for the power of the sun in hot climates.
The self-deprecating humour of the line derives from the fact that, in the 1930s when the song was written, few English had travelled abroad and those that did were entirely unprepared for the heat of the sun near the Equator – the sun in England rarely requiring protective measures.
Noel Coward wrote the song in his head on a car journey in Vietnam “without pen, paper, or piano”.
And?
Just giving you some historical context to the quote you inserted
Is that all he says? Naming all the military installations/places in Virginia? Like that means something? And some faux patriotism? Anyone aligning with #34 is a traitor - any gop/gqp member.
Biden went from up 2 pre debate to down 8 per the first national poll we can track,
"Hello, Virginia," Trump says in first remarks since winning the debate, "Did anybody watch a thing called a debate last night? That was a big one. As you saw on television, we had a big victory against a man who is really looking to destroy our country."
"Despite the fact that crooked Joe Biden spent the entire week at Camp David resting, working, and studying—he studied very hard. He studied so hard that he didn't know what the hell he was doing. He got the debate rules he wanted. He got the date he wanted. He got the network he wanted with the moderators he wanted. No amount of rest could help him defend his atrocious record. It's not defensible."
I can't stop laughing!
The projection
Amen.