I have gotten over my shock. ItтАЩs Biden to the end. There is no choice. Biden must win and there must be a giant blue wave to elect super majorities.
Yep! This substack and Heather Cox Richardson's give me hope. I can barely stand to watch the news anymore. Either TFG is spewing lies or the Supreme Court is doing something really stupid.
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No, Pat, the debate did not change my mind. Frankly, I don't think it was that bad. Joe Biden spoke with honor, integrity, and facts -- unlike Trump who simply lied and took credit for things that Joe Biden did like arranging the $35 insulin cap.
Trump is a felon, an adjudicated sexual predator, a sociopath, a narcissist, and a pathological liar. He has also stated that he intends to be dictator starting day one.
Why in the world are some Democrats having such an intense negative reaction to the fact that for one evening Joe Biden didn't feel well? It has happened to all of us. At least he didn't cancel. He did his best. And by the next day, in North Carolina, he was his usual self again and ON FIRE!
In my opinion, President Joe Biden is the best POTUS in my lifetime.
It isn't a race thing. They don't have the experience. People have to know how to do a job & what to do & just because you're young doesn't mean you get to bypass those common sense rules that everyone before them had to abide by. They have not shown themselves to be presidential material either.
No. Donald Trump is a serial adulterer, a liar, and a thief. He is a convicted felon and an amoral man. He stands for nothing but snake oil, s**t, and Shinola. These are not traits I look for in a leader. Biden is old, but he is competent, and his values make sense to me.
Actually in the transcript of the debate shows even on a тАШbad nightтАЩ he made much more sense than DJT. But discussions got wild over тАЬopticsтАЭ and mostly missed the substance. Of course that is the objective of the GOP in just about everything they do.
I agree with that. All Trump did was lie and think he was cool to do so. Biden outperforms Trump on any day of the week. I turned off the "debate" after five minutes because I couldn't stomach Trump's lying. We had four years of that BS and I don't want to repeat that ever again.
Pat, the debate did not change my mind at all, reinforced me to try to reach out to get others to vote for our Joe. I wrote below about sone kind of talking that throws out lie aftervlie after lie, orvinformation, that confuses people who do not then have timebtobevenbreplynto first remark much less third or fourth, will see if can find again. for me, snd I hope millions of others, trump is in thecsame category as hitler and pukin (putin) will never change my mind. evil evil evil 40 or 50 lies in 90 minutes. EVIL MONSTER.
they are corrupt too. I already have headache worrying sick the orange pathological liar will not be held accountable tomorrow by those crooked judges. they have gotten so much piwer they are actually smug. despise them and trump for turning on our country, making russia china whoever laugh at us. Where did ourvstrength go to? why are there so many crazies out there who used to vote for good, not devastation. trump belongs in jail, hevdoesn'tvwantbto go, cowardly liar. he is so GUILTY OF SO MANY BAD THINGS, remember his remark that he never slept with a "lady of the night" becausecI cannot wrote other word, and he told us and Joe he never did. My question online immediately was why did you pay her 130,000.00? Everyone one who watched that court hearing knows he paid her, EVERYONE, YET THE LIE SLID OFF HIS TONGUE LIKE WATER. Evil evil pathological liar, Anyobe who believes trump is crazy.
Bill, Katz, I donтАЩt know. I like your hope and IтАЩve been behind Joe 100% until last night. I would NEVER vote for the GOP spewing filth fountain that is djt. HeтАЩs the most despicable political character in my lifetimeтАФand I turn 70 this autumn.
We have to have a Dem in the White House in 2025. But I think Biden has simply aged out. ItтАЩs not his fault, itтАЩs the human condition. Our bodies and minds have an expiration date. I will be eternally grateful to him for kicking Trump out in 2020. if he loves our country as much as I think he does, he must know somewhere inside himself, that heтАЩs done his job and itтАЩs time to retire.
I think the DNC has to be assertive and look for a strong, younger, competent and qualified leader to carry the torch going forward.
Biden should have been coached that no matter what is asked, to memorize responses and part of the response must always be an attack at Trump even if the response does t match the question exactly. In that manner, you keep control of the narrative. But he didnтАЩt do that.
Great point. Also, though, Biden's staff should have never allowed their candidate (ours) to agree to a non-fact-checked-in-real-time presidential debate.
You are 100% correct, of course. But give the dog his due. He is a virtuoso liar, a tsunami of filth. HeтАЩs perfected his craft and is a formidable character. WeтАЩd need a small army of fact checkers to stem his tide of falsehoods. 40% of the population simply doesnтАЩt have tie intelligence, common sense, strength of character and critical thinking skills to fend off his wall of crap. How did America get here? I think it started in the 50тАЩs & 60тАЩs, the brainwashing and manipulation of the masses. We are a consumeristic society and sold our souls to the dumbed down onslaught on our sensibilities.
Well it was planned, of course. This is the result of 3 decades of lies & propaganda that Fox News has been allowed to spew without the Fairness Doctrine on the big three....that would ALLOW people to have a go to of reality, facts, lie-free information. Murdoch & Ailes planned this & looked at Goebbels of Nazi Germany fame. That's how obvious it was. This is not from the 50s or 60s. This is directly from Reagan/CIA Bush using an FCC person they bought to repeal the Fairness Doctrine, which they claim was toothless anyway, yet went to the trouble of corrupting an FCC person that ruled against congress.
If you havenтАЩt watched the new Netflix series on Hitler, the Nazis and Nuremberg, give it a go. The right wing and foreign governments (Russia & China) are stealing pages out of the Nazi playbook and trying them today in the US.
Interesting fact is that the Nazis emulated the tactics of Southern slave owners and the Jim Crow Laws here to persecute those they hated back then
Yep...am aware that the U.S. including the Bush family, Ford, Lindbergh, et al, worked hand & glove to bring Hitler to power. I have watched a number of different Hitler documentaries of late & have the one you mentioned on my play list.
You and to all, Rachel Maddow got a podcast out. but, to where she pushing and stating how WE need to defend Our Judges dept. investitgations. NOTING from her, We had Thoses that was in support of the Nazi movement THEN. Add, and Note, Grandpa Bush, that was in oil business but went into Banking After marring the Daughter of the Congressman that pushed in the Federal Reserve in 1913. He had 4 billion invested into Germany. He got it out and by support from our armed forces. I have not fact check it, but read a report over that, and Barbra Bushs dad was one of the first of 13 that got the Nazi movement going in Germany. again I have not fact check that one, but it has stuck with me and questioning
Well Tim, no I have not seen that on Netflix, but i revisited the old black and white with Stared Spence Tracy as the lead judge on the judges on Nuremberg trails. I thought OUR judges need to revisit it themselves. ADD, whom came up with first computer and broke the Nazi code system. "The Imitation Game" NOTE: M6 held that info from leadership then in England. I take it Ike had it tho. for the June 6th invation 1944 D-day
Our education system has been undervalued and under funded for too long and too many people were not able to afford college. Hopefully weтАЩll get through this with Biden/Harris continuing to lead the way.
I realize you have a bone to pick which is fine as far as it goes. But it does no good to toss in fake facts to feed the rumor mill just for the sake of division. IтАЩm not going to pretend to know why you believe these things but several of your тАЬfactsтАЭ are very obviously false.
For instance:
тАФ The SAVE program drastically reduces payments for lower income and middle income people. I have a family member who was shocked to see his payments go from several hundred $$ to $45.
тАФ The president does not set interest rates. He canтАЩt willy nilly set limits on interest rates especially for private entities.
тАФ Each time they block him his administration has devised a new plan. Why not blame the right wingers who keep blocking implementation instead of helping their cause?
They did with the Bushes & still to this day constantly whitewash the records of Reagan, Bush, Bush Jr. that paved the way to Trump & scream "Watergate" to try to point to something they think the press uncovered....but did they really? They never finished Watergate. Even though declassified records have come out & the rest of the Nixon tapes to point to the CIA actually setting up Nixon on Watergate...they still pretend their exposure was legit. It isn't if you keep reporting the same old facts that have now been illuminated. Who took over the GOP/RNC after Nixon departed? Yep, CIA Bush. Watergate was done to oust Nixon. Nixon smelled a rat too & mentioned it in some of the tapes. It connects back to JFK assassination + Bay of Pigs & George Bush is up to his neck in both of those 2 operations. Don't expect MSM to point it out though...because Bush.
Then they(republicans) had the brass ballz to claim their stalking & attacking Pres. Clinton relentlessly was because it's Dems fault Nixon resigned. It was reTHUGs/Bush who did it to advance to the presidency he thought he was entitled to. The GOP has been treasonous criminals since before Nixon, but accelerated after Reagan.
It's an ongoing coup ever since JFK was shot before our eyes and then were lied to about it. They're audatious, sneaky, and unrelenting.
They wield the weapons of low-brain functions, riling up fear and hate while complaining about fake news as they substitute alternative facts and simplistic, egotistic slogans. That's what many Americans "think" with.
Trump supplied more of those in the "debate," and the moderators gave him the uninterrupted sway to do it.
Rat f*cker Roger Stone wrote a "book" blaming LBJ for the assassination. That convinced me that it's likely that Nixon was involved or at least knew about it. Blaming LBJ is disinformation. It's the same lying fascists trying to blame Democrats to protect the real perpetrators, which are obviously republicans. That's why they won't quit lying about it.
FFS classified records from 2017 practically come right out & say..."Oswald didn't do it", which is what I knew (gut check) for 40+ years. It was a conspiracy & they all know it. That's another reason to eliminate the CIA. They have not been brought to heel yet. It's time.
Well, TheyтАЩve had dirty players since the 50s. Joseph McCarthy, maybe one of the worst was Lee Atwater and Newt Gingrich. Just a ruthless effort to gain power.
Dont forget Roy Cohn who sat right by J. McCarthy, in those trials! Then became friend and or lawyer for Trump. I believe he was the one that seeded into Trump`s head as to run for President of USA. Be or how to be a Dem-a God and rule
He was pure evil. When Cohn was dying of AIDS he was asked about Donald Trump never visiting him after he got sick & he said, "Donald pissed ice water". Very telling remark...
I know that, but the point when they went full-fascist was in the 1990s during Pres. Clinton's administration. Newt actually tried to take over his presidency & tried to go after Social Security. Which is why Social Security should be codified so no slick lawyer or politician can interfere with it. It does not belong to lawyers or politicians....it belongs only to those that it was given to. This crap talking point, along with giving stupid rich people tax breaks. No American party should ever have those two tenants in their platform.
Remember the "Contract on America"? The American people wanted no part of that crap.
Bush Sr. should never have been allowed to be VP or president because he was a CIA agent since the 1950s. It would really be nice if the media would stop ignoring that. We can't fix our government if people don't know what is wrong with it & that was well illustrated in the 1980s. Bush was worse than those other folks mainly because of how he avoided detection, used the CIA, bullied the press, & got all bad press about himself "killed". He ruined careers, & he locked up a political opponent LaRouche with trumped up charges. That is infinitely more dangerous than any other person throughout history. He installed his son & likely still pulled the strings after that. He brought all those neocons that helped W & filled his administration. It's a travesty of justice.
I don't want to go too far out on a limb here, but there is some very strange coincidences that have pointed to his family being brought over here from Project Paperclip. I would really like to know how we could ever know more details about Paperclip. Perhaps the CIA has it in their records. The CIA should be forced to drop the records & be disbanded. They've done too many crimes in the 1980s alone to be allowed to continue as a rouge group answerable to no one.
It was Fox, the Koch Bros. Reaganomics. Tax breaks called "trickle down". which was 'Piss on the 90% less wealthy". Pardon my vulgarity. So much over 40 years. Look at an ambitious young group called Rising Majority. They have a plan they admit is difficult
тАЬ CNN determined ahead of time that Tapper and Bash would be questioners, not umpires. They didnтАЩt follow up questions тАФ except to repeat those that werenтАЩt answered тАФ and left it to the politicians to try and fact-check.тАЭ
Again...I want to slap up Biden's "debate" team & campaign. That is completely inappropriate. 90 minutes is too long, & putting him up there, on the left? while he was battling a sickness is just more incompetence on full display. I flipped out when I saw that mess & had to change the channel. Have these dingbats ever heard of prednisone? Yeah...it works like gangbusters in short order & gives you strength & energy. I would bet you $5000 they considered how to get his energy up then sniveled ....no we can't have him on prednisone because it's a steroid & the right wing would go crazy....wahhhhh. Please. It's called HIPAA created by the great President William Jefferson Clinton. News orgs can't get that info unless they want to get sued, so they make up lies. There's no way to avoid that. Politics is an Art, not a Science because you need nuanced thinking, not left brain thinking.
The really dumb part - if you want an actual discussion of issues in one of these made for TV тАЬdebatesтАЭ - they let him finish his lies before sometimes re-asking the question. Then he would again ignore the question and blabber on with more lies. I am convinced the network doesnтАЩt care. They want the views and any stray maga viewers up for grabs. Reminds me of the тАЬtownhallтАЭ they held for him that was packed with his fans.
he did yell back at filthy trump when bidens don was called a felon. I almost cried forvJoe. This filthy despicable con man saying something so hurtful and hateful to Biden made me sick. If he is not held accountable fircall his crimes and his 34 counts Inwill just give up hope.
Too late to say should have. Going forward Sept will not be a debate. Attacks only allow drumpf to spout another denial lie. Focus on how people's lives now and future will improve without the repugs in majority in gov.
If the country were not so homophobic, I think Pete Buttigieg could become one of the best presidents in recent times. If the country were not so anti-Semitic, Josh Shapiro would be excellent. But too many Americans are bigots whether they admit or not. That's why Obama's two terms were miraculous.
Everybody has good days & not do good days. Yes we are aging. I think he did have a cold/bug and sounded like mild laryngitis . Add having to breathe the same air as the lunatic former president is enough to make an honest person ill. Joe Biden had his energy back today. I too am ridin with BIDEN!
Megan Ross, nevertheless, Biden, his closest advisors and the DNC will decide what to do. We have no influence on that decision. I will vote Dem in 2024, no matter whoтАЩs in the ballot.
They're making a lot of mistakes though. They've got to stop trying to get Obama to ....do something. Obama can't do anything. He can't elect anyone but himself. I like Obama, but deep down these fools know who they need to get....& it's none other than William Jefferson Clinton, who is a master at debating. He's also gifted at explaining things & getting things across. He is the one that should help Biden, but when they keep stupidly dissing him & not giving him the respect of asking him to help, he's not going to insert himself. Bill Clinton is hands down the smartest person in the room everywhere he goes, but more importantly he's also a great teacher.
Vote for Biden. There is nothing wrong with his mind, and he doesn't take care of business at a podium, intimidated by a traitor trying to demolish our Constitution.
Tim Freije, obviously President Biden has not "aged out". His results as POTUS are arguably the best I've seen in my lifetime and I will be 3/4 of a century old in early December.
President Biden doesn't beat his own chest like Trump does. He simply makes things better. He tells the truth. He acts within integrity 100% of the time. He delivers results consistently.
And he will ride to his second term on the crest of the biggest BLUE tsunami in American history.
He and his administration do publicize their accomplishments. IтАЩve found their press releases on the WH site after people said the Biden administration didnтАЩt do or say certain things.
The fascination with DJT drama and desire for clicks push anything with DJTтАЩs name to the front. This is to the detriment of having an informed public. The final day of SCOTUS decisions for the term is Monday.
Very little coverage of the SCOTUS ЁЯдо so far. Monday SCOTUS may reduce debate тАЬcoverageтАЭ because they can talk about Donnie. Last chance for a decision on presidential immunity from SCOTUS this term. No mention of what the other cases pending are.
Ashley, Warrenton, Smith, I also think heтАЩs done a very good job. Unfortunately, I think his debate performance will turn off some of the few independent voters we have left and upon whom we are depending on to get us over the top. I made good donations in 2020 & have already done so in 2024. Also donated to Sherrod Brown of OH in 2024. Donated to the GA Dem Senators a few years back. Aided in the voter registration efforts in 2020. Never did this prior to 2020. So IтАЩm all in. I urge everyone to be generous and proactive this year.
I am not a Fairweather Democrat. When the going gets tough, the tough better get going. Right now it's tough and we had better support Joe Biden all the way to his next win in 2024.
First thing I did was make a donation to Joe Biden after the AND sent him a note thanking him for everything that he has done to make America great since 2020 and before.
This man is a great statesman and we have been extraordinarily fortunate to have him as our president for the past three years and, God willing, for the next five years.
Biden small donors continued giving in the hours after the debate in large numbers. IтАЩm not certain voters are moved these days by NYT editorials, WaPo etc., or the ongoing calls from within the house of Dems who always despair over their choices. There is no unicorn candidate to please everyone. (Sticklers for detail can read the transcript to compare BidenтАЩs responses to TFGтАЩs.)
тАЬThe campaign said the 11 p.m. to midnight hour, one hour after Thursday's debate, was the single best hour of fundraising since the campaign's launch in April 2023.тАЭ
I watched most of this live. It was Joe Biden being Joe. You could compare it to when Clinton became the тАЬcome back kid.тАЭ Major differences:
* Biden is running against a former president surrounded by personal scandals (plus DJT was found culpable for sexual assault, is a convicted felon surrounded by felons, whose pal Bannon goes to prison Monday.)
* DJTтАЩs тАШhandlersтАЩ are inclined to let him do as he wishes which his cult adores.
тАФ Biden is an incumbent, balancing duties & demeanor of the presidency while being over-managed. I suspect his people hide him to avoid mistakes which is the greatest mistake of all. If they keep on, they will all be unemployed before or after the election.
John, I'm ridin' with Biden 100%. First thing I did was make another donation to his campaign and send him a note of gratitude for all of the fabulous results he has delivered since he took office as, arguably, the best POTUS in my lifetime.
They were not тАЬmoderatorsтАЭтАжthat implies someone who calls out a blatant lie, keeps the answers on point, and keeps the process moving forward rather than collapsing into chaos. CNN bobbleheads did none of this. They were a disgrace to journalism.
Glad you said it....they were trash! They're both dead to me after this lame performance. I wanted to slap them both in the face. Why don't they pick Bob Woodward to do the next one, since Trump respects him. They need to stop someone who is lying by interrupting them. Why would you make rules for a debate, but don't put in there that you can't lie & call people names??
I clearly remember watching when the lunatic former president called our veterans & military " suckers & losers" & disrespected a POW. The lunatic is the real vermin .
he is a mean vicious evil pathological liar who enjoys hurting people. He thinks it makes him superior, but I wish he knew just how much it makes him hated. Really hated!
...and on that note, he's about as despicable as a person can get. Remember how he & Barr were killing all those people on death row at the end of his residency? It's like he has a taste for it now. He takes no responsibility for allowing Covid to infest the U.S., while he dismantled Obama's pandemic response. Jarod & Trump Jr. were intentionally trying to get the blue states infested with Covid but Dems kept wearing masks & taking precautions while in red states they kept fighting people over masks. Remember how California & New York ordered the breathing units, but Trump sent people to confiscate it? People were dying by the 1000snds every day because there wasn't enough of those breathing machines. Meanwhile the WH had rooms full of them. Trump wanted to use that stuff to blackmail people with it for a payout or simply withhold it if they were Dems. Blue state genocide is what it was, I can only imagine what they'll do for their 2nd act. This misogynist SCOTUS is trying to pave the way for a fascist take over & that cannot be allowed to continue. It won't if we vote & watch the polls closely, report any GOP dirty tricks, have lawyers at the ready, cameras, & be ready to put down the false flags the lying GOP throw out to cause chaos.
thank you for responding yo me. I was shocked to read what he and his son innlaw tried to do, withhold face masks during covid that werevtgere to be used to protect people. The whole world should know this, especially the devastated peoplecwho lost a loved one. I cannot imagine their grief. He told us to drink bleach. Many of us remember that.
MSM has failed spectacularly in holding Orange Jesus accountable. They've dropped some of the most important stories so they can rehash Gaza over & over while spinning their wheels about it. At least they should've focused more on war criminal Bibi if they were going to discuss Gaza.
"Joe Biden is a good and decent man. But in last nightтАЩs joint appearance, he was bullied and lost badly. "
Joe Biden is a good and decent man. As these things go. Joe Biden has been a surprisingly successful president. By any metric. Joe Biden did not lose badly in the debate because he was bullied. Biden lost badly because he was inept and incoherent. Biden had only one job on that stage - answer the questions in simple declarative sentences. And he failed. Spectacularly. I do not know whether his campaign can come back from this. I think he must now be completely visible and visibly competent - over and over. Until we can unsee last's night's tragic performance, or at least put it into perspective. If that is even possible at this point.
Joe works! He may not be the best speaker but he knows who to hire and how to get things done for our Country! HeтАЩs organized. His тАЬhandlersтАЭ shouldnтАЩt have scheduled such a late start.
TFG should have been called out. He contributed nothing but noise and lies!
Late start is never a good thing for older folks. At 73 I am pretty with it in the morning; and have always been a morning person. But I for sure pack it in after 9 pm/not near my best
How about late start for someone who had a rally earlier that day & had just finished 2 back to back trips to Europe for meeting with world leaders? He met with folks after the debate at an event. He and Jill were shown at a Waffle House at midnight talking to the тАЬlocals.тАЭ So he didnтАЩt lack stamina. But something was off.
I read it. Hersh only uses the term "decline" and never once says "dementia." There is a world of difference. If Joe Biden has or develops dementia, I'll believe the board certified neurologist who diagnosed it, and is named.
Ms. тАЬSweetтАЭ uses the opinions of others no matter how untethered to bolster her own wishful thinking or hyperbole. Without fail it leads to Gaza grievances without any sense of balance. Mostly appeals to angry people seeking magical solutions. Same for Mr. Hersh who is 87; whose career has been in decline and controversy for a decade.
Eh, what's "decline"? A US President in cognitive "decline'....no big deal....out of a population of 330,000, 000 and the US with a President in cognitive decline? How many corporations would support their CEO with cognitive decline? But, government? Why not? And a President who actively supports a genocide of a people. That is - the mass murder of a people through bombs, bullets, drones, and now starvation before our very eyes. In psychological parlance, that is called "normalization."
TrumpтАЩs been out of office for a while now. Joe Biden is our President and he doesnтАЩt have dementia. TFG is staging in, note his right leg drags a bit.
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I think you mean a тАЬgish gallopтАЭ. A suddenly popular term that means a person floods the zone with a firehose of false confusing statements to overwhelm the opposition.
Biden also had a cold & his voice was hoarse which was not helpful. One of the hazards of working, not riding around in a golf cart all day. He had attended a rally before the debate and was out and about afterward. There was a live feed of him with Jill at a Waffle House at midnight talking to тАЬlocals.тАЭ The next day you may have seen him in NC when his voice and energy were quite good. Indications are he had an off day.
I remember when HRC had pneumonia and felt weak as she was campaigning. There was the same hair on fire blather. She is still hale & hearty.
Younger presidents and other officials have had such difficult moments. A certain group of Dems are always ready to pounce on their own & the media eats it up for the тАШviews.тАЩ The transcript and the donations that continued flooding in for Biden say NYT, WaPo, and the pundits did not sway BidenтАЩs supporters. Others have pointed to the transcript as a neutral entity that belies the handwringing.
All the hoopla for a week prior to the debate and mania afterward have served to keep the decisions SCOTUS has puked out to go almost unnoticed. Roberts said the rest that are decided will come out on Monday. That will get more news coverage due to the trump connection. WeтАЩve been waiting to see if they act on immunity.
I beg to differ, it's simple..you vote for an honest man with integrity that has our Country as his first priority or you vote for the guy that lies 99% of the time and wants your votes to stay out of jail and become Putin Jr.
If Biden was running against someone with integrity and had our country as his priority, the outcome could be different. The down playing of Trump's lies, and not just last night, are astounding and unfortunately mainstream media are playing right into his hands.
Through the unforced errors of Biden's debate performance - electing Biden, never an easy proposition, just got exponentially more difficult. It is foolish to panic. It is foolish to pretend. There is too much work to do. Whether or not Biden will ultimately be the Democratic candidate, we must continue to work on getting out the Democratic vote. I just requested 300 more postcards/addresses.
Not inept but did lose his way several times, not all times. As a person who loses words and has for thirty some years, I know how frustrating it can be. President Biden appeared to realize it and was not helped by his stuttering. His expressions about Trump's continuous outright lies were great. Too bad it was a bad day.
I see you are having a really good time trashing our President! If youтАЩre so darn smart, get out and run for the office yourself! Trash talking is easy and does nothing to contribute.
Sorry, Selina, you must be thinking of Trump. President Biden, on the other hand, spoke with honor, integrity, and to the facts.
Trump, a pathological liar, a convicted felon, and adjudicated sexual abuser, a sociopath, and a narcissist spewed lies out of his tiny little mouth as fast as he could move his lips.
How would YOU have liked to try to respond to that? Think about it before you judge our president so harshly.
Did you notice that he was having trouble with his microphone?
Did you know that he was ill?
Did you notice that the pundits for CNN were ready to jump all over Joe Biden after CNN did not set him up for the debate?
Did you notice that the CNN moderators didn't moderate the debate well at all? They allowed Donald Trump to lie with almost every breath without calling him on it. They allowed him not to answer their direct questions a single time.
Does the concept of 'set up' have any meaning to you?
Have you looked into the ownership of CNN lately?
Instead of judging Joe Biden harshly, you might want to do your research and rethink your position.
And one final question. How would YOU like to have faced Donald Trump on national television, a convicted felon, a pathological liar, a sociopath, a narcissist, an adjudicated sex abuser, who is spewing nonstop lies about YOU and YOUR performance with his every breath?
Denial supplemented with conspiracy theory does no good. Biden's inept debate performance ought lead to serious reflection by all of us. Especially Joe Biden.
Whether Biden steps down or pushes on, it does not change our obligation to Get Out The Vote for Democratic candidates.
So in your lights one recognizes moral conscience only in relation to another person so morally degraded his conscience would be pinned at the extreme end of the spectrum. So it goes, Biden is highly moral because in contrast to Trump he lies only 50% of the time instead of TrumpтАЩs 99.9%of the time. And in this context, supplying the entire killing machinery to a colonialist nation to obliterate an entire people, their cultural institutions their hospitals and homes is simply an irrelevant consideration for assessing moral integrity. Is that it?
"Joe Biden is a good and decent man. As these things go."
The political choice is binary.
Vote Biden or elect Trump.
The moral merit of the two candidates is relative.
Regarding Israel and Palestine, Biden is the better choice than Trump.
Trump's moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem, his Abrahamic Accords excluding Palestinians, and his support for Israeli settlement policy all worked to tank talks of a two state solution. (Trump has a settlement named in his honor in occupied territory.) Trump is entirely on board with the extremism of AIPAC and the Evangelicals
Biden has criticized Israeli settlement policy for decades. (A reason Netanyahu has campaigned and is campaigning against him.) Biden has strengthened the Leahy Laws with his National Security Memorandum 20. Biden has worked for consensus on a two state solution. Now he is navigating between those who cry antisemitism at any criticism of Israeli policy and those who cry genocide at any support for Israel.
As an American Jew and Zionist who has for decades denounced successive and increasingly extremist Netanyahu regimes and deplored the appropriation of Zionism by racist right wing religious extremists, I am dismayed at the Biden administration's reluctance to enforce the Leahy Laws and to fully pause delivery of offensive weapons to the murderous Netanyahu regime. That said, regarding the best interests of Israelis, Palestinians, and Americans, Biden is still the best choice of those competing for the presidency.
Thank you for taking the time to cover this so completely. I too am troubled by some of BidenтАЩs support of Israel with offensive weapons. But I donтАЩt have one tenth of the information the President has, so because I know Joe Biden is an honorable man, I trust him. The middle east is a gordian knot heтАЩs doing his level best to untangle. Bless him for all his hard work.
Yes. Enforcing the Leahy Laws is legally complex. And politically fraught. Extremist rhetoric obstructs the reasoned debate essential to decision making. My concern is that there is disagreement within the State Department and among responsible elected officials - and I stand with those whose analyses suggest it is past time to limit offensive aid to the Netanyahu regime.
Netanyahu's regime and Hamas agree on going to any extreme to obstruct the establishment of two sovereign and geographically autonomous states.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar first went to jail for murdering a Palestinian reported to be in communication with Israelis.
Benjamin Netanyahu is implicated in the Jewish extremist assassination of Yitzhak Rabin because of Rabin's involvement in the Oslo Accords.
Friends of Israel and Palestine would best tone down their own rhetoric and engage in reasoned debate of the empirical evidence. Rather than hedge their bets on 'winner take all' carnage
Joe Biden is the best POTUS of my lifetime (and I'm almost 3/4 of a century old). I am so grateful for everything this great statesman has done for our country to turn around the mess that Trump and previous Republican presidents created.
He was ON FIRE the very next day in North Carolina. I don't know about everyone else but when I get sick I just have to lay down and go to sleep. Joe couldn't do that. He had a presidential debate that he had to deal with. He expressed himself with facts, clarity, and honesty. Yes, his voice was weak. He didn't feel well. Cut him some slack, for heaven's sake!
For 37 years, I coached CEOs members of Boards of Directors, and top executives. This is a group of people that can be quite challenging to work with. The honest ones with integrity can be helped but the ones like Donald Trump can't be helped. They are IMPOSSIBLE to work with. The only thing that you can do is decline to work with them.
Joe Biden couldn't decline. He had to stand up in front of the nation and try to have an intelligent debate with a man that all of us know is a pathological liar, a sociopath, and a narcissist -- and incapable of speaking rationally. On a day when Joe Biden had perfect health, that would've been an impossible task.
I am very disappointed in some of my fellow Democrats. All of us descended from tough stock who knew how to face a challenge and go the distance -- not cut and run.
Democrats have changed candidates before at the last minute -- and lost soundly.
At this time we cannot afford to lose soundly. We need to back Joe Biden with everything that we have and trust him to keep doing what he has been doing for the last three years which is being an outstanding President of the United States.
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After seeing him on CNN after the debate and in N.C. the next day, it's almost like someone drugged him! The Joe at the debate was not the Joe we know....
It was hard watching it, and I think that the moderators didn't do anyone any justice. Regardless, I'm still Ridin with Biden!!
You and me both! There is absolutely no way in God's green earth that I would even give a thought to voting for the republican candidate.
I have gotten over my shock. ItтАЩs Biden to the end. There is no choice. Biden must win and there must be a giant blue wave to elect super majorities.
LetтАЩs go.
Yep! This substack and Heather Cox Richardson's give me hope. I can barely stand to watch the news anymore. Either TFG is spewing lies or the Supreme Court is doing something really stupid.
Lately itтАЩs both.
Stupid is not the word...anti-American is more like it.
terrible to watch
but it did not change my mind. My vote will be for Joe. I believe Incame across something online I did not completely understand, but was that a liarvwill throw out remarks wuicklynonecaftervthevother, until thevother person hearing itvall, and this time forn90nminutes, that other person cannot pissibly remember the first two when the liar is on third lie. Will try to find again and post it
But did the debate change your mind?
No, Pat, the debate did not change my mind. Frankly, I don't think it was that bad. Joe Biden spoke with honor, integrity, and facts -- unlike Trump who simply lied and took credit for things that Joe Biden did like arranging the $35 insulin cap.
Trump is a felon, an adjudicated sexual predator, a sociopath, a narcissist, and a pathological liar. He has also stated that he intends to be dictator starting day one.
Why in the world are some Democrats having such an intense negative reaction to the fact that for one evening Joe Biden didn't feel well? It has happened to all of us. At least he didn't cancel. He did his best. And by the next day, in North Carolina, he was his usual self again and ON FIRE!
In my opinion, President Joe Biden is the best POTUS in my lifetime.
So gladтАжI totally agree!
You put that so well. Thank you.
It is not just one evening.
"felon, sexual predator, sociopath, narcissist, pathological liar"
And those are his good qualities.
butbso loved Obama too, still do.
Porter, Neguse & Tlaib are not fit to be president. They don't have the experience or knowledge needed. Try Newsome & Harris.
It isn't a race thing. They don't have the experience. People have to know how to do a job & what to do & just because you're young doesn't mean you get to bypass those common sense rules that everyone before them had to abide by. They have not shown themselves to be presidential material either.
I donтАЩt think Trump is the Orange Bogeyman, heтАЩs the Antichrist!
No. Donald Trump is a serial adulterer, a liar, and a thief. He is a convicted felon and an amoral man. He stands for nothing but snake oil, s**t, and Shinola. These are not traits I look for in a leader. Biden is old, but he is competent, and his values make sense to me.
Actually in the transcript of the debate shows even on a тАШbad nightтАЩ he made much more sense than DJT. But discussions got wild over тАЬopticsтАЭ and mostly missed the substance. Of course that is the objective of the GOP in just about everything they do.
I agree with that. All Trump did was lie and think he was cool to do so. Biden outperforms Trump on any day of the week. I turned off the "debate" after five minutes because I couldn't stomach Trump's lying. We had four years of that BS and I don't want to repeat that ever again.
Pat, the debate did not change my mind at all, reinforced me to try to reach out to get others to vote for our Joe. I wrote below about sone kind of talking that throws out lie aftervlie after lie, orvinformation, that confuses people who do not then have timebtobevenbreplynto first remark much less third or fourth, will see if can find again. for me, snd I hope millions of others, trump is in thecsame category as hitler and pukin (putin) will never change my mind. evil evil evil 40 or 50 lies in 90 minutes. EVIL MONSTER.
they are corrupt too. I already have headache worrying sick the orange pathological liar will not be held accountable tomorrow by those crooked judges. they have gotten so much piwer they are actually smug. despise them and trump for turning on our country, making russia china whoever laugh at us. Where did ourvstrength go to? why are there so many crazies out there who used to vote for good, not devastation. trump belongs in jail, hevdoesn'tvwantbto go, cowardly liar. he is so GUILTY OF SO MANY BAD THINGS, remember his remark that he never slept with a "lady of the night" becausecI cannot wrote other word, and he told us and Joe he never did. My question online immediately was why did you pay her 130,000.00? Everyone one who watched that court hearing knows he paid her, EVERYONE, YET THE LIE SLID OFF HIS TONGUE LIKE WATER. Evil evil pathological liar, Anyobe who believes trump is crazy.
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Bill, Katz, I donтАЩt know. I like your hope and IтАЩve been behind Joe 100% until last night. I would NEVER vote for the GOP spewing filth fountain that is djt. HeтАЩs the most despicable political character in my lifetimeтАФand I turn 70 this autumn.
We have to have a Dem in the White House in 2025. But I think Biden has simply aged out. ItтАЩs not his fault, itтАЩs the human condition. Our bodies and minds have an expiration date. I will be eternally grateful to him for kicking Trump out in 2020. if he loves our country as much as I think he does, he must know somewhere inside himself, that heтАЩs done his job and itтАЩs time to retire.
I think the DNC has to be assertive and look for a strong, younger, competent and qualified leader to carry the torch going forward.
What are our options?
Biden should have been coached that no matter what is asked, to memorize responses and part of the response must always be an attack at Trump even if the response does t match the question exactly. In that manner, you keep control of the narrative. But he didnтАЩt do that.
Great point. Also, though, Biden's staff should have never allowed their candidate (ours) to agree to a non-fact-checked-in-real-time presidential debate.
You are 100% correct, of course. But give the dog his due. He is a virtuoso liar, a tsunami of filth. HeтАЩs perfected his craft and is a formidable character. WeтАЩd need a small army of fact checkers to stem his tide of falsehoods. 40% of the population simply doesnтАЩt have tie intelligence, common sense, strength of character and critical thinking skills to fend off his wall of crap. How did America get here? I think it started in the 50тАЩs & 60тАЩs, the brainwashing and manipulation of the masses. We are a consumeristic society and sold our souls to the dumbed down onslaught on our sensibilities.
Well it was planned, of course. This is the result of 3 decades of lies & propaganda that Fox News has been allowed to spew without the Fairness Doctrine on the big three....that would ALLOW people to have a go to of reality, facts, lie-free information. Murdoch & Ailes planned this & looked at Goebbels of Nazi Germany fame. That's how obvious it was. This is not from the 50s or 60s. This is directly from Reagan/CIA Bush using an FCC person they bought to repeal the Fairness Doctrine, which they claim was toothless anyway, yet went to the trouble of corrupting an FCC person that ruled against congress.
If you havenтАЩt watched the new Netflix series on Hitler, the Nazis and Nuremberg, give it a go. The right wing and foreign governments (Russia & China) are stealing pages out of the Nazi playbook and trying them today in the US.
Interesting fact is that the Nazis emulated the tactics of Southern slave owners and the Jim Crow Laws here to persecute those they hated back then
Yep...am aware that the U.S. including the Bush family, Ford, Lindbergh, et al, worked hand & glove to bring Hitler to power. I have watched a number of different Hitler documentaries of late & have the one you mentioned on my play list.
You and to all, Rachel Maddow got a podcast out. but, to where she pushing and stating how WE need to defend Our Judges dept. investitgations. NOTING from her, We had Thoses that was in support of the Nazi movement THEN. Add, and Note, Grandpa Bush, that was in oil business but went into Banking After marring the Daughter of the Congressman that pushed in the Federal Reserve in 1913. He had 4 billion invested into Germany. He got it out and by support from our armed forces. I have not fact check it, but read a report over that, and Barbra Bushs dad was one of the first of 13 that got the Nazi movement going in Germany. again I have not fact check that one, but it has stuck with me and questioning
Well Tim, no I have not seen that on Netflix, but i revisited the old black and white with Stared Spence Tracy as the lead judge on the judges on Nuremberg trails. I thought OUR judges need to revisit it themselves. ADD, whom came up with first computer and broke the Nazi code system. "The Imitation Game" NOTE: M6 held that info from leadership then in England. I take it Ike had it tho. for the June 6th invation 1944 D-day
fox news should be banned. It is evil and destructive and full of liars and troublemakers. How do they sleep at night?
Our education system has been undervalued and under funded for too long and too many people were not able to afford college. Hopefully weтАЩll get through this with Biden/Harris continuing to lead the way.
I realize you have a bone to pick which is fine as far as it goes. But it does no good to toss in fake facts to feed the rumor mill just for the sake of division. IтАЩm not going to pretend to know why you believe these things but several of your тАЬfactsтАЭ are very obviously false.
For instance:
тАФ The SAVE program drastically reduces payments for lower income and middle income people. I have a family member who was shocked to see his payments go from several hundred $$ to $45.
тАФ The president does not set interest rates. He canтАЩt willy nilly set limits on interest rates especially for private entities.
тАФ Each time they block him his administration has devised a new plan. Why not blame the right wingers who keep blocking implementation instead of helping their cause?
What do you think the Republican Assoc. of Attorney GeneralтАЩs does? https://www.wdsu.com/article/courts-halt-parts-of-biden-save-student-loan-repayment-plan/61244274#:~:text=to%20debt%20forgiveness.-,Two%20lawsuits%20filed%20by%20Republican%2Dled%20states%20argue%20that%20the,granted%20partial%20preliminary%20injunctions%20Monday.
Blueberry muffin is a bot
You may choose not to believe it but others may be interested:
https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/biden-harris-administration-releases-state-state-breakdown-12-billion-save-plan-forgiveness
You literally have no clue what you're talking about. I'm getting vibes of racism, misogyny & entitlement & false grievance enabled by propaganda.
msybe rotten republicans have been working for trump to undermine our country and us for years without any of us even suspecting that.
They did with the Bushes & still to this day constantly whitewash the records of Reagan, Bush, Bush Jr. that paved the way to Trump & scream "Watergate" to try to point to something they think the press uncovered....but did they really? They never finished Watergate. Even though declassified records have come out & the rest of the Nixon tapes to point to the CIA actually setting up Nixon on Watergate...they still pretend their exposure was legit. It isn't if you keep reporting the same old facts that have now been illuminated. Who took over the GOP/RNC after Nixon departed? Yep, CIA Bush. Watergate was done to oust Nixon. Nixon smelled a rat too & mentioned it in some of the tapes. It connects back to JFK assassination + Bay of Pigs & George Bush is up to his neck in both of those 2 operations. Don't expect MSM to point it out though...because Bush.
Then they(republicans) had the brass ballz to claim their stalking & attacking Pres. Clinton relentlessly was because it's Dems fault Nixon resigned. It was reTHUGs/Bush who did it to advance to the presidency he thought he was entitled to. The GOP has been treasonous criminals since before Nixon, but accelerated after Reagan.
It's an ongoing coup ever since JFK was shot before our eyes and then were lied to about it. They're audatious, sneaky, and unrelenting.
They wield the weapons of low-brain functions, riling up fear and hate while complaining about fake news as they substitute alternative facts and simplistic, egotistic slogans. That's what many Americans "think" with.
Trump supplied more of those in the "debate," and the moderators gave him the uninterrupted sway to do it.
Rat f*cker Roger Stone wrote a "book" blaming LBJ for the assassination. That convinced me that it's likely that Nixon was involved or at least knew about it. Blaming LBJ is disinformation. It's the same lying fascists trying to blame Democrats to protect the real perpetrators, which are obviously republicans. That's why they won't quit lying about it.
FFS classified records from 2017 practically come right out & say..."Oswald didn't do it", which is what I knew (gut check) for 40+ years. It was a conspiracy & they all know it. That's another reason to eliminate the CIA. They have not been brought to heel yet. It's time.
Well, TheyтАЩve had dirty players since the 50s. Joseph McCarthy, maybe one of the worst was Lee Atwater and Newt Gingrich. Just a ruthless effort to gain power.
Dont forget Roy Cohn who sat right by J. McCarthy, in those trials! Then became friend and or lawyer for Trump. I believe he was the one that seeded into Trump`s head as to run for President of USA. Be or how to be a Dem-a God and rule
He was pure evil. When Cohn was dying of AIDS he was asked about Donald Trump never visiting him after he got sick & he said, "Donald pissed ice water". Very telling remark...
I know that, but the point when they went full-fascist was in the 1990s during Pres. Clinton's administration. Newt actually tried to take over his presidency & tried to go after Social Security. Which is why Social Security should be codified so no slick lawyer or politician can interfere with it. It does not belong to lawyers or politicians....it belongs only to those that it was given to. This crap talking point, along with giving stupid rich people tax breaks. No American party should ever have those two tenants in their platform.
Remember the "Contract on America"? The American people wanted no part of that crap.
Bush Sr. should never have been allowed to be VP or president because he was a CIA agent since the 1950s. It would really be nice if the media would stop ignoring that. We can't fix our government if people don't know what is wrong with it & that was well illustrated in the 1980s. Bush was worse than those other folks mainly because of how he avoided detection, used the CIA, bullied the press, & got all bad press about himself "killed". He ruined careers, & he locked up a political opponent LaRouche with trumped up charges. That is infinitely more dangerous than any other person throughout history. He installed his son & likely still pulled the strings after that. He brought all those neocons that helped W & filled his administration. It's a travesty of justice.
I don't want to go too far out on a limb here, but there is some very strange coincidences that have pointed to his family being brought over here from Project Paperclip. I would really like to know how we could ever know more details about Paperclip. Perhaps the CIA has it in their records. The CIA should be forced to drop the records & be disbanded. They've done too many crimes in the 1980s alone to be allowed to continue as a rouge group answerable to no one.
It was Fox, the Koch Bros. Reaganomics. Tax breaks called "trickle down". which was 'Piss on the 90% less wealthy". Pardon my vulgarity. So much over 40 years. Look at an ambitious young group called Rising Majority. They have a plan they admit is difficult
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per the AP:
тАЬ CNN determined ahead of time that Tapper and Bash would be questioners, not umpires. They didnтАЩt follow up questions тАФ except to repeat those that werenтАЩt answered тАФ and left it to the politicians to try and fact-check.тАЭ
Again...I want to slap up Biden's "debate" team & campaign. That is completely inappropriate. 90 minutes is too long, & putting him up there, on the left? while he was battling a sickness is just more incompetence on full display. I flipped out when I saw that mess & had to change the channel. Have these dingbats ever heard of prednisone? Yeah...it works like gangbusters in short order & gives you strength & energy. I would bet you $5000 they considered how to get his energy up then sniveled ....no we can't have him on prednisone because it's a steroid & the right wing would go crazy....wahhhhh. Please. It's called HIPAA created by the great President William Jefferson Clinton. News orgs can't get that info unless they want to get sued, so they make up lies. There's no way to avoid that. Politics is an Art, not a Science because you need nuanced thinking, not left brain thinking.
That looks to be true Ann. I think, so, Trump wouldn't be calling for a foul
The really dumb part - if you want an actual discussion of issues in one of these made for TV тАЬdebatesтАЭ - they let him finish his lies before sometimes re-asking the question. Then he would again ignore the question and blabber on with more lies. I am convinced the network doesnтАЩt care. They want the views and any stray maga viewers up for grabs. Reminds me of the тАЬtownhallтАЭ they held for him that was packed with his fans.
When he did the orange wonder responded with something like тАЬyouтАЩre the liarтАЩ followed by a flood of more lies.
he did yell back at filthy trump when bidens don was called a felon. I almost cried forvJoe. This filthy despicable con man saying something so hurtful and hateful to Biden made me sick. If he is not held accountable fircall his crimes and his 34 counts Inwill just give up hope.
Dementia narrows one's scope, and agility and does so significantly. Doesn't it?
Yes, apparently dementia enhances Trump's continual ability to spout lies.
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Too late to say should have. Going forward Sept will not be a debate. Attacks only allow drumpf to spout another denial lie. Focus on how people's lives now and future will improve without the repugs in majority in gov.
If the country were not so homophobic, I think Pete Buttigieg could become one of the best presidents in recent times. If the country were not so anti-Semitic, Josh Shapiro would be excellent. But too many Americans are bigots whether they admit or not. That's why Obama's two terms were miraculous.
Not certain they were miraculous, but they were definitely step in the right direction and inspired lots of hope for many people.
HHMM Shapiro
Sorry, I can't "like" this comment. Maybe if you watch Biden's rally today in North Carolina, you'll change your mind. Again. #flipflop
Everybody has good days & not do good days. Yes we are aging. I think he did have a cold/bug and sounded like mild laryngitis . Add having to breathe the same air as the lunatic former president is enough to make an honest person ill. Joe Biden had his energy back today. I too am ridin with BIDEN!
Megan Ross, nevertheless, Biden, his closest advisors and the DNC will decide what to do. We have no influence on that decision. I will vote Dem in 2024, no matter whoтАЩs in the ballot.
They're making a lot of mistakes though. They've got to stop trying to get Obama to ....do something. Obama can't do anything. He can't elect anyone but himself. I like Obama, but deep down these fools know who they need to get....& it's none other than William Jefferson Clinton, who is a master at debating. He's also gifted at explaining things & getting things across. He is the one that should help Biden, but when they keep stupidly dissing him & not giving him the respect of asking him to help, he's not going to insert himself. Bill Clinton is hands down the smartest person in the room everywhere he goes, but more importantly he's also a great teacher.
He was reading from a teleprompter.
Who cares?
Vote for Biden. There is nothing wrong with his mind, and he doesn't take care of business at a podium, intimidated by a traitor trying to demolish our Constitution.
Tim Freije, obviously President Biden has not "aged out". His results as POTUS are arguably the best I've seen in my lifetime and I will be 3/4 of a century old in early December.
President Biden doesn't beat his own chest like Trump does. He simply makes things better. He tells the truth. He acts within integrity 100% of the time. He delivers results consistently.
And he will ride to his second term on the crest of the biggest BLUE tsunami in American history.
He and his administration do publicize their accomplishments. IтАЩve found their press releases on the WH site after people said the Biden administration didnтАЩt do or say certain things.
The fascination with DJT drama and desire for clicks push anything with DJTтАЩs name to the front. This is to the detriment of having an informed public. The final day of SCOTUS decisions for the term is Monday.
Very little coverage of the SCOTUS ЁЯдо so far. Monday SCOTUS may reduce debate тАЬcoverageтАЭ because they can talk about Donnie. Last chance for a decision on presidential immunity from SCOTUS this term. No mention of what the other cases pending are.
Ashley, Warrenton, Smith, I also think heтАЩs done a very good job. Unfortunately, I think his debate performance will turn off some of the few independent voters we have left and upon whom we are depending on to get us over the top. I made good donations in 2020 & have already done so in 2024. Also donated to Sherrod Brown of OH in 2024. Donated to the GA Dem Senators a few years back. Aided in the voter registration efforts in 2020. Never did this prior to 2020. So IтАЩm all in. I urge everyone to be generous and proactive this year.
Ridin' with Biden ALL THE WAY.
I am not a Fairweather Democrat. When the going gets tough, the tough better get going. Right now it's tough and we had better support Joe Biden all the way to his next win in 2024.
First thing I did was make a donation to Joe Biden after the AND sent him a note thanking him for everything that he has done to make America great since 2020 and before.
This man is a great statesman and we have been extraordinarily fortunate to have him as our president for the past three years and, God willing, for the next five years.
watch Lawrence O'Donnell
https://youtu.be/Qs1yiaeYuXY?si=xCUuMuo6yFrrlA-q
Biden small donors continued giving in the hours after the debate in large numbers. IтАЩm not certain voters are moved these days by NYT editorials, WaPo etc., or the ongoing calls from within the house of Dems who always despair over their choices. There is no unicorn candidate to please everyone. (Sticklers for detail can read the transcript to compare BidenтАЩs responses to TFGтАЩs.)
тАЬThe campaign said the 11 p.m. to midnight hour, one hour after Thursday's debate, was the single best hour of fundraising since the campaign's launch in April 2023.тАЭ
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-campaign-says-raised-14m-debate-day-morning-after-2024-06-28/
I agree. This is so well said. ЁЯЗ▒ЁЯЗ╖тЩея╕ПЁЯЗ▒ЁЯЗ╖
Ridin' with Biden 100%.
https://youtu.be/NNbpReScD_I?si=-CjeyjiRJcUC2QJE
I watched most of this live. It was Joe Biden being Joe. You could compare it to when Clinton became the тАЬcome back kid.тАЭ Major differences:
* Biden is running against a former president surrounded by personal scandals (plus DJT was found culpable for sexual assault, is a convicted felon surrounded by felons, whose pal Bannon goes to prison Monday.)
* DJTтАЩs тАШhandlersтАЩ are inclined to let him do as he wishes which his cult adores.
тАФ Biden is an incumbent, balancing duties & demeanor of the presidency while being over-managed. I suspect his people hide him to avoid mistakes which is the greatest mistake of all. If they keep on, they will all be unemployed before or after the election.
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The Democratic Party has many healthy, intelligent and experienced members. It is not a choice between Biden and a Republican nasty.
John, I'm ridin' with Biden 100%. First thing I did was make another donation to his campaign and send him a note of gratitude for all of the fabulous results he has delivered since he took office as, arguably, the best POTUS in my lifetime.
And you are, arguably, the most delusional person on earth.
They were not тАЬmoderatorsтАЭтАжthat implies someone who calls out a blatant lie, keeps the answers on point, and keeps the process moving forward rather than collapsing into chaos. CNN bobbleheads did none of this. They were a disgrace to journalism.
Glad you said it....they were trash! They're both dead to me after this lame performance. I wanted to slap them both in the face. Why don't they pick Bob Woodward to do the next one, since Trump respects him. They need to stop someone who is lying by interrupting them. Why would you make rules for a debate, but don't put in there that you can't lie & call people names??
I clearly remember watching when the lunatic former president called our veterans & military " suckers & losers" & disrespected a POW. The lunatic is the real vermin .
he is a mean vicious evil pathological liar who enjoys hurting people. He thinks it makes him superior, but I wish he knew just how much it makes him hated. Really hated!
...and on that note, he's about as despicable as a person can get. Remember how he & Barr were killing all those people on death row at the end of his residency? It's like he has a taste for it now. He takes no responsibility for allowing Covid to infest the U.S., while he dismantled Obama's pandemic response. Jarod & Trump Jr. were intentionally trying to get the blue states infested with Covid but Dems kept wearing masks & taking precautions while in red states they kept fighting people over masks. Remember how California & New York ordered the breathing units, but Trump sent people to confiscate it? People were dying by the 1000snds every day because there wasn't enough of those breathing machines. Meanwhile the WH had rooms full of them. Trump wanted to use that stuff to blackmail people with it for a payout or simply withhold it if they were Dems. Blue state genocide is what it was, I can only imagine what they'll do for their 2nd act. This misogynist SCOTUS is trying to pave the way for a fascist take over & that cannot be allowed to continue. It won't if we vote & watch the polls closely, report any GOP dirty tricks, have lawyers at the ready, cameras, & be ready to put down the false flags the lying GOP throw out to cause chaos.
thank you for responding yo me. I was shocked to read what he and his son innlaw tried to do, withhold face masks during covid that werevtgere to be used to protect people. The whole world should know this, especially the devastated peoplecwho lost a loved one. I cannot imagine their grief. He told us to drink bleach. Many of us remember that.
MSM has failed spectacularly in holding Orange Jesus accountable. They've dropped some of the most important stories so they can rehash Gaza over & over while spinning their wheels about it. At least they should've focused more on war criminal Bibi if they were going to discuss Gaza.
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/blue-state-genocide-is-acting-president
Well said!!
I agree with you! This clip will likely make you feel way better:
https://youtu.be/GgjyHwQOUoo?si=QZ1sgygMI22SvY_n
exactly! Lawrence OтАЩDonnell is a treasure!
I agree. The moderators were useless. How they got the job I'll never understand.!
AMEN!!
absolute disgrace
I agree 100%. Looks to me like CNN is owned by the Dark Side.
This clip might make you feel way better:
https://youtu.be/GgjyHwQOUoo?si=QZ1sgygMI22SvY_n
So, you expected the moderators to do the debate for Biden?
"Joe Biden is a good and decent man. But in last nightтАЩs joint appearance, he was bullied and lost badly. "
Joe Biden is a good and decent man. As these things go. Joe Biden has been a surprisingly successful president. By any metric. Joe Biden did not lose badly in the debate because he was bullied. Biden lost badly because he was inept and incoherent. Biden had only one job on that stage - answer the questions in simple declarative sentences. And he failed. Spectacularly. I do not know whether his campaign can come back from this. I think he must now be completely visible and visibly competent - over and over. Until we can unsee last's night's tragic performance, or at least put it into perspective. If that is even possible at this point.
Joe works! He may not be the best speaker but he knows who to hire and how to get things done for our Country! HeтАЩs organized. His тАЬhandlersтАЭ shouldnтАЩt have scheduled such a late start.
TFG should have been called out. He contributed nothing but noise and lies!
Late start is never a good thing for older folks. At 73 I am pretty with it in the morning; and have always been a morning person. But I for sure pack it in after 9 pm/not near my best
How about late start for someone who had a rally earlier that day & had just finished 2 back to back trips to Europe for meeting with world leaders? He met with folks after the debate at an event. He and Jill were shown at a Waffle House at midnight talking to the тАЬlocals.тАЭ So he didnтАЩt lack stamina. But something was off.
And he was sick, besides.
Our president has dementia.
Please provide evidence or a source for that statement. This is the second time you've used that term. Maybe it doesn't mean what you think it means.
See Seymour HershтАжSubstackтАж.тАЭWho Is Running the Country?тАЭ
I read it. Hersh only uses the term "decline" and never once says "dementia." There is a world of difference. If Joe Biden has or develops dementia, I'll believe the board certified neurologist who diagnosed it, and is named.
Ms. тАЬSweetтАЭ uses the opinions of others no matter how untethered to bolster her own wishful thinking or hyperbole. Without fail it leads to Gaza grievances without any sense of balance. Mostly appeals to angry people seeking magical solutions. Same for Mr. Hersh who is 87; whose career has been in decline and controversy for a decade.
Eh, what's "decline"? A US President in cognitive "decline'....no big deal....out of a population of 330,000, 000 and the US with a President in cognitive decline? How many corporations would support their CEO with cognitive decline? But, government? Why not? And a President who actively supports a genocide of a people. That is - the mass murder of a people through bombs, bullets, drones, and now starvation before our very eyes. In psychological parlance, that is called "normalization."
there is no proof of that whatsoever. If anyone is batty, it is frump. and evil too.
Wrong. Trump is the one losing his mind talking about windmills, sharks, getting electrocuted & lying like a pathetic creep.
Yeah this person does not know how to determine who has dementia.
TrumpтАЩs been out of office for a while now. Joe Biden is our President and he doesnтАЩt have dementia. TFG is staging in, note his right leg drags a bit.
no he does not
no he does not.
And anyone, even Presidents can have an off day!
I was worried that sone nasty person, could have put a tranquilizer innhis tea or soda or water without anyone suspecting it. But Inreadcabout a method of speaking, trumpmthevpigbuses it, to throw out obe remark after another, and thevperson trying to reply gets confused . It has a name if Incan find itbagain, was on fb twice yesterday. I had no idea therecwas such a thing.
I think you mean a тАЬgish gallopтАЭ. A suddenly popular term that means a person floods the zone with a firehose of false confusing statements to overwhelm the opposition.
Biden also had a cold & his voice was hoarse which was not helpful. One of the hazards of working, not riding around in a golf cart all day. He had attended a rally before the debate and was out and about afterward. There was a live feed of him with Jill at a Waffle House at midnight talking to тАЬlocals.тАЭ The next day you may have seen him in NC when his voice and energy were quite good. Indications are he had an off day.
I remember when HRC had pneumonia and felt weak as she was campaigning. There was the same hair on fire blather. She is still hale & hearty.
I know what you mean, I'm 73 also!!
Younger presidents and other officials have had such difficult moments. A certain group of Dems are always ready to pounce on their own & the media eats it up for the тАШviews.тАЩ The transcript and the donations that continued flooding in for Biden say NYT, WaPo, and the pundits did not sway BidenтАЩs supporters. Others have pointed to the transcript as a neutral entity that belies the handwringing.
All the hoopla for a week prior to the debate and mania afterward have served to keep the decisions SCOTUS has puked out to go almost unnoticed. Roberts said the rest that are decided will come out on Monday. That will get more news coverage due to the trump connection. WeтАЩve been waiting to see if they act on immunity.
true trump was despicable, mean, evil, hurtful and a pathological liar.
Power to the elderly, who are far more than the younger. Experience does not fade.
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Now do Trump and his 90 minutes of lies
"Now do Trump and his 90 minutes of lies."
Trump is essentially irrelevant to the consideration of whether Biden is still electable and what it will take to elect him.
I beg to differ, it's simple..you vote for an honest man with integrity that has our Country as his first priority or you vote for the guy that lies 99% of the time and wants your votes to stay out of jail and become Putin Jr.
If Biden was running against someone with integrity and had our country as his priority, the outcome could be different. The down playing of Trump's lies, and not just last night, are astounding and unfortunately mainstream media are playing right into his hands.
Vote Biden or elect Trump.
Elect Biden or institute Project 2025.
Through the unforced errors of Biden's debate performance - electing Biden, never an easy proposition, just got exponentially more difficult. It is foolish to panic. It is foolish to pretend. There is too much work to do. Whether or not Biden will ultimately be the Democratic candidate, we must continue to work on getting out the Democratic vote. I just requested 300 more postcards/addresses.
https://www.turnoutpac.org
honestly said. no trump, never, not ever. Please God, let him be jailed for his lies, his evil, his filth and rottenness and his cruelty,
Thank you so much!! Very well put!! GOD bless you and us!!!
TFG will be the stain on the Republican Party for all time.
Not inept but did lose his way several times, not all times. As a person who loses words and has for thirty some years, I know how frustrating it can be. President Biden appeared to realize it and was not helped by his stuttering. His expressions about Trump's continuous outright lies were great. Too bad it was a bad day.
Thanx!!
He went into zombie - land. Out of it. Absolutely verbal spaghetti. And looked like the walking dead.
I see you are having a really good time trashing our President! If youтАЩre so darn smart, get out and run for the office yourself! Trash talking is easy and does nothing to contribute.
Sorry, Selina, you must be thinking of Trump. President Biden, on the other hand, spoke with honor, integrity, and to the facts.
Trump, a pathological liar, a convicted felon, and adjudicated sexual abuser, a sociopath, and a narcissist spewed lies out of his tiny little mouth as fast as he could move his lips.
How would YOU have liked to try to respond to that? Think about it before you judge our president so harshly.
Get a fuckin life
agree!
Sorry, lin, I disagree with you.
Joe Biden is as far from inept as a man could be.
Did you notice that he was having trouble with his microphone?
Did you know that he was ill?
Did you notice that the pundits for CNN were ready to jump all over Joe Biden after CNN did not set him up for the debate?
Did you notice that the CNN moderators didn't moderate the debate well at all? They allowed Donald Trump to lie with almost every breath without calling him on it. They allowed him not to answer their direct questions a single time.
Does the concept of 'set up' have any meaning to you?
Have you looked into the ownership of CNN lately?
Instead of judging Joe Biden harshly, you might want to do your research and rethink your position.
And one final question. How would YOU like to have faced Donald Trump on national television, a convicted felon, a pathological liar, a sociopath, a narcissist, an adjudicated sex abuser, who is spewing nonstop lies about YOU and YOUR performance with his every breath?
How would YOU have handled it ?
You might want to watch this:
https://youtu.be/GgjyHwQOUoo?si=QZ1sgygMI22SvY_n
Denial supplemented with conspiracy theory does no good. Biden's inept debate performance ought lead to serious reflection by all of us. Especially Joe Biden.
Whether Biden steps down or pushes on, it does not change our obligation to Get Out The Vote for Democratic candidates.
I can't "Like" this comment. Sorry.
DonтАЩt worry.
So in your lights one recognizes moral conscience only in relation to another person so morally degraded his conscience would be pinned at the extreme end of the spectrum. So it goes, Biden is highly moral because in contrast to Trump he lies only 50% of the time instead of TrumpтАЩs 99.9%of the time. And in this context, supplying the entire killing machinery to a colonialist nation to obliterate an entire people, their cultural institutions their hospitals and homes is simply an irrelevant consideration for assessing moral integrity. Is that it?
"Joe Biden is a good and decent man. As these things go."
The political choice is binary.
Vote Biden or elect Trump.
The moral merit of the two candidates is relative.
Regarding Israel and Palestine, Biden is the better choice than Trump.
Trump's moving of the US embassy to Jerusalem, his Abrahamic Accords excluding Palestinians, and his support for Israeli settlement policy all worked to tank talks of a two state solution. (Trump has a settlement named in his honor in occupied territory.) Trump is entirely on board with the extremism of AIPAC and the Evangelicals
Biden has criticized Israeli settlement policy for decades. (A reason Netanyahu has campaigned and is campaigning against him.) Biden has strengthened the Leahy Laws with his National Security Memorandum 20. Biden has worked for consensus on a two state solution. Now he is navigating between those who cry antisemitism at any criticism of Israeli policy and those who cry genocide at any support for Israel.
As an American Jew and Zionist who has for decades denounced successive and increasingly extremist Netanyahu regimes and deplored the appropriation of Zionism by racist right wing religious extremists, I am dismayed at the Biden administration's reluctance to enforce the Leahy Laws and to fully pause delivery of offensive weapons to the murderous Netanyahu regime. That said, regarding the best interests of Israelis, Palestinians, and Americans, Biden is still the best choice of those competing for the presidency.
Thank you for taking the time to cover this so completely. I too am troubled by some of BidenтАЩs support of Israel with offensive weapons. But I donтАЩt have one tenth of the information the President has, so because I know Joe Biden is an honorable man, I trust him. The middle east is a gordian knot heтАЩs doing his level best to untangle. Bless him for all his hard work.
Yes. Enforcing the Leahy Laws is legally complex. And politically fraught. Extremist rhetoric obstructs the reasoned debate essential to decision making. My concern is that there is disagreement within the State Department and among responsible elected officials - and I stand with those whose analyses suggest it is past time to limit offensive aid to the Netanyahu regime.
IтАЩm also hopeful the Bibi regime is coming to an end. IsraelтАЩs very own form of Trump is making it harder to find a path to peace.
Netanyahu's regime and Hamas agree on going to any extreme to obstruct the establishment of two sovereign and geographically autonomous states.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar first went to jail for murdering a Palestinian reported to be in communication with Israelis.
Benjamin Netanyahu is implicated in the Jewish extremist assassination of Yitzhak Rabin because of Rabin's involvement in the Oslo Accords.
Friends of Israel and Palestine would best tone down their own rhetoric and engage in reasoned debate of the empirical evidence. Rather than hedge their bets on 'winner take all' carnage
It was great, Greg. THAT is our POTUS!!!
they were useless moderators who did nothing to try to control trump or to warm him about his pathological lying.
Me, too.
Joe Biden is the best POTUS of my lifetime (and I'm almost 3/4 of a century old). I am so grateful for everything this great statesman has done for our country to turn around the mess that Trump and previous Republican presidents created.
He was ON FIRE the very next day in North Carolina. I don't know about everyone else but when I get sick I just have to lay down and go to sleep. Joe couldn't do that. He had a presidential debate that he had to deal with. He expressed himself with facts, clarity, and honesty. Yes, his voice was weak. He didn't feel well. Cut him some slack, for heaven's sake!
For 37 years, I coached CEOs members of Boards of Directors, and top executives. This is a group of people that can be quite challenging to work with. The honest ones with integrity can be helped but the ones like Donald Trump can't be helped. They are IMPOSSIBLE to work with. The only thing that you can do is decline to work with them.
Joe Biden couldn't decline. He had to stand up in front of the nation and try to have an intelligent debate with a man that all of us know is a pathological liar, a sociopath, and a narcissist -- and incapable of speaking rationally. On a day when Joe Biden had perfect health, that would've been an impossible task.
I am very disappointed in some of my fellow Democrats. All of us descended from tough stock who knew how to face a challenge and go the distance -- not cut and run.
Democrats have changed candidates before at the last minute -- and lost soundly.
At this time we cannot afford to lose soundly. We need to back Joe Biden with everything that we have and trust him to keep doing what he has been doing for the last three years which is being an outstanding President of the United States.
Go, Joe. we are 100% with you all the way!!! тЩея╕ПЁЯФеЁЯФеЁЯФетЩея╕П
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100% agree, Susan.
IтАЩll take a good and decent man any day over a habitual liar.
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Yes! Me as well!
I hope youтАЩve read the transcript.
After seeing him on CNN after the debate and in N.C. the next day, it's almost like someone drugged him! The Joe at the debate was not the Joe we know....
And Yes, Joe has my vote!