From many corners, there’s intense pressure on Biden to stand down. Nate Silver suggests Biden is bluffing, perhaps in a MAD way. I disagree.
George Clooney Implores Biden to Step Aside
In a New York Times Op-Ed, George Clooney says I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee.
I’m a lifelong Democrat; I make no apologies for that. I’m proud of what my party represents and what it stands for. As part of my participation in the democratic process and in support of my chosen candidate, I have led some of the biggest fund-raisers in my party’s history. Barack Obama in 2012. Hillary Clinton in 2016. Joe Biden in 2020. Last month I co-hosted the single largest fund-raiser supporting any Democratic candidate ever, for President Biden’s re-election. I say all of this only to express how much I believe in this process and how profound I think this moment is.
But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.
Is it fair to point these things out? It has to be. This is about age. Nothing more. But also nothing that can be reversed. We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate. This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and Congress member and governor who I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.
Stephanopoulos Says Biden Cannot Serve Four More Years
The Guardian reports ABC anchor caught on video saying Biden cannot serve four more years.
ABC anchor caught on video saying Biden cannot serve four more years
George Stephanopoulos, who interviewed president days ago, says he should not have answered passerby’s questionThe show-business gossip site TMZ published a grainy video captured by an unidentified man walking on Fifth Avenue in New York City, who happened to encounter Stephanopoulos, apparently dressed for a workout.
The man asked: “Do you think Biden should step down? You’ve talked to him more than anybody else has lately.”
“I don’t think he can serve four more years,” Stephanopoulos responded, in what he later described as a candid moment.
Later, Stephanopoulos confirmed to TMZ that he was the person in the video, and issued a statement: “Earlier today, I responded to a question from a passerby. I shouldn’t have.”
Top House Democrat Adam Smith calls on President Joe Biden to End Candidacy
USA Today reports Top House Democrat Adam Smith calls on President Joe Biden to End Candidacy
The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee on Monday called on President Joe Biden to end his candidacy after his “alarming” debate performance.
The statement makes Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., one of the most senior Democratic lawmakers to demand that Biden leave the race and allow the party to nominate a new candidate. The strongly worded message adds to a growing chorus of concern among Democrats about Biden’s fitness for office and the need for a new candidate capable of beating former president Donald Trump.
“That candidate must be able to clearly, articulately, and strongly make his or her case to the American people,” Smith said in statement. “It is clear that President Biden is no longer able to meet this burden.”
Senator Tester
Translation: Dear president, I beg you to stand down, but I don’t want it to look like that’s what I am saying.
Adam Smith
Nancy Pelosi
Vermont Senator Calls on Biden to Drop Out
Inside the Room
- One House Democrat supportive of Biden told me it “felt like a funeral.”
- Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-Conn.) said that putting Harris atop the ticket would be setting her up for failure.
- Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) said he saw a poll recently that had Biden losing in his district. Biden won his district with 62% of the vote last time.
Hmm, I see an inside the room musical tribute.
There’s a world where I can go
And tell my secrets to
In my room
In my room
In Wisconsin from Nate Silver
🕒 Last update: 12:45 p.m, Tuesday, July 9: It’s never a good idea to place too much emphasis on any one poll. But this bipartisan poll of Wisconsin for the AARP is potentially an exception, as it is probably the highest-quality poll in a swing state since the debate. It’s a bad one for Biden, showing him down 6 points. Wisconsin had been one of Biden’s better-polling states, but his chances of winning the must-win Badger State have fallen to 39 percent with the new poll added. The drip-drip-drip of polls like these could further erode Biden’s standing in our forecast.
Is Biden Bluffing?
Nate Silver has an interesting article Biden Has a Weak Hand (emphasis mine)
Democrats don’t know how to spot a bluff. … The campaign is asking voters to make a risky bet: not a choice between Trump and Biden so much as one between the Blue Mystery Box and the Red Mystery Box.
Frankly, I’d rather take 264 randomly-selected players from the World Series of Poker over the 264 current Democratic members of Congress when it comes to strategizing their way through a position like this one. That’s because politics tends to select for the exact opposite of the type of people you’d want in this situation. Instead of rewarding clear-headed, independent-minded thinking under pressure, politics is a “game” where you get ahead by being a risk-averse people-pleaser, drinking the Kool-Aid rather than being the turd in the punchbowl.
Biden is probably bluffing — and if he’s not, Democrats have the nuclear option. We’re basically at the end of the steps that allow Biden to move aside gracefully. Steps beyond this plausibly could damage Biden irreparably — but that doesn’t matter if he’s already irreparably damaged or he’s not going to be the nominee anyway because at some point the escalation will work. In MAD terms, Democrats potentially have first strike capabilities. If they can damage Biden to the point where his chances of winning are not merely low but essentially zero, he loses his leverage.
I’ll conclude with this: even if the tactics and strategy are hard to work out, it can’t possibly be a good idea to nominate someone in Biden’s condition to another four years in office. It just can’t be. If you think it is, try again because you did the math wrong. It’s not a sales pitch Democrats can make with a straight face, and voters aren’t buying it.
Their best argument, of course, is “well, Trump is worse” — but that doesn’t answer the question of why Democrats were in a position to offer voters an acceptable choice and didn’t exercise it. When in doubt, make the responsible move. And don’t try to run a bluff when you so obviously don’t have the goods.
A Bluff or a Strategy?
Does Biden understand what he is doing?
Is it possible he has no idea what he is doing other than what his handlers tell him?
Is it possible Biden’s handlers know exactly what they are doing?
The last question is the key one. And there is a very plausible explanation for Biden not to voluntarily stand down now.
If Biden can hang on until the DNC makes it official, Democrats can avoid a messy open convention.
How Long Before Biden Drops Out or Is Forced Out of the Election?
On July 8, I asked How Long Before Biden Drops Out or Is Forced Out of the Election?
The DNC meets on July 21. The date was set for practical reasons. Ohio had a requirement that the nominee be set by August 7 but that has been resolved.
Although there is no longer a need to settle things early, the DNC is still meeting on July 21.
I made these comments, but the Ohio issue is no longer applicable so strike those references.
The sooner Democrats can dump him the better, with one important exception. The DNC wants to control the process rather than have an open convention free-for-all.
Look for an official nomination announcement on July 21, 22, or 23. My guess is Biden becomes the official nominee on July 22, two weeks from today.
Then sometime before the convention, look for Biden to “voluntarily” quit (perhaps told to quit or else face the 25th amendment) sometime between July 22 and Ohio’s August 7 deadline.
As long as I am going out on a limb, let’s go further. Look for Biden to be off the ticket sometime between August 1-5, replaced by Kamala Harris.
If Biden released his delegates now we would have an open convention. If Biden did not release the delegates they would be obligated to him for one round except for the in “good conscience” rule.
Everyone is screaming their fool heads off for Biden to step down but that risks an open convention or at a minimum messy explanations why there is no open convention.
The DNC does not want an open convention. And the way to ensure there is no open convention is for Biden to hang on long enough for the DNC to make Biden/Harris the official nominees.
So rather than this being a bluff, hanging on can easily be a strategy. And it can be a strategy whether or not Biden is even away of the strategy.
It’s a plausible theory.
Might I suggest it’s more plausible than the assumption that none of Biden’s handlers know what they are doing and don’t care what the polls or anyone else says?
But please note my theory could be correct even if Biden drops out early. Plans can blow up.
If the live convention comes and goes with Biden still on the ticket, then my theory is wrong.
What happens if the DNC follows through with the virtual vote and confirms Biden/Harris as nominees, and then Biden drops out. Can someone who knows DNC rules answer these questions:
In short, do the delegates have ultimate authority over DNC “rules?”
Could Harris generate the requisite excitement at the Convention? Or would she be the Hubert Humphrey of 2024, leading a divided party?
The bottom line for Democrats must ultimately be pragmatic: can Kamala beat Trump? I think not, for all kinds of reasons.
The DNC “machine” wants “order”, but order” and Democratic process are contradictions, yes? I would much prefer an “Open” Convention. That might actually deliver fresh faces unencumbered by the Biden-Harris baggage. A process dominated by DNC insiders is exactly opposite to what the Democrats SAY they stand for, and voters will see through that.
All this talk about how bad Brandon was at the debate! He’s President RIGHT NOW and will be so for another six months. He’s totally gone and the country is running itself. What’s another four years of care-taker cabal rule? Anthony Blinken is the Secretary of State and therefore head of the President’s cabinet. He’s calling the shots. The military’s doing its thing. The secret security & intelligence states-within-a-state are doing their’s (like they’ve done for the past 60 years). Treasury’s doing whatever Grandma Yellen says. Everything’s FIIIIIIINE. Last thing America needs is some kind of Trump to come along and ruin everything. Geez.
“Biden is ruining the (democrat) brand..”
No he isn’t.
Biden IS the brand.
A fully corrupt lifelong leftist DC grifter.
Clooney further added: “If we can jail Trump, keep he and RFK Jr off state ballots, pack the SCOTUS, eliminate the Electoral College and voter ID, seize all guns and repeal the second amendment, disregard federal immigration laws ushering in millions of illegal aliens, and censor all opposing opinions, we can save democracy. We just need a candidate conscious more than six hours a day.”
Cool George endorsed ByeDone until he was embarrassed endorsing a small kitchen appliance. Little George was embarrassed he was caught on camera actually speaking the truth. Liberals are insufferable phonies!
Met George Clooney at work when he was producing his Fail Safe live TV event. I don’t know how Clooney can be proud of Democrats ruining California, as they are.
When the illegal alien votes are counted it won’t matter who’s President. Nothing will matter at that point unless one enjoys ruling over an empire of garbage landfills.
This is why there is an electoral college. It is the Basis of the Union formation.
That there will be attempts by large population states to dominate the Nation was true going back to the foundations of America.
To bring less populated states in and have assurances they would keep their statehood
intact electoral college was how elections got decided.
This is a republic not straight popular vote.
May not be as much of an issue as first thought, at least for *this* election. The only states angling to allow illegals to vote are solidly blue states that would be won by team-blue anyway. Their electoral votes were never going to team-red to start with.
Hm. So, the ticket will be Kamala for V.P. and Hillary for pres.. So the dumbos and the donkeys get two more lawyers and bimbos for lawyer Barack 4.0..It’s binary heaven during the summer of love 2.0. but without Mick’s Brown Sugar at midnight. As with all selections it’s the counters doing the counting that counts for elections thanks to Dominion in the Dell. Accounting we will go. Accounting we will go. Hi ho the derry-o, accounting we will go.
Why would Kamala step aside for Hillary, who already lost to Trump?
Maybe Biden is right.
Maybe he is the smartest guy in the democrat party.
Best!
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”― H.L. Mencken, On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
The Democratic Party orchestrated Biden’s ascendancy in 2020. It will usher in a new candidate in 2024. Who care what the old fool and his inner circle wants.
Michelle might be “forced” to save our democracy, but most of the D delegates are in Biden’s pocket.
Per Adam Smith “I think it’s become clear that he’s (Biden) not the best person to carry the Democratic message…”
I beg to differ, Joe Biden is perfect: war, open borders, secret cabal running the country, wanna-be Marxists, destroy capitalism. Yeah, he’s perfect!
Too bad America doesn’t have Primary elections where issues like this could be addressed and registered democrat voters would have other candidates they could vote for.
Oh, wait…Never mind.
Remember Dean Phillips? He was a pretty good candidate and wanted to challenge Biden. Long story short he withdrew within a few months and announced he is retiring from congress.
Once again the DNC chose their candidate in a cigar smoke filled back room and once again the Media let them get away with it.
Except this time around it looks like it’s about to blow up in their face.
Thomas R. Marshall – the VP for Woodrow Wilson (including when Edith Wilson was running things):
Responding to Senator Joseph Bristow’s catalog of the nation’s needs, Marshall quipped that, “What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar.”
“History repeats, first as tragedy, then as farce.” Kamala and Bill Clinton can collaborate on the cigar start-up.
please recall that at one point, there were reports that Cankles had 54 former associates who committed suicide, some with such extreme measures as shooting themselves in the back three times….
I read somewhere recently that the Dems
strategy at this point is to goad The Republicans into some sort of red flag event, Pearl Harbor or 911....and if he or his followers wont do that, then they will get some FBI agents under cover to do it for them.Be careful out there, theres not much they are not willing to try at this point…..
In the Summer Of Love 2020 / Chicago Style they bused in Antifa shock troops from Madison and Milwaukee Wisconsin. There were various muster locations just outside the city, including Riemer Park in Palatine. From these locations before sunset they were shuttled in just outside the Loop, including the ‘tour buses’ parked along Clinton and Canal streets just sw of Union Station. They were attired in mostly black, including masks, with black Doc Martens and had ‘university geology class’’ pointy rock hammers to break windows. This time I expect them to show up looking like the beige pants guys with the American flag masks popping out of the back of u haul trucks. All of what had been vestiges of local team R contingent in Chicago metro have either fled or have been dead for quite some time.
Let me use one phrase and correct the terminology for us:
“The DNC wants to control the process rather than have an open convention free-for-all.”
Corrected: “The DNC wants to control the MONEY rather than have an open convention free-for-all….where they fight over who gets HOW MUCH and WHO CONTROLS that $100 Million of Campaign funds.”
CLEARLY, they do not want Kamala getting hold of it. So, it is as simple as “Getting DIBS.” That is a lot of Money, Jill “MONEY BAGS” Biden also wants to make sure Joe understands that THEY should get or retain a cut of the loot.
There is a FOOD FIGHT going on and it is ALL GREEN. This is the GREEN REVOLUTION……MONEY is how we should look at this.
AND, shall I guess that not one headline will mention it?
Brandon is emblematic.
Dems are in a fight with reality itself.
They’re on a collision course, and reality always wins those.
But not just the Dems.
American political culture is also on a crash course with reality.
I would say that one side of American political culture is already in reality and the other not.
6’3” castrati in sundresses waiting for the wind to blow so the windmills can charge their EV’s.
All of a sudden, the media can now talk about Biden’s senility. Gosh, who knew? Pathetic.
I agree and disagree with Nate Silver.
Is he bluffing? Yes. Weak hand? No. Last hand? Yes.
The Biden’s have the strongest hand they have ever been dealt. The Biden’s want to get paid and all they have to do to get paid is to keep insisting that Joe will run. The dems will eventually get desperate enough and will pay any price to oust Biden.
Hunter is not there to change daddy’s diaper. He is there to oversee the final Biden grift.
Spot on and you made one error: BIDENCO controls that $100 Million now.
Imagine that you are fighting with your family, and Grandpa money bags is still alive and frail and demented, but GRANDMA IS NOT.
GRANDMA will make sure that THEY keep enough to survive out their lives.
Yes both grandma and Hunter and probably a couple of other slimy relatives need to get paid. That’s why this thing is still dragging out.
Meanwhile, Jill and Hunter only have one piece of advice for Joe: Tell them that you are running. Every dam time.
Last payday for extended family, needs to be a big number.
I agree and disagree with Nate Silver.
Is he bluffing? Yes. Weak hand? No. Last hand? Yes.
The Biden’s have the strongest hand they have ever been dealt. The Biden’s want to get paid and all they have to do to get paid is to keep insisting that Joe will run. The dems will eventually get desperate enough and will pay any price to oust Biden.
Hunter is not there to change daddy’s diaper. He is there to oversee the final Biden grift.
Try to convince an elderly person that they just can’t drive anymore.
It is worse. My Father-in-Law Controls TWO nice properties (his mansion and his Family Cabin. Both are worth in excess of $2Million.
His wife, who was better with money, is demented. HE IS LOSING IT but refuses to know that because he has NEVER been inward looking (he is a VERY selfish and dishonest prick). My wife sees it as well. She knows he is slipping.
We have no choice but to watch a LOST DEMENTED MAN trying to care for his wife, pay bills and use a PC. Yesterday was my 3rd day on the phone with him trying to walk him through a technical problem. It is like pulling teeth.
I see Biden the same way. HIS WIFE will not allow anything to happen without their CUT of the $100 Million in LOOT.
Can you help me download an app?
Yes. First send me $2.99 then have a million of your friends do the same. Oh, and yes, you can trust me.
Wow… https://www.thevoid.uk/void-post/ukraine-illusion-warfare-report-a-journey-into-the-war-zone-lez-luthor/
A tourist’s visit to Ukraine in March 2022 and his disappointment in not seeing buildings exploding in Kyiv? Where is the “Wow”?
It’s a war… where’s the war?
Riddle me this…
Russia continues to supply gas to the EU and the NATO countries that are supposedly fuelling the Ukrainian war effort. Surely all that Putin would have to do to get his way would be to throttle back the gas supply for a week or two and drive prices through the roof. This would without a doubt trigger mass protests across the EU as inflation would rip higher forcing NATO to abandon their coked-up front man, Zelensky. But nope, they are in discussions to renew their contract with Gazprom.
EDIT: Breaking News!!!
Russia Reclaims Its Position as Europe’s Top Gas Supplier
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-war-is-fake
hahahaha… people are so gullible
The “good conscience” rule allows delegates to vote according to their conscience rather than being strictly bound to their pledged candidate. It was voted in 1982 and it does offer a way to remove Biden during the Democrat Convention. To use that rule to eliminate Biden from the ticket, there should be a ready candidate or candidates waiting in the wings to step in seamlessly. It has to be someone most delegates could vote for in order to avoid chaos in the Convention.
I don’t think this is a viable option.
Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and an expert in the party’s nominating process, as a longtime member of the Democratic National Committee’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, said: “You would need a strong and persuasive alternative to Biden, and right now there isn’t one,” she added.
She is absolutely right that there isn’t one! Without a very strong, and polling strongly as well, candidate, there is no way the delegates will risk there reputations and word they gave to the sitting President, There Party, and for what they would have to answer for, and explain forever, if not pushed out of the Party all together, if it didn’t work, which it wouldn’t at this point IMO.
It’s not even the fallout from the reversal, but financially nothing is gained either, which adds more fuel to the fire heading their way if they did so. They would have a new candidate with no money. I doubt the donors will cough up Millions upon Millions more to a new candidate and no promises. Hell, they already have that with Biden don’t they?
Not happening…
Then the Democrats will have to invoke the Twenty-fifth Amendment to remove a Democrat President. If they do that, campaign funds could probably be transferred to another candidate.
If that works, then that’s exactly what they will do! Biden can’t and won’t win, so Plan B is going to be enacted at some point I’m guessing. That may be it…
The only way it works is if the donors ask or are given refunds in full with the promise of a similar or like supporting donation for a candidate to be named in the future but there is none. Very few of them like or will likely fund Kamala voluntarily or promise to (and she know this) and so it is a Mexican standoff of sorts. Even if they manage to work that out there is the problem of the delegates and their pledges to the Biden-Harris ticket and how that would work out once Biden is off the ticket. The Dems have a real mess on their hands with a lot of hands that will need to be greased to make it work!
The pro Hamas won in France. They want to oust Biden and Trump. George
Clooney is pro Hamas. Col MickyG and Scott Ritter have to prove to their audience that this guy, Biden, is destroying the US with his open border policy and leads us to WWIII. Only that guy, Trump, can save us from Biden. That’s their job. That’s politics. Most millennials are allergic to Trump as I am allergic to Nancy and Hillary.
Just came across this interesting article.
Given Biden’s inability to understand what is going on around him, I begin to wonder if all his jabbering at Netanyahu was actually Harris and other pro-Hamas members of his inner circle showing that they are the ones who were actually in control?
The lemmings rejected this info.
WAPO : “foreign volunteers” will keep the peace in Jasa, financed by the US and rich Arab countries. “Foreign volunteers” from Georgia, Colombia and Poland protected US assets in Iraq. Trades worth billions about to happen. After exchanging female hostages, with their babies, male soldiers and bodies ==> both Israel and Hamas will no longer rule Jasa. Hamas might try to rejuvenate its military force, recruit new soldiers and build its underground war industry in the tunnels, becoming Hezbollah of the south, sandwiching Israel, under the command of the Ayatollah. Israel preserve the rights to raid Hamas if they try. A ceasefire to reward Biden might be signed within days.
Israel dismantled Hamas underground war industry. Mao built his war industry in caves. N. Korea built its nuclear war industry underground. Putin realized that his nuclear deterrence failed to threaten NATO. Putin is in troubles with China and Turkey. His malinvestment weakened him and caused cracks. Only Iran support him.
That’s because that’s the only support Harris will be able to muster at this point: politically ignorant college students who are as well versed in international politics as she is, that is to say, not at all.
“Is it possible Biden’s handlers know exactly what they are doing?”
Biden’s handlers have convinced themselves that what they are doing is good for the country. They have also convinced themselves that only they are capable of guiding the country through these difficult times. Unfortunately for them, if Biden leaves, they will almost certainly be out of a job because the new person won’t want them around so they will fight tooth and claw to keep him around.
The funniest outcome would be if Biden remains the candidate until late October then croaks. All of the already-mailed ballots marked for Biden wouldn’t count. The Dems would probably finagle some extralegal (illegal) “solution” on the state level requiring their electors to vote for the replacement democrat candidate. Repugs would challenge it and SCOTUS would punt again, like the pussies they are.
The ballots would be counted toward whoever was the Dem nominee.
It’s unnecessary to make things more complex or complicated.
It’s not about Biden or the other guy.
It’s about maintaining democracy and freedom or autocracy.
They can run anyone, just don’t let the psycho and project 2025 guys back in.
Then replace Biden/Harris with a viable alternative.
If Biden or Harris are at the top of the Dem ticket, then Trump wins.
it’s not Biden and it’s not the DNC and it’s Obama. It’s Dr. Jill, Hunter and some others. They don’t care. They are in it for themselves. When Biden gos one way or the other it doesn’t matter. They are done. Hillary had a base in the D’s. First though her hubby and then her own. Dr. Jill has nothing. Hunter has nothing. No one in the Whitehouse has anything either. Think Sampson in the temple. They don’t care.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Biden and his enablers have convinced themselves that ONLY Biden can beat Trump and that therefore they are fighting to save the world from Trump, the ogre.
They are mainly worried about the legal shitstorm that will hit them all once they are out of power. Biden has always been about The Big Guy, Hunter, his brother, and the rest of the grifters. The whole cabal is in on it. Blinken was in charge of organising the 51 names for the laptop hoax letter. Blinken also got $$$ from the bogus “Biden think tank” set up at U Penn with money from the Chinese.
Worst and most corrupt POTUS ever. Most evil First Lady ever. Least “democratic” administration in history.
Biden makes Nixon look like a saint.
This is all about optics, not the actual substance of a candidate. Ds will need to mfg 100,000,000 votes this time and FJB is beyond the pale of common sense to believe that many people actually voted for the crooked corpse.
There is nothing to prove. Biden can’t perform the job of President today, let alone in the future. This should be clear to anyone who takes their head out of their rear end.
GDPNow is up to 2% and the s&p 500 hit its 39th record high of the year. Sorry for the good news.
Thanks, I was following Mish in 2007 so I know exactly what you mean,
Yep, 17 years of relentless pessimism. And probably another 17 before that. And more unfortunate good news this morning, CPI was -0.1% in June.
Do you believe the government CPI or the prices you pay daily?
Both, and I’m paying a lot less lately.
And that has what to do with anything? Surely you aren’t naievely claiming this performance has something to do with Biden?
I fail to understand why they make a big deal about primary votes at all. It’s been well established that they are not bound by the results as they admitted in regard to Bernie Sanders – in court, I recall
Just like the long drama “who is going to be Trump’s VP pick”, we now have the drama about “Biden stepping down or not”. Just keep people busy with foolish distractions and dramas
By the way at the end of the day, when you vote in a primary, you are voting for the candidate to pick whatever VP they want. You are trusting their judgement that the person they pick could be president. So in Biden’s case he and Harris already have been a ticket for 4 years. Trump not announcing a VP for as long as possible seems scarier. What if something happens to him between now and the RNC ? Trump had no VP at the time of the primary. The Dems could easily sell this as the country is in better hands of anyone but Trump and that they are the party of country while Republcans are the party of Trump. I still think some Republicans will cross over and vote for Biden.
Do you honestly think because: “Trump had no VP at the time of the primary” The Dems could easily sell this as the country is in better hands of anyone but Trump? Seriously?
On top of that, you stated: “I still think some Republicans will cross over and vote for Biden” seriously? Because the Republican Party Nominee, did not name a VP?
This is going to sound crazy but I think Dems will still win. The reason is Trump’s ability to self destruct and the Dems are bottoming right now. By late July and early August it eill all reverse itself. Trump had a great few weeks but hasn’t run away with this and he won’t. Voters are looking for a better option.
And Biden or Harris is that better option? Wtf
They may be, but the Democrats don’t offer one.
Correct! Ironically, neither do the Republicans…
Yes, and Kamala is the answer. lmao.
Not impossible for a scenario where Amy Coney Barrett casts deciding vote against Trump sometime in December. “Lack of standing and sh-t.”
Has anyone seen the Republican “project 2025”? Higher taxes for most of us and corporate tax cuts. Ending the Department of Education should make all those teachers froth at the mouth. Misch should do a rundown on this proposal.
Find Project 2025 on the Trump website for me and send a link. It isn’t there. Ending Dept of Ed would echo acts taken in Argentina. I’m all for closing it down. “all those teachers” is like “all those union members” which is like…crickets. Very small, but organized, number of voters.
You’re partially correct: you do sound crazy. Whatever your true intent is, your comment fell flat on it’s face.
Politics in the U.S. tend to a sideshow for the plebes and this election is definitely fulfilling this in spades. God forbid the Democrats(definitely a misnomer these days) would let the people select their candidate.
Could it be that Biden emphatically stated that he is staying in the race to buy time? Buying time for backroom machinations out of the prying eyes of the media. If Biden were to declare today that he will not run as the Democratic nominee, the press will have a field day with stories doing nothing but spouting speculation and rumors. I think the Dems want to avoid that circus at all costs leading up to November.
Biden’s brain is slowing (not unusual for persons around 80), but Trump simply doesn’t seem to have a brain (figuratively speaking). I have never heard Trump expressing a point of view “clearly, articulately, and strongly.” Why do the media just go after Biden, but ignore that the other guy can’t think straight?
Have you been living in this country the past eight years?
Agreed! This is why the Dems MUST choose someone other than Biden/Harris or many Dem/Independent voters are not going to cast a ballot at all, which will hand the presidency and Congress to the Republicans.
Most bothersome in all of this is this faux sudden concern. This has been known a long time, defended and concealed by everyone inside the circle, MSM, the lot. Now they want to pretend they are the defenders of the elderly and America, our political process (you mean the one where they didn’t allow anyone else on the Democratic ticket/stage?). It’s all hogwash. They only cared now because the polls say he loses. Imagine defending governance by a compromised president?
I’d bet every dollar I have and every one of yours that, were he leading in the polls as he was previously, they’d have him back in his 2020 basement or his pre-debate bunker lidded up for as long as possible to have the machinery/operation work to get him across the finish line and deal with his replacement a day later.
One might argue the RNC made an error, they should have made the only debate long after the conventions. I wish they had because I’m confident the MSM, Congressional leaders, party mouthpieces and pollsters would have continued the charade they’d maintained for years all the way up to that debate and then been SHOCKED, having few options before November.
All of this is some sideshow of their own making and I pray for a comeuppance. Scripted corruption and grift foisted on the American people, packed up, as usual, by MSM and Hollywood to make the movie look different than reality.
Can we oust this evil lot?
Watch the latest Jon Stewart coverage. That is just a tip of the iceberg. We are all screwed.
Jon Stewart has been persona non grata ever since the joke of a show he tried passing off as humor to Tim Apple, but was just a DEI vomit-fest of stupidity because he didn’t have the balls to tell his writers to stuff it.
He might express reasonable opinions a few times/year, but Jon’s just another woke fool who drank so much of the tainted kool aid he’s developed insulin resistance.
The point you’re missing is that when confirmed woke leftists like Stewart bail on Biden, then you know he is dead meat.
Yeah. Too bad there isn’t a 3rd option that is neither of the first two. RFK Jr isn’t legit.
Jon Stewart Examines Biden’s Future Amidst Calls For Him to Drop Out
The Daily Show
Jul 8, 2024
Jon Stewart has some concerns in the aftermath of Joe Biden’s debate performance. Jon digs into the backlash to America’s bed-wetting panic over Biden’s incoherence, some of the president’s recent slip-ups, the future of the Democratic candidate, and Biden’s promise in an ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos to give “fighting fascism” his all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9LZXheHddI
Jon Stewart looks like he has aged ten years in the last year.
I thought the same, when I saw him recently…
Why is it so easy for everyone to think that Trump is the only “double-downer?” In my short life, Ive met many baby boomers and older who honestly believe that they are never going to die .. ever! If Trump can double down, why cant Biden? I would also remind everyone that Biden does not turn on the lights at the Pentagon every morning. He has 5000 political appointees that run the US government. Biden is just there to keep the media entertained and settle differences between dept secretaries. My 87 yo dad walks slow, falls down (this past Sunday actually), mumbles, and is getting thinner. But nothing brings him back to life like the chance to up-end his kid .. me. 🙂 Leave Joe alone till he’s dead on the floor.
Right bc we want your dad as president also
Really wouldnt matter too much if he was. Like I said … 5000.
If you’re okay with this high-bar for a functional president, why not a toaster? Why have anyone at all? And clearly you’re okay with having the toaster currently in charge to remain “in charge” in an increasingly hostile world where unelected officials, people you did not elect to be “the decider(s)”, are setting policy and direction through next January? And you’re the same clowns that said Trump would be a dicatator, start WW3 and is a threat to democracy. Who knew, it was you all along. Gawd the apologists will stop at nothing. Now a clearly dimished president isn’t even a concern. Nothing to see here, move along.
Just stop and ask this very honest question of yourself: What if Donald J Trump, in July of 2020 (or frankly much earlier as Biden has been diminished for years while the media, other politicians, Hollywood all ran cover for him) stumbled about like this? Would you dismiss it and say his handlers have got this? Would you defend it and act the grand apologist, carrying water for a dimished Republican president? You know the answer but your natural inclination is to defend every Democrat at any cost at all times.
Assuming Biden/Harris were still the winner in 2020, Harris should have been president closer to 2021 than 2024. The fact she isn’t is frightening, not that I find her presidential. At least she is aware of time and place. It’s been clear for a very very long time.
I dont need a king, you dont need a king, believe it or not you can take care of yourself. That was the point when they all fled Europe — we can take care of ourselves. You can do it too, Bill. You dont need your momma to take care of you anymore.
Your response doesn’t address any of my reply? You seem to be saying, “aw shucks, he may be compromised but we really don’t need a ‘leader’ anyway, because, hey, we didn’t need a king either”.
We need a president that is cogent, cognitively in charge of him/herself. Harris should be president. That simple. At least until November. Sure, the government bureaucracy is massive and on continuing-resolution autopilot, which, although is THE problem, happens to also mean most of the time it just does what it does. HOWEVER, there are key decisions Presidents have to make. Notice they sent someone to the NATO summit. That someone shakes hands with allies and they make VERY BIG statements and set worldwide policy.
your argument for rehiring Biden is that we don’t really need anyone at all? WOW. Then I have something for you: that argument can be pointed at you to vote for Trump, because, hey, doesn’t matter. So, I welcome you to do so, implore you actually.
a lot of self absorption in that rant.
There are lots of 80 yo people who are probably getting a little tired of everyone writing old people off.
Why is there an age limit for pilots?
Apples and oranges
Solid answer
For President we are talking about, and not a new bridge player at the Sr. Center…
The system was designed so that a super-sharp “Captain Kirk”-like “decider” wasnt required. It took us long periods of time to actually get into the Civil War (2 years), WW1 (3 years — 1917) and WW2 (3 years) started. We only do things fast in pro sports and when we are 12. The prez can be a vegetable 99% of the time. We like it that way.
Definitely not “lots” of 80 yo” people. Check your math again. Ask a boomer for help.
Your opinion is meaningless. Check out actuarial tables for death, serious disease and dementia. It’s not too friendly to those 80 yrs +. Yes, I’m ageist. I don’t think people who are mentally impaired should hold public office, should drive or should practice medicine.
I’m a terrible person for saying something everyone knows is true.
Those who need 3 names to say their name often are. Funny that
“Leave Joe alone till he’s dead on the floor.”
I wish the Democrats would!
Well Biden is now at the level of a Cat, nearing the end (I have had many over the years), and sleeping 12-16 Hours A Day minimum, like Brandon.
Not eating healthy (Cats like treats), and eating Ice Cream 3-4 times a day.
Losing Focus, Dates, Names, what to do, and the proper time and place to do so, just like an aging Cat!!
Leave him alone for a week, and he’s gone…
If youve had cats (Ive had 7), you know they are full-power till about the last month or so. Cats age very gracefully … and quickly at the end.
Not so, as I had one with diabetes that needed shots, went blind, went into remission, and got her sight back somewhat. She aged roughly, and had a very slow life until her passing.
I had another that slowed down at around 5, lived to be 17, but didn’t move much, unless the others I had at the time, messed with her. She liked quiet.
2 were very rambunctious until death, and the other until maybe 3 years before.
So in my experience I had nothing of the sort with only 2 out of 6 fitting that example. Cats are extremely unique from my experience, but Dogs May be different, I just got one a few months ago, so I will know in about 5-8 years or so I suppose…
What does it tell you about Democrat voters, the party, Biden’s family and friends and advisors that none of them are successfully acting on this? The 25th looms large, does it not?
I think Biden is delusional rather than bluffing.
Hunter Biden is calling all the shots in the White House. Joe is going nowhere unless he loses the election.
Let us hope.
Hunter is calling the shots because he knows this is his last chance to get paid. Joe Biden has never and will never be worth more than he is today. He can command a huge payoff if he drops out now. If he hangs in to lose the election the name will be worthless.
Joes only “handler” is Jill Biden. She doesn’t allow Joe to do ANYTHING without her approval. If Jill approves she allows WH staff to do things. Jill isn’t giving up her perks so she’s not going to let Joe resign or end his bid for re-election. Joe needs to stay in power so his family members don’t get prosecuted. I think Hunter will also go public with a lot of information damaging to Democrats if they try to put Joe out via 25th amendment. Joe would need to pardon everyone in his family if he was going to step down. This won’t look good to the voters since the WH and msm have been saying there’s no evidence of any wrong doing.
The pardons will happen after the election, if Joe makes it that long.
So the plan is to have Kamala running for the president of the most powerful country on earth and Obama as VP?
That might work for democrats to win the presidency for four more years.
Obama can’t be VP
Other Obama, not that she would play second fiddle.
Missing from this is what happens to the $250m in the Biden/Harris coffer? If the idea—oops using a Bidenism here—expounded in the article accounts for this money to stay with the ticket, the the DNC will definitely go with it, except for one very sticky point: Kamala Harris! I think that Trump has smelled it and is going after her.
Dems put themselves into this corner with endless gaslighting. Now own it. Lose with Biden or lose with Harris. Your choice
You would have to be very dumb to believe that money would not be deployed to whoever turns out to replace Biden with, even if it isn’t Harris.
And as I have stated previously, $250 millionis chump change. There are scores of Dem billionaires who could write a check for that amount easily.
in the finish…
Is it “away FROM the strategy”?
Or, is it “AWARE of the strategy”?
For this I refer you to Joe E. Brown and his final line at the very end of the film ‘Some Like It Hot.’
No.
And, no.
Obama and Clooney are very good friends. Clooney is a moron. He did not write that piece. But no matter, that is Obama declaring war on Bidan out in the open. Everyone in DC understands that. So now the gloves are really off. Does Joe go to the mattresses? Time will tell.
He deserves to stay. Get off my lawn
Please stick around Sleepy Joe. Lookin good