Posted on 09/23/2019 12:45:56 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Great dates in American Politics. – Exactly 32 years ago today, on September 23, 1987, Joe Biden, hair plugs intact, withdrew his name from consideration for the 1988 Democrat presidential nomination:
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Biden’s withdrawal from his first run for the presidency came after it had been revealed that he had plagiarized from a speech given in the UK earlier that same year by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock. Biden didn’t just lift a word here and there from Kinnock’s speech, mind you – he stole almost the entire thing. Which is pretty amazing, considering the Kinnock’s speech was an autobiographical recounting of his own life. That’s what kind of a brazen thief Joe Biden proved himself to be at the tender age of 44.
As this whole fake “whistleblower” non-scandal being promoted by the Democrat/Media propaganda complex continues to have the unintended effect of causing the reality of Biden and his family’s self-dealings to profit from the office of the vice presidency from 2009-2016, I’m beginning to think the nation’s Unfrozen Caveman Senator and least-favorite Creepy Uncle might end up having to deliver another similar withdrawal speech within the next week or two.
Bear with me here.
As I have written these Campaign Updates almost every day for the past three years now, I have repeatedly reminded readers of several recurring realities in our nation’s politics. Two of those recurring realities are especially relevant here. They are:
– Projection is the Democrats’ favorite Alinsky tactic – Whenever you see Democrats accusing President Donald Trump or some other Republican of bad behavior, it is a near-100% certainty that the Democrats are in fact themselves guilty of that exact behavior; and
– Whenever you see the Democrat/Media propaganda complex ridiculing Donald Trump for something he has said or Tweeted, it is a near-100% certainty that whatever Trump is saying or tweeting is absolutely true.
Think about how this whole fake controversy began last week: A fake “whistleblower” who has zero first-hand information lodges a complaint against the President, alleging that he intimidated the President of Ukraine in a discussion about corruption in that country. Now, think about what everyone paying attention has learned since: That Joe Biden actually did intimidate Ukrainian officials in 2016, blackmailing them by withholding $1 billion in U.S. aid until they fired a prosecutor who was investigating his son’s company. We know without any doubt that Biden did this because we have video of him bragging about doing it at a public forum.
Oh, hey, the President tweeted about that tape on Saturday:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump “Ukraine Foreign Minister disputes reports of any pressure from Trump. This conversation was long, friendly, and it touched on many questions.” @NBCNews Correct. If your looking for something done wrong, just look at the tape of Sleepy Joe. He is being protected by the Media!
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Let’s take a look at some of President Trump’s tweets in response to this fake controversy, tweets that have been ridiculed by the Democrat/Media complex:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump “The real story involves Hunter Biden going around the world and collecting large payments from foreign governments and foreign oligarchs.” Peter Schweizer Laura Ingraham Hunter made a fortune in Ukraine and in China. He knew nothing about Energy, or anything else.
55.3K 8:39 AM - Sep 22, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 28.4K people are talking about this That was tweeted early on Sunday, and by the end of the day, the stories about Hunter Biden and other Biden family members becoming fabulously wealthy in sketchy business deals while Creepy Uncle Joe was VEEP were floating all over social media.
But wait, there’s more:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump · 19h Now the Fake News Media says I “pressured the Ukrainian President at least 8 times during my telephone call with him.” This supposedly comes from a so-called “whistleblower” who they say doesn’t even have a first hand account of what was said. More Democrat/Crooked Media con.....
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump ..Breaking News: The Ukrainian Government just said they weren’t pressured at all during the “nice” call. Sleepy Joe Biden, on the other hand, forced a tough prosecutor out from investigating his son’s company by threat of not giving big dollars to Ukraine. That’s the real story!
62K 7:03 PM - Sep 22, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 25.5K people are talking about this Here is the simple, inescapable reality: Just as Rudy Giuliani told John Roberts on Fox News Sunday, the Democrats and their media toadies have fallen into a trap here. No matter how hard they try, the fake news media outlets cannot contain this story on behalf of Creepy Uncle Joe and his ne’er-do-well son.
This all exposes the real Achilles’ Heel of the Democrat/Media complex: They keep acting like it’s still 1988 here. They keep thinking that the “media” is just the three broadcast networks, CNN, the New York Times and the Washington Post, and that as long as they have those outlets in their pockets they can control any story. The world doesn’t work that way anymore, boys and girls.
Biden was clearly rattled when confronted by a Fox News reporter on Saturday to explain his and his son’s activities related to Ukraine:
That is the bluster of a confused and panicked man. He has no idea what to do or how to answer, so he lashes out at the reporters to “ask the right questions.” He also probably lied outright when he said he and his son Hunter Biden had never discussed Hunter’s business dealings in the Ukraine, a claim that Hunter directly contradicted over the weekend.
Joe Biden is closing in on 77 years-old, and he is not in any way young for his age. He is in the midst of his third run for the presidency over a span of 32 years. His once-sizable polling leads in Iowa and New Hampshire are now gone, and Elizabeth Warren keeps slowly closing the gap with him in the national polls.
He now finds himself being caught in the middle of a corruption scandal that is not only of his and his son’s own making, but that he bragged about at public events. On camera. All his buds in the fake news media keep parroting their talking points, but fewer and fewer people are buying what they’re selling with every passing hour.
All of this is happening with next year’s Democrat convention still 10 long, long months away and Election Day more than 13 months hence.
Does anyone really think this very old, frail man has the stamina to last through all of that?
Not likely.
That is all.
Its not so much when but how. Recall 0 didn’t want him to run but he did anyway. I think Biden is somewhat delusional about himself and his campaign and would happily sail along as if everything was ok not really noting the gathering storm clouds. It will take some outside agency to force him out of the race and I’m not sure which that will be. Maybe the DNC will show up with an offer he cannot refuse but who knows. If he stumbles badly in the opening primaries that might do it as well.
Biden is already out.
He just has not realized it yet.
Any minute now.
I didn’t think he’d bow out until all the debates were over, making it safe for Hillary to step in and save the day for the Dems.
Biden is outta there as soon as he signs with the Patriots as Football Inflation Specialist.
John Kerry was left for dead in low single digits and out of money at this time in 2003. He stuck around long enough to back into the nomination.
Many of the REAL powers in the party should be concerned that a Sanders or Warren candidacy will create negative coat-tails for the underticket, leaving the Democrat Party with a wipeout in the House, Senate, and State Legislatures even as record numbers are rolled up in coastal cities and university towns. A Sanders or a Warren would be part of the recipe for the Democrats to become a regional party. Nominating a doofus like Biden reduces that risk somewhat.
David Blackmon hits one into the area where Pete Alonso tags’em.
You hardly ever hear how Biden had to self-eject in 88 but all true.
I was on board this corrupt fraud couldn’t go the distance earlier so now joining David here.
never.
Leftists never bow out in scandals.
they know people forget and they stick in there.
the have no shame
they believe that the larger cause is right.
Conservatives could learn from them.
You can’t go. The republic will collapse without you, Groper. So long SCUMBAG.
They know that. The journalism cartel - the AP and its membership, and any and all other wire services and their customers - operates on the premise that "journalists are objective.” If so, then “there’s nothing to see here - just move on.” For if so, the journalism cartel - with its unanimous voice declaring what is news and what isn’t - defines the public interest.The only problem with that narrative is that it just isn’t so; it is an astonishment to me to think how many decades I took that for granted. Fundamentally, all journalists know that they are on the lookout for bad news which casts society in a bad light (and thus, promotes the conceit that we need more laws and more government). But if journalism is negative, and “journalists are objective,” that would imply that “negativity is objectivity.” And that is a proposition which only a cynic could could take seriously.
Equally, “journalists are objective” takes objectivity to be a state of being rather than a difficult discipline. If “journalists are objective” then journalists don’t even have to try to be objective.
Worse, “journalists are objective” puts journalists in a bind: actual objectivity is hard, man. But there is an easy out - journalists can “go along and get along” with each other. Which is what they do - and why the real meaning of “journalists are objective” is, “journalists are unanimous.” Unanimous not only about how any given story is slanted, but - very importantly - about what is news and what isn’t.
“The media” is utterly corrupt. And it shows - for anyone with the slightest skepticism in them.
End of month.
What is pathetic is that Biden is retirement material, and instead of walking into retirement or other activities like a normal person, he doesn’t know how to do anything other than run for office and be in the public eye constantly. It’s like Hillary. The ability to bow out and enjoy other aspects of life and be a normal person just isn’t there. Power is addictive.
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