Posted on 07/11/2024 7:48:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber
What genius advised President Joe Biden, post-debate, to “get out more in unscripted settings”?
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Biden whether he watched the debate. Biden’s response? “I don’t think I did, no.” During this short interview, we saw softball questions followed by mumbled answers and frequent incoherence. Subtitles would have helped, or perhaps Stephanopoulos could have hired Shohei Ohtani’s translator.
Biden said there were only two polls where he was behind Donald Trump. Biden named one poll and struggled to name the second. But Stephanopoulos stepped in and threw Biden a lifeline by naming the second poll.
Biden said he draws bigger crowds than Trump; that “this is a guy (Trump) who told us to put bleach in our arms”; “George, I am the guy that shut Putin down”; “After the debate, I did ten major events”; and “Trump is a pathological liar.”
About Trump’s “pathological” lying, consider this Twitter exchange:
Critic: Larry Elder, you have the sheer unmitigated gall to accuse Biden of “lying,” but you’re silent about the more than 30,000 certifiable lies Trump told as president. He’s a notorious, pathological liar. How hypocritical can you get?
Elder: Everything Trump says gets fact-checked, analyzed, scrutinized, dissected and inspected. That’s why you knew the supposed number. So, I’ll try to be gentle because I’ve learned people like you bruise easily. Simple question. Do you believe Biden’s lies get the media attention/scrutiny they deserve?
I await a coherent response.
After the debate, two black liberal radio hosts interviewed Biden. The hosts, we learned later, agreed to ask only the questions submitted by the White House. At least one of the hosts was later fired. If, to land an interview with Trump, black conservative hosts agreed to such terms, MSNBC’s Joy Reid would blast them as “sellouts” serving as “lackeys for the white man.”
During the debate, Trump blamed Biden’s open border for costing “black jobs.” What, Trump critics derisively asked, is a “black job”? Well, Biden just lost one. Everyone with a pulse knew darn well Trump meant jobs that would otherwise be held by blacks were it not for illegal alien labor. So, Trump is “racist” for supposedly not caring about blacks. But Trump is also racist for caring about the loss of “black jobs.” If the Dems/Left/media truly believe there’s no such thing as a “black job,” does this mean we can stop with the DEI/bean counting/under-representation/race-based preference nonsensical attack on merit?.....
Get rid of the vegetable and just have word salad?
And no meat whatsoever! A real healthy meal!
spit.
Dems face a Hobson’s Choice.
Everything changes at or after the convention here coming up in August.
The Democrats have been hoisted on their own petard. Insiders knew in 2019 Joe was exhibiting early signs of dementia, but the hope was he would hold on through one term. It was apparent that his dementia progressed so that a shadow cabal actually has been running the country while Joe was a figurehead. Kamala was an obvious DEI choice for VP and she was never intended to be POTUS.
I fail to understand why a transition from Joe to another candidate wasn’t initiated at least two years ago. Joe was cratering in the polls and his dementia was accelerating. Perhaps the relative success of Democrats in the 2022 election gave them false hope that good old Joe could carry on for another four years with a willing media hiding his dementia. The debate with Trump was the end of the charade. I was shocked anyone in the Biden camp agreed to the debate. I expected him to brush off the debate with he wouldn’t debate a convicted felon. Now the Democrats are in shambles with Trump cruising to a landslide in November regardless of who they run.
Well, I should think “taking a knee” is much better than “taking it up the ol’ wazoo” by running with either imbecile.
Good one
“the relative success of Democrats in the 2022 election gave them false hope that good old Joe could carry on for another four years with a willing media hiding his dementia.”
This.
Generals and admirals always fight the last war.
It is hardly surprising when they get burned doing it.
They may just decide to let Trump have it but do everything possible to further trash this country before Jan.
Kamala should be an expert at this.
They may just decide to let Trump have it“
Never. 0 chance they take a dive. They would eat their own children first.
Even if they ate their own children, Trump would probably win. The smart Dems are positioning themselves for 2028.
He’s wrong. Stephanopoulos did not ask “softball questions.” He kept twisting the knife, with hypothetical after hypothetical premised on the pre-existing idea that it’s a question of when and not whether Biden drops out.
In that interview, Biden was treated the way journalists treat Trump, constantly disbelieving every answer.
I think Biden expected the interview to be a softball campaign assist but George had his marching orders from another wing of the party.
Stephanopoulos was a Clinton employee. He got the job at ABC because of that. There is no doubt where his loyalty would be when the push comes to the shove.
I thought Harris was “take a knee”....??
War is probably on the table.
No, she’s take TWO knees.
“ Perhaps the relative success of Democrats in the 2022 election gave them false hope ”
Republicans have a massive off-year election problem. Without a larger-than-life figure to inject them with spirit and backbone, they just fade away as the lame milquetoasts that they are. They can’t compete with real professionals without a Big leader. Better hope Elon Musk takes the reigns from Trump…otherwise they’ll just fade into nothingness.
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