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This Is How Biden Loses (Democrat Journalists now in a panic over Biden)
The Atlantic ^ | AUGUST 28, 2020 | George Packer

Posted on 08/29/2020 7:29:07 PM PDT by sickoflibs

Subtitle :"Nothing will harm a campaign like the wishful thinking, fearful hesitation, or sheer complacency that fails to address what voters can plainly see."

Here is a prediction about the November election: If Donald Trump wins, in a trustworthy vote, what’s happening this week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will be one reason. Maybe the reason. And yet Joe Biden has it in his power to spare the country a second Trump term.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020
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To: ALASKA

For Biden to just now condemn the violence would seem a cheap cynical, defensive and obviously transparent trick. With no reason but to try and save his sorry privileged white arse!


21 posted on 08/29/2020 7:49:59 PM PDT by FiddlePig (The greatest threat to our sacred liberty is to not value it!)
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To: sickoflibs

Imagine if Biden had not conveniently been hidden in his basement by the COVID panic and had as the even presumptive nominee to actually campaign. If his performance in the primaries was any indication, his dog faced pony soldier gaffes would have gotten so severe that he would have been replaced by the DNC. Now he must campaign and especially do at least one debate with Trump. There is an almost certainty he will come off as befuddled, beligerant or incoherent.


22 posted on 08/29/2020 7:51:05 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: virgil
Biden will take your 401k.

Almost Five Million Americans Have Become Gun Owners in the First Half of 2020 - https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3879057/posts

23 posted on 08/29/2020 7:51:24 PM PDT by Mr.FixIt (Ethanol: Growing in four months what the U.S.A. burns in one day)
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To: sickoflibs
From the Article: "Then, on the burned-out streets, without a script, from the heart, Biden should speak to the city and the country. He should speak for justice and for safety, for reform and against riots..."

To late, Biden had to do this long ago in Portland, but he kept silent and let the siege against Portland go on for months. It's too late for Biden even with a sycophantic press.

Republicans can just ask then, why did Biden let Portland (etc.) burn then?

Biden's due date has expired already on this IMHO.

24 posted on 08/29/2020 7:52:42 PM PDT by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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To: sickoflibs

They are so screwed.

Trump has already announced he is going to Kenosha on Tuesday.

Now Biden can’t go without appearing to be a second hand mini me.

To the author’s credit, he sees the handwriting on the wall and is only writing what he sees.

Of note: Nothing today in the mainstream national media about violence anywhere. Even the local Sacramento Bee shifted a story about broken windows, spray paint and cops hit with rocks...to the back section. And it happened last night.

It appears the media will play the Democrat’s illusory game, but the rioters may not.

BEST CASE SCENARIO


25 posted on 08/29/2020 7:57:30 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: sickoflibs

Biden actually has zero power to stop a Trump second term.


26 posted on 08/29/2020 7:58:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: napscoordinator
Biden’s giving a speech on race on Monday.

Which means he’s been spending all weekend with audio-visual engineers doing exhaustive multiple takes for the massive digital splice work they’ll need to do by Monday’s release...

27 posted on 08/29/2020 7:58:33 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: The Great RJ

I wish I could be confident about Biden blowing any debate. But when he debated Sarah Palin, he was ruthless, and we know he will not be constrained by rules or by the truth in any debates. I am not so sure he will choke. I hope I’m wrong, but he fooled me before.


28 posted on 08/29/2020 7:59:31 PM PDT by TN4Liberty (My tagline disappeared so this is my new one.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Working blue collar dems see no one on the D list has their backs. They see their businesses in flames and their pols doing absolutely nothing about it except encouraging more destruction and bltant virulent racism against whites.


29 posted on 08/29/2020 8:00:27 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: mlo
Yeah, but who's going to spare us from a Biden term?

They've lined up an anchor baby.

30 posted on 08/29/2020 8:04:31 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: sickoflibs

Biden loses because he is a FRicking Democrat!

Democrats are anti-American!

This is America - Americans vote FOR America!


31 posted on 08/29/2020 8:10:12 PM PDT by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN!)
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To: TN4Liberty

Well, he is either cognitively impaired now or he is not.

If he is not I fail to understand the frequent senile moments he has displayed throughout his campaign.


32 posted on 08/29/2020 8:22:04 PM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“Biden actually has zero power to stop a Trump second term”.

Very good!


33 posted on 08/29/2020 8:31:45 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: sickoflibs

“And yet Joe Biden has it in his power to spare the country a second Trump term.”

Yeah right. Joe Biden doesn’t even have it in his power to form a coherent sentence or tell his wife from his sister.


34 posted on 08/29/2020 8:32:48 PM PDT by Junk Silver (Calling an Antifa protest "Mostly peaceful" is like saying your girlfriend is "Mostly not pregnant".)
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To: napscoordinator

Might as well just embroider ‘Property of China’ on Biden’s lapel.


35 posted on 08/29/2020 8:40:06 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: TN4Liberty

That debate was 12 years ago. He is not the same man he was then (and he was an idiot then!). He is so used to being surrounded by sycophants, he is unfiltered. That’s why videos like him bragging about holding back money to Ukraine exist: it never occurs to him things like that would be a problem.


36 posted on 08/29/2020 8:43:32 PM PDT by luv2ski
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To: TN4Liberty

12 years ago


37 posted on 08/29/2020 8:46:28 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
The author is either the most ignorant man alive or the most dishonest man alive.

Can't he be both?

38 posted on 08/29/2020 8:51:30 PM PDT by null and void (The Left weaponizes everything in the service of tyranny.)
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To: sickoflibs
“Then, on the burned-out streets, without a script, from the heart, Biden should speak to the city and the country.”

Haha haha. 😂

39 posted on 08/29/2020 8:54:11 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: Col Frank Slade
They know they’re going to lose.

I think the mysterious "they" that runs the DNC always knew that Biden was going to be a loser, but they felt confident that they could either drag him over the line or keep it close enough to claim that the election was stolen and keep that going for another four years.

If they're actually getting panicked it is, I think, because it's getting very possible that not only could Biden lose, but he could lose by a margin outside the realms of claimed cheating.

If they don't have the "Trump cheated" story going, they'll actually have to come to terms with blowing the presidential election in 2016 and failing to unseat Trump in the subsequent coup efforts. This fantasy land where they have been living in where Trump isn't a duly elected President who actually won by playing by the rules is going to collapse their reality. They don't want to live in a country with citizens who vote for Trump in the first place, much less one where a candidate like Trump could be sufficiently popular that he could win a majority of electoral votes or heaven forbid even the national popular vote.

40 posted on 08/29/2020 9:02:30 PM PDT by jz638
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