“I don’t walk as easily as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to, but I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job.”
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) June 28, 2024
Exactly the right message.
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"Trump didn’t drop out after he was caught making comments about grabbing women by their genitalia.
He didn’t drop out after openly mocking the vulnerable.
He didn’t resign after calling our military “losers” and “suckers”.
He didn’t resign after he was impeached…twice.
He didn’t resign after his criminally negligent mismanagement of the pandemic.
He didn’t resign after his failed insurrection.
He didn’t drop out after being criminally indicted…four times.
He didn’t drop out after being held civilly liable for rape and fraud.
He didn’t drop out after being convicted by a jury of 34 felonies.
So yeah, tell me more about why Biden should drop out after one bad debate. "
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This needs to be repeated far and wide:
The Republican Party is running a convicted criminal as its candidate.
The Democrats are running a guy with a proven excellent record and one bad debate performance.
If Trump wins, and there is better than a 50/50 chance after last night, we'll be wishing he dropped out for years.
The spineless NY Times clutched their pearls and rolled over for Trump, calling for Biden to resign. CNN betrayed our country by allowing Trump to lie unchecked by mods.
Heather Cox Richardson wrote a good piece on the "debate:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-27-2024
Tonight was the first debate between President Joe Biden and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and by far the most striking thing about the debate was the overwhelming focus among pundits immediately afterward about Biden’s appearance and soft, hoarse voice as he rattled off statistics and events. Virtually unmentioned was the fact that Trump lied and rambled incoherently, ignored questions to say whatever he wanted; refused to acknowledge the events of January 6, 2021; and refused to commit to accepting the result of the 2024 presidential election, finally saying he would accept it only if it met his standards for fairness.
...Trump called America a “failing nation” and described it as a hellscape.
It went on and on, and that was the point. This was not a debate. It was Trump using a technique that actually has a formal name, the Gish gallop, although I suspect he comes by it naturally. It’s a rhetorical technique in which someone throws out a fast string of lies, non-sequiturs, and specious arguments, so many that it is impossible to fact-check or rebut them in the amount of time it took to say them. Trying to figure out how to respond makes the opponent look confused, because they don’t know where to start grappling with the flood that has just hit them. It is a form of gaslighting, and it is especially effective on someone with a stutter, as Biden has.
...At the end of the evening, pundits were calling not for Trump—a man liable for sexual assault and business fraud, convicted of 34 felonies, under three other indictments, who lied pathologically—to step down, but for Biden to step down…because he looked and sounded old. At 81, Biden is indeed old, but that does not distinguish him much from Trump, who is 78 and whose inability to answer a question should raise concerns about his mental acuity.
About the effect of tonight’s events, former Republican operative Stuart Stevens warned: “Don’t day trade politics. It’s a sucker’s game. A guy from Queens out on bail bragged about overturning Roe v. Wade, said in public he didn’t have sex with a porn star, defended tax cuts for billionaires, defended Jan. 6th. and called America the worst country in the world. That guy isn’t going to win this race.”
...Of far more lasting importance than this one night is the clear evidence that stage performance has trumped substance in political coverage in our era. Nine years after Trump launched his first campaign, the media continues to let him call the shots.
Control is his shtick. He does it well. Aided by the very haccommodating media and followers of his cons.
But Biden is missing quite a few steps of late.
Dave Dubya,
We have to come to the depressing realization that millions of our fellow Americans are so easily bamboozled by a talented con man and criminal.
They're to be pitied.
...and others so absorbed with their own guilt-pride, that they feel morally justified in their compulsion to command others, instead of tolerating them.
No one feels guilty because you're willfully ignorant -FJ, no one. That's your shtick to carry around.
As well, no one is commanding you do a damn thing. Never have, never will. That's your shtick again.
Isn't it time to give up the victim mentality all cons and Trumpers seem to possess and carry around with pride?
Do what ever the hell your whittle heart desires -FJ. Just don't bitch about the shitty consequences when they come to fruition.
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