There's no such thing as the "Democrat Party," and you are the biggest source of misinformation on this blog.

That is why the Democrats will lose and lose big in 2020...

Based on what? The GOP's giant pick up of 2 whole seats in 2018? Check your numbers, moron. You're wrong. :)

The majority of the Democrat Party is like Paula.

That is why the Democrats will lose and lose big in 2020...

If it's Jerry Brown, then you can forget about VP. They'll be co-presidents, for all intents and purposes with Brown heading up the climate change file, domestically and internationally.

I think it's kind of a shame to waste any of them in the VP slot. It's thankless job. Warren is probably the smartest person in DC. A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

If Biden survives all this BS and piling on and wins the nomination, his choice for VP should be one of the following, and in this order:

1. Stacey Abrams
2. Kamala Harris
3. Elizabeth Warren

I believe I said this before, and I am correct about this so... no argument from you. ;)

Seriously, though, do some research and tell me how long it's been seen the Democratic ticket was 2 white guys. Oh, nevermind, it was 2004... 16 years when 2020 rolls in... so that ship has sailed. :)

If Senator Hagel is done with all of this political stuff, how would you feel if Biden chose Kasich as his running mate?

I like those statistics so thanks go out to William Weld.

Paging John Kasich, John Kasich... your country needs you, and you're not busy. :)

Oops. Meant to add that California usually goes last, and they decided they aren't having that anymore. California used to be a huge haul sitting at the end where candidates would hold out until the end. Well, all that changes in 2020 because California is done with it and voting on Super Tuesday.

And that changes everything. :)

Russ, please tell me that you think as I do that Senator Booker needs to rethink his line on this.

Obviously, I'm not Russ, but I too think Booker is overblowing this.

I don't know for a fact but I would wager that Booker is not unlike most Americans who come from a place where Biden is barely respected.

EM, seriously, Booker's real problem is that Biden is respected in South Carolina.

The facts are these, EM: Booker must perform decently in the early states until South Carolina and Super Tuesday roll around to have a chance, and for that matter, this applies to all the approximately 18 or so candidates who aren't sitting in... oh, say... the top 5-6 positions, which Booker isn't.

02/03/2020: Iowa Caucuses
02/11/2020: New Hampshire Primary
02/22/2020: Nevada Caucuses
02/29/2020: South Carolina Primary (got us a leap year)
03/03/2020: Super Tuesday! These are all Primaries

Alabama
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Democrats Abroad
Maine
Massachusetts
Minnesota
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia

Well, except for the "not "nothing"" part. :)

Much ado about nothing. Okay, not "nothing"... but almost nothing. Seriously. :)

Let me take a moment here and address the actual FACTS of that fabled "Blue Wave" of 2018 that ya'all like to brag about..

In contrast President Trump lost only 30 House seats and gained 4 Senate seats....

Wrong, wrong, wrong... your figures are wrong! Why do you insist on posting bullshit and labelling it as "facts." You are the worst perpetrator on this board of doing this and proving nothing more than either your propensity to lie or misinform... or both!

Now about that Red Tsunami you kept promising over and over and over ad nauseam for a myriad of reasons: You couldn't have been more wrong hundreds of times over.

Your figures regarding how many seats "Trump" lost in the House of Representatives is wrong by several seats; of course, you've shorted the Democratic Party gains. As far as the GOP gains you are reporting in the Senate, you have inflated these by a factor of 100%. That's right, sunshine, you have doubled the number of net gains by the GOP in the Senate.

You want facts. Anybody else want facts? I got facts!

MIDTERMS 2018

Net seat change of Democrats in the House: +41
Net seat change of Republicans in the Senate: +2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_elections

Also, the Democratic Party picked up the governorships in 7 states, but I digress.

So, no matter how you want to spin it to make it through your day, there was a Blue Wave. A big Bad Ass Blue Wave. The Democrats won by a popular vote margin of +8.6%, the largest margin in any election since Watergate.

If you'd honestly like to correct some misinformation regarding the way elections are referred to on this blog, you can stop claiming that President Trump won in a "landslide" since Trump lost the popular vote by multiple millions but won the presidency in the Electoral College by approximately 78,000 votes in 3 states.

Please stop posting fiction on the blog. The only thing you're teaching anyone around here is how misinformed and/or pathological you happen to be. :)

Not bad, save for 2016 (of course).

I'm taking bets! :)

Now, there's a thought!

What about that guy - former GOP governor who was/is running against Trump?

That's encouraging!

How do your political gut feelings usually turn out?

Pretty good, actually. Just a gut feeling right now.

I think you are engaging in wishful thinking. GOP has shown being out of power just makes them more obstructive.

Maybe. Until that doesn't work anymore. The Right wing has had a pretty good run the last 30 years, but I think that most folks have had enough of it. I can easily imagine Trump being the Right's last big candidate for a long time. The south might hang in there a while, but Texas turning blue would blow a pretty big hole in that.

If you still call yourself a Republican you own: Blotus, concentration camps and dead children, complete breakdown of security in the WH, nepotism, bribery, emoluments abuses, the gruesome murder of Jamal Kashoggi, the rise of nazism, White Supremacy, the theft of a SCOTUS seat, conspiring with Russia to hack elections, hacked elections around the country, voter suppression, the handing off of our federal gov to despicable corrupt thieves and incompetent idealogues, the surge in hate crimes, suicides, opiode deaths and more.

So no, I can't name any repub who could prove he/she's not a dishonest traitor. They can prove it by leaving the party and dedicating their remaining lives grind it into the dust.

Then I hope he doesn't suggest such a thing again until well after he's elected!

Can't you name one republican who's still alive and who might be able to prove to you that he/she is not dishonest and a traitor?

Oh, man, does that ever hit the nail on the head!!!!

That was the thing that so frustrated me about the Obama/Biden administration - lack of consistent and effective communication Re. policy moves and how they compare to those of Republicans. They sure weren't the explainers-in-chief.

If there is anything that I worry about when it comes to Biden? … that I too often explain his policies etc. better than he does. :(

How would you feel about him choosing a moderate Republican, currently in or out of public office, to be his running mate?

I think that would be beyond stupid and should rule Biden out instantly if he was foolish enough to suggest such a thing.

When will you get it?

Republicans do not merit ANY FORM OF REWARD or even outreach after the atrocity of this administration which is being FULLY SUPPORTED by the GOP.

The GOP needs to be hounded out of office, it's major figures should be shunned for the rest of their lives, and any person running as a republican for the next generation should be expected to PROVE he/she is NOT a dishonest traitor. They have lost any/all right to any benefit of doubt.

This election will not be a come-together election UNLESS Blotus is kicked out before 2020. If he's still infesting the WH then it will be a base turnout election and being buddies with concentration-camp supporters is not going bring out the Dem base.

I think you are engaging in wishful thinking. GOP has shown being out of power just makes them more obstructive. They do better out of power because there only job, in their eyes, is to obstruct. Being in power shows they can't govern but they damn well can obstruct.

In terms of "what could Obama/Biden/Dems have done re: Merrick Garland" - yeah, a set of circumstances worked to McConnell's advantage. That doesn't mean Dems couldn't have responded far more strongly doing who the hell knows what - but stuff they didn't do.

I will not waste time posing hypotheticals about what they might have tried that they didn't - the point remains, GOP continually pushes the envelope on doing things that are anti-Democratic/democratic and counter to the constitution and rule of law and Dems have a terrible history of responding weakly and ineffectively.

I have zero confidence that a change of administration will do shit to end GOP abuse. It isn't going to be enough to vote them out - assuming they don't hack 2020 and win steal the election. Repubs have to actually pay prices beyond losing office. NO "looking forward not back" this time.

What are the chances do you think that if Biden is elected, then Democrats will hold house and gain senate?

I can only imagine how different things may be if that were to happen!

1. New President, new rules. Especially this time.

2. The Republicans will be out of power, so ready to play ball. If McConnell is still in power in the Senate, he would have to negotiate with JB to pass necessary bills. That's where the ability to face him down would come in handy.

I don't think Biden is under any illusions about what has become of the GOP or how they will react to him as president.

I still don't understand what makes you think that Obama/Biden could have acted differently wrt the Garland nomination.

Unless you are saying that Biden hasn't shown that he can work successfully with congressional republicans. In which case I take your point.

But, again, if Biden is elected president in 2020, the situation with regard to relations between the WH and congress will be different from the Obama years - not saying better or worse, just different.

And, I think a lot will depend on who Biden taps to be his running mate, if he gets that far. Maybe you will remember the last time he ran in 2008 he suggested in one of the debates that he would choose Chuck Hagel, a moderate Republican, to be his running mate.

How would you feel about him choosing a moderate Republican, currently in or out of public office, to be his running mate?

Given the circumstances, there was nothing that Obama or Biden could do. A change in the Senate rules is required, but that's been in McConnell's hands this entire time. Sure it was a catastrophic failure, but it was one that was a while in the making, and will take a while to fix.

How is it possible JB could suggest the GOP will suddenly start to play nice if he, JB, is POTUS?

Absolutely nothing...

Separately, not liking Biden's "reaching-out" isn't about "purity" it's about his wanting to continue to use a tactic that constantly fails. (MERRICK FUCKING GARLAND)

I hope you know that what Senator McConnell(sp?)did to Merrick Garland is decidedly NOT what Biden once proposed for Supreme Court nominees in the last year of a president's term.

So, a bunch of ignorant celebrities who are completely out of touch with Americans are who the Democrats listen to??

Oh yea.. THAT will win ya'all the election...

:eyeroll:

Do ya'all see how utterly frak'ed ya'all are???

I mean.. Seriously!!!

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1141801299299700739

That is why President Trump will win in a landslide..

And nominating as your champion someone who is to the Left of Ted Kaczynski...

OR

Maybe we can both get rid of Blotus AND start moving the country in a direction where real problems start actually getting solved starting in 2020.

We'll see.

I didn't adopt your position - that's BEEN my position.

But the question of who can beat Blotus and all the rest is, right now, nothing but conjecture.

Separately, not liking Biden's "reaching-out" isn't about "purity" it's about his wanting to continue to use a tactic that constantly fails. (MERRICK FUCKING GARLAND) I don't like Biden waxing nostaligic about it I don't like Klobuchar or Booker or anyone else thinking that's the way to deal with the GOP either BECAUSE IT DOESN'T WORK. It simply enables them to get worse and worse and worse.

This expresses it well:

Most other Democrats at least have the sense not to extend that rule to their actual general-election opponents. But even when Democrats deign to declare that they are opposed to Republican rule, it frequently seems forced, as if they’re pandering to their supporters while secretly hoping their nonsupporters won’t get offended. At the heart of this predilection for the flight over the fight is a tacit ideology that is wildly out of step with the political reality of Trump’s America, where villains abound with almost comic ubiquity. And it is an ideology that, for the first time in living memory, is being challenged by an invigorated populist left, not only out of principle, but also out of a sense that the old way is naïve and ultimately self-defeating. The future of the Democratic Party, and by extension the country, may well depend on whether the party is finally willing to ditch its fretful posture of peacemaking and give war a chance.?..

All the while, Democratic leaders continue to campaign and govern from a crouched, defensive position even after they win power. They have bought into the central ideological proposition, peddled by apparatchiks and consultants aligned with the conservative movement, that America is an incorrigibly “center-right” nation, and they have precious little strategy or inclination to move that consensus leftward—to fight, in other words, to change the national consensus; the sort of activity that was once understood as “politics.” ?

https://newrepublic.com/article/154113/democratic-party-fighting-spirit-give-war-chance

It is, and it isn't. The party loyalists (the 'woke people') make it very hard to get middle-of-the-road candidates through. Very tough for folks like me, for whom Bernie and Warren and Booker go too far.

And, like you, I'll vote for the candidate that emerges anyway. Because beating Trump is the mission.

Sure ya have..

" If the Dem primary becomes a stupid "I'm more pure than you" contest, then we lose."

I have been saying that for MONTHS now..

Glad ta see it's finally rubbed off on ya :D

I just think that all of this chatter about party purity is just bunkum.

BEAT Trump is the only slogan that should emerge.

Which is exactly what I have said ALSO for months now..

But, considering how bad the Dumbocrats have jumped on Biden for his "racist" :eyeroll: tendencies, it's clear that electability has taken a back seat to Party Purity...

Will it hold?? Probably.. More likely grows stronger..

As you said, the debates will be a very good indicator but the South Carolina convention this weekend will also give us a good sense of which way the Dim Party goes..

Electabiity or Party Purity??

I am betting the latter..

Yea??? Tell me.. How did the polls do in the 2016 election??

It's SOOOO cute that you think polls, especially polls almost a year and a half out have *ANY* relevance.. :D

I haven't adopted ANYONE'S position. The debates will begin to sort things out. I just think that all of this chatter about party purity is just bunkum.

BEAT Trump is the only slogan that should emerge.

It isn't enough for me to support Biden in the current field. I don't.

I don't agree he's the only candidate who can beat Blotus - polls now show several D candidates can. Although how meaningful ANY of that is at this early point is highly debatable.

The first debates are next week and the primaries will really be underway. We'll see where we land.

I already said I'd vote for JB if that's the choice I'm stuck with. I will also vote for BS if that's the choice.

As for "I'm more pure than you" - bullshit. I'm not arguing, in any way, shape or form, about "purity".

I'm saying Biden has a record, both as a legislator, as VP and as a candidate. That record has good and bad. That record results in me preferring other candidates.

Isn't that what primaries are about?

If Democrats go for Party Purity, they will lose...

It's that simple...

So, now you have adopted my position.. :D

That's just gotta hurt, eh? :D

For what? Beating Trump? Or were you trying to assign some other purpose to him?

Keep your eye on the ball, Paula. If the Dem primary becomes a stupid "I'm more pure than you" contest, then we lose.

So, that means that Hillary was responsible for the Iraq War...

Is THAT what you are saying???

It's been going on at the US southern border for DECADES...

And the problem is that US politicians don't have the political will to do the right thing...

THAT is why it's happening..

If you voted against it, as my Dems did, you're not responsible for it. That wasn't the case with Biden. He owns it.

Why!?

Looks like Jussie is not out of the woods yet..

Couldn't happen to a more deserving scumbag...

False accusations of racist attacks is worse than 20 actual racist attacks...

Because it puts in doubt ACTUAL racist attacks and makes it that much harder for REAL victims to seek justice..

A life in prison sentence is not out of line for Jussie Smollet...

Or, better yet.. Force him to become a cop (assuming he can pass the psych eval) and make him SEE what horror he caused..

[Corporal Jose Espericueta]
Corporal Jose Espericueta
Mission Police Department, Texas
End of Watch: Thursday, June 20, 2019

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Trooper Jerry Smith
Nebraska State Patrol, Nebraska
End of Watch: Thursday, June 20, 2019

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Biden doesn't have a vagina..

THAT and THAT ALONE is what disqualifies him to some commenters here in Weigantia...

Always the optimist.

Agreed... This weekend in South Carolina will be the first test of Biden's stayability factor..

And that Hunter Biden divorced his wife after Beau Biden died and then married Beau Biden's widow...

Whooaaaaa........

That is your opinion, Paula. And, it's not based on the facts.

Did you read the part about the Senate being controlled by Republicans? What, pray tell, did Biden do to blow it? Do you know what protections he was able to include in the bill?

Always the optimist.

Yes, well, around here facts are often confused with opinion.

Do you think Biden's critics know squat?

Would you agree that, if Biden is clobbered in the first debate, he's done???

That is your claim. It is simply an assertion - you don't know squat about it, you're just stating your opinion as a fact.

RE: bankruptcy bill, forget it. Joe blew that call, and even if he softened it somewhat it was a heinous piece of legislation that, all the way back then, perfectly illustrates how comfortable he was and how out of touch he was with working people at the time.

Yeah he has some good stuff in his record - I didn't say he doesn't. It isn't enough.

First off, it's a dog bites man story. Joe Biden is a gaffe machine. That is not exactly a revelation. You can only push this peanut so far.

Second there are tons of competing stories that are more compelling: like the Drone Shoot Down, and what exactly is Trump going to do about it - at any given moment, because it seems to be in flux. The charge will percolate on Fox News and social media and such forever, as zealots of a certain kind pat each other's fanny. That's just the way the modern press ecosystem works.

Third, Biden can rightfully claim to have a strong record on Civil Rights Legislation. NAACP has given its 100% rating to Biden....and here is my single allowable reference for this:

https://votesmart.org/interest-group/893/rating/2937?p=1&of=rating

Now it is true that some of Biden's votes on crime and matters of business and the economy have disproportionately harmed the Black Community, but this was collateral damage that hit pretty much all low income people, and people of color are disproportionately poor. Overall, the voters were clambering for "get tough on crime" - and politicians responded in kind.

In the end, Joe is Joe - he can be prone speak his mind before he has really thought the media:public interpretation thru. I think he'll be pretty well prepared (coached) for the first debate.

Let the games begin.

Biden had voted against these types of bills in the past but, on this one, he was able to make amendments that protected women and children. On the rest of the bill, he had no control as a member of the minority party.

Everybody always leaves this part out when they bash Biden for voting for the 2005 Bankruptcy bill. I don't understand why ...

Your conclusions don't surprise me.

But, I have a question for you that may - MAY - change your view of him and how comfortable he sits.

After the war in Iraq started going south, which Democrat in Congress spent most of their waking moments trying to find a way out by changing US policy toward Iraq?

It wasn't Hillary or John Edwards or Barack Obama.

Biden had been thinking about running for president in 2004 but he became too busy on the Iraq file and that was more important than another shot at the oval office.

At the time, John Kerry had tapped Biden to be his secretary of state. Biden would consider that only if Republicans controlled the senate. Because if Democrats control the senate in 2005, then he'd rather be chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee!

I'm not sure what your comment has to do with people purposefully misinterpreting what Biden said and inaccurately assigning words and motives to his speech.

Being vetting and challenged is good and I hope he gets a lot more of that going forward. But, that is not what I'm talking about here.

It's interesting that you seem to think YOU are in a position to tell us who knows what they're talking about and who doesn't. FYI I don't accept your self-proclaimed status as arbiter of accuracy re: JB.

Finally, running for POTUS (especially as a Dem) means having to endure a ton of vetting. (Running for POTUS as a woman and/or minority Dem doubles that.) Dealing with it comes with the territory.

Biden has a long history and it's being scrutinized. Longstanding politicians always have to deal with defending their records, just as newbies get hit with "you don't have enough experience".

Biden's challenge is to show that he's moved with the times and can deal with problems/conditions we face now. His nostalgic ruminations work against that, resulting in episodes of self-inflicted damage.

My contention is: Joe Biden is a genuinely nice man who means well, but has also been very comfortable for many years. He's a man who has been the center of his own universe; he's white, well-off, well-educated and is very comfortable with other very comfortable people. He has giant areas of obliviousness as a result, which he reflexively and adamantly defends, and if he fails, that will be why.

Ya know... If y'all could step away from yer hate and intolerance and actually approach things with an open mind, y'all might actually learn something..

NNNNaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww It's too easy just to hate...

Look at the diversity of a Trump crowd..

Men, women, hispanics, blacks, asians....

All bound together by love of country and a desire to Keep America Great... :D

Biden has to get thru the Primary first..

That's what I am talking about..

If you are referring to the other Democratic hopefuls
once again they are not from the left, they are from the center.

I guess it all depends on one's point of view.. :D

Because all the other candidates are living in their own deluded Left Wing world...

It's not really Trump's playbook..

Trump likes to put stuff out there that shocks the Left, but the Right loves...

Biden put something out there that shocks the Left *AND* Right...

There would be no upside to this ploy, if it was indeed a ploy..

No, what I think is more likely is that, as with the handsy incidents, Joe honestly didn't see anything wrong with what he said and he was truly shocked (and hurt) that anyone from the Left would try to paint him as racist...

This was simply a case of Joe being Joe and the rest of the Democrat Party has moved so far Left that Biden comes across as a Righty...

The truly sad thing is, there is no way a far Left candidate can prevail against President Trump..

Biden is the Democrat Party's ONLY hope to beat Trump..

And, like true Democrat Party fashion, the Dims are offering their BEST LAST hope as a sacrifice on the altar of Party Purity..

Who could have POSSIBLY predicted this would happen??

Oh... Wait... :D

I question the wisdom of intimating that one is a racist to cover up the fact that one is beholden to Wall Street...

Seems to me a risky step to take..

Good point...

That's certainly a possibility...

But do ya'all have the gumption to consider ANOTHER possibility???

That maybe the Democrat Party is OVERLY sensitive to their identity politics platform??

10,000 quatloos says ya'all WON'T seriously consider the possibility..

Clinton lost 52 House seats and lost 8 Senate seats in his first mid term election...

Obama lost 60 House seats and lost 6 Senate seats in his first mid-term election...

In contrast President Trump lost only 30 House seats and gained 4 Senate seats....

So, let's quit with the fantasy that 2018 was any sort of Blue Wave.. At BEST, it was nothing but a trickle...

The last two DUMBOCRAT Presidents did much MUCH worse their first Mid-Term than Trump did...

Once again.. Ya'all have hysterical delusions...

I have facts and reality...

We now return ya'all to yer regularly scheduled Biden-Bashing...

The Democratic Civil War Is Here

The next day, the Democrats started doing some destroying, all right. But of each other.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-vs-elizabeth-warren-cory-booker-vs-joe-biden-the-democratic-civil-war-is-here?ref=home

But the FACTS and REALITY clearly show that it's the Democrat Party who is going to implode...

I see more and more that Biden is getting frustrated by all the bullshit and petty attacks from his OWN Party...

I am going to make a bold prediction here..

If Biden doesn't knock his debate out of the park, look for him to drop out of the race on or near the 4th of July...

You heard it here first..

Trump Approves Strikes on Iran, but Then Abruptly Pulls Back
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-approves-strikes-on-iran-but-then-abruptly-pulls-back/ar-AADaA3K?li=BBnb7Kz

The report comes from MSN so everything should be taken with a huge grain of salt...

It's funny how MSN incessantly makes it clear that it's such a huge mystery why President Trump pulled back...

It's perfectly clear why President Trump pulled back..

The President wanted Biden and the Democrat Civil War to have the front page and the headlines all to themselves..

While I am not thrilled at politics dictating military matters (although, when one looks at it logically and rationally, it IS the nature of the beast) I can see the logic in the President Trump's move...

Joe Biden announces massive $20 million raised as first debate approaches

Biden is giddy that he raised 20 million in his first month as an official candidate..

President Trump raised more than that his first DAY as an official candidate.. :D

Not wanting to kick Biden when he's down but this really should worry Democrats, NeverTrumpers and Trump/America haters...

If one ignores the polls, which have been PROVEN beyond any doubt to be flawed, and look at the fundraising??

A more accurate picture can be made..

This week, with the first debates of the election season days away, the gentility came to an end.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/20/2020-election-democratic-primary-1373202

Yep.. It's clear that Democrats will be acting EXACTLY like Republicans are accused of acting..

Glad I stocked up on popcorn... :D

Yep, Democrats muster the circular firing squad..

Again, just as I predicted..

And I'll note that the candidates' pledge to be 'civil' to each other lasted about five minutes.

I simply don't see how that is possible..!!???

We are able to have differing opinions on how we best solve problems without having to resort to name calling and insults.
-ListenWhatYouHear

{/sarcasm}

As an aside to Russ.. I am not a sadist.. If you want to concede that you spewed that total bullshit in the heat of battle and you don't really believe it, I'll be happy to let you off the hook... :D

It's quite remarkable, in its own right.

Yep... Republicans do not have the market cornered on 'ism' bigotry...

Not by a long shot..

"Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, 'I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.' Good point there. After all, he was 'The Walrus'. I could be the walrus, but I'd still have to bum rides off of people."
-Ferris Buehler

Liz - Have courage. Biden has taken a hit, but he is not of the fight. Not yet. Better to blunder esrly rather than late.

I understand you are trying to be kind to Liz and that is admirable..

But if you truly believe that, I have some swampland down here in Florida I wanna sell you..

Biden won't recover from this..

His numbers, already going down (as I predicted) will plummet as Democrats, candidates and non-candidates alike, pile on...

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...

But facts and reality.. That's me...

But that won't work in the era of President Trump...

Democrats just HAVE to have their Boogeyman.. Just like Republicans had to have theirs in the form of Obama...

What blows my mind is that Democrats today are acting 20x WORSE than Republicans acted towards Obama and the Democrats today don't even care!

Mind boggling..

But, that wasn't his point, was it?

Again, yep...

Everyone sees what they WANT to see.. Not what actually is..

You can interpret ALL of the Democrat candidates that way..

Playing the victim is the Democrat Way...

Look for Buttagig to get butt-hurt about some imagined gay slur down the road..

Democrats are a victim looking for a transgression...

Do you have a transcript for this speech?

I'll dig around and see if I can find one for you Liz...

Biden wasn't joking about African Americans being called 'boy'; he was relating how the segregationist senator from the seventies didn't call him 'boy' (obviously, because Biden isn't black) but instead used a similarly disrespectful term, 'son', instead of Senator.

Oooooo good catch...

You see, this is EXACTLY why I hate these faux-racist bullshit accusations..

The people who scream "RACISM!!!" the loudest ALWAYS goes with the worst possible possibility, the possibility that furthers their hateful and intolerant agenda.. They don't stop to consider that OTHER possibilities are much more likely...

Very good catch...

Speaking of "gaffes", Biden is one of a select few politicians who is the real deal - he says what he means and means what he says, and he is probably the most misconstrued pol on the planet, a lot of it decidedly purposefully.

Yep.. Another way to say what I just said..

People choose the possibility that most fits their agenda... NOT the possibility that most fits the facts..

You have DEFINITELY been hanging out with me too long.. :D