So you've spent nigh on two years prattling on and on to the electorate regarding the pitfalls of selecting a doddering senescent to lead our nation, and so I cannot stop myself from asking two things:

(1) What is that saying about being hoisted by your own petard? Rhetorical question, obviously... and

(2) Who's the old man now!?

Democrats have lost..

They are just too stoopid to know it.. :D

But just wait, every time Trump rambles off into whatever weird tangent he will be compared to Biden and misogynistic insults will be referred to Project 2025...

Plus this whole drama is a hell of a lot more entertaining that the snooze fest of the GOP convention...

Already a major plot twist and we haven't even entered the silly season yet...

It was the debate that ended Basement Joe Biden...

His legacy will be forever that he is a quitter... :D

Nope.. Once again.. Just stating the facts..

It's a well known fact that Headboard Harris slept her way to her positions..

Sorry you have such a luser Democrat bench, Bashi... :D

Ah yes, fact FACT and FACT. Your history with that word is not as stellar as you would like it to be...

Ah, indeed!

Unlike some, I actually believe in the radical notion of facts. They tend to have a pesky habit of sticking around, unlike certain political promises.

Like "I am staying in this race!!" and "I am in it to win it!!!"

:D

Biden drops out. Now Trump is the doddering old guy...

Who can dodge bullets

BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

You won't be able to make THAT laughable charge stick...

But even a doddering old guy is better than Headboard Harris..

The town bimbo who only got to where she is by laying on her back and being on her knees... :D

"Joe Biden is DEFINITELY not dropping out of the campaign."
-Press Secretary Jean Claude Damn

"I can't beat Trump. I failed. I quit"
-Basement Joe Biden, 21 Jul 24

BBBBWWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

And, if reports are accurate, Basement Biden is NOT going to endorse Headboard Harris.. :D

DEMOCRAT CIVIL WAR!!!
FILM AT 11!!!

This is a VERY good day.. :D

They require no defense..

Like the FACT that Basement Biden is history...

JUST as I predicted over a year ago... :D

I hate being factually accurate all the time.. :D

Maybe it's time for a reality check.

Or just a stronger prescription??

:eyeroll:

I prefer reality over drug-induced hallucinations, but to each their own....

Definitely live in Portland, the druggie capital of the US..

Enjoy your copium...

:eyeroll:

Whatever you have to tell yourself to make it thru your day... :D

Whatever you have to tell yourself to make it thru your day...

Basement Biden is history... Democrats are history.. Even CW recognizes this fact.. :D

Trump has praised Project 2025. His people have praised Project 2025 and some are behind writing it. He gets to own it. And he lies constantly. You and your fellow cult members may believe his disowning but the rest of America? We will see...

Lets not forget that Trump's cabinet seriously talked about removing him via the 25th amendment, twice. Are you sure your guy is going to make it to November? He is sounding more and more like a doddering bitter old man.

But you have not answered the most important question: would you prefer to die by electrocution or eaten by a shark.

Now we're seeing blue on blue (word) violence...

“Can we all just remember for a minute that these same people who are trying to push Joe Biden out are the same people who literally gave us Donald Trump? In 2015, Obama, Pelosi, Schumer pushed Biden aside in favor of Hillary; they were wrong then, and they are wrong now.”
-Biden Source

Camp Basement Biden is blaming his Dem detractors for getting President Trump elected in 2016...

Aaahhhh yes... The sweet sound of Democrat in-fighting.. It's music to my ears.. :D

I mean, com'on!! When a Democrat loses the media ya'all GOTS to know that the fat lady has sung, packed up, went home to her cats and is sound asleep with a tub of ice cream in front of the TV...

But hay... I hope Basement Biden holds on for a couple more months.. :D

In other interesting news, fully one third of Democrats and Trump/America haters think that President Trump faked the assassination attempt. :^/

This is totally awesome!!! :D

You DO realize it's not going to do any good, right??

You DO realize that President Trump is your next President Of The United States...

I mean, look at it Bashi... You have some weird desperate non existent link between President Trump and a fringe plan that no one believes..

And President Trump has a Democrat Civil War and a POTUS who is senile and dementia-riddled and is over-staying his welcome...

Seriously, who would YOU put your money on??

ESPECIALLY since it's obvious to anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together that President Trump has learned a LOT about Democrat Modus Operandi and has sanded his rough edges..

I mean, it's really cute that you think Democrats actually have a chance here.. :D :D

Association of a huge number of people in his administration and likely in his next one if he wins. Plus there is video of him praising it. He can try but it's likely to stick to him like fly paper.

Sorry, buddy, we have the receipts...

Except President Trump has already disavowed Project 2025 and the ONLY thing tying President Trump to 2025 is guilt by association... And if Democrats are stoopid enough to go down THAT road.... Well.. :D

No, this sounds more like desperation along the same lies as the "Trump said Nazis were fine people" BS.... Nothing but lies and BS as far as the eye can see...

The BEST option Democrats have is to cede the Oval Office to President Trump and concentrate their efforts and their money on the House & Senate...

And I know MANY Democrats who agree with that..

On the other hand Trump seems to see that Project 2025 is a serious weakness. He needs to be hit hard on that. A good one line rallying cry for the rest of the election...

According to latest reports, Basement Biden is intending to stay on the ticket...

Current and former aides of Basement Biden are saying that his persistent regret and frustration over Democrats dissuading him from running in 2016 is driving his resolve to remain in the 2024 race.

They are saying Basement Biden is so bitter about how he was treated in 2016 that he is determined to stay in the race simply out of spite..

This isn't an election between President Trump and Basement Biden!! It's a grudge match with Basement Biden against Barack Hussein Odumbo!!! :D

Damn!! I shoulda bought stock in Orville Reddenbauchers!!! :D

The reality is that the Biden administration has been a complete failure on the Israel-Gaza-Palestinian file. Biden promised aid would get into Gaza. That has never happened in any substantial or effective way. Recall that pier the US built to transport aid from the sea and then had to repair it and repair it again before it was dismantled. No significant aid ever reached the people of Gaza from this failed effort. So, there's that.

The Israeli peace plan that Biden announced but that the Israeli's never supported has gone nowhere. And, yet Biden says he's done more for the Palestinians than any other president. Amusing.

And, the US is now rather isolated as the World Court has ruled against Israel and its occupation of the Palestinian territories and upheld the commonly held notion that Israeli settlements there violate international law. On this, the US, UK and Israel are isolated from the rest of the world. So, there's that on top of that.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/jul/19/why-icj-ruling-against-israel-settlement-policies-hard-to-ignore-occupation-palestinian-territories

Then there is Ukraine. Another long war not going well with Zelensky still demanding hundreds of F16 fighter jets though there are few Ukrainian pilots and no infrastructure in Ukraine to operate, support and maintain them. NATO support is decreasing. It's a mess.

I had such high hopes for a Biden presidency BECAUSE of what I believed he was capable of in terms of prosecuting an effective US foreign policy that operated on the principle that the US leads best by the power of its example rather than by the example of its power. Those high hopes were further elevated when Biden tapped one of my favourite US statesmen to head up the CIA in Bill Burns. But, alas, those hopes have been decidedly dashed.

All but...so he did not lie by your own admission. He changed his mind...

Biden originally described why he was running in 2020:

He [Trump] said there were quote some very fine people on both sides. Very fine people on both sides. With those words, the President of the United States assigned a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it. And in that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime.

~ Joe Biden, campaign announcement, April 25, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbOU2fTg6cI

Biden said he was running in 2024 to "finish the job."

Sure there is. He committed the crimes. Should he be above the law purely because you worship him?

I used to think the Trump apologists in the cult of personality simply "swallow the Kool-Aid," but thanks to J.D. Vance and his stated beliefs and astute observations, I'm convinced they actually mainline it like "cultural heroin," Vance's description of Trump, not mine.

not a shape shifter, an idiot savant. he probably has no clue why he's making the decision, it just feels right, and frequently is.

why do you think Trump selected JD Vance?

Because he is a narcissist who saw a younger clone of himself whom he believed he had converted to his side with the charm he obviously believes he possesses. It never occurred to the toxic narcissist who believes he possesses the charm to win over anyone, that James David Vance isn't so much a "convert" as he actually is a younger clone of Trump: An opportunist who will say and do whatever it takes to achieve his desired outcome... facts be damned.

Vance had discussed with GOP strategist Mike Murphy that he wanted to run for Senate in Ohio as a never-Trump candidate. Long story intentionally shortened: Murphy advised Vance via Trumpsplaining, and Vance ultimately reinvented himself as a "Republican populist" -- a Never Trumper turned pro-Trumper -- in order to achieve his objective. I mean, the guy who described Trump as "America's heroin" and opined that "Trump's promises are the needle in America's collective vein," and "to every complex problem, he promises a simple solution," pretty much described Trump to a proverbial "T," and Trump was clearly vain enough to believe in his own power that he converted Vance into a true believer. It'd be hysterically funny if it weren't so pathetically obvious.

it wasn't because he was concerned about winning Ohio or Kentucky, it's because the guy has a scruffy working class story and wrote a book about it, much like Obama did.

Yep. And Trump refers to this as "Central Casting." Anyway, Vance apologized to Trump for his past statements and blamed "the media," and it appears that Trump enamored of his own perceived ability to turn Vance into a Trumpkin simply failed to factor into the equation that Vance actually was "the media" in the flesh who trashed Trump. It appears it never occurred to Trump that Vance is/was "the media" who did a whole lot of Trump trashing, Vance being one of the "original OG never Trumpers" and frequent media trashers. Repeat after Vance: "America's Hitler."

Reminds me a lot of Tucker Carlson, another of "the media," who was outed in the Dominion litigation and had to apologize and reinvent himself to Trump:

We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights.

I truly can't wait.

I hate him passionately. I blew up at Peter Navarro today in frustration. I actually like Peter. But I can't handle much more of this.

He was pushing voting fraud stuff. I have no doubt there was fraud. But at this point, Trump and Lin and Powell have so discredited their own case, and the rest of us to some extent, that it's infuriating. Absolutely enrages me.

That's the last four years. We're all pretending we've got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it's been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn't really an upside to Trump.

~ Tucker Carlson, texts dated January 4, 2021

for all his many faults, Donald has an outstanding salesman's knack for understanding what his customers want.

So you're saying he's a shapeshifter? Trump isn't just a con artist but tragically a narcissist who buys into his own bullshit to the point of not being able to objectively weigh obvious facts because his constant need for praise and his ego simply cannot allow it.

Biden is in a remarkably advantageous position now.

He definitely has more power today than he did in the past, as would anyone else in the office he holds, due to the ruling of the Supreme Court wherein he was granted immunity for official acts and a surprisingly broad definition regarding what would constitute an official act.

He's got nothing to lose - especially in the sense of having to please the big elite donors - when it comes to some of the issues he is at odds with voters.

He's still got a great deal to lose depending on how he handles things, keeping his actions "official" being the obvious best course of action.

Take the US-empowered Israeli blunderbuss in Gaza as just one great example.

It seems there is nothing happening in the wide world that you aren't willing and/or eager to blame on the United States... for whatever reason.

If Biden wants to take full advantage of this and rally the voting public behind him, then this is a golden opportunity to break with the Israeli leadership...

Not sure why you believe the "voting public" would "rally" around any president who would do any such thing. The US supports Israel; the Israeli electorate chooses their own leaders. The United States supports our allies and generally leaves it up to their electorate to choose their own leaders. That generally works the same way in England, France, etc.

I mean, Biden has already lost the elite donors, anyways, right?

Not all of them. Whatever Biden chooses to do with the awesome power he holds will definitely involve donors, and it isn't possible -- never has been, never will be -- to please them all. Your suggestion would be a surefire rapid way to lose an abnormally large chunk of them.

Just keeping it real. :)

All but...so he did not lie by your own admission. He changed his mind...

You need to accept the reality that Basement Joe Biden is right up there with Vladimir Putin, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Idi Amin and Joseph Stalin.

He got convicted in a state court initiated by a state attorney general.

Trump on the other hand is actively threatening to be just like your examples...

No other logical or rational reason exists for such low brow piddley-assed persecutions..

Sure there is. He committed the crimes. Should he be above the law purely because you worship him?

I don't think Jill wants to be a 'lame duck' POTUS.. :D

JL are my initials, Joshua Lynn Eisenstein, and sometimes how i sign my posts.

Ahh yea... That's right... I remember now.. Thanx :D

Biden didn't initially intend to run at all,

Yes, exactly.. And, according to reports, it was President Trump saying that "Nazis were very fine people" in Charlottesville that prompted Basement Biden to decide to run again..

But, as SNOPES has revealed, the claim that President Trump said that nazis are very fine people was a lie...

So, Basement Biden based his running for a 2nd term on a LIE...

Don't you find that so ironic?? :D

, but that doesn't make the man innocent. t

Oh com'on.. What politician is actually innocent??

You think Basement Biden is "innocent"?? If Basement Biden wasn't found to be mentally incompetent by his own DOJ, he would be prosecuted as soon as he left office.

Would you support such a prosecution??

to be blunt, he did all the things they say he did.

Nope... Not even close.. Even the "felonies" that President Trump allegedly committed were actually only misdemeanors...

The law has been twisted and reshaped to fit a political agenda.. This is undeniably fact..

It's kind of like being the proverbial lame duck president but it's actually much better than that! :)

[18],
if Donald wins, we'll see whether his near death experience spurs him on to see the straight line from the bank to the bullet, become a true Jacksonian and reform the Fed - or whether it further stokes his tendency to give the military illegal orders to attack his political opponents. I'm not being glib here, it's a sincere question.

[17],
JL are my initials, Joshua Lynn Eisenstein, and sometimes how i sign my posts.
Biden didn't initially intend to run at all, and maybe was considering bowing out after one term if he thought Kamala was ready, but he never explicitly said so. presumably he didn't feel she was, and indicated fairly early that he would stand for re-election.
you're still reaching way up your own posterior on the legal stuff. i do believe that there is an appearance of political motivation behind the prosecution, but that doesn't make the man innocent. to be blunt, he did all the things they say he did.

Did I say break with Israel? No, I did not.

Yea, you kinda did..

then this is a golden opportunity to break with the Israeli leadership

The Israeli leadership IS Israel in the here and now...

The average American voter won't make the distinction you apparently want to make...

Further, the break with Israel in favor of Palestinians is the WORST possible move here...

Doing so would REWARD Hamas' terrorism and simply invite more of the same..

While I acknowledge that the Palestinians DO have legitimate grievances, it is also undeniable that Palestinians NEGATE any legitimacy with their commission and support of terrorism..

The US should whole-heartedly and enthusiastically support Israeli leaderships goal to totally eradicate Hamas & Hezbollah with finality...

If Basement Biden wants to actually HELP his candidacy, THAT would be the best step he could take..

No posting problems here.

Ahhh… What browser do you use???

Yep... Yep... Yep..

That's exactly factually accurate..

On another note, what is with the posting problems here??

Is it just me?? Some sort of restriction??

I have to leave a comment within a few seconds or I am auto-logged out and have to re-login...

I also get THIS FORM IS NOT SECURE error messages all the time..

It's weird... Anyone else having these issues??

That would probably be the WORST move that Basement Biden could make..

At least, worse move for the Democrats..

It would guarantee a President Trump landslide even more so than it already is...

Break with Israel??? That would basically hand the election to President Trump..

Again, even more so than it already has been handed over..

Biden is in a remarkably advantageous position now. He's got nothing to lose - especially in the sense of having to please the big elite donors - when it comes to some of the issues he is at odds with voters.

Take the US-empowered Israeli blunderbuss in Gaza as just one great example. Netanyahu is scheduled to speak to a joint session of Congress this week, having been invited by both the Republican and Democratic leadership.

If Biden wants to take full advantage of this and rally the voting public behind him, then this is a golden opportunity to break with the Israeli leadership who have just voted to discard the two-state solution and occupy the Palestinian territories long enough to empty Gaza of Palestinians and re-develop prime beachfront real estate.

I mean, Biden has already lost the elite donors, anyways, right?

Knesset passes resolution against establishment of Palestinian state

So, do I expect him to get real on this issue? Sadly, no.

I called this back when Basement Biden started his campaign...

No one with more than 2 brain cells to rub together would honestly and seriously believe he could actually run a whole campaign..

Hell, Basement Biden couldn't run a whole campaign in 2020!!!

As much as I hated when President Trump didn't win in 2020, I think it worked out for the best..

It showed the American people how utterly corrupt and incompetent Democrats are at governance... It showed the American people who Democrats are simply the Party of hate and bigotry...

President Trump's next 4 years in office is going to be the best years America will ever have!! :D

And then it will pave the way for President JD Vance in 2028...

Life is good, eh people?? :D

One thing to keep in mind as well...

If Basement Biden is dropped from the ticket, he will also have to resign as POTUS.. I mean, look at it..

If Basement Biden is too old and senile and dementia riddled to be the CANDIDATE then, by default, he is too old and senile and dementia riddled to be the POTUS.

This is REALLY going to decimate the Democrat Party...

The total implosion of the Democrat Party.. :D It wasn't on my bucket list, but I'll take it!!! :D

Why the hell do I refer to you as 'JL'???

Anyways...

do you even read what you post? none of what you quoted reads like a promise not to run again. not a lie.

If President Trump had said those exact words and then ran, ya'all would be SCREAMING about lies!! :D Don't bother denying it because we both know it's factually accurate...

Having said that, I did a deeper dive on the issue..

But the report most cited by those who believe a one-term promise was in place was from Politico in December 2019. “Biden’s top advisers and prominent Democrats outside the Biden campaign have recently revived a long-running debate whether Biden should publicly pledge to serve only one term, with Biden himself signaling to aides that he would serve only a single term,” reported Ryan Lizza. “While the option of making a public pledge remains available, Biden has for now settled on an alternative strategy: quietly indicating that he will almost certainly not run for a second term while declining to make a promise that he and his advisers fear could turn him into a lame duck and sap him of his political capital.”

That “transition” line is important, because it’s one Biden himself used publicly and on the record. “I view myself as a transition candidate,” Biden said at an online fundraiser in April 2020. In March of that year, at a rally where his eventual VP pick Kamala Harris was by his side, he used similar language: “I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else.”

And then there are these FACTS....

Former Vice President Joe Biden has reportedly indicated that he would only serve for one term if elected to the presidency.

"He's going into this thinking, 'I want to find a running mate I can turn things over to after four years but if that's not possible or doesn't happen then I'll run for re-election.' But he's not going to publicly make a one term pledge," another adviser told Politico.

So, the FACT is Basement Biden all but promised he would only be a one-term POTUS...

Regardless of whether you accept these facts are not, the simple fact remains..

If Basement Biden "promises", if elected, to step down after a few months and let Headboard Harris take over, there will be TENS of MILLIONS of American voters who will say, "Yea, but you promised to only be a 'transitional' figure and be a one-term POTUS. So, we don't believe you now when you say you will step down after a few months.."

It is for this reason that I believe that your idea to have Basement Biden make ANOTHER pledge simply won't work..

We need to face reality here.. Basement Biden has lost ANY shred of credibility he may have had..

What with his senility, his dementia and his constant lying about EVERYTHING, no one is going to believe ANYTHING Basement Biden says...

show-trials in dictatorships don't have randomly selected juries that the defense can challenge or disqualify.

Sure they do..

The Constitution of Russia stipulates that, until the abolition of the death penalty, all defendants in a case that may result in a death sentence are entitled to a jury trial. Jurors are selected by the prosecution and defense from a list of 30-40 eligible candidates.

That's just one example..

You need to accept the reality that Basement Joe Biden is right up there with Vladimir Putin, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Idi Amin and Joseph Stalin.

All (so-called) "leaders" who had their political opponents arrested and tried in a kangaroo trial where the verdict was pre-ordained.

The FACT is that Basement Biden has more in common with Putin than President Trump ever could..

Donald broke a LOT of laws, some more serious than others. many criminals get off on technicalities

He didn't break any more laws than anyone else who has been in big business for decades..

The fact is, Democrats wouldn't have said ANYTHING about those laws if it had been anyone else but President Trump..

The mere fact that ALL the persecutors tried to cut corners to speed things up to get these trials in before the election PROVES that all of this was nothing but lawfare persecutions..

Com'on, JL.. You show enough integrity to concede that President Trump isn't the threat to our democracy that the Democrats say he is...

You have just GOT to know that all these lawfare persecutions have one goal and one goal only... To prevent or hinder President Trump's election as our next President Of The United States..

No other logical or rational reason exists for such low brow piddley-assed persecutions..

And, NOW, since ALL of those lawfare persecutions have not only failed to accomplish the goal, they have actually HELPED President Trump, we see the Navalny option rolled out...

while the crime that put our country's intelligence people's lives at risk was dismissed on a technicality,

You mean the crime that Basement Biden ALSO committed?? Is THAT the crime you are referring to???

Here's the thing on that.. President Trump had a RIGHT to keep those documents... Senator and VP Basement Biden did NOT have that right..

So Basement Biden's crime is so much worse... Funny how THAT fact is ignored, eh?? :^/

And the **ONLY** reason that Basement Biden is not being prosecuted for HIS much more serious crimes is that his own DOJ determined he was not mentally competent to stand trial.

Lucky Basement Biden, eh? :^/

as the priest said to the nudist, I'm happy to see you, but would be even happier to see a little bit less of you.

You will... I am on my 3 day weekend and then it's back to 12 hr shifts.. 2 days on, 2 days off etc etc...

So, while it might not seem that way for the next couple days, ya'all will be seeing less of me.. :D

I live to make you happier, JL.. :D

MIDOW: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez for saying what many of us believe.
'She says "elites" in the party want to force both President Biden and Vice President Harris off the Democratic ticket.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/07/19/aoc_party_elites_trying_to_remove_biden_also_want_to_remove_kamala_harris_from_the_democratic_ticket.html

"People don't love our options," she said. "The debate didn't change much at all... in terms of peoples' perceptions and where the electorate is at. Going into the debate, I'm sure most people know that the president is old. The president is very old. Donald Trump is also very old... and a neo-Nazi -- but I'm not going to talk about Trump right now."

"This class of donors, decision-makers, and power players started to waver after the debate... and saying they need to jump ship," she said. "I'm not entirely convinced by that argument."

* Press Putch - since the debate debacle, EVERY news outlet that I usually consult has sounded out every possible Democratic politician, seemingly daily. (HuffPost today helpfully provides a 'list so far' of those who have stabbed Biden in the back.)Once again, it seems that the media have become bloodhounds in search of a 'scoop' without regard to the damage to our democracy.

Not normal for me, but I still haven't formulated an opinion regarding what Democrats should do/not do, but I will say (without going into too much detail), I do not like the way this entire saga has played out in the press. Be that as it may, whatever decision they make/take, it had better be one hell of a bold move that unites and ignites their Party.

nypoet22
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stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid. stupid.

Exactly right, and ten "stupids" requires one hell of a bold move in order to justify the sheer ignorance of it all.

Elizabeth Miller
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Very stupid, indeed.

I know, right!? Somebody better have one hell of a plan to justify the absolute batshit crazy of the spectacle of it all that is playing out in the press.

If Biden is going to "go" or "step down" in favor of Kamala Harris (not saying he should, but if he does), he should definitely make a huge move like resigning the presidency. Seriously. Biden could call a huge press conference and explain to the world that Donald Trump will never be the 47th President of the United States because Biden will simply not allow that to happen. Then he should announce that Kamala Harris will be "47" and that she is being sworn in [insert date]. Biden should then announce that he has chosen the running mate of President Harris, his good friend Michelle Obama... or another female powerhouse that would energize the electorate and knock the press back on their heels. I realize Obama says she isn't interested, but if her dang husband is going to assist in pushing out the current president because of the "existential nature" of the race, then she could suck it up and make the sacrifice and run for Vice President at Biden's request and for the good of the nation.

That's right: Run two women against the GOP. They'll naturally begin their usual routine of slut shaming, and it won't help them one iota because Donald Trump is obviously a dirty old manwhore.

Who's the old man now!?

@
poet

Dude, the polls are irrelevant thus far out.

Polling that has ZERO predictive qualities four months out —
people this is FACT!

What has changed? Tell us, Chris, which block of voters has swung to Trump due to these last four months?

C’mon Chris aren’t you getting tired of having to wear Depends 24/7?

I'm not sure he is up to that over that long a haul...

Biden should take better advantage of incumbency and the fact that he lives in the WH. He doesn't need to do a lot of traveling - though Air Force One isn't exactly a hardship - if he does more short announcements, mini speeches on any number of hot topics from the oval or other parts of the WH, impromptu visits to the podium in the WH press room, etc.

Yeah, he needs to interact with voters but that doesn't always have to happen alongside big rallies - more intimate settings are more his style and could do just as much good as a rally speech.

He could even say out loud that this is more to his liking as an old guy!

Will he do any of this? I'm not holding my breath.

Will ANY Democrat take the all-important economic mantle away from the Republicans? Ditto.

It could be played in an educational and positive light. I have had a father go down in cognitive decline as well as a mother in law and step father currently going through it. I seriously doubt I am alone in this. It is a major modern problem affecting many families across the nation. Dealing with it in such a public space could shine some badly needed light on the problem and possibly money and good legislation as well.

If Biden continues he will need to pull off some of his better state of the union level speeches not only at the convention but all the way into November. I'm not sure he is up to that over that long a haul...

the reason for this can be summed up in 3 words: class class class.

working and middle class Americans would rather have someone they can count on, warts and all, over someone shinier and newer, selected by the coastal intelligentsia, what they call the "elite"

Joe may be old and speech impaired, but people across the whole country know what and whom he stands for. that can't be said of Kamala or any other candidate who might replace him.

When he makes his exit announcement, if he does so in front of the feeding frenzy press, his last words to them will be a sardonic...Thanks a LOT!!!

As for his fellow Democrats who may yet succeed in stupidly pushing him out, I'll bet he keeps his choice words for them private.

Very stupid, indeed.

I hope Joe has the last laugh ... if you know what I mean and I'm sure that you do!

forcing Joe out would be twenty times the disaster of allowing him to stay, not just in this election cycle but probably the next three. even if he loses, it's a much better long term bet to take your lumps and prepare for the next fight. plus there's always the chance that Donald self destructs when given the chance, which a new candidate to attack wouldn't.

i reiterate: stupid.