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Rolodex wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 5:11 pm Can't find it now, but saw a picture earlier from right after the debate: Jill is greeting Joe at the podium; Dolt 45 is walking off the stage by himself.

… Who am I, what and why
'Cause all I have left is my memories of yesterday
Oh these sour times
'Cause nobody loves me, it's true

Bill Madden @maddenifico wrote: Priest puts @nytimes on blast -- and accurately equates Trump and MAGA-fascism with the mustache man and Nazi movement of 1930s Germany.

But lost in the hand wringing was Donald Trump’s usual bombastic litany of lies, hyperbole, bigotry, ignorance, and fear mongering. His performance demonstrated once again that he is a danger to democracy and unfit for office.

In fact, the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

Trump, 78, has been on the political stage for eight years marked by chaos, corruption, and incivility. Why go back to that?

To build himself up, Trump constantly tears the country down. There is no shining city on the hill. It’s just mourning in America.

Throughout the debate, Trump repeatedly said we are a “failing” country. He called the United States a “third world nation.” He said, “we’re living in hell” and “very close to World War III.”

“People are dying all over the place,” Trump said, later adding “we’re literally an uncivilized country now.”

Trump told more than 30 lies during the debate to go with the more than 30,000 mistruths told during his four years as president. He dodged the CNN moderators’ questions, took no responsibility for his actions, and blamed others, mainly Biden, for everything that is wrong in the world.

Trump’s response to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection he fueled was farcical. He said a “relatively small number of people” went to the Capitol and many were “ushered in by the police.”

After scheming to overturn the 2020 election, Trump refused to say if he would accept the results of the 2024 election. Unless, of course, he wins.

The debate served as a reminder of what another four years of Trump would look like. More lies, grievance, narcissism, and hate. Supporters say they like Trump because he says whatever he thinks. But he mainly spews raw sewage.

Trump attacks the military. He denigrates the Justice Department and judges. He belittles the FBI and the CIA. He picks fights with allies and cozies up to dictators.

NBC New York @NBCNewYork wrote: President Joe Biden is expected to discuss the future of his re-election campaign with family on Sunday at Camp David, NBC News is reporting

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 10:31 pm Biden should have dropped out of the race the minute his foot went out of bounds during his floor routine.

Oh, my bad, it's the media who have the election and the Olympics confused.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 5:05 pm https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status ... 0192061498

Palmer Report @PalmerReport wrote: When the dust settles and we see that the debate didn't hurt Biden at all, will MSNBC and CNN and the New York Times all agree to drop out of journalism?

Don Winslow @donwinslow wrote: Imagine if they walk into the New York Times Monday morning and someone says "Over the weekend, 250,000 people cancelled their subscriptions"

Imagine that. Almost 300,000 have already viewed the original tweet below.

Olivia Julianna 🗳 @0liviajulianna wrote: The Biden Camp David trip was announced on June 23rd. NBC News never reached out to the White House for comment.

Biden has raised $30 million^* since the debate. Biden is the nominee. The base supports him. He’s been counted out before— so when he wins don’t call it a comeback.

The Spectator Index @spectatorindex wrote: BREAKING: NBC News reports that President Biden is 'expected to discuss the future of his re-election campaign with family at Camp David' tomorrow

Angry Staffer 🌻 @Angry_Staffer wrote: Listen to this guy.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 11:42 pm I've forwarded this post to the wife unit and am actively encouraging her to cancel our subscription. I'm hoping that Monday morning they walk into a significant dent. Please.

Don Winslow @donwinslow wrote: Imagine if they walk into the New York Times Monday morning and someone says "Over the weekend, 250,000 people cancelled their subscriptions"

Imagine that. Almost 300,000 have already viewed the original tweet below.

Terrific point by @jkryn: READ THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE DEBATE. Yes, optics were bad for Biden, but read both candidates' answers. It will (or should) give you a different perspective: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/27/poli ... index.html
Discussion at Fogbow: https://thefogbow.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... 23#p269349 Poll: 84% Don't drop out.

The Ghastly vs. the Ghostly
June 29, 2024
By Maureen Dowd
Opinion Columnist, reporting from Washington

He’s being selfish. He’s putting himself ahead of the country. He’s surrounded by opportunistic enablers. He has created a reality distortion field where we’re told not to believe what we’ve plainly seen. His hubris is infuriating. He says he’s doing this for us, but he’s really doing it for himself.

I’m not talking about Donald Trump. I’m talking about the other president.

In Washington, people often become what they start out scorning. This has happened to Joe Biden. In his misguided quest for a second term that would end when he’s 86, he has succumbed to behavior redolent of Trump. And he is jeopardizing the democracy he says he wants to save.

I got to know Biden in 1987 when he was running for president. He was hailed then as a leading orator of the Democratic Party, even though he could be windy. I knocked him out of that race when I wrote about how he cloaked himself in the life of Neil Kinnock, the British Labour leader who was a soaring speaker, and how he gave speeches that borrowed, probably unwittingly, from Robert F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey.

I ran into Biden in a Senate stairwell on his way to make a speech dropping out. He was alone, studying his script. We looked at each other in silence — struck by the weight of the moment — then went our separate ways to the same news conference.

Biden was a buoyant soul who had been told he should be president since he was elected to the Senate at 29. And he wasn’t going to let the plagiarism scandal, or his pursuant health problems, stop him. He had two aneurysms in 1988 and later said his doctors told him he wouldn’t be alive if his campaign had continued, and he kidded me that I’d saved his life. He also did not let the other tragedies that scarred his life drag him down.

I marveled at the fact that Biden forgave me. He told me that it was better that we stay on good terms. He did not get mad, even when I joked that his new hair plugs looked like a field of okra during the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings. He called to chastise me, with good humor, but I hid under my desk, afraid to take the call.

Luke Johnson @Orly_licious 4m
#IgnoreTheNoise: Desperate Media existentially jonesing for ratings & revenue have piled on hoping to profit from Election angertainment. Of course Republicans will pile on -- having a brokered convention or other chaos is in their interest.

If you thought the Debate was bad, just wait for the Swimsuit competition.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar wrote: Sen. Raphael Warnock on Meet the Press: "There have been more than a few Sundays where I wished I preached a better sermon. But after the sermon was over, it was my job to embody the message, to show up for the people that I serve. And that's what Joe Biden has been doing."

CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism wrote: JUST IN: Future Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries pours WATER over the idea that Democrats are plotting to replace Biden in strong remarks on MSNBC.

His remarks were incredibly honest and a much watch:

“It was an underwhelming performance on Thursday during the debate, as President Biden and his campaign have acknowledged.

It certainly was a setback. But of course, I believe a setback is nothing more than a setup for a comeback.

And the reality is Joe Biden has confronted and had to come back from tragedy, from trials, from tribulations throughout his entire life.

So the moment that we're in right now is a comeback moment.”

I think he’s right. What about you?

Face The Nation @FaceTheNation wrote: "Are you confident that the only person, the only Democrat in America that could beat Donald Trump is Joe Biden?" @margbrennan asks Maryland @GovWesMoore.

Moore: "Joe Biden is our nominee. Joe Biden is our leader...And Joe Biden deserves the confidence, the respect, and frankly, the partnership that we now have to provide to him."

Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump wrote: Anderson Cooper: “You just endorsed President Biden the day before the debate”

Former Trump campaign adviser David Urban: “How’s that going for you?”

@AdamKinzinger: “You know what I’m proud of? I’m proud that I’m not standing here sitting on a stage supporting a man who’s a habitual liar”

Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote wrote: The loudest voices calling for Biden to step aside - Bill Kristol, the Pod Save bros, Charlie Sykes, Tim Miller, David Corn, Tom Nichols, Steve Schmidt - they all have something in common. Can’t quite put my finger on it.

Alyssa Farah Griffin @Alyssafarah wrote: I’ve heard from numerous friends who are lifelong democrats, who can’t stand Trump, who’ve said if it’s Trump v. Biden they’re voting for Trump. Hard to express how shocked average Americans not in the political class are to learn the state of the current President.