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For those of us like me who are discouraged after Thursday night's debate, here are two timely links, one a quote from 2,500 years ago and one a three minute clip from yesterday. thehistorianshut.com/20… These links remind me of what is really important. c-span.org/video Shame on me for giving way to emotional reactions. Worth watching t…
For those of us like me who are discouraged after Thursday night's debate, here are two timely links, one a quote from 2,500 years ago and one a three minute clip from yesterday. https://thehistorianshut.com/2018/05/20/thucydides-9/ These links remind me of what is really important. https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5122334/user-clip-timely-morale-booster-shot-mrs-biden Shame on me for giving way to emotional reactions. Worth watching the President's rally today in N.C. https://www.c-span.org/video/?536586-1/president-biden-campaigns-raleigh-nc
Panic plays into the engineered chaos Trump wants to inspire so he can save the day.
Convicted felon Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, and General Flynn are CFDT's co-conspirators. In a more perfect world they would all be behind bars.
Does anyone recall that CFDT pardoned 143 convicted criminals including 4 people convicted of defrauding Medicare/Medicaid out of a total of $1.4 billion? And Rick Scott was convicted of the same thing and he is running again for the Senate.
Way back there, I used to post on FB and Twit, the convictions of Dem and Repub politicians. It was a rogues gallery versus an occasional greedy, corrupt Dem. But the MSM won’t tell. Thank you. Rick Scott even looks like a shyster. Poster boy for used car salesman.
Thanks to the brilliant show of leadership from Gavin Newsom citing the folly of screamed ‘bad political maneuvering ‘ that was undoubtably continued Republican underhanded tactics , pure opportunistic slandering -trading out Biden over one night’s mishap.
Thank you Gavin 👏
The fact remains Biden is OUR only choice .
The only elephants in that room was Trump , nonstop LIES, and his baggage.
Biden has given us four years of leadership unequalled , backed by years of service FOR THE PEOPLE …there’s not one better to compare.
It’s clear to the bottom of this MAGA swamp , as clear as can be , the lists of rich powerful people /companies/foreign subterfuge long planning this ..they are cut from the same cloth as the emperor’s clothes and cloaks of deception. They seed doubt ,weaken trust, then double down with the tactics of well known dictators.
Truth , especially admitting those rare downtimes , is the character of notable worth. Self disclosure is a confidence builder that great mentors use wisely.
..there is no better choice , team…
I’ve said this before ..bears repeating evidentially …that the percentages of people voting ( given the 2020 numbers slight applause [66%] ) is the second biggest threat to our Democracy…Trump is only the middle finger up in the Heritage & sordid company/backers HUGE PLAN -serious,persistent,doubled trouble.
The lesson afforded us culminates 11/5/24 did enough listened? Catch on? Wake up? Your vote counts period.
Last call!
💙💙VOTE ALL THE COMPLICIT OUT💙💙
Yes, my Governor was excellent in his appearance on the tube after the so-called "debate." He is Pres Biden's most effective surrogate, I think. He has said time and time again how he totaslly supports Biden and he goes into the den of idiots that is Fox Propaganda to trample on their idiocy.
He is paving the way for 2028, when I look forward to a spirited contest for the Presidential nomination between him and Gov Gretchen Whitmer. (What a dream team they would be!)
Thank you , Sharon . Yes, 2028 and a team of equal competence . I fully will endorse and support. Impressive. Hakeem , Frost , there’s an experienced team to pick and lead onward.
In a more perfect world, they would all be indicted, be tried, be found guilty and be sentenced to hang.
Fewer than 30% of the people who voted in 2020 tuned in to the CNN Clickbait Show masquerading as a 'debate" and of those who did, less than 5% said it affected their decision to vote for Biden. These debates are the single most useless political scam the media came up with. The Professional Bedwetters panicked over Clinton's "loss" to Pert in 1992, and Obama's 2012 "loss" to Rmoney. It's what they do. It's why they're the Dimocrats.
The benefit of the debates is that CFDT is on record lying over and over again and never answering a question asked of him.
You will see footage of CFDT in many political ads between now and November.
I am as upset as anyone that it didn't go better for Biden, but damage control is in process and I think the 24 hour news cycle will swallow this up with other BS very quickly.
It will reinforce the MAGAt insanity, not change one Dem mind, and may give ammo to that crazier than chump idiot RFKJ and his devoted soft brains. Joe could use their votes. What they are doing works for chump. No excuse for their splitting the Dem vote, none…
Excuse my stupidity but what is "CFDT"? I am not familiar with that acronym.
I believe it’s convicted felon dt. Brilliant!💙💙
Thank you!!!! And, yes, that is brilliant!
Trump relies on repeating lies to make them believable, so I try to always used convicted felon Donald Trump or CFDT when repeating. 😎
Convicted Felon Donald Trump. He is a convicted felon, and he can’t pardon himself of a state conviction.
I like it too, but my taste goes to the more profane--"tffg."
Sharon, I added an extra “F”—TFFFG—for Felonious…if you sound it out resembles a “hissssss” or a “spit”.
sadly, you will also see footage of Biden's major stumbles.
Yes, I shudder to think of how vicious the Trump adverts will be. Hopefully, they will be so nasty that they will turn off more undecided voters than they entice. President Biden's response can be something like, "So Trump has nothing better to do than to celebrate my mistakes while I am busy correcting his. Let us keep it that way."
They are already using deceptively edited videos of President Biden.
They don't have to. It was pretty bad.
I know, and what can you do with someone who’s permitted to lie with impunity. I am not feeling a lot of hope at the moment, and I feel Jake Tapper and Dana Bash behaved stupidly by refusing to call out Donald Trump’s Gish gallop of lies.
Kathy, as I mentioned in a post, he DISTORTS! To me, that is much much worse, because it leads one in a direction. It is deceiving. Like slight-of-hand. Too darn simple to refer to things he utters as "lies". We have been infected with a new pandemic. Call it: Alternative facts. So easy to say to someone, "you're lying". And, they respond, "No I'm not, prove it! ..yeah, and good luck doing that. Have we not LEARNED over the past 8 years? Nope.., apparently not.
And we should also be seeing tv ads of tffg talking about windmill farms off S. Carolina causing dead whales to be turning up on the beaches and the rant about a boat with a tremendously large battery that causes the boat to sink and then there is a shark next to the boat and blah blah blah....those ads of tffg rambling on at rallies and making no sense should be playing nonstop!
But, the Lincoln Project will show CFDT's lies from now until the election.
Quit focusing on "lies" fer crissakes. The guy (#45) is full of crap as far as we (us here) are concerned. His fan-base looks at "us/we/you & me.., as a bunch of hopeless liberal-ass libtards/pedophile-supporters/queers/faggots/druggers/devil-worshippers/and un-American fools. However, not every citizen feels either way. And a lot of those "citizens" think that voting is a "waste of time", or "my vote won't make a difference", or "nothing will change"..etc, and they're just pissed because of the price of gas and groceries and taxes are thru-the roof. Etc. So, here's my answer... I knew you would ask :)).., Here it is: THAT'S BULLSHIT.., AND YOU KNOW IT! Then, silence. As you go on with your day.., you've done well. And believe me, you have!
As somebody stated here, earlier: "Keep calm and keep campaigning."
"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell
Translation: The purpose of a journalism organization is to inform people profitably, and not profit from misinforming.
It's too bad Heather is so busy. She could otherwise start a school of journalism and start with CNN employees including the two debate moderators. Meanwhile, we'll have to accept the reality that CNN has become a public relations organization and is no longer a journalism organization.
The more I think about it the angrier I get. There were four people on the set of the debate. One of them was serving the country at his expense. The other three were serving themselves at the country's expense. I'll give Trump one credit. At least he doesn't care if we know.
Media needs to shift the conversation. Every night for 8 years plus, It’s all appalling, the fatigue is relentless as reflected in the debate turnout.
Couldn’t we be giving more oxygen to the issues of freedom, the environment and justice without boundaries? I would also be happy without polls which to me are another fear tactic.
I'm not a professional bedwetter, but I am concerned about some of Joes incoherent remarks. The we killed Medicare.. where the hell did thst come from? Was he that shook up by the format and lies?
I would like an explanation of what happened from the campaign. He did not look well. He'd had a taxing few weeks with the anniversary of Beaus death, conviction of Hunter, multiple international trips and then the enormity of the possibility of a loss to the orange f#cktwit.
Or what was it?
Decongestants?
Yes , this is a valid point.
Bravo, TC!!!
We need to be cramming the disgust down the throats of the media too! Where can we express this to them?
I wasn't discouraged by the debate. Same old, same old trumpian tactics..Lie, lie, lie. Attack, attack, attack! Evade answering direct questions!
I'm still " ridin' with Biden." He is the more honorable, honest, caring candidate who had an off night. As for trump, I suspect he takes drugs before these events & then peters out half way through,
from their effects. It's been said by those who should know, trumps a fan of Ritalin..big time; which could induce an amphetamine like response in people taking it. As my sister has said as well, I'd take President Biden if he had any number of what might be considered
"issues," over a trump any day. The impediment trump has is one of lack of a moral compass; lack of the kind of character you can count on in a crisis, or well, anything. We've already had a sampling of that over his 4 year term. Why would anyone not morally challenged or insane, vote for him another term, after January 6th & all the goings on, the rest of his prior term. A major $#!+show over those 4 years & the ilk that would riddle his administration, like Stephen Miller. Another human tragedy, lacking a moral compass. Only having sat in those seats before, they'd have previous knowledge of how to " milk" it better this time. And don't forget, if we got trump, maga republicans would push Project 2025.
Ritalin or adderall. Both are meth-like compounds differing from methamphetamine by a carbon or two hanging off the benzene ring. For people with ADHD they're calming and helpful.
For everyone else they're powerful stimulants. Given that everything CFDT says is projection, and his insistence Biden is "on something", it's a pretty safe bet he's was on one or both.
I am sure Dr Bandy X. Lee will have a lot to say in her sub-stack later today.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bandyxlee/p/from-gamble-to-car-wreck?r=3hlhv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Indeed she does
Thanks, Ally. You are clutch hitter, as always!
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Thank you Ned. I just watched the rally on C-SPAN. I would not have seen it if it hadn't been for the link you posted. It is time to Energize, Organize and VOTE BLUE all the way through!
Thank you for a gracious compliment, Colette.
My R-leaning better half had his pre-existing opinion of Biden's infirmity confirmed, but was appalled by Trump's "performance". I suspect (hope) he is not the only one who was convinced NOT to vote for Trump by his lies and complete inability to answer policy questions. (I don't think he is convinced to vote for Biden, but it's a start). You won't hear about that in the media.
At least a vote for a 3rd party guy deprives Trump of a vote.
Nope. A big nope. A third party vote guarantees a trump win. See Simon Rosenberg on where the race stands today. Biden is gaining ground and is ahead in some areas, but his advantage is tenuous at this point. To add in a third party vote would be a disaster. I refer you to Gore/Bush/Nader and Clinton/trump/Stein/Sanders.
Third party candidates are outliers who do not have the best interests of the Country at heart. If they did, they would read the tea leaves and throw their support to the best candidate for Democracy. Third party candidates terrify me.
No, I was referring to Louise's better-half. A Republican who dislikes Trump might have voted for him in the past while pinching his or her nose. So, going third party in this particular demographic would help President Biden.
I know that. I was thereby prompted to write about third party candidates. I don't get all personal and personality in debates or politics Ned. It is about the issues and having friendly debates. Politics is the great American past time isn't it?
I appreciate your insights.
Maybe it's because I am Buddhist. Monks taught me to debate, and Buddhism is an intense practice requiring lots of study and analyzing. So instead of following the crowd (such as yesterday's massive group think) we are trained to remain calm and analyze.
A third party vote from a R is better than a Trump vote from a R
We are playing a zero-sum game here. It's either Biden or trump. Third party votes pull votes from the 2 party candidates. At the end of the day, they are vanity votes and accomplish nothing. In our ever-increasing close elections, every single vote is crucial.
This race is turning on a dime. It's terrifyingly close. I refer you to Simon Rosenberg for his astute, better than mine, analysis of where we stand today.
An interesting take of the debate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDPI_xqcyrk