United States Politics: It isn't even X or Y or Z, it's KKK.

[benji]

Why does Jen Psaki think Black people and women are inherently inferior?

[benji]

[benji]

                        journalism?

[benji]

Yes, this woman is as dumb as you might guess, I've met her and her dumb mother a number of times. They're a "Michigan political family" that's never accomplished anything. 

Don't bother reading the long thread, she says there's no problem and she has no clue about any other states. Before saying this at the end:

[TylenolJones]

[Nintex]

BarbByrum are probably the type of people that are the delegates at the DNC  

Unsurprisingly they are now dropping some polls that show Queenmala could beat Trump. 

The presser will be do or die for Biden.

Hell yeah Joe Biden following the Nintex advice

Yet, still missing some big bombs and dead Russians.

[PhoenixDark]

I don't think it's do or die. I think it's been settled by the same people who scheduled the presser, and the same people who scheduled the debate in June - earlier than any recent presidential debate I remember. IMO there's been a behind the scenes campaign to slowly get us to this point because they know there's no other way for Biden to admit he can't run. They knew he'd fail the debate and they know he'll fail the presser today. Because this isn't a matter of a bad strategy in a debate (see: Obama v Romney round 1) or a matter of a gaffe. He looked frail and sounded like he couldn't string four sentences together coherently.

Mind you I went into the debate thinking Trump was making a major mistake downplaying Biden, just like he did in the 2020 debate which Biden handily won. I didn't expect it to be a disaster of epic porportions.

Good news is Trump remains a weak candidate with a sham ground game, and his campaign is largely a scam. Kamala may be a system QB but the system is still designed to beat Trump. I see no reason to think he can win MI/WI/PA without a ground game. 

[Besticus Maximus]

Harris beats Trump if they have the balls to do it

[Nintex]

I wonder if people will just accept that they lied about Bidens condition for so long. Putting on a scripted dog and pony show for what is supposed to be the most powerful man in the world.

Sometimes the previous administrations put up a smokescreen if a President was briefly ill or on a classified trip but nothing as elaborate as this.

The last full cabinet meeting was October 2nd 2023

Ahead of closed-door Cabinet meetings that Biden attends, it is customary for Cabinet officials to submit questions and key talking points that they plan to present in front of Biden ahead of time to White House aides, two sources with direct knowledge told CNN.

“The entire display is kind of an act,” one of those sources told CNN. “They would come and say, ‘Hey, the president is going to call on you about 25 minutes in, and ask this question. What are the bullet points you’ll respond with?’”

And what is even more baffling is that lots of people apparently knew it had gotten bad for 2(?) years and when it was election time, they decided to put this guy up against Trump anyway.

[dontasemebr0]

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[benji]

I wouldn't want to meet with all those losers either.

[Nintex]

At this point I think Bidens last decision as President was the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

That was such a disaster and according to interviews back then, his administration and allied governments didn't expect him to make such a stupid decision. 
(even Trump was planning to keep the airport and just replace US troops with PMCs)
It was odd that after such a clusterfuck everyone kept their jobs.

After that he was just told what to do and what to sign and left out of the decision making process.
Which explains why there is no vision or plan outside of "Orange Man Bad" they're just keeping the lights on.

[dontasemebr0]

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[Nintex]

They've been watching too much Russian propaganda and cheap fakes.

[Uncle]

even setting aside the putin gaffe, if the rest of the speech is flawless and strong, that's no sort of reassurance at this point, it's a statistical anomaly

ask him to do it again next week and he'll fuck up again

[dontasemebr0]

[benji]

Stop falling for the cheapfakes guys.

[Nintex]

Look at it from the bright side, he didn't poop his pants.... yet

[Nintex]

[Uncle]

holy fuck what a final line

"trump is mocking you right now, how do you respond?"

"listen to him"

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

MamaKamala will save the day. 

[killamajig]

[dontasemebr0]

he did ok 
 

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the back and forth will continue 

[killamajig]

I dont know how to twitter can somebody post that tweet of Blinken, Austin and Sullivan react to Biden saying, "Vice President Trump."

It looks like this

[PhoenixDark]

Started bad and then he recovered well. Foreign policy answers were strong. Did he shit the bed like I thought he would? No, besides the first couple minutes. But he also demonstrated he does not have the stamina or vigor to run for president. He should drop out.

[Uncle]

I feel like 75% of his answers didn't address the question at all, which I guess is how things are supposed to go as a politician and demonstrate the ongoing capacity to obfuscate and twist things to your advantage so maybe that's a good thing

[benji]

[Nintex]

I dont know how to twitter can somebody post that tweet of Blinken, Austin and Sullivan react to Biden saying, "Vice President Trump."

It looks like this

[Nintex]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/12/opinion/biden-trump-electoral-map-outlook.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6k0.1oAF.Bim2AxMxyqwN


Because Trump dominates the sunbelt Biden only has a single path where he wins with a margin of 2 electoral college votes (268 vs 270) and that requires winning Wisconsin, Pensylvania and Michigan. 

If Trump manages to keep his hold over the sunbelt states, Trump only has to win 1 of those other states to win the election.

I wonder if this is why Democrats aren't eager to replace Biden on the ticket. They know the cards are stacked against them.

[Nintex]