I watched Biden today. He was on fire.🔥 Certainly boosted my spirits. Of course, much different venue/“moderators” and minus being attacked with rapid -fire ,bull @#$& lies. (Maybe why tSCOTUS didn’t ban bump stocks🤔)
I watched Biden today. He was on fire.🔥 Certainly boosted my spirits. Of course, much different venue/“moderators” and minus being attacked with rapid -fire ,bull @#$& lies. (Maybe why tSCOTUS didn’t ban bump stocks🤔)
My hope is that Biden realizes that appearances are important, and being prepared is no protection from a dam-break of BS from the greatest bullshitter of our time..... I suspect Biden was "over-prepared" - stuffed full of facts that he could not keep straight (like a student cramming for a test), so conscious of getting his agenda out that he lost the human qualities that make him Smokin' Joe..... Just don't make that bloody mistake again - the second debate will be much closer to the election and more people will be tuned in. Biden's "debate preparation team" should be sent to the Russian Front.....
It really was all about the optics. Nixon, with his 5 o'clock shadow and slightly sweaty sheen, looked shifty and thuggish. Kennedy looked handsome and "Presidential". Thus are our leaders elected....sigh.
Exactly. And what are the newsreaders going on and on about STILL? President Biden's "defiance" "on the ropes, trying to bounce back"...yada, yada, yad endless, senseless yadas. It's both nauseating and infuriating. If my stupid tv is still whole it's only because my shoulder hurts too much from trail clearing work, to throw anything at it.
Why can't the networks and other media-based professional critics criticize Trump for his ugly Gish gallop bullsh*t? Even his most outrageous lies haven't gotten much examination. Unlike the magnifying-glass parsing that Biden's performance has gotten.
Seymour Hersh, one of the best investigative journalists of the past 50 years, reports that Biden’s performance in the debate isn’t the worst problem, Biden’s befuddlement has been seen repeatedly in the White House over the past 6 months; there’s a full cover up in process.
on The Hill, Becket Adams wrote a year ago about repeated gaffes: “one can’t help but feel as if the news industry as a whole is avoiding the …question. Namely, ’Is Biden OK?’”
thing is, most of those sources either tilt right or are proudly so. so their opinions mean nothing. I like a thought experiment I dreamt up, which is "let's say Biden has NOT been running things and it's a bunch of advisors. are they doing it well?" it seems to me they have in. and that scenario isn't really that different in the best of times. presidents (unless they're completely dysfunctional and crazy, much like, say, TFF) don'r run things by themselves. they have cabinets and experts (how many experts there will be after this fucking Chevron decision is uhhh...) advising them who actually know about the shit they're talking about. an unrelated point is that those advisors and experts tend NOT to be criminals and morons.
Hersch has been "out to lunch" for the past 10 years. The Hill is a right wing magazine and anti-Biden. The National Review has had its head up its ass since Buckley founded it. If you're going to support "sources" like these, you might have come to the Wong Foo King Substack.
I watched Biden today. He was on fire.🔥 Certainly boosted my spirits. Of course, much different venue/“moderators” and minus being attacked with rapid -fire ,bull @#$& lies. (Maybe why tSCOTUS didn’t ban bump stocks🤔)
Here’s the link for others .It starts about 1:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDKIILMeZfk
Interesting Jay Kuo said today when he read the actual transcripts, Biden comes off sounding fine while Trump sounded unhinged.
Like the Kennedy-Nixon debate - radio lisateners thought Nixon won, TV viewers the opposite.
My hope is that Biden realizes that appearances are important, and being prepared is no protection from a dam-break of BS from the greatest bullshitter of our time..... I suspect Biden was "over-prepared" - stuffed full of facts that he could not keep straight (like a student cramming for a test), so conscious of getting his agenda out that he lost the human qualities that make him Smokin' Joe..... Just don't make that bloody mistake again - the second debate will be much closer to the election and more people will be tuned in. Biden's "debate preparation team" should be sent to the Russian Front.....
It really was all about the optics. Nixon, with his 5 o'clock shadow and slightly sweaty sheen, looked shifty and thuggish. Kennedy looked handsome and "Presidential". Thus are our leaders elected....sigh.
Exactly. And what are the newsreaders going on and on about STILL? President Biden's "defiance" "on the ropes, trying to bounce back"...yada, yada, yad endless, senseless yadas. It's both nauseating and infuriating. If my stupid tv is still whole it's only because my shoulder hurts too much from trail clearing work, to throw anything at it.
Why can't the networks and other media-based professional critics criticize Trump for his ugly Gish gallop bullsh*t? Even his most outrageous lies haven't gotten much examination. Unlike the magnifying-glass parsing that Biden's performance has gotten.
To relieve some of the despair from Thursday (a thin straw indeed), here is a URL from the printed transcript of the debate. Biden won hands down on content; the Orange Rind won on stage presence.....it's long - curl up with a cuppa Joe (see what I did there.....): https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/politics/read-biden-trump-debate-rush-transcript/index.html
Seth Abrams posted the transcript of Biden's side, along with his analysis, in his Substack, "Proof." highly recommended.
Seymour Hersh, one of the best investigative journalists of the past 50 years, reports that Biden’s performance in the debate isn’t the worst problem, Biden’s befuddlement has been seen repeatedly in the White House over the past 6 months; there’s a full cover up in process.
https://open.substack.com/pub/seymourhersh/p/who-is-running-the-country?r=dw1an&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
a search on the subject finds related articles.
on The Hill, Becket Adams wrote a year ago about repeated gaffes: “one can’t help but feel as if the news industry as a whole is avoiding the …question. Namely, ’Is Biden OK?’”
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4075227-we-need-a-serious-conversation-about-joe-bidens-brain/
Three weeks ago, Luther Ray Abel wrote in
the National Review of repeated instances: “…(there’s) evidence before one’s eyes that Biden is, at the very least, cognitively inconsistent…”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/bidens-befuddled-genius/
Michael Graham of InsideSources.com predicted Biden’s debate performance two days before the debate:
https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/commentary-bidens-debate-blunder-showing-up-at-all-3075136/
thing is, most of those sources either tilt right or are proudly so. so their opinions mean nothing. I like a thought experiment I dreamt up, which is "let's say Biden has NOT been running things and it's a bunch of advisors. are they doing it well?" it seems to me they have in. and that scenario isn't really that different in the best of times. presidents (unless they're completely dysfunctional and crazy, much like, say, TFF) don'r run things by themselves. they have cabinets and experts (how many experts there will be after this fucking Chevron decision is uhhh...) advising them who actually know about the shit they're talking about. an unrelated point is that those advisors and experts tend NOT to be criminals and morons.
Hersch has been "out to lunch" for the past 10 years. The Hill is a right wing magazine and anti-Biden. The National Review has had its head up its ass since Buckley founded it. If you're going to support "sources" like these, you might have come to the Wong Foo King Substack.