While I hate seeing the president of our country in such a terrible shape, I do love seeing the Dems have to lie in the bed they made. It couldn’t happen to more deserving people
Biden is senile, women are getting raped and murdered by illegals Democrats opened the borders for, global conflicts are escalating, inflation has made everyone 20% poorer
07-03-24: Since my upvote has been disabled (by the FBI directing the Substack minions), I'll say thank you, in person (maybe we should all have our upvotes disabled, if it encourages direct human contact, instead of the substitution of a sterile "click.")
Dems now moving to what in the Watergate episode the Nixon staff called the "modified limited hangout." Of course, for their supporters, logical consistency is unnecessary. The low end doesn't connect the dots and the high end is in it for the grift and doesn't care.
Having the Legume-in-Chief amble out last night with a spanking new Zoom-Tan, and acting like a petulant 7th grader trashing checks and balances (SCOTUS), just further divides the country. To his credit, he functions better with a TelePrompTer. The octane in his cocktail was certainly adjusted as well.
Even if Matt wasn't a good enough writer not to need it, he's a good enough reporter that we would never use your quote without citing it. He's right, it's a good one!
Legume is not the French word for "vegetable." Legumes are nitrogen-fixing plants in the Fabaceae family (or Leguminosae). Beans, peas, peanuts, alfalfa, clover and more.
Legumes, by the way, put Europe back on its feet in the century following the Black Death in the 14th century.
A plant with the root nodules that can "fix" nitrogen are legumes in English. Sad to have to show off my knowledge of French. Here are some translations from Reverso. And, no, legumes did not "put Europe back on its feet." I know you wanted to look smart and you should keep trying. Good luck with that.
"Experience our creations around the popular vegetable for the whole month.
Découvrez nos créations autour du légume populaire pendant tout le mois.
Both mature and immature rhizomes are consumed as a fresh vegetable.
Les deux rhizomes matures et immatures sont consommés comme légume frais."
You say that, but arent you the guy who confidently asserted that legume was not the French word for vegetable? (without even taking the 10 seconds needed to check the fact)
'Légume' is the generic french word for 'vegetable'. What you are referring to is a subcategory called 'légumineuse' in our oh so complicated lingo. Hope this helps.
Here we have this expression that'd be an equivalent for your very funny 'legume-in-chief' it is: 'sucrer les fraises' (lit.: 'add sugar to strawberries'). The usual next stage, death, inevitably puts you in a position to 'manger les pissenlits par la racine' (lit. 'eat dandelions from the root').
A few weeks ago, you were the scum of the Earth if you thought the Manhattan case was a Dem-activist dog 'n pony show. You were subverting the American justice system if you did. You were dangerous. And - - you probably were a racist. Just sayin'.
But if the highest court in the country says something that puts a dent in your lawfare strategy, you can call the court dangerous. Extreme. Dangerous.
Mark Weisman, Mary McCord and Bill Eison are the beating heart of every case against DJT. Weisman was apoplectic that SCOTUS reined in the DOJ and National Defense Agency to remind them work for the Executive Branch, not as a seperate branch of .gov. They have operated as a seperate branch of .gov sinc Bush Jr. FFS.
They likely have figured out, as well, that when they give him highly emotional talking points (predominantly the ones that evoke his ire or anger and allow him to raise his voice or even shout) that he is more articulate. My own mother's dementia had this feature: she could hardly speak, but was suddenly articulate briefly whenever she was mad at my father.
So, is this how the educated fight?, Disappointing, to say the least. I've followed this thread and saw it devolve into quasi french and geology lesson; all because someone either didn't get the joke or just wanted the attention shifted to their "superior" knowledge. Is it any wonder the country is divided? Ego is a bitch.
07/03/24: Just one thing was missing: He didn't come to the podium happily pedaling on his "You Answered All The Questions Tricycle!" (also missing: the ice cream cone).
Dem party primary voters were smart enough to not support Headboard Harris, but not smart enough to realize their party doesn't give a rip what they think or want.
Harris is an enigma to me. Not attractive, not smart, terrible personality, cringey speaking style, track record of failure, dopey spouse. The only explanation for her political ascension was that she's a savage in the sack and likely has Epstein level incriminating photos of people she can torpedo.
She and Biden share a legacy in that they're undistinguished people who became vice presidents because they were in the right place at the right time. In Biden's case, it was because Obama was looking for a mediocre back bench Dem senator who happened to be a decent looking, non-threatening, middle-aged to elderly white male who had no ideas of his own.
In Kamala's case, she was a nobody whose only talent involved being on her knees without knee pads but at least on a well carpeted floor.
Actually, Joe has to resign from the Presidency for that to happen. He can stay on as President while not on the ticket in November. The Democrats could use the money for a variety of candidates.
It's my understanding that a candidate's funds cannot be transferred to anyone else if he/she drops out. All money has to be returned to donors. Anyone know?
I think that the party can spend all of the money that was donated for Joe until he drops out. They can quickly pay money for all sorts of things before that point, such as pay six months to staff at once, buy ads for the next five months, pay rents for offices ....
Welcome to the 21st century. The Silicon Valley Synthetic Dream. We live in a permanent state of confusion and bewilderment. We have no idea if what we hear or read is true or false, if what we see is real or imaginary, if the food we eat is grown organically or made in a lab. Is it a surprise to see the two faces of Nancy?
Version #2 Welcome to 2024- Synthetic Nightmares. Living in a permanent state of confusion and bewilderment. We, the People, have no idea if what we hear or read is true or false, if what we see is real or imaginary, or if the food we are served is grown from the earth or made in a lab.
Haven’t done anything to me? I seem to recall a time where “people like me” were told we were the cause of the pandemic and would suffer and die if we didn’t get vaxxed. Joe Biden and his supporters call me a nazi, a domestic terrorist, and a threat to the republic every day. The agenda of the left has taken 20% of my purchasing power in just 3 years and doubled the cost of housing. They try to censor me online and keep me from seeing true things that are hurtful to their agenda. And you call me a bully?
Perhaps if you weren’t a nazi people wouldn’t call you that? All Trump supporters are just bullies who want to mistreat people. You hate everyone who disagrees with you or who advises you to be better than the lowlife brute you obviously are. You ARE a threat to everything good and decent and kind in the world. Until you and everyone like you changes or are kept permanently from anything like power, the world will never be safe.
I don’t want you harmed. I want you confronted with how twisted and scarred your soul has become and learn to be a better, kinder person. That’s the difference between us. You want me dead. I want you better.
"If you weren’t a nazi people wouldn’t call you that?" Seriously? That's your best argument? It's what you led with, so presumably your best. And you follow it up with this bit of projection?
> You hate everyone who disagrees with you or who advises you to be better than the lowlife brute you obviously are
Are you a nazi or not? If you advocate nazi policies, which all Republicans do, then you are a nazi. Taibbi’s fans are nazi-adjacent with their constant praising of dictators and attacks on the media for accurately reporting on the statements and policies of Republican politicians.
And you were never ‘with’ me. Your response was to complain that people called you names and that inflation has been bad. (Trump caused the inflation, by the way, and intends to increase it to Weimar-Republic-levels with his tariffs and ethnic cleansing plans.)
If everyone on this substack is, in your expert opinion, "nazi-adjacent", then why are you hear? Why don't you quietly fuck off back to your shrine to Rachel Maddow? Honestly, if you can't understand why spending eight years calling your neighbors genocidal nazis because they didn't want to elect Hilary Clinton eventually makes us dismissive of your antics, then I can't help you. Maybe prozac can.
You are so over the top I can't honestly tell if you are joking, or maybe being satirical with a wink? Seriously I grew up back-woods adjacent near some of the biggest religious wackos in the country, and your sanctimony is a match. Your neighbors have the right to a different opinion than yours. All Republicans are Nazis? Maybe it's you who needs to reflect on being better?
Karen (what a great name), through you I can see the great work that Biden has accomplished, bringing the country together again.
We've seen what your kind and your invincible leader have accomplished, foreign policy, the border, the economy, it's like a Kumbaya moment. We've seen what you've done with power. We can't unsee it.
Drop the sanctimonious bullshit. You're not the better, kinder person we all learn from. You just really enjoy insulting half the country and I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.
" You enjoy the misery of people who haven't done anything to you?"
I guess we're just a bunch of deplorables, clinging to our guns and religion and unaware that Democratic elites on the coasts really did care about us.
Can we now complain at school board meetings without the FBI treating us as domestic terrorists?
Actually I've heard Joe Biden wrote it, but after the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address. Sharp as a tack that guy, and so much energy!
But thank you, I'll take the kudos just the same!!
You have no answer for me. Donald Trump will be the absolute end of democracy and civilization. Since he's sold the shriveled horror that passes for his soul to the fossil fuel industry and will therefore reverse every bit of progress we've made toward ameliorating the ONLY issue that matters -- global warming -- he may be an extinction event for all of humanity and most life on Earth as well.
Project much? We've been living with four years of lawfare against political opponents, the censorship industrial complex, ballot harvesting, vaccine mandates - need I go on? So, how much worse could the "end of democracy" under Trump get, compared to what we have now?
Karen, I suspect you'd agree with me that Trump lies about everything. But somehow, when he says dumbass stuff like he wants to be a dictator, this is the one time he's telling the truth?
Trump is going to start a war with Iran because Netanyahu will tell him to. If that doesn’t result in WWIII it will ONLY be because Trump is a dictator-loving coward who will capitulate to Xi and Putin immediately.
He WILL kill as many Americans as he wants to because he hates most of us.
He was the only President in recent memory who did not get us involved in more wars. The hawks were trying to stir up Ukraine and Trump kept the US from getting involved, thus kept it from flaring up. He even tried talking to the North Koreans (granted, probably more out of ego than a sense of greater good).
Trump was more anti-war than our only Quaker President and Quakers are pacifists.
Alternatively, a much greater risk to our survival is the hot wars with both Russia and Iran that Biden has sleepwalked us to the brink of. The risk of nuclear war is orders of magnitude greater than the risk of a slight rise in global temperatures. Have you done any research on the subject outside of reading the NYT? You know much less than you think you do, and would be will served by setting aside your righteous certainty and giving the “deniers” a fair hearing on the merits.
There is not one single reputable climatologist who denies that carbon emissions are killing the planet. The ones you listen to are all whores for the fossil fuel industry.
So let's review. Carbon emissions have increased dramatically over the last ten years, but surface temperatures have not. As for "killing the planet," none of your "reputable climatologists" actually say that. Their "claim" is that carbon emissions are warming the planet, which is not the same thing at all. But you don't have to put your faith in any particular climatologist. Just look at the four large scale ice core studies done in different parts of the world. They show a long term downtrend in surface temperatures for the last 11,000 years or so (since the end of the last ice age). Long tern trends are more likely to continue than to reverse. But in this case, we may want to consider wanting the long term trend to have reversed, or at least to have taken a sideways pause, because the alternative - a resumption in the long term downtrend, actually might kill the planet.
People genuinely think global warming is a threat? After the goalpost shifts in predictions just in my lifetime it’s pretty clear it’s absolute bullshit.
Indeed, as explained by Greta Thunberg in June, 2018, a top climate scientist expects humanity to be wiped out if it doesn't stop using fossil fuels within 5 years. Oops!
Not even PV = nRT or the Second Law of Thermodynamics (which explains to everyone except John Kerry why chemical reactions, like battery charging, are inhibited when the temperature drops)?
Karen are you a man who couldn't get hired as a gas station attendant in Oregon? You're kinda giving off those desperation fumes. Oh, for future reference, no woman uses the word Whore in the way you do, so maybe work on the XX vocab.
Joe Biden is a war pig. 500,000 dead Ukrainians. They are now abducting old people and mentally incompetant men off the street and forcing them to fight. All so Joey and his corrupt pals can expand NATO and take more kickbacks from $LMT, $RTX, $JPM, $BLK et al.
Wrong again, it was the great family man, Joe Biden. Google "Tara Reade", and think back a couple years ago to when you were screaming "BELIEVE ALL WOMEN".
Half the country suffer. Hmmm... with blue cities, managed only by blue folks for the vast majority of their existence, who else could be blamed for the misery and irresponsible management there, and deteriorating human condition? Dems (and other uniparty cranks) overpromise and never deliver, then manipulate with spin, "experts" and the MSM.
These folks put so much effort into deception they have nothing left to offer Americans. Do yourself a favor ... stop being a patsy and SPINE UP!
I'm a feminist and a "radical" leftist and can't stand Democrats who call everyone else "Nazis." They even have a thing called "horseshoe theory" that they use to explain to themselves that anyone who disagrees with them is just a Republican - would be hilarious if it weren't an excuse for their hatred.
Every society has an aristocracy, even the Soviets did as does the Chinese Communist Party.
The problem w our aristocracy is that not only have they renounced noblesse oblige, they have obvious blatant contempt for their countries, their people, their culture etc, and prefer other international elites to their own citizens.
Prior aristocrats like Morgan, Carnegie, Rockefeller etc were embedded in their locales and built schools, libraries, parks, etc for their neighbors, but ours only look at their countrymen as cows to be milked or sheep to be herded (and cannon fodder, if nec.)
We need a new aristocracy of patriots, everywhere in the West.
You hit the nail on the head. The same can be said of almost all the "leaders" of EU states. Their loyalty is not to the countries over which they rule but the global elite to which they belong.
astute point - when the european aristocracy took that view (cannon fodder) into the 20th century they destroyed themselves and the world they knew. Our aristocracy is doing the same thing.
oh yeah, people keep talking about Weimar but our historical analogy seems to be more like 1914.
when politicians and journalists exist inside their own closed epistemic feedback loop and refuse to face (or even acknowledge) any consequences or dissenting opinions, it's only a matter of time before they lead us all off a cliff.
but I'm not sure that world war is up ahead, i'd vote for economic crash first.
Just a wild guess, but could it be that they are corrupt?, that they use their elected positions to enrich themselves? And maybe the voters that continue to re-elect them are not paying attention? And that the news media are not reporting on corruption because their jobs depend on not reporting in it?
People have been propagandized into having the same faith in "Democracy" and our "public servants" that a child has in Santa Claus.
Pulling on the string that reveals our Potemkin democracy to be a blatant klepotcracy would not only cause social strife, but be too psychologically destabilizing for the average American.
Thus turning a blind eye and/or brushing whatever peeks out back under the rug helps to keep the system functioning and people from having to think too much about what lies beneath.
Humankind cannot bear too much reality! (myself included)
Fuck the fucking campaign and fuck the Democrats and the Bidens now that their (admittedly thin) masks have been torn off to reveal a gang of greedy power-mad liars and parasites who tried to hide a senile puppet behind a media Praetorian Guard and prop him up so they could still live fat and happy inside Versailles till 2029.
If Biden has even one molecule of the dignity and decency we never stop hearing about, then this "dedicated public servant" (lol) needs to RESIGN asap, as he is physically and mentally unable to do the job he was elected for.
Fuck the DNC, fuck Kamala's poll numbers, fuck the MSM, and fuck Hunter and his lawyers (who must have hung some pretty hefty bills on him):
Either RESIGN now or be forever known as the Abe Simpson of American presidents.
"Dedicated public servant" indeed--as you point out, this has been one of the most vomit-inducing aspects of the Dem talk since the debate debacle. Joe Biden has been an opportunist and grifter his whole endless political career. He's never had a real job. I remember when Obama chose him for VP there was a lot of snickering--dumb Uncle Joe. He and Dr Jill will hold on with bloody fingernails.
Nope. Trump may exaggerate wildly but his policies were net good for America - until he let that swine Fauci and tyrant Birx shut us down. Huge mistake, but Biden is 100x worse on that and 1000x worse on everything else.
“Let’s get this out of the way upfront. Right now, I am straight up anti-partisan, not simply non-partisan. I am on Team “None of the Above” for 2024 and loathe ALL of the candidates.”
Well partner, it feels good proclaiming a pox on the houses of both parties, but someone is going to run the show in the meantime. But I get it, political narcissism of the sort you advocate does make one feel good about oneself. And that's the most important thing, I guess.
I'm not your partner and don't appreciate your condescending nonsense. Attitudes like this, that accept the status quo and say "well, someone's gonna run this thing" without giving a shit how corrupt they are, is the reason we are where we are. Thanks for that. For doing nothing but shitting on the people fighting for higher standards.
Accept the status quo? I'm not doing that at all, I'm voting for Trump. He is the opponent of the status quo. We know this because of the great lengths said status quo is going to in order to bring him down.
But I'm guessing you disagree with that. Fine. Ok, partner, what's your solution/ who are you backing? What are these "higher standards" to which you refer? Because if you don't have a firm plan, you are, as I said, just a political narcissist who is chiefly concerned with adoring that person gazing back at you in the mirror.
OK I guess. But in choosing not to decide, you still have made a choice. Not voting for either of the top two contenders effectively aids the incumbent and hurts the challenger.
That was purposeful. Just seeing if you were paying attention. Otherwise agree. My personal exercise of free will is to vote for the lesser evil, and pray that your non-vote does not end up with a second Biden term. And since when is lesser evil logic a bad thing?
Damn right!!! I feel I have a unique and special opportunity with all who been in my ear my entire adult life to ask if they’re ready to offer me more lecturing. From professors, to lame bosses, to fair weather “friends”, girlfriends and family members. I’ve always viewed our federal pimps and weak ass, spineless bitch boy presidents as thieving lying bastards… BECAUSE they are!
I’m no angel. I’ve totally lied to people. And even screwed people over on deals and such. And I’ve certainly died a coward’s death one too many to count…. But those ways and actions didn’t destroy millions of peoples lives, and certainly not willfully. Then ya hear the whole “we can’t handle truth” hardline about tough decisions. There we go again, talked down to like I’m a fuckin child. Maybe try that on us when you’re not taking all the wealth from us. If they can’t play us straight why honor any of it?
I used to “get schooled” on how wreckless and immature and uneducated I was being to not vote for presidents. How I’m shitting on all the named and unnamed hero’s that fought and gave their lives for my right to vote. What a way to shame a family member and friend.
at this point, approaching 40 in days, I pat myself on the back for having conviction and agency in all past elections and solidifying that now 1000 fold for the rest of my blessed days. It’s almost entirely rigged and has NEVER served or been about “we the people”, since I started questioning the pledge of allegiance in grade school, and quite arguably before that. I’m not saying I hate America, I don’t. but I am saying to hell with all the people who’ve bastardized it to this day. And there’s plenty of them…. I cant wait to not vote. I’m so excited I get to not give a shit and feel SUPER GREAT about it. YaY for me and anyone with the same mindset. Live your life, pray for hope, treat the people you meet with humbling dignity, and simply ignore the turds in suits asking for your vote. They’re useless, desperate, despicable and totally undeserving of our attention and support. I don’t anticipate that changing anytime soon. Just my too sense.
Yet some are worse choices than others. I'm glad Al Gore never became President. But there were some Florida voters to my left that may not have voted, and, realized too late that their vote may have mattered when Florida was decided by 537 votes. But as long as you're good with either man winning, no one can persuade you to vote.
Just doing my best to persuade with logic. I know that NJ is highly likely to vote for the Dem nominee in high enough percentages such that it would appear that voting for anyone else is fruitless. The same was thought in Florida in 2000. The same was thought in North Carolina and Florida and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in 2016. If logic isn't enough, I thought, wrongly, that an appeal to emotion (a logical fallacy) might work - the emotion being the fear of feeling absolutely sick to your stomach after refusing to vote, and only finding out after the fact that your vote could have prevented the greater of two evils from obtaining the highest office in the land. But apparently there are a number of political gadflies (defined as those who are critics of all candidates, but don't seem to have better offer to make - I prefer the term gadfly to narcissist) among the group in this thread, so, you're right about not being able to reason with a political gadfly.
Well said, sir. He's been a criminal, and a Republican Light, for EVER. LIAR. OBFUSCATOR. How did he ever get the "likeable guy" label? The more I discover about his past, the more nauseated I become. And I hate myself after falling for St. Obama. Jeezuz. This guy has become The Godfather. Straight up Gangsta, as Cornell West has stated. I'm ashamed of how deep in corruption we've been suckered into, and, please: BOTH PARTIES ARE TO BLAME.
It seems like only the day before yesterday she was telling us that ACTUALLY TRUMP IS THE ONE WITH DEMENTIA.
From the outside, this looks like an actual fight on the left about who the nominee should be. I think the part that the "Ridin' with Biden" folks aren't considering is that this guy obviously can't perform the actual task of being president. Throwing him out there for another four months and hoping for the best is simply suicide at this point.
You are correct!!!! If we “need” them they too should be term limited. It should not be life-time job security with unlimited vacation, paid sick days & numerous holidays. Just visit your local DMV to get a glimpse at the quality of govt employees.
Great solution that, sad to say, was struck down by the Supreme Court when states attempted to impose that on their own Senators and House members. The SC made it clear that in order to have term limits, we have to have a Constitutional Amendment to make it happen. Congress is never going to call for a Convention on that issue; hence, the current advocacy for a Convention of the States to make it happen. But that is controversial, even among friends.
i dont think term limits solves it. you need a government that is restrained like first created and intended. the one we have is too powerful which makes it very attractive for psychopaths and sociopaths. a psychopath has no greater achievement in life then to be part of this government. so we end up with govt of by and for the worst humanity has to offer.
term limits......there are always more psychos to fill in, and secondly how quickly will power mongers just undo it after they are in? I can appreciate people looking for a way to salvage this thing, but i'm not sure there is. if you read the writings of some of the founders, they accepted that disbanding and overthrowing government from time to time is just a normal function of the human ecology.
Yes, term limits. I believe the founders thought of public service more like we do of jury duty. Serve your time then get back to your home and business- you were never intended to permanently camp out and enrich yourself- at least ideally.
Or even better, though quite the dream I admit, somehow undo the mantra of "there's a problem, and it's government's responsibility to fix it". The expansion we allowed to happen in the early "progressive" era, followed by the New Deal and cemented with the Great Society, grossly warped our expectations and willingness to cede our power and wealth to the Leviathan.
How the hell we ever undo that I can't say but anyone acknowledging the need and taking steps in that direction has my vote. And the rumblings I hear in the Trump camp, though he disavows Project 2025, of slashing government agencies and employees, those are a good start.
The same unelected bureaucrats will run the country no matter who is installed as President. I think the DNC insiders and corporate lobbyists are trying to figure out which has worse optics, keeping a dementia patient as the candidate, who was at least ostensibly chosen by the people at some point, or openly letting superdelegates choose the next candidate at the convention. The one positive is that the optics are so bad either way that it might jostle some normies awake.
Agreed. And what is going on now is that they are just running the numbers. What is "the number" they need everywhere to win with whomever is their candidate.
The strategy of getting America's convicted felon Hitler to be the Republican nominee has not gone as planned. They are now just gaming out how to meet the ballot quotas.
Here in Illinois, the first day you can request an absentee ballot is the last week of August, I believe. Absentee ballots in Illinois will be counted up to 14 days after the polls close on Election Day. See?
Get the popcorn ready for the big fight between down ticket Dem candidates, sitting Dem Senators and House members vs. the Dem Presidential campaign and administration folks. It's going to be bloody.
If you're a Democrat and mostly a party line voter, aren't you embarrassed? Your party, its leaders and the press keep humiliating you. Are you tired of being treated like a pinata at a quincenera yet, or do you have another 8 rounds left in you to be put to shame.
That part of the family divorced decades ago. There has been no connection since the 90s. No way they pick another white guy to leapfrog over a black female VP IMO - not the party of DEI and intersectional imperialism
this is the same woman who defended feinstein's vitality until the day she died, while pelosi's daughter pushed her around congress in a wheelchair. she is all for elder abuse if it. aids her political goals.
Clearly this has been going on for sometime. There are times Biden is serviceable, and there are times his clearly having some kind of neurological deterioration. It’s no “cheap fake”. Whatever it is it’s degenerative. It’s insane to me that the Party hasn’t replaced him. It amazes me how far they have fallen and how dysfunctional they have become. The republicans aren’t some shining example of a well run machine at all, but the Dems think they can run a man who appears to have bouts of dementia and they expected the media to cover for them. And they seem more than accommodating. But for that debate they’d still be yelling “disinformation” and “cheap fake”. Thankfully they can’t just cover it up anymore.
It’s not “bouts.” It’s a progressive degenerative disease that he’s had for many years. One that his family, staff, party insiders and most of all, the media have kept going all this time.
You're right, but it looks like bouts because he becomes "relatively more" articulate when he is emotionally charged when speaking (most often when he's using a stern or angry loud voice). It is a common occurence in dementia patients. In the debate, during the bland policy discussions, he had no basis to get angry, and so we got the inarticulate "doll faced" Biden.
Yes, you make a good point. Could also be due to stimulant drugs. Angry outbursts another feature of advancing dementia, a prime example being the State of the Union address (and the "helpful" teleprompter plus lots of practice). Whatever it is, this man is in no shape to be our current or future President.
Zeints is WHCOS. He is worth 100’s of millions and was the Covid Czar. His wife, Mary Menell is from the Billionaire dynasty in SA—they’re connected to many other global billionaires. The WHCOS controls the access to the president, his cabinet, and the White House. So many non-elected, but with some control.
I know from having lived in SF for a long time. They tried to get my father to run in the 60s when the leading candidate had a heart attack. He turned them down because he had pledged to support another candidate. They backed Joe Alioto who went on to serve two terms before George Moscone won, only to be shot while in office and replaced by DiFi.
Interesting article, especially revealing is the open graft involving Willie Brown. I guess he wasn't just happy boinking Kamala or SF or California, so he upped his game and blinked the entire nation with her.
I couldn't stop laughing at people saying she is so smart--really???
Here’s an idea…. How about all these politicians and media “folk” ( because they sure as shit are not journalists) just cry a collective “ Uncle.” You are all busted for lying to us about something really quite critical, the POTUS’ mental acuity. And you’ve been lying for five years. Did you ever question Biden’s move to the basement? How did that make sense? Oh because of COVID? Well, there’s another can of lying worms you fed us. And now what? How about the Truth? It’s going to be ugly but let’s give it a try. We deserve it and I quite frankly am so gd sick of this hyperbolic soap opera of non stop lying. It’s insulting! And that’s directed to you Pelosi!! Go Home!!
While I hate seeing the president of our country in such a terrible shape, I do love seeing the Dems have to lie in the bed they made. It couldn’t happen to more deserving people
Last week: THE GOP IS LYING ABOUT PRESIDENT BIDEN!
This week: PRESIDENT BIDEN MUST BE REPLACED -- BUT THE GOP IS STILL LYING.
Excellent!
CHEAP FAKES!!!! Lol
MSM LAST WEEK: "The GOP is lying about President Biden."
MSM THIS WEEK: "We were lying about Biden. So f&cking what? Up yours, fascists!"
Or racists! As Tucker Carlson points out
The more the merrier!
lol, LIKE
Biden is senile, women are getting raped and murdered by illegals Democrats opened the borders for, global conflicts are escalating, inflation has made everyone 20% poorer
MSM: Republicans pounce!
I’m so glad you also read Taibbi ☺️
me too
07-03-24: Since my upvote has been disabled (by the FBI directing the Substack minions), I'll say thank you, in person (maybe we should all have our upvotes disabled, if it encourages direct human contact, instead of the substitution of a sterile "click.")
Dems now moving to what in the Watergate episode the Nixon staff called the "modified limited hangout." Of course, for their supporters, logical consistency is unnecessary. The low end doesn't connect the dots and the high end is in it for the grift and doesn't care.
Spot on, comrade!
I thought they were being raped by their in-laws ?
Having the Legume-in-Chief amble out last night with a spanking new Zoom-Tan, and acting like a petulant 7th grader trashing checks and balances (SCOTUS), just further divides the country. To his credit, he functions better with a TelePrompTer. The octane in his cocktail was certainly adjusted as well.
Legume-in-chief is solid. Did you come up with that?
yessir. feel free to use it! :)
Even if Matt wasn't a good enough writer not to need it, he's a good enough reporter that we would never use your quote without citing it. He's right, it's a good one!
Yes!
Legume is the French word for vegetable. The broccoli in my fridge is going to outlast Joe.
Legume is not the French word for "vegetable." Legumes are nitrogen-fixing plants in the Fabaceae family (or Leguminosae). Beans, peas, peanuts, alfalfa, clover and more.
Legumes, by the way, put Europe back on its feet in the century following the Black Death in the 14th century.
A plant with the root nodules that can "fix" nitrogen are legumes in English. Sad to have to show off my knowledge of French. Here are some translations from Reverso. And, no, legumes did not "put Europe back on its feet." I know you wanted to look smart and you should keep trying. Good luck with that.
"Experience our creations around the popular vegetable for the whole month.
Découvrez nos créations autour du légume populaire pendant tout le mois.
Both mature and immature rhizomes are consumed as a fresh vegetable.
Les deux rhizomes matures et immatures sont consommés comme légume frais."
Sacre bleu!!
https://g.co/kgs/bEkyStt
In Quebec French, legume means vegetable, although people also know that beans, etc. are legumes in a more biological sense.
D'accord et merci! J'apprends la langue francaise dans Duo. Le mot legumes est toujours pour "vegetables" avec Duo. Sorry for my bad French. I try.
Can the current cauliflower put the US back on its feet?
Any combination of three brassicas will be needed for the U.S. to get back on its feet.
This works!
"légumes" Is French for "Vegetables" (no big deal): https://www.google.com/search?q=french+for+vegtables&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS944US944&oq=french+for+vegtables&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i13i512l2j0i10i22i30j0i8i13i30l6.4200j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
You say that, but arent you the guy who confidently asserted that legume was not the French word for vegetable? (without even taking the 10 seconds needed to check the fact)
'Légume' is the generic french word for 'vegetable'. What you are referring to is a subcategory called 'légumineuse' in our oh so complicated lingo. Hope this helps.
Try Diderot. Definition one makes clear that legume covers all vegetables; the discussion expands from there. How a word is used varies according to community. Uninformed pedantry, I can confirm from personal experience, is rarely my best move. https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=m0_y1Ap-LNoC&pg=PA772&dq=l%C3%A9gume+diderot&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwib8NHPgoqHAxU8h1YBHUMkAuEQ6AF6BAgFEAI#v=onepage&q=l%C3%A9gume%20diderot&f=false
Most modern French dictionaries rely on definition one, so Duo works fine in this case.
Uninformed pedantry sounds like feldspar's entire oeuvre. Which is not the French word for egg, moonstone.
That’s like me calling you mica.
Moonstone. A simple "OK, moonstone" is often an appropriate and entirely sufficient reply to anything he posts.
Rockin!
The mummies in Egypt are going to outlast The American White House Cadaver.
Here we have this expression that'd be an equivalent for your very funny 'legume-in-chief' it is: 'sucrer les fraises' (lit.: 'add sugar to strawberries'). The usual next stage, death, inevitably puts you in a position to 'manger les pissenlits par la racine' (lit. 'eat dandelions from the root').
I’ve seen others on Substack,
For example,
Non-Bidenary
I saw someone on X say "Meander in Chief," and it made me chuckle.
Sundowner in chief is my version.
😂😂
That is brilliant, non-Bidenary!
LOTUS
Love it!
😂
Joe and Jill: Two fleas in a pod.
Lettuce?
Humpty?
Perhaps Kommadant is more appropriate, in a "Death of Stalin' movie sort of sense?
As to not offend, perhaps one should use Gemüse (Geh-moos-eh)? 😆
A few weeks ago, you were the scum of the Earth if you thought the Manhattan case was a Dem-activist dog 'n pony show. You were subverting the American justice system if you did. You were dangerous. And - - you probably were a racist. Just sayin'.
But if the highest court in the country says something that puts a dent in your lawfare strategy, you can call the court dangerous. Extreme. Dangerous.
And no one will call you a racist.
Mark Weisman, Mary McCord and Bill Eison are the beating heart of every case against DJT. Weisman was apoplectic that SCOTUS reined in the DOJ and National Defense Agency to remind them work for the Executive Branch, not as a seperate branch of .gov. They have operated as a seperate branch of .gov sinc Bush Jr. FFS.
I know of McCord. Not the others. She's a super-swamper. Best of Breed.
They likely have figured out, as well, that when they give him highly emotional talking points (predominantly the ones that evoke his ire or anger and allow him to raise his voice or even shout) that he is more articulate. My own mother's dementia had this feature: she could hardly speak, but was suddenly articulate briefly whenever she was mad at my father.
"Maybe it's Trump's $5 spray tan that makes him popular!"
A $5 spray tan is pretty benign compared to a president who showers with his daughter.
Does the spray tan rub...I mean...wash off?
Sure, but the survivor's guilt never does....
You know it's bad when they both start looking like each other.
That’s it, “ Trump Tanner.” 😝😝😝
😂😂😂🤘🏼
I think it's just a little added sugar in the lime Jell-o and a half tablet of Ivermectin. To help with the brain worms.
And you just wonder what is in that cocktail, don't you!
🤣🤣🤣 🥗🥔🥦🥬🧅🧄🌽🥕🥒😁🤪
His people blamed the makeup person for making him too pale. Probably should have used a second can.
They inserted an electrode up his anus so they can zap him every time he meanders from the script.
So, is this how the educated fight?, Disappointing, to say the least. I've followed this thread and saw it devolve into quasi french and geology lesson; all because someone either didn't get the joke or just wanted the attention shifted to their "superior" knowledge. Is it any wonder the country is divided? Ego is a bitch.
07/03/24: Just one thing was missing: He didn't come to the podium happily pedaling on his "You Answered All The Questions Tricycle!" (also missing: the ice cream cone).
Better living through chemistry clearly. The real story of what they are pumping him with will be a fascinating read.
Dem party primary voters were smart enough to not support Headboard Harris, but not smart enough to realize their party doesn't give a rip what they think or want.
I’ve heard “Heels-Up Harris”, but “Headboard Harris” is new to me and made me laugh out loud.
Harris is an enigma to me. Not attractive, not smart, terrible personality, cringey speaking style, track record of failure, dopey spouse. The only explanation for her political ascension was that she's a savage in the sack and likely has Epstein level incriminating photos of people she can torpedo.
She and Biden share a legacy in that they're undistinguished people who became vice presidents because they were in the right place at the right time. In Biden's case, it was because Obama was looking for a mediocre back bench Dem senator who happened to be a decent looking, non-threatening, middle-aged to elderly white male who had no ideas of his own.
In Kamala's case, she was a nobody whose only talent involved being on her knees without knee pads but at least on a well carpeted floor.
~They're both clean and articulate?~
Both Kamala's knees?
I am similarly mystified, having noted all the same things. Including the Epstein-level incriminating evidence.
Seriously, Harris is border line retarded.
Apparently if Joe drops out, the campaign fund booty goes to Kamala. Really.
Actually, Joe has to resign from the Presidency for that to happen. He can stay on as President while not on the ticket in November. The Democrats could use the money for a variety of candidates.
Thanks.
It's my understanding that a candidate's funds cannot be transferred to anyone else if he/she drops out. All money has to be returned to donors. Anyone know?
I think Harris is the only one who can have it as she's his VP. Open to correction though.
Ok, found this link - Harris because it's a joint campaign account.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-campaign-money-kamala-harris-rcna159850
Yep.
I think that the party can spend all of the money that was donated for Joe until he drops out. They can quickly pay money for all sorts of things before that point, such as pay six months to staff at once, buy ads for the next five months, pay rents for offices ....
If a topic exists that is of less interest to me than the fate of his warchest…I cannot imagine what it could be.
Welcome to the 21st century. The Silicon Valley Synthetic Dream. We live in a permanent state of confusion and bewilderment. We have no idea if what we hear or read is true or false, if what we see is real or imaginary, if the food we eat is grown organically or made in a lab. Is it a surprise to see the two faces of Nancy?
Version #2 Welcome to 2024- Synthetic Nightmares. Living in a permanent state of confusion and bewilderment. We, the People, have no idea if what we hear or read is true or false, if what we see is real or imaginary, or if the food we are served is grown from the earth or made in a lab.
Spot on comment!
lie down with dogs .. get up with fleas
Biden is the most deserving of all.
Amen to that.
We are lying in the bed they made.
We are lying in that bed in the same sense that Paul Sheldon was lying in his bed in "Misery"
Haven’t done anything to me? I seem to recall a time where “people like me” were told we were the cause of the pandemic and would suffer and die if we didn’t get vaxxed. Joe Biden and his supporters call me a nazi, a domestic terrorist, and a threat to the republic every day. The agenda of the left has taken 20% of my purchasing power in just 3 years and doubled the cost of housing. They try to censor me online and keep me from seeing true things that are hurtful to their agenda. And you call me a bully?
And no, you can’t speak to my manager.
Damn! That manager line is rich!
That last line did it! I'm laughing like a madman.
Nicely done
Perhaps if you weren’t a nazi people wouldn’t call you that? All Trump supporters are just bullies who want to mistreat people. You hate everyone who disagrees with you or who advises you to be better than the lowlife brute you obviously are. You ARE a threat to everything good and decent and kind in the world. Until you and everyone like you changes or are kept permanently from anything like power, the world will never be safe.
I don’t want you harmed. I want you confronted with how twisted and scarred your soul has become and learn to be a better, kinder person. That’s the difference between us. You want me dead. I want you better.
Losing your job at Hooters has really pissed you off
"If you weren’t a nazi people wouldn’t call you that?" Seriously? That's your best argument? It's what you led with, so presumably your best. And you follow it up with this bit of projection?
> You hate everyone who disagrees with you or who advises you to be better than the lowlife brute you obviously are
I was with you until this little screed.
Are you a nazi or not? If you advocate nazi policies, which all Republicans do, then you are a nazi. Taibbi’s fans are nazi-adjacent with their constant praising of dictators and attacks on the media for accurately reporting on the statements and policies of Republican politicians.
And you were never ‘with’ me. Your response was to complain that people called you names and that inflation has been bad. (Trump caused the inflation, by the way, and intends to increase it to Weimar-Republic-levels with his tariffs and ethnic cleansing plans.)
If everyone on this substack is, in your expert opinion, "nazi-adjacent", then why are you hear? Why don't you quietly fuck off back to your shrine to Rachel Maddow? Honestly, if you can't understand why spending eight years calling your neighbors genocidal nazis because they didn't want to elect Hilary Clinton eventually makes us dismissive of your antics, then I can't help you. Maybe prozac can.
You are so over the top I can't honestly tell if you are joking, or maybe being satirical with a wink? Seriously I grew up back-woods adjacent near some of the biggest religious wackos in the country, and your sanctimony is a match. Your neighbors have the right to a different opinion than yours. All Republicans are Nazis? Maybe it's you who needs to reflect on being better?
Karen (what a great name), through you I can see the great work that Biden has accomplished, bringing the country together again.
We've seen what your kind and your invincible leader have accomplished, foreign policy, the border, the economy, it's like a Kumbaya moment. We've seen what you've done with power. We can't unsee it.
Drop the sanctimonious bullshit. You're not the better, kinder person we all learn from. You just really enjoy insulting half the country and I wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.
Stay safe.
Man up, motherfucker.
" You enjoy the misery of people who haven't done anything to you?"
I guess we're just a bunch of deplorables, clinging to our guns and religion and unaware that Democratic elites on the coasts really did care about us.
Can we now complain at school board meetings without the FBI treating us as domestic terrorists?
I wish I'd written that.
Actually I've heard Joe Biden wrote it, but after the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address. Sharp as a tack that guy, and so much energy!
But thank you, I'll take the kudos just the same!!
The name is too perfect to be real.
It's a bot. I would bet on it.
You have no answer for me. Donald Trump will be the absolute end of democracy and civilization. Since he's sold the shriveled horror that passes for his soul to the fossil fuel industry and will therefore reverse every bit of progress we've made toward ameliorating the ONLY issue that matters -- global warming -- he may be an extinction event for all of humanity and most life on Earth as well.
Yes just like last time he was President. I remember it well. We all died and now we're all going to die again!
God help us all if he starts pulling us out of forever wars. What will our retired generals do when their armament stocks get pruned?
Trump has absolutely NO intention of getting us out of any wars except possibly ones against his dictator friends.
Trump will rule as the fascist he always was and you will cheer him like the bully lickspittles all of you are.
Thank you for this post.
He says he wants to be a dictator on day one. Yeah, I know you all say that’s a joke, but it’s the same kind as making a bomb joke in an airport.
Project much? We've been living with four years of lawfare against political opponents, the censorship industrial complex, ballot harvesting, vaccine mandates - need I go on? So, how much worse could the "end of democracy" under Trump get, compared to what we have now?
This is truly clever.
"Karen."
Does anyone else see the humor?
Satire?
Karen, I suspect you'd agree with me that Trump lies about everything. But somehow, when he says dumbass stuff like he wants to be a dictator, this is the one time he's telling the truth?
The TSA seems to only be capable of detecting humor, not bombs.
Trump is going to start a war with Iran because Netanyahu will tell him to. If that doesn’t result in WWIII it will ONLY be because Trump is a dictator-loving coward who will capitulate to Xi and Putin immediately.
He WILL kill as many Americans as he wants to because he hates most of us.
He was the only President in recent memory who did not get us involved in more wars. The hawks were trying to stir up Ukraine and Trump kept the US from getting involved, thus kept it from flaring up. He even tried talking to the North Koreans (granted, probably more out of ego than a sense of greater good).
Trump was more anti-war than our only Quaker President and Quakers are pacifists.
Trump is a dictator? What rights did you lose under this "dictator?"
Insane. He started no new wars when he was in office.
Well if civilization is ending I don't know what good democracy is gonna be
God that's good
Alternatively, a much greater risk to our survival is the hot wars with both Russia and Iran that Biden has sleepwalked us to the brink of. The risk of nuclear war is orders of magnitude greater than the risk of a slight rise in global temperatures. Have you done any research on the subject outside of reading the NYT? You know much less than you think you do, and would be will served by setting aside your righteous certainty and giving the “deniers” a fair hearing on the merits.
Had an ex like that; she figured she knew everything that she needed to know by the time she turned 18. It was incredible!
There is not one single reputable climatologist who denies that carbon emissions are killing the planet. The ones you listen to are all whores for the fossil fuel industry.
Whores you say. Are they any different than the scientific Whores who get their money from their pimps in government, to push certain narratives
No reputable climate scientist would say "killing the planet."
Also, "whores for the fossil fuel industry" seems offensive to sex workers.
So let's review. Carbon emissions have increased dramatically over the last ten years, but surface temperatures have not. As for "killing the planet," none of your "reputable climatologists" actually say that. Their "claim" is that carbon emissions are warming the planet, which is not the same thing at all. But you don't have to put your faith in any particular climatologist. Just look at the four large scale ice core studies done in different parts of the world. They show a long term downtrend in surface temperatures for the last 11,000 years or so (since the end of the last ice age). Long tern trends are more likely to continue than to reverse. But in this case, we may want to consider wanting the long term trend to have reversed, or at least to have taken a sideways pause, because the alternative - a resumption in the long term downtrend, actually might kill the planet.
🙄🙄🙄🙄
Any harder an eye roll and I damage my brain
Like you did
People genuinely think global warming is a threat? After the goalpost shifts in predictions just in my lifetime it’s pretty clear it’s absolute bullshit.
" Donald Trump will be the absolute end of democracy and civilization"
Imagine that, no more censorship ("where did COVID come from?" can finally be asked, and answered).
No more compelled speech so a bearded dude in a dress can be called "Mr/Sir" again.
People will complain at school board meetings without getting referred to the FBI as domestic terrorists.
Any student of history will call that pure fascism... better to be eaten by cannibals, like Joe's uncle.
This comment is completely incoherent. Do you want a government or Somalia?
There's this guy named Matt Taibbi. I hear he's a great journalist and may have some answers for you.
Comedy gold. Thanks, Karen!
"the ONLY issue that matters -- global warming "
Indeed, as explained by Greta Thunberg in June, 2018, a top climate scientist expects humanity to be wiped out if it doesn't stop using fossil fuels within 5 years. Oops!
https://americasbestpics.com/picture/greta-thunberg-a-top-climate-scientist-is-warning-that-climate-hzfkTzkbA
Seriously,
https://judithcurry.com/about/
https://www.hoover.org/profiles/steven-koonin
(expect the same media treatment for them as for Biden's, err, "condition")
Those sites are all fossil fuel whores; they have nothing worth reading.
Not even PV = nRT or the Second Law of Thermodynamics (which explains to everyone except John Kerry why chemical reactions, like battery charging, are inhibited when the temperature drops)?
Karen are you a man who couldn't get hired as a gas station attendant in Oregon? You're kinda giving off those desperation fumes. Oh, for future reference, no woman uses the word Whore in the way you do, so maybe work on the XX vocab.
You really are just a mindless idiot.
You need therapy
At this point, the entire Dem party needs therapy. I'm not kidding, they are at peak hysteria, as our dear Karen is displaying for our amusement.
Seriously see a mental health person.
Joe Biden is a war pig. 500,000 dead Ukrainians. They are now abducting old people and mentally incompetant men off the street and forcing them to fight. All so Joey and his corrupt pals can expand NATO and take more kickbacks from $LMT, $RTX, $JPM, $BLK et al.
Russia is killing Ukrainians and Trump is Putin’s bitch so a lot more Ukrainians will die under Trump.
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That is your answer
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Uhm let’s see, which person put his finger up a staffers p***y and laughs it off?
Trump? The guy who bragged about it and owes $90 million to the woman who won a jury verdict based on it?
Wrong again, it was the great family man, Joe Biden. Google "Tara Reade", and think back a couple years ago to when you were screaming "BELIEVE ALL WOMEN".
Half the country suffer. Hmmm... with blue cities, managed only by blue folks for the vast majority of their existence, who else could be blamed for the misery and irresponsible management there, and deteriorating human condition? Dems (and other uniparty cranks) overpromise and never deliver, then manipulate with spin, "experts" and the MSM.
These folks put so much effort into deception they have nothing left to offer Americans. Do yourself a favor ... stop being a patsy and SPINE UP!
What i hate most about Democrats is all they do to make people suffer.
That's rich--a feminist/leftist calling someone else "a bully."
I'm a feminist and a "radical" leftist and can't stand Democrats who call everyone else "Nazis." They even have a thing called "horseshoe theory" that they use to explain to themselves that anyone who disagrees with them is just a Republican - would be hilarious if it weren't an excuse for their hatred.
Karen is perfectly named
As my Mom used to say, "Oh, go soak your head!"
Say what? Bullies? What?
Can we get a real government that bans insider trading among officials?
thank you!
and a real press that reports on official corruption?
why and how are the Pelosis, Clintons, Schumers etc centimillionaires!?
For real - America wasn’t supposed to have an aristocracy.
Every society has an aristocracy, even the Soviets did as does the Chinese Communist Party.
The problem w our aristocracy is that not only have they renounced noblesse oblige, they have obvious blatant contempt for their countries, their people, their culture etc, and prefer other international elites to their own citizens.
Prior aristocrats like Morgan, Carnegie, Rockefeller etc were embedded in their locales and built schools, libraries, parks, etc for their neighbors, but ours only look at their countrymen as cows to be milked or sheep to be herded (and cannon fodder, if nec.)
We need a new aristocracy of patriots, everywhere in the West.
You hit the nail on the head. The same can be said of almost all the "leaders" of EU states. Their loyalty is not to the countries over which they rule but the global elite to which they belong.
astute point - when the european aristocracy took that view (cannon fodder) into the 20th century they destroyed themselves and the world they knew. Our aristocracy is doing the same thing.
oh yeah, people keep talking about Weimar but our historical analogy seems to be more like 1914.
when politicians and journalists exist inside their own closed epistemic feedback loop and refuse to face (or even acknowledge) any consequences or dissenting opinions, it's only a matter of time before they lead us all off a cliff.
but I'm not sure that world war is up ahead, i'd vote for economic crash first.
History is waking up!
I was thinking about that last night.
Dunno ukraine seems like a slow motion sarajevo to me.
also war is usually a distraction from an economic crash.
And cannon fodder is ALWAYS necessary!
Bastille Day is creeping up on us.
you mean "Let them eat cake" day
Then what was the Gilded Age about?
Just a wild guess, but could it be that they are corrupt?, that they use their elected positions to enrich themselves? And maybe the voters that continue to re-elect them are not paying attention? And that the news media are not reporting on corruption because their jobs depend on not reporting in it?
People have been propagandized into having the same faith in "Democracy" and our "public servants" that a child has in Santa Claus.
Pulling on the string that reveals our Potemkin democracy to be a blatant klepotcracy would not only cause social strife, but be too psychologically destabilizing for the average American.
Thus turning a blind eye and/or brushing whatever peeks out back under the rug helps to keep the system functioning and people from having to think too much about what lies beneath.
Humankind cannot bear too much reality! (myself included)
Insider trading is a feature, not a bug. So unfortunately no.
Wouldn’t that be a change of pace!?
My god that’s one of the worst offenses. Letting lawmakers trade in the stock market is criminal.
Yes! Is that too much to ask????
Then how is "90-proof Nancy" going to make money?
Maybe we can find 51 medical experts to say Biden's problems are all MAGA medical disinformation.
Their medical experts are probably the 1 in 10 dentists that supposedly think brushing doesn't help your teeth
Fuck the fucking campaign and fuck the Democrats and the Bidens now that their (admittedly thin) masks have been torn off to reveal a gang of greedy power-mad liars and parasites who tried to hide a senile puppet behind a media Praetorian Guard and prop him up so they could still live fat and happy inside Versailles till 2029.
If Biden has even one molecule of the dignity and decency we never stop hearing about, then this "dedicated public servant" (lol) needs to RESIGN asap, as he is physically and mentally unable to do the job he was elected for.
Fuck the DNC, fuck Kamala's poll numbers, fuck the MSM, and fuck Hunter and his lawyers (who must have hung some pretty hefty bills on him):
Either RESIGN now or be forever known as the Abe Simpson of American presidents.
"Dedicated public servant" indeed--as you point out, this has been one of the most vomit-inducing aspects of the Dem talk since the debate debacle. Joe Biden has been an opportunist and grifter his whole endless political career. He's never had a real job. I remember when Obama chose him for VP there was a lot of snickering--dumb Uncle Joe. He and Dr Jill will hold on with bloody fingernails.
You’re half right.
Now say the same about Republicans and pledge to vote for neither, convince everyone around you & we’re getting somewhere.
Fuck. The. Duopoly. (Because it’s a farce & a front for oligarchy & corporatocracy)
Nope. Trump may exaggerate wildly but his policies were net good for America - until he let that swine Fauci and tyrant Birx shut us down. Huge mistake, but Biden is 100x worse on that and 1000x worse on everything else.
done!
(except the part about convincing, I only preach in the Substack comments section...;))
Voting for RFK, Jr, are you? I might consider that, but he might not be on my ballot. Their ground organization has been slow to the extreme.
HAAA yeah no
“Let’s get this out of the way upfront. Right now, I am straight up anti-partisan, not simply non-partisan. I am on Team “None of the Above” for 2024 and loathe ALL of the candidates.”
https://www.indiemediatoday.com/i/144677056/none-of-the-above
Well partner, it feels good proclaiming a pox on the houses of both parties, but someone is going to run the show in the meantime. But I get it, political narcissism of the sort you advocate does make one feel good about oneself. And that's the most important thing, I guess.
I'm not your partner and don't appreciate your condescending nonsense. Attitudes like this, that accept the status quo and say "well, someone's gonna run this thing" without giving a shit how corrupt they are, is the reason we are where we are. Thanks for that. For doing nothing but shitting on the people fighting for higher standards.
Accept the status quo? I'm not doing that at all, I'm voting for Trump. He is the opponent of the status quo. We know this because of the great lengths said status quo is going to in order to bring him down.
But I'm guessing you disagree with that. Fine. Ok, partner, what's your solution/ who are you backing? What are these "higher standards" to which you refer? Because if you don't have a firm plan, you are, as I said, just a political narcissist who is chiefly concerned with adoring that person gazing back at you in the mirror.
OK I guess. But in choosing not to decide, you still have made a choice. Not voting for either of the top two contenders effectively aids the incumbent and hurts the challenger.
you just quoted Rush! @Alexander Hellene
“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!”
I will choose Freewill
You’re voter shaming using Lesser Evil Logic.
Both are evil, and Biden may possibly be the more evil.
I'm voting on my state referendums. And "None of these Candidates" on everything else.
You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill...those both seem better than the actual party choices
That was purposeful. Just seeing if you were paying attention. Otherwise agree. My personal exercise of free will is to vote for the lesser evil, and pray that your non-vote does not end up with a second Biden term. And since when is lesser evil logic a bad thing?
Or the DNC lawfare campaign against him is working?
Doesn't seem to be after delaying the thing until September and his fundraising dollars going up every time there's a new charge
Damn right!!! I feel I have a unique and special opportunity with all who been in my ear my entire adult life to ask if they’re ready to offer me more lecturing. From professors, to lame bosses, to fair weather “friends”, girlfriends and family members. I’ve always viewed our federal pimps and weak ass, spineless bitch boy presidents as thieving lying bastards… BECAUSE they are!
I’m no angel. I’ve totally lied to people. And even screwed people over on deals and such. And I’ve certainly died a coward’s death one too many to count…. But those ways and actions didn’t destroy millions of peoples lives, and certainly not willfully. Then ya hear the whole “we can’t handle truth” hardline about tough decisions. There we go again, talked down to like I’m a fuckin child. Maybe try that on us when you’re not taking all the wealth from us. If they can’t play us straight why honor any of it?
I used to “get schooled” on how wreckless and immature and uneducated I was being to not vote for presidents. How I’m shitting on all the named and unnamed hero’s that fought and gave their lives for my right to vote. What a way to shame a family member and friend.
at this point, approaching 40 in days, I pat myself on the back for having conviction and agency in all past elections and solidifying that now 1000 fold for the rest of my blessed days. It’s almost entirely rigged and has NEVER served or been about “we the people”, since I started questioning the pledge of allegiance in grade school, and quite arguably before that. I’m not saying I hate America, I don’t. but I am saying to hell with all the people who’ve bastardized it to this day. And there’s plenty of them…. I cant wait to not vote. I’m so excited I get to not give a shit and feel SUPER GREAT about it. YaY for me and anyone with the same mindset. Live your life, pray for hope, treat the people you meet with humbling dignity, and simply ignore the turds in suits asking for your vote. They’re useless, desperate, despicable and totally undeserving of our attention and support. I don’t anticipate that changing anytime soon. Just my too sense.
Yet some are worse choices than others. I'm glad Al Gore never became President. But there were some Florida voters to my left that may not have voted, and, realized too late that their vote may have mattered when Florida was decided by 537 votes. But as long as you're good with either man winning, no one can persuade you to vote.
Jack, you can't reason with political narcissists. It's all about them and their feelings of self-righteousness.
Just doing my best to persuade with logic. I know that NJ is highly likely to vote for the Dem nominee in high enough percentages such that it would appear that voting for anyone else is fruitless. The same was thought in Florida in 2000. The same was thought in North Carolina and Florida and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in 2016. If logic isn't enough, I thought, wrongly, that an appeal to emotion (a logical fallacy) might work - the emotion being the fear of feeling absolutely sick to your stomach after refusing to vote, and only finding out after the fact that your vote could have prevented the greater of two evils from obtaining the highest office in the land. But apparently there are a number of political gadflies (defined as those who are critics of all candidates, but don't seem to have better offer to make - I prefer the term gadfly to narcissist) among the group in this thread, so, you're right about not being able to reason with a political gadfly.
Clever comment 👌
“Clever Pseudonym” is my all-time favorite handle :)
thanks!
I endorse this comment.
Sounds like a good idea until you remember that Kamala Harris has the same brains as Joe Biden, but without the age, experience and senility.
Please don't hold back. Tell us how you REALLY feel!
lolol
That really isn't fair to Abe.
Well said, sir. He's been a criminal, and a Republican Light, for EVER. LIAR. OBFUSCATOR. How did he ever get the "likeable guy" label? The more I discover about his past, the more nauseated I become. And I hate myself after falling for St. Obama. Jeezuz. This guy has become The Godfather. Straight up Gangsta, as Cornell West has stated. I'm ashamed of how deep in corruption we've been suckered into, and, please: BOTH PARTIES ARE TO BLAME.
Sorry to say he is molecule-less, at least of those sterling qualities.
ya don't say!
you mean all the brilliant superstars of the NYT have been lying all this time?!??
oh no, not the superstars!
AMEN!
It seems like only the day before yesterday she was telling us that ACTUALLY TRUMP IS THE ONE WITH DEMENTIA.
From the outside, this looks like an actual fight on the left about who the nominee should be. I think the part that the "Ridin' with Biden" folks aren't considering is that this guy obviously can't perform the actual task of being president. Throwing him out there for another four months and hoping for the best is simply suicide at this point.
It’s suicide if he stays or goes. It wasn’t only Biden who wrecked our country. Congress was equally complicit.
Why in the hell can’t we have term limits? Why does no one ever ask about term limits? Wouldn’t that solve most of these problems?
Only if unelected bureaucrats also have term limits. I'm in favor of unelected bureaucrats running the government for a maximum of 0 years.
You are correct!!!! If we “need” them they too should be term limited. It should not be life-time job security with unlimited vacation, paid sick days & numerous holidays. Just visit your local DMV to get a glimpse at the quality of govt employees.
Now we have to figure out how to stop the revolving door between congress and corporate jobs.
Great solution that, sad to say, was struck down by the Supreme Court when states attempted to impose that on their own Senators and House members. The SC made it clear that in order to have term limits, we have to have a Constitutional Amendment to make it happen. Congress is never going to call for a Convention on that issue; hence, the current advocacy for a Convention of the States to make it happen. But that is controversial, even among friends.
i dont think term limits solves it. you need a government that is restrained like first created and intended. the one we have is too powerful which makes it very attractive for psychopaths and sociopaths. a psychopath has no greater achievement in life then to be part of this government. so we end up with govt of by and for the worst humanity has to offer.
term limits......there are always more psychos to fill in, and secondly how quickly will power mongers just undo it after they are in? I can appreciate people looking for a way to salvage this thing, but i'm not sure there is. if you read the writings of some of the founders, they accepted that disbanding and overthrowing government from time to time is just a normal function of the human ecology.
Yes, term limits. I believe the founders thought of public service more like we do of jury duty. Serve your time then get back to your home and business- you were never intended to permanently camp out and enrich yourself- at least ideally.
Or even better, though quite the dream I admit, somehow undo the mantra of "there's a problem, and it's government's responsibility to fix it". The expansion we allowed to happen in the early "progressive" era, followed by the New Deal and cemented with the Great Society, grossly warped our expectations and willingness to cede our power and wealth to the Leviathan.
How the hell we ever undo that I can't say but anyone acknowledging the need and taking steps in that direction has my vote. And the rumblings I hear in the Trump camp, though he disavows Project 2025, of slashing government agencies and employees, those are a good start.
The same unelected bureaucrats will run the country no matter who is installed as President. I think the DNC insiders and corporate lobbyists are trying to figure out which has worse optics, keeping a dementia patient as the candidate, who was at least ostensibly chosen by the people at some point, or openly letting superdelegates choose the next candidate at the convention. The one positive is that the optics are so bad either way that it might jostle some normies awake.
People who are still not awake are no longer “normies” by any definition.
Agreed. And what is going on now is that they are just running the numbers. What is "the number" they need everywhere to win with whomever is their candidate.
The strategy of getting America's convicted felon Hitler to be the Republican nominee has not gone as planned. They are now just gaming out how to meet the ballot quotas.
Here in Illinois, the first day you can request an absentee ballot is the last week of August, I believe. Absentee ballots in Illinois will be counted up to 14 days after the polls close on Election Day. See?
I agree to some extent, but I also think the propaganda engine is working overtime to keep people asleep.
No one is asleep. All are culpable. They’re getting something out of this.
Get the popcorn ready for the big fight between down ticket Dem candidates, sitting Dem Senators and House members vs. the Dem Presidential campaign and administration folks. It's going to be bloody.
Was she sober today? LOL
Was it the time of day she's sober?
8:15am when she goes to brush her teeth?
The problem is she uses vodka to brush
How much did she slur typing her press conference notes? Did she have any box wine black ink still on her hand?
If you're a Democrat and mostly a party line voter, aren't you embarrassed? Your party, its leaders and the press keep humiliating you. Are you tired of being treated like a pinata at a quincenera yet, or do you have another 8 rounds left in you to be put to shame.
You all are laughing stocks.
*piñata, quinceañera
¡Tienes razón!
where's the enye?
number lock then alt 164 = ñ
Muy Bien! Gracias!
better we should be laughing byt putting them IN the stocks. rotten cabbage anyone?
Gavin Newsom is her nephew by marriage. Just sayin'.
That part of the family divorced decades ago. There has been no connection since the 90s. No way they pick another white guy to leapfrog over a black female VP IMO - not the party of DEI and intersectional imperialism
They're quite shameless and will do whatever pleases them most.
Don't count the Plastic Stalin out yet.
its by incest, but we'll count marriage as an acceptable substitute in this case.
Can't be helped: old money California dynasties marry among themselves, like royalty in Europe but a lot more conceited
Newscum, old scum…birds of a feather.
this is the same woman who defended feinstein's vitality until the day she died, while pelosi's daughter pushed her around congress in a wheelchair. she is all for elder abuse if it. aids her political goals.
Didn't Feinstein's daughter bring a guardianship suit?
Where are 51 medical experts when Joe needs them?
he has the Nobel economists
Clearly this has been going on for sometime. There are times Biden is serviceable, and there are times his clearly having some kind of neurological deterioration. It’s no “cheap fake”. Whatever it is it’s degenerative. It’s insane to me that the Party hasn’t replaced him. It amazes me how far they have fallen and how dysfunctional they have become. The republicans aren’t some shining example of a well run machine at all, but the Dems think they can run a man who appears to have bouts of dementia and they expected the media to cover for them. And they seem more than accommodating. But for that debate they’d still be yelling “disinformation” and “cheap fake”. Thankfully they can’t just cover it up anymore.
“the Dems think they can run a man who appears to have bouts of dementia and they expected the media to cover for them.”
The media has been covering for him for at least four years! The only reason they’re turning now is that the debate was simply not concealable.
It’s not “bouts.” It’s a progressive degenerative disease that he’s had for many years. One that his family, staff, party insiders and most of all, the media have kept going all this time.
You're right, but it looks like bouts because he becomes "relatively more" articulate when he is emotionally charged when speaking (most often when he's using a stern or angry loud voice). It is a common occurence in dementia patients. In the debate, during the bland policy discussions, he had no basis to get angry, and so we got the inarticulate "doll faced" Biden.
Yes, you make a good point. Could also be due to stimulant drugs. Angry outbursts another feature of advancing dementia, a prime example being the State of the Union address (and the "helpful" teleprompter plus lots of practice). Whatever it is, this man is in no shape to be our current or future President.
Reckon that’s why Trump was far less animated than usual during the debate? Aware of Biden’s triggers?
(Adjusts tin foil hat)
In my experience, dementia patients can have better and worse days.
"Sundowning" also is a thing, where the patient gets worse towards the end of the day.
See, now all we gotta do is schedule any crises for early in Joe's working day and we got the problem beat, I tell ya!
We’ll know if the next debate gets rescheduled to be before the Early Bird special at Denny’s
He has dementia. That's not bouts. It presents as bouts that increase in duration and frequency. He had it in 2020 and he's far worse now.
Import the third world you eventually become the third world
Pelosi is as corrupt as Clintons and Biden family.
A “shining example” of geriatric US “democracy”/kleptocracy
Nancy Pelosi is a part of a San Francisco clique that is behind this Biden Coup.
Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, Susan Rice and other California politicians are behind this.
This is the handiwork of the Swig Family.
Mark My Words.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/09/kamala-harris-2020-president-profile-san-francisco-elite-227611/
Lots of Obamaworld have their knives out too.
makes me want to puke...such an average intelligence and a fake person...
Nancy?
Or are you talking about any of dozens of others?
I agree w/ you btw...
SMH
And the Shorensteins, Luries and a few others, all have been doing this since the 50s.
We need to out these people.
If we had a press with good investigative reporters, the details would already be out.
Agreed. We obviously don't have that.
Good to know. I know about the Swigs from my own research. Good to know about these others. There are supposedly 7-8 families involved.
Zeints is WHCOS. He is worth 100’s of millions and was the Covid Czar. His wife, Mary Menell is from the Billionaire dynasty in SA—they’re connected to many other global billionaires. The WHCOS controls the access to the president, his cabinet, and the White House. So many non-elected, but with some control.
Agree. Zeints is the puppet master. He plays his role well, always behind the scenes, almost invisible.
Don't forget also: Kamala's husband is the ultimate Hollywood, media insider:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Emhoff
Fascinating.
I know from having lived in SF for a long time. They tried to get my father to run in the 60s when the leading candidate had a heart attack. He turned them down because he had pledged to support another candidate. They backed Joe Alioto who went on to serve two terms before George Moscone won, only to be shot while in office and replaced by DiFi.
Wow. So you know far better than I...
Interesting article, especially revealing is the open graft involving Willie Brown. I guess he wasn't just happy boinking Kamala or SF or California, so he upped his game and blinked the entire nation with her.
I couldn't stop laughing at people saying she is so smart--really???
Thank you for posting!
Maybe we can flesh this out here.
Here’s an idea…. How about all these politicians and media “folk” ( because they sure as shit are not journalists) just cry a collective “ Uncle.” You are all busted for lying to us about something really quite critical, the POTUS’ mental acuity. And you’ve been lying for five years. Did you ever question Biden’s move to the basement? How did that make sense? Oh because of COVID? Well, there’s another can of lying worms you fed us. And now what? How about the Truth? It’s going to be ugly but let’s give it a try. We deserve it and I quite frankly am so gd sick of this hyperbolic soap opera of non stop lying. It’s insulting! And that’s directed to you Pelosi!! Go Home!!
Matthew, we need more of Walter’s predictions in America This Week. Let the clairvoyant make his picks. He’s gotta be 97 for 100 at this point.
Taibbi/Kirn 2024
I think we let Walter take the top of the ticket; Matt can grow into the office and take over in 2032.