Quotes from post 2019 Trump vs. Biden debate:

Trump is “the bully I knew my whole life,” Biden told CNN in an interview. “He’s the bully I’ve always stood up to.”

Biden was asked how Democratic voters can have confidence that he’s up to taking on Trump when he had trouble sparring in last week’s debate against party rivals.

“I don’t think I’m having trouble sparring. It’s how you want to spar,” Biden said. “This is ironic. I’ve never been accused of not being able to spar. I’ve been accused of being too aggressive.”

Biden said he would beat Trump by “pointing out who I am and who he is and what we’re for and what he’s against.”

“This guy is the ‘divider-in-chief,’” said Biden, who added he will “fight without being personal” in this campaign.

Let’s not forget in Biden’s own words, he decided to run for President following Trump’s words over the neo-nazi rally in Charlottesville.

Respect. This is all going to get very interesting for the next week…

My dude, you’re equating readings from teleprompters and crowd greetings compared to organic conversation and debate.

White House said he wasn’t on cold meds for debate.

Colds don’t cause you to jump mid-sentence from abortion to immigration.

I’ll be honest, I don’t think I’d be fully convinced even if he does well. Why? Because Biden ran on taking the fight to Trump. He campaigned on using his Irish fighting spirit to push the bully back and anything but that has happened.

Moreover this won’t be seen by a fraction of the number of people who saw that debate. Little said here can detract from what people saw of Biden’s “bad days” during that debate.

I wish him luck because I want to be convinced he’s our best shot, but it’s going to take more than one good interview, personally.

Ah Russia,

• Whose modern Rasputin, Aleksandr Dugin is a literal neo-Nazi.
• Who possesses world leadership in alcoholism rates.
• Who is in the bottom 20 percentile adjacent to Afghanistan for transparency and corruption.
• Meanwhile the sorry suckers have an economy smaller than California and think they can win in Ukraine lol.

They’re speedrunning to become North Korea.

They tried. Lobbyists got Congress to shoot it down.

It’s not difficult. Functioning designs already exist. Hell most if not all cars today have weight sensors to determine airbag deployment.

If it saves one kid, then I’m all for it.

By the way: this famous article is a must-read for this topic

There are two ways to look at this. In one respect you can say why the hell are so many Americans still not grasping just how bad Trump is?

But then you need to assume the responsibility of being the more informed party and adjust your strategy not for the electorate you want but for the electorate you have.

And that electorate is demanding a better candidate for Democrats to appeal to said uninformed undecided swing state voters who will decide this election.

Biden had 1 chance long-shot chance to bridge echo-chambers and show the country he can lead.

It’s why he took this debate.

And blew it to such a catastrophic level it’s not impacting congressional down-ballot races already.

So I just want to be clear about something. Press Secretary, Jean-Pierre said yesterday (as she often repeats per their messaging): “Biden’s record speaks for itself.”

I want to go like, “Hi, Press Secretary. Quick follow-up: If it speaks for itself, then why is Biden losing in every battleground state with an aggregate national approval rating of 37%?”

It doesn’t seem that letting it speak for itself is working.

Thanks for that clarification. I was trying to reconcile the differences between the models and couldn’t even find info in the Wikipedia article.

About 5% of all Americans spend some amount of time in prison, fun fact.

Yep, totally official move of the president covered by immunity, if I’m reading the Court right!

Well said. The number of down-votes on hard truths like this submission but a complete lack of substantive argument prove they’re in denial.

I can get into deeper detail as I’ve done elsewhere in my recent comment history, but this DNC member of 30 years nails it. Watch the second half in particular, but the whole clip is relevant: https://youtu.be/DtmZjFBMU90

This is the most important video out there right now.

Edit: I love how you down-voted before you could’ve ever possibly viewed the clip. Truly, exceptional open mind you’ve got.

Blind loyalists to blue guy instead of orange guy, devoid of evidence or reason to support their position… Mostly because they’re too skittish to promote the obviously better course of action. Big time bandwagoneers.

Yes true, but the question is: do uninformed swing-voters in battleground states feel this way?

At the moment Biden is losing in every one of them.

Friendly reminder 2020 was won by only 40,000 voters across 3 states. And Biden is significantly underperforming his 2020 run.

Well it ain’t much, but it’s the best news this past week.

I’m going to enjoy not being in prison this July 4th :)

Of course the Kremlin, and Israel as well as other state actors are; but the obvious question then becomes — what is the Biden campaign actually doing to offset that effect? They are losing the battle and time is running out.

For how long this took — for the mere fact they took this case — and given their previous rulings, I’m more stunned the experts are stunned.

I’ll be honest, Linkerbaan — and you may know this from our previous discussions — I can even see the high-stakes situation with Israel and not like it but understand why in the grand scheme of politics (AIPAC, Jewish American voters, and the risk of withholding arms and then a false-flag terrorist attack occurs on Israeli soil, only to cause an immediate end of Biden’s campaign and an installation of someone FAR more pro-genocide)… But nevertheless, your point raises something I think we can both agree on: Ditching Biden also helps, as Mehdi Hasan has pointed out, ditch the baggage of Israeli genocide complicity.