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Forget about Biden's past performance And How Bad Trump Is

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Forget about Biden's past performance And How Bad Trump Is

The lying and dissembling media and Democratic politicians apologizing and defending Joe Biden are using three strategies.

First, they point to how bad Trump.

Then they say how great Joe Biden has been in the past. Neither of those matter now.

Last, they point out how well he did the next day at a stump speech in South Carolina. The problem is, there, he was reading other people's words on a teleprompter.


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The truth is that Joe Biden clearly demonstrated, repeatedly, in the Thursday night debate, that he cannot handle challenges requiring a spontaneous response. It is terrifying to think that in his current mental capacity, he is the one who makes important decisions that could affect lives, wars, major economic policies, and more.

President Joe Biden should be removed from office immediately. He is unable to function competently. This was not just a cold, or stuttering or exhaustion from travel. This was a clear sign that his competence has diminished greatly since the State of the Union. He is no longer the man he was. He is no longer the man who accomplished all the things that he accomplished in the past. Forget about that. We have to focus on his competence now. And that is a disaster. That is why so many leading thinkers have called for him to step down as a candidate. But that is not enough. He must step down as president and allow Kamala Harris to replace him.

We have to ask who is really in charge in the White House. I believe it is Jill Biden and Biden's chief of staff, Jeff Zients. This cannot stand. It is shameful and outrageous that the Democratic party leadership and elected officials have circled the wagons to defend such a profoundly impaired candidate and president. It will be interesting to see which elected Democratic officials will have the courage to be the first to come out and call for Biden to step down from the presidency and leave the campaign. Because this is something they cannot wait. It is unimaginable to consider the Joe Biden we saw Thursday night making major decisions of any kind as president. And every day that goes by with elected Democratic officials using the distraction techniques that I've described above to excuse Biden is another day where the United States does not have a president who is able to function competently.

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Even Biden's supportive staff now admit he works form 10-4 normally - 6 hours/day. After that he gets tired. More than that: he is subject to sundowning. The live 9pm debate + a cold caught him at his worst.

He really was better the next day, and not just because he read from a teleprompter. He responded to the crowd, and paused when necessary - one thing Biden really has to do is to stop trying to jam too many thoughts into one sentence; he doesn't have the breath or focus for that. Besides, people can't remember lists of facts, they remember stories and 1-3 facts along the way. Trump is a master at repetition.

If Trump was not a perpetual liar and threat to democracy, I'd vote for him. I actually think he is better on some foreign policy issues and maybe more likely to avoid WWIII and is better for Israel too (which faux progressives are against while supporting the Hamas terror regime). But I'd rather vote for a fading Biden to Kamala Harris term (probably within the first year) than for an anti-democracy lying authoritarian rights-denying semi-fascist like Trump.

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Let me get this straight - You'd rather vote for the complicit war criminal and his congress with the Senatorial thugs that threatened the UN's ICC and the potty-mouth Nuland who claimed to have spent $5,000,000,000 and gave away some cookies to over throw the elected government of Ukraine and install a F*ck the EU figurehead that instigated a war in Ukraine which has led to more than 500,000 dead Ukrainians? A half million dead in less than three years...all because of what? Democracy?

Speaking of anti-democracy lying authoritarian rights-denying semi-fascist Trump, you failed to mention that Trump also a candidate for president of the US is also a partner in terrorism, having proudly strode to the podium during his term as president to assert to the world that he was responsible for the predator drone attack that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and his Iraqi counter part while they were on a peace mission to Saudi Arabia. The murders set back diplomacy between Iran and Saudi Arabia until the emerged super power China brought them together after a two year delay. Just what the world needs, delays in peace. While Trump was at it he moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, after which Biyamin Mileikowsky the zionist, renamed the Golan Heights - Trump Heights. This an example US elitist leadership! The same leadership that has Americans engaged in silly junk democracy.

As for democracy, if someone was kicking your ass everyday, blowing up houses, breaking the bones of rock throwing children, sometimes killing them, woman and other people in your neighborhood, holding a gun on you while deciding whether to allow you to go to work to earn a meager living, or denying you the human right to transport someone for medical care, or limiting your caloric intake, fouling your water, limiting electricity, or deciding that you cannot have an airport or port in your neighborhood, or rejecting who you decide should represent your neighborhood, I suppose you would rather languish and die instead of being a good little terrorist and try to get the anti-democracy lying authoritarian rights-denying semi-fascist's boots off your neck?

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Vote for Independent Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Current 2024 Presidential Candidates in the Debate:
1. Republican: DJ Trump
2. Democrat: JR Biden

Current 2024 Presidential Candidates excluded from the Debate:
3. Independent: RF Kennedy, Jr.
4. Libertarian: Chase Oliver (Not in Expanded Debate)

Expanded Debate including RFK, Jr.
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Debate starts at around 25 minutes into the Video.

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I just watched the Kennedy footage. My observations:

- Biden did better than I remembered. I think the better quality audio on my new computer vs. my old TV had something to do with that.

- I'd probably vote for Kennedy *IF* I thought he had a realistic chance of winning, just on foreign policy alone, but for other reasons too. His answers are coherent, informed and mostly progressive, but also security conscious when it comes to the border (Trump is more right than Biden on that issue too, but Kennedy pointed out that the drug problem will not be solved with tougher border enforcement).

- However, Kennedy is polling at 10%, up slightly after the debate but consistent with the 8-9% previously. In a three-way race, he'd have to get close to 1/3 of the votes to have a chance. I can't waste my vote and risk a second Trump term, though I think it's going to happen anyway since Trump is leading in every swing state. Also, Jill Stein and Cornell West are going to take critical votes from Biden too. I'm glad Chase Oliver is in there to take more votes from Trump.

- If we ever get ranked choice voting, everything will change, including the way people vote.

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I think that Ranked Choice Voting would be better than what we currently have.

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I agree. The rest of the world can see it, and anyone who wants to do us harm will see this as the perfect opportunity. And if they manage to do something awful, I can't imagine the DNC leadership taking any responsibility for not acting when they had the chance.

BTW This is not political opportunism. I had planned to vote for him (if he was the candidate). Maybe I still will (if he's the candidate). I just think it's extremely poor judgment. The party needs new leadership, too.

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Good grief! The rest of the world sees it and those who want to do us harm see it, and you would still vote for Biden???

How in the world could there be anyone or country who would want to do the US harm? The US doesn't go around the world establishing military bases in other countries, and ring others with military threats or economically sanction governments that do not agree with US ruling elite policy. Nor does the US assassinate leaders in other countries, interfere in other countries elections, foment so called color revolution, and possess a diplomatic department that calls itself a State department when in fact it is a branch of the War department, or engage in developing and leaking biological agents on test populations.

Your supposition that there are others who want to do the US harm is preposterous.

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Not a "Vogue" reader but came across this relevant photo on another website:

"We Will Decide Our Future": Jill Biden on cover of Vogue

Don't know who this "we" is but getting the sense that someone else intends to decide my future.

And that future appears grim, to me. I don't want World War III the way this "We" seems to want war. The Ukraine and Gaza murderfests are bad enough. Why won't these people resign? And after they resign, then what? More bloodbaths and imprisonment for whoever gets in their way?

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Who would you rather have their hands on the Nuclear Codes?

1. Republican: DJ Trump
2. Democrat: JR Biden
3. Independent: RF Kennedy, Jr.
4. Libertarian: Chase Oliver

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None of the above. If people really understood how many times we came within a few minutes, or less, or nuclear war during the cold war, I think/hope they would agree. It could be even more often now, with the nuclear club expanded to include over a dozen countries now. These countries won't reveal their mistakes any more than America or the former Soviet Union did. It took decades for some of them to become known. This goes for China, Pakistan, India, several European powers, and possible nuclear weapons holders like Israel, which just warned of a "doomsday" weapon that could be used against Iran if it goes into direct war against Israel.

Meanwhile, the world slowly moves towards WWIII, if it isn't there already. Death cults like Hamas don't care, but normal life-loving people do. Yet, all the agreements are either expiring or are being broken. I'd like to see some leaders work on THOSE. Yet, there was no discussion about this in the disastrous (for Biden) debate; the question was never even raised, as if we solved that a generation ago and don't have to think about it anymore. In fact, America, Russia, China and probably others, are all enhancing their nuclear capabilities and planning for war against each other.

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Unfortunately where ever the President goes he has the ability to put his finger on the nuclear trigger.

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Well, the traitorous a**holes on the Supreme Court have certainly thrown a monkey wrench into this chaos.

So now I'm wondering, does this new ruling mean that President Biden could have one of his political opponents assassinated, and he would have immunity? Asking for a friend.

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David Pakman asked the same thing in a video. The answer appears to be yes, if Biden thought Trump was a threat to national security, or have him locked up at least. Of course, since SCOTUS also said Trump can't be disqualified under the 14th Amendment when Colorado tried to do that - and THEN they decided that case really fast, not waiting months to deliver an ambiguous yet disastrous decision like this - so Trump could still run and win from prison. So, assassination might be best for the nation.

Biden would have to be impeached and convicted/removed by the Senate, according to the new MAGA America interpretation of the Constitution we are now all forced to live under, for Biden to then be eligible for a separate trial and possibly convicted. I say "possibly" because even that may not be enough under the "official acts" doctrine SCOTUS pulled out of thin air, or its a**.

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