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Another update. The first presidential debates. The usual theatrics but no amount of spin can conceal how disastrous this was for Biden.
Blurb
According to the pollsters, it's the rematch voters don't want. But if Americans were hoping for reassurance from the first televised debate of the 2024 election between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, they didn't get it.
A stumbling and often incoherent Joe Biden and an evasive Donald Trump discussed which of them was the worst President in history, and who had the best golf handicap. Senior Democrats have rallied round Mr Biden, but in private some are now asking a question many voters have been asking for months: is he up to the job?
His puppetmasters have had enough and want him out.
The Knives are Out
Joe Biden #4 gave a historic performance in the presidential debate that even The Economist describes as “an unmitigated disaster”:
The mission for Joe Biden in the presidential debate held in Atlanta on June 27th was clear: to prove his critics wrong, by showing that he was mentally fit and thereby reverse the polling deficit that makes Donald Trump the favourite to win the American election in 2024. Unfortunately, his performance was an unmitigated disaster—perhaps the worst of any presidential candidate in modern history. The president, who is 81 (and would be 86 by the end of a second term in office), stammered indecipherably, struggled to complete his lines of attack and proved his doubters completely correct. Although Mr Trump was in his typical form—meandering, mendacious, vindictive—he somehow appeared the more coherent and lucid of the pair. Mr Biden’s decision to seek re-election rather than standing aside for a younger standard-bearer now looks like a reckless endangerment of the democracy he claims to want to protect.
Merely quoting Mr Biden’s rhetorical bumblings do not do them justice, but they do give a sense of the shambles. Consider one of his lines at the very start of the debate, the first indicator that the president was in poor form: “Making sure that we continue to strengthen our health-care system, making sure that we’re able to make every single, solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the…uh, covid…excuse me, dealing with everyone we had to do with… look, if we finally beat Medicare…” The moderator interrupted before further damage could be done, one of several coups de grâce graciously administered.
I don’t see how the Democrats can seriously expect to field any of their five Joe Bidens as a candidate, although at least it would purport to demonstrate how many people will vote for a Democrat under any circumstance. That, of course, assumes that the elections are real, which we know they are not.
So, the point of showing that Biden is incapacitated, and permitting the media to trumpet his incapacity now that the primaries are over is to put someone else in the office. Whether that is Trump or not remains to be seen.
Of the various replacement candidates on offer, I think RFK is the most credible suggestion, Michelle Obama the least. I also think that Newsome was the original plan, but that is less viable since California has been imploding faster than anticipated.
The lesson is this: once you take the ticket, no matter how high you rise, you will eventually be thrown from the high horse.
https://voxday.net/2024/06/28/the-knives-are-out/
Joe Must Go
The New York Times reads from the script to shut down the Fake Biden administration:
Mr. Biden has said that he is the candidate with the best chance of taking on this threat of tyranny and defeating it. His argument rests largely on the fact that he beat Mr. Trump in 2020. That is no longer a sufficient rationale for why Mr. Biden should be the Democratic nominee this year.
At Thursday’s debate, the president needed to convince the American public that he was equal to the formidable demands of the office he is seeking to hold for another term. Voters, however, cannot be expected to ignore what was instead plain to see: Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago.
The president appeared on Thursday night as the shadow of a great public servant. He struggled to explain what he would accomplish in a second term. He struggled to respond to Mr. Trump’s provocations. He struggled to hold Mr. Trump accountable for his lies, his failures and his chilling plans. More than once, he struggled to make it to the end of a sentence.
Mr. Biden has been an admirable president. Under his leadership, the nation has prospered and begun to address a range of long-term challenges, and the wounds ripped open by Mr. Trump have begun to heal. But the greatest public service Mr. Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not continue to run for re-election.
Isn’t it fascinating how Clown World will often come right out and tell you the truth, but do so in a way in which you naturally assume a less-insidious interpretation?
Mr. Biden is not the man he was four years ago.
They expect you to take it as a metaphor. But it isn’t. That’s the literal truth. That dotard on the stage was Biden #4. I doubt Biden #1 is even alive now.
Anyhow, the signals are being sent out. And all the various schools of SJWs, liberals, and progressives will dutifully change their course in perfect formation now that the elite media are broadcasting the new Narrative.
UPDATE: The Uniparty is in one accord on the matter.
Joe Biden should be replaced as US president, having shown he is “not up to the task” during his debate with Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has said.
https://voxday.net/2024/06/29/joe-must-go/
Anyhow, the signals are being sent out. And all the various schools of SJWs, liberals, and progressives will dutifully change their course in perfect formation now that the elite media are broadcasting the new Narrative.
Its same in the UK, after the debate the Guardian/Times etc immediately had a piece breathlessly speculating who will replace Biden, the liberal elite dont miss a beat.
EDIT -
Bidens been ditched
Blurb
After mounting pressure from Democrats following his debate performance, President Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. WSJ’s Catherine Lucey explains how Biden lost his party’s support.
Chapters:
0:00 Biden drops out of race
0:36 How Democratic support for Biden unraveled
3:55 Age concerns
More comment.
@seinfan9
Wait until Biden finds out about this.
@cameronschwarz3950
Just let the poor guy retire it’s basically elder abuse at this point
@mooviedude141
4 years of the media pretending he wasn't mentally unfit to serve...
@user-ow3pt3ew8l
Guy announced it 15 minutes ago, and wsj managed to publish this lol
@chacmool2581
Why did the Democrats let it go this far and allow it to come to this so late in the game despite so much ample warning? This is a party-wide disaster.
@machone793
The fact that he went this far, shows the state of American politics..
@nddavi58
truly shocking as to the fact that he was never in charge of the country anyway
