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-Short Attention Span Theater-
ABC's George Stephanopoulos lands crucial Biden interview, putting spotlight on his partisan past
Tongue bath warning.
[FoxNews] Former Clinton flack roasted Nikki Haley for suggesting Biden couldn't finish term.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11132 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Seems more like he was brought in to deliver the coup de grâce
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/06/2024 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  NY Post Editorial Board: ABC interview proves that Joe Biden is in complete senile denial
Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 || 07/06/2024 2:37 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ An overlooked fact, senility is one of his better points.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2024 5:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Stephanopoulos - ‘hawk tuah’
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/06/2024 6:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Transcript
Posted by: Bobby || 07/06/2024 7:55 Comments || Top||

#6  The partisan Democrat interviewer asked Biden why his debate performance was so bad after six days of rest at Camp David. Biden threw out some prepared talking points: He'd been very sick. He was tested for COVID and "for infections." He clutched his heart when he said the last part. (None of this explained why a very sick Biden was sent to a diner after the debate to gladhand supporters.)
Stephanopoulos asked Biden whether he had watched any of the debate. Biden couldn't remember: "I don't think I did."
Posted by: Deacon+Blues || 07/06/2024 10:31 Comments || Top||

#7  At this point, Jim Henson could not puppeteer Joe through a successful campaign. Biden remains in place because a few family members and staff benefit from the status quo. Like Rabaul, Joe is inconvenient to dislodge. The only way he could regain credibility would be for him to take a cognitive test. The only thing keeping him in place is that he hasn’t taken one.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/06/2024 14:28 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Wisconsin Supreme Court Reinstates Unstaffed Drop Boxes Ahead Of 2024 Election
As predicted, the logistics of voter fraud has begun.
[ZERO] In a 4-3 decision that reverses their own 2022 prohibition on unmanned dropboxes, the justices agreed with Democrats who argued that the Wisconsin Supreme Court had previously misinterpreted the law in its 2022 ruling, and wrongly concluded that absentee ballots can only be returned to a clerk in their office, and not to a drop box that is located elsewhere.

"What if we just got it wrong?" said Justice Jill Karofsky during May arguments. "What if we made a mistake? Are we now supposed to just perpetuate that mistake into the future?"

Attorneys representing Republican backers of the 2022 ruling argued that there have been no changes in the facts or the law to warrant overturning the ruling that's less than two years old.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/06/2024 05:10 || Comments || Link || [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is why the elected judiciate is so important.

Wisconsin elected a far left loon to their Supreme Court in 2022, using a LOT of outside money and 'resources', which broke the conservative majority.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/06/2024 6:26 Comments || Top||

#2  The boxes are already full of ballots.
Posted by: Airandee || 07/06/2024 7:20 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ That's how they ship
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 07/06/2024 9:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Even though Trump is up 2% in the aggregate and will have a solid lead by November, expect him to lose by a few points when the votes are "counted"
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/06/2024 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  Surveil the boxes.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/06/2024 14:41 Comments || Top||

#6  vote in person on hand counted ballots on election day in a polling place. end of fraud.
Posted by: irish rage boy || 07/06/2024 15:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Irish Rage Boy, but that would prevent the dead from voting, thereby taking away their God-given right to vote.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/06/2024 15:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Nice unstaft drawbox you got air.
Posted by: Cured Roantic || 07/06/2024 16:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Never forget it's who counts the votes that counts.
Posted by: alanc || 07/06/2024 18:06 Comments || Top||

#10  "Unstaffed wot?" quoth grossly fat Friar Tuck, he of the merry band of homeless who (probably unwittingly) guard me local vote disposal bin as if it were a chest from the Bishop's treasury.
Posted by: Clush Shanter2504 || 07/06/2024 18:33 Comments || Top||

#11  [sighs, reenables cookies]
Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 || 07/06/2024 18:35 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
How the Huffington Post Delivered the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Biden 'Cheap Fake' Narrative
[TOWNHALL] With Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
’s mental health becoming a top 2024 issue, Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
are in a bind. The June 27 debate was an unspinnable disaster. Biden can’t de-age, and it’s unlikely he’ll get better as the campaign season becomes even more grueling. He was still gassed after nearly two weeks of rest and vacation following two rudimentary presidential trips overseas before the debate and still got destroyed by Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
. On top of voters thinking he’s too old, some top Democrats and donors remain laser-focused on trying to remove him from the ticket. For now, Biden has resisted the calls for him to step aside. Still, the Huffington Post opted to publish this insane opinion piece which ironically blows up the ’Biden is a victim of cheap fakes’ narrative.

That line already got obliterated in the debate, but this is a desecration of a corpse material here. The liberal publication suggested that artificial intelligence should be used to make Biden sound less old. That’s right: the Democrats should basically create cheap fakes of Biden’s speech skills to deceive voters [emphasis mine]:

The stakes of the 2024 presidential election cannot be overstated. With Donald Trump promising to act as a dictator "on day one," it is not hyperbolic to say the future of American democracy hangs in the balance. Against this backdrop, the Biden campaign faces a critical challenge: conveying a strong and effective image of President Joe Biden to a population and media ecosystem increasingly focused on optics over substance. Given the president’s concerning performance last week, it’s time for the Biden campaign to consider leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to effectively reach the voting public.

[...]

Joe Biden is old and has had a lifelong stutter. He acknowledged in a fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
rally following his debate performance: "I might not walk as easily or talk as smoothly as I used to." This has impeded his ability to communicate with mass audiences with consistent success. AI augmentations and video renderings could serve to smooth out these bumps while allowing the Biden campaign to effectively disseminate true information about the state of our democracy and the Biden administration’s accomplishments. The president has limited time to campaign as he also focuses on running the country, and AI would be a cost-effective and efficient way to communicate his message personally and directly to voters.

[...]

Reasonably, some may challenge the use of AI as dishonest and deceptive, but the current information ecosystem is arguably no better. It may even be worse. Media outlets like the New York Post have engaged in sharing deceptively cropped viral clips of the president, dubbed ’cheapfakes,’ to make him appear confused or weak. Though no excuse for Biden’s weak debate performance, CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
elected to allow Trump to lie for the full 90-minute debate with zero fact-checking. They offered fact-checking over an hour after the debate, which realistically, a mere fraction of the debate audience stayed tuned for. Social media outlets like Instagram and TikTok have cracked down on political content, while rightwing billionaire Elon Musk has used Twitter to amplify false information about the election and boost Republicans. Even once great institutions like The Washington Post have transitioned into Murdoch-style tabloids.

Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Note the third paragraph to the end is all HuffPoop.
Posted by: Bobby || 07/06/2024 7:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Strange how nobody noticed the 'life long stutter' before. He didn't have one during the Bork hearings.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/06/2024 8:01 Comments || Top||


Michelle Obama's Team Shuts Down Presidential Rumors Again: ‘She Will Not Be Running for President'
[Gateway]
Posted by: Frank G || 07/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11133 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 
Noted: ... not RUNNING for President....

But, what if selected for the VP slot and by some "accident" shortly after Jan. 20th 2025 becomes President?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/06/2024 5:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Not even to save ‘Democracy’?
Posted by: Airandee || 07/06/2024 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3  She will not run for President.
She will, however, accept a coronation.
Posted by: ed in texas || 07/06/2024 8:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Or maybe the woman has a nice life and wants nothing to do with the cluster f___k we're watching unfold in front of us?
Posted by: Secret Master || 07/06/2024 12:56 Comments || Top||

#5  She’s been given no-work jobs all her life. No biggie.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus || 07/06/2024 13:09 Comments || Top||

#6  She despises both voters and the politicians who court them, and isn’t interested in wielding power. Unlike Mrs. Bill Clinton, who agrees with her on the first, but is willing to play the game in order to get her hands on power… and all the beautiful money that follows power.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/06/2024 13:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Just a thought: The Obama's long and close ties to media and Hollywood elites suggest a dramatic, well prepared script of a declared crisis and a rescue mission to save America causing Big Mike to abandon her carefully crafted disinterest and agree to the coronation and implementation of Obama 4.0. The endless visuals of the Lightbringer and discussions of his commitment to "Her" Administration will signal the key point of the campaign!

Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/06/2024 14:12 Comments || Top||

#8  She fixed school lunches, you can’t expect her to fix a whole country.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/06/2024 14:37 Comments || Top||

#9  Super Hose: imagine her doing to the whole country what she did to school lunches.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 07/06/2024 15:49 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ Starvation suddenly appeals
Posted by: Frank G || 07/06/2024 16:33 Comments || Top||


White House now says Biden was seen by his doctor days after debate
[AOL] President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
was examined by his physician in the days following last week’s CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
presidential debate, the White House tells CNN — despite the White House press secretary having said Wednesday that the president has had no medical exams since his February physical.

"Several days later, the president was seen to check on his cold and was recovering well," White House front man Andrew Bates said.

On Wednesday, CNN had asked Karine Jean-Pierre in the White House press briefing whether the president had received "any medical exams" since his February physical, and the press secretary had responded: "We were able to talk to his doctor about that and that is a no."

A White House official adds when Biden was seen by his doctor after the debate, it was a "brief check," not a "physical." CNN on Wednesday did not ask Jean-Pierre whether Biden had had another physical since February, but rather, any medical examination.

Politico first reported that Biden told more than 20 Democratic governors in a private meeting Wednesday night that he underwent a medical checkup after last week’s debate and is fine.

The White House’s explanation Thursday that Jean-Pierre said Biden had not had any medical exams since February because she was drawing a distinction between the president being checked out by his doctor and receiving a formal "physical" does not appear to explain a different exchange from the same briefing on Wednesday.

Jean-Pierre was asked by a news hound to clarify whether the president had been checked out by his doctor around the debate given that he had a cold.

"He was on the way to the debate, the doctor was with him, he had a cold, he’s 81. Does he not get checked out by the doctor?" the news hound asked.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

The joke making the rounds is the Doc was his wife Dr. Jill
Posted by: NN2N1 || 07/06/2024 5:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Cold my ass. Coverup for his dementia. Joe is "resting" today before his next campaign appearance.
Posted by: Deacon+Blues || 07/06/2024 10:28 Comments || Top||

#3  Joe’s doctor saw him at the debate, but then he turned the channel and finished watching the baseball game.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/06/2024 14:31 Comments || Top||


Newsom dodges when asked if he'd support VP Harris as Biden replacement
[FoxNews - liveblog] California Gov. Gavin Newsom dodged the question when a reporter asked if he would support Vice President Kamala Harris should President Biden drop out of the 2024 race.

"Yeah, I don't even like playing in the hypothetical, because last night was about sort of locking down any doubt or ambiguity. And then we start running in different directions, zig zag, you know, all that kind of speculation and that gets in the way of progress," Newsom said Thursday while in South Haven, Michigan, for an appearance at the Van Buren County Democratic Party's Fourth of July reception.

Pundits have floated Newsom as a potential alternative to Biden, should the 81-year-old president decide against continuing his re-election campaign after his disastrous performance at the CNN Presidential Debate. But first he would have to upset Harris, who is Biden's heir apparent.

Rather than affirm his support for the vice president, Newsom called the question a distraction.

"It's a legitimate question that I respect and appreciate it. But if you can appreciate my point of view that it's very unhelpful and it's exactly the question and answer that the Republican Party right now wants us to have in that kind of two way conversation, give and take. I'm not going to play into that. Joe Biden's our president, he said he's all in. I double down, saying I'm all in. And not only that, I'm here with you to prove it."
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It’s like asking an NFL GM if he plans to re-sign a veteran. The answer is always an amorphous porridge of. Complementary word goo. There’s just no advantage to commitment and truth.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/06/2024 14:18 Comments || Top||


Biden says he's 'first black woman to serve with a black president' in latest gaffe
[NYPOST] President Joe "Aunt Jemima" Biden described himself as the "first black woman to serve with a black president" as he yet again twisted his words, his latest gaffe as he scrambles to reassure voters he’s still fit to lead.

The 81-year-old president made the slip up as he struggled to find the right phrasing while being interviewed Thursday on Philadelphia’s WURD black radio station as part of an Independence Day media blitz a week on from his train-wreck debate performance.

Biden appeared to trip up as he described having served as former President Barack Obama
My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it...
’s vice president and then choosing Kámala Harris
Former Oakland mayor Willie Brown's former mistress, then a senatrix from California former 2020 Dem presidential hopeful, and Joe Biden's wing nut...
as his own.

"By the way, I’m proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first black woman, to serve with a black president," he told host Andrea Lawful-Sanders.

Elsewhere in the interview, Biden had boasted about appointing the first black woman, Ketanji Brown Jackson, to the Supreme Court and also picking the first black woman to serve as veep.

The stumble, though, was just one of several slip-ups and mistakes Biden made during the interview — which was aimed at reassuring voters that his debate debacle was just a lone bad night.

At one point, he made the bizarre claim that he was the "first president that got elected statewide in the state of Delaware, when I was a kid."

He also claimed he understood the black struggle for representation — because he didn’t think Catholics could be president before John F. Kennedy was elected more than six decades ago.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Forgotten in all of this is the evil and sinister "Deep State".
Posted by: Whavick Scourge of the Apes9857 || 07/06/2024 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  I’m sorry; the slip about coming in the overflow room was bigger. The Hawk Tuoy members even took a break for that one. It was brutal.
Posted by: Super Hose || 07/06/2024 14:11 Comments || Top||



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