Since the debate, a LOT of attention has been placed on the “performance” of President Biden. Nothing said hardly at all about Donald J. Trump. Let’s review…..
Nice gathering and compilation of Biden administration achievements, Daniel.
I watched the 22 minute interview Friday night and concluded that someone was slipping. It is not, Joe. George Stephanopoulus’ interview was amateurish and, as the demented lying Fat Orange Clown would say, SAD! The one tone repetition of ridiculous hypotheticals was disappointing from someone who used to be a respected journalist and opinion show host. It seems to me that corporate media has given their minions their marching orders and it includes letting the Fat Orange slide.
I was an independent for many years. In 2020 I went for Biden for one reason. I was not voting for something but, as a veteran who never missed an election since I got the right to vote by age, I was intent on voting against a clear and present danger to our Democracy. It was why I and many of my peers put ourselves at risk during our youth.
As many have said in different versions about November 5, 2024, I would vote for a potted plant rather than vote for an ignorant narcissistic megalomaniac who created a SCOTUS that has now anointed him king. One person I definitely would not vote for is a replacement of Biden if he is somehow forced out by the current group of idiots known as the Democratic Party. There’s that Will Rogers quote along the lines of “I am not a member of an organized political party…I’m a Democrat.”
If Biden is not on the ballot I will throw my vote to a third party to let them know I was there but believe that their fast food mentality cannot and should not be condoned. The self-serving Dems calling for change would have been ones trying to fire Eisenhower and his staff on June 7, 1944 because they were not in Germany yet and he smoked too much. They would have blocked FDR in 1936 because he didn’t get the country out of the Great Depression yet which had been caused by the GOP of the 1920s. If they were sports teams owners they would have released the rookie who had a rough first couple of months but later became a HoF member (there’s a number of them). You get the point here.
If more people were readers and intent on making a knowledgeable vote and not be manipulated by sounds bites pandering to fear and greed then they would read and become very familiar with Project 2025 for which its creators have made a web site. They are not hiding their intent and methodology to destroy what the Founding Fathers created and replace it with a theocracy that destroys our civil rights, leaves the consumer unprotected, removes many aspects of our healthcare, will not recognize our rights to privacy, and forces their christian nationalism on us.
I am long in the tooth and as a straight senior white married male who has financially planned a middle class retirement and end, I have little to lose and believe I am low on the list to be loaded into a boxcar and sent to a camp for their final solution. The many others ahead of me on that list have much more to lose. So, if all of those who have been aggrieved in some way over the course of their lives, especially from January 2017 to January 2021, cannot unify and mobilize to get Joe back for a second term then I am bitter enough to say the hell with it.
If anyone who despises the traitorous insurrectionists trying to regain power cannot act and present strength from now until November then I will not lose sleep over it. If you thought that the Fat Orange’s first four years was a fuster-cluck, you ain’t seen nuttin’ yet. This time they are prepared, have extensive plans in place including thousands of unqualified people identified to replace government workers, and are wanting and willing to use violence to execute those plans.
Karma can be a real bitch. Voters for Biden, are you doing the right things and racking up enough points to be sure she is on your side?
Rally Guy, you make a lot of great points. I too feel the same. I wasn’t able to serve in any military service but I did serve here in the states in law enforcement and firefighting for over 27 years. I took the same Oath to uphold of our Constitution and laws. To serve our citizens of the communities. So yes, I have just as strong feelings about this upcoming election as you do. I too have been exercising my right to vote in every election since I was old enough to register to vote. And Ivan proudly say I haven’t missed one election.
I also studied this ‘Project 2025’ manifesto. It’s about as ridiculous as it comes, and about as foolish as those that drafted it! It is clearly set up to turn this nation away from Freedom, do away with Democracy and the Constitution. I have no idea what has happened that turned these people against this nation, or why they feel this movement is necessary. I feel that this movement started back in the Reagan era and has continued to grow since then. Now, most of our Justices who have been appointed in the various positions around the country, and the SCOTUS, are all coming from to this organization.
As for religion lacing Biden on the ballot. As I said in my writing. The man has his plan for the next 4 years. He would be much farther with his plan if WE hadn’t screwed the pooch and allowed the Republicans to take majority of the House of Representatives. Now, WE must fix this mess. We need to keep Biden/Harris in office and give them a majority House of Representatives and Senate. A Supermajority’ would even be much better. Maybe then they can get this SCOTUS straightened out too. This court has backed this nation up over 125 years, at minimum. Ever ruling they make seems to back us up further and further.
I will not vote for a third party. In doing that, it’s a vote for Trump. And, IF the third party candidate happens to win, get the Electoral College votes, then we will have something much worse than Trump in there. And that’s not acceptable at all!!!
Daniel, YES! This is what more and more of us must do. Put out the list of Biden accomplishments. I gave a list of his accomplishments to a young lady I know who didn’t want to vote for Biden because of the handling of Gaza. She said it was a good list & she hadn’t known about all that Biden did accomplish. (Unfortunately, it does take research because the right wing news owners refuse to advertise it).
Very true. That’s why we need to put it out there. And, as you did, give it to people to make them aware. It’s for sure the MSM, WaPo, NYT, and all the others will not say a word about his accomplishments. They want him gone and Trump in there. Why? I have no clue, but the one that needs to be off the ballot is Trump!
It perplexes me too. Don't they realize that the press is one of the first things authoritarian governments go after? They need to control the information. Thankfully, the internet makes that much harder but still. These people are supposed to be educated but seem to me to be showing a remarkable amount of ignorance.
That putting it rather mildly, Nicholas. I don’t think it’s ’ignorance’. I think these people have been sucked in by Trump’s rhetoric, lies, and the like. It’s simply pathetic!
I guess I’m just different because I was able to be involved in a three year task force investigating this clown 🤡. I learned a long time ago how he operated, and I’ve hated him ever since. Right down to the point if his first wife, the daughter of the Russian Oligarch, ‘falling down the stairs” causing her tragic demise. And her rushed embalming and burial on his golf course in New Jersey.
Well, I was being charitable and I meant ignorant of the fact that if Trump wins they'll be in trouble, i.e. how they're acting against their own interests. But yes, I fear you're right. As for Trump himself, I think he's one of the most despicable excuses for a human being I've ever come across. He doesn't have the tiniest shred of decency. It's beyond me how anyone could even contemplate letting him anywhere near the twins of power.
And thank you for your posts. I'm sorry I haven't expressed my gratitude before but they're greatly appreciated. 🙏🏼
Thanks, Nicholas. But I write what I write to try to keep people informed. And try to convince some of these lost people that the path they are on is a disaster in the making. If they world simply sit back ‘with open mind’ and study the big picture of what has taken on a the past 8 years, they would realize they are on the wrong side of this track. The side they are on is total destruction for us, our way of life, our Democracy, our Constitution, and most of all, our Freedom! The side they are on is all about one person. Trump, and his narcissistic sociopathic self serving behavior.
Yes, and I admire and respect you for that. My grandfather was a political historian in Germany, their AJP Taylor. His wife was Jewish and they fled the Nazis in 1938 (hence my father's being born in England). He became a journalist for The Observer and foreign correspondent when they moved back to Germany in 1954. When he died in 1999 my father found a manuscript among his effects that he edited and translated (‘Geschichte eines Deutschen’ – ‘Story/History of a German’, a memoir 1914-1933, published in 2000). Some critics said it couldn't possibly have been written when it was claimed to have been (in 1939) because it was too prescient and that he describes an escalator at a Berlin underground station in the 30s and they didn't have them then. They were hostile to the book because it put a lie to the claim that Germans couldn't have known what was happening in the early 30s. My dad contacted the BVG (Berliner Verkehrs Gemeinschaft – Berlin Transport Company) who verified that escalators were first introduced in the 20s. The criticism evaporated after a 1989 interview with him came to light and various other claims by the critical were refuted and the book sold over ½ million copies. My grandfather was a brilliant man but he berates himself for not having done more to stand up to the Nazis. He loved debating, especially with people who disagreed with him (and usually ran rings around them. He was a regular guest on a political discussion TV programme that aired on Sundays, had a weekly column in Stern magazine, ‘Sebastian Haffner's Opinion’ (I'm translating; Sebastian Haffner was the pen name he adopted to protect his relatives still in Germany, after his favourite composer JS Bach and his favourite piece of music, Mozart's Haffner Symphony). He had his own TV programme in the 50s which he would improvise without script or notes. Sometimes he would go off on a tangent repeatedly and you'd think he's lost his way but he always brought the subject back full circle).
Anyway, excuse my singing his praises but I'm immensely proud of him. The posthumous book I mentioned, Story/History of a German, is really relevant today as it describes how the Germans didn't want to see what was happening or thought it couldn't get that bad. That they ignored the warnings to their detriment and peril, until it was too late. The title of the English translation (by my father) is ‘Defying Hitler’ (published in 2003). BTW, the reason he never published it in his lifetime is that he thought he was better occupied by writing about how to deal with Hitler and the war and then thought it was too late. He reworked some of it into his 1940 book, ‘Germany, Jekyll & Hyde’. I would recommend it to you (Defying Hitler), if you can find a copy. He was a very good writer especially when you read them in the original German – German non-fiction can get very formal and dense but his writing was always remarkably clear and concise. If you can't and are interested, we have a cupboard full of his books in various languages, I'm sure I could find a copy; the English and German editions are the most popular among our friends and family so we tend to have fewer of them. I don't know if you speak any other languages? Spanish?
Please don't feel obliged to read it, I just thought you might be interested as it is pertinent. Either way I thank you again for your noble efforts and I wish you the best of luck. Personally, I think the Democrat infighting and calls for Biden to withdraw are in danger of handing the election to Trump. Instead of doing the GOP's work they need to get behind Biden and focus their attention on Trump's deficiencies and utter unsuitability. Take care.
And now almost all media is right wing owned,Murdock have bought up a lot CNN for 1 new feather in their cap. NYTimes Grandson who is running it now is a right winger. And where else has this happened, Oh Nazi Germany, Putin Russia, Orban Hungary
That's exactly what I keep wondering and it's no different on this side of the pond (UK)! I know that most of the press is partisan but even the independents here are doing it, including the BBC. What's wrong with these people?
I also came across a survey of historians and presidential experts by the American Historical Organization. They ranked Biden's administration 14ᵗʰ and Trump's 46ᵗʰ, i.e. the worst.
Very true. Once a lying scumbag, always a lying scumbag. But, everyone has known Biden’s age for years. He’s been in the political scene 50 years. He’s aged on camera, so to speak. No different than over 3/4s of Congress, no matter which party you choose.
Something else, I’d be more interested in ‘fact-checking’ all the lies told by Trump, as well as to why he refused to answer the questions. His only interest was staying on the southern border, which is like it was because of him. He’s the one that instructed his Congress folks to vote against that bill so he would have something to campaign about.
Bottom line. If you are going to attempt to destroy one candidate, then do the same with the other.
Well, the truth is as we all know. Both of these guys are old. Probably if it was earlier on neither of them should’ve be rerunning for the office however this is where we are . so why the Democrats don’t say what the Republicans said after they turn they turned back on Trump and then had to turn on around and kiss the ring , (like McConnell,Nikki Halley Ted Cruz , Barr, Governor from New Hampshire) which was don’t vote for the man vote for the party. The Democrats should be saying the same thing vote for the team the Democrats what they’ve done as you’ve so perfectly listed out in your post today
Exactly. Why push for Biden to drop out, especially after all the primaries are over. They wan to put Harris in his place. I hate breaking it to them, but she’s ALREADY ON THE TICKET! Geeze! IF anything happens to Biden, she’ll take over. Besides, the way Biden has been working her, she’s been involved with everything that’s been done this last 4 years, and then some. He has had her travel and meet with every leader of every county we are allied with. She’s been involved in every meeting of significant issues. Every meeting at the White House, with leaders of nations. He has had her involvement moved in all decisions. Preparing her to take the helm when it’s needed.
I said it before, I’ll say it again. I’d vote for Biden/Harris if he was on his death bed!!! There’s no way in two hells I’d vote for any republican in any race this year!
I agree with you Daniel, I’d like to add another little insight, I do live in the Washington DC area many of my clients are Government staffers(at high levels) on client that I spoke with after the debates, He is a man who has been with Biden on several occasions, be in the Oval Office multiple time made this observation about this debate. He said most Presidents ( with the exception of Trump) Don’t really watch the news They get briefed, they my see a snippet but over all are too busy to watch TV so they are informed of what is happening. From the split screen images in the debate ( bad idea) He said Joe just couldn’t believe what he was hearing in the Absurdity and Outrageousness of Trumps lies That he really doesn’t actually hear it first hand and that he (Joe) just couldn’t believe it and it totally threw him off and pissed him off. In addition to the cold the travel the being locked up for 10 days at Camp David practice is Debate. Not to mention the form was not a good choice for either of them. 2 mins is not enough for Biden to get his message out due to his speech impediment ( former stutter)
These are all superb points, Tweedledee! I agree with you. Even during the ‘20 minute interview’ he was ask if he had watched the debate afterwards. President Biden answered “no, he hadn’t”.
The ONLY thing I’ll give the other side on this argument is that BOTH CANDIDATES ARE OLD! Not just President Biden. There’s only 3 years age difference between them. Other than that, Biden has Trump beat hands down in all other categories.
We all are aware of both candidates agendas. Biden is wanting to finish his with doing more for the American people. More on the infrastructure, child care, elderly care, lower taxes for the middle and lower class people and raise it for the rich who rarely pay taxes to begin with. He has a long list of items he wants to complete. Most of all, he wants to fix this screwed up SCOTUS!
Trump’s agenda…..Project 2025, which was written by The Heritage Foundation leaders and members, and people from other (what I call) anti-Christ Neo-Nazi groups. This document is 920 pages, I think, and it’s a hell-of-a-read! It’s sickening!
Some of the other plans in Project 2025 include:
Reinstating and expanding Trump’sracist Muslim ban
Putting more guns in schools, through arming teachers
Trump is planning to build huge camps to detain suspected illegal immigrants while they wait to be cruelly deported and rip families apart.
Stop any and all acknowledgement of gender identity and LGBTQ+ people
Instead of promoting LGBTQ+ equity, Project 2025 calls for the government programs to be “replaced by policies that support the formation of [straight] families.” (pg 451)
Reinstating the ban on patriotic transgender Americans serving in the military (pg 104)
Cutting money from school meals, which Project 2025 calls an “entitlement program” (pg 302), despite it being the only hot meal for many food insecure children.
Dismantling the Department of Education and attempting to claw back Biden’s student loan forgiveness.
Eliminate the early education Head Start Program (pg. 482)
Roll back all the progress we’ve made on tackling climate change. (pg 522-534)
Americans should know what they are getting with Trump in Project 2025. This playbook lays out America’s potential future in Trump’s second term and everyone considering who to support or if to vote in 2024 should read it.
If you want to read up on this, here’s the link to it.
I’ve downloaded it, and am working my way through it. I plan on writing a post here on Substack about it, but I’m going to have to do it in numerous segments.
It is scary , 2025 while they all hide behind their choice of religion ( which will be gone soon) , The side bar reality if all this is this is a religious war, the The Christians basically are worried about their brand because young people are not having very many children and christian numbers are shrinking. Meanwhile the Muslims still 3+ children so I believe this is one of the reason wealthy Christian’s are backing 2025 project that the Christian’s Heritage Foundation to name 1) came up with.
Remember the Republicans always come up with a plan to take what you’re better at and then Al Gore was military record over George Bush with Hillary Clinton was her emails versus Trump tax returns Fidelity and everything else. So the question is how bad is Trump since you’re going after Biden’s age.
Trump has no business being on the ballot. He’s a convicted felon. He shouldn’t be near the nuclear football or have any connection to the nuclear codes. Not to mention he’s already stolen, and illegally shared Classified, Secret, Too Secret documents and information with communist leaders.
Trump also has been adjudicated as a rapist, and he’s a conman. Plain and simple. He’s personally responsible for 5 deaths on January 6, 2021, and thanks to his reaction to the COVID crisis, he’s responsible for the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Trump is a narcissistic sociopath who only looks out for himself. He’d throw his own children under the bus to prevent himself from going to jail.
Read some economics so you can understand better why the cost of things went up. It’s is large companies being able to now A) have a Monopoly on the market things to do regulations which enables their CEOs to buy stocks so that they can push it processed food and other items to American families because they have less competition and they get more money in their pockets they also are able to game stock market this way. this is one of the ways how so many people own or are in high-level positions of companies becoming billionaires
Contrary to what some folks on here are saying, Tweedledee, you are correct, mostly. These high prices began during the Trump administration when he broke ties with every trade partner we had in the world. Every trade agreement was broken and abolished. We had small businesses close. Farmers list everything. Their homes, land, equipment, everything. All because of the greed of one individual.
If it didn’t put money in Trump’s pocket, he didn’t trade with the country. We had store shelves empty. We had food lines begging for food to cook for the homeless, all the while tons and tons of food were being dumped into the oceans because it rotted on the ships. Millions of animals were dumped into the oceans because they starved to death in the ships. These ships were not allowed into the ports here in the United States or anywhere else in the world, to offload their cargo, or even to get feed for the animals they had on board.
Did Trump, or the majority House of Representatives and the Senate care? He’ll no! They were sitting in Washington DC stuffing their faces with steaks, and all the fixings nightly while the American people wondered where their next meal was coming from!
Now, we have these fools blaming all these high prices on Biden and his administration. These high prices are from the tariffs which were placed on imported goods from every country. All goods have high tariffs on them! And yes, the consumer is who ends up paying the tariff. “Shit flight we downhill! If you’re on the bottom of the pile, as most of us are, we get the blunt of the shit while the top 1% just like more on us!”
These tariffs will not end, or start to end, until next year, 2025. Trump set them up that way. As of recently gut now, Biden has planned to extend some tariffs on imported goods. Mostly from communist countries like China. He’s been working to get jobs, manufacturing, “CHIPS Act” and the like back in the United States so we can gain independence from importing goods from these countries.
President Biden has been able to increase incomes for the middle and lower class workers. The ‘blue-collar’ workers of this country. We all know that when salaries go up, so does the cost of goods to the consumers. When the fast food businesses had to raise their salaries to what, $15.00 per hour minimum, what happened? You can’t get a Whopper meal for less than $15-18.00!!! That’s outrageous, but these people have to pay their employees, and, we all know the folks sitting behind the big desks are going to take in their millions in salary and bonuses every year.
Oh yes, I agree with all of that and I know about the wage increase. I run and own businesses I’ve had to increase wages which does bring the prices up however minimum wage was too low in many states not all ,so it did need to go up because young people need to make more money or people at minimum wage need more money so they can at least participate in being a consumer so I do agree what you’re saying . Allowing monopolies again was part of Trump’s administration you’re right about that which is how again these guys these corporate guys are putting more money in their pockets.
Read Economics? Day one the price of fuel shot up. Spent imaginary money on “green” bullcrap. Inflation shot to 14% but hey it was Transitory. If the price of goods rises for me to make a product starting with the price of fuel to get it to me then what I need to make a profit margin has shot up then you, everyone as a consumer pays more while wages remain stagnant. There’s your economics and don’t talk to me like I’m 12. I buy Groceries, I buy gas and I pay the utilities on my home and it’s not Corporations it’s the policies of your demented one Joe Biden.
Maybe you need to read up on economics unless you learned what you know or think you know from a communist professor at Harvard.
How does it feel being sucked in by a rapist con man? A scammer. Hopefully one day, that brick will fall and all you folks who have believed all these lies you’ve been told will wake up in the real world.
Nice gathering and compilation of Biden administration achievements, Daniel.
I watched the 22 minute interview Friday night and concluded that someone was slipping. It is not, Joe. George Stephanopoulus’ interview was amateurish and, as the demented lying Fat Orange Clown would say, SAD! The one tone repetition of ridiculous hypotheticals was disappointing from someone who used to be a respected journalist and opinion show host. It seems to me that corporate media has given their minions their marching orders and it includes letting the Fat Orange slide.
I was an independent for many years. In 2020 I went for Biden for one reason. I was not voting for something but, as a veteran who never missed an election since I got the right to vote by age, I was intent on voting against a clear and present danger to our Democracy. It was why I and many of my peers put ourselves at risk during our youth.
As many have said in different versions about November 5, 2024, I would vote for a potted plant rather than vote for an ignorant narcissistic megalomaniac who created a SCOTUS that has now anointed him king. One person I definitely would not vote for is a replacement of Biden if he is somehow forced out by the current group of idiots known as the Democratic Party. There’s that Will Rogers quote along the lines of “I am not a member of an organized political party…I’m a Democrat.”
If Biden is not on the ballot I will throw my vote to a third party to let them know I was there but believe that their fast food mentality cannot and should not be condoned. The self-serving Dems calling for change would have been ones trying to fire Eisenhower and his staff on June 7, 1944 because they were not in Germany yet and he smoked too much. They would have blocked FDR in 1936 because he didn’t get the country out of the Great Depression yet which had been caused by the GOP of the 1920s. If they were sports teams owners they would have released the rookie who had a rough first couple of months but later became a HoF member (there’s a number of them). You get the point here.
If more people were readers and intent on making a knowledgeable vote and not be manipulated by sounds bites pandering to fear and greed then they would read and become very familiar with Project 2025 for which its creators have made a web site. They are not hiding their intent and methodology to destroy what the Founding Fathers created and replace it with a theocracy that destroys our civil rights, leaves the consumer unprotected, removes many aspects of our healthcare, will not recognize our rights to privacy, and forces their christian nationalism on us.
I am long in the tooth and as a straight senior white married male who has financially planned a middle class retirement and end, I have little to lose and believe I am low on the list to be loaded into a boxcar and sent to a camp for their final solution. The many others ahead of me on that list have much more to lose. So, if all of those who have been aggrieved in some way over the course of their lives, especially from January 2017 to January 2021, cannot unify and mobilize to get Joe back for a second term then I am bitter enough to say the hell with it.
If anyone who despises the traitorous insurrectionists trying to regain power cannot act and present strength from now until November then I will not lose sleep over it. If you thought that the Fat Orange’s first four years was a fuster-cluck, you ain’t seen nuttin’ yet. This time they are prepared, have extensive plans in place including thousands of unqualified people identified to replace government workers, and are wanting and willing to use violence to execute those plans.
Karma can be a real bitch. Voters for Biden, are you doing the right things and racking up enough points to be sure she is on your side?
Rally Guy, you make a lot of great points. I too feel the same. I wasn’t able to serve in any military service but I did serve here in the states in law enforcement and firefighting for over 27 years. I took the same Oath to uphold of our Constitution and laws. To serve our citizens of the communities. So yes, I have just as strong feelings about this upcoming election as you do. I too have been exercising my right to vote in every election since I was old enough to register to vote. And Ivan proudly say I haven’t missed one election.
I also studied this ‘Project 2025’ manifesto. It’s about as ridiculous as it comes, and about as foolish as those that drafted it! It is clearly set up to turn this nation away from Freedom, do away with Democracy and the Constitution. I have no idea what has happened that turned these people against this nation, or why they feel this movement is necessary. I feel that this movement started back in the Reagan era and has continued to grow since then. Now, most of our Justices who have been appointed in the various positions around the country, and the SCOTUS, are all coming from to this organization.
As for religion lacing Biden on the ballot. As I said in my writing. The man has his plan for the next 4 years. He would be much farther with his plan if WE hadn’t screwed the pooch and allowed the Republicans to take majority of the House of Representatives. Now, WE must fix this mess. We need to keep Biden/Harris in office and give them a majority House of Representatives and Senate. A Supermajority’ would even be much better. Maybe then they can get this SCOTUS straightened out too. This court has backed this nation up over 125 years, at minimum. Ever ruling they make seems to back us up further and further.
I will not vote for a third party. In doing that, it’s a vote for Trump. And, IF the third party candidate happens to win, get the Electoral College votes, then we will have something much worse than Trump in there. And that’s not acceptable at all!!!
Love This
Stuck with Joe We will be better off to have Joe in office again for 15 minutes than have Harris take over than 1 second of Trump.
I’d love to see Harris Debate Trump she’d chew him up and spit him out.
Like a level if cheap chewing gum! I’d love to see that too. He wouldn’t do it. I doubt he’d show up at all. He’s just that type of person.
Hugging you, Daniel! This is perfect-accurate, factual, truth. Thanks!!! 😊
Thanks, Jen! I try!!!
Daniel, YES! This is what more and more of us must do. Put out the list of Biden accomplishments. I gave a list of his accomplishments to a young lady I know who didn’t want to vote for Biden because of the handling of Gaza. She said it was a good list & she hadn’t known about all that Biden did accomplish. (Unfortunately, it does take research because the right wing news owners refuse to advertise it).
Very true. That’s why we need to put it out there. And, as you did, give it to people to make them aware. It’s for sure the MSM, WaPo, NYT, and all the others will not say a word about his accomplishments. They want him gone and Trump in there. Why? I have no clue, but the one that needs to be off the ballot is Trump!
It perplexes me too. Don't they realize that the press is one of the first things authoritarian governments go after? They need to control the information. Thankfully, the internet makes that much harder but still. These people are supposed to be educated but seem to me to be showing a remarkable amount of ignorance.
That putting it rather mildly, Nicholas. I don’t think it’s ’ignorance’. I think these people have been sucked in by Trump’s rhetoric, lies, and the like. It’s simply pathetic!
I guess I’m just different because I was able to be involved in a three year task force investigating this clown 🤡. I learned a long time ago how he operated, and I’ve hated him ever since. Right down to the point if his first wife, the daughter of the Russian Oligarch, ‘falling down the stairs” causing her tragic demise. And her rushed embalming and burial on his golf course in New Jersey.
Well, I was being charitable and I meant ignorant of the fact that if Trump wins they'll be in trouble, i.e. how they're acting against their own interests. But yes, I fear you're right. As for Trump himself, I think he's one of the most despicable excuses for a human being I've ever come across. He doesn't have the tiniest shred of decency. It's beyond me how anyone could even contemplate letting him anywhere near the twins of power.
And thank you for your posts. I'm sorry I haven't expressed my gratitude before but they're greatly appreciated. 🙏🏼
Thanks, Nicholas. But I write what I write to try to keep people informed. And try to convince some of these lost people that the path they are on is a disaster in the making. If they world simply sit back ‘with open mind’ and study the big picture of what has taken on a the past 8 years, they would realize they are on the wrong side of this track. The side they are on is total destruction for us, our way of life, our Democracy, our Constitution, and most of all, our Freedom! The side they are on is all about one person. Trump, and his narcissistic sociopathic self serving behavior.
Yes, and I admire and respect you for that. My grandfather was a political historian in Germany, their AJP Taylor. His wife was Jewish and they fled the Nazis in 1938 (hence my father's being born in England). He became a journalist for The Observer and foreign correspondent when they moved back to Germany in 1954. When he died in 1999 my father found a manuscript among his effects that he edited and translated (‘Geschichte eines Deutschen’ – ‘Story/History of a German’, a memoir 1914-1933, published in 2000). Some critics said it couldn't possibly have been written when it was claimed to have been (in 1939) because it was too prescient and that he describes an escalator at a Berlin underground station in the 30s and they didn't have them then. They were hostile to the book because it put a lie to the claim that Germans couldn't have known what was happening in the early 30s. My dad contacted the BVG (Berliner Verkehrs Gemeinschaft – Berlin Transport Company) who verified that escalators were first introduced in the 20s. The criticism evaporated after a 1989 interview with him came to light and various other claims by the critical were refuted and the book sold over ½ million copies. My grandfather was a brilliant man but he berates himself for not having done more to stand up to the Nazis. He loved debating, especially with people who disagreed with him (and usually ran rings around them. He was a regular guest on a political discussion TV programme that aired on Sundays, had a weekly column in Stern magazine, ‘Sebastian Haffner's Opinion’ (I'm translating; Sebastian Haffner was the pen name he adopted to protect his relatives still in Germany, after his favourite composer JS Bach and his favourite piece of music, Mozart's Haffner Symphony). He had his own TV programme in the 50s which he would improvise without script or notes. Sometimes he would go off on a tangent repeatedly and you'd think he's lost his way but he always brought the subject back full circle).
Anyway, excuse my singing his praises but I'm immensely proud of him. The posthumous book I mentioned, Story/History of a German, is really relevant today as it describes how the Germans didn't want to see what was happening or thought it couldn't get that bad. That they ignored the warnings to their detriment and peril, until it was too late. The title of the English translation (by my father) is ‘Defying Hitler’ (published in 2003). BTW, the reason he never published it in his lifetime is that he thought he was better occupied by writing about how to deal with Hitler and the war and then thought it was too late. He reworked some of it into his 1940 book, ‘Germany, Jekyll & Hyde’. I would recommend it to you (Defying Hitler), if you can find a copy. He was a very good writer especially when you read them in the original German – German non-fiction can get very formal and dense but his writing was always remarkably clear and concise. If you can't and are interested, we have a cupboard full of his books in various languages, I'm sure I could find a copy; the English and German editions are the most popular among our friends and family so we tend to have fewer of them. I don't know if you speak any other languages? Spanish?
Please don't feel obliged to read it, I just thought you might be interested as it is pertinent. Either way I thank you again for your noble efforts and I wish you the best of luck. Personally, I think the Democrat infighting and calls for Biden to withdraw are in danger of handing the election to Trump. Instead of doing the GOP's work they need to get behind Biden and focus their attention on Trump's deficiencies and utter unsuitability. Take care.
And now almost all media is right wing owned,Murdock have bought up a lot CNN for 1 new feather in their cap. NYTimes Grandson who is running it now is a right winger. And where else has this happened, Oh Nazi Germany, Putin Russia, Orban Hungary
Murdoch and the likes of him have ruined MSM. They should be banned from owning anything to do with news outlets.
That's exactly what I keep wondering and it's no different on this side of the pond (UK)! I know that most of the press is partisan but even the independents here are doing it, including the BBC. What's wrong with these people?
The MSM has gone completely cultish. For some reason Trump is ‘king’, and I’m clueless as to why. He’s a sick bastard!!!
I also came across a survey of historians and presidential experts by the American Historical Organization. They ranked Biden's administration 14ᵗʰ and Trump's 46ᵗʰ, i.e. the worst.
Trump was, and always will be, the absolute worst president this country has had, or probably ever will have.
Over my lifetime, Democrats have demonstrated remarkable talent for self-immolation. Here we go again😵💫
Nothing shocking about what Trump said so not newsworthy. Same old, same old.
Very true. Once a lying scumbag, always a lying scumbag. But, everyone has known Biden’s age for years. He’s been in the political scene 50 years. He’s aged on camera, so to speak. No different than over 3/4s of Congress, no matter which party you choose.
Something else, I’d be more interested in ‘fact-checking’ all the lies told by Trump, as well as to why he refused to answer the questions. His only interest was staying on the southern border, which is like it was because of him. He’s the one that instructed his Congress folks to vote against that bill so he would have something to campaign about.
Bottom line. If you are going to attempt to destroy one candidate, then do the same with the other.
True! 😀
Well, the truth is as we all know. Both of these guys are old. Probably if it was earlier on neither of them should’ve be rerunning for the office however this is where we are . so why the Democrats don’t say what the Republicans said after they turn they turned back on Trump and then had to turn on around and kiss the ring , (like McConnell,Nikki Halley Ted Cruz , Barr, Governor from New Hampshire) which was don’t vote for the man vote for the party. The Democrats should be saying the same thing vote for the team the Democrats what they’ve done as you’ve so perfectly listed out in your post today
Exactly. Why push for Biden to drop out, especially after all the primaries are over. They wan to put Harris in his place. I hate breaking it to them, but she’s ALREADY ON THE TICKET! Geeze! IF anything happens to Biden, she’ll take over. Besides, the way Biden has been working her, she’s been involved with everything that’s been done this last 4 years, and then some. He has had her travel and meet with every leader of every county we are allied with. She’s been involved in every meeting of significant issues. Every meeting at the White House, with leaders of nations. He has had her involvement moved in all decisions. Preparing her to take the helm when it’s needed.
I said it before, I’ll say it again. I’d vote for Biden/Harris if he was on his death bed!!! There’s no way in two hells I’d vote for any republican in any race this year!
I agree with you Daniel, I’d like to add another little insight, I do live in the Washington DC area many of my clients are Government staffers(at high levels) on client that I spoke with after the debates, He is a man who has been with Biden on several occasions, be in the Oval Office multiple time made this observation about this debate. He said most Presidents ( with the exception of Trump) Don’t really watch the news They get briefed, they my see a snippet but over all are too busy to watch TV so they are informed of what is happening. From the split screen images in the debate ( bad idea) He said Joe just couldn’t believe what he was hearing in the Absurdity and Outrageousness of Trumps lies That he really doesn’t actually hear it first hand and that he (Joe) just couldn’t believe it and it totally threw him off and pissed him off. In addition to the cold the travel the being locked up for 10 days at Camp David practice is Debate. Not to mention the form was not a good choice for either of them. 2 mins is not enough for Biden to get his message out due to his speech impediment ( former stutter)
These are all superb points, Tweedledee! I agree with you. Even during the ‘20 minute interview’ he was ask if he had watched the debate afterwards. President Biden answered “no, he hadn’t”.
The ONLY thing I’ll give the other side on this argument is that BOTH CANDIDATES ARE OLD! Not just President Biden. There’s only 3 years age difference between them. Other than that, Biden has Trump beat hands down in all other categories.
We all are aware of both candidates agendas. Biden is wanting to finish his with doing more for the American people. More on the infrastructure, child care, elderly care, lower taxes for the middle and lower class people and raise it for the rich who rarely pay taxes to begin with. He has a long list of items he wants to complete. Most of all, he wants to fix this screwed up SCOTUS!
Trump’s agenda…..Project 2025, which was written by The Heritage Foundation leaders and members, and people from other (what I call) anti-Christ Neo-Nazi groups. This document is 920 pages, I think, and it’s a hell-of-a-read! It’s sickening!
Some of the other plans in Project 2025 include:
Reinstating and expanding Trump’sracist Muslim ban
Putting more guns in schools, through arming teachers
Trump is planning to build huge camps to detain suspected illegal immigrants while they wait to be cruelly deported and rip families apart.
Stop any and all acknowledgement of gender identity and LGBTQ+ people
Instead of promoting LGBTQ+ equity, Project 2025 calls for the government programs to be “replaced by policies that support the formation of [straight] families.” (pg 451)
Reinstating the ban on patriotic transgender Americans serving in the military (pg 104)
Cutting money from school meals, which Project 2025 calls an “entitlement program” (pg 302), despite it being the only hot meal for many food insecure children.
Dismantling the Department of Education and attempting to claw back Biden’s student loan forgiveness.
Eliminate the early education Head Start Program (pg. 482)
Roll back all the progress we’ve made on tackling climate change. (pg 522-534)
Americans should know what they are getting with Trump in Project 2025. This playbook lays out America’s potential future in Trump’s second term and everyone considering who to support or if to vote in 2024 should read it.
If you want to read up on this, here’s the link to it.
https://archive.org/embed/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL
I’ve downloaded it, and am working my way through it. I plan on writing a post here on Substack about it, but I’m going to have to do it in numerous segments.
It is scary , 2025 while they all hide behind their choice of religion ( which will be gone soon) , The side bar reality if all this is this is a religious war, the The Christians basically are worried about their brand because young people are not having very many children and christian numbers are shrinking. Meanwhile the Muslims still 3+ children so I believe this is one of the reason wealthy Christian’s are backing 2025 project that the Christian’s Heritage Foundation to name 1) came up with.
Again, I agree. But they’re ‘brand’ of Christianity I want no part of.
Remember the Republicans always come up with a plan to take what you’re better at and then Al Gore was military record over George Bush with Hillary Clinton was her emails versus Trump tax returns Fidelity and everything else. So the question is how bad is Trump since you’re going after Biden’s age.
Trump has no business being on the ballot. He’s a convicted felon. He shouldn’t be near the nuclear football or have any connection to the nuclear codes. Not to mention he’s already stolen, and illegally shared Classified, Secret, Too Secret documents and information with communist leaders.
Trump also has been adjudicated as a rapist, and he’s a conman. Plain and simple. He’s personally responsible for 5 deaths on January 6, 2021, and thanks to his reaction to the COVID crisis, he’s responsible for the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Trump is a narcissistic sociopath who only looks out for himself. He’d throw his own children under the bus to prevent himself from going to jail.
Lowering the daily cost for American families. Your first point. Seriously you are delusional. Stopped reading your horse shit right about there.
All I can say is “facts are facts.” Sorry you don’t accept facts. Have a nice life in your dreamland cult.
Tell me then oh wise one what is affordable for the average family?
Read some economics so you can understand better why the cost of things went up. It’s is large companies being able to now A) have a Monopoly on the market things to do regulations which enables their CEOs to buy stocks so that they can push it processed food and other items to American families because they have less competition and they get more money in their pockets they also are able to game stock market this way. this is one of the ways how so many people own or are in high-level positions of companies becoming billionaires
Contrary to what some folks on here are saying, Tweedledee, you are correct, mostly. These high prices began during the Trump administration when he broke ties with every trade partner we had in the world. Every trade agreement was broken and abolished. We had small businesses close. Farmers list everything. Their homes, land, equipment, everything. All because of the greed of one individual.
If it didn’t put money in Trump’s pocket, he didn’t trade with the country. We had store shelves empty. We had food lines begging for food to cook for the homeless, all the while tons and tons of food were being dumped into the oceans because it rotted on the ships. Millions of animals were dumped into the oceans because they starved to death in the ships. These ships were not allowed into the ports here in the United States or anywhere else in the world, to offload their cargo, or even to get feed for the animals they had on board.
Did Trump, or the majority House of Representatives and the Senate care? He’ll no! They were sitting in Washington DC stuffing their faces with steaks, and all the fixings nightly while the American people wondered where their next meal was coming from!
Now, we have these fools blaming all these high prices on Biden and his administration. These high prices are from the tariffs which were placed on imported goods from every country. All goods have high tariffs on them! And yes, the consumer is who ends up paying the tariff. “Shit flight we downhill! If you’re on the bottom of the pile, as most of us are, we get the blunt of the shit while the top 1% just like more on us!”
These tariffs will not end, or start to end, until next year, 2025. Trump set them up that way. As of recently gut now, Biden has planned to extend some tariffs on imported goods. Mostly from communist countries like China. He’s been working to get jobs, manufacturing, “CHIPS Act” and the like back in the United States so we can gain independence from importing goods from these countries.
President Biden has been able to increase incomes for the middle and lower class workers. The ‘blue-collar’ workers of this country. We all know that when salaries go up, so does the cost of goods to the consumers. When the fast food businesses had to raise their salaries to what, $15.00 per hour minimum, what happened? You can’t get a Whopper meal for less than $15-18.00!!! That’s outrageous, but these people have to pay their employees, and, we all know the folks sitting behind the big desks are going to take in their millions in salary and bonuses every year.
Oh yes, I agree with all of that and I know about the wage increase. I run and own businesses I’ve had to increase wages which does bring the prices up however minimum wage was too low in many states not all ,so it did need to go up because young people need to make more money or people at minimum wage need more money so they can at least participate in being a consumer so I do agree what you’re saying . Allowing monopolies again was part of Trump’s administration you’re right about that which is how again these guys these corporate guys are putting more money in their pockets.
Now all we have to do is figure out how to get these ‘cultists’ to understand this and get them back to reality!
Read Economics? Day one the price of fuel shot up. Spent imaginary money on “green” bullcrap. Inflation shot to 14% but hey it was Transitory. If the price of goods rises for me to make a product starting with the price of fuel to get it to me then what I need to make a profit margin has shot up then you, everyone as a consumer pays more while wages remain stagnant. There’s your economics and don’t talk to me like I’m 12. I buy Groceries, I buy gas and I pay the utilities on my home and it’s not Corporations it’s the policies of your demented one Joe Biden.
Maybe you need to read up on economics unless you learned what you know or think you know from a communist professor at Harvard.
How does it feel being sucked in by a rapist con man? A scammer. Hopefully one day, that brick will fall and all you folks who have believed all these lies you’ve been told will wake up in the real world.
Among other things.