@Johnny Q

Cream of nowhere...

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#2.1 You don't have to pay them. Although their interest in broadening their students' minds may not have the same meaning...

@Anja Geitz Probably would not have helped him with his grammar.

#2.2

Even in his blatering word salad of a response, the tense just screamed at me. A bit pathetic, don't you think, watching these poor lying bastards having to think fast on their feet. Joe shoulda called up Donna B. and had the questions sent to him before the debate. Amirite?

@wokkamile

I am aware of the purpose of the political pivot away from controversial topics. Which is why this mind numbing "debate" process in the guise of "getting to know" the candidate is an insulting farce, at our expense. While some may find in the intricacies of the political games politicians play interesting, I do not. It's like watching the Romans feeding prisoners to the lions, and then commenting on the process with which it's done. The entire kabuki show that is our electoral system is a venal degradation that has been so distorted it no longer resembles a democracy.

#7.3 reparations which idea most AAs support and Joe leads the pack in black support so far, so on a question about the legacy of slavery has to find a way to avoid the obvious discussion on reparations and the possibility of offending his large base. Thus his pivot to a discussion about his ... interesting ... proposals to improve black educational achievement.

But go out and preach it to the People. Because currently Biden is getting oversized credit from AAs for his loyalty to and support of Obama. Biden leads by a whopping margin among AAs in the important early primary state of SC. I think his AA support there is above 40%.

The Biden-Obama link is going to be a hard one to break among black voters, but so far Joe is doing a fair job of undoing it himself.

@snoopydawg

Somewhat painful to read, however.

In the end, the corrupt and incompetent Democratic Party bosses did it again! Same as 2016. They attempted to force on us a candidate completely unsuitable for the task. They pushed a living insult in the face of our political and social priorities. Their excuse is that they needed a candidate who can beat Donald Trump. The Democratic Party leadership is so deranged that they actually believed Joe Biden was that man.

For the Council on Foreign Relations, Joe Biden is the perfect candidate. His presidency would be the opportunity of a lifetime. In 2021, the CFR would quietly fill the cabinet, the courts, the State Department, and all other appointed positions of authority. Exactly 100 years from the day of their founding, they will have achieved their aim to establish the US as the seat of global empire. A swing and a miss, of course.

This is still a continuation of the unresolved Russia Hoax and 2016 election sabotage by a cartel of Democratic Elite in collusion with their top appointees in the Intelligence Community. This nightmare is still playing out — in 2020! James Kunstler touched on that same idea the other day:

The memory hole that appeared in America’s zeitgeist around 2016 is expanding like some evil cosmic rot. Things happen and then things unhappen and after a while it’s like they never happened. For instance, little seems to have happened all summer long with the matter known as RussiaGate, the attempt by high US government officials to overthrow the result of the 2016 election by pretending that Russia was trying to interfere in the 2016 election.

The case against General Michael Flynn was an intersection between all the malign forces operating in RussiaGate: rogue high government officials, the vengeful Mrs. Clinton, her allies in the media, and the ass-covering of figures in Barack Obama’s White House inner circle. The case needs to be resolved to plug the memory hole in American political life.

Meanwhile, all indications are that former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe is about to be frog-marched into an indictment for his part in the epic, many-tentacled RussiaGate intrigue. Perhaps today. Many of the other well-known players will follow. Until they do, the Justice branch of the US government may be considered an enemy of the people.

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Not that there is anyone left in the Federal Government who has clean hands.

#9.1

On this note I think you'll enjoy this article. I certainly did!

We're all doomed!

Joe Biden Is A Doddering Old Mummy With A Skull Full Of Dumpster Juice

Joe Biden’s politics are bad and he is a bad candidate. Ordinarily that might be the most important measure of a guy running for national office: That his positions, both as stated and as demonstrated by his decades in national government, amount to a tepid, grey, nutrient-free broth of long-discredited Third Way boomer bullshit; that, in the context of, well, all this, the horror of 2019 and the swelling terror just over its horizon, The ship’s good, we just need a better captain to steer it is not in any meaningful sense different from apocalyptic death-cult Heaven’s Gate shit; that the places where his talking points harmonize with the worthy priorities and goals of others are also the very places where his own long track record as a defender of credit companies and champion of racist crime policies most clearly discredits him; that he has nothing more to offer by way of tactical approaches to accomplishing his weak goals beyond musty, insulting platitudes about harnessing the imaginary good will and good faith of the sneering genocidal fascists on the far side of the aisle. If that were all, there wouldn’t need to be more.

But also! Joe Biden is 76 years old and plainly in steep cognitive decline, which is a nice way of saying that he is a doddering, senile old oaf who cannot keep his teeth in straight and whose brain appears to be some torn-up sponge chunks floating in dishwater. During last night’s Democratic presidential debate in Houston, Biden appeared confused about his own position on health care, both about the details of the health-care proposal on his own website and about what he himself had just said about his health-care proposal, a few minutes earlier. Later, a moderator read him back something he’d said in 1975 about segregation in schools, a snide rejection of the idea that present-day white Americans have any responsibility to make reparations for slavery, and asked him, “What responsibility do you think that Americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country?”

He’s a senile old man who has no business running a museum tour, much less the executive branch of the federal government.

(And so, naturally, the Washington Post’s analyst, Dan Balz, writes that “former vice president Joe Biden on Thursday delivered the kind of performance his supporters have been waiting for—combative when needed and in the thick of the action throughout.” As for, like, the actual stuff Biden said, or the plain, slurring, loose-dentured confusion with which he said it, that mostly goes unmentioned. Why should that matter? He was givin’ ‘em hell!)

(We’re all doomed.)

I like this guy's writing... read the whole thing.

@snoopydawg @snoopydawg
Thanks for sharing that article. It’s painfully true.

After that debate, I keep thinking of a conversation I had with my late grandmother around 2007. Keep in mind, my family is very republican. She said “McCain shouldn’t be running. He is too old.”

My grandmother was older than McCain. She came from a small town in Indiana. She’d probably never seen a person of color until she was in her twenties. Exactly the kind of person the McCain campaign was designed for. And she felt he was too old.

It kind of shocked me really, because I really didn’t think McCain’s age was a liability. The guy was an evil shitheel, but he seemed to more or less be together. (Ok, he did that weird suspending his campaign to panic about the financial crisis thing, but that seemed more like general stupidity than age kicking in.)

She elaborated that even though she was in his cohort, people like him had their time to lead. He was too removed from what was going to impact my generation and the ones after me. It was time for her generation to stand aside and let someone else run things.

I was really kind of surprised because this just wasn’t stuff you were supposed to say, you know? But, no way could I disagree either. It was a learning moment for me when I realized that maybe not everyone my grandma’s age is so keen on having a president their own age.

As I watch Biden, I wonder what she’d have to say about him. I can only imagine she’d have some pretty choice things to say, not only knowing her view on age, but also that her own mother was struck with Alzheimer’s and my grandfather dementia.

#9.1

On this note I think you'll enjoy this article. I certainly did!

We're all doomed!

Joe Biden Is A Doddering Old Mummy With A Skull Full Of Dumpster Juice

Joe Biden’s politics are bad and he is a bad candidate. Ordinarily that might be the most important measure of a guy running for national office: That his positions, both as stated and as demonstrated by his decades in national government, amount to a tepid, grey, nutrient-free broth of long-discredited Third Way boomer bullshit; that, in the context of, well, all this, the horror of 2019 and the swelling terror just over its horizon, The ship’s good, we just need a better captain to steer it is not in any meaningful sense different from apocalyptic death-cult Heaven’s Gate shit; that the places where his talking points harmonize with the worthy priorities and goals of others are also the very places where his own long track record as a defender of credit companies and champion of racist crime policies most clearly discredits him; that he has nothing more to offer by way of tactical approaches to accomplishing his weak goals beyond musty, insulting platitudes about harnessing the imaginary good will and good faith of the sneering genocidal fascists on the far side of the aisle. If that were all, there wouldn’t need to be more.

But also! Joe Biden is 76 years old and plainly in steep cognitive decline, which is a nice way of saying that he is a doddering, senile old oaf who cannot keep his teeth in straight and whose brain appears to be some torn-up sponge chunks floating in dishwater. During last night’s Democratic presidential debate in Houston, Biden appeared confused about his own position on health care, both about the details of the health-care proposal on his own website and about what he himself had just said about his health-care proposal, a few minutes earlier. Later, a moderator read him back something he’d said in 1975 about segregation in schools, a snide rejection of the idea that present-day white Americans have any responsibility to make reparations for slavery, and asked him, “What responsibility do you think that Americans need to take to repair the legacy of slavery in our country?”

He’s a senile old man who has no business running a museum tour, much less the executive branch of the federal government.

(And so, naturally, the Washington Post’s analyst, Dan Balz, writes that “former vice president Joe Biden on Thursday delivered the kind of performance his supporters have been waiting for—combative when needed and in the thick of the action throughout.” As for, like, the actual stuff Biden said, or the plain, slurring, loose-dentured confusion with which he said it, that mostly goes unmentioned. Why should that matter? He was givin’ ‘em hell!)

(We’re all doomed.)

I like this guy's writing... read the whole thing.