Traitor Claudio... It does sorta have a ring to it.

A ring of truth.

What you won't hear him commenting on is #60.

Joe Biden Pours Cold Water on Wave of Calls to Step Down

President Joe Biden on Wednesday evening reassured his supporters that he is remaining in the 2024 presidential race.

"Let me say this as clearly as I possibly can"as simply and straightforward as I can: I am running ... no one's pushing me out," Biden said, according to a report from Politico.

"I'm not leaving. I'm in this race to the end and we're going to win."

Vice President Kamala Harris, who according to polling is likely the top choice to replace Biden if he were to step aside, was also on the DNC call Wednesday, and said while sitting beside the president, "We will not back down. We will follow our president's lead. We will fight, and we will win."

At the Debate, Trump lied at least 30 times, and lied each time he was asked a question.

Which is something that professionals will tell you is problematic at least.

"Both candidates " Joe Biden, now 81, and Donald Trump, 78 " would set a record for the oldest president in office, and both have faced speculation about their cognitive abilities.

On the debate stage, Biden and Trump both displayed behaviors that raised red flags from their audience:

The current president had slurred speech, some garbled answers, a pause that resolved in a non sequitur;

his opponent offered answers that often bypassed logical reasoning, and lied about easily verifiable facts."

"Biden met for more than an hour at the White House in person and virtually with more than 20 governors from his party.

The governors told reporters afterward that the conversation was "candid" and said they expressed concerns about Biden's debate performance last week.

They reiterated that defeating Donald Trump in November was the priority, but said they were still standing behind Biden and did not join other Democrats who have been urging him to withdraw his candidacy."

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"Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer also threw her support behind Biden. "He is in it to win it and I support him," she said on Twitter/X after the meeting.

Whitmer is one of several Democratic governors who have been cited as possible replacements if Biden were to withdraw his candidacy.

Gavin Newsom, whose name has also been floated, flew in for the governors' meeting on Wednesday, saying afterwards:

"I heard three words from the president tonight " he's all in. And so am I."

We need to help stop Putin's aggression now against Ukraine... and Georgia, Finland, Poland and assorted other neighbors.

Better to fight that war Over There than over here, just like last time.... you know, when the Original America Firsters were shouting Heil Hitler by the thousands in Madison Sq Garden.

Next year Trump will be wrapping all those countries up in a bow for his boyfriend the Bald Dwarf.

Hrat posting BS from a BS website?

Say it ain't so!

"Black people have become "even more belligerent and unwilling to pitch in to improve their own situations"

He's reciting the unOfficial Republican Manual for the last 100 years. Trumpers still do so on these pages.

Between him giving away millions... that he got in tax breaks from people like Trump... and Leo Leonard funding Rwing SC Justices with millions in trips and goodies, Republicans are trying to Make America the Gilded Age of the 1920's again, where money was much better than law and justice.

MAGA Make America the Gilded Age

I like this Trump in prison where he belongs after his very own hand-picked Trumper Aides and Lawyers, literally dozens of them, testified under Oath to his crimes while he was trying to overturn the Election, first with Fake Ballots, that his own DOJ wouldn't accept... and then with Fake Electors and a violent mob attacking the Capitol.

Apparently, and I may have mentioned all this before, lol, Trumpers believe all those other Trumpers were really Dem Crisis Actors... as they have no other explanation for those Aides and Lawyers telling the truth.

43

The democracynow article linked in 31 would prolly disagree with that.

"Trump's Prosecutions Depend on Whether the Dissent Got It Right"

children

#38

Maybe they are encouraging her to run. Sounds like you may not have any children if you think they become something else in their early 20's other than still your chidden.

One is still in school and the other working in filmmaking as I recall. I doubt they want to go back to a Secret Service Security Detail. It stopped when they were 16.

- What makes you think Michelle can win today??

The stats at the link in #5 are pretty impressive.

"Is Michelle Obama going to run for president? No.

Is her polling lead over Donald Trump relevant anyway? Yes."

To hear Trump and his acolytes tell it, the former president isn't just a candidate, he's also the head of a powerful political movement. What's more, as far as Republicans are concerned, Trump's lead in the polls isn't rooted in an anti-Democrat sentiment; it's the result of an American electorate that loves the presumptive GOP nominee and is clamoring to vote for him.

Perhaps, though in a match-up against the former first lady, Trump not only trails by double digits, he also fails to crack 40%.

The point is, Michelle Obama's polling lead suggests there's a broad political appetite for someone other than the former president. The challenge for Democrats is presenting those voters with a ticket they'll be excited about."

#26

Telling a woman how to raise her children isn't your job.

If she changes her mind, great. If not that's not your business.

There are more nerfs now than ever that need herding.

Polls are still stinky this far out... they mean very little other than a snapshot of now, they aren't considered predictive of 4 mos from now.

AND

- a democratic process for replacing Biden as the nominee

Here is, apparently, how it could werk right now, done within a week at the DNC.

How to Replace Biden & Beat Trump: Longtime DNC Member Jim Zogby Proposes Process to Pick New Nominee

And she gets to make those choices.

Respecting the one she's so far made is fair.

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And expert opinion is now gaslighting?

Aren't their some nerfs somewhere that need herding?

Or is your time being taken up fully with telling women how to protect their children?

To quote LauraMohr.... OOPSIES!

I thought it sounded strange.... oh well, at least my comment in #1 still stands.

Dems would apparently have to guarantee the safety of her children, which is her stated concern.

And considering MAGAts, she has every right to be concerned.

- progressive dementia

That's an opinion, and everyone has those.

It's not necessarily correct:

That's not in opposition to what I said, but, whatever.

"Following the high court's action, there is no legal impediment to turning over the documents, which are held by the National Archives and Records Administration.

They include presidential diaries, visitor logs, speech drafts and handwritten notes dealing with Jan. 6 from the files of former chief of staff Mark Meadows.

Alone among the justices, Clarence Thomas said he would have granted Trump's request to keep the documents on hold."

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When Unkle Thomas gets bought, he stays bought.

"Time to change up the tactics.

The Supreme Court may be the only institution left that is less popular than the presidency. Biden should hit the road and take his case against the justices to the public."

"A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Joe Biden and Donald Trump tied at 40%, suggesting that Biden has not lost ground since the debate.

Among the names of top Democrats put before respondents, only Michelle Obama outperformed Biden and led Trump 50% to 39% in a hypothetical matchup."

He may have been getting advice on uppers for the next debate.