I have no comment at this time. I humbly request that all foreign countries just cover their eyes, look away politely, and pretend they didn’t see any of that. You know, like half of America has been doing up until now.
I refuse to watch CNN. I did however catch RFKjr’s debate on Rumble. Since he was not invited to the CNN/Biden/Trump thing, he simply dubbed himself in as if he were really there and had John Stossel as the moderator. It was the “alternative presidential debate.”
Having now watched vast clips of the CNN debate, I would like to retract all previous objections to the idea of deep fakes. I find I am no longer concerned about misrepresentation, artificial intelligence, or deep fakes. Reality is far scarier! From here on out, please just lie to me. I’d like to request better wax figures, more powerful make up, and some glamorous special effects. Masks, robots, pod people, computer generated animation, it’s all good, whatever it takes.
I jest a bit, but in truth it was just really sad. Exploitative. Elder abuse. I wanted to file a report with Adult Protective Services. Biden is not well. He is not able to function on his own. He shouldn’t be operating a motor vehicle let alone a country. I really can’t stand the man, but he deserves some compassionate care. Or rather, it reflects poorly on his handlers that he isn’t receiving that care. And it reflects poorly on all of us that we have allowed him to become this kind of a spectacle.
I knew what to expect and I was still shocked and a bit shaken. How anybody could have sent him out front of TV cameras in that condition is beyond me. Would not surprise me in the least if an announcement were to come in the next few weeks.
As for RFK jr, he’s done some good work, especially around vaccines. I bear him no ill will at all, in fact as you can see I often listen to him and follow his work. That said, I am clearly a Trump fan. I would really like to avoid World War 3 which we seem perched very close to the edge of. It scares me. Also, people here at home are really suffering, the fentanyl epidemic is stealing our loved ones, our young people are dying, and most of us are now perched on the edge of complete economic collapse. I’d really like to avoid war, rampant addiction, and 3rd world poverty, if at all possible, and I really believe we need President Trump in order to try to pull that off.
See, there's this thing called biology... 
Very well put! The country is in dire straits, no doubt.
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I am, very reluctantly, with you on this conclusion, though I’ve fervently wished for a viable third option for years now. Still, when I look at the candidates we’re offered, all I can think is, “In a nation of nearly 342 million, are these really the best we’ve got?!?”
But another term under the insane policies we’ve just experienced for four years is just terrifying. So many problems, including the ones you’ve outlined.
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Unfortunately, I think anyone who would be a better choice for President is too sensible to aspire to the position. Why would anyone want to subject himself to the slander, persecution, and just plain hate – not to mention putting his own and his family’s lives at stake? I’m not a Trump fanatic, but I’m amazed that he is willing to continue after what’s been done to him. (I guess at this point he’s just mad enough to keep going – success being the best retribution, as he said.)
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My take on the debate… Biden definitely lost.. and Trump definitely did not win.
I posed this moral question to my significant other recently given she is VERY anti-Trump (largely because Trump’s persona and moral repugnancy is so much like her abusive ex of 35 years).
I think there is a general perception that the tenseness of our political diversity is looming on the edge of exploding violence in some fashion, somewhere in the country, primarily as a result of a Trump election loss and the Right believing only in conspiracies, the last election was a fraud, and the violence of Jan. 6th. The talk of a civil war-ish kinda thing everyone has heard from the Right. Likely this might manifest itself in forms of urban unrest and even attacks on government buildings in general. We all know from history that the victims of these kinds of violent upheavals are everyday citizens in the wrong place at the wrong time. We already experience this with random mass shootings across the country. My calculation, if Trump loses people will die somewhere, because collateral damage is what political violence is all about.
Here’s the question…. knowing all that could happen, regardless of degree, even if the loss of life is only one American, would you vote for Trump to AVOID the deaths of fellow Americans… or is knowing people will die the collateral price for not voting for Trump and he loses the election and the MAGA minions revolt worse than the first time?
It’s an honest option I’ve been thinking of simply because the Constitution is greater than Trump or any sitting president, we weathered Trump’s first term in spite of the constant chaos, and even if the wildest of possibilities Congress goes Trump and Trump himself wins… there are still people of good will that won’t promote authoritarian agendas, revenge politics, and follow a behavioral sociopath, to the point where the country can’t recover.
BTW, my SO’s reply (obviously biased from her own past) was that the death of a “few” fellow Americans from the expected violence of a Trump loss might be still worth voting against him to save the country. So.. do I vote for Trump because I feel under some level of duress in preferring to avoid the violence of a Trump loss? The jury is still out on that with me.
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Well, how do I even say this clearly? If getting locked down in our homes, forced to take experimental shots, seeing innocent people locked up as political prisoners, having our stores looted and burned by rioters, and watching loved ones die from drug overdoses hasn’t sparked a violent revolution, nothing will.
Anyone who thinks Jan 6 was an insurrection or some act of potential civil war is a bloody idiot. I don’t know how many times I have to say this, but they deliberately left their weapons at home. People don’t got to war without their weapons. Shoot, this is America, some people don’t even go to walmart without their weapons!
Americans are not going to descend into civil war, but there is a distinct possibility we might unite and be forced to fight for our very survival in WW3 against Russia, China, North Korea and several other people currently forming alliances. Or, at the rate we’re going we might not even get a chance to fight.
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As for Jan 6th.. count me as one of those “bloody idiots” (shouldn’t you be sent to your room for that one?). I I prefer to defer to the Constitution and the justice system that was followed in the presentation of evidence and an actual jury… than someone’s biased projection. But.. we can certainly defer.
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Well Doug, the NEED to release the Hur report looms large. Not sure why ANY fair minded politician would object.
Oh wait, I do know. Who is fair? JB would instantly resign. How long can the charade continue…
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You might want to take pause on all this and consider this…..
When you watched the debate we saw an aging gentleman with diminished capacity against the schoolyard bully. If that was a Biden 20 years younger, standing up to Trump would be little or no problem. Why? Trump said nothing. He blathered away in his usual hyperbolic generalities and emotional bromides; he is NOT a detail guy and cares little for the numbers to present his position. Flat out, he’s a buffoon. I mean, he apparently flat lied 30 times with his generalities. Biden is alleged to have lied 9 times. I would submit that was far less about incompetence and far more about his diminished capacity that was so obvious that night.
Here’s the thing… the reason Trump appears so formidable is that he’s constantly compared along side to an aging Biden. Remove Biden and put nearly ANYONE on the Dem side in politics who knows politics… and Trump is history. Trump is NOT that formidable. Yes, he’s popular and loud. But I can suggest that the voting majority of the electorate right now is willing to cast their vote toward someone “not Trump” who at least can stand up to Trump. This isn’t complicated because the votes are there to defeat Trump. Don’t think so? If you might want Trump to win you better pray Biden stays in the game. Otherwise anyone else who takes the Dem ticket will NOT have any sort of past policy Trump can lament on, that person will fill the “hope for the future” gap that neither Biden nor Trump has at the moment, and it really would not take a political superstar to manage telling Trump where to get off in the next two debates. Trump’s effectiveness exists ONLY because Biden exists.
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Doug-
You mentioned Trump 11x by name, and several other times by inference.
I mentioned him Zero/nada/Nula/ x i think.
Put any man on stage there. Put Schumer or Pelosi along side. The issue was Biden there doug. For God’s sake he’s supposed to be prez.
If he acted like that for a job interview at Daisy donuts, he would not have been hired. Wake up.
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That’s where you’re not getting the point here. The election IS to decide if Biden stays in power or not by evaluating his service record, as any voter might perceive it, as compared with Trump’s record. All I am saying essentially is that Trump needs Biden if Trump has any chance of winning at all. If Biden gets replaced on the Dem ticket.. Trump ain’t returning to the White House for sure. I have no idea at all if Biden will be replaced by the Dem Convention or not. I’m simply stating, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Dems might be playing a side card to replace Biden at the convention to throw the Trump MAGAists into chaos. How can Trump debate effectively any Dem candidate who has no proven policy record? But hey.. that’s called election strategy. Try focusing on what the country needs and not the MAGA-inspired need for political revenge.
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Yeah, go with Newsome who has destroyed the wonderful state of CA. Pick a godawful Squad member, any one, and you’ll have Mus-lum chants over loudspeakers in DC.
No wonder there was a jan 6.
Truth be told doug, JB has no power. All he can do is what he’s told. But ask yourself: Could JB get a job at a coffee shop?
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Do you somehow get the idea that I am a Biden guy? As I already stated in another reply on this thread, I’m considering voting for Trump simply to avoid the American blood that will likely be spilled if Trump loses. Imagine.. voting for Trump because I feel under duress of the violence against fellow Americans by fellow Americans if he loses. I consider that fairly good patriotism by any definition. Again as I stated earlier, we shall see what develops.
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I know u are neither excited about one or the other. We are just talking about how sad and painful it is to see a guy try to tread water without arms and legs.
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Which one? (lol. I thought that was a rather funny retort on my part). Look, what was worse for you… watching a feral bully of an old man banging away at an another disadvantaged old man to make himself appear more dominant… or the disadvantaged old man himself finally reaching a point in life where he should call it quits? They both should have called it quits a while back. Funny the interesting moral justifications to support a comparably immoral person, in a blog that typically is filled with Christian perceptions.
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Aah you bring up something important. There are many christians who like the Amish, have never voted. Why? Yet others, while being believers, feel the need to vote. Why? There is this thing called liberty whereby a man/woman acts according to conscience. One is not necessarily better than the other.
As to morals, how could a king execute the order to lop off the head of the baptist, while the Lord did nothing about it?
So some believers vote/ support their man, not because of morals as you cite, but because they perhaps think he is the best choice in a world gone nutso. If you considered this, your perspective may get a face lift.
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“As to morals, how could a king execute the order to lop off the head of the baptist, while the Lord did nothing about it?”
We blame God now if things don’t go accordingly? There’s a lot of that going around these days.
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Not sure who the ‘we’ is who blames God. Certainly not me. I do see murdering bastards tho.
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Honestly Doug, you’re worried about me calling people “bloody idiots” when you yourself just said, “the death of a “few” fellow Americans from the expected violence of a Trump loss might be still worth voting against him” and “The jury is still out on that with me.”
Bloody idiots is probably not a strong enough term but it’s all I got this morning.
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Actually.. you were calling me by extension a bloody idiot… and I was referencing back when you took offense to a non-accusatory term to another reply I did in here. But that’s really of no matter. Your blog, your rules… as it is with any blogmeister. You think that if Trump loses that his minions are just going to head home at the end of the day and wait until the next election in four years? Certain NOT according to many of the Right Wing blogs I visit. And I would dare submit.. some of your followers in here are itchin’ to “fix” things by exercising their concept of the Second Amendment. Although.. I do. in fact, commend you for not (openly, at least) encouraging this kind of “civil war” stunt.
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The constant chaos was CAUSED by the left. The threat of violence is from the LEFT. Look at France. The left loses and their go to move is to destroy things. The left are the fascists this time around. The random mass shootings are dwarfed by the weekly shootings on the south side of Chicago. But, hey, that’s black on black and doesn’t quite fit the narrative of whites killing blacks, does it?
You are correct on one point – the Constitution is greater than any one person. We have been a country of laws, and should return to that.
As far as morals…
Do you, or your significant other not find Biden showering with his daughter morally repugnant? Or digitally penetrating Tara Reade against her will morally repugnant?
And racism? (taken from N. Haley’s website):
From 1971 to 1974, Biden’s legal residence had a deed barring ownership by African Americans.
In 1974, Biden made an analogy of himself as a 29 year old in the Senate to being a “token black.”
In 1975, Biden asked if “the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child?”
In 1977, Biden said that busing would cause his children to grow up in “a racial jungle.”
In 1977, Biden voted against Black Justice Department nominees specifically over his opposition to busing.
In 1977, Biden said he asked to join the Senate Judiciary Committee specifically to lead the charge against busing.
In 1979, Biden voted to allow racially segregated private schools to keep their tax exempt status.
In 1981, Biden said George Wallace was “right about some things.”
In 1984, Biden used the word “boy” to refer to Jesse Jackson.
In 1985, Biden made a favorable comparison between segregationist Senator John Stennis and Confederate General Stonewall Jackson.
In 1987, Biden “sought to appeal to white voters” by touting an award he received from George Wallace in 1973 where he praised Biden as “one of the outstanding young politicians in America.”
During his 1988 campaign, Biden falsely claimed he was part of the civil rights movement, saying he “marched” in his “youth.”
In 2006, Biden said, “you cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
In his 2007 book, Promises To Keep, Biden admitted that, as a young person, he had “no real relationships with Black people.”
In 2007, Biden called then-Sen. Barack Obama “the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
In 2010, Biden delivered a 22-minute eulogy, the longest speech, at Senator Robert Byrd’s (D-WV) memorial service, calling the former KKK member a “friend,” “mentor,” and “guide.”
In 2016, Biden praised segregationist Senator John Stennis as a “friend” and an “honorable” man.
In 2019, Biden recalled the era when “he was able to get along with segregationist senators.”
In 2019, Biden boasted that segregationist Senator James Eastland called him son, not boy.
In 2019, Biden said the Obama administration went “into the hood” of Detroit to recruit minorities.
In 2019, Biden claimed a major problem Black communities face is illiteracy, saying Black “parents can’t read or write themselves,” leaving Black attendees “shocked and frustrated.”
In 2019, Biden said that “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”
In 2020, Biden suggested some people were able to quarantine during Covid because “some black woman was able to stack the grocery shelf.”
Not to mention the plagiarism when he ran for president in 88. Biden is a representation of the worst qualities that politics in the US has to offer.
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there is no debate. JB is not capable/ qualified/ even people in nursing homes agree.
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Yes, very true!
Something I do want to say, dementia is not a sign of old age. It is an actual disease, not a symptom of just getting older. People can indeed live to a ripe old age without ever developing dementia. And relatively young people can also develop it. It’s been driving me absolutely mad that some people are now trying to twist themselves into even more denial, by pretending this is normal, by claiming everyone has “senior moments.” No, he’s got the physical symptoms, the lack of facial expression, that indicate it’s much more serious than that.
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A lot of people seem to forgotten that Biden has had brain surgery twice. This was an issue when he ran against Obama in the Democrat primary in 2008 and why he didn’t run against Hillary Clinton in 2016. He was really a sacrifice candidate in 2020 because the Deep State didn’t really believe that they’d steal enough votes and were prepping to goad Trump into declaring Martial Law so they could depose him in a coup. Now they’re stuck with him, while the Deep State is trying to buy out the Republicans unless the Democrats find a suitable replacement.
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Despite some of his flaws, if thought that voting actually mattered and he was allowed on the ballot in this state, Kennedy would probably be the best choice. Biden’s problems are obvious and Trump is far too compromised at this point. I don’t think that an Administration packed with WEF-connected billionaires, Bush Machine operatives, Log Cabin Republicans, and Christian Nationalists would be much of an improvement over what we currently have. Kennedy isn’t strong on social issues but at least he’s aware that our ‘government’ is running on remote-control from Wall Street and Davos and actually would take some steps to empower people again.
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Kennedy really lacks the power and influence needed to do anything useful about the deep state. Look at him, he’s a Democrat himself and couldn’t even secure a nomination from his own party. His idealism is admirable, but it’s not practical. I don’t think Trump is compromised, I think he’s a street fighter which means he is a pragmatist and capable of getting things done. Is he perfect? Of course not, but our country is in dire straights and as the saying goes, “the perfect is the enemy of the good.”
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That’s true: I don’t think that Kennedy has a remote chance of winning and even if he did, the Deep State would overthrow him.
As for Trump, I haven’t seen much evidence from his side in the way of any actual plan, other than increase the Police State to ‘fight immigration;’ double-down on our failed foreign policy; and look the other way at social issues. After the debate, Chuck Schumer’s top billionaire hedge-fund donor Bill Ackman switched to Trump and bragged about how him and his people will be working with a future Trump Administration. Trump is only three years younger than Biden and so far all of his VP choices are Establishment RINOs and WEF Young Global Leaders.
Somebody commented recently that we have to play the cards as we’re dealt: I see any point in playing when the cards are marked and the game is rigged.
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Wars once provided cover for failing governments … now, wars invite nukes. We are living in interesting times!
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“May you live in interesting times” is supposed to be an old Irish blessing. Lol, I’m trying my best to perceive it that way.
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A curse in China becomes a blessing in Ireland? It figures, somehow …
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Speaking with a view from across the Pond, there is very little between Republicans and Democrats in terms of practice that would effect any meaningful change in the lives of the average American. I consider Trump to be lacking in decency, and he plays fast and loose with morals. Biden is clearly struggling, and neither he nor Trump are fine specimens of physical or mental prowess. This is not to say that older people cannot play important roles in politics, but those two?
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Naturally it does me no good to attempt to explain why President Trump was the best president this country has had in decades or how he did create meaningful change in the lives of Americans. Some people just seem to have a visceral emotional reaction to him, one that makes absolutely no sense to me.
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Just speculating here, but maybe there’s something going on in some part of America you’re out of touch with…?
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I don’t even know what you are trying to say, Doug? I live in a blue state that’s been run by Democrats for decades. It’s not California, but it’s a close runner up.
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And I live in a very red county of the blue state of California… and you can feel it in the air.
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We’re out of touch with the notion of open borders, boys changing to girls, girls changing to boys, inflation, etc. Who knew some parts of America would be out of touch with these things that the left celebrates. I guess some just suffer from blue blindness. 😉
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I dare say it all comes down to perspective, as so many things do.
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I think there is an objective reality outside of us that is not dependent on individual perspectives. For example, Biden is clearly suffering major cognitive decline and has been for quite some time.
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