Cleaning out my four kitties’ shitboxes Friday night after a day of reckoning with our president’s senility and our Supreme Court’s rabid reversion to 1924, it occurred to me that Joe Biden is our Ahab, Trump is his Moby Dick, and we’re all on the Pequod, at the mercy of two suicide bombers chasing our doom. It’s one of the paradoxes of Melville’s great American novel—that celebration and eulogy for America—that the story doesn’t end well. He saw it then. Who but the blindest Pangloss doesn’t see it now?
I did not watch the debate Thursday. Reading a headline and the top three paragraphs of a news article Friday morning and watching the first 10 minutes of it this morning was enough to realize, like when Jason Robards slumps over in his car as a whatever megaton bomb detonates over Kansas in “The Day After,” that something had gone terribly wrong. But it wasn’t a surprise. It’s as if a Cat 5 were to wipe out Flagler Beach and Palm Coast. We’d be shocked, grieved, demoralized. We wouldn’t be surprised. This is what Emergency Management has been warning us for years to prepare for.
Biden’s emergency management team has known all along that Biden out of his protective cocoon was a catastrophe waiting to happen. Biden himself knew it when in 2019 he wisely saw himself as a one-term president. And what a president he would have been. Restoring the country to health, literally and morally, after Trump’s four-year demolition derby, bringing back dull but effective governance over sycophantic know-nothing narcissism, then ceding the way to the next fresher presidency while he designs the first presidential library on a rolling Amtrak train.
Any presidency has its failings. Biden hasn’t lacked for any from Kabul to Gaza to that brief burst of inflation. Even George Washington was a slow-witted, vainglorious, slaveholding failed farmer and mediocre general who, as Daniel Boorstin reminds us, “was destined to a stature in death which he had never attained in life.” Too bad Biden can’t run on posterity’s judgment. It will be kinder.
What matters now is November 5. A few days ago–and still today, because it hasn’t caught up yet–538’s aggregate of polls had Biden slightly ahead of Trump again, after dropping behind for a while. In coming days the aggregate for Biden will probably look like Down Jones’s graph after the Great Crash of October 1929, or like this:
Biden won’t win. He can’t win. He has lost Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona and Georgia. Even if he holds on to Pennsylvania he loses. Even if he holds on to Pennsylvania and Nevada he still loses. What was a likelihood a few days ago is now a mathematical certainty. If Biden stays in the race, Trump is the next president.
At least we won’t have to worry about an armed rebellion by zombified January Sixers the night of Nov. 5, just a kind of thuggish reality-show autocracy resuming on Jan. 20, this time with most of the judiciary and Congress domesticated. The Heritage Foundation can get to work enacting its Project 2025 in goose step with Trump’s Agenda47, a pair of blueprints that would end democracy as we know it. We’ll be more like a blend between Victor Orban’s Hungary and Sharia law, though our own DeSantistan and the recolonization of Oklahoma as a theocracy have us on the way there.
Biden has a choice. Let it happen, or step aside and let Democrats take the kind of gamble Emmanuel Macron is taking in France: if the extremist right wants in, make a fight of it. Democrats have always had choices that don’t include Kamala Harris, whose vice presidency has managed to be as irrelevant as “the shuffling, do-nothing” presidency of James Buchanan (to quote Frederick Douglass). The choices are these: Gavin Newsom of California, and “that woman from Michigan,” as Moby Dick likes to call Gretchen Whitmer.
Newsom and Whitmer are relative toddlers compared to the two meshuga Methusalas now flapping around. Newsom is 56, Whitmer is 52. Imagine that: she was born right before Nixon’s plumbers burglarized the DNC’s offices at the Watergate and the same year Trump inherited his daddy’s company.
Between the two it’s a political no-brainer. For all his charisma, his smarts, governance as good as his teeth and the fact that we’ve never had a “Gavin” in the White House, Newsom’s got too many liabilities for this particular campaign. For starters, he’ll be too busy arresting 200,000 homeless Californians his mollycoddling liberalism allowed to multiply and that the Supreme Court has now declared to be either non-persons or–if they insist on acting human by sleeping–criminals.
“I survived a recall” is not the best campaign slogan for Newsom even when running against a lying sack of felonies. And if we’re counting electoral votes–which is all this is about, really–California would vote for a Democrat even if he were… well, Joe Biden. It’s a politically useless state in this year’s calculus. California’s only electoral value is giving even a comatose Biden a win of the popular vote as he crashes to defeat by 300 electoral votes.
As for Whitmer, “I survived a kidnapping by Trump’s brownshirts” is a terrific campaign slogan. It may not have the snappiness of “I Like Ike” or the optimism of “Happy Days Are Here Again,” but psychotically disordered times call for someone who’s known psychos firsthand. All seriousness aside, Whitmer is the only Democratic governor with the kind of stellar governance and electoral record she’s pulled off since 2019.
Biden has been hemorrhaging young voters, women voters and Black voters. She would recapture all three and add the Arab-American and Muslim voters who have deservedly abandoned Biden since he signed off on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. She would obviously get Michigan’s 15 electoral votes and with that Midwestern accent of hers would seduce Wisconsin back in and probably put Iowa in play. She’d re-energize moribund Democrats, who’ve had no one nowhere this bracing since Obama (though Obama’s re-endorsement of Biden Friday puts Obama’s mental acuity in question). She would have Trump running so scared that he’d be the one for the Wile E. Coyote clip above.
Meanwhile Biden digs in as petulantly as Ahab dug his ivory leg into the Pequod’s cursed deck. We thought Trump was all narcissistic blubber. Biden’s narcissism is worse, because Biden knows he’s going for mutually assured destruction: he loses, Trump wins, we all lose.
So it is no longer Trump who is the greatest danger to the country, at least not now. It is Biden who, by placing himself–haltingly, decrepitly, pathetically–above the nation’s welfare, is knowingly making Trump’s win a certainty. It is premeditated folly. And if the Democratic Party allows it, it has no more claim to legitimacy going forward than its suicidal forebears of the Confederacy.
Pierre Tristam is the editor of FlaglerLive.
Wow says
Very weird to me that the national press talks only about Biden’s halting presentation and not on Trump’s obvious lies and incoherence. If asked to choose between a “well-meaning older gentleman” with cognitive issues or a lunatic, pathological liar, dictator-wannabe, which seems less dangerous?
Reallynow says
Well meaning? Forgetting about the 13 soldiers that died in Afghanistan? Joe Biden is not well meaning. Trump is. He actually cares about securing our border.
Tired of it says
Then why didn’t he do it while he was in office? What is his actual plan for doing what no other president Republican or Democrat has been able to do? If he cared about the border why did he have his minions vote against the bi partisan border bill?
Crystal says
Exactly!!! And it’s funny how they keep bringing up how trump lied bc they have nothing else to say about him lol. The only people Biden cares about are the illegals. Trump puts Americans first!
Matt says
68 soldiers died in action during trumps term.
Deborah Coffey says
Name one war that had fewer casualties upon American withdrawal. ONE. I’ll wait….
Samuel L. Bronkowitz says
Remember when the Democratic Party forced Biden down the throats of its electorate by cancelling primary elections in Florida? This could have been avoided by allowing choice but no, the Democratic power structure saw this guy as their solution to whatever the GOP was going to offer. Biden isn’t the greatest danger to this country, and neither is Trump. The greatest danger is the power structure in place that forced those choices on the american people.
RobdaSlob says
If there was ever a case of someone stuck on dial-up while the rest of society is racing around at 8000 Mbps on Google Fiber it is Joe Biden.
Don’t panic we still have 4 more month of audio abuse from these two old fools before we can get our internet free of their blather.
A right to be worried says
Right at time moment, I do not care who is running against Trump it could be Mickey Mouse. I would vote for anyone but Trump. So yes, Biden still has my vote.
Deborah Coffey says
And mine, too. I’d vote for his corpse over the scum that is Donald Trump.
I Just Love Flagler Beach says
Ditto
Flatsflyer says
If the Phoney Christians continue to support Trump the United States as we have know it is over. Anyone who continues to support, approve and vote this lying criminal terroist will forever be a Christian in Name Only. Nobody who can think for themselves and believe in the 10 Commandments and Bible cannot continue be a party to the destruction of America.
JW says
Excellent opinion Pierre. Did not see the debate either but never believed in debates on TV to begin with. Picked up a message on the internet: “If you don’t live in the US, please turn the debate off. This is our our private family humiliation, and we’d all prefer you not stare”.
Looking from the outside in, Biden lost it when hugging Netanyahu in October.
So, let’s move forward: I agree, the best option is Gretchen Whitmer. She can beat the incomprehensible “Apprentice in Wonderland”. As a smart woman, she will get under the skin of this ignorant candidate and that is what we need! But please wake up, it is all a question of education of the American public NOW.
Deborah Coffey says
I don’t think so…
Steve Kornacki
@SteveKornacki
February ’24 Ipsos poll conducted for the group With Honor:
Favorable/Unfavorable:
Kamala Harris 33-53%
Pete Buttigieg 30-28%
Gavin Newsom 23-34%
Gretchen Whitmer 18-18%
Bill C says
It’s interesting how bad Biden did in the debate and then hours afterward President Joe Biden delivered an energetic campaign speech in North Carolina. The debate format was stupid (agree with Lawrence O’Donnell). No President makes decisions alone in a vacuum without the input of highly competent advisors. Trump relies on his own megalomaniacal ego to reach conclusions and ignores experts, be they Generals, scientists, economists, health experts, etc. True, Biden may not go down in history as the greatest President, but certainly Trump will go down as one of the worst. So, keep Biden and have Gavin Newsome or Gretchen Whitmer as candidate for Vice President. Kamala Harris is a great person but just doesn’t have the charisma to persuade.
Pat stote says
I love, Lawrence O’Donnell. He also said that televised debates have no redeeming value (my words not his).
Pat Stote says
I agree about Kamala. The president needs a much stronger vice president and Kamala just doesn’t have it. She’s just not strong
Local double taxpayer says
He had a teleprompter in his after party speech. It’s been brought up several times.
Goodbye America says
Staring at the teleprompters and screaming like an incoherent fool is hardly an energetic speech. This site is an anti American POS. Biden is not running the country and lies more than trump. He destroyed America and there is no turning back thanks to idiots like you. Enjoy the bright lite and blast that will be coming soon you morons.
Deborah Coffey says
Well, right now, Biden ranks as 14th best president by over 100 historians and political scientists that annually rank presidents. Trump is 2nd to last according to them in that same ranking.
Deirdre says
I’m so glad Biden bombed at the debate because he needs to be replaced and people weren’t having that conversation a few days ago.
A decent candidate should be WAY ahead in the polls against a convicted criminal, except for the MAGA crowd, Trump isn’t exactly popular either!
His lies are so ridiculous it’s hard not to laugh, like babies being aborted after they’re born. If this wasn’t someone that could have their finger on the button the whole thing would be hilarious. If he could have kept his crazy under control he would’ve won this debate by a landslide. All Biden had to do was look alive and that didn’t work out.
I really intended to watch the debate closely but I couldn’t even keep my eyes open, it was so boring and stupid, these guys sound like a couple of middle school kids insulting each other. I don’t remember petty insults being thrown around at presidential debates when I was growing up, people were at least civil and demonstrated some self control. I know you are but what am I? I wish they would cut the malarkey.
I would literally choose practically any other Democrat, except Kamala and Hillary who would both lose. I want someone who can stand up to Netanyahu before we have World War III, and prevent this war from spreading like wildfire.
Every issue from the economy, abortion, the environment to immigration etc. needs to be addressed obviously, but I see this worldwide political unrest as the most pressing problem.
People are so stressed out that Mexicans can get past the border that they’re ignoring the real threats, such as Russian nuclear subs being parked off our coast.
None of the other stuff will matter if we don’t get that under control, I don’t think people realize just how serious this current situation is. We should all be building bombs shelters, especially Floridians being so close to Cuba.
It’s not just some ‘standard’ political unrest in the Middle East, it’s not just another genocide, everything is pointing toward a world war.
Israel is about to get its ass kicked, what are we going to do when that happens, since we don’t have any actual red lines and our dedication to them as ironclad? Iron rusts.
Plus, regardless of any political ideology, does any American really want to continually finance other countries wars with our tax money?
If Trump gets back in we’re all screwed. It feels like we’re pretty close to nukes being used, and a Trump win could literally mean the end of the world, he’s not known for his diplomacy, and he loves other dictators!
America is hardly a perfect democracy, but I don’t want to see any more of the freedoms we still enjoy end because we have a dictator filled with vengeance in the White House.
To ensure a win, the candidate might have to fall into certain stereotypes, and I hate to say it but Americans don’t seem to want a woman in charge of the country. I didn’t expect a black man to be elected president either though. Democrats are afraid to get rid of Harris because she does fit into the woman of color category. No way she’ll win, she isn’t popular for multiple reasons but she reflects Biden’s policies so it wouldn’t be a fresh choice. I personally couldn’t care less what someone looks like, I’d like to have a woman to possibly represent more of my values, but we can’t take any chances against Trump, we need a sure thing.
Newsom is the name that’s comes up the most and we don’t have time to sort out all the alternatives, if it was me I’d choose Bernie all day long but that’s not going to
happen. In this case someone that’s towards the center is going to be more successful than a progressive.
I’ve been sending Biden daily emails for months asking him to step down and to cut Israel off, maybe he’ll get more pressure to step down now because he sure as hell doesn’t want to put the brakes on this horrific genocide. Based on that alone he’s out of his damn mind. It would be nice to have a president with some common sense, and a love of humanity that’s more important than big PAC money and the munitions industry.
Millions of people could be killed in the Middle East and he could put an end to it with one phone call, and cut off the money and weapons. He won’t no matter what! Can you imagine if the situation was flipped and the Palestinians in Gaza were doing what the Israelis are currently doing to them? There wouldn’t be any question about it being genocide then.
Israel wouldn’t be picking a fight with all its neighbors except they plan on having a Trump win and the whole thing will be financed, including American boots on the ground. They already have most of the American politicians in their pocket and don’t even appreciate Biden ‘s financing of this ethnic cleansing, with no limits, since he is a dedicated Zionist.
He’s taken more AIPAC money over the years than any other politician.
When I voted for him I thought I was electing a president for America, not a special friend for Israel that would put their extremist murderous foreign government first.
Might at least ask Netanyahu to open the borders for a minute so little kids don’t starve to death, with mountains of food and other humanitarian supplies sitting there a couple miles away for months.
These people don’t have much time left, I wish we could get rid of Biden immediately.
They can start using our bombs in Lebanon now, since every bit of infrastructure is destroyed in Gaza, and although it takes a little longer people will still die of starvation so mission accomplished. At least the wheels are in motion now, so that gives me a little hope.
I’m hoping these Israeli people themselves will get rid of him, he’s destroying their country, I wouldn’t want to take a vacation there! Israel’s going to be a pariah state for many years even if the atrocities ended today. The government has destroyed them, the economy is collapsing, and people are leaving in droves.
Judy Barfell says
Absolutely false!
Pogo says
@Sinwar will save you
…just keep repeating.
Old Guy says
I wish we had two moderate 50 something candidates to choose from but since we don’t I’m voting for the non insurrection party candidate. Based on Pierre’s comments in another article, my wife and I are reregistering from NPA to REP so we can vote for more moderate candidates in the two local races with the sham write in candidates.
The Sour Kraut says
At least if Biden is re-elected, he will be surrounded by well educated professionals who will run things in the background. If Trump wins, what is left of our great democracy will be ground down to dust.
tulip says
Biden had a cold and had been overly prepped for the debate. He looked exhausted. Still he managed to talk about some of his accomplishments and even got nasty with Trump in return. I watched Bidens speech in NC the next day ane Biden was excellent with a strong voice and very energized. The fact that Biden was doing badly made people listen more intensivley to him and that then made Trump look horrible spewing of all his lies . I have heard a lot of comments last night and this morning on various news stations except fox and there were many many people who stuck up for Biden and even a couple of Reps who were going to switch to Biden when they finally saw how dangerous Trump really is. Biden campaign also received 27 million in donations through Friday night. I am a registered Independent . Even though I do feel he is diminishing more, I will still vote for him. Also I have noticed VP Harris has improved greatly and will be a good asset to help him. I think when this all settles down, people will think more rationally. Trump regime will kill this country and the generations coming up will be paying the price for those ignorant enough to vote for an obvious physopathic liar and only likes himself.
Samuel L. Bronkowitz says
Really loving the blue MAGA types sticking to their guns and swearing fealty to the establishment because of a lesser of two evils argument. You’re still knowingly voting for evil to save what, exactly? The people that forced you into this choice to begin with? You should be livid that you’ve been placed in this position.
James says
Nope, like it or not, Biden is it… Whitmer or Newsom should have entered the race at the very start.
Again, no one seems to be questioning whether Trump should step away as vehemently as they are suggesting that Biden should do so… even after all that has unfolded regarding the former.
Sorry… not buying it dude.
Just say’n.
Btw, I didn’t watch the debate either.
I Just Love Flagler Beach says
Oh, for God’s sake get a grip. I agree with Mark Cuban who in a post after the debate on X described Biden as “Feeble, Capable and Ethical” and Trump as “Vigorous, Unethical and Incapable of telling the truth.” And said he would “vote ethical every time.” I too will vote ethical every time. I find it appalling that the media, and I guess that now includes Flagler Live, has chosen to focus on Biden’s faults and ignore Trump’s because it’s just Trump being Trump. The unbelievable disgusting crap that Trump spewed should make everyone cringe and not sleep at night. Why not try to find something positive to say about Biden, it’s really not that hard if you do a little research. I think it’s just lazy and poor reporting to watch 10 minutes of the debate and read someone else’s article and then write an article when you are obviously not rational but quite emotional. It was widely reported that during the first 20 minutes of the debate Biden faltered and Trump was reasonable but for the next 70 minutes Biden improved and Trump melted down into his unhinged mode. I am extremely disappointed that you would stoop to this kind of reporting. I would expect it of Fox News and Steve Bannon, but not you, you can do better. And just for the record, I watched ALL of the debate.
FB Is My Home says
The left really does double down on their own ignorance. No shame on your game.
Deborah Coffey says
And, the right really does double down on their tens of thousands of LIES! No shame on their game.
James says
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2024/jun/28/vp-kamala-harris-in-vegas-race-will-not-be-decided/
If the race should not be decided by one afternoon in January, then it certainly shouldn’t be decided by one night in June.
Again, just say’n.
Tony Mac says
Republicans are Okay putting a Criminal in the White House…and the Media is Just Fine with It!
Well, there’s lots of hand wringing as a result of the recent debate between a convicted criminal, Donald Trump, and President Joe Biden. Some Democrats on one side are declaring that perhaps a new candidate should be nominated, Republicans on the other side are declaring that Joe Biden is a senile, doddering old fool who can’t articulate a complete sentence.
And the media types, the talking heads, the experts, are wringing their hands trying to determine how this election is going to continue now that Joe Biden failed – that’s their word – failed to deliver.
So, the media, those so-called “Gatekeepers of Democracy”, have all but declared that Joe Biden is not capable of being a Presidential candidate and should move over and make way for another. What are they overlooking and why?
Sure, they sometimes, speak about the fact that Trump lies, constantly, lies after lies. The Fourth Estate failed to check those lies except in a perfunctory way. They excuse Trump, they turn a blind eye to Trump and his mendacity, they fail to actually inform the American voters of the devastation this pretender and his followers intend to wreak upon this Nation.
Instead of focusing on Joe Biden’s gaffes, can we least get them to say that Trump and his Republican followers are going to be more than pleased to put a convicted felon in the White House? In the very position previously held by the likes of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, and numerous others who never, but never, had to ask the highest court in the land for immunity to commit crimes?
These politicians are going to be just fine with putting a man in the most exalted seat of power in this country, perhaps in the World, who openly brags about being a serial adulterer, a cheat with charities for children with cancer and veterans, who acknowledges that he will seek retaliation, retribution and revenge on his political opponents. And this is how we’ve now gotten to in our Republic? Is this how far the American Dream has fallen?
One only needs to look at history for a guide. Without citing all of William Shirer’s famous book – “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” …for those who doubt it can happen here as well. Eight-eight million Germans followed another deranged maniac off the cliff of humanity and it can happen here with the complicity of the American press and social media.
Time and again we’ve seen the so-called media types question Democratic politicians directly – “Should Joe Biden drop out of the race/” They are free to do so because they know that Democrats will never call them out for their duplicity, never say they are “fake”, never vilify them or demonize them. And so, the media feels free to put Democrats be on the defensive. Republicans, on the other hand, have called out the media, called them un-American, challenged their credentials, dared them to be truthful…and so…the media types, are loathe to actually dig into the responses given by Republicans and instead allow them to spew their hatred and lies to all Americans. The media gives them a pass, an “oh, so sorry you lied but we’ll move on…”
Recently, for example, MSNBS’s Steve Kornacki did a poll of some sort that alluded to the premise that Michelle Obama would be a more formidable challenger to Trump than Joe Biden. Why was this even pertinent, let alone necessary? Micky Mouse would by a more formidable challenger to Trump. In the days when I was on the Hill and at the DNC, we would have picked up the phone, placed a call and reamed somebody’s butt for even thinking of such a ridiculous “journalistic” piece. Now, without a dedicated “War Room”, the vision is presented that Michelle Obama may challenge Joe Boden for the to of the ticket. For the Democrats – no response.
The media’s message to the American public is – Joe Biden is a stumbling fool who can’t put together a simple sentence. The message the Democrats need to force on to the media – the message the media is missing – is that the Republican Party and its’ followers are ready to have a convicted felon in the White House – but then the Germans were ready to have a dictator in their leadership, as well.
If the media fails to do its job, if it fails to be the Gatekeepers of Democracy as envisioned by Edward R. Murro, Walter Conkrite, Eric Severeid, Huntley, Brinkly, and numerous others who risked their lives to inform the American people, then we should be ready to witness the destruction of this Republic, this City on the Hill for which so many have shed their blood and treasure to see…Rome failed, Greece, failed, the Third Reich failed because no one resisted…this Nation also will fail because Republicans and their followers are satisfied with putting a criminal at the very seat of power. And most importantly – they will seek retribution, retaliation and revenge against those who have opposed them… including the media they now so easily use to spread their message of hate. Think not? Remember those who rode Hitler’s trains to the death camps.
As the media “journalists” quiz Democrats about the suitability of Joe Biden to be President, they never question Republicans about their fealty to a man who cheated on three wives, who cheated on charities for children with cancer, who cheated on charities for veterans, who is currently under indictment in three jurisdictions. What makes them think Trump won’t cheat on them?
Ask a Republican politician if he or she is comfortable with putting a convicted criminal in the White House. The answer you get will surprise you – then offer the right arm salute – it will be all you have to survive!
That’s my view …welcome comments.
Pogo says
@Tony Mac
Thank you, bless you.
Pat Stote says
My dream would be for Michelle to run. I know she won’t, but I really love her. She’s strong, smart and Would be a great leader in some capacity of the Democratic Party.
PatStote says
I AM livid and scared. We should all be this MAGA people are very scary And ignorant for the most part. They are in a cult and I don’t know if they realize it
Deborah Coffey says
Amen.
Reallynow says
The Democratic Party showed they had been hiding Bidens decline for some time. They have been gas lighting us. Saying what we are seeing we are not. Other than his condition, it is his policies that is the greatest threat to this Country and Trump seems to be the only one to save us from certain destruction as a nation.
Jbeagler says
Agree 100%
💯
Tired of it says
What exactly are trump’s policies? His tariffs ruined many American farmers and it took 24 billion tax dollars to save them. He promised a healthcare plan, over and over,again and it never materialized. He is a convicted ffelon, convicted by a jury of Americans. He had 4 years to do something about the border and accomplished nothing., When he thought the bipartisan border bill would help fix the problem he told his spineless followers to vote against it because it would make Biden look good. He praised communist dictators, increased the national debt “hugely” and on and on and on. He had stated that if elected he will embark on a “revenge tour”. He is unfit to be president, by any standard.
Atwp says
Didn’t watch the debate. I thought Biden would not do well. My mind is made up, Biden has my vote. I will not vote for a convicted lying guy. Trump is a loud mouth liar and only see things his way. Fox News was happy the Trump Campaign raised 8 million dollars. When the Democrat numbers came in Fox News was not to happy, about 14 million dollars after the debate. Good job Democrats.
Disabled veteran says says
But you will vote for a commander in chief who forgets veterans who died for country. You shameful lazy person. You have no idea what honor is.
Atwp says
Disabled Veteran you don’t know me. Am glad I don’t know you. I’m not a shameful lazy person. You maybe. Because of me and millions of other people working you are getting what you need. You sound like that group of people who love call people names just because they don’t say what you want them to say. This is the real world. Don’t label people you don’t know.
Deborah Coffey says
Better get your facts straight. Biden has done much more for veterans than Trump ever thought of doing for the “suckers and losers.” Who’s shameful and lazy if you don’t even bother to get FACTS?
Atwp says
Trump is still a greater danger to the country than Biden. Just saying.
don miller says
biden has been hidden from scrutiny for 5 years by the dems and media. they knew he was bad off. All he has ever done is dodge open pressers, dodge any longer than 15 min read it from a teleprompter, yell to portray strength. After the debate his wife ran up on stage to make sure he didn’t fall down the stairs and a CNN employee was at the bottom to catch him. They all knew and we all knew . Now the next thing will be they want Biden to continue regardless of his obvious impairment because of their fear of conservative. Now the curtain is pulled back, he is with out clothes and we are without national security. We have been gas lighted by the Dem party for 5 years.
JimboXYZ says
Let’s get that PPV, Trump vs Biden Golf Drive Distance Competition started. Gotta be Vegas odds line that Biden falls down trying to hit a golf ball ? Biden was the threat to the USA 4 years ago. He’s the threat going forward.
Mark says
Yet you stand behind a 34 time Convicted Felon, also Convicted of Sexual Assault, Multiple Bankruptcies, Multiple Failed Casinos (how do you bankrupt a casino), Failed Business Venture after Failed Business Venture and the list goes on and on…a grifter.
I’ll Vote for Democracy before a want to be Fascist Dictator.
Hippy says
Hmmm…. you could have written this article long long ago. You knew it, everyone knew it. The only difference know is it can’t be hidden anymore. It is comical now to watch the left melt down and through him under the bus. I am loving it.
Pierre Tristam says
Two years ago I broadcast my commentary on WNZF saying Biden should bow out of a second term and let new blood prepare for 2024. I didn’t get around to publishing it in print, but you can hear it here. Of course we knew it. And of course you’re loving it, but your assumptions, once again, are wrong.
veteran says says
You obviously are not a veteran or even care at all about veterans. As a 100% disabled veteran I can tell you that Biden disqualified himself when he stated no one in the military has died during his presidency. You people who still support him dishonor all of us who served and dies for your lazy and unpatriotic as#. Don’t even pretend you support veterans.
Now what says
All I can say to you sick left tards, is CHOO CHOO motherfuckers, the TRUMP TRAIN is coming, and you better figure out how to deal with it, because you seem like them feelings got hurt. Biden is, and has always been a puppet.
Pogo says
@Thank God
You can’t smell the breath of Trump’s shit eaters.
Jackson says
There are no perfect candidates. You will always be voting for the imperfect person you feel will be less bad than their opponent. I don’t know if that’s the nature of democracy or if it is unique to American politics. But, it’s true of every election. Do your due diligence, understand who and what you are voting for. Ultimately, it’s up to you to choose using your intelligence and common sense. Never, ever allow a candidate to convince you to vote your fears. That road leads to authoritarianism. Instead, vote your hopes for America. “Hope is the better choice.”
Mothersworry says
WOW!! All the emotional bs. Biden had a truly horrible night. Now ask yourselves this: Would you rather have a president that has already stacked to S court and if elected may put two more of the same ilk as the ones he already appointed? Your apt to loose more rights with their rulings. Want more of his judge appointments like Cannon? Want a guy that every time he opens his mouth he’s spewing more lies? Want a guy that attempted to overthrow our government? I’m not going to list the crimes he has committed. Want a guy that cares only about himself? Then continue to beat the drum for trump. Me, I’d take Biden any day of the week rather than vote for the orange guy.
Edith Campins says
Yes, there are serious issues with Pres. Biden but gievn the alternative I will vote for the man who is not a convicted felon, serial cheater, liar and all around despicable man. I will not forget January 6. Biden will listen to his advisors, unlike trump who thinks he knows everything and actually knows nothing.
What A Crap Article says
Wrong. You’re just plain wrong and you know it. It was 20 min of him being over-prepared for debating a POS loser that should not be allowed to run for POTUS. The remaining 70 min, he realized that Trump wasn’t serious and abandoned the prep.
Trump is the biggest danger. Project 2025 is insane. The next POTUS will put at least 2 SCOTUS justices on the court. Look what’s happened after Trump put in 3 radicals. What will happen with 2 more? What will happen when Project 2025 is made law? You’ll look like a fool because you had a knee-jerk reaction.
Come on man. Trump is a convicted felon for God’s sake. I watched Biden’s Atlanta rally after the debate, his NC rally the next day, and he was on fire and fine for both. By the way, you know zero about politics. You’ve never run a campaign for anyone have you? You don’t and can’t replace Biden now. All you people fleeing from him will guarantee Trump. You weren’t alive when FDR was POTUS. He’d be pushed off the stage today. Biden is fine. He had a bad night. Democrats are so thin-skinned and disloyal. Obviously, we’re not in a cult like Trump supporters but they at least dug in and rallied behind “their” guy despite his obvious dementia word salad, his 34-felony convictions, his being liable for sexual assault, and the numerous other indictments. Biden had 20 min of (if you studied body language you’d know) being stunned and shocked that he was at a Trump rally and not a real debate. The debate team prepared him for a debate with a real candidate, not a moron that spewed over 200 lies in 90 minutes. After 20 min he realized, this guy is nuts, and CNN expected Biden to get everything out in 2 min and fact-check Trump’s lies. If you’ve ever known someone with a stutter (my uncle), when they get angry they talk fast, they miss words, they fumble…honestly if you can’t see that’s all that this was, then shame on you for being so ableist. Biden can and will beat Trump. He’s the only one that can and I’m proudly voting for him again. His accomplishments would fill more space than your BS phrases. He’s a good man. A smart man. Rhetoric like yours will make us an autocracy. Maybe you can live with that but I’m fighting like hell to keep this country one I love and respect, and that means making sure Trump never resides in the White House again. If he does, we will never have another election. To those saying it won’t happen, wake up, and read Project 2025. If you think you’re safe from it, you’re not.
I’m very disappointed in this crap passing as a thoughtful article. You should work for the propaganda times, I mean New York Times. Or maybe Sinclair. You’re a fraud. Biden may be old. He may not talk as smooth. He may not walk as good. But he is not a goddamn threat to Democracy. You are, actually. Be better.
Local says
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
NO …BUT SERIOUSLY…shouldn’t someone be charged for elderly abuse for allowing Biden to get up there and embarrass himself? I watched the whole debate and after he zoned out and forgot he was in a debate, I knew it was over. He can read the hell out of a teleprompter…but the WHOLE WORLD 🌍 saw him last night and made our citizens look like fools for electing him. What a crap show embarrassment! Sheesh,! And this is the best dems have to offer?
Marlee says
Isn’t it weird that Biden is asked to step down because he is
“old and feeble”
BUT…who is asking trump to step down because he is a FELON??????????
Is it appropriate to have a FELON for PRESIDENT of the United States?
D W Ferguson says
Pierre, you struck a nerve with this one. No one seems happy with the two geriatric choices voters currently have available. The lesser of two evils decision ? If the President were to replace his VP , Joe Biden would improve his chances markedly. Succession…
DaleL says
Pierre, good article. I will never vote for a narcissistic mob boss criminal. However, Joe Biden needs to drop out. One clear sign of his dementia is that he appears to have bad days and good days.
He should release his delegates to choose whoever they wish at the convention. If Kamala Harris is chosen, then Biden should resign. That would allow Harris to run with all the trappings of President.
I judge the situation this way. Which man would you want to watch your house while you are away for a week? Trump would invite in thieves and split the proceeds with them. He would then burn the house down for fun and lie about it. Biden would inadvertently leave the doors unlocked and thieves would ransack your home. He would leave the stove on and cause a grease fire that would burn your house down.
My letter asking Biden to drop out of the Presidential race is in the mail. We need a chorus of such letters and emails.
The dude says
Just a boomer doing boomer things…
RBG also thought she would live forever, literally destroyed her legacy because of this way of thinking.
Joe, you’re definitely a better choice than the other guy. Just looking at the comments here proves that. But it’s time for you and your 20th century way of thinking to both retire.
Pierre Tristam says
I’m surprised how so many commenters are taking this call to replace Biden on the ticket either as criticism of Biden’s tenure or as somehow a back door endorsement of Trump’s, or a denial of Trump’s unfitness for office, though it seemed to me that I addressed those points in the piece. To be clear: I am not saying that Biden is a bad president. Biden has been among the better presidents we’ve had, certainly more productive in four years than Obama was in eight, less cautious, more daring. His administration has been scandal free (Trump’s was a swarm of scandals), and you can tell that the people Biden surrounds himself with are consummate professionals doing their jobs because we never hear about them in any other context. They’re not in a reality show, as Trump’s sycophants were and will be again. If Biden were re-elected, that would continue. There’s no doubt. I admire Biden. Thursday’s debate did not change that—no tv show circus could. My point is not that Biden cannot govern or would not govern just as well in a second term. He can, and he would.
My point is that we have a fucked up, emotional electorate that doesn’t know its interests from its ass, and whose knowledge and analysis of this race is shallower than the hair on a tic. Otherwise, how could a lying racist rapist anti-Democratic felon like Trump have more than 2 percent of the vote? (The two percent representing the racist rapist felon constituency in this country, though I concede that once we add the liars and the anti-democracy constituencies, the percentage zooms up). So we have to look at the race from that electorate’s perspective, not from some idealistic vantage point. Of course Biden is the better man, the better candidate, the better president. No contest.
But can he win? Can he now, after Thursday’s performance and at the mercy of this dumbass electorate of ours (well, at least a consequentially significant segment of the electorate that falls in the dumbass category), can he win? No.
Loving Biden is not the priority. Keeping the rapist racist felon dictator out of the White House is. It is the responsible, democratic, moral thing to do. This is not the time to turn the other goddamn cheek. We need to be Machiavellian about this. That means getting a candidate in there who not only has a chance, but who can, in the words of my Seminole Woods friend, “wipe the floor with Trump.” As things stand today, that candidate is not Biden. It is Whitmer.
jake says
Whoever said FL doesn’t have a sense of humor, was lying. By stating the obvious, and watching everyone’s brain explode, you made me smile. Voting for a person who can’t do the job, is more absurd, than as you all love to say, “I won’t vote for a convicted criminal”. (Every honest legal scholar in the country knows that verdict will be overturned.)
Newson and Whitmer are terrible choices. Newson has run California into the ground with a 1.6 trillion debt, when just three years ago they had a hundred billion surplus. Whitmer, on the other hand behaved like a mini-hitler during covid. Both of these are poor choices, and no one, wants Kamala running anything.
What you Dems need to do is find someone that will close the border (over 10 million illegal entries), stop giving away tax dollars for dumb shit (like student loans), which will help reduce inflation (over 20% since 2020), and stop lying about it. Also, stop saying the economy is good when people shop for food, and they aren’t “feeling the vibes” at checkout. Credit card debt is at it’s highest level in the history of this country.
You people spent 4 years propping up Joe, letting Obama be the puppet master, and listening to your lying mass media. You only have yourselves to thank for this debacle. So, please do better.