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Some Biden Questions
Some questions for Joe Biden and also, perhaps, for his supporters.
- Why do we never see a wide camera shot of the audience at a Biden campaign event? I suspect it would be an embarrassment to the campaign in that it would confirm the lack of people or the lack of enthusiasm for the candidate. The fact that Joe can read a speech off the prompter and you never hear a reaction might be a giveaway that there may not be an audience.
- Will any reporter ever call his refusal to answer questions what it is, cowardice or fear to expose himself and his departing faculties?
- Will he ever give an unbiased reporter a sit-down interview? By that, I mean someone other than Stephanopolous, Todd, or Tapper (all former Dem operatives) or sometime commentators like Cardi B.
- Has anyone ever said that the Democratic Party needs to lose big in order to reinvent the party of Truman, Scoop Jackson, Sam Nunn, Moynihan, or any patriotic blue dog? Isn’t it true that should Biden win (God forbid), we will be told it was due to the progressive support? If he loses, won’t we be told that the party needs to become even more progressive?
- Biden told a bizarre story to his veterans’ meeting Tuesday. He said a Marine vet suffering from a brain injury got into his Dodge Ram truck, ran down a woman and her dog, killed her, loaded the woman into the truck, drove her to a sand pile, and then molested her. Beside the impression that we should fear vets (by the way, I am a vet, though not a wartime vet), has anyone ever heard this story before? I haven’t and I tried to find it on the internet but couldn’t. I won’t say it is just Joe being Joe, but I remain skeptical. Does anyone know if this happened? Anyone?
If any Ricochetti has any answers, I await them.
Finally, a photo of the Biden Hispanic audience:
Meanwhile…
I bet he was surprised when his phone didn’t play Macarena like they’d talked about in the focus group.
Sound on…Joe going astray…
This speech left me more puzzled than before, though I watched even less than five minutes of it. He said “Harris/Biden” again. Yes, I caught the “culturally competent providers”. What got me is that he read segments of sentences so disjointedly that I had trouble following his meaning, and he seemed to have trouble, too.
The 80 million paper ballots sent out across the USA pose a significant problem for the Republicans. Given that in some states, the envelopes for the ballot’s return stipulate the party preference of the sender, who knows if the Democratic postal workers will even see the red bordered envelopes reach their final destination?
I think one of the real cancers on the left is widespread psychological projection. Somewhere in their psyche, all the things they say about conservatives are really true–except that they are true about the elite left, not the right. Note how they claim that conservatives are homophobic, then they sweep Mayor Pete off the stage. Note how they claim conservatives are sexists, then they torpedo Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign. Note how they claim that conservatives are racists, then they ignore Yang and Booker.
So, in the end, the party machine picks an old white guy with a history of creepy/sexist behavior and racists comments. Of course they would. Deep down, that’s the nature of their party elite. The shame is that there are some perfectly decent people that have been abandoned by the democratic party. I call these people “future Trump voters”.
Question — not Mambo — No. 5 is obviously Joe’s recollection of Ted’s Chappaquiddick tale.
It comes down to one point: Biden leads, his lead increases, why would he say anything? Every time Trump speaks or tweets, Biden gains votes. In the debates expect Biden to say little of consequence, and not bait Trump.
But here is the main point: Biden is a terrible candidate and will likely be a worse president. And Trump can’t beat him. And the republicans will lose the Senate, partly because of Trump and partly because of the party’s accommodation of Trump.
Your optimism is duly noted.
Is Biden’s lead increasing? In what specific states?
Is this just a gut feeling or do you have some empirical evidence for this?
If Biden fumbles a question or gets flustered it will be evident to the viewing audience. He doesn’t need to bait Trump but what is stopping Trump from getting Biden flustered and flummoxed?
Likely?
Based on what?
You seem pretty confident about that and you seem to be ignoring many other factors at play in the election…the lack of Biden’s GOTV ground game, the enthusiasm gap for Biden, the ongoing rioting causing some lifelong Democrats to express that they will be voting Republican, the substantial increase in Republican and Independent voter registrations…just to name a few.
Biden’s lead has hardly “increased.”
The polls we’ve been seeing are certainly “weighted” in a way that makes Biden look more popular.
Rasmussen has them in a virtual tie, and the polls that are showing a Biden lead all seem to have far too many Democrats in their samples. Even the ones that are usually very biased are showing them in a dead heat. CNN is finally admitting that they’re in a statistical tie right now.
Then you get into the “voter enthusiasm” part, which isn’t accurately measured by a lot of the polls. Trump is massively leading in this respect. The Democrats will say “yeah, I’m eager to support Joe,” but they’re not even eager enough to show it, while Trump fans are having actual parades…
The big issue is “what happens in the debates?” I’ve been shocked by the number of people who haven’t noticed Biden’s obvious mental issues. When I show current videos to them, they think they’re deceptively edited. Put Biden up on a stage for a two-hour debate, and those people are going to be running into a cognitive dissonance brick wall. You can’t pretend it’s “fake video” when it’s a two hour live broadcast.
What an important question, except that I disagree with the examples. Maybe say JFK and Bill Clinton instead.
National defense hawks aren’t just recently missing from the Democratic Party. They won’t return to lead the Democrats in the 21st century, because they didn’t have much say post-Vietnam.
The question is really whether the party of JFK and the NDC types of the 1980’s and early 1990’s can return. Bill Clinton certainly seemed to model himself on JFK, and occasional rhetorical flourishes like “the era of big government is over” were his best moments. (Maybe his wife was out of town when he felt safe to flirt with us that way.) When Bill’s ruling faction was deeded over to Hillary, the moderates just seemed to vanish.
Nowadays Democrats won’t even publicly defend the American economic system against frontal assault. Where are the reasonable voices of moderation with the guts to speak out and condemn the radical socialists? Every now and then you get a glimpse of a Harold Ford or an Evan Bayh and wonder “what ever happened to that guy?” Today’s Dems get cowed by every slight glance leftward. Picture Joe Manchin starting up from his seat to cheer a Trump line in the SOTU, but not before stealing a glance at Schumer for a cue and sitting right back down fast.
You’d think that some corporate leader would step up, but nope. Maybe they couldn’t get approval from HR.
We’re so very lucky to have President Trump.
There are roughly 3,800 (across about 4 live streams) watching Joe speak in Minnesota right now. On the most watched live stream, I would estimate that about a third of the viewers are Trump supporters talking trash in the comments section.
Joe is continuing to promote the lie that POTUS called servicemen and women suckers and losers.
No camera shot of the audience in attendance. At about 30+ minutes in…no cheers, no applause.
Biden just finished his speech. About 3 or 4 people clapped.
There was no applause throughout the entirety of his speech until the very end.
Please clap.
Please don’t ask whether Mr. Biden will “expose himself.” Some of us are trying to eat dinner.