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Tom Ridge Sniffs Joe Biden’s Hair
Former (Republican) Pennsylvania Governor and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has endorsed Joe Biden. Ridge has apparently never been enthralled by — first candidate and then President Trump — because “civility and respect, not … childish name-calling and [T]witter tirades.”
Yes, Biden is truly civil and respectful. Just ask Justice Clarence Thomas. If you want to be disgusted by the electronic lynching conducted by a “civil and respectful” man read through Ann Althouse’s post this morning.
Of course, Ridge assures us that “Vice President Biden and I both know that supporting his candidacy now certainly won’t dissuade me from speaking out later when I disagree with him.” Wow, that will be comforting under a Harris-AOC Administration.
Former Governor Ridge urges us to “put country over party.” Is that what Joe Biden is doing?
I am completely fed up with NT “Republicans” signing up for the Progressive agenda because of President Trump’s personal style. Tell us which policies that Trump has implemented that they would prefer the Democrat agenda instead.
The only ones I can think of are war over peace and uni-party decorum based on decades-long accommodations of personal trough gorging. I recall a statement made by a government executive upon the retirement of a government worker going to work for a federal contractor: “He will be continuing to eat from the same trough, but he is going to the end where the swill is richer.”
Tom Ridge is and has been in the same trough with Joe Biden for decades. Nothing must be permitted to endanger the trough.
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There is no evidence of Biden putting his hand down a woman’s blouse, or up her skirt, unlike Trump and Bill Clinton.
What, again with the “grab them by the *****” lie?
Reason enough for Biden to lose.
Excuse me. You heard the tape recording. How can you call it a lie?
I guess your hearing is failing you too. Maybe you should read a transcript, if your eyes still work. And read what it actually says, don’t just imagine it’s what someone else told you.
Also keep in mind a couple salient facts:
Clinton did what he did WHILE IN OFFICE. Sometimes WHILE IN THE OVAL OFFICE OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
Biden did what he did WHILE IN OFFICE.
I’ve lived in Pennsylvania for over half a century. And I’m not surprised either by Ridge’s endorsement of Biden or by the phony importance that the press is trying to attach to it. I feel the same way About Tom Ridge’s endorsement as I did about Cindy McCain’s: The only shock value to come from either or both would have been if either or both had endorsed Donald Trump. If Biden does manage to win PA, I doubt Tom Ridge will have had much to do with it.
I heard Trump say, when you are famous you can grab them by the p*ssy.” Are you denying that Trump said that? If so, why the heck did Trump apologize for locker room talk?
There is no confirmed evidence that Biden did anything while in office, except for the poor demented woman who claims that Biden accosted her in a Senate Hallway, and she has been vigorously debunked.
The 2020 Democratic Party platform is the most openly and unapologetically progressive since the McGovern platform in 1972. So there is a certain symmetry here….
There is evidence of Biden lying about his wife and daughter’s death to destroy an innocent man’s reputation, years after the man died. Like a spineless, disgusting, immoral coward.
Excuse me. The claim was that Biden has put his hand down a woman’s blouse or up her skirt. This allegation does not relate to that allegation.
Please do not try to hijack a thread on one issue with something wholly unrelated.
Serious question. Exactly what bloc of voters is moved by any of those endorsements?
I’m not hijacking anything. The posts in this thread are about Biden’s character and I’m adding to that discussion. You keep saying how Trump’s lack of morality is reason enough to vote for the party of nihilism, and I’m providing an example of Biden’s lack of morality, which you deflected, again.
Traditional Reagan Republicans who haven’t jumped on the Trump Train, and want to see Reaganism restored.
I dunno, mental illness isn’t THAT common.
Drink!
I don’t think Joe Biden is a ravening sexual omnivore along the lines of a Kennedy or a Clinton. I do think he believes he is a fantastically smart, amazingly accomplished, warm human being with a magic common touch, gifted with boundless empathy. That’s the loop that plays on frayed tape in his forebrain. I don’t think his handsy hair-sniffing is predatory; in his mind, it shows he cares. About people! He’s warm and he’s generous. That’s what the tape says. Its comforting refrain justifies everything, and indemnifies him against criticism.
Politics abounds with these vain nullities. The damage they do depends on whether they blithely sign on to the expansion of the state and coincidentally find themselves enriched, or find a personal advantage in limiting its reach into our lives, and coincidentally find themselves enriched.
How is voting for a corrupt fascist supposed to restore Reaganism?
What about those for whom the enrichment is not coincidental?
Words are not actions.
There is no evidence that Bill Clinton ever touched any woman other than Hillary. All of those lies have been vigorously debunked.
My politeness to you hangs by such a thread because sound facts and information bounce off your noggin like little blue balls at a racket-ball court.
And I also know that the people that push back the hardest against you, you have started to ignore completely without response. And that you don’t actually answer direct questions that are put to you.
So I know this is just another useless blue ball. But whatever. Maybe, MAYBE there is hope that your tin foil head wrap will tear a hole and something gets through.
Speaking as a woman:
IT IS TRUE! Women let rich men grab them, touch them. They want to be the next wife with an alimony payment. Golddiggers exist.
Heck, women at night clubs let complete strangers grab them and touch them.
He did not say anything that wasn’t true or that implied force.
The only people who think this says anything about molestation are men who women never let touch them.
He touched a young girl’s upper chest on camera.
And Biden was actually accused of forcing his hand up a woman’s skirt and actually grabbing her by the place Trump only said.
And its so funny that Trump’s statement was because he was grousing about a girl saying no that he hoped would say yes.
You mean Traditional Bush I Republicans that pretended to be Traditional Reagans until the scam was up and they picked one of the only 3 presidents to lose re-election? Those Republicans?
In my experience people vote to protect their rice bowl. Biden’s avowed policies will lead to poverty and misery for millions of Americans. It will lead to the replication of California’s forest fires and energy shortages throughout the country. It will deprive all but the rich and privileged (who coincidently are supporting Biden in record numbers) of their freedom to travel by limiting access to automobiles and gasoline. It will increase pollution by shutting down fracking and clean gas energy in favor of solar and wind which requires large scale extraction (read strip mining for rare earths) of dirty and rare materials to build.
My question is this? What sort of human being can justify a vote for Biden and inflicting that kind of misery on their fellow citizens? What type of as rice bowl do these people need filling? Why do they so hate minorities that they would undercut their opportunity to climb the economic ladder and condemn them to the form of government serfdom the Democrats desire for minorities? Are those that endorse Biden that selfish? Or do they so enjoy the sense that they are are better off than others that they will do anything to make sure those less privileged than them remain less privileged?
And if Kasich and Ridge are important, shouldn’t we measure their wackiness against these 70 former Reagan and Bush officials who just endorsed Trump?
My question remains considering how badly the Biden agenda will hurt poor and lower middle-class Americans, especially minorities, what does it say about the content of your character if you come out publicly with a full-throated endorsement of Biden? What does it say about you that you are so angry at Trump that you would advocate a decision that will hurt millions of your fellow Americans?
Does it mean that Joe Biden will consider you Black?
Oh come on. Clinton and Trump operate in a far different world than Biden.
I think that you nailed it about Biden. I saw a tape of him talking to a boy who stutters, and offering his phone number to work with him. I would love to see that empathy in Ava President.
This is definitely and observably true. Yet you are still going to vote for him.
If memory serves there are some 17 women who have come forward. The statute of limitations have run on the assaults, but now there are lawsuits going on where Trump denies force, and they are suing based upon slander. We shall see what a jury says.