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Originally posted by Ripley:
Imagine how mad the perpetually enraged Joe Scarborough was yesterday when given a time out. Maybe he spent the day looking inward.

It finally dawned on me that Joe Scarborough is a white Don Lemon:

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"We were told, in no uncertain terms, on Sunday evening, that there was going to be one news feed across all NBC News channels yesterday," Scarborough said Tuesday.

"That was going to be one news feed across all NBC News channels. That we were going to stay as a network in breaking news mode throughout all day yesterday. That did not happen."

"We don’t know why that didn’t happen,” he added.

"Our team was not given a good answer as to why that didn’t happen, but it didn’t happen."

"We were very surprised," Scarborough continued.

"We were very disappointed. And if we had known that there wasn’t going to be the one news feed from NBC News across all NBC News channels, Willie [Geist], we obviously would have been in yesterday morning."

Scarborough then threatened to quit if the network ever pulled him off the air again.

When his wife and co-host Mika Brzezinski attempted to change the topic, Scarborough cut her off and said, “Let me just say, next time we’re told there’s going to be a news feed replacing us, we will be in our chairs,” Scarborough warned. “The news feed will be us, or they can get somebody else to host the show.”

Joe Scarborough Has On-Air Hissy Fit About Being Sidelined On Monday

This reminds me of the Democrats right now.

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Originally posted by Ripley:
Imagine how mad the perpetually enraged Joe Scarborough was yesterday when given a time out. Maybe he spent the day looking inward.

Scarborough could pull his eyes out and eat them and still couldn't "look inward."

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Originally posted by PASig:
It finally dawned on me that Joe Scarborough is a white Don Lemon:

That is a helluva insult to Lemon.

https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/1813033373155086453

Man Joe is an angry guy. I doubt he'll back off on the rhetoric, he can't, he's not capable of it.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
Man Joe is an angry guy. I doubt he'll back off on the rhetoric, he can't, he's not capable of it.

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Increasing outbursts of anger are one of many signs of the onset of dementia. It’s because the person becomes frustrated with their brain not working properly, and cannot grasp that it’s their condition, not the actions of others, hence they lash out.

I saw this with both parents, but Mother was the worst. Until her brain declined to the point of her being a near vegetable, you never knew if she’d suddenly verbally rip your head off over nothing. The worst part was she knew what she was doing, didn’t want to do it, but couldn’t stop it. That was the worst fucking part, not what she said, but the look on her face that showed she knew and hated herself for it.

In PedoJoe’s case, couple dementia with his administration and reelection campaign cratering so hard it makes the Chicxulub crater look like a child’s hole at the beach, it’s no wonder he’s so mad. Then top it off with the vile humans “advising him” (e.g., Jill, Hunter, Kamala), I’ll be shocked if within a week PedoJoe hasn’t said Trump staged the attempt on his life.

Well it only took about forty eight hours until Pedo Joe started up again with his inflammatory statements. Of course to him it probably seemed like years.

^^^^^^^^^^^

Biden seems to be the only one, everyone else is keeping tight lipped. The celebrities and surrogates are in hiding. But it seems the Dem's strategy is to go after Vance instead.

Is it me, or is Sleepy Joe flaming out? Lately I've seen him state he will enact a gun ban (known as an "Assault Weapons Ban" to liberals), enact term limits on Supreme Court Justices and call for a Constitutional Amendment to limit Presidential Immunity.

If this isn't someone who is slipping behind in the polls, I don't know who is.

Wow. Don't you love how this scumbag always has to work the dead son into everything?

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Biden had rambling Zoom call with dozens of Dems ‘worse than the debate’ shortly before Trump assassination attempt: report

By Emily Crane
Published July 17, 2024, 8:04 a.m. ET
New York Post

President Biden held a “tense” Zoom call with dozens of moderate Democrats that was “even worse than the debate” — less than an hour before the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, a new report says.

The 81-year-old president repeatedly lost his train of thought on the call and was dismissive of the Democrats’ concerns about his 2024 re-election campaign following his train-wreck debate performance last month, Puck reported Wednesday, citing multiple sources.

“The call was even worse than the debate. He was rambling; he’d start an answer then lose his train of thought, then would just say ‘whatever.’ He really couldn’t complete an answer. I lost a ton of respect for him,” one person on the call said.

“The president was rambling, dismissive of concerns, unable or unprepared to present a campaign strategy,” added a second source, who is a member of Congress.

The sniper attack on Trump at his campaign rally in Butler, Pa., essentially stopped the Democrats from leaking details of the call and coming out publicly against him, that source added.

“Had the assassination attempt not occurred an hour later, I imagine 50 people on that Zoom were ready to come out publicly against him,” the member of Congress said.

In one particularly testy exchange, sources recalled Biden ripping into Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) after the congressman had asked him about the importance of national security to voters.

“First of all, I think you’re dead wrong on national security,” Biden told him, according to a recording of the call.

“You saw what happened recently in terms of the meeting we had with NATO. I put NATO together. Name me a foreign leader who thinks I’m not the most effective leader in the world on foreign policy. Tell me!” he continued.

“Tell me who did something that you’ve never done with your Bronze Star like my son.”

Biden ended the Zoom just after 5 p.m. after telling his fellow Democrats he had to go to church, those on the call said.

The Biden campaign, however, has pushed back on the suggestion that the commander-in-chief was rambling throughout the call.

“Just in the past week, the president has met with Democratic leaders in both chambers and numerous congressional groups to solicit their feedback and answer their questions,” a campaign official said.

“Engagement with House and Senate members is ongoing, and the campaign will continue to have candid and robust conversations with congressional offices.”

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He also misread his teleprompter at NAACP screamfest and stated he'd implement limits to rent increases of $55. Aside from every rent control in past creating chaos and higher rates, it seems pretty clear he misread "5%"......

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Originally posted by Broadside:
If this isn't someone who is slipping behind in the polls, I don't know who is.

Listening to Fox last night, one of the commentators said that Joe really believes he's the frontrunner and that some of the polls are wrong, and her theory is that Jill or Hunter is feeding Biden the lie that he is winning in the polls, and clearly the frontrunner.

The Biden Titanic

Removing Biden is wise and needed for the country’s sake, but it will not solve the growing public anger at the left.

By Victor Davis Hanson
July 15, 2024

Joe Biden’s escalating dementia and the long media-political conspiracy to hide his senility from the public are the least of the Democrats’ current problems.

Biden’s track record as president may be more concerning than his cognitive decline. He has literally destroyed the U.S. border, deliberately allowing the entry of more than 10 million illegal aliens. His callous handlers’ agenda was to import abjectly poor constituencies in need of vast government services without regard for the current struggles of a battered American middle class and poor.

The widespread poverty of a vast new cohort of illegal immigrants could serve as indictments of a “racist,” “unequal,” and “unfair” America—as if the residents of East Palestine, Ohio or inner-city Chicago had anything to do with the centuries-long corruption and oppression of Mexico and Latin America that daily drives thousands of their own poorest citizens northwards to a society founded on very different ideas than those of their homelands.

Note that the left, neither in Mexico nor in America, never asks why millions of these impoverished people prefer to break into a supposedly racist America. Much less do they even distinguish those principles and values that once made America prosperous, free, and secure from their antitheses that have sadly made much of Latin America mostly poor, without freedom, and insecure.

Biden inherited near-zero real interest rates and inflation at 1.4 percent. Almost immediately, in nihilistic fashion, Biden did to a sound economy what he had done to a secure border. So, he recklessly printed money at a time of spiraling, quarantine-ending demand and supply chain disruption. Middle-class wages never caught up with Biden’s inflation, as prices for key staples are nearly 30 percent higher than when he took office.

The cost of servicing the ballooning national debt at high interest is now nearly $1 trillion per year. The world abroad is aflame, lit by Biden’s inexplicable withdrawal from Kabul, his mixed signals to Vladimir Putin on the eve of his invasion of Ukraine, his deliberate alienation of Israel, his appeasement of Iran and China, and his cuts in the defense budget, coupled with his woke war on mythical “racists” in the military.

Energy prices soared, even as Biden’s green agenda proved unworkable and prompted draining the strategic petroleum reserve and begging foreign oil despots before key elections. The “unifier” Biden by design needlessly alienated nearly half the country, and in his debate, he reiterated why Trump supporters do not deserve his concern. And more ominously and recently, Biden grossly told hundreds of his donors that “it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye”—just days before the attempt on Trump’s life.

The greatest absurdity of the Biden White House is the gaslighting talk of Biden’s “achievements.” Biden’s actions over the last four years are not offsets for his senility that warrant his continuance in office, but again, sadly, they serve as force multipliers, furthering claims of his dementia and for his removal.

Joe Biden is not just non compos mentis and in a sane world, he would be subject to 25th Amendment removal. He also increasingly seems unpleasant and obnoxious, if not sometimes simply weird. To achieve momentary clarity, Biden either shouts at his audience or stoops over and whispers in an eerie fashion.

He insults reporters and his own staff. Every few sentences, without warning, he begins screaming. His face is fixed in a permanent, angry contortion. As a result, the public sees their president as an off-putting, angry old man—and in his selfish dotage, an increasingly unsympathetic one. Even after more than 40 months of media hagiography, Joe Biden still cannot poll over a 40 percent approval rating, given that his rudeness is fueled further by the day due to escalating mental confusion.

Biden is, to be candid, a serial prevaricator. It is not just his ad nauseam repetition of Trump’s supposed slurs—the Charlottesville “both sides” lie, the “suckers” lie, or the “bloodbath” lie. He continues to peddle absolute falsehoods like the mythical nine-percent inflation he inherited and Trump’s supposed intention to ban all abortions, or his whopper that after welcoming in 10 million illegal aliens, Biden would have had a closed, secure border if not for those selfish Republicans who, for some reason, did not trust his ridiculous eleventh-hour, election-timed immigration proposal.

When he hammers Trump as a “convicted felon,” Biden has no clue that a majority of Americans equate that charge with Biden’s own warped lawfare assault on ancient customs, as well as a reminder that his now closest advisor is likewise a “convicted felon.”
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When Biden rants near daily about the rich “paying their fair share,” he reminds us that his son is also facing federal tax evasion charges for unreported foreign income in the millions of dollars and that as soon as Biden himself leaves office, as a recipient of the same foreign cash, he may find himself in the same legal jeopardy. So, to use a Bidenism, “how dare he” accuse affluent Americans of the very crimes that his own family is knee deep in?

Biden’s prefaces of “no lie,” “here’s the deal,” “no kidding,” and “no joke” are little more than tics that forewarn us of complete fabrications about to follow, from the ridiculous story of an uncle supposedly eaten by New Guinea cannibals to his supposed heroics during the Civil Rights movement and his near childhood adoption by various minority communities.

In this regard, senility served oddly as a crutch for Biden. In the past, he paid dearly for his plagiarism, cheating, racist rants, and prevarications, losing three presidential bids and earning a reputation as the empty-suit blowhard of the Senate. Now his press handlers conveniently chalk up his long-standing habitual untruth as momentary mental “confusion.”

Given all the above, remember that Biden was to be the “savior” of the Democratic Party. To this day, celebrities demanding his withdrawal from the race throw him the bone that “he saved the country by stopping Trump”—as if no wars, stability abroad, no inflation, low interest, and low energy costs were something to fear.

Yet Biden’s four years pale in comparison to what in 2016 might have been a Harris, Buttigieg, Warren, Booker, or Sanders candidacy or presidency. No wonder Democrats concluded that there were no viable alternatives to a cognitively challenged Biden, precisely because Biden was the only available fig leaf to the new Democratic Party and its neo-socialist agenda—that, if transparent, would have terrified the country that it was soon to nearly destroy.

Biden’s Democratic critics have it all wrong: removing Biden is wise and needed for the country’s sake, but it will not solve the growing public anger at the left. Without the veneer of even a tottering old Joe from Scranton, there will be no camouflage. And then, the true leftist agenda will be served raw to the American people—open borders, woke/DEI racial polarization, transgendered obsessions, inflation/stagflation, wars a plenty abroad, an inert Pentagon, unaffordable energy, partial-birth abortions, and crazy ideas like packing the court and making Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, states.

So, what is the Democratic strategy to win the 2024 election? Certainly, an “open” convention would not produce a moderate Democratic nominee or even a suitable replacement façade. There are no moderates in contention. If there were any hale candidates to offer cover, the party would be in permanent war with its shrill and angry woke base. Joe is the last of his generation to offer a credible front. There are no more Diane Feinsteins or Bill Clintons to package the hard-left agenda. If Harris cannot serve as Biden’s replacement, someone like her or further to the left would appear on spec.

The Democrats have no plans to run on their record. Their tripartite strategy is as simple as it is tired and worn. First, expect a third chapter to follow the 2016 Russian collusion caper and the 2020 laptop disinformation ruse—likely some October revelation from the administrative state’s “experts” and “authorities” that Trump is a criminal, a traitor, or a spy or plans a coup, to destroy NATO or nuke something. Perhaps there is another Access Hollywood tape, a porn star on ice, anything to avoid discussing the damage done since 2017.

Second, there is still a last gasp to a dying lawfare. Never underestimate the last-gasp judicial effort to inactivate, gag, bankrupt, or jail Trump, however counterproductive such attempts so far have proved.

Third, when all else fails, remember that in many of the swing states, 70 percent of the electorate will not be voting on Election Day and will not be presenting IDs. Millions of their ballots will be harvested or cured by third-party activists. Last time around, the leftist journalist Molly Ball bragged about their “cabal” and “conspiracy” of big money and big tech that had “saved” Americans from Trump.

Those post-election confessions were not just high-fiving but also a confident forewarning of what is to come.

https://amgreatness.com/2024/07/15/the-biden-titanic/

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Originally posted by oddball:

Listening to Fox last night, one of the commentators said that Joe really believes he's the frontrunner and that some of the polls are wrong, and her theory is that Jill or Hunter is feeding Biden the lie that he is winning in the polls, and clearly the frontrunner.

I think you are 100% spot on

It's clear he's being kept in a bubble and someone is feeding him only what they want him to hear. Most likely phony "Dr" Jill.

What we’ve been witnessing and have been subject to for these many past months (years actually, ever since Ronald Reagan) is an American version of what is in Medieval English History known as “The Anarchy”. That was the 35-year period after King Henry the First (1320) in which rival factions of the Plantagenet family were constantly vying for the English throne, as there was no designated successor to Henry 1, as his son and heir had drowned in the sinking of the “White Ship”. It finally ended when grandson Henry 2 ascended the throne and permanently removed his rival claimant relatives in 1353.

Think about it. Since Reagan left office in 1989, we’ve been having the same groupings of family/people (Bush41; Clinton42; Bush43; Obama44[Biden/Clinton]; Clinton/JebBush![45] aka [Obama44.2.5]; and Biden46[Obama44.3]) running the country. Only Trump upset the applecart when he prevented HillaryC from becoming Prez #45, and for that he has been targeted for all sorts of scurrilous and surreptitious legal actions (lawfare).

To use another historical analogy, we could very well be watching a rerun of the “Last 10 Days” (April 20-30, 1945). The White House bunker is under heavy and constant attack, while it’s chief occupant (Biden) is further removed from reality, and is being fed false information by the Chief of Staff (“Dr” Jill) that the relief armies were moving forward and victory was assured. It finally ended on May 7, 1945, but that was one week after the chief occupant removed himself from the scene, but bought only at the cost of total devastation.

Biden doesn't just lie, his lies are consistent. He tells pretty much the same stories for years. If called on it, his excuses are consistent. You'd think if someone undeniably convinced him something wasn't true, he'd pop.

Believing one's crap goes a long way in selling it.

My prediction is after the assassination attempt the D’s have accepted they are going to lose. They won’t bother replacing Joe at this point, he will be the sacrifice. To replace him with someone else will just subject the replacement to a devastating loss and they don’t want to do that.

It actually solves a few problems. Joe gets to be the scape goat, Kamala can quietly be dismissed instead of visibly being “passed over”, and now they can reset their plans for the future (my guess is they will go all in on pretty boy Newsom).

Pretty much abdicating 2024 to get an early start on 2028.

I'm skeptical about "the D's have accepted they are going to lose." I don't trust any of them and I fear apathy that will cause people to not vote because they think it is a lock. My philosophy at this point is to go vote and encourage everyone I meet to go vote as well.

Well, who do you think is not voting? Whether or not they think they are going to lose, the Democrats are going to give it their best effort, which includes a roster of illegal acts.

Nothing has changed in that regard.

Because of the horrid shambles of the economy, everyone has a stake in this election. There's nothing wrong with encouraging people to vote, but anyone who has, in the last four years, bought groceries or gasoline or durable goods, or has looked at purchasing a home or who has paid rent, is going to be voting.

The rare exceptions who won't vote are too stupid to breathe, which almost certainly means they would have been voting for Biden, so...