Good. The only way for Biden and the media to actually bury that is to have lots of conversations on-camera that, sooner or later, taper off and quietly move on to other subjects. There are any number of people out there who won't forget this comment any more than they'll forget the "you ain't black" bit, and Biden's delivery isn't good enough (any more than his platform is progressive enough) for Biden to elide past the problem.

Sundown Joe Biden: When I Said African Americans Had No Diversity of Thought What I Really Meant to Say Is That They Have Enormous Reservoirs of Diversity of Thought

Joe Biden @JoeBiden:

Earlier today, I made some comments about diversity in the African American and Latino communities that I want to clarify. In no way did I mean to suggest the African American community is a monolith—not by identity, not on issues, not at all.

The claim that you meant to say this other thing that is 100% the opposite of what you actually said is the reason why you really, really need to take that cognitive function test, Joe.

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Originally posted by bigwagon:
The mainstream media will do its best to bury this latest gaffe once the next 24-hour news cycle is over. By Monday it will be ancient history, but I would hope A-A voters who are actually paying attention have longer memories.

I think the media has lost control of the narrative by now. Black media, like Joe's disastrous interview with Charlamagne, isn't going to somehow not notice this. I can only imagine the media back channels (i.e. Twitter and Instagram) for black people are repeating this and discussing this. They already were talking about the Charlamagne interview, so this is just more fuel on the fire.

Ol' Fadin' Joe steams a good ham.

It would be great if the black community showed some diversity by 40 to 50 % voting for Donald Trump.

I wonder how many times his handlers had to go over "monolith" with him before he put it in his statement.

I'll beat the horse once more.

"Joe Biden: Unlike the African American Community, the Latino Community Has Diversity of Thought"

https://www.breitbart.com/clip...-been-worded-better/

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) stated that she believes 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden’s comments on the diversity of the African American and Hispanic communities were a statement “in terms of voting patterns,” and that while she thinks Biden could have expressed his comments better, “I know that he doesn’t believe that we are a monolith.”

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"voting patterns" not "diversity of thought"

“I know that he doesn’t believe that we are a monolith.”

The ONLY thing Biden cares about is that the black community continues to vote DEM by 90% or more.

Ironically Bottoms' comment about a "monolithic" black voting pattern is factually correct, but also results in a monolithic govt dependence addiction.
One of the best things the black community could do for itself is to grow that 10% fraction that is willing to be open to ideas different from the DEM victimhood characterization.

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The ONLY thing Biden cares about is that the black community continues to vote DEM by 90% or more.
Ironically Bottoms' comment about a "monolithic" black voting pattern is factually correct, but also results in a monolithic govt dependence addiction.
One of the best things the black community could do for itself is to grow that 10% fraction that is willing to be open to ideas different from the DEM victimhood characterization.

Right!
Blacks who are aware and paying attention know that Trump has done more for black unemployment in 3 years than Obama did in 8 years.
Trump will continue to invite blacks to join the middle class and escape poverty. He will get a higher percentage of the black vote than he did in 2016.

Trump needs to take this incident and use it as a "Willy Horton" add against the left and Biden.

Released from jail at height of pandemic, Virginia rape suspect allegedly killed his accuser

The incident in Karla Dominguez’s apartment last October was violent, and it was not consensual, she testified in Alexandria District Court in December. The man she accused was indicted on charges including rape, strangulation and abduction and jailed without bond in Alexandria.

Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. Ibrahim E. Bouaichi’s lawyers argued that the virus was a danger to both inmates and their attorneys, and that Bouaichi should be freed awaiting trial. On April 9, over the objections of an Alexandria prosecutor, Circuit Court Judge Nolan Dawkins released Bouaichi on $25,000 bond, with the condition that he only leave his Maryland home to meet with his lawyers or pretrial services officials.

On July 29, Alexandria police say, Bouaichi, 33, returned to Alexandria and shot and killed Dominguez outside her apartment in the city’s West End.

When police couldn’t find Bouaichi after the slaying, they issued a video news release asking for the public’s help in locating him, declaring him “armed and dangerous.” Then on Wednesday morning, federal marshals and Alexandria police spotted Bouaichi in Prince George’s County and pursued him, causing Bouaichi to crash, authorities said. When the police went to arrest Bouaichi, they found he had apparently shot himself. He was reported to be in grave condition Thursday.

Bouaichi’s release from jail and the slaying of Dominguez represent a tragic side effect of the pandemic. As the coronavirus erupted in America, civil liberties advocates called for the release of large numbers of prisoners from jails and prisons in order to keep them from being infected and possibly dying in necessarily confined spaces.

In Alexandria, Bouaichi’s lawyers said in their motion for bond that “social distancing and proper disinfecting measures are impossible while incarcerated.… Simply put, the risk of contracting Covid-19 in a jail is exceedingly obvious.” The lawyers, Manuel Leiva and Frank Salvato, also noted the risk for themselves in the jail, saying that lawyers seeking a contact visit would “also expose themselves to contaminated air and surfaces.”

Leiva and Salvato also claimed that the Alexandria jail had “imposed severe restrictions on visitation since the Covid-19 outbreak,” that all contact visits (meaning no glass or separation between visitor and inmate) were stopped and that the lawyers could only have video conference sessions lasting 30 minutes maximum. A trial date was set for Bouaichi, and his lawyers said he was “being effectively deprived of legal counsel.”

Alexandria jail officials responded that they do allow contact visits for attorneys upon request, and have accommodated several requests. “We have also provided video conferences in excess of 30 minutes,” jail spokeswoman Amy Bertsch said. “However, we do not have any record of Mr. Leiva or his co-counsel requesting a face-to-face visit with Ibrahim Bouaichi after the protocols went into effect in late March.”

Bertsch noted that the jail implemented increased cleaning and health screening in early March “and there were no cases of covid-19 at the jail during their client’s incarceration.”

Alexandria Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan L. Porter said Leiva and Salvato filed their motion on April 8 and Clark set the hearing for the next day, so prosecutors did not file a written response. Porter noted that under Virginia law, those charged with certain violent crimes such as rape are presumed to be a danger and are not eligible for bond.

“We strenuously argued that the presumption” against bond, Porter said, “had not been overcome, given the facts of the case and the violent nature of the alleged offense.” He declined to provide details of the attack because both the rape and murder cases against Bouaichi are pending.

Judge Dawkins retired in June, after serving 12 years as a circuit court judge and 14 years before that on the juvenile and domestic relations court. He did not respond to a request for comment. Judges typically are prohibited from commenting on pending cases.

Very little information is available about Dominguez, who police said was a native of Venezuela and did not have family in this country. A GoFundMe account was launched after she was killed, to help pay for her funeral, but the organizer did not respond to messages seeking comment.

Dominguez lived on South Greenmount Drive, in the Town Square at Mark Center Apartments. Alexandria police said they received a report of gunshots on July 29, and at 6:20 a.m. they found Dominguez outside her apartment, dead of multiple wounds to the upper body.

Police obtained a murder warrant for Bouaichi two days later, but could not find him until Wednesday.

In October, Dominguez called police and alleged she had been sexually assaulted by Bouaichi on Oct. 10.

Bouaichi was charged with six felonies — rape, sodomy, strangulation, abduction, burglary and malicious wounding — and turned himself in on Oct. 21. He was held without bond. At a preliminary hearing before Alexandria General District Court Chief Judge Donald M. Haddock in December, prosecutors dismissed the rape and malicious wounding charges, and Haddock found probable cause to send the case to a grand jury. He denied a request to allow Bouaichi to post bond.

The grand jury indicted Bouaichi on five charges: rape, sodomy, strangulation, abduction and burglary. A trial date was set for March 30, and Leiva and Salvato’s bond motion indicates they were preparing for trial, until the courts shut down in March due to the coronavirus and trials were postponed. “The two individuals involved were boyfriend/girlfriend,” the lawyers wrote, “and there is a substantial defense here.”

Alexandria police declined to provide any details of the alleged criminal assault from October.

Leiva and Salvato said in a statement they were “certainly saddened by the tragedy both families have suffered here.” The lawyers said they “were looking forward to trial. Unfortunately the pandemic continued the trial date by several months and we didn’t get the chance to put forth our case.”

After his release from the Alexandria jail, Bouaichi next encountered police in Greenbelt, where he lived with his parents. Greenbelt police said that shortly before midnight on May 8, they received a holdup alarm from a Wendy’s restaurant. Greenbelt police spokesman George Mathews said officers arrived to find no robbery, but instead a motorist in the drive-through acting strangely.

Mathews said the driver was uncooperative, “may have been intoxicated, and wouldn’t communicate with the officers. He then put his vehicle in drive and rammed the K-9 officer’s vehicle,” which an officer and a police dog were sitting in. The officers eventually took him into custody, at which point Bouaichi reported having a medical issue. He was taken to a hospital, and eventually to the Prince George’s jail, where he was served multiple charges: two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault, harming a law enforcement dog, resisting arrest, driving while intoxicated and multiple traffic charges.

Maryland court records indicate Bouaichi was released from jail on May 11. Porter said Alexandria officials were not notified of the charges in Prince George’s County or they would have sought to revoke Bouaichi’s bond.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...-killed-his-accuser/

A week ago:

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If I were placing a bet, today, on who Biden's VP pick will be... my money would be on Susan Rice.

Today:
Susan Rice, believed to be a top contender to be Joe Biden's vice presidential running mate, has sold a significant proportion of the Netflix Inc. shares she has acquired since becoming a company director in May 2018.

As a commentator says: She's trying to insulate herself from prosecution by running on a presidential ticket.

Rice was part of the conspiracy to bring down Trump before he was even inaugurated.

I firmly believe it will be Rice. If for no other reason than to protect her from Barr because she is now in the race.

Years ago even Robin Williams knew there was something wrong with Sleepy Joe...



https://pjmedia.com/culture/ma...en-years-ago-n759129

I just had a crazy thought - or is it?

Who is third in line to be President? The Speaker of the House.

Could it be that Pelosi is planning that Biden will win, be removed due to being mentally unfit, whoever is VP will have 'some reason' they can't assume the position and SHE will be President?

Scary thought.

Come on. Leave the fairy tales out of this forum, please.

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Who is third in line to be President? The Speaker of the House.

Could it be that Pelosi is planning that Biden will win, be removed due to being mentally unfit, whoever is VP will have 'some reason' they can't assume the position and SHE will be President?

You're not the first to think about the possibility that Nancy Pelosi could become President...
but Para's right: it's a fairy tale.

Laurence Tribe is thinking about ballots not being counted (mail in) and the election not being decided:

Laurence Tribe: Nancy Pelosi becomes president if election isn't decided by Jan. 20

Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe claimed there is a chance that neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump will be president for the next four years.

Tribe, who is a vocal critic of President Trump, argued that if the winner of the election is not determined by Jan. 20, 2021, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the third in line for the presidency, would assume the office.

"They're trying to make it look chaotic, but there is a fail-safe mechanism built into the Constitution itself. And that is no matter how much dust [Trump] throws into the gears, at high noon on Jan. 20, 2021, if there has not been a new president elected, at that point, Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House, becomes president of the United States," he said on MSNBC.

The premise of Tribe's argument is "unproven," according to Snopes, a fact-checking website that noted Pelosi may not necessarily get the nod if an election were not decided by Jan. 20.

"All of the enablers at that point would risk committing federal felonies if they were to exercise power which they no longer have because Trump would no longer be president," Tribe added. "That's the fail-safe. The Constitution is not designed to self-destroy, but it's designed to self-preserve. And the real game that I think Trump is playing is a game of making us all doubt that the system will hold."

Trump suggested last week that delaying the election could be an option, voicing concerns about the possibility of voter fraud through mail-in ballots being relied upon in many places during the coronavirus pandemic.

"With Universal Mail-In Voting (not Absentee Voting, which is good), 2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history," the president tweeted last Thursday. "It will be a great embarrassment to the USA. Delay the Election until people can properly, securely and safely vote???"

Congress, not the president, has the power to change the date of a federal election, according to the Constitution.

https://www.washingtonexaminer...nt-decided-by-jan-20

Joe was out of his basement yesterday for a bike ride.

Without a helmet! Oh my!

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"They're trying to make it look chaotic, but there is a fail-safe mechanism built into the Constitution itself. And that is no matter how much dust [Trump] throws into the gears, at high noon on Jan. 20, 2021, if there has not been a new president elected, at that point, Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House, becomes president of the United States," he said on MSNBC.

He is assuming that the dems will still hold the house come 1 January 2021. The speaker could be Kevin McCarthy.

And quite frankly his whole premise is resistance fantasy in my opinion.

As for 'Ol Joe with no helmet, looks like his hospice nurse isn't wearing a mask either. I bet they cropped the training wheels out of the picture too

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I bet they cropped the training wheels out of the picture too

And the tow line between her bike and his.

A little less cropped...



https://dailycaller.com/2020/0...ox-news-peter-doocy/