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I've been hearing reports in the media that there's a ground surge of people just begging Biden to drop out of the race due to a bad first debate.
In the debate he was an old man who had a cold and over-prepared himself. According to the pundits, he looked weak. Trump effortlessly spouted lies that made him look strong.
Let's look at the facts;
Biden is a good man with a stellar reputation as a legislator and a politician. He's brought down inflation, helped curb COVID, respects labor, brought down unemployment and loves his wife. He had a bad night.
Trump is a lying crook with a string of bankruptcies, failed businesses and sketchy bank loans. During his presidency he gave tax cuts to the least deserving: increasing the deficit, told people to inject bleach to cure COVID, stiffed his workers, his contractors, his lawyers. He's cheated on ALL of this four wives and incited an insurrection.
Finding a replacement for Biden months before the election would be tricky, time consuming and off-putting. Without a super strong candidate ready to go the Democratic campaign would fall into chaos. That's just the facts. Since the debate Biden has been on the trail doing what he does best: connecting with people one on one and in small groups. He's respecting picket lines. He admits he doesn't always speak well and isn't as strong as he used to be, but he's still a good man with years of work left in him.
Trump is bloviating before semi-adoring, growing smaller crowds spouting nonsense and falsehoods. That's the facts.
I've got my shades on and I'm ridin' with Biden. Stay calm. Point out that Biden may be old but he's a good man with talented people: his cabinet and Kamala Harris, backing him. Trump is old AND evil with a bunch of fascists, crooks and liars behind him.
That's the facts.
In the debate he was an old man who had a cold and over-prepared himself. According to the pundits, he looked weak. Trump effortlessly spouted lies that made him look strong.
Let's look at the facts;
Biden is a good man with a stellar reputation as a legislator and a politician. He's brought down inflation, helped curb COVID, respects labor, brought down unemployment and loves his wife. He had a bad night.
Trump is a lying crook with a string of bankruptcies, failed businesses and sketchy bank loans. During his presidency he gave tax cuts to the least deserving: increasing the deficit, told people to inject bleach to cure COVID, stiffed his workers, his contractors, his lawyers. He's cheated on ALL of this four wives and incited an insurrection.
Finding a replacement for Biden months before the election would be tricky, time consuming and off-putting. Without a super strong candidate ready to go the Democratic campaign would fall into chaos. That's just the facts. Since the debate Biden has been on the trail doing what he does best: connecting with people one on one and in small groups. He's respecting picket lines. He admits he doesn't always speak well and isn't as strong as he used to be, but he's still a good man with years of work left in him.
Trump is bloviating before semi-adoring, growing smaller crowds spouting nonsense and falsehoods. That's the facts.
I've got my shades on and I'm ridin' with Biden. Stay calm. Point out that Biden may be old but he's a good man with talented people: his cabinet and Kamala Harris, backing him. Trump is old AND evil with a bunch of fascists, crooks and liars behind him.
That's the facts.
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Trump is also a convicted Felon and paedophile rapist. Not to mention he's sold secrets to not-friends of America and accepted money from actual enemies, as well as admiring some of the worst individuals in history as well as current. (he lauded Hitler, Mussolini, Xi Jinping and Putin, to name a few)
He is, quite literally, the worst person that could be President, and it says something about American society that so many people are willing to support him, despite knowing all this, because he's not even a very good con-man and liar.
Job Biden could literally be anyone other Trump and still be a better choice. The fact that he's actually a pretty decent person as well as competent politician and leader is just an extra bonus. The fact that people are willing to dismiss him on the grounds of what was by all accounts one bad day... well, I'd call them idiots but they're not.. they're panicked and acting stupid... because the prospect of Trump being elected again is basically an extinction level event for American democracy. (and that's not even hyperbole, you've no doubt seen the Project 2025 details)
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I just keep repeating my invocation to three American Goddesses - Lady Liberty, Lady Columbia (the personification of the American Spirit, like Brittania) and Lady Justice, and asking them to "guide and guard our nation during this chaotic moment of time").
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