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Pic Of The Moment: Biden Proved His Fitness, Now Go Ask Trump (Original Post) EarlG Jul 2024 OP
K&R 2naSalit Jul 2024 #1
Cuts like a knife. BootinUp Jul 2024 #2
YES! Bluethroughu Jul 2024 #3
The orange felon would never agree to such a presser wnylib Jul 2024 #33
KNR niyad Jul 2024 #4
Could pedo Trump answer any of those questions Farmer-Rick Jul 2024 #5
"Pedo Trump" Dave Bowman Jul 2024 #22
And Benedict Pedonald.. yorkster Jul 2024 #40
Double-standard is breath-taking kwolf68 Jul 2024 #6
Agree! The double standard is now a permanent feature of media coverage of Democrats in elections, ancianita Jul 2024 #12
K&R...nt Wounded Bear Jul 2024 #7
Hannibal Lector in an electric boat chasing sharks with an unflushable toilet. Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2024 #8
A battery operated malaise Jul 2024 #10
Is the boat in big water? Like, ocean water? And is it wet, from the standpoint of water? Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2024 #11
He is an effin buffoon malaise Jul 2024 #15
I sometimes think folks have blocked out how bad he was and is, just to protect our collective sanity. Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2024 #17
It is madness on steroids malaise Jul 2024 #20
You just defined it though. czarjak Jul 2024 #47
He is explaining what an island is Progressive dog Jul 2024 #52
And the battery is in a small shark inside the toilet. yorkster Jul 2024 #25
Bwaaaaah malaise Jul 2024 #36
But you knew I was a shark ChazInAz Jul 2024 #54
Good one. yorkster Jul 2024 #55
Lol, Pedonny's brain is rotten to the core. Dave Bowman Jul 2024 #24
Precisely malaise Jul 2024 #9
Kick dalton99a Jul 2024 #13
I demand the press ask those questions to Trump!! Owens Jul 2024 #14
Please, as much as you can, make those demands directly to the media travelingthrulife Jul 2024 #53
kick blogslug Jul 2024 #16
K&R onecaliberal Jul 2024 #18
The stigma of age is so strong. infullview Jul 2024 #19
You might not have noticed that the horse we're betting on... Think. Again. Jul 2024 #28
A large majority discriminate against women, that shouldn't stop us from nominating a woman Walleye Jul 2024 #29
Speaking of changing horses, have you considered wnylib Jul 2024 #34
What a nasty thing to say infullview Jul 2024 #41
I, like you, have experienced ageism.. GainesT1958 Jul 2024 #51
Too familiar infullview Jul 2024 #56
Don't change horses in the middle of the race meow2u3 Jul 2024 #44
Just do it!!! TIA... ultralite001 Jul 2024 #21
ABSOLUTELY....K&R spanone Jul 2024 #23
Trump's answer would be 30 seconds of demagoguery related to the question Martin Eden Jul 2024 #26
Yup. Then we could attack the media's wnylib Jul 2024 #35
Good luck with that Martin Eden Jul 2024 #39
Thank you! Think. Again. Jul 2024 #27
Please reporters, just ask Trump why he met with Viktor Orbon, and what they talked about Walleye Jul 2024 #30
Most likely they strategized a political attack on NATO wnylib Jul 2024 #37
Yes, thanks. We need to move the focus to Donald Trump big time. h2ebits Jul 2024 #31
one of DT's speeches azureblue Jul 2024 #32
They will not, nor can they, ask those questions of their golden cow. republianmushroom Jul 2024 #38
K&R LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2024 #42
Imagine the gibberish you'd get from the pedo-rapist. 634-5789 Jul 2024 #43
Biden, 1988, Moscow & nuclear arms negotiations BumRushDaShow Jul 2024 #45
Hell yeah! Blue Owl Jul 2024 #46
Most accomplished president in decades Biden4eva Jul 2024 #48
He'll get some MAGA ass kissing asshole to do it, like Ronny Jackson. Initech Jul 2024 #49
Yet another winner BlueMTexpat Jul 2024 #50
We should be asking the media this every day mcar Jul 2024 #57

wnylib

(23,948 posts)
33. The orange felon would never agree to such a presser
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 01:29 PM
Jul 2024

unless someone could goad his ego into it. Then when he could not even comprehend the questions, let alone answer them, he would veer off into a lengthy gish gallop to avoid more questions, leaving the press stunned.

Afterward, we could all call for the press journalists to be replaced for their inability to get answers from the felon or do follow up questions.

Farmer-Rick

(11,060 posts)
5. Could pedo Trump answer any of those questions
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 10:30 AM
Jul 2024

Off script, unprepared? You and I know for a fact the Pedo could NOT, ever.

So why all the ruckus about Biden being old????

Because it's a Putin planned psyops helped along by pampered American billionaires. Get rid of Biden, no matter what unfamiliar person you replace him with, and Pedo Trump wins.

They did it to Hillary and they are clearly doing it again.

Pedo Trump isn't campaigning. He closed down almost all the GOP offices throughout the USA. Who does that in the middle of an election?

Why would you do that? Because he knows the fix is in. He's going to challenge any election results and take them to the Dancing Supremes. The Dancing Supremes are going to turn America over to a Pedo Trump dictatorship. It's in the works.

The Supremes have been particularly busy dancing for Putin at his golden palace. And we all know how much Putin has helped out his fellow Pedo.

Dave Bowman

(3,385 posts)
22. "Pedo Trump"
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 12:36 PM
Jul 2024

Earlier someone posted a catchy nickname for the shitbag:

Pedonald (Pedonny is not bad either).

kwolf68

(7,687 posts)
6. Double-standard is breath-taking
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 10:31 AM
Jul 2024

Right has been screaming for 40 years about a Liberal media, basically projecting. Now they have, in the least, a media full of lackeys and accomplices even if they are not a right-wing echo chamber.

Of course, Biden has gaffed up some and we spend 2 weeks talking about it. Trump gaffs up and it's part of his schtick and by goodness don't say anything -even objective-about him or you'll be branded "Liberal media".

Biden has his weaknesses, but he has a ton of strengths as well, plenty enough to easily dispose of the wanna-be despot. The media has been fluffing Trump since 2016, it's negligent. I do believe if the same scrutiny now applied to Biden was being applied to Trump this election would practically be over.

And OH FUCKING yea, next time I hear that godamn commercial where it goes, "Biden (not President Biden, but Biden) over turned President Trumps immigration policy..." I am going to murder someone.

ancianita

(37,964 posts)
12. Agree! The double standard is now a permanent feature of media coverage of Democrats in elections,
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 11:13 AM
Jul 2024

whether media
-- use insinuating headlines; or whether they
-- ignore coverage of positive events or decisions; whether media
-- amplify and flog the most trifling negative when simple facts will suffice; when they
-- raise dishonest questions to foment public doubt;
-- make negative snap judgments in op-eds.

Because "the perfect as the enemy of the good" is the corporate anti-democratic media's bad faith framing narrative assigned to reporters when they cover liberals or any coalitions of Democrats.

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,239 posts)
11. Is the boat in big water? Like, ocean water? And is it wet, from the standpoint of water?
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 11:10 AM
Jul 2024

"This is a tough hurricane, one of the wettest we’ve ever seen, from the standpoint of water."
-- traitortrump, about hurricane Florence

“This is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water,”
-- traitortrump, about Puerto Rico, after hurricane Maria

Hermit-The-Prog

(36,239 posts)
17. I sometimes think folks have blocked out how bad he was and is, just to protect our collective sanity.
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 11:44 AM
Jul 2024


Didn't get the crash, so corporate media is really flooding the area with FUD. Joe scares the shit out of oligarchs and fascists.

yorkster

(2,248 posts)
25. And the battery is in a small shark inside the toilet.
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 12:40 PM
Jul 2024

"I thought you said your shark didn't bite!"

Owens

(299 posts)
14. I demand the press ask those questions to Trump!!
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 11:15 AM
Jul 2024

Watch him flail and wail about how unfair that question is!

travelingthrulife

(338 posts)
53. Please, as much as you can, make those demands directly to the media
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 09:11 AM
Jul 2024

I know they really make it hard to comment to them, or to contact anyone, but it will all help to break the oligarch's grip on our media and congresscritters.

infullview

(1,035 posts)
19. The stigma of age is so strong.
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 11:59 AM
Jul 2024

I’m only 67 years old. My expertise is in software engineering. I worked in R&D for a good percentage of my career and have more than 40 years of experience. My knowledge of tech is current. I’ve been sending out resumes for 8 months and no one has bothered to give me the opportunity of an interview.

I feel for Biden but public opinion is so agist….. I know he can do the job, but the vast majority discriminate against “old” people. I have to admit that I am scared to death we may end up with pResident tRump if we don’t change horses.

wnylib

(23,948 posts)
34. Speaking of changing horses, have you considered
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 01:40 PM
Jul 2024

changing your resume? Or cover letters? Or choice of places to contact? Might be that it's not age that is the factor.

infullview

(1,035 posts)
41. What a nasty thing to say
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 02:54 PM
Jul 2024

The head hunter that was shopping my resume was exasperated. My qualification exactly matched what the prospective employer was looking for but they didn’t like the fact that I did the work in the 1990’s. Nothing about electronics or the C programming language has changed. My reps comment was they are “searching for a purple squirrel and they don’t get it that time equals money.”

Don’t feel obliged to comment unless you have an engineering background similar to mine, you are the same age, and have had no problems getting interviews.

GainesT1958

(4,533 posts)
51. I, like you, have experienced ageism..
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 05:29 AM
Jul 2024

After presenting prospective employers with a resume that is well-qualified or even overqualified. If they hire someone younger, the excuse (sound familiar?) is that they must be more advanced technologically...but the real reason is they can start a younger hire out at (far) less salary...

infullview

(1,035 posts)
56. Too familiar
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 11:10 AM
Jul 2024

UNUM, a local company, had four jobs posted. I was well qualified for the senior position and got rejected almost instantly. Then I lowered my salary expectation on indeed to match a mid-level position and again I got immediately rejected. I happened to be listening to NPR shortly after this happened, and they had the Portland ME Chamber of Commerce on interview; they were talking about how Maine has one of the largest aging populations, and how they can’t find enough qualified people to fill existing job openings etc..
I sent an email to them with my rejection letter from UNUM and copied their HR department. Of course, I received a CYA letter from UNUM almost immediately explaining all the buzzwords my application was missing, except, they were all there on my resume. I pointed this out and never heard back from them.

meow2u3

(24,896 posts)
44. Don't change horses in the middle of the race
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 06:02 PM
Jul 2024

Or we'll definitely end up with Trump as dictator. Republicans pushed LBJ out of the race in 1968 and we ended up with Nixon.

Don't listen to the elitist media. They want Trump for the promise of tax breaks. They don't know that their company will be no more if Trump wins.

Martin Eden

(13,316 posts)
26. Trump's answer would be 30 seconds of demagoguery related to the question
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 12:41 PM
Jul 2024

Then extended fearmongering about our southern border.

wnylib

(23,948 posts)
35. Yup. Then we could attack the media's
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 01:42 PM
Jul 2024

incompetence in not getting answers or follow up questions and call for them to resign.

Martin Eden

(13,316 posts)
39. Good luck with that
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 02:10 PM
Jul 2024

During the CNN "debate" I wish Joe had admonished the moderators to do their viewers a service with a thourough post debate fact check.

Think. Again.

(16,627 posts)
27. Thank you!
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 12:45 PM
Jul 2024

These brief hits of reality are a hell of a rush!

I can see why some people get addicted to it.

wnylib

(23,948 posts)
37. Most likely they strategized a political attack on NATO
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 01:46 PM
Jul 2024

or how to handle the release of the Project 2025 info.

azureblue

(2,276 posts)
32. one of DT's speeches
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 01:28 PM
Jul 2024

No water in your faucets. You ever try buying a new home and you turn on. You want to wash your hair or you wanna wash your hands.You turn on the water and it goes drip, drip the soap. You can't get it off your hand. So you keep it running for about 10 times longer. You trying, the worst is your hair. I have this beautiful luxuriant hair and I put stuff on. I put it in lather. I like lots of lather because I like it to come out extremely dry because it seems to be slightly thicker that way. And I lather up and then you turn on this crazy shower and the thing drip,drip and you say I'm gonna be here for 45 minutes. What? There's so much water. You don't know what to do with it.You know, it's called rain. It rains a lot in certain places. But, now their idea, you know, did you see the other day? They just, I opened it up and they closed it again. I opened it, they close it, washing machines to wash your dishes.There is a problem.They don't want you to have any water. They want no water.

DT 6/22/24

634-5789

(4,247 posts)
43. Imagine the gibberish you'd get from the pedo-rapist.
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 04:59 PM
Jul 2024

This is perfect. Joe came out swinging, ala the Biden I know him for.

BumRushDaShow

(139,780 posts)
45. Biden, 1988, Moscow & nuclear arms negotiations
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 08:52 PM
Jul 2024

From 1988 - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/29/how-joe-biden-cold-war-experience-will-shape-approach-to-russia


Joseph Biden (right) sits opposite Andrei Gromyko, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, during negotiations in Moscow in 1988 to ratify the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty. Photograph: TASS/Getty Images

He has been there, done that, wore the t-shirt, wore the t-shirt out, got a new one, wore that out... Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

 

Biden4eva

(5 posts)
48. Most accomplished president in decades
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 12:17 AM
Jul 2024

The P.O.S. my daughter married was going on about how he "went off of a list of reporters" and that it was likely that "large parts were scripted".

I told him that this is bullshit and that even if true, it is unlikely that he'll have a President as capable or as accomplished again in his lifetime.

Initech

(101,411 posts)
49. He'll get some MAGA ass kissing asshole to do it, like Ronny Jackson.
Sat Jul 13, 2024, 01:09 AM
Jul 2024

An asshole who should neither be a doctor or a representative, but he is because of Fox fucking News.

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