You are a political scientist and yet you seem to live in a fantasy world when it comes to electoral politics. Many Democrats support Biden because they think he’s done an excellent job. And they listen to Biden, not the bored press interpreting Biden. He’s sharp, he’s funny, he’s perceptive. I get that you don’t like the squinty eyes, but come on! Encouraging a divisive primary and squandering the incumbency advantage would have been political malpractice.
Dems are furious with the Hur report because it conflicts with their view of Biden. You are afraid of it because it confirms yours.
You do an excellent job writing about the ideological moment we are in. But when it comes to electoral politics you start sounding like a kid with pictures of unicorns on everything she owns. Wishful thinking and improbable fantasies.
The Republicans and their international allies are going to rip the shit out of whoever the candidate is. Roll up your sleeves and start working to elect the Democrats you have, not the Democrats you want.
I think I agree Damon. But man it's all so tricky at this point. Definitely agree he should have gotten out long ago.
The only thing I'll say about Dems trying to get the voters to not believe their eyes...why shouldn't they? Seems to work for the Republican base. We all lived through the Trump years together and still...he was the greatest president? (As JVL loves to point out, the asymmetry is real.)
The Republicans have chosen the worst possible candidate to be their presidential nominee. The Democrats have done the same thing. Neither candidate is the right person to lead our country. Yet here we are - a rematch of 2020. Both parties are to blame. The voting public is left with two terrible alternatives. And after the special counsel's report saying Biden has a memory problem, the media gladly participated in making the report at the top of every news cycle. So in my opinion, the media wants Biden to lose.
I pretty much I agree with all of this but I can also believe that Hur is a partisan little shit-weasel who had to slip the knife in somewhere.
Who I really reserve my ire for is Merrick Garland who allowed Hur's report out unredacted. I've had it with these appointees who are so terrified of appearing biased they end up doing more damage than any scheming, corrupt partisan.
I get it though. Joe did a good job but it's over. My doctor might say I'm "pre-70" - at a certain age you're pre-everything - and I'm missing a step or two. So I imagine Joe is probably a bit more diminished than he appears. Whoever passes for "wise-men"(chortle) in the Democratic Party should probably be picking straws for who gets to march up to the White House and tell the old man it's time for the home. If worse comes to worse tell him you're all going out for ice cream.
The caveat is who does the Democratic Party choose for a nominee if Biden is an indication of the party's Dunning-Kruger affliction.
As with any radical proposal such as this, my first question is: When has it EVER worked? Johnson withdrew, Humphrey the VP was nominated, and Nixon won.
You believe he is actually "in decline" - I initially thought you were going to argue that it is the PERCEPTION he is in decline, that is the issue. That I can agree with. Perhaps some reading of expert opinion on aging would be beneficial for you and your writings.
As probably the most "MAGA" subscriber, I don't think Biden has anything to worry about. I think Trump is so off putting that the Democrats are likely to win a 1964 style landslide. They most definitely would do so if Biden gave way to a younger Democrat. But I just cannot see the 82 million who voted against Trump in 2020 deciding to change horses. I also don't think Trump can troll the country and find many more than the 75 million he won.
The nation is going hard left. I really think the Abortion issue is what will swing a lot of Senate seats to the D's.
“Who Are You Gonna Believe? The Democratic Party or Your Lying Eyes and Ears?” — how about the Democratic Party because your lying eyes and ears are actually lying as they can tell you nothing about Biden’s actual cognitive ability. Educate yourself. Here’s a good place to start:
“Experts agree. Memory, no matter what your age, is fallible and malleable. Our brain processes incalculable amounts of information at a given time, and there’s simply not room for all of it to be stored. And surprisingly, the act of forgetting is an important aspect of memory.”
“The Washington Post interviewed several memory experts. They noted that the cognitive abilities of Biden and Trump can’t be evaluated based on anecdotal memory lapses. Formal evaluations are needed to truly assess someone’s brain health. But they noted that memory lapses at any age are surprisingly normal and, for most people, aren’t a signal of mental decline.”
I don’t think you can name any candidate for President who has the same or better name recognition than Joe Biden. I don’t think you can name any candidate who has a record of accomplishments in any venue remotely similar to Joe Biden’s accomplishments in the past 4 years. Can you name any candidate who has as much campaign cash today — $46 million — as Joe Biden? Can you name any candidate like Joe Biden who has the power of the incumbency? I don’t think so, but educate me.
What you do have are polls which you spread on social media which try to predict what might happen 8 months into our future. Eight months is a lifetime.
Too bad President Truman isn’t alive to teach you something about polls, i.e. Dewey didn’t win.
What alarms me is the lack of education among your polled Americans about Tom Paine and tyranny:
“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered;”
If Gretchen "A Really Bad Thing Happened In An Area Of The World I Am Afraid To Name" Whitmer, JB "Lucky Sperm" Pritzker, Gavin "Slimeball" Newsome, and Raphael "Beat My Wife" Warnock are considered formidable candidates than the Democrats are in a world of trouble.
The one element that I would point to in your article that is to this reader weak is that I find your list of possible Dem Presidential nominees devoid of a candidate with the gravitas, charisma and leadership needed for the Presidency. I think that polling, although scant, has demonstrated that none of those you mentioned would fare any better than President Biden... Here's myUnicorn ticket Kristen Sinema and Will Hurd. As you I will also be voting for ABT come Nov. Woe betide the U S of A
Just a quick comment. What about the others mentioned in the report who also had lapses of memory but no one (not even the Press) mentions their age or even a possible reason for those lapses but "Biden, he's too old".
No satirist or comedy sketch writer could’ve written something as funny as Biden’s press conference last week.
You are a political scientist and yet you seem to live in a fantasy world when it comes to electoral politics. Many Democrats support Biden because they think he’s done an excellent job. And they listen to Biden, not the bored press interpreting Biden. He’s sharp, he’s funny, he’s perceptive. I get that you don’t like the squinty eyes, but come on! Encouraging a divisive primary and squandering the incumbency advantage would have been political malpractice.
Dems are furious with the Hur report because it conflicts with their view of Biden. You are afraid of it because it confirms yours.
You do an excellent job writing about the ideological moment we are in. But when it comes to electoral politics you start sounding like a kid with pictures of unicorns on everything she owns. Wishful thinking and improbable fantasies.
The Republicans and their international allies are going to rip the shit out of whoever the candidate is. Roll up your sleeves and start working to elect the Democrats you have, not the Democrats you want.
I think I agree Damon. But man it's all so tricky at this point. Definitely agree he should have gotten out long ago.
The only thing I'll say about Dems trying to get the voters to not believe their eyes...why shouldn't they? Seems to work for the Republican base. We all lived through the Trump years together and still...he was the greatest president? (As JVL loves to point out, the asymmetry is real.)
None of us want to hear this
but all of us need to.
We need to listen hard,
think hard,
then act upon our conclusions.
Thank you Damon for your courage
in writing what you see
and what you think must be done.
The Republicans have chosen the worst possible candidate to be their presidential nominee. The Democrats have done the same thing. Neither candidate is the right person to lead our country. Yet here we are - a rematch of 2020. Both parties are to blame. The voting public is left with two terrible alternatives. And after the special counsel's report saying Biden has a memory problem, the media gladly participated in making the report at the top of every news cycle. So in my opinion, the media wants Biden to lose.
I pretty much I agree with all of this but I can also believe that Hur is a partisan little shit-weasel who had to slip the knife in somewhere.
Who I really reserve my ire for is Merrick Garland who allowed Hur's report out unredacted. I've had it with these appointees who are so terrified of appearing biased they end up doing more damage than any scheming, corrupt partisan.
I get it though. Joe did a good job but it's over. My doctor might say I'm "pre-70" - at a certain age you're pre-everything - and I'm missing a step or two. So I imagine Joe is probably a bit more diminished than he appears. Whoever passes for "wise-men"(chortle) in the Democratic Party should probably be picking straws for who gets to march up to the White House and tell the old man it's time for the home. If worse comes to worse tell him you're all going out for ice cream.
The caveat is who does the Democratic Party choose for a nominee if Biden is an indication of the party's Dunning-Kruger affliction.
As with any radical proposal such as this, my first question is: When has it EVER worked? Johnson withdrew, Humphrey the VP was nominated, and Nixon won.
You believe he is actually "in decline" - I initially thought you were going to argue that it is the PERCEPTION he is in decline, that is the issue. That I can agree with. Perhaps some reading of expert opinion on aging would be beneficial for you and your writings.
As probably the most "MAGA" subscriber, I don't think Biden has anything to worry about. I think Trump is so off putting that the Democrats are likely to win a 1964 style landslide. They most definitely would do so if Biden gave way to a younger Democrat. But I just cannot see the 82 million who voted against Trump in 2020 deciding to change horses. I also don't think Trump can troll the country and find many more than the 75 million he won.
The nation is going hard left. I really think the Abortion issue is what will swing a lot of Senate seats to the D's.
“Who Are You Gonna Believe? The Democratic Party or Your Lying Eyes and Ears?” — how about the Democratic Party because your lying eyes and ears are actually lying as they can tell you nothing about Biden’s actual cognitive ability. Educate yourself. Here’s a good place to start:
“Experts agree. Memory, no matter what your age, is fallible and malleable. Our brain processes incalculable amounts of information at a given time, and there’s simply not room for all of it to be stored. And surprisingly, the act of forgetting is an important aspect of memory.”
“The Washington Post interviewed several memory experts. They noted that the cognitive abilities of Biden and Trump can’t be evaluated based on anecdotal memory lapses. Formal evaluations are needed to truly assess someone’s brain health. But they noted that memory lapses at any age are surprisingly normal and, for most people, aren’t a signal of mental decline.”
Read the whole thing: https://wapo.st/3uuGW5g
There you go again, Damon.
I don’t think you can name any candidate for President who has the same or better name recognition than Joe Biden. I don’t think you can name any candidate who has a record of accomplishments in any venue remotely similar to Joe Biden’s accomplishments in the past 4 years. Can you name any candidate who has as much campaign cash today — $46 million — as Joe Biden? Can you name any candidate like Joe Biden who has the power of the incumbency? I don’t think so, but educate me.
What you do have are polls which you spread on social media which try to predict what might happen 8 months into our future. Eight months is a lifetime.
Too bad President Truman isn’t alive to teach you something about polls, i.e. Dewey didn’t win.
What alarms me is the lack of education among your polled Americans about Tom Paine and tyranny:
“THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered;”
Adios my Substack friend,
http://johnadamsingram.substack.com
If Gretchen "A Really Bad Thing Happened In An Area Of The World I Am Afraid To Name" Whitmer, JB "Lucky Sperm" Pritzker, Gavin "Slimeball" Newsome, and Raphael "Beat My Wife" Warnock are considered formidable candidates than the Democrats are in a world of trouble.
Right on all counts.
Better late than never.
The one element that I would point to in your article that is to this reader weak is that I find your list of possible Dem Presidential nominees devoid of a candidate with the gravitas, charisma and leadership needed for the Presidency. I think that polling, although scant, has demonstrated that none of those you mentioned would fare any better than President Biden... Here's myUnicorn ticket Kristen Sinema and Will Hurd. As you I will also be voting for ABT come Nov. Woe betide the U S of A
Just a quick comment. What about the others mentioned in the report who also had lapses of memory but no one (not even the Press) mentions their age or even a possible reason for those lapses but "Biden, he's too old".