One of the saddest things I have seen in a long time was the opening statement of Joe Biden at the recent presidential debate. It was a staccato monotone delivered without much thought or conviction. It sounded more like babble than a coherent statement. His staff said he had a cold to explain away everything during the debate but that simply didn’t make sense. (Biden seemed over stimulated. Reminded me of one of those old windup toys wound a little too tight.)
After nearly a week of preparation, Biden’s responses seemed more like those from the playback of a tape recorder than a human being. Often there were canned statements inserted into answers, obviously from drummed in memory. They seemed peculiarly out of sync even when they were part of an appropriate statement or response. (A couple of lucid responses were delivered with a kind of a gleeful look, sort of like a child saying “Mommy, I did it right didn’t I?’)
I have a couple of friends who are now in nursing homes. One was a Navy SEAL and the other a near Nobel Prize winner. The SEAL has no short term memory left. The latter has lost the ability to use a telephone. This is where Biden is today. He clearly belongs in a nursing home and likely on hospice watch.
On the other hand, Trump was Trump. His frustration at being hounded by bogus judicial actions on the part of the Biden administration and its cronies was obvious. He often lashed out at the insults even when stating facts. The name calling back and forth was a distraction but Trump brought the fire of conviction to Biden. Trump was mentally sharper and more on point than Biden, and it wasn’t even close. Trump looked far more prepared to be president.
The moderators appeared stunned by what they were seeing and hearing. I often felt that they were rushing to “get out of Dodge, – or maybe they were just hoping that they could find something to trigger Biden out of his stupor. The only other possibility was that they were supposed to embarrass Biden so that the Democrats could replace him for cause.
This debate will go down as one of the more historic debates in American history. Not because of its content but because of what it revealed personally about each candidate. Is Biden done? I can’t predict what the democrats will do but it is virtually certain that he won’t be able to finish out a second term if elected.
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If the Republicans were running an experienced, qualified, intelligent, decent human being, this election would have been over months ago. Instead, they chose to run the Trump. Trump has been running the dysfunctional, circus like, U.S. House since January of 23’. But, the brain dead Biden we all saw on the stage has, along with his Democratic staff, managed to outsmart and out maneuver Trump and his political whores no matter who they may be for nearly 8 years. They, the a Republicans, have given that “vegetable” we all saw on stage Thursday night, everything he has wanted since Janurary 2021. Everything.
What does it say about the status of Republicanism, when a Democrat president who is now a “veggie” and who has been dead for years, can totally out smart the Republican’s year after year? Any Democrat other than Biden could destroy the Trump in November. Any Democrat.
Trump has a lot of support for one simple reason – a stolen presidential election. You can deny that all you want, and I am sure you will, but that one issue is why Trump is the GOP candidate for president. In addition, all of the trumped-up criminal and civil baloney is clearly the type of thing that dictators do. You want a dictatorship? It is already installed with Biden as the titular head.
No, the Trump has a lot of support for one big reason, his opponent is now a vegetable. Again, any decent Republican could destroy the Thursday night vegetable long before November. But not Trump. The only reason Trump is not playing golf or in jail is Biden wanted to run against him. Biden’s staff ain’t finished with Trump yet. If SCOTUS broadens the immunity powers to much, Biden can stay in office forever. What does it say about a country when the best they can do is a vegetable or insurrectionist liar as their president? And, all these politicians, Biden, Trump, Pelosi, McConnell, Grassely, Schumer, Graham, and others who are well over aged, need to be locked up in nursing homes. Or, just make them pay for all their own medications. They have all proven for a generation that they have absolutely nothing, nothing, to offer the USA, other than wars, corruption, self destruction, greed, and division.
Yes, he belongs in a nursing home but the people that have paraded him around for the last 3+ years are shameless. One has to wonder what kind of people would do that. I am not sad for the resident, but I am sad for destruction he has brought upon our country and its citizens. President Trump has sacrificed much for us, and if I feel any sadness, it is for him and his family and what the left has done to him. One is deserving and the other is not.
None of this matters. If Biden is still breathing in November he will “win” in another “landslide”. The pallets pf pre-printed ballots have already been positioned for delivery after the polls close. Exactly as it happened in 20020 and 2022.