when contrasted with Biden, Trump looks as sharp as a Jeopardy contestant
when contrasted with Biden, Trump looks as sharp as a Jeopardy contestant
c_hawkbob wrote:What a partisan load of crap! I can't wait for (well moderated) face to face debates to dispel this nonsense.
Stream Hawk wrote:Agreed. Probably the worst election in my lifetime as well. However, did you watch SOTU tonight? “Slow” Biden still has his facilities. Maybe he took genius or fountain of youth pills. Bottom line - Joe is not done. He was sharp, witty, and spontaneous.
In the other hand, Trump is batshit crazy and (IMHO) Biden is the better option. Trump and his MAGA cronies, like MTG, were an embarrassment tonight. MTG was wearing a MAGA hat - violation.
Biden will get a boost from this performance and I’ll be voting for spunky Joe in November.
c_hawkbob wrote:What a partisan load of crap! I can't wait for (well moderated) face to face debates to dispel this nonsense.
RiverDog wrote:I never watch SOTU speeches or rebuttals. But my understanding is that Biden performed remarkably well.
But that was a rehearsed, staged speech that he can practice and read from a script. The problem is in situations where he can't read off a teleprompter, like news conferences and debates.
In the 100 years since Calvin Coolidge took office, only Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan held as few news conferences each year as the current occupant of the Oval Office.
Traveling in Ireland last week, President Biden abandoned the decades-old tradition of holding a news conference while abroad. On Thursday, President Gustavo Petro of Colombia met with Mr. Biden, but the two did not hold a news conference together, another practice of his predecessors that Mr. Biden has frequently chosen to skip. After the meeting, Mr. Petro took questions from reporters — alone — at microphones in front of the West Wing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/us/p ... media.html
Biden's handlers are obviously frightened to death to trot Sleepy Joe in front of a live audience and ask him to think on his feet. He'll say stuff like "Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he'll never gain the hearts and souls of the Iranian people". He once called Kamala Harris a "great President," said that the US has 54 states. In the same session where he disputed the claim that he couldn't remember when his son died, he referred to the Egyptian pres. as the President of Mexico. The list of gaffes and brain farts goes on and on.
It's not that Trump is that much better. He recently confused Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi. Not that it makes his gaffes any better than Biden's, but Trump's doesn't seem to be age related as much as they do pure stupidity, or at least that's the impression I get.
But what's worse with Biden and what sets him apart from Trump is that Biden will often times end speeches at strange moments, gets physically disorientated, will walk off the podium in the wrong direction, trips over stairs, looks lost and confused. Unlike Trump, he's physically slow, looks stiff and rigid as he turns his body. If you had a loved one that was living by themselves and showing that kind of behavior, you'd put them in assisted living, something that I've personally had to do with my mother.
Aseahawkfan wrote:I'd rather have senile than willfully neglectful, selfish, cowardly, and willing to feed the looney elements in his party to win at all costs while being too scared to really back his looney party members when the rubber hits the road.
I doubt any of the fake tough guy Republicans that vote for a worm like Trump would ever tolerate his treatment of them in the same way he has treated Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, and just about anyone that disagrees with him insulting wives and them with such vulgar regularity just to paint himself as strong. It's false strength as he is another draft dodging fake tough guy worm representing a political party stuck with a vulgar, unworthy candidate to vote for.
RiverDog wrote:Oh, me, too. There's no way in hell that I'm ever going to vote for Trump or his Republican brown nosers. IMO Mitch McConnell is the most hypocritical SOB that I've ever seen in the Senate. The man has no principles. How in the hell can anyone admit that a person tried to subvert an election yet still support him for re-election? And as far as other R's goes, I'll be watching my Congressman, Republican Dan Newhouse. He was one of the few R's who voted to impeach Trump. If he indorses him now, he won't be getting my vote.
But that wasn't my point. My point was that Biden is wholly unfit for office, and at least as far as age-related problems goes, is much worse off than Trump.
Aseahawkfan wrote:They are both the most unfit for office candidates in my lifetime. But at least Biden is unfit for reasons beyond his control, whereas Trump is unfit and has a party willing to sell out all their principles just to win and flip off the other side.
Aseahawkfan wrote:America has become a nation that I can only imagine other places look at as a joke. Don't know their own history. I know you don't discuss this issue, but can't figure out what a woman or man is any more. Teaching their children crap in schools that shouldn't even be a subject schools have to teach or take sides in. Encouraging a vulgar public discourse. Encouraging hate for immigrants based on appearance and country of association that amounts to little more than if you don't look like a person of European ancestry, you somehow don't belong. Teaching the Civil War was caused by something else other than slavery with "noble" Southerners as the fighters for liberty and States' Rights. The long list of garbage both of these parties teach to young people is long and completely against what we know of history, economics, science, manners, and general sense.
Aseahawkfan wrote:Basically making America look like a land of idiots run by technocrats and billionaires who can easily manipulate the moronic masses who can't even take the time to learn enough to govern their own nation in an intelligent manner.
I never imagined it would come to this. I only hope that we eventually get a leader who give America a reality check they will listen to and somehow purge the idiots from each party marginalizing them as they should be marginalized. America at some point has to move past this level of stupid in both parties and find their way back to better governance.
Stream Hawk wrote:However, did you watch SOTU tonight? “Slow” Biden still has his facilities. Maybe he took genius or fountain of youth pills. Bottom line - Joe is not done. He was sharp, witty, and spontaneous.
In the other hand, Trump is batshit crazy and (IMHO) Biden is the better option. Trump and his MAGA cronies, like MTG, were an embarrassment tonight. MTG was wearing a MAGA hat - violation.
Biden will get a boost from this performance and I’ll be voting for spunky Joe in November.
Stream Hawk wrote:Shoot, I guess it couldn’t last. That is really sad how disoriented he can become.
But at least SNL slayed the Britt republican response last night![]()
https://x.com/mattxiv/status/1766815037 ... pMkhpLC7ng
MackStrongIsMyHero wrote:It’s something I sincerely don’t like watching. Seeing an old man go down isn’t something I enjoy nor revel in. The man should be finding some peace and joy in his twilight years, not dealing with our awful political landscape and in the top spot no less. Maybe he’s been in it so long he can’t imagine hanging it up.
Aseahawkfan wrote:Trump spent his time tweeting about the Oscars because that is what modern Republicans want their presidential candidate spending their time doing. Tweeting about how unfair Hollywood is and how much he cares about that.
Of course, Marjorie Taylor-Green talking about Jewish space lasers greatly appeals to some segment of the Republican base that keeps voting for her and she loves being one of Trump's strongest stooge supporters.
We have a real sane Republican Party right now.
Just real sane politics right now. Makes you feel great while the world is in the state it is and could use some sane, lucid leadership from America and we're voting for crazy tweeting billionaires and forcing 82 year old men to come out of retirement to fight crazy. My goodness. This is not a period of history I want to read much about.
RiverDog wrote:There's no doubt that the Republicans lead the Democrats in moon bats, but they hardly have the corner on the market. RFK Jr., for example, believes that Covid was targeted towards whites and blacks and that most Chinese and Jews are immune to it, that mass shootings are linked to prescription drugs, and that the 2004 election was stolen. But, of course, the media doesn't want to put him on the front page like they do MTG.
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