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It's the right thing to do. Perception: His cognitive and physical capacity can not be to his job. 

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Jul 21, 2024
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U.S. President Joe Biden announced he is dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Vice-President Kamala Harris instead. Joe Walsh, a former Republican candidate for president, says the move has made Trump and his supporters the ‘most unhappy people in America’ because Trump has always had a difficult time attacking strong woman like Harris.

https://youtu.be/soZfHKGjSLc?si=TVJBnhUc9mTJljl3

didn't want this matchup they didn't
want Biden or Trump um most Americans
are sick of having to vote for this
choice right
 
America the world's oldest
greatest democracy we've got Biden
versus Trump so just the fact of having
someone who isn't super old someone who
can actually communicate
 
kamla Harris is
what in her late 50s she's going to seem
like a teenager uh a very mature
teenager compared to Biden and Trump so
I think her candidacy will get a lot of
people excited a lot of Democrats
excited a lot of people like me excited
who are never trumpers who just weren't
excited um
 
when it when it came to Joe
Biden will there be anyone to really
give her a run for her money to
challenge her for this
nomination no way no how no way no how
uh for one very important reason and one
very practical reason the important
reason is for the Democratic party
there's no way the Democratic party
would step around walk around um uh the
first uh uh black female vice president
um that is a major aspect of the
democratic party's
constituency um
 
secondly Joe Biden
picked her when Joe Biden picked KLA
Harris Joe Biden told the American
people this woman can and is qualified
to become president and then just
practically speaking it's three and a
half four months
 
remember it wasn't the Joe Biden
reelection campaign it was the Biden
Harris reelection campaign so everything
can now just seamlessly flow to kamla
Harris it makes the most sense you know
but at the same time the Trump campaign
is now able to stick some of those same
criticisms that they had of Joe Biden on
Harris would
in particular which criticisms are you
referring to well I mean anything that
they have said that he has been weak on
moving like I'm just saying you know
it's the same it's the same ticket to
them as what they're going to bill so
what do you think is happening behind
the scenes there when it comes to the
Republican strategy now moving
forward that's a great point and a great
question and an important question and
 
I can tell you this right now the most
unhappy people in America right now are
Donald Trump his campaign and his
supporters they were salivating at the
opportunity to run against 81y old Joe
Biden Joe Biden's a good man but Joe
Biden is incapable of communicating and
making the case against Trump trump and
his team knew that they know KLA Harris
can make that case and and they also
know that kamla Harris is going to
generate a lot of excitement uh from
young people and people of color
throughout this country who just were
not really excited and maybe we're
thinking about staying at home in
November the Trump campaign is scared
about this they will not know how to
handle this and the other point I'd make
is Donald Trump is a coward He's a Bully
he's always going after people but he's
always had a difficult time attacking
strong women this will not be easy for
him we certainly saw that in that uh
rally last night in Michigan where he
asked the crowd if they would rather he
go up against Joe Biden uh or kamla
Harris that was a huge Roar when he he
said Joe Biden
 
so certainly the crowd uh
on on side with what you're saying there
as well but you know there the last few
weeks has been uh such a difficult
uphill climb uh for the Democrats for
Joe Biden since that debate and a lot of
damage has been done even within uh the
uh the rank and file of the party from
uh traditional democratic voters but
mainly for those who are uh maybe on the
fence a and uh maybe would potentially
uh vote for Donald Trump in the election
so how
much uh sort of damage control uh needs
to be done now and how quickly does that
that need to
happen right away there does need to be
some damage control done but right away
and a lot of this is on Joe Biden um and
I I can't emphasize this enough from the
very beginning of this campaign Joe
Biden has had one thing and one thing
only to prove that he's not too old he
couldn't prove that uh God bless him but
he proved the exact opposite so this was
on him to do this Joe Biden has said
repeatedly like I've said repeatedly
every time I go on television Donald
Trump is an existential threat to our
democracy it was imperative that Biden
realized he's not the person now who can
defeat Trump um I like the fact I think
it's super important that Biden endorsed
kamla Harris that today that's gonna
send send a signal to every Democrat um
to get up and get out there and we've
got three and a half four months to go
again this is these are crazy times in
America I
 
I think people are
underestimating how much enthusiasm this
will bring just having a candidate who's
not like 80 years old and a candidate
who can actually talk and fire people up
I mean this is this is a big deal you
know we're expecting to hear from Joe
Biden uh within the week uh I don't know
if we have actually got a timing on that
uh yet for when he is expected to
address the nation but certainly there
will be a lot of eyes on that address uh
what do you think the American public
want to hear from him
now I think they want to hear a
full-throated uh uh um summation of what
I just said uh by Joe Biden because the
focus of this campaign has to be Donald
Trump um uh
 
Donald Trump is is an
existential threat to our democ
the one thing we know for certain is
Trump's voters are enthusiastic and
they'll run through a wall for Trump but
there're are more people in America who
oppose Trump than support him
 
Joe Biden
has to remind America of that remind
America of what the threat is and what
this campaign should be about and then
put his armor around kamla Harris and
encourage and say that he's going to
work his tail off to help get his vice
president elected
 
he needs to set that
example Joe Walsh always great to talk
to you especially uh when there is
breaking news like this and lots to
watch uh from your country really
appreciate
never thanks very much we appreciate
your time Joe thanks

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Under frame work of 13 keys, Historian Allan Lichtman, who correctly predicted nine of the last 10 presidents, breaks down why Biden still represents the best bet for Democrats.

President Biden is under mounting pressure to drop his bid for a second term after an unsteady performance in the first presidential debate against Donald Trump. 

"We need a broadly inspirational candidate, who could pull the divided country together, like Ted Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, JFK, Ronald Reagen. B Obama (2008, not 2012). Only a few of them surfaced over 100 years! "

https://youtu.be/eYKi0_nlIfQ?si=c0IY07B4Xds2hmFD

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The Dems should have looked for another candidate a year ago. It is a disgrace that there is no one else to lead that party. Why the push for an older person who clearly is suffering from cognitive decline? Whats the agenda? Any American with an older relative can see the signs.

https://youtu.be/eYKi0_nlIfQ?si=c0IY07B4Xds2hmFD

 


@queenrosered
2 hours ago
A classy statement. Worthy of the 47th POTUS!      

Years ago, watching her debate for attoney general surfaced as a fighter: logical, meticulous, articulated! 


@TihetrisWeathersby
2 hours ago
Its now Prosecutor vs Convict 

 

https://www.youtube.com/live/bgdhFK0WTgw?si=iW121_Pnqo_cWieS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLE4vfvhox8

 

 

"White Trash" Historian Nancy Isenberg on J.D. Vance, "Hillbilly Elegy" & Class in America

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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-de... American historian and the author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg, calls Republican vice-presidential nominee J.D. Vance a peddler of the "self-made man myth."

Isenberg criticizes Hilbilly Elegy, the memoir that propelled him to fame, as a deceptive way of selling this myth and the conservative politics it comes with.

"Much of what his memoir says tells us nothing about real class conditions," Isenberg says, pointing to her own historical and sociological research on the rural poor in the United States.

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从拜登的退选，看美国宪政的伟大

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现在有无数的消息传出来，拜登即将退选，虽然还没有正式宣布，但是个人觉得这次的小道消息非常的可真实可靠，因为这次的小道消息都是从有名有姓的记者那里传出来的，比如说Mark Halperin。但从另外一个角度来说，拜登的退选其实证实了美国宪政的伟大。

拜登的退选的主要的原因是他身体不行了。从蛛丝马迹上来看，拜登的身体并不是说今年才不行的。如果大家有留意白宫的各种发布会的话，可以观察到拜登是举行白宫新闻发布会最少的一任总统，甚至比他的前任川普还要少。前任总统川普不爱举办记者招待会，是因为他整天在记者招待会上被记者们围攻，最后大家互怼，记者招待会变成了互怼会。拜登可是民主党 内一个德高望重式的人物，他应该非常深受各路记者的喜爱才是。为什么拜登召开的记者发布会的次数比川普还少呢？其中最简单的原因就是拜登的身体和他的头脑已经不足以支撑他召开一场完整的记者招待会。根据最近的消息，所有的人采访拜登的记者都必须按照事先设定的提问题来提问，不准发出任何的额外的问题。 这样的安排就是让拜登有足够的时间来准备和演习，这样子他才能够在公共场合上面表现得像一个正常人。缺乏事先演习的后果很可能是灾难性的!最鲜明的一个例子就是拜登最近在北约的记者招待会上介绍乌克兰总统的时候直接把泽连斯基总统说成了普京总统，接着又把副总统哈里斯的名字说成了川普。

 


如果说偶尔的口误还是可以理解的，这种重大场合的口误就足以说明拜登他的脑子的以及反应都不足以应付他现在的职责了。为什么说拜登的退选会是美国政宪的一大进步呢？拜登现在的退选表明了一种姿态，就是他愿意以国家利益为重，而把个人的名望放在次位。让位给更有能力的竞争者。这点是很难做到的。正如纽约时报记者指出的，拜登如果现在退选，他可以说自己在效仿华盛顿，这对于他个人的政治生涯来说会是一个优秀的结尾。世上的人大都是“身后有余忘缩手，眼前无路想回头。”拜登纵然有千般万般不是，这种让贤的精神，就让大洋彼岸的“骑上马，扶一程”，还有“终身任期制”不知道要高明多少。顺便也反衬了川普4年前死活不愿认输的小气。

另一个伟大之处在于，美国过去四年虽然选出了一个体力脑力都不支的总统，但美国各个部门仍然有条不紊地开展工作。当然拜登指挥的失误之处也很多，比如说阿富汗撤军，还有在俄罗斯入侵乌克兰之前，反复向普京喊话，发誓保证美国坚决不会派一兵一卒进入乌克兰。妄想用这种低姿态来唤醒普京的和平之心，简直就是与虎谋皮。但是美国过去四年在拜登这种“不折腾”或者“少折腾”的领导下，国力不退反进，经济在全世界走强，而北约重新凝聚成一块。可想而知，美国其实不乏人才，无论是谁上台，底下都能有一帮优秀的谋士官员把事情做得不至于太差。

美国宪政的另一个伟大之处在于立国者从一开始就有一个非常长远的构想。他们从一开始就构思了如果一把手突然死亡或者被绑架无法履行任务怎么办，甚至把二把手，三把手，等等一路的继承顺序都考虑到，安排好了。从拜登的退化和无能，我们更加能够感受到美国的政宪系统是一套有冗余设计的系统，某个职位的不作为或者少作为，不会影响整个系统的运转。即使这个空缺的职位是总统。


 

第二期：拜登退选彰显美国宪政伟大

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坚持下去，他会成为众人围观的笑柄。 急流勇退，他能成为比肩国父的英雄。
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