US Election & Presidency

^Joe Biden has already forgotten about the debate and how bad he did.Bless.

When you think about it though, they can only serve two terms as President, (or has that changed?) but I would think they would have to look at bringing in a age limit as well, even if they both physically fit, I would say around 75-80 is not a good age to be President, as I must think the mental stresses come in to play and to me I think both candidates have shown they are mentally capable of doing the job.

David Frim, George W Bush's former speech writer, on Twitter:

A word to everybody writing, "The Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves" takes ...
The fundamental reason we're in this crisis this morning is that the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower, and Reagan is about to nominate for president a dictator-loving criminal against the Constitution. That disgrace and shame is theirs.

If President Biden had posted an equally poor performance against presumptive GOP nominee Nikki Haley, then in that case yes, the Democrats would have nobody to blame but themselves - too bad for them, but the Constitution would not be in danger.

The Republicans could have nominated somebody else. They chose Trump over many alternatives. They did it because their core voters like and enjoy Trump. Tell me again, who has nobody to blame but themselves?

Last night, operating in the truest spirit of "good people on both sides," a CNN moderator asked President Biden whether he thought that Trump's voters were voting against democracy. Biden evaded the question, as any vote-seeking candidate would and should and must.

But the terrible true answer to the moderator's question is: "Yes." Trump's voters are voting to return to power a president who attempted a coup. Whatever their justifications or rationalizations, that's what they are doing.

Blame Biden's vanity and stubbornness all you like. Tut-tut over the Democratic party's collective action problems if you wish. But the reason we are here is because of Trump and those who vote for him - and those who failed to defend democracy in two impeachment trials.

As we saw last night, the conventions and habits of mass-market media coverage are inadequate to the crisis at hand. A coup against the constitution - first mentioned at minute 41 of the debate - dwindles to one issue among many, alongside food prices and climate change.

Biden failed to do his job properly last night. Democrats failed to head off that failure. But the reason the failure matters so much - as it wouldn't in a Biden-Haley race - is that one of the two great parties is ratifying an attempted coup d'etat.

omg bill maher joke

How bad was Joe? He shit the bed so hard his new Secret Service
codename is “Amber Heard.”