“A verdict on Trump’s attempt to hold onto power is now “much more
unlikely” before the election, conservative former appeals court Judge J.
Michael Luttig told MSNBC.
That’s why the voters’ verdict is all the more critical. As Liz Cheney often says,
Trump shouldn’t be allowed to get “anywhere near the Oval Office again.” If he
does get reelected, he can scuttle the federal cases against him, and he’s
vowed to pardon those already convicted for their actions on Jan. 6…… We should
stop looking at calendars and calculating on fingers when Trump can be
convicted in a courtroom. We’re the jury we’ve been waiting for.
And then, once Trump is defeated again,
the trials can play out. And those other juries can finish the job of holding
Citizen Trump accountable.”- Jackie Calmes, LA Times, today
"At a rally on Saturday night in Virginia, Trump confused Barack Obama, who left office seven years ago, with President Biden for the third time over the last six months. “Putin has so little respect for Obama that he’s starting to throw around the nuclear word,” Trump said, as his crowd of rabid supporters suddenly fell silent. “You heard that. Nuclear. He’s starting to talk nuclear weapons today.” You won’t find that verbal stumble and the crowd’s stunned reaction in the Times coverage of the campaign over the weekend. You’ll have to read other publications — for example, Salon or maybe the Guardian — if you want to learn how often Trump is losing his way mid-sentence at rallies and just mumbling incoherently." - Lucian K. Truscott, Permalink
“Is it really healthy to blame every problem in your life on Joe Biden? I can’t find a job in this historically low unemployment economy. Thanks a lot, Joe Biden. The price of milk in France has gone up, I blame Biden. My wife hasn’t had sex with me for months—damn you, Joe Biden!”- Bill Maher in a recent Real Time episode
Incredibly, we're informed yesterday from the NY Times, that:
"Widespread concerns about President Biden’s age pose a deepening threat to his re-election bid, with a majority of voters who supported him in 2020 now saying he is too old to lead the country effectively, according to a new poll by The New York Times and Siena College."
Adding:
"The misgivings about Mr. Biden’s age cut across generations, gender, race and education, underscoring the president’s failure to dispel both concerns within his own party and Republican attacks painting him as senile. Seventy-three percent of all registered voters said he was too old to be effective, and 45 percent expressed a belief that he could not do the job.
The survey pointed to a fundamental shift in how voters who backed Mr. Biden four years ago have come to see him. A striking 61 percent said they thought he was “just too old” to be an effective president.
A sizable share was even more worried: Nineteen percent of those who voted for Mr. Biden in 2020, and 13 percent of those who said they would back him in November, said the 81-year-old president’s age was such a problem that he was no longer capable of handling the job."
Can I ask here: Has most of the American population gone fucking nuts? (Nearly 3/4 asserting he's "too old to be effective") Are these moronic meatballs really deranged to the point they 'd rather put a confirmed traitor and wannabe dictator into office than Joe Biden? Or to quote Bill Maher from his Real Time show Friday:
"Given a choice in voting between Donald Trump and Joe Biden's head in a jar of green liquid, I will vote for the jar with Biden's head."
Bingo! What Maher was referencing was not intended to be comedic so much as emphasizing the serious nature of the binary choice before American voters this November. We do not get to "pick and choose" in other words, any more than you get to pick and choose whether to allow bed bugs to spread in your home or exterminate them. There is no choice other than extermination of vermin.
In the same way we must exterminate the Trump pestilence by voting him out once and for all, and I am talking landslide - not a puny popular vote (or electoral vote) squeaker. I mean, shit, even Trump's mother - see graphic above- knew the man was an idiot lacking common sense and would be a political disaster if ever put in high office. Are you going to tell me the current breed of voters are less aware of his unfitness than she was? Seems so!
Side note to NY Times on today's piece ('Biden Superfans Think Rest of America Is Crazy); Just because we believe voting Biden over Trump is the only sound choice doesn't imply we are "super fans". Any more than aggressively demanding a bed bug -free hotel means we are non-vermin 'superfans'. Dig?
Noteworthy also is that this NYT/Siena poll was conducted more than two weeks after another misbegotten Trump traitor accomplice at DOJ - Robert Hur - did a number on Biden using his bogus "special" report on Joe's handling of documents. Therein describing the president as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” and “diminished faculties in advancing age.” E.g.
Joe Punches Back At Trump Holdover Hur's Partisan Bollocks
All of which has served to reinforce the GOOPs and Right wing media attacks on his age. Also before the Trump-owned Supremes' corrupt 'cert' interruption has enabled this roach to run out the clock e.g.
despite the fact two -thirds of independents have said they'd think twice about voting for him if he's convicted. So we are left then with a preponderance of brainless wonders among the voting populace (according to this NYT/Siena poll) who actually believe it is preferable to have in office a maggot traitor with designs to destroy our democracy than another older guy who's vowed to protect it.
Historian Francis Fukuyama in a recent (3/1) Financial Times piece ((It’s Not Too Late To Erase America’s Political Decay’‘) nails the disease of political rot at the core of these absurd pro-Trump polls and other issues. He writes:
"While Trump has been an extraordinarily skillful demagogue, what is driving his success are the hard right voters themselves. Any democracy ultimately depends on an electorate that is well-informed and supportive of its norms."
Which underscores that too many of our fellow citizens are woefully uninformed, and their brains are in the pockets of the slander and ceaseless propaganda purveyors - most embedded in FOX News or related reactionary sources (Newsmax) which have pounded endless lies about Biden. Fukuyama noting acerbically:
"This is the same Trump – voters would put into office again- who refuses to support Ukraine and recently invited Russia to attack any Nato ally that did not pay an imaginary debt for US protection. With five primary victories under his belt, and more to come on Super Tuesday next week, he is poised to be the Republican candidate. The consequences that would flow from his November re-election will affect every part of the globe…”
These lame voters then, in Fukuyama's view, have been taken hostage by right wing "friends" and their anti-Biden twaddle on social media or right wing propaganda (on FOX, and in WSJ) that's likely been magnified since the pandemic struck in 2o2o.
And also been 'taken for a con man's ride by Trump's fake energy giving the illusion he's more cognitively functional than Biden. He is not. He cannot be when he tells a FOX host (Laura Ingraham on Ingraham Angle) two weeks ago:
”We’re gonna take
over Washington, DC. We’re gonna
federalize and have very powerful crime and you’re gonna be proud of it again.”
Sounds like a few megabytes of cognition dropped out right there. As Lawrence O'Donnell put it: "If Biden had said the same words the media – not just FOX would have been all over it."
Then there was this
word cabbage and brain disaster he also sputtered about water issues:
“They come out with
faucets where no water comes out. You stand under a shower and you have to wait
five times longer.”
As Lawrence O'Donnell put it in his 'Last Word' segment 2 weeks ago referencing this hair-brained babble:
“What person with any sense remains under a shower when no water comes out?”
The guy clearly has massive cognitive deficits and idiots talk about Biden being “too old” and “ineffective”? Think these are "one offs", think again! Take a look here at Trump's verbal cabbages:
'The guy you want with nuclear codes?': Psaki shows extent of Trump’s verbal blunders (msnbc.com)
And:
Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC | Watch Rachel Maddow Live
Beyond that, too many have simply forgotten just how bad the 4-year Trump reign was - from putting migrant infants in cages, to hailing white supremacists and Nazis as "some very fine people" when they marched in Charlottesville, Va. e.g.
to actually inciting an insurrection to overthrow a duly elected government on January 6, 2021.:
Why The Insurrection Of January 6th Must Not Be Lost In The News Cycle
And people really want to put this Turd back in power? You have to be fucking kidding me! Why would you put into power a maniac traitor (see Robert Reich's blog post at bottom) whose only desire is to exact vengeance on those who have sought to hold him to account, and who plans to wreck this nation? And oh, by the way, doesn't give two craps about its welfare or its Constitution?
Look, if even 60 percent of those who claim (in the NYT/Siena poll) that Biden is "too ineffective" to be president and switch their votes to Trump, i.e. from voting for Biden in 2020, that would mean Biden then ends up with roughly 77, 200,000 now to Trump's 78,500,000 - assuming the same total voting population. This almost assures the Traitor will also score an electoral college romp - likely in the vicinity of 340 to 198.
The sole consolation now, in the view of these depressing polls and misperceptions, is the take of Philip Bump in a recent WaPo column. Bump writes:
"The race isn’t actually set. What’s more, voters’ decisions are historically influenced by things that, in 2024, haven’t yet happened. Research presented in 2012 showed that the presidential popular vote margin was influenced most heavily by income growth in the second quarter of the election year — that is, the quarter that won’t begin until April 1.
Then, of course, there’s the issue of a theoretical replacement. The natural choice would be Vice President Harris, the person Biden himself selected as a successor. Would subjecting her to a primary fight, however short, be better for the party’s chances than keeping Biden in place? Would replacing her? Is there a scenario in which the party dukes it out until and through the convention that doesn’t result in a weaker nominee with less time to gain ground against Trump? All of that aside, there is one Democrat in the mix who has beaten Trump in a national election previously: Joe Biden, the likely nominee."
Apart from that, the most important question wasn't asked in the NYT/Siena poll: Which candidate is most likely to surround himself with a competent staff, cabinet? Realizing that it's the surrounding staff, the cabinet, that actually implements policies and makes a president effective. Do they recall anything of the parade of clowns and crazies Trump inserted last time around, from Michael Flynn ("Pizzagate" conspiracy creator), to Steve Bannon (Administrative state wrecker), to Nazi Josef Goebbels look-like Stephen Miller e.g.
to dictate immigration policy? (Miller concocted the caging of migrant infants, kids) and plans 'deportation camps' this time.
If too many 'Muricans insist on emulating lemmings and jumping off the electoral cliff to support Donald Trump this November we are all for the high jump. As well as a lost democracy, along the lines of Orban's Hungary, where the Biden cretin ageist fusspots can then repent at their leisure for their demented choice. Like the "good Germans" did in 1933 after voting Hitler into office - after which he destroyed Weimar democracy using the Enabling Act.
We deserve better, or as Janice likes to put it: "We deserve smarter, better informed voters, than these polls show!"
See Also:
by Amanda Marcotte | March 7, 2024 - 8:03am | permalink
Despite the best efforts of the Beltway press to present him as a spry young man next to 81-year-old Joe Biden, it's getting harder by the day to ignore that 77-year-old Donald Trump is decomposing rapidly. He wasn't all that healthy or coherent to begin with but, lately, watching him speak has the feel of getting cornered by the weird creep at the nursing home. Around lunchtime on Monday, all three cable news networks cut to Trump awkwardly accepting the Supreme Court nullifying the 14th Amendment on his behalf. After a few semi-coherent, if gross, remarks about how he was "honored" by the ruling, Trump launched straight into a stream of paranoid jabber more appropriate for someone having a psychiatric episode on a city bus than for a major presidential candidate.
He started rambling about how he wanted "immunity" for all his crimes, claiming that without that, "You really don’t have a president, because nobody that is serving in that office will have the courage to make, in many cases, what would be the right decision — or it could be the wrong decision." By the time he got to defining "migrant crime" as a "new category of crime," both MSNBC and CNN were cutting away. Not because it wasn't newsworthy, but I suspect it was more a reasonable worry that viewers would be driven away. It's much like the way folks avert their eyes when a delusional person on the sidewalk starts screaming at the demons he wishes to fight with "sticks and stones," to quote something Trump said about immigrants.
And:
by Robert Reich | March 4, 2024 - 7:37am | permalink
— from Robert Reich's Substack
Excerpt:
I never thought this nation would get to a point where critics and
opponents of a potential United States president begin to wonder whether to
leave the country to keep themselves and their families safe. That’s standard
for critics of bloodthirsty dictators like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, but
in America?
Washington Post columnist Elizabeth
Becker asks, rhetorically: Is the United States facing a situation so dangerous
that you would be foolish if you didn’t have a backup plan? Is it hyperbole to
imagine the country sliding into authoritarian rule that would unleash
violence, retribution, and repression?
I hope not. But the mere fact the question is being posed is itself a frightening commentary on where we’ve come — and may be heading.
And:
And:
Voters’ Memories Crater: A Majority Now Believe Trump Was A Better President Than Biden
And:
German Author - And Contemporary Of Hitler's - Has Words Of Warning For Americans Today
And:
In Michigan Young Voters Displeased With Choices Opt Out: Give 'Em Their Sippy Cups
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