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Post by aj2hall on Feb 16, 2024 0:43:11 GMT
Something to think about if Trump gets re-elected. We're already looking at years before the possibility of a more balanced court. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/15/trump-supreme-court-second-term/If Donald Trump is elected again, the impact won’t last for just four years. One of the biggest consequences of a second Trump presidency, and one of the least discussed, would extend for decades: a reinforced, reinvigorated conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
Unless the unexpected happens, Trump isn’t likely to be able to add a seventh conservative to the existing six-justice supermajority. But what a Republican in the White House can do is deliver a younger set of conservatives to the high court and entrench the existing majority for another 20 or 30 years.
If the thought of a more youthful conservative majority fills you with dread, it should — and this is a danger that Democrats are underemphasizing.
Much damage has already been done under the Trump-enhanced majority — an enormous expansion of gun rights, an end to affirmative action in higher education admissions, a hobbling (with more on the way) of regulatory agencies. But there’s a lot of mischief left to do, and the prospect of extending this remarkable period of conservative dominance is terrifying.
And the threat is asymmetric. Not much would change if Biden won reelection; it’s possible Sotomayor, who turns 70 this year, would retire, but the rest of the court would likely remain. A more closely divided court — or even a liberal majority — will take years, or the happenstance of unanticipated departures, to come about.
I used to say that a Thomas retirement would probably move the court to the left, for the simple reason that there weren’t many Supreme Court candidates as conservative. That’s no longer true. A victorious Trump, and his advisers, would reap the benefits of having installed scores of stalwart conservatives on the lower federal courts — and have been monitoring their performance ever since.
A Trump short list seems likely to include three judges from the ultraconservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit:
These are not your George W. Bush-era Republican nominees. For the most part, they would make Trump’s first-term picks look mild by comparison. |
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Post by sideways on Feb 16, 2024 1:04:42 GMT
Did anyone read TFG’s speech from last night? Holy shit. It’s so bad. Worse than any gaffe, misspeaking, or mispronunciation that Biden has ever done. I’m looking for the text if it I can c/p, but I’ve only seen the text as part of an image and I can’t figure out how to pose an image here. The add attachment won’t work for it.
Talk about mental decline.
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 16, 2024 2:23:11 GMT
Oh, FFS. You are so pathetically desperate to prove me wrong.  76% of voters see his mental decline (I think it's up to 86% now) And the Biden DOJ spent a considerable amount of time with him and witnessed his "diminished mental faculties ". and you don't think there could possibly be 109 Peas who see it too? That's your stance? Seriously?🤔 Or... possibly... and much more likely... you just don't want anyone to disagree with the absurd narrative that there is no mental decline, so you resort to accusing me of rigging this poll simply because you have no other ability to refute the truth -that other people see it too. (and some of them Peas) I can promise you, other than asking the question, I have not done a single thing to persuade answers to it. Not one damn thing. Couldn't be that my poll had about a 24 hour head start? Couldn't be because some felt they already answered? Couldn't be because some haven't come back yet? Couldn't be because some didn't want to participate in a tit for tat, childish, revenge poll? No, it could only be that I'm the only one on the planet that sees his mental decline so I had to rig the poll to get 109 votes.👍 JHC, you are so unbelievably, transparently, desperate. You don’t get it. In spite of what you keep pushing a large % is an opinion with very little to no actual facts to back it up. You also have this need to be right all the time and don’t like if the crowd doesn’t agree with you. If they don’t you keep coming back time and time again with same old argument that was originally disagreed with by more than a few on this board. Once it becomes clear folks are going to agree with you, you start the “moving the goalposts “ “only one point of view is allowed” “no one wants to have an honest discussion “ etc. When it’s just people aren’t agreeing with you and you can’t handle that. The fact is not everyone is going to agree with everyone. If I had a quarter for every time someone didn’t agree with me I would be living in a house on Telegraph Hill in the shadow of Coit Tower with a view of the SF Bay. This is my opinion and I’m sure you will disagree with it. To that I will say we agree to disagree on this. You absolutely did move the goalposts from "the poll is made up" to "the people believe wrong". It's right there in black and white on page 5, seventh from the bottom. If you say something I disagree with I'll say why I disagree. If you say something that facts dont support, I'll share the facts. Like you said, there's nothing wrong with it, that's just disagreement. Right? NO personal attacks come from me about disagreement on topic. There are a lot of personal attacks coming from the other direction. Those are facts. |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 16, 2024 2:27:24 GMT
I'm looking for a full transcript but here are a few highlights www.politico.com/news/2024/02/14/trump-nato-allies-00141590“I’ve been saying, ‘Look, if they’re not going to pay, we’re not going to protect, okay? And Biden who said, ‘Oh, this is so bad. This is so terrible that he would say that.’ No,” said Trump at a rally in South Carolina, adding that he looked at the defense budgets of each country and said “nobody’s paying their bills.” “One of the heads of the countries said ‘Does that mean that if we don’t pay the bills, that you’re not going to protect us?’” Trump recounted. The former president then replied, “‘That’s exactly what it means. I’m not going to protect you.’” So much respect for President Obama. He is a voice of reason, thoughtful, intelligent, articulate and insightful. |
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 16, 2024 2:28:46 GMT
I give the White House credit for their transparency and for not redacting parts of the report. Guaranteed, if an unflattering report on Trump came out during his presidency, he would have redacted it or not even released it. Less credit to Garland for releasing the report. I also think the report is a good example that despite Trump's attempts to paint the Justice Department as weaponized, thats not actually the case. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/us/politics/joe-biden-special-counsel.htmlWhite House Clashed With Justice Dept. Over Special Counsel Report
Previously undisclosed letters show a testy exchange over whether the Justice Department violated its own guidelines in releasing a report with comments disparaging President Biden.
The White House clashed with the Justice Department in the run-up to the release of a special counsel report last week about President Biden’s handling of classified information, with a top department official rejecting complaints from Mr. Biden’s lawyers about disparaging comments in the report regarding the president, previously undisclosed correspondence shows.
White House and personal lawyers for Mr. Biden wrote to Attorney General Merrick B. Garland the day before he released the report by the special counsel, Robert K. Hur, objecting to passages in which Mr. Hur suggested that Mr. Biden’s memory was failing and questioned some of his actions even though he found no basis to prosecute him.
The lawyers said Mr. Hur’s comments “openly, obviously and blatantly violate department policy and practice,” the letters, obtained by The New York Times, show.
The next day, as the department was preparing to make the report public, Bradley Weinsheimer — an associate deputy attorney general and the department’s senior career official, or nonpolitical appointee — wrote back rejecting their criticism. He insisted that the comments in the report “fall well within the department’s standards for public release.”
The disclosure of the sharp exchange adds new detail to how the White House sought to head off what officials knew would be a political furor set off by the release of Mr. Hur’s report — and how the Justice Department declined to change course.Claiming it didn't happen and smearing the guy who shared what he experienced with Biden -on WHY they couldn't charge him with "the serious felony" Biden committed, is no better than redacting it. Doesn't earn an ounce of credit. |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 16, 2024 2:33:59 GMT
Did anyone read TFG’s speech from last night? Holy shit. It’s so bad. Worse than any gaffe, misspeaking, or mispronunciation that Biden has ever done. I’m looking for the text if it I can c/p, but I’ve only seen the text as part of an image and I can’t figure out how to pose an image here. The add attachment won’t work for it. Talk about mental decline. So many alarming parts of his speech to choose from, but is this the section? Where he tries to convince people that when he mixed up Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi, it was intentional? www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-when-he-mixes-up-names-it-is-purpose-2024-02-15/"When I purposely interposed names, they said I didn't know Pelosi from Nikki," Trump said at a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday. He said calling Obama the current president was sarcasm, not a gaffe. "I'm a great speaker," Trump said. |
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 16, 2024 2:36:56 GMT
During his press conference intended to show how mentally sharp he is: he shook his finger and yelled at the PRESS "That is your judgment! That is your judgment! That is not the judgment of the PRESS." declared himself to be "the most qualified person in the United States to be president" and then immediately mixed up countries couldn’t remember the name of a personally important church he was trying to talk about claimed that the special counsel did not accuse him of sharing classified information with the ghostwriter of his book in 2017, even though the special counsel said that's exactly what he did and lied his way through the press conference: /mediaViewer?currentTweet=1755997675294437877¤tTweetUser=MAGAIncWarRoom A while back he told Americans to "Watch me." Well they have been and 76% of Americans have said that his mental fitness was a concern. And that was BEFORE the confirmation of his "diminished mental faculties" from someone that spent a good of time with him. |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 16, 2024 2:46:08 GMT
This is an actual transcript of part of Donald Trump’s speech tonight:
“But when I say that Obama is the president of our country bah bah bah, they go, “He doesn’t know that Spiden (sic), he doesn’t know.” So it’s very hard to be sarcastic. When I interpose — cause I’m not a Nikki fan and I’m not a Pelosi fan. And when I purposely interpose names, they said, “He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki. From Tricky Nikki. Tricky Nikki. He didn’t know.” I interposed. And they make a big deal out of it. I said, “No, no, I think they’re both they both stink. They have something in common. They both stink. And remember this: when I make a statement like that about Nikki, that means she will never be running for Vice President. She will never be running [unintelligible] Vice President.”
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 16, 2024 2:51:44 GMT
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Post by Merge on Feb 16, 2024 3:08:53 GMT
Did anyone read TFG’s speech from last night? Holy shit. It’s so bad. Worse than any gaffe, misspeaking, or mispronunciation that Biden has ever done. I’m looking for the text if it I can c/p, but I’ve only seen the text as part of an image and I can’t figure out how to pose an image here. The add attachment won’t work for it. Talk about mental decline. So many alarming parts of his speech to choose from, but is this the section? Where he tries to convince people that when he mixed up Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi, it was intentional? www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-when-he-mixes-up-names-it-is-purpose-2024-02-15/"When I purposely interposed names, they said I didn't know Pelosi from Nikki," Trump said at a rally in South Carolina on Wednesday. He said calling Obama the current president was sarcasm, not a gaffe. "I'm a great speaker," Trump said. Also that’s not what interposed means. The word he probably wanted was interchanged. Can’t even get that right. |
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 16, 2024 6:11:18 GMT
This is an actual transcript of part of Donald Trump’s speech tonight:
“But when I say that Obama is the president of our country bah bah bah, they go, “He doesn’t know that Spiden (sic), he doesn’t know.” So it’s very hard to be sarcastic. When I interpose — cause I’m not a Nikki fan and I’m not a Pelosi fan. And when I purposely interpose names, they said, “He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki. From Tricky Nikki. Tricky Nikki. He didn’t know.” I interposed. And they make a big deal out of it. I said, “No, no, I think they’re both they both stink. They have something in common. They both stink. And remember this: when I make a statement like that about Nikki, that means she will never be running for Vice President. She will never be running [unintelligible] Vice President.” It's comical how those of you that dismissed these things when Biden does them are now running around trying to dig up instances and applying them to Trump. YOU also said: "You can't criticize Biden without acknowledging Trump's factual errors, strange rants and incoherent statements." You can't have it both ways... You can't demand standards of me that you refuse to apply to yourself. So, by your own standards, YOU can't criticize TRUMP without acknowledging BIDEN's factual errors, strange rants and incoherent statements. |
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 16, 2024 15:54:26 GMT
x.com/JonathanTurley/status/1758477752733249817?s=20Jonathan Turley @jonathanturley It now appears that it was President Joe Biden, not Special Counsel Robert Hur, who raised the death of Beau Biden during his interview. The White House mus now claim that the President was confused in a presser called to deny such chronic confusion...
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 16, 2024 16:37:15 GMT
This is an actual transcript of part of Donald Trump’s speech tonight:
“But when I say that Obama is the president of our country bah bah bah, they go, “He doesn’t know that Spiden (sic), he doesn’t know.” So it’s very hard to be sarcastic. When I interpose — cause I’m not a Nikki fan and I’m not a Pelosi fan. And when I purposely interpose names, they said, “He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki. From Tricky Nikki. Tricky Nikki. He didn’t know.” I interposed. And they make a big deal out of it. I said, “No, no, I think they’re both they both stink. They have something in common. They both stink. And remember this: when I make a statement like that about Nikki, that means she will never be running for Vice President. She will never be running [unintelligible] Vice President.” It's comical how those of you that dismissed these things when Biden does them are now running around trying to dig up instances and applying them to Trump. YOU also said: "You can't criticize Biden without acknowledging Trump's factual errors, strange rants and incoherent statements." You can't have it both ways... You can't demand standards of me that you refuse to apply to yourself. So, by your own standards, YOU can't criticize TRUMP without acknowledging BIDEN's factual errors, strange rants and incoherent statements. I have acknowledged Biden's errors. He mixed up a prime minister or leader of a country recently and mixed up Mexico and Egypt. Some of it might be age, some of it might be his stutter which affects working memory and some is just forgetfulness or word retrieval that everyone has trouble with sometimes. No one around Biden or anyone that meets with him has said anything about a mental decline. However, even Republicans like Nikki Haley are recognizing that Trump is slipping. And plenty of his former advisors have said he is not fit for office. The stress of the election and the trials might be getting to him. He's started to sound really unhinged. They'll change the name of Pennsylvania, the nonsense about magnets, confused about when he was president, who he ran against, mixing up people like Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley, nonsense about interposed names, nonsensical reasons and solutions for inflation, false claims about the wars in Ukraine and Israel, incoherent rambllings, word salads etc |
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Post by Lurkingpea on Feb 16, 2024 17:06:33 GMT
It's comical how those of you that dismissed these things when Biden does them are now running around trying to dig up instances and applying them to Trump. YOU also said: "You can't criticize Biden without acknowledging Trump's factual errors, strange rants and incoherent statements." You can't have it both ways... You can't demand standards of me that you refuse to apply to yourself. So, by your own standards, YOU can't criticize TRUMP without acknowledging BIDEN's factual errors, strange rants and incoherent statements. I have acknowledged Biden's errors. He mixed up a prime minister or leader of a country recently and mixed up Mexico and Egypt. Some of it might be age, some of it might be his stutter which affects working memory and some is just forgetfulness or word retrieval that everyone has trouble with sometimes. No one around Biden or anyone that meets with him has said anything about a mental decline. However, even Republicans like Nikki Haley are recognizing that Trump is slipping. And plenty of his former advisors have said he is not fit for office. The stress of the election and the trials might be getting to him. He's started to sound really unhinged. They'll change the name of Pennsylvania, the nonsense about magnets, confused about when he was president, who he ran against, mixing up people like Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley, nonsensical reasons and solutions for inflation, false claims about the wars in Ukraine and Israel etc The simple fact is that Biden might mix up things, forget dates, forget names etc but his sentences make sense. He can speak coherently. Trump doesn't make any sense. His sentences meander. He slurs his speech. He makes up outrageous "facts". Trump lies. |
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Post by sideways on Feb 16, 2024 17:13:37 GMT
This is an actual transcript of part of Donald Trump’s speech tonight:
“But when I say that Obama is the president of our country bah bah bah, they go, “He doesn’t know that Spiden (sic), he doesn’t know.” So it’s very hard to be sarcastic. When I interpose — cause I’m not a Nikki fan and I’m not a Pelosi fan. And when I purposely interpose names, they said, “He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki. From Tricky Nikki. Tricky Nikki. He didn’t know.” I interposed. And they make a big deal out of it. I said, “No, no, I think they’re both they both stink. They have something in common. They both stink. And remember this: when I make a statement like that about Nikki, that means she will never be running for Vice President. She will never be running [unintelligible] Vice President.” This was exactly it. Thanks. I’m sure the resident idiot will ignore it. |
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Post by sideways on Feb 16, 2024 17:16:40 GMT
I have acknowledged Biden's errors. He mixed up a prime minister or leader of a country recently and mixed up Mexico and Egypt. Some of it might be age, some of it might be his stutter which affects working memory and some is just forgetfulness or word retrieval that everyone has trouble with sometimes. No one around Biden or anyone that meets with him has said anything about a mental decline. However, even Republicans like Nikki Haley are recognizing that Trump is slipping. And plenty of his former advisors have said he is not fit for office. The stress of the election and the trials might be getting to him. He's started to sound really unhinged. They'll change the name of Pennsylvania, the nonsense about magnets, confused about when he was president, who he ran against, mixing up people like Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley, nonsensical reasons and solutions for inflation, false claims about the wars in Ukraine and Israel etc The simple fact is that Biden might mix up things, forget dates, forget names etc but his sentences make sense. He can speak coherently. Trump doesn't make any sense. His sentences meander. He slurs his speech. He makes up outrageous "facts". Trump lies. Biden says a wrong name or gets a date wrong and it’s “OMG! He has significant mental decline!” TFG spews gibberish that makes no fucking sense and it’s either crickets or he was “chosen by god”. 🤦🏼♀️ |
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Post by Merge on Feb 16, 2024 17:20:49 GMT
The simple fact is that Biden might mix up things, forget dates, forget names etc but his sentences make sense. He can speak coherently. Trump doesn't make any sense. His sentences meander. He slurs his speech. He makes up outrageous "facts". Trump lies. Biden says a wrong name or gets a date wrong and it’s “OMG! He has significant mental decline!” TFG spews gibberish that makes no fucking sense and it’s either crickets or he was “chosen by god”. 🤦🏼♀️ Right? Give me a smart man who mixes things up sometimes over an absolute idiot who can't be trusted not to hand the keys to the country to Putin. Trump wasn't smart even as a young man. |
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Post by mollycoddle on Feb 16, 2024 17:44:05 GMT
I have acknowledged Biden's errors. He mixed up a prime minister or leader of a country recently and mixed up Mexico and Egypt. Some of it might be age, some of it might be his stutter which affects working memory and some is just forgetfulness or word retrieval that everyone has trouble with sometimes. No one around Biden or anyone that meets with him has said anything about a mental decline. However, even Republicans like Nikki Haley are recognizing that Trump is slipping. And plenty of his former advisors have said he is not fit for office. The stress of the election and the trials might be getting to him. He's started to sound really unhinged. They'll change the name of Pennsylvania, the nonsense about magnets, confused about when he was president, who he ran against, mixing up people like Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley, nonsensical reasons and solutions for inflation, false claims about the wars in Ukraine and Israel etc The simple fact is that Biden might mix up things, forget dates, forget names etc but his sentences make sense. He can speak coherently. Trump doesn't make any sense. His sentences meander. He slurs his speech. He makes up outrageous "facts". Trump lies. Yep. He mixes up words/names sometimes; lots of us do. But you can follow what he is saying-unlike the Orange Nightmare. |
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Post by mollycoddle on Feb 16, 2024 17:45:20 GMT
The simple fact is that Biden might mix up things, forget dates, forget names etc but his sentences make sense. He can speak coherently. Trump doesn't make any sense. His sentences meander. He slurs his speech. He makes up outrageous "facts". Trump lies. Biden says a wrong name or gets a date wrong and it’s “OMG! He has significant mental decline!” TFG spews gibberish that makes no fucking sense and it’s either crickets or he was “chosen by god”. 🤦🏼♀️ Could Trump be speaking in tongues?? 👀🤔 |
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Post by sideways on Feb 16, 2024 18:01:22 GMT
Biden says a wrong name or gets a date wrong and it’s “OMG! He has significant mental decline!” TFG spews gibberish that makes no fucking sense and it’s either crickets or he was “chosen by god”. 🤦🏼♀️ Could Trump be speaking in tongues?? 👀🤔 😂 I could absolutely see the RWNJ cult-members spinning it that way. |
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Post by h2ohdog on Feb 16, 2024 21:56:53 GMT
sideways, not sure if you were referring to me as being from a “whack job site,” but I’ve been here for a few years. I think I even pissed you off last year for some reason that I forgot. I remember your avatar. We are on similar sides here, though.
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Post by sideways on Feb 16, 2024 22:04:53 GMT
sideways , not sure if you were referring to me as being from a “whack job site,” but I’ve been here for a few years. I think I even pissed you off last year for some reason that I forgot. I remember your avatar. We are on similar sides here, though. Uh…no. The 100 people moobell is referring to as proof as…whatever…I said could’ve been redirected here by some whack-job site to vote. Because the poll is anonymous and this board is public, anyone can sign up here and vote. I’m really not sure how anyone would think that comment was directed at them specifically. <shrug> |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 16, 2024 22:22:00 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 16, 2024 22:26:46 GMT
A vote for Trump is a vote for a 16 week abortion ban. Trump likes 16 weeks because 16 is an even number. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/us/politics/trump-abortion-ban.htmlTrump Privately Expresses Support for a 16-Week Abortion Ban
In supporting a 16-week ban with exceptions, Donald Trump appears to be trying to satisfy social conservatives who want to further restrict abortion access and voters who want more modest limits.
Former President Donald J. Trump has told advisers and allies that he likes the idea of a 16-week national abortion ban with three exceptions, in cases of rape or incest, or to save the life of the mother, according to two people with direct knowledge of Mr. Trump’s deliberations.
Mr. Trump has approached abortion transactionally since becoming a candidate in 2015, and his current private discussions reflect that same approach.
One thing Mr. Trump likes about a 16-week federal ban on abortions is that it’s a round number. “Know what I like about 16?” Mr. Trump told one of these people, who was given anonymity to describe a private conversation. “It’s even. It’s four months.” |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 16, 2024 22:39:11 GMT
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 17, 2024 0:04:03 GMT
It's comical how those of you that dismissed these things when Biden does them are now running around trying to dig up instances and applying them to Trump. YOU also said: "You can't criticize Biden without acknowledging Trump's factual errors, strange rants and incoherent statements." You can't have it both ways... You can't demand standards of me that you refuse to apply to yourself. So, by your own standards, YOU can't criticize TRUMP without acknowledging BIDEN's factual errors, strange rants and incoherent statements. I have acknowledged Biden's errors. He mixed up a prime minister or leader of a country recently and mixed up Mexico and Egypt. Some of it might be age, some of it might be his stutter which affects working memory and some is just forgetfulness or word retrieval that everyone has trouble with sometimes. No one around Biden or anyone that meets with him has said anything about a mental decline. However, even Republicans like Nikki Haley are recognizing that Trump is slipping. And plenty of his former advisors have said he is not fit for office. The stress of the election and the trials might be getting to him. He's started to sound really unhinged. They'll change the name of Pennsylvania, the nonsense about magnets, confused about when he was president, who he ran against, mixing up people like Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley, nonsense about interposed names, nonsensical reasons and solutions for inflation, false claims about the wars in Ukraine and Israel, incoherent rambllings, word salads etc No, you haven't. Because, if you're applying these to Trump: They'll change the name of Pennsylvania, the nonsense about magnets, confused about when he was president, who he ran against, mixing up people like Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley, nonsense about interposed names, nonsensical reasons and solutions for inflation, false claims about the wars in Ukraine and Israel, incoherent rambllings, word salads etc But dismissing these as meaningless about Biden: not remembering, even within several years, defining milestones in his own life claims of recently speaking to people that died, some decades ago repeating same exact story, verbatim, within a couple of minutes to the same people promising not to make people uncomfortable anymore by touching them and then doing it again and upsetting a young child claiming he called a climate emergency when he hasn't saying "we're going to build a bridge across the Indian Ocean" shaking someone's hand then forgetting he just did and trying to do it again always being confused on HOW to leave the podium in recent years. being confused about what office he's running for, he keeps thinking he's still running for senate repeatedly not understanding not to read the stage directions. standing trance like while holding an imaginary steering wheel? while looking off into the distance on stage while being asked questions being unable to follow directions of someone pointing exactly where to go often forgetting words, concepts, people's names, even that this is the Biden presidency -not the Harris presidency repeatedly admitting someone else is in charge of whether he can take questions and they will get mad at him being guided around with hands on, moving him around -being treated like a man in a diminished mental state rambling on about a guy named Cornpop while reminiscing about letting kids playing with his leg hair in the pool many false claims, incoherent rambllings, word salads etc ...then you are NOT acknowledging Biden’s errors. Yes, they have. Besides the fact that Hur explained what he experienced with Biden’s "diminished mental faculties"... James Carville looking at everything we've all seen, said "The coice not to do the superbowl interview is very telling. That's a sign that your staff or yourself doesn't have enough confidence in you. There's no other way to read this. He's not gonna' do debates either." Lots of people around him say things about him in private, but are cheerleaders for him in public. www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/16/senior-democrats-joe-biden-old-00083129 |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 17, 2024 1:07:53 GMT
If declining to debate is a sign of mental decline, what does that say about Trump? Dean Phillips campaigned against Biden. He hardly seems like an unbiased source. In addition, the only criticism that Phillips and other Democrats have of Biden is his age. Even in private, Democrats are not questioning his ability to do the job or a mental decline. It's more about strategy and winning the Oval Office, not a commentary on Biden's mental health. This is what McCarthy said about Biden in private www.politico.com/news/2023/10/04/white-house-mccarthy-downfall-00119933On a particularly sensitive matter, McCarthy mocked Biden’s age and mental acuity in public, while privately telling allies that he found the president sharp and substantive in their conversations — a contradiction that left a deep impression on the White House.
In comparison, even Republicans are questioning Trump's mental fitness. Nikki Haley called him "diminished" and "unhinged". A former White House staffer said Trump was "not quite as sharp as he was in 2016" after confusing Sioux Falls with Sioux City. Chris Christie expressed concerns for Trump's mental health. Trump has bragged about a cognitive test but either lied or doesn't remember what was in the test. He just keeps inventing new things. Trump's solution for wildfires in California was keeping the 33 million acres "damp" (apparently, we don't need to rake them anymore). He forgot WW II already happened. He thinks windmills are killing whales. Trump was never very smart to begin with, (Rex Tillerson called him an f'ing moron) so a mental decline is especially concerning. #Trumpisnotwell has been trending on twitter www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/19/trump-cognitive-test/For nearly four years, Trump has periodically boasted about his performance on the cognitive test, always tweaking the questions he alleges he aced, from correctly reciting a series of words in order — “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.” — to, most recently, identifying an animal — a whale — that did not appear on the test.
Experts also note that the assessment is not an I.Q. or intelligence test, though Trump has often talked about it as if it was.
“It’s a very, very low bar for somebody who carries the nuclear launch codes in their pocket to pass and certainly nothing to brag about,” said Jonathan Reiner, a cardiologist and professor of medicine and surgery at the George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences.
Addressing the crowd of supporters Wednesday night in Portsmouth, Trump continued with his riff on the test, seeming to wholly invent another hypothetical question.
“Then it’s multiply 3,293 times four, divide by 3,” Trump crowed. “They have plenty of tough stuff.” (The answer: 4,390.67).
www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2024-01-26/mental-acuity-questions-catch-up-with-trumpTrump's missteps, meanwhile, began to draw attention. He's made brazen factual errors, such as saying Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was the leader of Turkey, that Orban had called on Barack Obama to step down as president (when Obama left the presidency in 2017), describing a missile launch through sound effects, and this week, claiming he had won New Hampshire in the 2016 and 2020 general elections when he lost.
"If this were your Uncle Joe, you'd be running – not walking – to the neurologist," says Baltimore psychologist John Gartner, a former professor at Johns Hopkins University and founder of "Duty to Warn," a movement by medical professionals to draw attention to Trump's cognitive health that dates back to Trump's first year in office.
"If you walked into an emergency room in a psychotic state, the first question would be, 'Who is the president of the United States?' That's literally on the psychiatric medical exam," Gartner says, referring to Trump's confusing Biden with Obama.Gartner believes Trump – whose campaign did not respond to a request for comment – has "advanced dementia" |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 17, 2024 1:54:27 GMT
This is nothing new, but Trump was outed as a fraud today. And he is essentially the Republican candidate. Their choice says a lot about the current state of the Republican party. Are you really going to continue to defend him? www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/13/opinion/thepoint#trump-business-fraudOver 92 pages, Engoron eviscerated Trump, his sons and his entire business operation as consummate frauds. Trump lied to his lenders. He lied to insurance companies. He lied to the court in refusing to admit error.
“The frauds found here leap off the page and shock the conscience,” the judge wrote, in seeming disbelief at what he encountered during the trial. The defendants’ “complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological,” Engoron wrote, and they show no sign of stopping. “This court finds that defendants are likely to continue their fraudulent ways unless the court grants significant injunctive relief.”
Most people don’t understand the intricacies of corporate fraud, but they do understand what sorts of character traits they want in a national leader. For anyone who wants to know what kind of businessman Trump is, Engoron put it in black and white: “Blatantly false.” “Denied reality.” “Failed to accept responsibility.” “Severely compromised his credibility.” |
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Post by morecowbell on Feb 17, 2024 1:57:03 GMT
If declining to debate is a sign of mental decline, what does that say about Trump? Dean Phillips campaigned against Biden. He hardly seems like an unbiased source. In addition, the only criticism that Phillips and other Democrats have of Biden is his age. Even in private, Democrats are not questioning his ability to do the job or a mental decline. It's more about strategy and winning the Oval Office, not a commentary on Biden's mental health. This is what McCarthy said about Biden in private www.politico.com/news/2023/10/04/white-house-mccarthy-downfall-00119933On a particularly sensitive matter, McCarthy mocked Biden’s age and mental acuity in public, while privately telling allies that he found the president sharp and substantive in their conversations — a contradiction that left a deep impression on the White House.
In comparison, even Republicans are questioning Trump's mental fitness. Nikki Haley called him "diminished" and "unhinged". A former White House staffer said Trump was "not quite as sharp as he was in 2016" after confusing Sioux Falls with Sioux City. Chris Christie expressed concerns for Trump's mental health. Trump has bragged about a cognitive test but either lied or doesn't remember what was in the test. He just keeps inventing new things. Trump's solution for wildfires in California was keeping the 33 million acres "damp" (apparently, we don't need to rake them anymore). He forgot WW II already happened. He thinks windmills are killing whales. Trump was never very smart to begin with, (Rex Tillerson called him an f'ing moron) so a mental decline is especially concerning. #Trumpisnotwell has been trending on twitter www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/19/trump-cognitive-test/For nearly four years, Trump has periodically boasted about his performance on the cognitive test, always tweaking the questions he alleges he aced, from correctly reciting a series of words in order — “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.” — to, most recently, identifying an animal — a whale — that did not appear on the test.
Experts also note that the assessment is not an I.Q. or intelligence test, though Trump has often talked about it as if it was.
“It’s a very, very low bar for somebody who carries the nuclear launch codes in their pocket to pass and certainly nothing to brag about,” said Jonathan Reiner, a cardiologist and professor of medicine and surgery at the George Washington School of Medicine & Health Sciences.
Addressing the crowd of supporters Wednesday night in Portsmouth, Trump continued with his riff on the test, seeming to wholly invent another hypothetical question.
“Then it’s multiply 3,293 times four, divide by 3,” Trump crowed. “They have plenty of tough stuff.” (The answer: 4,390.67).
www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2024-01-26/mental-acuity-questions-catch-up-with-trumpTrump's missteps, meanwhile, began to draw attention. He's made brazen factual errors, such as saying Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was the leader of Turkey, that Orban had called on Barack Obama to step down as president (when Obama left the presidency in 2017), describing a missile launch through sound effects, and this week, claiming he had won New Hampshire in the 2016 and 2020 general elections when he lost.
"If this were your Uncle Joe, you'd be running – not walking – to the neurologist," says Baltimore psychologist John Gartner, a former professor at Johns Hopkins University and founder of "Duty to Warn," a movement by medical professionals to draw attention to Trump's cognitive health that dates back to Trump's first year in office.
"If you walked into an emergency room in a psychotic state, the first question would be, 'Who is the president of the United States?' That's literally on the psychiatric medical exam," Gartner says, referring to Trump's confusing Biden with Obama.Gartner believes Trump – whose campaign did not respond to a request for comment – has "advanced dementia" Keep dismissing these things when Biden does them, but keep running around trying to dig up instances and applying them to Trump. YOU said: "You can't criticize Biden without acknowledging Trump's factual errors, strange rants and incoherent statements." You can't have it both ways... By your own standards, YOU can't criticize TRUMP without acknowledging BIDEN's factual errors, strange rants and incoherent statements. Keep showing that you refuse to adhere to the standards you demand of me. |
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Post by aj2hall on Feb 17, 2024 2:29:37 GMT
I have acknowledged mistakes and mis-steps that Biden made. A few days ago, he mixed up Mexico and Egypt, Recently he also mixed up leaders of France and then Germany. He also mispronounced Hamas and bumped into a flag on stage at the UN. A year ago, he mis-spoke and said Iraq instead of Ukraine. He mistakenly addressed the prime minister of the UK as Mr. President but quickly corrected himself and joked that he just demoted the prime minister. President Biden tripped at an Air Force graduation, fell off his bike and tripped going up the stairs of Air Force 1. President Biden sometimes acknowledges his mistakes. When has Trump ever admitted he made a mistake? Biden has a documented speech impairment and sometimes struggles with working memory and word retrieval. Trump has been slurring words in recent speeches. What is your excuse for that? Trump recently went on a bizarre rant, ranking his preferred methods of violent death, saying he would rather be electrocuted than eaten by a shark. Even for Trump, that was bizarre. Don't worry though, he has an excuse for his mistakes, he was just joking and being sarcastic. newrepublic.com/post/179029/donald-trump-unbelievable-excuse-constant-mix-upsDonald Trump’s recent memory failures sure do look like some kind of cognitive decline. In the last few months, Trump has mixed up President Joe Biden with former President Barack Obama, slurred his words, bragged about his favorite type of violent death and that he calls corn “non-liquid gold,” insisted you need voter ID to buy bread, and confused his GOP competitor Nikki Haley for California Representative Nancy Pelosi, claiming that the former failed to act during January 6.
But during a campaign rally on Wednesday, Trump had a new excuse for all that, claiming all of his short circuits are actually just sarcastic jokes.
“When I interpose—cause I’m not a Nikki fan, and I’m not a Pelosi fan. And when I purposely interpose names, they said, ‘He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki. From Tricky Nikki. Tricky Nikki. He didn’t know.’ I interposed,” he added, seemingly forgetting the definition of the word “interpose,” which per Merriam-Webster means to put oneself between or intrude.
“And they make a big deal out of it. I said, ‘No, no, I think they both stink. They have something in common. They both stink.’ And remember this: When I make a statement like that about Nikki, that means she will never be running for vice president. She will never be running [unintelligible] vice president,” he added. |
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