Wish I knew how to “grab an article & post it” but I don’t.
A women who can read your eyes reported about the TH with Anderson & Biden. Said he had prompter in his ear, “watch his eyes”, while question from audience, Joe’s eyes keep moving. He was listening to prompter. When trying to answer question & confusion beginning, the prompter would tell him to stop & change topics.
He has true signs of dementia. Speaking gibberish, forgets facts. Biden should not be running for highest office in the land. Someone should stop him.
…yet they continually reject term limits for Congressmen. Agree to limit yourself, and then you can talk about limiting others.
Not sure how this reduces partisan “warring” over vacancies? The opposing party voting against a nomination along party lines is relatively new phenomenon, and will continue.
And it’s cute how they avoid “lifetime appointment” in the Constitution (as some interpret it), by rotating judges out to lower courts once their time limit expires. Talk about diluting the stature of the Supreme Court, just rotating judges in and out every couple years.
Is this really the hill you’re choosing to stand on?
“Using actuarial analysis and publicly available data on the health of the two men, the authors project Biden has a 95% chance of surviving a four-year term, while Trump has a 90% chance of completing a second term.”
It’s the state of his thinking people are worrying about, not that his heart keeps beating.
In other news, Amy Barrett is Trump’s Supreme Court pick.
You might check out the WSJ OpEd page. They have more of a spine than the regular WSJ news reporters (who are sometimes caught doing some left-leaning editorializing).
Boy, I certainly hope so. She is a rather amazing woman.
We shall know in just a little over 24 hours.
However, she has a large family, all of whom need to be present during the announcement if she is the nominee.
Doubt so many people can be transported in secrecy.
Exactly what the majority are worrying about continuing, not whether he can walk down a ramp or keep the clown toupee adhered to his scalp.
I seem to recall similar health concerns about Hillary too, complete with “evidence”.
I think it (the claim about poor health) is just something to be expected with senior candidates.
Right - how dare he announce this immediately following talks to lower drug prices breaking down (and after months of Congress doing nothing). I’m sure recipients will sockdrawer their “coupon” until after the new year, if they feel it’s just unnecessary pre-election pandering.
Much like his temporary unemployment boost, is anyone ever going to admit that he’s the only one actually doing something to help people at a time when everyone agrees that help is needed?
Historians and election experts warn Trump is behaving like Mussolini and despots that the US usually condemns
- President Donald Trump has refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the election.
- Historians and experts on fascism warn that Trump is behaving like the dictators the US is often leading the way to condemn on the global stage.
- “This is the way dictators come to power,” historian Michael Beschloss warned in an MSNBC appearance on Thursday.
" President Donald Trump is refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, threatening to shatter a tradition that lies at the heart of the democratic process in the US. There are serious concerns among scholars that Trump is putting America’s democracy in mortal danger.
Combined with Trump’s relentless disinformation campaign, celebration of violence against journalists, and incitement of armed militias, historians and election experts warn that the president is mirroring the behavior of despots that the US generally leads the way in condemning before the world.
“I’ve been an election observer in broken authoritarian countries, and let me tell you: Trump’s behavior would be swiftly and unequivocally condemned by all international election monitors if it was happening elsewhere. He is behaving like the despots past presidents condemned,” Brian Klaas, a political scientist at the University College London, tweeted on Friday.
When asked whether he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power earlier this week, Trump suggested ballots would be thrown away."
"“The clearest parallel is that Mussolini was prime minister of a democratic coalition government from 1922-1925. During that time, he slowly chipped away at democratic institutions, insulting the press, using violence against the left, joking that he would be in office for 20 years, establishing a militia and a legislative body (the Grand Council) loyal to him,” Ben-Ghiat told Insider.
“[Mussolini] bought off elites with privatizations of major industries and by ending worker and peasant strikes. In 1924, to consolidate power, he had a law passed that drew accusations of fraud but gave him a majority. He had his main opponent, Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti, killed for accusing him of fixing the election and for threatening to reveal his financial corruption— and then he declared dictatorship in 1925 to escape a special investigation,” Ben-Ghiat added."
Democratic election sweep win would add 7 million more jobs than a GOP one, analysis finds
“Biden would implement much more aggressive fiscal support to the economy early on in his administration,” Mark Zandi, Moody’s Analytics chief economist who co-authored the report told Yahoo Money. “That provides a lot of juice to the economy early on in his term.”
The unemployment rate would recover much quicker under Democratic control, too, falling to 5.2% in 2022 compared with just 7.1% in a Republican-sweep scenario. The participation rate would also increase faster under the Democrats, reaching 63.6% in 2024, versus 62.1% in the Republican scenario.
Hundreds of ex-national security officers endorse ‘honest’ Biden over ‘disdainful’ Trump
"Hundreds of retired US generals, admirals, and other national security and defence officials have endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden over Donald Trump, including two four-star officers who served for years high up in the Trump administration.
More than 500 such former officials, who span the political spectrum and have served for in both Republican and Democratic administrations dating back decades, signed an open letter on Thursday disavowing Mr Trump’s leadership and backing Mr Biden as “the leader our nation needs.”
“While some of us may have different opinions on particular policy matters, we trust Joe Biden’s positions are rooted in sound judgment, thorough understanding, and fundamental values,” the officials wrote in their letter.
“The current President has demonstrated he is not equal to the enormous responsibilities of his office; he cannot rise to meet challenges large or small. Thanks to his disdainful attitude and his failures, our allies no longer trust or respect us, and our enemies no longer fear us,” they wrote."
A perfect example of Comrade Biden’s diminishing judgement (or maybe it was always bad) - Could he have found a worse coach?
There is an example of scintillating Republican political stupidity in Pennsylvania. Some people apparently are so self centered they cannot resist the lure of seeing their names in print. They have to be the center of attention. This even if it means feeding the maw of a wildly LEFT wing publication, The Atlantic.
Instead of a wise “no comment”, this Pennsylvania Republican Chairman jackass could not control himself when confronted by his political enemy. He shot off his mouth and landed in the pile of s**t anyone with political savvy could easily have anticipated. With a dope like this as party chairman there, what chance does Trump have in Pennsylvania, a battleground state.
People this stupid, and the party they represent, do not deserve to win elections. You can’t find Democrats this insane with a magnifying glass.
PA Republican Party chairman personifies unvarnished stupidity
‘I Feel Sorry for Americans’: A Baffled World Watches the U.S.
— Myanmar is a poor country struggling with open ethnic warfare and a coronavirus outbreak that could overload its broken hospitals. That hasn’t stopped its politicians from commiserating with a country they think has lost its way.
“I feel sorry for Americans,” said Myint Oo, a member of Parliament in Myanmar. “But we can’t help the U.S. because we are a very small country.”
The same sentiment prevails in Canada, one of the most developed countries. Two out of three Canadians live within about 60 miles of the U.S. border.
“Personally, it’s like watching the decline of the Roman Empire,” said Mike Bradley, the mayor of Sarnia, an industrial city on the border with Michigan, where locals used to venture for lunch.
Amid the pandemic and in the run-up to the presidential election, much of the world is watching the United States with a mix of shock, chagrin and, most of all, bafflement.
How did a superpower allow itself to be felled by a virus? And after nearly four years during which President Donald Trump has praised authoritarian leaders and obscenely dismissed some other countries as insignificant and crime-ridden, is the United States in danger of exhibiting some of the same traits he has disparaged?
“The USA is a first-world country, but it is acting like a third-world country,"said Aung Thu Nyein, a political analyst in Myanmar.
Adding to the sense of bewilderment, Trump has refused to embrace an indispensable principle of democracy, dodging questions about whether he will commit to a peaceful transition of power after the November election should he lose.
In Belarus, where tens of thousands of people have faced down police after the widely disputed reelection last month of President Alexander Lukashenko, Trump’s remarks sounded familiar.
“It reminds me of Belarus, when a person cannot admit defeat and looks for any means to prove that he couldn’t lose,” said Kiryl Kalbasnikau, a 29-year-old opposition activist and actor. “This would be a warning sign for any democracy.”
Still, that the president of the United States, the very country that shepherded the birth of Germany’s own peaceful democracy after the defeat of the Third Reich, was wavering on the sanctity of the electoral process has been met with disbelief and dismay.
The diminution of the United States’ global image began before the pandemic, as Trump administration officials snubbed international accords and embraced an America First policy. Now, though, its reputation seems to be in free fall.
A Pew Research Center poll of 13 countries found that over the past year, nations including Canada, Japan, Australia and Germany have been viewing the United States in its most negative light in years. In every country surveyed, the vast majority of respondents thought the United States was doing a bad job with the pandemic.
Such global disapproval historically has applied to countries with less open political systems and strongmen in charge. But people from just the kind of developing countries that Trump has mocked say the signs coming from the United States are ominous: a disease unchecked, mass protests over racial and social inequality, and a president who seems unwilling to pledge support for the tenets of electoral democracy.
Mexico, perhaps more than any other country, has been the target of Trump’s ire, with the president using it as a campaign punching bag and vowing to make Mexicans pay for a border wall. Now they are feeling a new emotion that has overtaken their anger and bewilderment at Trumpian insults: sympathy.
“We used to look to the U.S. for democratic governance inspiration,” said Eduardo Bohórquez, director of Transparency International Mexico. “Sadly, this is not the case anymore.
“‘Being great’ is simply not enough,” he added.
In Indonesia, the most populous Muslim-majority democracy, there is a sense that the United States has left the world adrift, even if its application overseas of democratic ideals was imperfect. For decades, Washington supported some of Asia’s most ruthless dictators because they were considered vital to halting communism in the region.
“The world sees the dismantling of social cohesion within American society and the mess in managing COVID,” said Yenny Wahid, an Indonesian politician and activist. “There is a vacuum of leadership that needs to be filled, but America is not fulfilling that leadership role.”
Wahid, whose father was president of Indonesia after the country emerged from decades of strongman rule, said she worried that Trump’s dismissive attitude toward democratic principles could legitimize authoritarians.
“Trump inspired many dictators, many leaders who are interested in dictatorship, to copy his style, and he emboldened them,” she said.
In places like the Philippines, Mexico and others, elected leaders have been compared to Trump when they have turned to divisive rhetoric, disregard of institutions, intolerance of dissent and antipathy toward the media.
But there is also a sense that Americans are now getting a glimpse of the troubles people living in fragile democracies must endure.
“They now know what it’s like in other countries: violating norms, international trade and its own institutions,” said Eunice Rendon, an expert on migration and security and the director of Migrant Agenda, a nonprofit organization in Mexico. “The most powerful country in the world all of a sudden looks vulnerable.”
Already, a U.S. passport, which once allowed easy access to almost every country in the world, is no longer a valuable travel pass. Because of the coronavirus, American tourists are banned from most of Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania and Latin America.
Albania, Brazil and Belarus are among a small group of countries welcoming Americans with no restrictions, however.
https://news.yahoo.com/feel-sorry-americans-baffled-world-190411121.html
If He Loses Election, Trump Tells Rally, ‘We’re Not Going To Stand For It’
The only presidential election Donald Trump will accept as legitimate is the one he wins, he told a crowd of supporters Friday night at a rally in Virginia. If he loses in November, Trump declared, ”We’re not going to stand for it.”