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AFLW 2024 - Round 6 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
That's the problem.Think it can only be Harris that replaces him.
Brings back memories of the last years of Reagan.The debate at the moment is whether or not Biden should be the Democrats' candidate for the election, but should he even be President now?
From 10am to 4pm, Biden is dependably engaged — and many of his public events in front of cameras are held within those hours. Outside of that time range or while traveling abroad, Biden is more likely to have verbal miscues and become fatigued, aides told Axios.
Do you consider Australia to be "communist at heart"?I consider policies such as universal basic income and broad expansions to the welfare state to be communist. It may be a slight exaggeration for dramatic effect, but not as much as an exaggeration as, for example, the left calling people fascist. Bernie after all honeymooned to the Soviet Union and publicly supported Castro, so even if he restrains his policy position in public, I still believe he is a communist at heart.
Well this all seems very rational, as you were solidierThat is correct Bourbs, and unfortunately you've been bamboozled to support the side of pure evil through their illusions of morality and weaponised propaganda, it is sad.
No.Hahaha, so the presidential pre-requisites in your and Marc Kenny's mind is that your a "good person" by whatever subjective metric you're judging that off of (ignoring that Biden is a person who is creepy around women and children, has dodgy business dealings with his son while Vice President and has presided over the single greatest transfer of wealth from the American middle and lower class in history - yeah a real "good person").
Not quiteIt's the reason Biden didn't face charges over having classified docs in his possession.
Special Counsel Robert Hur said in a report that he opted against bringing criminal charges following a 15-month investigation because Biden cooperated and would be difficult to convict, describing him as a "well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
Which makes perfect sense when assessing the facts of Trump's and Biden's classified docs cases and their different handling ie. Biden gave them back as soon as they were discovered while Trump blocked, delayed and obfuscated at every turn, even going so far as to attest in writing that he didn't have any more in his possession before the government had to raid him to get their shit back.Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report ultimately concluded “the evidence is not sufficient to convict” Biden and that “no criminal charges are warranted.”
The report did refer numerous times to what it characterized as Biden’s “limited” and “poor” memory. Those observations were included, Hur wrote, because they factored into his decision about whether he could convince a jury that Biden had acted “willfully” to break the law.
Apologies my recollection conflated things, it was her laughing in response to questions on if she'd ever used Marijuana, which is obviously incredibly poor taste when you've locked away thousands of young black men for the same crime.
It does lean too far that way yes.
Trump Should Never Have Had This Platform
The debate was a travesty—because its whole premise was to treat a failed coup leader as a legitimate candidate for the presidency.
by David Frum The Atlantic
The first question about January 6 was asked at minute 41.
Donald Trump replied with a barrage of crazy lies, ending by seeming to blame Nancy Pelosi’s documentarian daughter.
Then, just to be fair, CNN moderator Jake Tapper followed up with a question to President Joe Biden. Did he really mean to imply that Trump’s voters were a danger to democracy?
Biden fumbled the answer, as he fumbled so many other answers. The octogenarian president delivered a fiasco of a performance on the Atlanta debate stage. But the fiasco was not his alone.
Everything about the event was designed to blur the choice before Americans. Both candidates—the serving president and the convicted felon—were addressed as “President.” The questions treated an attempted coup d’état as one issue out of many. The candidates were left to police or fail to police the truth of each other’s statements; it was nobody else’s business.
It may be no coincidence that the modern television presidential debate was born at a time of national political consensus. In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon presented a choice very familiar to viewers in the days of three big channels and a limited number of mass-market products: You could choose Crest or Colgate, two very similar products to meet a similar need. One might be a little mintier, the other a little spicier, but both did the job. Now we live in a very different world, a world in which the choice is much more existential—and yet we retain the Crest-versus-Colgate format.
How could it be otherwise? We live in a political culture in which some of us think the supreme issue of our time was an attempted violent overthrow of the Constitution, while other Americans think it was Hunter Biden’s laptop. There are means and institutions to arbitrate those differences. That’s what elections do. But television debates cannot do it, because television debates don’t happen unless they get buy-in from both sides. Therefore, television debates are designed necessarily to ratify the concept of “both sides.”
Ferocious controversy will probably now erupt over Biden’s leadership of the Democratic Party. We’ll hear all kinds of plans to swap him out somehow. Maybe those plans will be workable, but probably not. Through the uproar, it will be important to keep in mind that this election is not about Biden. It’s about you and your commitments and your values. Biden is just the instrument. Like any instrument, he’s imperfect. But better an imperfect instrument than a would-be autocrat who demands a cult of personality.
A century ago, the socialist leader (and presidential candidate) Eugene V. Debs rebuked followers who idolized him: “I would not lead you into the promised land if I could, because if I led you in, someone else would lead you out. You must use your heads as well as your hands, and get yourself out of your present condition.”
Against the threat of Trump, Americans must save themselves. The job of doing so cannot be delegated to some charismatic savior—and anyway, that charismatic savior has yet to present himself or herself. Television always wants to reduce active human beings to passive viewers.
The presidential-debate format has especially served this purpose: “Do I prefer the candidate in the red tie or the blue one?”
This most recent debate has taught the danger of spectatorship. The job of saving democracy from Trump will be done not by an old man on a gaudy stage, but by those who care that their democracy be saved. Biden’s evident frailties have aggravated that job and made it more difficult, but they have also clarified whose job it is.
Not his. Yours.
Not quite
Republicans Distort Facts on Special Counsel Decision Not to Charge Biden - FactCheck.org
At their weekly news conference, several Republican House leaders wrongly claimed the special counsel report into Joe Biden's handling of classified documents found the president was mentally unfit to stand trial. The report said no such thing.www.factcheck.org
Which makes perfect sense when assessing the facts of Trump's and Biden's classified docs cases and their different handling ie. Biden gave them back as soon as they were discovered while Trump blocked, delayed and obfuscated at every turn, even going so far as to attest in writing that he didn't have any more in his possession before the government had to raid him to get their shit back.
Pretty clear and verifiable differences in intent there I'd say.
either or. let's settle on compulsive liar.Fair, I misused the word in that instance.
Would you prefer a pathological liar or someone who knows right from wrong but keeps lying to your face? I'd argue pathological is less evil but that won't go with the anti Trump rhetoric shown...
2024 presidential debate: Fact-checks of Biden and Trump
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees,www.politifact.com
Australia leans "too far communist"?
What's the fact check of whether Biden finally beat Medicare?
to summarize - everything Trump said was either false or an outright lie.
The defence for Biden's woeful showing is "whatabout Trump"
its not a defense for Biden's woeful showing, which was woeful - but legit, what about the guy that didn't say one factual thing during the debate - why is no one mentioning that?
its not a defense for Biden's woeful showing, which was woeful - but legit, what about the guy that didn't say one factual thing during the debate - why is no one mentioning that?