walk tuah the polls

Dying empire news:

• Pelosi comments: "I think it's a legitimate question to say is this an episode or is this a condition," Pelosi says on MSNBC when asked about Biden. But she says the question should be asked of "both candidates" and stresses Biden accomplishments. "It's going to be up to Joe Biden to do what he thinks... I'm not a doctor, I can't say what happens 3, 4 years down the road, in my experience he will continue to be a great president of the United States.". Pelosi mentions she has not seen or spoken to Biden since the debate (lmao). Hakeem Jeffries also said he hasn't spoken to Biden since the debate.

• New CNN Poll: Trump 49% | Biden 43% which is actually unchanged

• Politicians are increasingly making statements about Biden stepping aside, including James Clyburn ("I will support [Kamala] if Biden were to step aside"), Adam Frisch, Dem nom in CO, and Lloyd Doggett, dem in Austin, TX.

• Biden Plunges in Swing States in Leaked Post-Debate Poll

A very funny outcome is that Biden loses the election and then dies on January 5th, making Kamala president for one day

I mean, yes, but the founding idiots were mostly Unitarian, transcendentalist, deists, or some mixture of contradictory beliefs. And these beliefs were not even a reason or justification as to why they did anything. James Madison is especially clear that his goals are to protect the landed class.

In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of the landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability...

The second method will be exemplified in the federal republic of the United States. Whilst all authority in it will be derived from, and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority.

Ah, well nevertheless

"think of the children"

argues for endangering children

Uniting to crush Bernie and ostracizing an entire generation against the Dems just to have 4 years of demented rule that worsens material conditions, chat is this good

If he is in a familiar environment with his safe person (Jill) during the mid-day, he's probably okay for basic talking points. Outside of those parameters, well you get what we saw before.

He was already a mess in the 2019 debates, jumbling words and misspeaking and randomly apologizing, but it's clearly progressed rapidly since then or is at least much harder to hide.

Edit: lmao

Pretty brutal article too

When a candidate biffs, it’s expected that a loyal aide will take the fall. And few have more experience in throwing people under the bus than Joe Biden. When his first campaign imploded over the summer of 1987, a young aide and future Democratic National Committee Chairman named David Wilhelm took the blame for passing along a British Labor Leader’s speeches that Biden cribbed on a debate stage. When his third bid for the job finished in fourth place in lead-off Iowa, Biden removed his longtime aide and campaign manager Greg Schultz as the entourage slowly navigated icy New Hampshire roads on the way to a debate site. With the never-ending investigations about his son’s involvement with dodgy business partners, Biden blamed his staff for not flagging the potential conflicts of interest sooner. And when classified documents were recovered in his personal possession, it was again the help’s fault.

Biden went to work delivering [his] vision on Friday in North Carolina, telling his crowd he understood the panic inside the party and then firmly rejecting it. “Folks, let me close with this: I know I’m not a young man, to state the obvious,” Biden deadpanned in Raleigh as he launched into a mea culpa donors were demanding and strategists were hoping he understood. “I don’t debate as well as I used to. I know what I do know: I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done. I know what millions of Americans know: when you get knocked down, you get back up.”

True, Biden has been knocked down plenty in his career, but sometimes it's best to stay on the canvas. “Folks, I give my word as a Biden: I would not be running again if I didn’t believe with all my heart and soul I can do this job,” he said. For many Democrats who watched the debate, the problem is that what Biden believes is starting to look more and more at odds with reality.