On Tuesday night, Joe Biden's campaign was celebrating his latest primary night triumph. By Wednesday morning, #NeverBiden, #WriteinBernie and #DemExit2020 hashtags began trending on Twitter.
There's no question it’s been a banner two weeks for Biden. But lurking in the background of his sudden ascension to all-but-presumptive nominee is evidence that at least some Bernie Sanders supporters might not migrate to him in November, weakening him in the general election.
Well this is just one of two problems for the potential Democratic nominee. The civil war is no doubt hurting the Party and Biden will likely suffer from the same problems Hillary had in winning over Bernie supporters. He (like Clinton) is seen as an establishment person, who isn't interested in their issues or ideas. The biggest issue with this is that Bernie supporters are absolutely correct. If you were looking for someone who is "establishment" there is nobody "more" establishment than Joe Biden.
But the other underlying problem lurking for Biden is that there may still be a pretty good chance that our country will be in some sort of crisis situation. There is a reason why leaders are almost never voted out during war-times or other crisis situations. People are generally loath to change horses in midstream when they feel we are deep into certain strategies or solutions. Psychologically, the fear of the unknown and the instinct to stick with the status quo is far greater when things are in flux.
Between dementia Joe having issues within his own Party and a problem of strong developing feelings that he is not competent enough to be President, much less take over the reigns during a crisis is a lethal combination.
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Dementia Joe makes poster's like the non-stop Taegan Goddard political_lire spammer James almost look normal.
Maybe that's why the "pastor" appears to not notice Joe's slide.
Or he just ignores inconvenient truths.
Bernie has to knee cap Joe in Sundays debate. Problem is Bernie is a coward and with no fight and balless.
Joe not being competent becomes a laughable claim when we look at the present occupant of the White House. Bernie himself will ultimately call on his supporters to rally behind Biden.
The Dismantled State Takes on a Pandemic
March 13, 2020 at 9:21 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 39 Comments
David Corn:
“Donald Trump’s utterly incompetent response to the coronavirus has become readily apparent in recent days. But this disaster is not a solo enterprise. His catastrophic performance as president during the early stages of the crisis is the culmination of decades of right-wing action aimed at subverting the one entity that can protect Americans from the deadly threat at hand: GOVERNMENT.”
NO, NO! GOVERNMENT IS THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM! REPUBLICANS SHOUT.
ST. REAGAN TOLD THEM THAT!
CH UN TRUTH SAID:
Biden will likely suffer from the same problems Hillary had in winning over Bernie supporters. He (like Clinton) is seen as an establishment person...
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One little difference:
The present inhabitant of the White House is an incompetent MEGLOMANIAC.
SPEAKING OF INCOMPETENCE
Trump Resists Declaring a National Emergency
March 13, 2020 at 10:02 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
James Hohmann:
“President Trump declared a national emergency last February to divert billions that had been appropriated for the military to fund construction of his wall along the southern border. White House lawyers told Trump he could reprogram that money without the declaration. But the president was determined to announce a national emergency, we reported at the time, for fear of looking weak if he didn’t.”
“Thirteen months later, Trump has appeared afraid of looking weak if he DOES declare a national emergency to respond to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. He’s resisted a growing chorus of pleas from local leaders, as well as congressional Democrats, to declare a national emergency. Under the 1988 Stafford Act, this would enable the Federal Emergency Management Agency to take disaster-level action and free up billions in assistance for states and municipalities on the front lines of the pandemic.”
Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2
On the day Trump halted travel from China—a move now acknowledged as a crucial step in containing the spread of the virus and that Dems opposed—House Dems were pushing for more impeachment witnesses. They just started working on a relief plan this week:
https://www.amgreatness.com/2020/03/12/instead-of-bracing-for-coronavirus-democrats-focused-on-impeachment/
and since January when Trump stopped flights from China the lying POS "pastor" has endlessly posted Taegan Goddard political_lire spam here, including all sorts of impeachment related spam.
and he has nothing else, least of all a functioning brain.
Was mad cow disease ever fully contained? It appears the "pastor" needs to be tested.
Make sure pederast reads that he thinks trump has only blocked flights from Europe
James posts David morn as if it means something. Who's next? Katrina Vanden Huevel?
Reagan was partly right.
Government controlled by the wealthy and for the wealthy IS the problem, not the solution to the problem.
Government of the people, by the people, and for the people will again be the solution to the problem.
Quote of the Day
March 13, 2020 at 10:07 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 18 Comments
“This was the most expensive speech in history.”
— Wall Street strategist Luca Paolini, quoted by the Financial Times, after the equity markets tanked as a result of President Trump’s Oval Office address.
Joe not being competent becomes a laughable claim when we look at the present occupant of the White House.
Yeah, it's like night and day. One is competent and up to the challenge of his office despite what Democrats and the media wish verses a man who don't know where he is half the time.
Good one James.
Paolini is the same guy who in 2018 said Trump would tank the markets with a trade war.
Another Trump hater.
Just read a great line...the people who said you don't need that much ammo are buying 500 rolls of toilet paper today.
Government of the people, by the people, and for the people will again be the solution to the problem.
And yet you keep advocating for government by and for the privilege few.
Hypocrite.
And yet you keep advocating for government by and for the privilege[d] few.
Hypocrite.
No I don't.
Liar.
Ocasio-Cortez Refused to Campaign More for Sanders
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) turned down repeated requests from Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign to appear at events promoting the Vermont senator’s candidacy in recent weeks, the HuffPost reports.
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Even Bernie's most outspoken advocate is moving toward strong support for Joe.
So the Reverend believes that the President's speech (and not the panic from coronavirus) is what is affecting the markets?
Ahem...
Why Trump’s Oval Office Address Was Doomed to Fail
March 13, 2020 at 10:59 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
Ben Rhodes:
“By constantly trying to get himself through the news cycle, Trump has done irreparable damage to the long-term objective of ensuring that he’s a credible voice on the COVID-19 crisis. Time and again, he’s minimized the danger while talking up his own response, perhaps most notably when he said—speaking about cases within the United States two weeks ago—
'You have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.’
"Statements like this no doubt end up creating hours of more work for his staff to explain or justify what is plainly false. More insidiously, this sort of talk could have contributed to the slowness to test and discover new cases which would plainly contradict the president’s own predictions.
“Even the president’s signature announcement—a travel ban on Europe (which later turned out to be a travel ban on non-Americans who had recently been in the European Union’s Schengen Area) had the feel of something designed for short-term news value rather than long-term planning. In addition to causing confusion and exacerbating market disruptions, it was a step taken too late to contain a virus that is already very much here. The travel ban was also far less relevant than other steps that could have been announced, like surging resources for testing and other badly needed health infrastructure and supplies. Finally, it was clearly made without consultation with European leaders, who—in a normal presidency—would be in near-daily contact with a U.S. president to manage a challenge that recognizes no borders.
“In this way, President Trump’s address to the nation was doomed to fail. It was delivered by a president who ignores inconvenient truths, disdains expertise, views events solely through the lens of his political interests, and fails to look beyond the news cycle. This dynamic has been exacerbated by an information flow into and out of the White House that reflects Trump’s worst instincts—his desire to be flattered and his deafness to any form of criticism.”
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to be honest Not a Pastor Jane changes his beliefs so often , hard to know if she stands for anything.
CH UnTruth: So the Reverend believes that the President's speech (and not the panic from coronavirus) is what is affecting the markets?
James: No, both.
Yeah, it's like night and day. One is competent and up to the challenge of his office despite what Democrats and the media wish verses a man who don't know where he is half the time
Simple questions to ask both men:
Where are you?
What are you running for?
How does the declaration of Independence go?
Did you see the video of Biden being asked about his confrontation with the union worker over guns (where he apparently threatens to slap the guy and tells the woman to "shhhh".
His response was to say he was sad to know that Sanders was now with Trump.
It was completely nonsensical and he looked completely confused and was focused only on getting in his car and away from any questions.
This guy is not even "close" to being all there.
Doesn't matter if you think he was once a good person, he is clearly not a guy with the capacity right now to pick up dry cleaning, much less be leader of the free world. Imagine how he will be in 2-3 years? Sitting in a lock down wing of a nursing home no doubt.
...sitting in a lock down wing of a nursing home no doubt.
Trump should be sitting in the lock down wing of an insanity asylum/correctional institute.
James March 13, 2020 at 10:04 AM
And yet you keep advocating for government by and for the privilege[d] few.
Hypocrite.
No I don't.
Liar.
You're for Biden or Bernie and more government and power to the privileged few.
Don't tell me I'm lying.
Sorry Reverend...
You might not like Trump, but he remembers who he is, where he is, and what he is supposed to be talking about. He doesn't provide nonsensical answers to questions and his handlers are not limiting his public exposure to a few minutes per event.
This is only going to get worse for Biden. Hillary "tried" to stay out of the limelight and run on her name and reputation, but it caught up with her. It's already catching up to Dementia Joe and he isn't even in the general election yet.
The media can only edit his videos (as they have been doing recently) for so long before they lose all credibility.
Fake News Jane
Brazil Pres. did not test Positive.
Sorry, Commensa, you ARE lying.
Democrats have always been more for government of, by, and for all the people, and not just of, by, and for the privileged few.
Republicans have always been more for government of, by, and for the privileged few, the wealthy.
Sorry Ch,
Trump is uneditable (how his handlers wish he were!) and constantly exposes himself for what he is.
Joe may get flustered at times, and has long been subject to making gaffs, but people can see that he is capable of reasoned thought and discourse (not mere propaganda) and, FAR more important, that his heart is in the right place regarding really caring for others. With Joe it's not just "all about me," as it is with Trump.
Trump Campaign Calls Biden a ‘Rotting Corpse’
March 13, 2020 at 11:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 41 Comments
Here’s an actual tweet from President Trump’s campaign:
“Joe Biden is the same rotting corpse of a candidate he was three weeks ago. It’s just that Democrats have decided that they would be better off with the dead guy than with Crazy Bernie.”
Mnuchin Calls Pandemic an ‘Investment Opportunity’
March 13, 2020 at 11:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 72 Comments
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC that the coronavirus pandemic presents “a great investment opportunity,” insisting that global markets spooked by the public health crisis will rebound eventually.
Said Mnuchin: “This is a short-term issue. It may be a couple of months, but we’re going to get through this, and the economy will be stronger than ever.”
H added: “You know, I look back at people who bought stocks after the crash in 1987, people who bought stocks after the financial crisis. For long-term investors, this will be a great investment opportunity.”
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THE MINORITY RICH CAN REJOICE.
AND YET
Biggest U.S. Bank Forecasts Deep Recession
March 13, 2020 at 12:11 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
JPMorgan expects the coronavirus pandemic to sink the U.S. economy into a deep recession as soon as this summer, Business Insider reports.
JPMorgan’s views of the virus “have evolved dramatically in recent weeks” as the outbreak spreads further around the world and fuels the worst stock market sell-offs in decades, the bank’s economists wrote in a Thursday note. The US economy will shrink by 2% in the first quarter and 3% in the second.
This guy was a few thousand votes away from being Florida's governor. Can you say dodged a bullet.
Democrats have always been more for government of, by, and for all the people, and not just of, by, and for the privileged few.
That would be right for the privileged few. The Democrats are the party of the privileged. Democrats generally say to hell with the people. They only come around at election time to bullshit them into voting for them.
Trump came around at the election time and promised the electorate, the majority of whom are middle class and poor, that he would increase taxes on the rich, stating that they SHOULD pay more.
He lied.
He, as you said, "bullshitted them."
Trump made no such promise and neither would any republican voter ever want higher taxes.
That is the most absurd lie you ever told.
No, it's YOU who are lying, Commensa. Or do you really not remember? He said it while campaigning and he said it later.
SO LET'S EXAMINE WHAT YOU CALL MY "ABSURD LIE":
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VOX:
Trump keeps saying he'll raise taxes on the rich. He's lying.
All of his plans would cut taxes for top earners, by a lot.
By Jim Tankersley Jul 26, 2017, 12:10pm EDT
President Trump is once again claiming he wants to tax high-earning Americans more, in order to pay for tax cuts for businesses and the middle class. For some reason, people keep believing him — even though, in more than two years of making similar statements, Trump has never put forth a tax plan that would be anything but a huge windfall for the very rich.
Trump’s latest venue for his soak-the-rich rhetoric was an interview with the Wall Street Journal, in which he declared “the truth is the people I care most about are the middle-income people in this country* who have gotten screwed.”** He then proceeded to open the door to higher taxes on top earners, by name-dropping his pal Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots. From the Journal:
JAMES' COMMENT: *LIE **TRUE
TRUMP: And if there’s upward revision it’s going to be on high-income people. You know, I was with Bob Kraft the other night. He came to have dinner with me. He’s a friend of mine. And as he left, he said, Donald, don’t worry about the rich people. Tax the rich people. You got to take care of the people in the country. It was a very interesting statement. I feel the same way. ...
We want — look, the job producers we’re going to take great care of, but we have to take care of middle-income people in this country. They built the country, they started this whole beautiful thing that we have, and we have to take care of them. And people have not taken care of them, and we’re going to. And I mean, I have wealthy friends that say to me I don’t mind paying more tax. And I’ll tell you what I sort of don’t like, is when they — you know, you’ll do your charts in The Wall Street Journal and they’ll be brilliantly done, very nice, and they’ll show that a rich guy who made, you know, $25 million last year is going to pay less than he was. In a certain way, I don’t like that. I’d rather take that difference and put it into the middle-income and put it into corporate.
The Journal interviewers react credulously — they immediately ask Trump if such a plan should not, in fact, be able to attract votes from Democrats. But they do not ask about Trump’s existing tax proposal — which does not actually include higher taxes on the rich — or even about why he has never followed through on his previous promises to raise taxes on people like himself.
In August 2015, then-candidate Trump told Bloomberg: “I do very well. I don't mind paying a little more in taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country." A month later, he unveiled his tax plan in Trump Tower and declared, "It’s going to cost me a fortune, which is actually true."
It wasn’t.
Every iteration of Trump’s tax plan, from his first campaign outline to the lightly detailed blueprint his White House team released this spring, has been scored by independent analysts as a huge tax cut for the very rich.
You don’t have to be an economist to understand why: Trump, in every case, has proposed reducing the top individual income tax rate, while also reducing business taxes that primarily affect high earners. (The goal of such cuts is to boost economic growth and lift incomes across the board.) He’s floated a few loophole closures that would affect the rich, but the rate cuts would swamp them.
Here’s how the Tax Policy Center, working off the very rough outline from this spring, projected Trump’s plans would affect the rich and the middle class. The lines show increase in income — which means that in every scenario, the rich cash in big time.
Trump could change this, of course. He could heed his adviser Steve Bannon’s call and increase the top marginal rate. He could limit deductions — any deductions at all — to middle-class incomes or below. He could actively put forth a plan that includes provisions to force rich people to pay more in taxes, as Hillary Clinton did during the 2016 plan.
He has not done that. Until he does, no one should take his claims to the contrary seriously.
Every iteration of Trump’s tax plan, from his first campaign outline to the lightly detailed blueprint his White House team released this spring, has been scored by independent analysts as a huge tax cut for the very rich.
wow pederast. what a brilliant observation.
the people who pay the most in taxes get the biggest cut when taxes are reduced.
go buy yourself one of andrew yang's "MATH" hats. they're half-price at his failed campaign website.
Knee slapping funny.
rrb (republican rat bastard, your own self designation) you can't spin your way out of the simple fact that Trump keeps crassly lying about "I do indeed think the rich SHOULD pay more in taxes."
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