President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Dave Wasserman has always struck me as a bright, even-handed guy who hasn’t fallen in love with his own brand the way Nate Silver did.

 

But...but... how did this play with Catturd?

 

Castellanos homered on a drive to deep left field again.

Congratulations!

 

How can voters be reminded of what a colossal dick he is without the media reporting what a colossal dick he is?

 

Good

This Is Exactly What the Trump Team Feared

 

Oh, and about the "ridiculously hard for me to make ends meet" crowd - take some damn personal responsibility for your shitty finances.

I'm not talking about people on the lower end of the spectrum who were barely getting by as it was, but I see way too many dudes driving an $80,000 pickup (which never gets used as a pickup) while his wife is driving an $80k SUV, who spend every other weekend in hotels with little Jimmy's travel ball team and just spent a week in a condo at Orange Beach complaining about inflation and gas prices.

 

You are greatly underestimating the impact having a Black woman on the top of the ticket has on the Democrats most powerful demographic: Black women.

 

So ... the guy who can't stick to a subject, can't get his facts right, wanders on verbal tangents, allegedly shared underage lovers with Jeffrey Epstein, rageposts on social media at 2 a.m. like he's a dementia patient with sundowning issues, and WAS CONVICTED OF 34 FELONIES is somehow more viable now than he was before? You're delusional.

 

Yes, everyone already knows who Trump is, yet he still takes all of the oxygen out of the room.

One of Biden's problems was his attempt to return to normalcy, a return to pre-Trump when the president wasn't making news every single day, when the White House press briefing wasn't a made-for-TV event, when the media seemingly did a better job of covering administrative wins and successes and the public understood where things were getting better and where they weren't. So because the Biden team wasn't patting himself on the back every single day and telling people how good they have it right now under this administration (true or not), there was space for Trump and his surrogate media organizations to grab that space and tell people how bad they have it right now (true or not).

The attempt to go back to a somewhat slower and more civil time is noble, but that ship has sailed and Biden and many Dems simple don't communicate to the modern voter/American public like, really, Trump and only Trump does. I'm almost convinced that Biden would have stuck with one term if Trump was exiled from the GOP and there was someone else running, but since that didn't happen and Trump became the presumptive nominee again, he convinced himself that he was the only one who could beat him, since he did before.

The GOP and the overall media should have disqualified Trump long, long ago, like Jan. 7. They could have done to Trump what the Dems and media have done to Biden the last month. Maybe it wouldn't have worked, but it would have been better than allowing half the country to think that Jan. 6 was little more than a tour of the Capitol.