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bigtree

(85,986 posts)
Sun May 24, 2020, 01:45 PM May 2020

Enough of the handwringing over a clumsy remark, focus...

scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy 1h
Biden: Apologizes after making a clumsy remark about black voters.
Media: 72 hour wall-to-wall coverage
Trump: Calls Hillary a "skank," Stacey Abrams "fat" & Nancy Pelosi should have her mouth taped shut.
Media: <crickets>


This wasn't a gaffe
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213470875
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Enough of the handwringing over a clumsy remark, focus... (Original Post) bigtree May 2020 OP
I'm Turning Them Off sfstaxprep May 2020 #1
"Look at my African American over here!" Goodheart May 2020 #2
I'm done with cable news. After the Reade Republican sponsored non scandal I'm completely over it. onecaliberal May 2020 #3
Biden could benefit from more proactive statements... FarPoint May 2020 #4
Post removed Post removed May 2020 #5
Yet tRump praises a Nazi sympathyzer's blood lines and no one cares. Pathwalker May 2020 #7
Because Trumpass does it everyday rusty fender May 2020 #8
As Dems We Do Have "Higher Standards" and Joe Biden is Cha May 2020 #16
In A Few States? Really? ProfessorGAC May 2020 #9
I misspoke rusty fender May 2020 #11
No one is asking you to "Worship Joe Biden" as you put it.. I'm Cha May 2020 #14
Why? ProfessorGAC May 2020 #15
Mahalo, Prof GAC.. I listed All The States Joe Biden has WON Cha May 2020 #13
No.. you're Wrong, rusty fender.. The Democratic Voters in Cha May 2020 #12
He walked it back which I accept Shermann May 2020 #6
K&R UTUSN May 2020 #10
DL Hughley.. Cha May 2020 #17
That's kind of his style. I'm sure he'll say something stupid again. Doesn't matter Bucky May 2020 #18

sfstaxprep

(9,998 posts)
1. I'm Turning Them Off
Sun May 24, 2020, 01:47 PM
May 2020

The minute that CNN/MSNBC/Local News, start doing the Biden This & Biden That, I'm turning them off for the day.

They can have their fucking "Horse Race," but I won't be watching them do it.

Response to bigtree (Original post)

Pathwalker

(6,598 posts)
7. Yet tRump praises a Nazi sympathyzer's blood lines and no one cares.
Sun May 24, 2020, 03:06 PM
May 2020

Not a word in the media, or elsewhere seems ti give a damn. What's up with that?

 

rusty fender

(3,428 posts)
8. Because Trumpass does it everyday
Sun May 24, 2020, 03:26 PM
May 2020

and the press accepts it as normal. Twitter posters condemned Twitler’s remarks, but I don’t really know how national television news reported it because I only occasionally watch local news and the stations here always normalize anything Trumpass says. It’s disgusting and demoralizing.

As Democrats we generally have a higher standard for our candidates and so does the press. Our candidate will always get slammed for any “misspoken” event; unfortunately Biden is the poster child for these events

Cha

(297,137 posts)
16. As Dems We Do Have "Higher Standards" and Joe Biden is
Sun May 24, 2020, 06:21 PM
May 2020

our Higher Standard.









Hillary Clinton raised 2 million for Biden campaign during a Zoom fundraiser

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13480139

Elizabeth Warren to Hold Big-Dollar Fund-Raiser for Joe Biden

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213477083

So Grateful for our TEAM Player Leaders who aren't going around calling Joe Biden "the poster child" for anything.

ProfessorGAC

(64,995 posts)
9. In A Few States? Really?
Sun May 24, 2020, 03:30 PM
May 2020

That sounds like RWNJs pointing to a US map and saying how much red is there. Stupid, because we can say big blotches of red that don't add up to just California in numbers of people.
The "few states" to which you refer have massive populations and the majority of them wanted Biden.
We're saddles with nothing!
The democrats that are voters chose him as their preferred.
We're stuck with nothing.

 

rusty fender

(3,428 posts)
11. I misspoke
Sun May 24, 2020, 03:59 PM
May 2020

The few states were more than that, but why do you condemn my gaffe and not our Party standarbearer’s potentially fatal, and in this case, racially tinged remark?

I see politicians, including those from our own party, as the flawed humans that they are; they are subject to praise and criticism where it is warranted. You appear to worship Biden as a god who cannot be criticized, and you believe that hellfire should rain down upon anyone who does not worship him as well.

Biden is a walking gaffe machine, and I will still vote for his “dog-faced pony” self, but call a spade, a spade

Cha

(297,137 posts)
14. No one is asking you to "Worship Joe Biden" as you put it.. I'm
Sun May 24, 2020, 04:16 PM
May 2020

asking you to Please Stop Bashing Our Democratic Nominee, rusty fender.

ProfessorGAC

(64,995 posts)
15. Why?
Sun May 24, 2020, 04:19 PM
May 2020

Because I'm a pragmatist. Condemning someone for inelegance when the opponent is a willful ass is foolish.
Looking for perfection is a silly goal, and even in the slightest degree comparing a gaffe to the hateful rhetoric of PINO is self-immolating & counterproductive.
So, no I'm not condemning him.
I want all barrels blazing and if a few shots miss the mark, I'm unrepentant in my support.

Cha

(297,137 posts)
13. Mahalo, Prof GAC.. I listed All The States Joe Biden has WON
Sun May 24, 2020, 04:11 PM
May 2020

so far here...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13480057

I also told him we weren't "saddled with Joe Biden" as he put.. We're Lucky to have him.

Cha

(297,137 posts)
12. No.. you're Wrong, rusty fender.. The Democratic Voters in
Sun May 24, 2020, 04:06 PM
May 2020

in MORE than "a few states" So Far, have chosen Joe Biden.. they don't give a crap about the so called "gaffes" that are magnified by the predictable m$$m.

Some states Biden has WON all the counties.. like Michigan and Oregon and Mississippi

These are the States who have voted Overwhelmingly for Joe Biden and he spent 4x less $$$$ to do it.

Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Oregon, Nebraska, Virginia, Washington, Arizona, Texas!

Stop bashing our Democratic Candidate for President.. we aren't "saddled with Joe Biden.. " as you put it.. We're Lucky to have him.



We're Smarter than the Fucking Media.

Shermann

(7,412 posts)
6. He walked it back which I accept
Sun May 24, 2020, 02:56 PM
May 2020

Has Trump ever walked back anything? After three years and 10,000 Pinocchio's?

Perhaps Biden could flip the script with that comparison.

Bucky

(53,997 posts)
18. That's kind of his style. I'm sure he'll say something stupid again. Doesn't matter
Sun May 24, 2020, 08:35 PM
May 2020

As far as saying stupid things, he's hopelessly outclassed

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