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And just like that, (Original Post) kpete Jul 2024 OP
K&R ck4829 Jul 2024 #1
They're busted. Irish_Dem Jul 2024 #2
Talk about throwing them a knuckle ball orangecrush Jul 2024 #15
The strategy is looking more brilliant every day. Irish_Dem Jul 2024 #40
Truth orangecrush Jul 2024 #46
3D Kung Fu. Irish_Dem Jul 2024 #49
Then it's time orangecrush Jul 2024 #51
Joe has earned his rest. Irish_Dem Jul 2024 #53
Lame Duck Dark Brandon makes for Dark Brandon Unleashed GopherGal Jul 2024 #70
At the same time let's open the dialogue Eliot Rosewater Jul 2024 #52
Thats my biggest fear Squidly Jul 2024 #64
yep Eliot Rosewater Jul 2024 #65
They only had a problem with one candidate's age and the other is still old. Too old n unstable. Deuxcents Jul 2024 #3
NEVER!!! niyad Jul 2024 #8
Too old and fucking INSANE Captain Zero Jul 2024 #35
Not to mention MorbidButterflyTat Jul 2024 #37
...Insurrectionist document thief and fraudster. lastlib Jul 2024 #48
Yep. dalton99a Jul 2024 #4
Bingo! PatSeg Jul 2024 #5
Yup, and I'm still so pissed........ a kennedy Jul 2024 #6
I expect to be pissed for a very long time PatSeg Jul 2024 #9
Especially if we lose. Solomon Jul 2024 #26
If we lose, I don't expect to EVER recover PatSeg Jul 2024 #29
Thats the kicker, isnt it? If theyre wrong and fucked this up, Volaris Jul 2024 #50
Heck, I'm still pissed about the 2000 election! csziggy Jul 2024 #28
Oh yes, most definitely PatSeg Jul 2024 #33
And 2016 Nt spooky3 Jul 2024 #57
But, but, but she's 59. Farmer-Rick Jul 2024 #7
Too young? Katcat Jul 2024 #11
No, no, no..The new buzzword is: "Unlikeable". louis-t Jul 2024 #20
Kelly Anne Conway opened with: "Kamala's not articulate. And she is lazy." Wait for DEI any moment. Hekate Jul 2024 #38
Yes, they are MorbidButterflyTat Jul 2024 #42
This message was self-deleted by its author spanone Jul 2024 #58
The Laugh Linda ladeewolf Jul 2024 #67
"Screechy" MorbidButterflyTat Jul 2024 #41
Grab them and yell....JUST SAY IT! SAY IT! WE ALL KNOW YOU WANT TO!!! SAY IT! paleotn Jul 2024 #23
There is still one running... MiHale Jul 2024 #10
I despise them n/t ArkansasDemocrat1 Jul 2024 #12
New York Times: "He's older but wiser now" usonian Jul 2024 #13
He's learned his lesson. MorbidButterflyTat Jul 2024 #43
You know, dammit, karma can take way too long to work. usonian Jul 2024 #45
What about a candidates marital infidelity? groundloop Jul 2024 #14
It was a front for money laundering. DiamondShark Jul 2024 #18
I have severe disabilities. I asked my sister about his mocking and she said "he didn't mean it like that" :-( ArkansasDemocrat1 Jul 2024 #47
I hear ya Squidly Jul 2024 #66
Unless TRUMP drops out within 106 days and J.D. Vance steps up Rocknation Jul 2024 #16
corp media ratings are all that matters Nimble_Idea Jul 2024 #17
Yep. And just like that! calimary Jul 2024 #19
Busted Emile Jul 2024 #21
Need to keep reminding folks that Trump is 78 and speaking as if he is demented at times andym Jul 2024 #22
Not only that, but mental gaffes only applied to one side. Martin Eden Jul 2024 #24
The Times has been a disgrace BoRaGard Jul 2024 #25
Their bias is obvious. spanone Jul 2024 #27
Good point lefthandedskyhook Jul 2024 #30
And just like that... rainy Jul 2024 #31
Sure Trump is old SomedayKindaLove Jul 2024 #32
Sure Trump is old SomedayKindaLove Jul 2024 #34
DONALD TRUMP IS TOO OLD! BaronChocula Jul 2024 #36
Trump's Project 2025. Let's see if that catches on. SupportSanity Jul 2024 #56
I'm down! n/t BaronChocula Jul 2024 #59
TSF is a convicted felon, sexual assaulter ($80 somethibng million) , and fraudster ($480 something million) n/t iluvtennis Jul 2024 #39
Of course. bluewater Jul 2024 #44
The NYT is far, far beyond its "use by" date. It's had dementia for quite some time. Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2024 #54
Best comment yet. It's become a senile Fox in print. NNadir Jul 2024 #68
Yup, strange isn't it. republianmushroom Jul 2024 #55
If NYT has dropped the torch about Trump's age, it's our responsibility to pick up that torch SupportSanity Jul 2024 #60
Donald tRump isn't just too old -- he's THE OLDEST ever Blue Owl Jul 2024 #61
Genius wordstroken Jul 2024 #62
FUCK them. BigDemVoter Jul 2024 #63
Trump is an old felony pervert. He should drop out, Bluethroughu Jul 2024 #69
Cancel roborob Jul 2024 #71

Irish_Dem

(81,277 posts)
40. The strategy is looking more brilliant every day.
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 01:47 PM
Jul 2024

In ways we didn't even anticipate.

We just saw the downside, not the upside.

orangecrush

(30,264 posts)
46. Truth
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 02:13 PM
Jul 2024

But the reaction of Democrats supporting Joe gave it even more credence and confused them.

Sun Tzu would be proud.

Irish_Dem

(81,277 posts)
49. 3D Kung Fu.
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 02:19 PM
Jul 2024

It is entertaining right now.
We can use it.

But I suppose the GOP will do some rat effing any day now.

GopherGal

(2,905 posts)
70. Lame Duck Dark Brandon makes for Dark Brandon Unleashed
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 11:37 AM
Jul 2024

... I'm hoping!

(Not to be confused with Commander Biden unleashed)

Also hoping that 2028 re-thugs find themselves regretting having chased Biden from the 2024 race so that they face a younger incumbent in 2028...

Eliot Rosewater

(34,285 posts)
52. At the same time let's open the dialogue
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 02:40 PM
Jul 2024

Of what we will be forced to do if a corrupt Supreme Court decides it’s OK to keep our candidate off ballots.

In fact if you want to stay ahead of the thing let’s just assume they’re going to do that.

Squidly

(868 posts)
64. Thats my biggest fear
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 10:01 PM
Jul 2024

But then again...
Joe has Presidential immunity
Not saying he would do anything, but the option is there. They are already talking lawsuits which they will fast track appeal to the SCOTUS. They dont have a leg to stand on under normal circumstances, but we all know exactly what will happen once it reaches them.

Deuxcents

(26,931 posts)
3. They only had a problem with one candidate's age and the other is still old. Too old n unstable.
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 11:45 AM
Jul 2024

When will the media dwell on that?

Captain Zero

(8,905 posts)
35. Too old and fucking INSANE
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 01:36 PM
Jul 2024

But the NY TIMES will never notice. They will suck shit out of Trump's crazy ass.

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
5. Bingo!
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 11:53 AM
Jul 2024

And now those editorial writers will paint Biden as some American hero because he stepped down....after THEY relentlessly harassed him to do so and made it a reality.

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
29. If we lose, I don't expect to EVER recover
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 01:28 PM
Jul 2024

I will go to an early grave very pissed off indeed.

Volaris

(11,705 posts)
50. Thats the kicker, isnt it? If theyre wrong and fucked this up,
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 02:34 PM
Jul 2024

we should all of us want some version of heads on spikes.

Now it's on us to make sure they haven't. And if that fails, does anyone here think they're going to willingly take any responsibility at all for the destruction that will occur?

Fuck no, they won't.

csziggy

(34,189 posts)
28. Heck, I'm still pissed about the 2000 election!
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 01:25 PM
Jul 2024

This will be a very close second on my "I'm Pissed List."

PatSeg

(53,214 posts)
33. Oh yes, most definitely
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 01:32 PM
Jul 2024

The 2000 election is the reason there is a Democratic Underground in the first place. We all remember how that presidency turned out.

Farmer-Rick

(12,667 posts)
7. But, but, but she's 59.
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 12:01 PM
Jul 2024

What's the NYT stand on that age group? Inquiring minds want to know.

Katcat

(574 posts)
11. Too young?
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 12:10 PM
Jul 2024

Too inexperienced? Too female? Too dark?

You just know they’re going to dance around calling her a bad word.

louis-t

(24,618 posts)
20. No, no, no..The new buzzword is: "Unlikeable".
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 12:54 PM
Jul 2024

They will end every sentence with it.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
38. Kelly Anne Conway opened with: "Kamala's not articulate. And she is lazy." Wait for DEI any moment.
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 01:45 PM
Jul 2024

MAGAGOP is predictable.

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,513 posts)
42. Yes, they are
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 01:51 PM
Jul 2024

And unimaginative.

But they probably figure, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. It's worked for them so far.

Response to Hekate (Reply #38)

Linda ladeewolf

(1,138 posts)
67. The Laugh
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 11:34 PM
Jul 2024

Don’t forget the laugh! That’s all they really have. Sad miserable people don’t understand real laughter.

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,513 posts)
41. "Screechy"
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 01:49 PM
Jul 2024

"Hysterical," "too vagina-y," etc.

I expect the Hillary Clinton treatment: sick, dying, old, gaining weight, the usual misogynistic racist bullshit.

paleotn

(22,218 posts)
23. Grab them and yell....JUST SAY IT! SAY IT! WE ALL KNOW YOU WANT TO!!! SAY IT!
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 01:03 PM
Jul 2024

One beauty of all this is Repukes will be very, very hard pressed to even campaign normally against Harris and not come off as being misogynistic and racist. Especially since they all want to whip out a whole litany of bad words to describe her. Trying to hold that back will drive them all nuts.

Granted...same with Hillary Clinton, but that was before Dobbs. It's a whole different world now than 2016.

MiHale

(13,032 posts)
10. There is still one running...
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 12:10 PM
Jul 2024

Old, decrepit, morally deficient, mentally unstable … so yeah they should still hammer the age thing.

usonian

(25,332 posts)
45. You know, dammit, karma can take way too long to work.
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 02:12 PM
Jul 2024

But what we do to others always comes back to us.
Even Hitler did one good thing.
He killed Hitler.

If he stands in the middle of Fifth Avenue, I'm gonna drive a bus.



And so would millions.

Rest in sewer, fascist knucklehead.

groundloop

(13,852 posts)
14. What about a candidates marital infidelity?
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 12:19 PM
Jul 2024

Or does a candidate mock people with disabilities?
Or is a candidate a failed "businessman" with 6 bankruptcies? (How in the hell is it possible for a casino to go bankrupt?!?!?!)
Or is a candidate a convicted felon?

If we were talking about a Democratic candidate even the hint of one of these scandals would be disqualifying, but 45*, no problem.

DiamondShark

(1,167 posts)
18. It was a front for money laundering.
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 12:53 PM
Jul 2024
How in the hell is it possible for a casino to go bankrupt?!?!?!

ArkansasDemocrat1

(3,213 posts)
47. I have severe disabilities. I asked my sister about his mocking and she said "he didn't mean it like that" :-(
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 02:14 PM
Jul 2024

She showed me who she really is and it was dismaying for me. BiL is worse, he stayed glued to Faux Spews when I visited the last time before Covid.

Squidly

(868 posts)
66. I hear ya
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 10:10 PM
Jul 2024

I hate visiting my brother and SIL. Faux and Newsmax on the whole time while they sit there and yell at the screen after every talking point.

He completely went off the rails in a text yesterday the moment the news hit Joe dropped out. Just unhinged babble.

I feel for my niece....twice raped and Queer...I cry for what she has to deal with with her parents both supporting that orange POS.

Rocknation

(45,006 posts)
16. Unless TRUMP drops out within 106 days and J.D. Vance steps up
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 12:39 PM
Jul 2024

Maybe that was really the master plan...and in the event that Trump happens to not live that long, Biden could be blamed for "taking him out" via the presidential blanket immunity that Trump has granted him...


Rocknation

andym

(6,066 posts)
22. Need to keep reminding folks that Trump is 78 and speaking as if he is demented at times
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 12:56 PM
Jul 2024

Dyeing one's hair doesn't really rejuvenate a person, though it clearly helped Reagan with his PR. Trump's real hair is almost certainly as white as Joe's is.

Martin Eden

(15,629 posts)
24. Not only that, but mental gaffes only applied to one side.
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 01:15 PM
Jul 2024

Trump's incohernt bizarre rants have bern normalized, not newsworthy.

rainy

(6,321 posts)
31. And just like that...
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 01:28 PM
Jul 2024

file:///var/mobile/Library/SMS/Attachments/40/00/242E9ABF-EF8B-41E3-A4B8-15AD61F119CB/IMG_3126.heic

SupportSanity

(1,582 posts)
56. Trump's Project 2025. Let's see if that catches on.
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 05:49 PM
Jul 2024

Not just Project 2025, but Trump's Project 2025.

iluvtennis

(21,497 posts)
39. TSF is a convicted felon, sexual assaulter ($80 somethibng million) , and fraudster ($480 something million) n/t
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 01:47 PM
Jul 2024

SupportSanity

(1,582 posts)
60. If NYT has dropped the torch about Trump's age, it's our responsibility to pick up that torch
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 06:34 PM
Jul 2024

and keep on running with it!

I mean, that's what friends would do for friends, right?

BigDemVoter

(4,700 posts)
63. FUCK them.
Mon Jul 22, 2024, 07:02 PM
Jul 2024

I will NEVER renew my subscription. I would rather have NO news than their shit rag.

Bluethroughu

(7,215 posts)
69. Trump is an old felony pervert. He should drop out,
Tue Jul 23, 2024, 10:47 AM
Jul 2024

Oh he can't because all the Republican party cult members approve.

roborob

(2 posts)
71. Cancel
Tue Jul 30, 2024, 08:41 AM
Jul 2024

Hi participated in the only form of protest available: I quit my subscription to these bastards.

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