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Forheremenaremen's avatar

This was probably a 'best case scenario' if you want Trump to win in November:

Biden was able to do just enough to keep his job, but not enough to revitalize his lagging support.

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Juju's avatar

And the press seems to believe the alternative is Harris. Trump will beat her in a heartbeat - unless the Dems commit fraud with the election again.

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Owain Glyndŵr's avatar

Oh they are going to commit all kinds of fraud, no matter who's on the ticket.

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Sghoul's avatar

Considering they uniformly just voted against a law to keep non-citizens from voting, I think we can count on at least some hanky panky.

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Pacificus's avatar

No "unless"... the Dems will cheat in every way that they can... the margin of victory will have to be too big to rig...

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Casey Jones's avatar

"If" the Dems commit fraud with the election?

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Fred Richmond's avatar

They will deploy any and all kinds of fraud to push Biden over the line. With a big smile.

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Pacificus's avatar

And feel morally righteous in their cheating... you know, because of "Trump."

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Fred Richmond's avatar

Ah, yes, they are the Protectors of America the Great, led by Jerry Nadler and Maxine Waters.

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C Emerson's avatar

I remember when they were going to use the 25th amendment on Trump. The double standard is breathtaking and jaw-dropping.

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LudicrousLife's avatar

Well not really jaw-dropping as nothing surprises me anymore that is done by that party.

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C Emerson's avatar

A, point. 👍🏼

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Sharon ShihTzu's avatar

I've said what you're saying. They made their bed and now they get to sleep in it.

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Ben Dandebairen's avatar

naw, I always hope for improvement.

Biden is toast. He is so toast, I did not watch. It's not cruel to take away car keys if you're driving America's car. Once all the NATO people get out of town, he'll do the same right thing that LBJ did. What did Andrew Yang say? in about a week.

Then the blue team will be back to finding who can do better than Biden in those 7 or 8 swing states, starting with PENN, MI/WI. If Clooney cannot sway Michelle or Oprah to run, and why not? existential threat, to save democracy, and so forth, why wouldn't they run?

but if not, how about 71 year-old Sherrod Brown, or about 50 Tim Ryan? with Wittmer as VP?

Is that a rust belty enough ticket ?

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Formerly_Known_As_Someone's avatar

Why not Meghan Markle? She wants it. 😝

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Jane Hume's avatar

Great emoji: Great user name. I want it.😩

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Formerly_Known_As_Someone's avatar

Thanks! I actually had the user name "Someone" at first, but changed it!

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Heyjude's avatar

Curious about your perspective on Michele. How could anyone believe the fiction that Michele would actually run the country? To me, this would only be a blatant attempt to get around the amendment preventing Obama from a 3rd term as president.

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Ben Dandebairen's avatar

just vote-getting potential, that's all. the bar has been lowered by the last couple of presidents, one was even a reality TV celebrity. Her husband could do some cabinet job if he wanted.

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Andras Boros-Kazai's avatar

Unclear. Who are "they" ?

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Kate Cahill's avatar

Specifically-the DNC!!

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Ben Dandebairen's avatar

you said it. they are the awfullest.

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Sharon ShihTzu's avatar

The Democrats.

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ChatterW's avatar

😂😂😂

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Fern's avatar

Why are we all harping about joes decline, let’s talk about all the good things Trump will do. If Biden is replaced by Newsom or someone like that a lot of Dems will think “oh good, a cognitive person with the dem agenda” and he looks good too! No thank you, I want Biden in the race so there’s no mistake we have to vote for Trump. I wish Fox and others would just leave Biden alone to go down in flames with his party.

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K Goforth's avatar

I agree with you, however the concern is this guy is in charge until Jan 2025 and that's terrifying!

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C Emerson's avatar

Joe staying in the race, is a shot across the bow. They tend to steal the election, once. We have to make certain they cannot.

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Formerly_Known_As_Someone's avatar

He has never been in charge anyway. So it doesn’t matter if he sticks it out , nor would it matter if he runs or another Dem clone does. But The Powers That Be didn’t want him to run for a second term, they’re furious and pushing a coup. He should watch his back. (As should Trump and RFK.)

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K Goforth's avatar

Agree with you about him never being in charge. I've only recently come to this conclusion and its a very large pill to swallow. I knew our government was corrupt, just didn't realize they were down right evil until now.

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Avalon Forge's avatar

I don't think the Afghanistan exit could have been as terrible as it was without Joe making the actual decisions.

It is probably "a mix" regarding what he decides and what is left to others.

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Pacificus's avatar

K Goforth, that "very large pill" you just swallowed is Red... the whole world is going to appear different to you, starting right now. Welcome to the team.

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K Goforth's avatar

Oh I've been on the red team my whole life, I've only realized I can never leave now LOL. But thanks for the welcome. I've NEVER voted BLUE and as much as I say "never say never" I believe I can safely say I'll NEVER vote BLUE.

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Pacificus's avatar

Yeah, once the scales fall from one's eyes, you can never vote blue again.

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Dena's avatar

Newsom will probably wait until 2028. The next 4 years will be rough for whoever is President. The dems will make it especially hard for Trump. But I believe Trump with a good cabinet can unwind a lot of bad stuff; and hopefully follow through on promises like abolishing Department of Education & other corrupt gov institutions. Hold him accountable.

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Paul Scofield's avatar

I did not yet see the presser but I think Ms. Stone's take is right on. The longer Biden stays in the race, the better for Trump and the GOP. Biden is a millstone around the collective neck of the Left. I can't think of another group of marauders and cutthroats who deserve it more.

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Juju's avatar

One thing that is glaring and continuous is the Democratic projection onto Trump and Republicans. He gives clear warning that Trump is dangerously “Authoritarian” - this, after his administration forced the Covid vaccine on our nation? Violated our freedoms of speech? It’s like they all sit around and ask “what do Americans have on us? Why do they hate us? Now let’s turn that around and accuse Trump of those things so they hate him for it and not us.” But it’s not going to work. I will never forget who truly are the authoritarians here, in more ways than one. They have destroyed our country. And none of the things he is claiming credit for that affect us personally here at home are even happening. The spin by his committee is insulting to our nation. None of them live in reality, which means the most powerful nation in the world is being run by an insane asylum

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Formerly_Known_As_Someone's avatar

They don't care, because "people were dying." They cheered when Schwarzenegger said "F--- your freedoms." Trump wasn't authoritarian ENOUGH for them with Covid. He's not authoritarian ENOUGH with those pesky women who want their own locker rooms.

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Juju's avatar

Good points

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Paul Scofield's avatar

Hey Juju, your points are well taken. Aside from projection, what else does FJB and the left have to campaign on? My concern is whether there is a large enough portion of the electorate ignorant enough to fall for the fear-mogering and lies you have laid out. "A Contsitutional Republic..., if [we] can keep it" cannot endure with a foundation built upon nitwits and the credulous.

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Pacificus's avatar

I call that some good Juju!

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AJoy's avatar

Absolutely and how quickly some people are forgetting that this insanity has been going on much longer than the last four years! 🤦‍♀️

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MoodyP's avatar

I’m rooting for Sleepy Joe to tell the Kenyan and the media to F off.

The thing that is worrisome is they now know the only way to win is to cheat. And that will be their only focus for the next 4 months. Whereas if they ran someone else they’d have to actually spend time on a campaign. They’d cheat anyway. But they wouldn’t have as much time or funding to dedicate to the steal. So I’m not convinced this is the best outcome for Trump.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

If Obama can’t figure out how to get rid of Joe which i do think he will with the influence peddling evidence, they are going to cheat like absolute crazy. Trucks will be driving into Philly at 2am with one name checked like they did 4 years ago…

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MoodyP's avatar

Hehe. Yeah I think the trucks will be in use again, no matter what. They didn’t unleash a fake pandemic to steal the election, and send us further down the road to a Communist takeover, only to give it all back four years later.

But (and admittedly it’s a big but) Sleepy Joe knows things. Well maybe not anymore, but Jill knows. As does Hunter. Joan Rivers knew things. So did the chef. They are both dead. But Joe has a lot more cards he can play than they did. And the SS. And many more friends who are still loyal than the media is trying to make you believe.

And although it’s anecdotal, he also likely has more lucidity than what is now being portrayed. My FIL is 98 and he has severe dementia and Parkinson’s. In public or private, with people around, he is a disaster. Can’t recognize his own daughter. Can’t speak in full sentences. Mumbles. Crys a lot. But when he is in his own room, with just me and my wife, after a few minutes the regression to the mean is astonishing. And all of a sudden we are having an intelligent conversation about how the 4 of us made it through hurricane Allen, anchored on a 51 ft sailboat off St Thomas in 1980. Full detail and recall on display.

Joe likely has those periods that we don’t see and that they could never admit. And he has survived 50 years in DC despite not being all that bright. One doesn’t do that without being cunning, cutthroat, and a survivor. And this isn’t about ideology anymore. It’s about survival.

So I wouldn’t count him out. He (or I should say, Jill) could put the Kenyan and many others in prison for life. Or to the gallows. And they know it.

So, we just watch and speculate.

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Pacificus's avatar

Yeah, RIP the great Joan Rivers. Maybe the truth about her demise will come out, eventually.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

‘the Kenyan’. lmao. that is great

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Texyz's avatar

Dems have gone from 'It takes a village' to 'the village idiot.'

Now the Dems who are anti-Joe will have to resort to stronger methods, some of which are unmentionable. 25th Amendment and impeachment are the most legit.

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Andras Boros-Kazai's avatar

Biden showed himself ready and set to be "President Anyhow . . . "

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Butterfly2510's avatar

Haha. He said “anyway” every time he forgot something!

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Matt L.'s avatar

… and then creepy whispered into the mic wherever he wanted to make a point. Biden also went into ‘angry grandpa’ mode at one point and I thought that’s where he might lose it. Game’s up, me thinks. Dem’s have to move him aside someway, somehow or they don’t stand a chance in a fair November

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Formerly_Known_As_Someone's avatar

Yes, but would they stand a chance anyway? Their policies harm the majority.

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Josefina Vidal's avatar

Yes, and when he says, “look” and pauses he is buying time to think what he will say next. 😂

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Faith's avatar

How much money is he and others like him making off the Ukraine War? Why's it so important to him? He talks about putting together an alliance to stop Putin from going in... Putin built up troops for months on the Ukraine border and he did nothing. Sign a treaty and end the damn war.

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I'm not so sure that this means Joe stays in the race. After the debate, I thought he would be forced out but it seemed the Dems were circling the wagons around Joe and he would survive. But the leaks kept coming and the lapdog Dem press actually started ridiculing old Joe. And now this typical muddle of a "press conference". I don't know if it really moves the needle. If Nancy Pelosi and Obama thought that it was time for Joe to go before tonight, I don't think they saw anything that would change their mind.

I never thought they would actually use the 25th amendment to force Joe out. It's just too messy and it makes everybody look bad. I thought that Pelosi and Obama and maybe a few others would just tell Joe that they were not going to support him and without their support there was no way he could win.

I think the Dem power structure just doesn't know what to do. They know better than most that the debate was not just a bad night and that Joe is a ticking time bomb waiting to doze off at any moment. There are no easy alternatives but the worst case scenario is keeping Joe and having him melt down after it is too late to take him off the ballot, which would likely lead to catastrophic losses in the House and Senate. I think the smart move is to get rid of Joe ASAP.

But I really have no idea what will happen. I've never seen a situation like this where there is such disunity among the Democrat party and their supporters. Although it is fun to watch, it is also a very dangerous time for our country.

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Jen Koenig - Adaptive Journey's avatar

Methinks Joe will have an "accident" soon.

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Petey Kay's avatar

The intel guys have six ways from Sunday of getting back at you. Dem Rep Intel guy just called for Biden to step down.

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MrKudzu's avatar

If it turns into Hunter Biden's dad vs. the deep state, I would expect progress (new evidence?) in the investigations into the Biden influence peddling in Ukraine + China.

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Butterfly2510's avatar

Great point!! They’ll turn on him and then promise protection if he resigns.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

I have been saying this since the debate! Obama will find a way to leak info to the media on Biden/ Hunter influence peddling. Biden will step down shortly after.

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Steve's avatar

"Presser Keeps Him in the Race"...For Now. He did ok, not great but ok. And that's all he had to do.

Make no mistake the Knives are still out for him.

How long can they keep him juiced up?

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C Emerson's avatar

I’m betting the cocaine that was found was Joe’s. That story got buried really fast.

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Steve's avatar

Looks like whatever they shoot him up with, they got the mixture just right.

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Libertarian's avatar

And that’s why the presser was delayed over 2 fn hours.

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Pacificus's avatar

Needed time for the Adderall to kick in...

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Jane Hume's avatar

Much newer pharma

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AJoy's avatar

All stories are buried fast, that’s the name of the game when it suits them and has to do with them :/

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Casey Jones's avatar

I hope that whoever's medicating him is keeping a good set of notes. It would be a shame to lose the data on a human's ability to survive being thus abused. Or not.

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mempheel's avatar

Honestly- I thought he was about as bad tonight as he was at the debate: barely coherent, muttering, rambling, delusional, losing his train of thought repeatedly. Perhaps the shock of public exposure a few weeks back and the frantic hand-wringing and scheming that has followed has desensitized us to JRB’s diminished mental capacity. You’re prolly right Sasha: Ridin’ wit Biden is likely the best outcome MAGA patriots can hope for now, so count me in! 🤭

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Truth Seeker's avatar

I agree with you 100%. He could not finish a sentence or a thought. Forget about the gaffs - within 2 seconds of starting a sentence he was using ‘anyway’ or ‘listen’. The guy is a buffoon. There is nothing up there anymore and he is running the world?

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mempheel's avatar

Yep- the scary thing is not this 🤡- it’s the people who are actually running the show: the ones pushing “modern monetary theory”, genital mutilation for kids, and leading us to the brink of nuclear war. Biden is running nothing, and he honestly has NO IDEA (!!!) 😬

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reality speaks's avatar

Two operations are underway. #1 is the importation of 12+ million new voters the vast majority which have been registered to vote by some NGO that has been providing support to this illegal invasion. The NGO will vote those new voters ballots via absentee ballots in select swing states in heavily democratic precincts. Once the votes are cast there is no court in America that will do anything about it. #2 is the deep state with an ultimate take down of DJT. It will happen before election and after it’s too late for the Republicans to replace him. A dead candidate is vastly preferable to a dead president elect or an actual president. The deep state has tried every other tactic and they have all failed spectacularly. There is only one left.

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Kate Cahill's avatar

very scary thought!

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Truth Seeker's avatar

I think ‘they’ are telling Joe to stay in it because ‘they’ know they have this thing stolen and in the bag with mail in ballots again. They have millions of new names to check Joe’s box. The only question is when Joe gets 90million votes is anyone going to question it ?

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Butterfly2510's avatar

No, no, no!!!

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CMP117's avatar

Your substack name suits you! This is the dark reality of the situation.

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Texyz's avatar

IF people think Biden did not look totally bad tonite, that might be because was not juxtaposed against Donald Trump on the other side of the TV screen.

It was Trump's calm intellect that contributed to Biden's bad debate night.

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Biden has literally been in office for over 45 years and has done jack shit. If Biden tells the lie one more time of him reducing medicare costs to $35? Trump implemented it, Biden reversed it with an executive order and then brought it back. How does he get away with these bullshit stories? oh i love how every time he speaks in a new city he changes how he grew up and what church and pastor he visited. He literally changes it every time. And he is a complete and utter plagiarist that’s why he got booted out from running in the 80s as president. Oh, and he’s also a racist. his quote of his grandkids getting on a bus with black kids would create a jungle. Kamala actually called him out on that. Can’t go to 7-Eleven without an Indian accent. Oh I love this one if you don’t know whether you’re for me or Trump you ain’t black! And let’s not forget about Tara Reid. The woman who claimed he digitally raped her while she was an intern I thought we were supposed to believe all women? And the most corrupt of all- if you don’t fire the prosecutor by the morning, you’re not getting your million dollars a little quid pro quo there as VP. and finally, he’s the big guy he’s stollen millions of dollars selling his influence as VP to China and Ukraine. The media knows it. Everybody knows it. All of this, and Donald Trump is the threat to democracy.??? do you recall that Trump was actually president already? The world didn’t end nor did democracy, in fact it flourished. We actually had peace in the middle east. the lowest black unemployment rate, the first time in history with more people coming off of government assistance, then going on it. Only 1.5% inflation, record economy, record housing sales and lowest illegal immigration in 2019. Life was pretty fucking great so i dont know what rock you were living under during this time to say Trump has no world or national experience? please. You are sadly just delusional. Biden has literally reversed all of Trumps accomplishments. I don’t understand how some educated people cannot see this. I just think people can’t stand when their side is losing. They can’t admit defeat because that would mean they chose poorly. It takes courage to say wow i believed in a hoax that wasn’t true or picked someone that has been a disaster. Not easy. I feel bad for folks like yourself.

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AJoy's avatar

Leslie and many others were and still are living under the tutelage of the “tel-lie-vision” MSM brainwashing machine. And they’ve done a great job! She/they/them have no desire to know the truth or believe their actual eyes and ears lol.

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GabeReal's avatar

National Enquirer type minds? You mean the type who freaked out about Trump’s “grab em by the p$$$y” locker room talk?

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Truth Seeker's avatar

Exactly. Tara Reade's mother was on the Larry King Live show speaking about her daughter back when this happened. That she was assaulted and didn't know who to go to because the establishment was so big they would take her daughter down in a minute. Yet Ms Merryfield and her clan have no problem calling Trump a misogynist and a womanizer. Ms. Merryfield couldn't bare to read more of my comment because she can't handle the truth. Has anyone notice how my women Trump has representing him in public and on in his campaign. Its incredible yet the Left refuse to acknowledge.

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AJoy's avatar

Truth is not a left wing value.

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Pacificus's avatar

What happened to "believe all women" Leslie? Last time I checked, Tara Reade was a woman... More hypocrisy from the Left.

The self-delusion of you and your ilk is breathtaking, esp after the revelations of the last two weeks.

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AJoy's avatar

The left cannot define what a woman is remember?!

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Formerly_Known_As_Someone's avatar

Tara Reade was not MAGA, she was a Bernie supporter who had previously worked for Biden. Her story is no less believable than E. Jean Carroll's, who had said she wasn't raped and that "people think rape is sexy." Reade comes across as far more normal and level-headed than the loopy Carroll, who has a cat named Vagina.

Biden's judicial nominee just got rejected because she put a 6 ft 2 male trans-identified intact male convicted rapist into a women's prison, where he exposed himself to them. Additionally, four other women accused Biden of touching them inappropriately. There are videos galore of him sniffing kids. He raised not one but TWO sex addicts, Ashley (who got her life together after drug rehab) and Hunter. Joe's family has raked in 20 million dollars from foreign governments for selling influence. Joe denied his own granddaughter. Imagine how a small child would feel watching her grandfather, the President, saying she doesn't exist to him.

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AJoy's avatar

Stop speaking truth, you’re hurting peoples feelings lol!

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David White's avatar

Survivors must be believed!

Biden does have one impressive achievement: lowering the American standard of living. Oh,. but wait, I am off the reservation: Americans are so stupid that they think their standard of living is going down when it's really going up! How silly of me ...

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Truth Seeker's avatar

Ms Merryfield - What specific lies did Trump tell during the debate?

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HL3's avatar

He had the best environment numbers on record (busted)

Trumps claims his tax cuts was biggest ever (actually 4th biggest) and GPD growth never got over 3% in any year of his presidency reflecting the middling growth continued by Obama.

Biden told many as well top it off Trump frequently did not answer questions turning into a campaign rally which I fear he would forcing Biden completely off script.

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Truth Seeker's avatar

I was waiting for Ms. Merryfield...I love how you come to each others defense. Both Trump and Biden throw around the "biggest ever" " the best ever". Biden exaggerates just as much as Trump. They ALL do it- you can't deny that. But Biden makes shit up, literally pulls its out of his ass. The fact that he is tuting that he has record job growth after shutting everything down and exacerbating the crisis, causing job loss. Plus inflation sky rocketing once he was in office only to say it has come down month over month- is mind boggling. I know three friends in Philadelphia that have two jobs because their first job no longer handles the every day living expenses. There is Bidens fucking job growth. People can't afford living so they need multiple jobs. Keep voting democrat.

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AJoy's avatar

It’s so sad. These people are so brainwashed still. Last night I was in my small towns theatre enjoying Rock of Ages. The couple neck to me the wife wore a mask the husband had it around his neck on a chain. They both were drinking booze and each time the wife removed one side of her mask to sip her drink. Oh and the drinks had these flickering ice cubes in them (real healthy) lol. Eventually the husband kept his mask on for most of the show. They also were on their cell phones and adjusting and touching their masks. Wanted to scream wtf! Sometimes there is just no helping people who have been so brainwashed :(

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Truth Seeker's avatar

AJoy - I still see this in PA and Massachusetts. At this point, I don't think they are brainwashed I think they are idiots and have mental issues. When I see them I know - wow - I never could/would be friends with these people because they are either bat shit crazy or just so stupid - either way - the masks have really laid out who people really are.

However, when I see very old people wearing them I feel so badly because i know they are just scared, probably listened to all the BS that was on ABC, CNN etc. They don't use social media to help inform themselvs that masks are useless. They probably will have more issues with breathing in the toxins from the dyes that are on the masks than Covid itself. People here in Mass are still actually TESTING for Covid. Its ridiculous and unbelievable.

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Pacificus's avatar

Leslie, dear, It is the Biden Crime Family who has the "what's in it for me?" track record.... Trump is the only national politician in my lifetime that I can think of who has lost net worth once he entered the political arena (although maybe Truth Social's increasing value will change that).

Turn off the NPR. Stop deluding yourself. And face the cold. hard fact: You are more brainwashed than any Fox News watcher ever was...

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Seva's avatar

You’re absurd. Totally delusional.

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Seva's avatar

You’re too dense to understand anything at all about AI.

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AJoy's avatar

Wow 🤦‍♀️

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Alan Stevens's avatar

As Shakespeare said, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark". Something's afoot and I suspect there's a bigger game at play here. It's obvious Joe is in serious cognitive decline, so I would suggest that we all watch closely for the next round of this morbid fandango. The other side will not go quietly into the night.

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Pacificus's avatar

Make that "Something is rotten in the state of Delaware."

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