This was just absolutely too excruciating to watch. A complete and utter disaster. President Biden appeared frail, misspoke repeatedly, and seemed confused. In short, He looked old.
Expecting a frail old man to combat Traitor Trump's torrent of lies in a debate was foolish and downright stupid. Trump's spewed bullshit throughout but, he did so Very Strongly...
The Corporate Media is going to love this; Confident Strong Trump v. Doddering Old Joe... MAGA is already celebrating. Perhaps it's too much to hope it's too early a celebration and Joe can pull it out in November but, I doubt it.
So, what is really at stake? The Very Nation itself... President Biden doesn't look up to the task. I know, I know... This won't change committed peoples votes and the old leftist blog-o-sphere Dailykos, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Ballon-Juice are drawing out the debate defeat of President Obama in 2012 or Ronnie Raygun's senile performance in 1984 as incumbent President's who pulled out victory. But, anyone relying on the electoral power of the Incumbency is fighting a 20th century war in the Era of Social Media Agitprop and Rising White Power.
The calls for President Biden to withdraw as the 2024 Democratic nominee are going to be deafening. And, unfortunately, I think Joe Biden should step down... The fate of American Freedom and Democracy should not be upon the shoulders of a rapidly aging Joe Biden. Just as Biden shouldn't have been expected to combat Trump's non-stop firehose of falsehoods, expecting him to stave off Fascism is missing the point. We, the People should have stopped Trump and we haven't. Trump has been lying relentlessly for years especially about the 2020 election but, also about his years in office and more importantly about his attempt to Overthrow the United States Government on January 6th. No one in the Corporate Media dares to call him on it, it's left to comedians. Elected officials have failed to punish his Autogolpe. And Republicans, of course, have encouraged and been emboldened to push the boundaries of American society to the breaking point.
Trump plans to institute a murderous Fascist Regime and Steve Bannon, Steven Miller, Faux News, Mike Flynn and millions more Americans are all in on it. Republicans are already transforming the United States into a NeoConfederate Nation built upon Christian Fascism and White Supremacy.
I thought 2016 was going to be the last gasp of White Power but, it turns out far more white people are totally invested in hurting people than I cared to believe.
This 2024 election is going to demonstrate just how shitty white people in America are: I'm not sanguine about the probable results. I believe a large segment of white men (and women) are absolutely willing to sacrifice everyone who is not them because they think they'll outlast the Fascist Pogroms or that the Fascists will never have cause to go after them. Certainly, some people (women mainly) realize a white woman here or there is going to unfairly suffer under The Rightwing Evangelical lash but, as a whole white women will be protected, as long as they toe-the-line and support Patriarchy, Christian Nationalism, Xenophobia, Racism, and ruthless violence against The Other.
A lot of people are going to suffer under Trump's Regime.
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