“So, say #Biden stepped aside in favor of #Harris tomorrow. How long until the vapid gossips we call political reporters find something wrong with her, some alleged flaw they just have to write 192 stories about? How long until the hopped-up mediocrities we call pundits find some "counter-intuitive" reason that the new Dem ticket is flawed after all? How long before the ambient racism & misogyny…?” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1809311013839466846.html?utm_campaign=topunroll
@GottaLaff George S. is represented the MAGA pundit class as part of the two day frontal attack from MAGA on Biden. Fairly surprising for him, but all the other big names flipped already, why not George. #Biden
From #Biden Harris HQ Trump just desperately tried to claim he knows “nothing” about Project 2025. (see TS BS)
FACT CHECK:
—His Super PAC is running ads promoting Project 2025, calling it “Trump’s Project 2025” —His top aide and former bag boy John McEntee is the guy behind Project 2025 (photo) —His press secretary is starring in recruitment ads for #Project2025 —Trump himself said he “needs” the #HeritageFoundation, the organization behind Project 2025, to enact his MAGA agenda (see photo)
Asked by ABC if he's had a cognitive test lately, President #Biden cites his experience in office: "I have a cognitive test every single day. Everything I do."
What exactly could #Biden do to push the limits of this new #scotus ruling? Not that he has to act on this, but elaborating what he hypothetically COULD do could shove it back in their faces that not only their holy emperor #tRump would use this power.
#Trump says battery powered planes can’t fly in cloudy weather, inflation is 30%. Revelations about shocking Trump rapes and sexual assaults w J. Epstein. WaPo leads w 2 front page stories on #Biden’s debate meltdown, pressure to withdraw. One on Trump—on his strategy to lie low because of firestorm over Biden. NOTHING on these Trump scandals. Nothing. Journalistic malpractice to the max. Sleepwalking to autocracy. New slogan for the Post: Democracy dies in negligence.
At the New York Times (yes, it still exists), an #editorial board that considered it pointless, or whatever, to call for Trump to leave the race after those 34 #felony convictions — as well as the civil #rape and financial #fraud verdicts and the two #impeachment s and three other pending #indictment s — made its grand pronouncement that it’s #Biden who must go.
I wish Justice #Sotomayor had the bandwidth and the energy to work a second shift as #editorial page editor at one of our major newspapers.
At #TIME magazine (yes, it still exists), the cover of its new issue contained just one word, “Panic” — not at the prospect of an #American dictator with the seeming power to have the military assassinate his enemies, but at #Biden’s health.
And look, I’m not going to argue that #Biden’s health is not an issue. His #debate performance was troubling, but I also think those of us determined not to see Donald Trump become #president again should take a deep breath — even if that’s not the #clickbait headline that many are eager to write.
They think calling for Trump to drop out would make them look foolish now that the #Republican Party has devolved into a dangerous #cult. But a demand for #Biden to drop out might actually happen — so that’s savvy, right?
Except maybe the dangerous cult is the more important crisis, especially when it carries a printed guide to #dictatorship and holds six #justices in its back pocket.
The power of Monday’s dissents by #Jackson and #Sotomayor form quite the contrast with the speculative flights of fancy about a brokered #convention in #Chicago, which, it’s worth noting, have largely come from white male #boomer types. Many #Black and #brown and #female voices, on the other hand, are urging #Biden to stay as the only realistic hope — warts and all — of beating Trump in #November.
The current president is walking slowly, but it’s the #American Experiment that’s on a ventilator. #Journalists aren’t doing their job: performing basic triage and focusing on the sickest patient in the room.
The reality of what’s happening in July 2024 — that an #authoritarian-minded president, with help from a politicized and unethical #SupremeCourt, is on track to lead a nation where all power is being vested in him, his #MAGA movement, and the #corporate#polluters — is THE story, and #Biden’s health is a subplot in that drama.