Notices tagged with biden, page 37

It’s not airing in Canada. Via Kyle Griffin:

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.

Let's get creative with this folks!

"Donald #Trump könnte sich nach Einschätzung des Sicherheitsexperten Christian #Mölling noch vor der US-Wahl im November mit dem russischen Präsidenten Wladimir #Putin auf einen Plan zur Beilegung des Kriegs in der #Ukraine verständigen – und sich so als Friedensbringer präsentieren und den amtierenden Präsidenten Joe #Biden unter Druck setzen."
https://plus.rtl.de/podcast/die-lage-international-mit-christian-moelling-3frgzaoxk00rk/neue-folge

Via Norm Ornstein:

#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.

🧵 10/19

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.

🧵 9/19

#Biden needs to do more to assure the public about his energy level, and we also need to see the polls.

Any decision should be based on the paramount thing — the thing that should be getting 72-point headlines: stopping #dictatorship.

As Justice Ketanji #BrownJackson wrote Monday in her #dissent, this is a “five-alarm fire that threatens to consume #democratic self-governance.”

🧵 13/19

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.

🧵 12/19

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.

🧵 16/19

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.

🧵 14/19

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.

With fear for our #democracy, I dissent.

🧵 19/19

End #THREAD of Will Bunch column DO NEWSPAPER COLUMNISTS KNOW THAT DEMOCRACY IS SICKER THAN #BIDEN?

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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.

🧵 18/19

Here is the link to Will Bunch's must-read wake-up call to complacent #journalists, DO NEWSPAPER COLUMNISTS KNOW THAT #DEMOCRACY IS CLOSER TO DEATH THAN #BIDEN?

Please #boost.

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/biden-trump-presidential-debate-supreme-court-immunity-chevron-clarence-thomas-20240702.html

If you hit a paywall, no worries: we've created a thread with the entire column here: https://mastodon.social/@democratsabroad/112732782023624937

#journalism #law @journalismandcomment #Philadelphia #Pennsylvania #PA #Inquirer #Project2025 #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #dissent #legal #ruling #immunity @blackmastodon #BlackMastodon

...saving #America by giving chief of staff Leo McGarry the best words to convince an ailing #President Bartlet that it’s time to step down.

The soft clacking of these keyboard commandos turned into a stampede as the nation’s pundits, its editorial-page poobahs, mega-rich but anonymous donors, & Democratic horse whisperers competed to outdo each other on The Daily Rip or in “the paper of record,” or wherever they thought the actual frail president, Joe #Biden, might be paying attention.

🧵 3/19

DO NEWSPAPER COLUMNISTS KNOW THAT #DEMOCRACY'S CLOSER TO DEATH THAN #BIDEN?

Will Bunch

One of the first things they teach doctors in medical school is the imperfect but necessary art of triage, the technique used on a battlefield or during some other mass-casualty event to determine who is most gravely wounded and who needs immediate attention during a crisis when the system is overwhelmed, and clear-headed thinking will save lives.

🧵 1/19

All argued that for the good of the country he loves, #Biden — hoarse, barely audible, and visibly confused a few times during Thursday’s Atlanta presidential debate — must immediately end his candidacy.

Meanwhile, in the actual America that less resembles The #WestWing than the disaster flick #DontLookUp, two comets simultaneously bore down on America in the hours leading up to its 248th — and possibly last — birthday as a democratic republic.

🧵 5/19

What’s even more frightening than a second #Trump term is that fact that #Biden has prepared the way for a suppressive security apparatus for Trump to use by leveraging obscene amounts of funding for local #police, by encouraging the by criminalizing of popular #protest, and supersized #military spending.

#uspolitics #uspol #politics

The #WhiteHouse sees him as something of a wild card, and #Macron has called for policy options in #Ukraine that make the #Biden administration nervous.

But in spite of their substantive and cultural differences — and across a yawning, 35-year age gap — the two men have come to trust each other in striking ways.

Inside the ill-fitting, occasionally chaotic, decidedly solid Biden-Macron relationship
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/07/biden-macron-relationship-00162079?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication&utm_source=press.coop

The #Biden administration announced #sanctions against 12 executives and senior leaders of #KasperskyLab, a #Russia-based #cybersecurity company, on Friday.

The announcement comes on the heels of the #CommerceDepartment’s ban on the sale of Kaspersky’s #AntivirusSoftware in the #US, citing #NationalSecurity concerns. #Ukraine

US sanctions Kaspersky Lab executives, board members over ‘cooperation’ with Russia
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/21/24183274/kaspersky-lab-sanctions-treasury-department-russia

1/2 An Independence Day short #PoliticsGirl on the MSM/cable/pundits non-stop skewering of #Biden. These outlets are owned by billionaires who have a vested interest in the Convicted Felon™️ winning, in making all of us despondent, in taking Biden down.

#WeBackBidenHarris #DemCast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o4o-h1NB1c