The Next President is...

[Lawman]

He defiantly had some but he is actually brilliant.  I spent some time around him in an official capacity and was blown away, he must have a camera on switch that brings about the gaffes.  I have a good friend that worked directly for his for several years and said the same thing.  Especially when it came to discussions on strategy and national policy.

That’s another funny/hypocritical part of this whole thing.

Like we had to listen to the 8 years of tropes and jokes on GW basically being a distracted kid in a day care whole Cheney and the other evil capitalist corporate men ran the government from the Shadows...

Now the same people peddling that it’s simply impossible that Biden is just a propped up face man for the people actually running the government.

Like for a group of people in one political reality it’s possible, in the other it’s insulting to even describe. And we just switch who gets to feel what as the letter next to the name changes in office.


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[brickhistory]

"I want to thank...I keep calling him general...that, that...that guy that runs that outfit over there..."

 

You mean your Secretary of Defense?

 

I want this next four years to be good and hard so much.

 

But at least no mean tweets.

 

Lots more kids in cages, lots more executive orders, lots more money going to Iran.

 

But at least no more mean tweets.

[kaputt]

Is there a Vegas line on when the first press conference will be? 

[pawnman]

7 hours ago, kaputt said:

Is there a Vegas line on when the first press conference will be? 

State of the Union, 2022

[HeloDude]

3 hours ago, pawnman said:

State of the Union, 2022

I’m pretty sure POTUS doesn’t take questions from the press at the State of the Union.  But I do get the joke...

[Swamp Yankee]

On 3/8/2021 at 4:26 PM, ClearedHot said:

He definitely had some but he is actually brilliant.  I spent some time around him in an official capacity and was blown away, he must have a camera on switch that brings about the gaffes.  I have a good friend that worked directly for his for several years and said the same thing.  Especially when it came to discussions on strategy and national policy.

I assume you’re referring to GWB.  Never met/worked with him but he struck me as a good person overall and certainly not as dumb as some pundits claimed. More of a practical common sense guy.  On the other hand, I have spoken with Biden within the past 18 months. He was sharp, made good points, and had good insights at a new tech event. However, at this point he’s a 10 hour a day guy rather than 18 hours.  Similar to Reagan in his last term. 

[JimNtexas]

On 3/4/2021 at 1:58 PM, brickhistory said:

I have to admit I have been impressed by the Presidential press conferences and frank exchange of questions and answers between President Biden and the members of the press since taking office.

Biden has not had a solo press conference since being sworn in.   He currently holds the record for the longest no solo press conference gap in the last 100 years.  

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-press-corps-ushered-away-asking-biden-questions-again.

https://babylonbee.com/news/heroic-secret-service-agent-dives-in-front-of-biden-as-reporter-tries-to-ask-a-question

 

[ClearedHot]

Nothing to see here....as long as the Never-Trumpers got the orange man our of office...let the rest of it burn down.

[Homestar]

8 minutes ago, ClearedHot said:

let the rest of it burn down.

What’s burning? Did I miss another storming of our Capitol?

[ClearedHot]

3 minutes ago, Homestar said:

What’s burning? Did I miss another storming of our Capitol?

Well half the country burned last year and you didn't seem to give a fuck.

The southern border is a complete shit show, we just added $1.9Trillion in debt with less than 10% of it actual COVID stimulus, 57 executive orders...what was I thinking...everything is wonderful.

[Homestar]

5 minutes ago, ClearedHot said:

you didn't seem to give a fuck.

Man, you think you know me. 

[BashiChuni]

lol thanks biden for giving me permission...what a joke. and fauci your 15 minutes of fame is running out. hell i saw him on ESPN first take...no wonder the guy doesn't want this to end!

this is a free fucking country. 49% of it hasn't forgotten that fact.

[tac airlifter]

1 hour ago, BashiChuni said:

this is a free fucking country. 49% of it hasn't forgotten that fact.

But 51% has.  Interesting times ahead.

[Sua Sponte]

[arg]

I Chuckled

[Lord Ratner]

On 3/11/2021 at 6:57 PM, BashiChuni said:

lol thanks biden for giving me permission...what a joke. and fauci your 15 minutes of fame is running out. hell i saw him on ESPN first take...no wonder the guy doesn't want this to end!

this is a free fucking country. 49% of it hasn't forgotten that fact.

He's a fucking moron. The fact that they haven't come out and told vaccinated people that they can do whatever the hell that they want, now that all the data has been collected on the vaccine, is nearly criminal.

 

Our entire system of government is predicated on protecting power from any individual or small group, and this pandemic has been a resounding reinforcement of those dangers. I don't suspect there will be much honest analysis from the left on the pandemic, but thank god Florida, Texas, and a few other states had the nuts to do things their own way, so we can at least look back with definitive proof that the totalitarian answer to a pandemic was not successful.

Edited March 13, 2021 by Lord Ratner

[brickhistory]

'Member that time when an election was challenged, courts ruled (or didn't hear it, same thing), and the election results were duly certified by the Congress?

Good times.

Unless you won your Iowa seat.  Then it being contested, recounted, ruled on by a court, then certified doesn't count.  The House will decide.

Good times.  Good and hard.  Quickly.

[bfargin]

https://babylonbee.com/news/heroic-secret-service-agent-dives-in-front-of-biden-as-reporter-tries-to-ask-a-question?fbclid=IwAR3JH0kpCfv_sEHyHu6Z4mQ3dsuoFCHxFjucbZSKsi-ZLyHmmg9LwD2KYFo

[TreeA10]

A judge in Michigan ruled that the election rules there were not properly followed. Too late obviously. A judge in Georgia is contemplating unsealing absentee ballots there for review. 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/03/17/oh-so-now-the-courts-say-michigans-secretary-of-state-violated-the-law-with-absentee-ballot-change-n2586381

 

[brickhistory]

Washington Post retracts story claiming Trump told Georgia Secretary of State official to "find fraud."

https://triblive.com/news/politics-election/the-washington-post-publishes-correction-on-trump-call-with-georgia-investigator/

The single anonymous source was the campaign manager for GA SecState.  Who made it up.  Proven by the finding, in a "delete" file, the actual recording of Trump to the investigating official.

Multiple other news organizations, who claimed to have also verified the now debunked story, relied on this same single source.

This story was used as "evidence" in the second impeachment proceeding.

But totally worth it.  There are no more mean tweets going out.

Sometimes, the end justifies the means...

[ClearedHot]

3 hours ago, brickhistory said:

Washington Post retracts story claiming Trump told Georgia Secretary of State official to "find fraud."

Most will overlook the importance of what is happening here.  The liberal press machine violated all ethical standards in order to weaponize itself against a President and control a negative narrative in order to remove him from power.  I HATE defending Trump....he is a loud mouth narcissist but some of the things he did were very good...all that being said the machine which enjoys special protections under the Constitution ran off the rails.  Trump said some shitty things that are on tape (comments on John McCain were horrific), and maybe that is enough to make you hate him...however, many of the "reported" things he said we completely fabricated but they were repeated over and over by the big hate networks as fact. 

What this retraction really shows is how far the press as an institution has fallen.  In the past if there was a negative report the press had a DUTY to confirm the story and the source.  It was part of their ethos.  What is going on now and what happened here is the WASHPO had one source who passed along the comments.  They did not bother to confirm...they other networks picked up the WASHPO story and they called the original source to confirm....and so on and so on and so on...The entire story was a fabrication from ONE person.  The EXACT same thing happened with the story about Trump's comments on dead soldiers at Arlington.  It was a fabrication from one source and when it was quietly retracted no one noticed and no one cared because the damage was done.  Perhaps the biggest failure was the Steele Dossier...opposition research, paid for by Hillary's campaign, used not only politically but also criminally.  The press ran with it and we had years of investigations.  Years later we learned the FBI and Intel community went through the report line by line and found much of the report was a complete fabrication...damage was done.

Again, maybe it doesn't make a difference with a President as divisive as Trump, but the bigger picture is the press which is supposed to the be 4th estate, neutral and in search of the truth, has been weaponized for one political party and that hasn't worked out very well in other countries.

[GrndPndr]

50 minutes ago, brickhistory said:

Washington Post retracts story claiming Trump told Georgia Secretary of State official to "find fraud."

https://triblive.com/news/politics-election/the-washington-post-publishes-correction-on-trump-call-with-georgia-investigator/

The single anonymous source was the campaign manager for GA SecState.  Who made it up.  Proven by the finding, in a "delete" file, the actual recording of Trump to the investigating official.

Multiple other news organizations, who claimed to have also verified the now debunked story, relied on this same single source.

This story was used as "evidence" in the second impeachment proceeding.

But totally worth it.  There are no more mean tweets going out.

Sometimes, the end justifies the means...

Wonder why they are bothering to retract the story?  No one except the 48% will continue to whine about it, so just keep going.

[GrndPndr]

3 minutes ago, ClearedHot said:

<snip>

...damage was done.

<snip>

...and the mission was accomplished.

[ClearedHot]

5 minutes ago, GrndPndr said:

Wonder why they are bothering to retract the story?  No one except the 48% will continue to whine about it, so just keep going.

So they can claim purity...see we did our due diligence (finally).

[Waingro]

2 hours ago, GrndPndr said:

Wonder why they are bothering to retract the story?  No one except the 48% will continue to whine about it, so just keep going.

They didn't retract the story, it appears reading comprehension isn't strong among these commenters. They issued a correction which is substantially different. The story itself is materially the same: POTUS directly contacts a state elections official, urging them to scrutinize ballots in specific locations. Which is an absolutely mind blowing story by itself, and would only be acceptable in some banana republic. Now with the correction and the recovered recording, there's proof.