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Reporter: “Are you confident that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025”

Joe Sanostra: “if Trump wins, no, I’m not confident at all!”

Cut (because there is an edit/cut)

Joe Sanostra: “I mean, if Trump loses, I’m not confident at all”.

https://x.com/thevivafrei/status/1822962027901395242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1822962027901395242%7Ctwgr%5E0a8a27f0a266985c609fa04c408f3b1b87999b39%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fbidens-freudian-slip-if-trump-wins-therell-be-no-peaceful-transfer-power

I'm filling in for DMV today. Enjoy.

Ray I didn't know you were a Qbert, and have been for years. Welcome.

My, my, look at all of the name calling & insults in the first 50 posts of this thread. Shame.

Maybe we should dox them to teach them a lesson.

That’s been done recently. Can we not do it again please?

Biden Bummed To Realize That All He Had To Do To Stay In Race Was Not Show Up To Debate And Never Speak To Reporters Ever

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The most popular American president in human memory was "incredibly bummed" to realize that he could have stayed in the presidential race if he had just not answered questions or never once spoken to the media.

"Wha…did that broad just get my place — you know, the thing — by not talking to the press?" Biden reportedly stuttered in frustration. "Like, well…come on, Jack! I only had one job and I blew it…well…anyway."

According to sources within the White House, Biden was incredibly crestfallen to hear that he had fallen for the elementary blunders of talking to the press and attempting to answer their questions. However, his sorry could hardly compare to the rage of his wife, Dr. Jill Biden. "She saw that all he would have had to do is shut up for a few months, and she kinda lost it," said an aide, who spoke under condition of anonymity. "It really threw her for a loop. She started screaming something about the best laid plans of mice and men and weeping sorrowfully on various pieces of furniture in the Oval Office. It was weird."

At publishing time, Biden had also been disappointed to learn that he might have been able to assume the presidency during his tenure as VP if he had just slept with the boss, too.

I haven’t intentionally watched cable news in quite awhile. I do see the occasional clip on YouTube or I might see a bit if I’m at the VA awaiting x-rays or something. FOX, MSNBC, CNN are absolute poison for me.

Bgz presents like a desperate troll with sophomoric palaver in my opinion.

Fair enough. I never interacted with him.

Ben cracked up at the end, you know...Extreme TDS. He couldn't post anything without saying TRUMP.

Day one of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) kicked off with excitement as delegates and attendees listened to speeches from major lawmakers and leaders from the Democratic Party.

Amid embittered remarks from Hillary Clinton, protesters gathered outside the perimeter of the United Center to demonstrate against the Biden-Harris administration’s military support for Israel during the Israel–Hamas war.

But all eyes were really on the last speaker of the night - the outgoing president - who spoke late, very late (well past his prescribed bedtime) in a speech that attempted to revive Dark Brandon but just sounded like an angry old man yelling at the moon (of lies he has conjured in his mind about the 'others').

Prior to Biden’s speech at the convention, Harris made a surprise appearance on the convention stage on Monday night to honor Biden.

“Joe, thank you for your historic leadership, for your lifetime of service to our nation and for all you will continue to do. We are forever grateful to you,” she said in brief remarks.

As LibertyNation's Tim Donner wrote:

Since Joe Biden was willing to accept the humiliation of being forced out of his campaign for reelection, perhaps it follows that he would be amenable to accepting the final indignity of delivering his farewell address at his party’s convention on a night usually reserved for second- and third-tier speakers.

Indeed, the unconventional decision to have the sitting president speak on the first night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) – as opposed to either not speaking at all or being placed in a prominent slot on a succeeding night – was undoubtedly the product of a tortured compromise.

To add to the indignity, the DNC ran so far behind schedule on its opening night that the president did not even appear until 36 minutes after his scheduled start time of 10:50 pm ET, which by itself was something of an insult, and led some to question if the delay was deliberate, or effectively an attempt to drive Biden out of view to the primetime audience.

Making the sitting president of the United States wait until after 11:30 P.M. Eastern - well after prime time - to give the final big speech after 52 years in public office was the final signal that they were done and dusted with old Joe.

“This is awful. He literally set up a campaign and handed it over to them — do they have to cut him out of prime time?” one longtime Biden aide texted Axios reporter Alex Thompson.

We're 90 minutes behind schedule.

It's unconscionable to have President Biden's address occur at midnight ET.

We should postpone some upcoming folks and put the president up there soon.
— Christopher Hale (@chrisjollyhale) August 20, 2024

“The media is very East Coast focused though, you’ve gotta be pretty naive to think the prolonged DNC tonight is for any reason other than diminishing Biden’s visibility,” Silver tweeted.

The media is very East Coast focused though, you've gotta be pretty naive to think the prolonged DNC tonight is for any reason other than diminishing Biden’s visibility. https://t.co/LSd5DJzrON
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) August 20, 2024

Joe received the required ovation, and as PJMedia's Victoria Taft details below, the party's cheerleaders held signs reading "We (heart) Joe."

The crowd chanted "We love Joe!" but nothing can quite make up for how Biden was treated by his party in the days leading up to night one of the Chicago convention.

An angry looking and glassy-eyed Joe gave nothing more than a typical stump speech to the crowd with check list State of the Union overtones.

Joe attempted to summon Dark Brandon, but just looked like an angry old man.

And then came the whoppers.

Biden lied about his reason getting into the 2020 race, claiming Donald Trump embraced neo-Nazis.

Obviously, that "nice people on both sides" trope has been obliterated by simply looking at the record, but Joe doesn't care.

Ironically, Biden gave everyone a spit-take moment when he later said that "both sides" of the Gaza war protests, including pro-Hamas—literal pro-Nazi-- protesters outside the convention hall, "have a point."

You can't make this up.

The president told the crowd that Donald Trump scuttled a border deal that would have legalized all the people Biden allowed into the country.

Even his own crowd wasn't buying it.

He claimed billionaires pay fewer taxes than most taxpayers.

Embarrassing.

The man who tyrannically used COVID emergency powers to keep America shut down and businesses on ventilators claimed he stood for "freedom, democracy, and America."

"Democracy must be preserved!" thundered glassy-eyed Joe to a crowd that was looking for a little inspiration.

Joe bungled a few lines of the speech when he lost his way on the teleprompter, and at one point the crowd guffawed at the bumbling.

Toward the end of his speech, a meandering President Sundowning began slurring and rushing his sentences and then told the biggest whopper of the night:

"And all this talk about how I'm angry at all those people that said I should step down—that's not true."

We "believe" you, angry guy.

He told the dwindling and less enthusiastic hangers on in the room that he had given the country his best. Was anyone listening?

Joe got around to talking nicely about Kamala Harris and America after midnight Eastern time. And that's not hyperbole! Not a joke. I give you my word as a Biden.

Reflecting on the farce that was last night, LibertyNation's Tim Donner concludes, like the outsized stakes of this election itself, the outcome will be either a triumph or catastrophe for Joe Biden.

If Harris wins, it will affirm his presidency and his legacy as the man who saved the country from Trump.

But if Trump wins, Biden will forever be blamed for seeing the handwriting of his demise on the wall and stubbornly refusing to step aside until it was too late, ultimately handing the country back to the 45th president.

In a career marked by sustained power but constant disappointments – two badly failed presidential campaigns, an unserious image, and rejection by Barack Obama in 2016 in favor of Hillary Clinton – the end is nigh for Joe Biden. He cashed in on extraordinary circumstances to finally reach the promised land, only to be betrayed by the irreversible indignity of his own cognitive decline. His half-century as the quintessential Washington insider was marked by bookends of success and failure, centrism and progressivism, and, in the end, youth and age.

“For the longest time, I was too damn young because I only was 29 when I got elected,” Biden playfully lamented at a recent rally for his VP in Maryland. “Now I’m too damn old.”

Was last night setting the scene for the 'October Surprise' we hinted at?

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/awful-bidens-final-indignity-angry-old-man-demoted-midnight-speech-dnc


This was their "hint"...

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/could-democrats-make-kamala-harris-president-election

Like it matters now? Pedo Joe isn't running the nation. Kameltoes isn't running the nation.

The point was that you typed a pretty standard cbid response...

I've been pretty upset about what happened.

I had this ready to post today: House Concludes Biden "Actively Participated" In Impeachable Offenses - Except It's Too Late To Impeach Him


"The GOP-led House committees who have been investigating the Biden family shook their fist at the sky on Monday, announcing in a 291-page report that the president engaged in impeachable conduct by helping to enrich his family with millions of dollars through various business schemes to trade on the family name - and then defrauded voters by lying to cover it up, Just the News reports.

The House Oversight, Ways and Means and Judiciary Committees said they believe the evidence from their nine-month investigation establishes that Biden abused his office and violated his oaths under the Constitution, according to the 291-page report reviewed by Just the News..."

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-concludes-biden-actively-participated-impeachable-offenses-except-its-too-late



I was prepared to keep this thread going until January 20th, 2025... You're welcome. :)

except they had no actual evidence to present!

anyhoo, no one cares here about the two BILLION dollars that went to the Trump family from the friendly Saudis.
And yah, there is more than evidence of that.

Facts matter.

Signed,
I support neither.

A 291 page report???...Interesting reading. They can bring charges...there isn't a single Democrat that will side with the GOP to press impeachment because well, that reserved for Trump only.

"“President Joe Biden conspired to commit influence peddling and grift,” the committees wrote. “In doing so, he abused his office and, by repeatedly lying about his abuse of office, has defrauded the United States to enrich his family.”

You can read the full impeachment inquiry report below:

2024.08.19 Report of the Impeachment Inquiry of Joseph R. Biden Jr. President of the United States.pdf

Here are the most important findings of the impeachment investigation:

Biden family received more than $27 million from foreign sources

The committee’s investigation found Hunter Biden and other family members received over $27 million from foreign sources. These funds were often obscured in “shell companies” to hide their true origins, the committee says. Some of the funds sent from China, for example, ended up directly in Joe Biden’s bank account.

As part of the $27 million, Hunter Biden received significant compensation from several foreign ventures and positions.

For example, his role on the board of directors of the embattled Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, whose owner Mykola Zlochevksy was facing corruption allegations in Ukraine. Biden received a $1 million a year salary for his role on the board.

After receiving that position he would use his influence in Washington, D.C. to help organize a public relations campaign for the company and work to shut down the corruption investigation into Zlochevsky, even meeting personally with State Department officials.

In another instance, Hunter Biden received a $5 million loan in 2017 from entities connected to the energy firm CEFC China Energy. Just the News reported in 2022 that Hunter Biden had received this $5 million "interest free," forgivable loan. Emails from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop showed that the loan was intended to benefit the Biden family, referred to as the "BD family."

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/emb-5am-819-house-committees-conclude-joe-biden-engaged-impeachable?utm_source=justthenews.com&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=external-news-aggregators

One thing for certain...Biden left the VP position much more "robust".

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/10/joe-biden/fact-checking-joe-bidens-claim-about-his-own-incom/

What happens when he’s out and doesn’t have handlers?

Jill want an ambassadorship. She will keep him quiet.

Do they have any influence business there yet?

That’s probably what pissed Sleepy Joe off the most, those Big Guy 10% checks aren’t gonna be rolling in anymore now that his handlers neutered him.

President Joe Biden’s speech in Chicago on Monday night reveals the true nature of today’s Democratic Party. As the world now knows, he obviously had no concept of anything being done in his name over the past four years. Instead, his presidency was a joint project of his longtime advisers, important Democratic constituencies, his vice president, and that nice Filipino lady who helps him to the commode several times a day.

That’s the only explanation for why this aggressively moderate Democrat presided over the most left-wing administration in U.S. history. The committee actually running the government managed to push through nearly everything on progressives’ wish list: fully open borders; 66% of judicial nominees women, and 66% minorities; the first transgender Cabinet member; student loan forgiveness; a major clamp-down on oil production, and on and on.

So what did the id of the Democratic Party have to say for itself the other night?

Biden began with the lie he’s been repeating since announcing for president in 2019: that Donald Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people.” This yarn has just surpassed "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" as the most debunked hoax in all of recorded history.

What Trump actually said is on videotape. Could somebody on Biden's staff look it up? For the 8 millionth time, Trump said:

“You had people -- and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists. OK? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly.

“Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people. But you also had troublemakers ...”

Biden’s entire presidency is based on this lie. Despite having run for president about 47 times before, he says the only reason he ran in 2020 was because Trump called Nazis “very fine people.”

What kind of sociopath repeats the same lie, in defiance of video evidence, for five years?

The kind of sociopath whose followers know he's lying and don't care, also known as "joyous warriors." (Also, mere simpletons.)

Biden boasted of the amazing things he's accomplished as president, starting with: “COVID no longer controls our lives.”

You know who else can gloat about that exact same accomplishment? Russian President Vladimir Putin. North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. Uganda’s president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa.

This is like bragging that no hurricanes hit New York for the past four years because of your leadership.

In a surprise move, Biden claimed, “We’re providing affordable high-speed internet for every American no matter where they live, unlike, not unlike what Roosevelt did with electricity.”

Oops! Despite allocating $42 billion to the project, the Biden administration has not connected one single home to the internet. Did the Biden Presidency Committee read his speech before wheelbarrowing him onto the convention stage? Maybe ix-nay on the ighspeed-hay internet-way.

Delusionally, Biden said, “Trump continues to lie about crime in America like everything else. Guess what? On his watch, the murder rate went up 30%, the biggest increase in history.”

Yes -- entirely because of the hell unleashed on the country after the death of George Floyd, Peace Be Upon Him. Which party was inciting the BLM riots, again? Take all the time you need.

Apparently, the Democrats’ argument is:

-- It’s Trump’s fault that the Democratic Party and media helpers responded to Floyd’s death by whipping BLM and antifa into a murderous rage.

-- It’s Trump’s fault that Biden’s own vice president -- and the Democrats’ current nominee for president -- contributed to a Minnesota bail fund for the rioters.

-- It’s Trump’s fault that the Democrats’ nominee for vice president, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, intentionally allowed Minneapolis to burn for four days before sending in the National Guard.

The Democratic Party is either brain-dead or just hopes most voters are.

Biden continued: “Now, the murder rate is falling faster than any time in history. Violent crime has dropped to the lowest level in more than 50 years.”

It’s at least counterintuitive that crime decreased under the party that hates cops, wants to defund the police and refuses to prosecute criminals. In fact, it’s a bald-faced lie.

Biden is referring to FBI crime reports that even the FBI says are meaningless. Because of a glitch in reporting over the past few years, the bureau is missing crime reports from about a third of the country, including peaceful little burgs like New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. When you exclude crimes from one-third of the country, you will end up with fewer crimes. That’s a government screw-up, not a statistic.

For the real numbers, Biden could check with his own Department of Justice. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), violent crime has skyrocketed under his administration.

Biden also trotted out the Democrats’ favorite witticism that was a bad joke five minutes after it launched: “Crime will keep coming down when we put a prosecutor in the Oval Office instead of a convicted felon.”

As everyone knows by now, when Harris was California’s attorney general, she tricked voters into supporting Propositions 47 and 57, legalizing most felonies and releasing thousands of violent criminals from prison. It was her job to give the propositions titles and descriptions, so she lied. And that’s how the Democrats turned the most beautiful state in the Union into an open-air latrine for the criminally insane.

Testifying to the sterling character of Harris and her husband, Biden said, “The ancient Greeks taught us that character is destiny. Character is destiny. For me and Jill, we know Kamala and Doug are people of character.”

Not to be a stickler, but Doug cheated on his first wife with his kids' nanny and got her pregnant, while Kamala had an open affair with a married man, Willie Brown.

Someone at the Biden Brain Trust might want to do a Google search on the word "character."

https://substack.com/@anncoulter/p-147976824

She's not wrong.

Maybe he will bomb Canada!

You think Smoking Joe will still vote Democrat or is he too pizzed off? Maybe they can put a red MAGA hat on Joe and he can endorse Trump with RFK???

🤣

Lest we forget how a real Commander In Chief is supposed to lead...




Former President Donald Trump honored the 13 service members who died in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal three years ago Monday, joining families of the fallen for a private event at Arlington National Cemetery — while President Biden stayed away from the White House for the second week in a row.

On Aug. 26, 2021, ISIS-K suicide bomber Abdul Rahman al-Logari detonated an explosive vest outside Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate, killing the service members and nearly 200 Afghans.

The White House published separate statements from Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, though the president had no public events scheduled as he spends the week at his beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Del.

Harris also had no public events on her schedule Monday.

“These 13 Americans — and the many more that were wounded — were patriots in the highest sense,” Biden said. “Some were born the year the war in Afghanistan started. Some were on their second or third tour. But all raised their hand to serve a cause greater than themselves — risking their own safety for the safety of their fellow Americans, Allies, and Afghan partners. They embodied the very best of who we are as a nation: brave, committed, selfless. And we owe them and their families a sacred debt we will never be able to fully repay, but will never cease working to fulfill.”

The Trump team has heavily criticized Biden for how the evacuation was handled — and skewered the president for never honoring with an official ceremony the families of the service members who perished.

The private event at Arlington was meant to stress Biden’s — and Harris’ — roles in the withdrawal after the veep made a point of agreeing with CNN’s Dana Bash in August 2021 that Harris was the “last person in the room” when the pullout was ordered.

“As I have said, President Biden made the courageous and right decision to end America’s longest war,” Harris said Monday. “Over the past three years, our Administration has demonstrated we can still eliminate terrorists, including the leaders of al-Qaeda [sic] and ISIS, without troops deployed into combat zones. I will never hesitate to take whatever action necessary to counter terrorist threats and protect the American people and the homeland.”

“Today is a solemn day and terrible reminder of the failure of Harris and Biden to protect our standing in the world and the cost of that failure. Harris has proudly declared she was the last person in the room when she and Biden directed the botched withdrawal that cost the lives of Americans and our allies,” Trump adviser Brian Hughes told The Post in a statement.

Hughes added that “the message to Americans is they should see the stark contrast of the Trump record to the Harris/Biden record on how we use the nation’s military might in the world.”

The Gold Star families have spoken to Trump in the past. Several family members, including Christy Shamblin, took the stage at last month’s Republican National Convention to praise Trump’s response to the tragedy.

“While Joe Biden has refused to recognize their sacrifice, Donald Trump spent six hours in Bedminster with us,” Shamblin, the mother-in-law of Marine Sgt. Nicole Gee, said in Milwaukee.

“He allowed us to grieve. He allowed us to remember our heroes,” she added.

Trump has alleged that the chaotic withdrawal gave the impression of American weakness and emboldened adversaries like Russia and Iran.

“This is the third anniversary of the BOTCHED Afghanistan withdrawal, the most EMBARRASSING moment in the history of our Country. Gross Incompetence – 13 DEAD American soldiers, hundreds of people wounded and dead, AMERICANS and BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT LEFT BEHIND,” the 78-year-old posted on Truth Social on Monday.

“You don’t take our soldiers out first, you take them out LAST, when all else is successfully done. Russia then invaded Ukraine, Israel was attacked, and the USA became, and is, a laughing stock all over the World. THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA REMAINS SILENT IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE WORST ADMINISTRATION IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY! MAGA2024.”

During the disastrous June 27 debate that kicked off a nearly monthlong effort to get Biden off the Democratic ticket, the president boldly claimed that he was “the only president this century that doesn’t have any this — this decade, that doesn’t have any troops dying anywhere in the world, like [Trump] did.”

The remark enraged the Kabul Gold Star families, who told The Post it was more proof of Biden failing to acknowledge their losses.

“It took all self-restraint not to put my fist right through my TV,” Mark Schmitz, whose son Marine Cpl. Jared Schmitz was among the fallen 13, told The Post at the time.

“I was beyond ticked off, disrespected,” he said. “That’s all we’ve ever gotten out of this president.”

https://nypost.com/2024/08/26/us-news/trump-honoring-afghanistan-dead-while-biden-stays-in-delaware/

He just didn’t want to get caught looking at his watch wondering when the ceremony was going to be over while mumbling a lie about suckers and losers.

I was flabbergasted that he admitted this. It will mean absolutely zero to Democrat voters though. Sadly.

Introspection or self criticism doesn’t resonate with them or so it appears.