If anyone gets a thank-you note from President Biden for helping get him out of a jam in recent days, it should probably be former President Donald J. Trump.
Just when Mr. Biden was swamped by unwelcome questions about his age, his predecessor and challenger stepped in, rescuing him with an ill-timed diatribe vowing to “encourage” Russia to attack NATO allies that do not spend enough on their militaries.
The stunner from Mr. Trump over the weekend not only drew attention away from the president’s memory problems, as detailed in a special counsel report, but also provided a convenient way for Mr. Biden’s defenders to reframe the issue: Yes, they could now say, the incumbent may be an old man who sometimes forgets things, but his challenger is both aging and dangerously reckless.
The New York Times just couldn’t resist turning Trump doing a dangerous and stupid thing into another excuse to pump the Biden-age story. Trump has evidenced the same and worse mental issues and the esteemed “liberal” press would never in a million years spend multiple stories on multiple days talking about it.
The NYT has a bombshell expose every once in a while, but their standing impact on the world is whitewashing conservative propaganda so they can show they’re not partisan.
They have such terminal liberal brain. The average American does not give a shit about NATO, and if they have any opinion about it, they probably accepted Trump’s framing that somehow US taxpayers are paying for the whole thing (as opposed to it basically being a very useful framework to make sure all of Europe is basically buying American weapons).
It’s a newspapers job to explain shit like NATO to people who choose not to read
Of course
Trump couldn’t stand not being in the spotlight for even a moment
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Just when Mr. Biden was swamped by unwelcome questions about his age, his predecessor and challenger stepped in, rescuing him with an ill-timed diatribe vowing to “encourage” Russia to attack NATO allies that do not spend enough on their militaries.
The stunner from Mr. Trump over the weekend not only drew attention away from the president’s memory problems, as detailed in a special counsel report, but also provided a convenient way for Mr. Biden’s defenders to reframe the issue: Yes, they could now say, the incumbent may be an old man who sometimes forgets things, but his challenger is both aging and dangerously reckless.
Mr. Biden’s team set out to make the real issue not his own capacity but the conduct of the special counsel, Robert K. Hur, just as past presidents like Mr. Trump and Bill Clinton have sought to redirect attention from allegations against them to the prosecutors who investigated them.
White House surrogates and friends flooded the airwaves in the days afterward to assail Mr. Hur for citing the president’s inability to remember key dates, including the year of the death of his son Beau.
Nikki Haley, the former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor, who is still trying to wrest the Republican nomination away from the front-running Mr. Trump, seized on that penchant to bolster her case that the party should not trust him to lead it to victory this fall.
Robert Gibbs, a former White House press secretary to President Barack Obama, said the latest episode proved that Mr. Trump was incapable of heeding an old political adage: “If your opponent is having a bad day, simply get out of the way and let it happen.”
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The NYT is basically a paid concern troll at this point and it’s annoying. They’re the only ones even talking about Biden’s age at this point and they only do it when people are focused on Trump saying stupid shit.
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7 day ban. How is that?
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They do call him former president in the article? They also call him Mr. Trump?
Just when Mr. Biden was swamped by unwelcome questions about his age
And, you know, his continuing support of an ongoing genocide.
And before the Biden stans point it out: YES I know he’s beginning to make public statements against it and sending the blind guy from Robin Hood: Men In Tights to talk to the apartheid regime, but he and the rest of the party leadership still want to send weapons and funding, something he even circumvented normal rules to expedite twice in December alone.
Until the Biden administration imposes sanctions rather than giving them weapons and money, they are 100% complicit.
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Even worse, but that’s not the point. The bar should never be at “marginally better than a deranged fascist toddler”.
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Mass protests in front of the White House. Everyone writing and calling the White House and their representatives every day saying “not in our name”. Joining BDS. Boycotting AIPAC and similar Israeli government agencies. Giving to and volunteering for Red Crescent and other charities trying to help Palestinians directly. Doing the same with NGOs like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch who work to expose and disseminate the truth about atrocities committed all over the world.
Anything but the current strategy:
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So you’re not allowed to criticize something unquestioningly reprehensible that someone who’s supposed to represent all Americans to the left of fascism is doing without also providing a laundry list of how to change his abhorrent behavior without electing a fascist?
That’s gatekeeping dissent and to an outsider, it’s near-identical to the Trump cult in terms of the cult of personality aspect specifically.
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