Biden Unfit?
The latest political news is . . . Trump claiming Biden is unfit for office. One can hardly imagine this scenario occurring of the pot calling the kettle black; but, this is what Trump is doing. Biden does have his issues which were on display early on in his campaign. I am hoping Biden has found his groove and can put the real unfit person out-of-office.
August 2019, Trump tweets
Joe Biden just said, ‘We believe in facts, not truth.’ Does anybody really believe he is mentally fit to be president? We are ‘playing’ in a very big and complicated world. Joe doesn’t have a clue!
Max Boot asks the question,
Is this really the debate that Trump wants to have? Does he really want to have an argument about who is “mentally fit to be president” and who has a “clue” about what’s happening in the world? Because his own utterances of the past few days have confirmed what everyone who hasn’t joined his cult already knows: He is both unfit to be president and utterly clueless.
The same Trump is back and opening up another argument of who is fit for office. Earlier in this week he unleashed another attack;
“Sleepy Joe, he doesn’t even know where he is or what he’s doing or what office he’s running for. Honestly, I don’t think he knows what office he’s running for.
If Mr. Biden won the presidency, his staff would actually do the governing. They’re going to put him into a home, other people are going to be running the country, and they’re going to be super-left, radical crazies. And Joe’s going to be in a home and he’ll be watching television.”
No doubt Joe has his issues and gaffs; but having served 8 years as a VP under Obama and numerous years as a Senator and Representative, Biden’s gaffs still do not reach the level of amazement of listeners to Trump’s words and lies , or by readers of his tweets and lies, and the number of instances Trumps has given us during his three and one-half years in office. And he is proud of them, while we shake our heads in disbelief, the rest of the world laughs at him – gossiping behind his back, and take him for the liar he proves to be on a daily basis.
Does it serve Democrats and Biden to have that argument of who is mentally fit? While we think of this, Trump is tuning in to Fox News for his most urgent policy updates as taken from various Fox News hosts.
While criticizing the failing of his opponents he has exhibited similar and comical (stupid[?]) failings himself for which he is serious about and displays in his tweets and verbalization. It can be said without much documentation needed, Trump has proven to be the most corrupt U.S. president ever while claiming his foes are more corrupt. He is a serial liar and a fake-story teller, the worst ever to occupy the Oval Office, and yet he will labels his critics of being of the same ilk.
How do you argue with a liar when they do not understand the facts or you and just deny it or claim it is fake? There is a problem in making the facts and argument stick when his utterances are chaotic and difficult to pin down.
WaPo’s Greg Sargent identified the critical issue with Trump and being able to refute him.
[Trump] can be confident not just that those charges (of being unfit) will achieve widespread uncritical media amplification, but also that his purported identification of such traits in opponents will, absurdly, be placed on a plane of equivalence with their identification of the same traits in him.
Now that Biden might be the nominee, Trump is already casting him as mentally unfit for the presidency. But Trump might not perceive the space to get away with this if the press corps had not thus far failed, in some very fundamental sense, to reckon with just how mentally unfit for the job Trump is himself.
We have gone through several years of Trump, the issues of being unfit have not gone away or lessened with the experience he has gained in office. One might expect a newbie, nonpolitician type might learn how to work in a political environment by this time. In Trump’s case, he has not and his ramblings have only become worst. Listen to his comments on the coronavirus a week ago as he compares it to flu.
Dan Fromkin at Press Watch: “Tell me this is normal, Tell me this is unremarkable, Tell me this is behavior by the President of the United States of United States of America at a critically important briefing about a potentially deadly pandemic that does not bear mentioning.
Wednesday’s briefing was arguably the most abnormal moment yet in a profoundly abnormal presidency.”
“ Trump’s terrifying incoherence in a time of emergency.” They called it incoherence, I would label it incompetence.
Ben Rhodes @ The Atlantic: “It’s still amazing to see how a rambling, semi coherent and contradictory presser from Trump gets repackaged into headlines, stories and tv clips that turn him into a normal President.”
Therein lies the problem, a media which normalizes President Trump. How do you fight against this, again???
The Media Still Won’t Address Trump’s Unfitness for Office
Curious about all of the people spouting off on this.
EM:
I am curious also. I think we know what the problem is, media making money off of Trump.
all it takes is for enough people to believe it.
or enough voting machines.
My hope and thinking is that Bloomberg will turn his machine to directly going after Trump. He can only contribute so much directly to Biden but he can spend all he wants on informational advertising.
As I understand it, Bloomberg has as big a data machine operation as Trump’s campaign. If I understand Trump, Bloomberg could push him to the edge. Don’t need to push Trump off, just push him to the edge and Trump will do Trump to the point of no denial.
If Bloomberg does this, Biden’s “gaffs” will not be an issue. At the same time, Biden needs to take some lessons from his former boss and learn to listen, think and then answer. He needs to listen to some of FDR’s work. None of this “take him out behind the bleachers” BS. That’s what Trump can handle. That’s playing in Trump’s sand box. People need to see that Biden is mature and does not play in sand boxes thus making Trump appear as the child he is.
Biden and all that will help him need to treat Trump as the child he is. The 2 year old who has found the “no”.
An excellent post. Stormy should read this and then reflect on his own post.
PGL:
Not as much research as my healthcare posts. Eric Kramer has a good one coming up here shortly. I am glad you like this one.
Of course Trump is unfit to be President. He is a danger to us all.
But that does not mean that Biden is an answer.
The people who have gained power, creating a society where health care for the average person is practically impossible, where lobbyists can become superdelegates…where cops shoot blacks in the back and go free…where Bizos and his ilk thrive…
Good old Credit Card Joe will help us all. Bloomberg is not a DNC aberration.
Without a doubt Trump and his ilk are monsters. But I look at Pelosi and her close relationship to the Sacklers and I wince.
OAC is a welcomed voice. But the DNS elite hate her as do the Republicans.
Yeah…great two party system we have.
Doug:
You are a good read and you raise a good reason to do elsewise. Single Payer is not going to happen soon. We will migrate over time (Kocher and Berwick).Biden may be the necessary evil, even though I prefer the brilliance of Warren.
So you know, I am Stormy. Have always been so.
I find many of the comments that I am a lover of Trump positively hilarious.
Typical, really. How dare I criticize the DNC and Joe Biden and Hunter Biden–and all their corruption. Must mean I love Trump. Nope.
A pox on both your families. Obama was a disaster. Clinton was a disaster. Bush was a disaster. Trump is the logical culmination of the corruption that is endemic in the American system.
Between the two of them, they are building an empire that is destroying the poor around the world. Spending more money on the military than the rest of the world combined.
Ugh
I am ashamed of my country.
There are many reasons to be ashamed of our country, Just as there are many reasons why that has happened to us.
The main one is progressive voters cannot figure out that there are only two sides, and not joining one means you take responsibility for what occurs.
Cluck if you want, but Trump is doing the country and even the Democratic party a good turn by highlighting this in March. Not that this is his motivation in doing so, but now beats 6 months from now. Maybe Joe has been endowed by a benevolent “the thing” to win push-up contests with even older fellows for a full 2 terms without concern. Possibly not, though.
I understand your support for Joe B. – but it is more than “gaffs”. From NC this AM. This is how he speaks??
“And so I was saying that, and what they turned around and said, Joe Biden said, in effect, they said, that Joe Biden said that what he was told, that what, that what the white supremacists argue, that we have no problem, that our, our, our basic English jurisprudential system is not the problem. The problem is those countries like Africa and Asia and those places, they’re the reason why we have all these problems. So they turn it around to make it sound like that, and by the way, the title of the article is, was, is the Washington Post ‘The Deceptively (indecipherable) of Joe Biden Singles, Signals What Is Coming’ and that is that’s a whole bunch of lies. The generic point I’m making here is that, what has happened is that, I know we’re going to get in to, whomever the nominee is of the Democratic Party, is going to have a plethora of lies told about him or her, and misrepresentations and this went on the internet, this edited article, it got retweeted by some press people and then they realized it was edited to make it look like something not… white supremacists, see, Biden’s acknowledging that the problem here is that that all those folks, all those minority folks are the problem. And so, in essence. And so they corrected, they corrected. You’re going to see a lot more of it. You’re going to see a lot more of not only my statements being taken out of context, and lied about, or altered, you’re going to see whomever the Democratic nominee is because that’s how this guy operates. Now. Whether or not I can win?”
The St. Augustine prayer for Citizens United: “Oh, Lord, we beseech you to put an end to the scourge of big money in American politics right after Mike Bloomberg lays a billion or so on the table for us.”