American Politics from 2019 on

[Woodbutcher]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-31/ ... /102796926

Top US Senate Republican Mitch McConnell has frozen up for more than 30 seconds during a public appearance before being escorted away, the second such incident in a little more than a month.

The 81-year-old was responding to questions from reporters after an event in Kentucky when he froze up, staring into space and not responding to reporters and others nearby.

After being approached by a second person, Mr McConnell resumed speaking but needed reporters' questions repeated to him and only answered two more questions.

The longest-serving Senate party leader in history, Mr McConnell's voice was shaky and quiet.

The incident raised fresh questions among Republican and Democratic members of Congress about some of their ageing colleagues.

Most politicians, especially republicans in the States, appear more intelligent when they shut the fuck up.

[Tero]

Voters still convinced Biden caused inflation and that that Trump ended abortion. And that Trump's insurrection was no worse than Bill Clinton's blow job. Or...probably...the voters want to move on and do not want expresidents punished. Ever.

Polls reinforce Biden’s vulnerability on this front. In an ABC/Washington Post national survey this spring, Americans preferred Trump by an 18-percentage-point margin when asked whether he or Biden managed the economy better. Younger adults preferred Trump over Biden on that question 2-to-1.

To Jim McLaughlin, a Trump pollster for 2024, those views largely explain how Trump is still standing after his multiple indictments. “It’s not hard to figure out why Donald Trump is as popular as he is: People actually thought he did a good job as president,” McLaughlin told me.

He offered an unusual analogy to explain the thought process he believes voters are employing to evaluate Trump’s repeated indictments. He contends that Americans are responding much as they did when House Republicans impeached then-President Bill Clinton over his affair with an intern while the economy was booming in the late 1990s. “You and I have seen this movie before,” McLaughlin said, arguing that while most Americans may have disapproved of Clinton personally, they supported him during impeachment “because they thought the trains were running on time. They thought he was doing a good job.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... es/675202/

[Tero]

CNN article points out Biden faults and all the conspiracy/Fox produced doubts.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/opinions ... index.html
However, one thing is clear, Biden will be a weak candidate for a campaign tour making speeches etc. In fact he was never the speechmaker that a president should be. Even senile Reagan could read a speech well. An actor.

[Sean Hayden]

So, what’s the plan when they refuse to accept defeat again?

[Tero]

So, what’s the plan when they refuse to accept defeat again?

Arrest then all. RICO charge the next day.

[pErvinalia]

Guantanamo

[Sean Hayden]

61 ‘Cop City’ protesters indicted on RICO charges. Opponents question the timeline and motivation

More than 60 people have been named in a state RICO indictment filed in connection with the yearslong campaign by protesters in Georgia to thwart construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center – dubbed “Cop City” by detractors.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/06/us/cop-c ... index.html

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—don’t know how good people make it, really don’t.

[Svartalf]

Guantanamo

send them to russia with cooked up evidence that they wanted to murder putin

[Strontium Dog]

Why would they want to murder the guy who's funding them...

[Svartalf]

because they are red blooded republicans and he's a red soviet commie

[Woodbutcher]

If Trump is elected, there will be unavoidable accidental deaths in the vocal opposition ranks. He adores Kim and Putin, and wants to be like them.

[Tero]

Fox reports that Biden (OLD!) is sleepy in travels

President Joe Biden ended a Vietnam press conference on Sunday by frankly telling reporters he had to go to bed after wrapping up the 2023 Group of 20 summit.

Biden was speaking in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi after two days at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India. He was answering a question about China's relationship with the United States before announcing that he was sleepy.

"But I tell you what, I don't know about you, but I'm going to go to bed," Biden said to a group of reporters.

[JimC]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-13/ ... /102848134

Republican US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy has launched an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, propelling congress toward a contentious and unlikely-to-succeed effort to remove the Democratic president.

Following two impeachments of former president Donald Trump, Mr McCarthy's move sets the stage for months of divisive House hearings that could distract from congressional efforts to avoid a government shutdown.

It could also supercharge the 2024 presidential race in which Mr Trump hopes to avenge his 2020 election loss to Mr Biden and win back the White House.

White House spokesperson Ian Sams said Republicans have turned up no evidence of wrongdoing.

"Extreme politics at its worst," Mr Sams wrote on social media.

Republicans, who now narrowly control the House, have accused the president of profiting while he served as vice-president from 2009 to 2017 from his son Hunter Biden's foreign business ventures, though they have not presented substantiation.

Mr Biden had previously mocked Republicans over a possible impeachment. No US president has ever been removed from office by impeachment, but the procedure — once a rarity — has now become commonplace.

Many in Mr McCarthy's party were infuriated when the House, then controlled by Democrats, impeached Mr Trump in 2019 and 2021, though he was acquitted both times in the Senate.

Some hardline Republicans had said they would try to remove Mr McCarthy as the leader of the House if he did not move ahead with an impeachment effort.

The last sentence is significant...

[Tero]

Impeachment, demanded by Trump, not a profitable business

McCarthy gave up the game on the Benghazi committee even before Hillary Clinton testified to the committee. Asked in a Fox News interview the month before her testimony to name a promise the House GOP had kept, McCarthy responded: “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.”

There went the fiction that the committee was not about political posturing and/or fundraising but only about justice for four dead Americans. McCarthy’s accidental truth-telling helped cost him his first shot at being speaker, leaving Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as the compromise choice. And while Clinton did lose to Trump in 2016, Benghazi wasn’t her albatross; her use of a private email server was.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opi ... rcna104627

[Tero]

The survey of 1,636 U.S. adults, which was conducted from Sept. 14 to 18, offered respondents seven emotions — three positive, three negative, one neutral — and asked them to select any and all that reflect their attitude toward the 2024 campaign.

Dread, the most negative option, topped the list (41%), followed by exhaustion (34%), optimism (25%), depression (21%), indifference (17%), excitement (15%) and delight (5%).

https://news.yahoo.com/poll-dread-tops- ... 03206.html