Seems like only yesterday …
… but it was exactly a year ago that Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race. Actually, he was forced out. Democrats ended up being defeated anyway, because – as they had known all along – Kamala Harris was a poor politician who just couldn’t pull in the votes.
Could Biden have done any better had he stayed in? I doubt it, because not only was his presidency disastrous but his infirmities had become obvious no matter how hard the MSM tried to cover them up.
The whole thing is still amazing to contemplate.
Like to know:
How many 2020 Biden voters switched to Trump;
How many 2020 stay-at-homes turned out for Trump;
How many Biden voters who would have voted for him no matter what stayed home for Harris.
House Speaker Johnson dropped a 14 min video mashup of gaslighting Dems to remind folks what was going on a year ago:
https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1947296621869363682
Video at link.
sdferr (4:09 pm) — re: the 14 min video, gag me with a spewn.
So what will we do the next time a corrupt, elderly demented POTUS holds the throne, ruining the country? Appointing Buttigiegs as cabinet officers?
Better give that some attention.
The 25th Amendment is a useless Amendment, because it requires good will by the demented one, and ethical, moral victory by the demented’s Cabinet, selected by him. Will they just do the right thing? I doubt it; those days are long behind us.
You have seen the atrocious statements posted by sdferr. They want the drones to feel they can safely graze while the Republic is snatched away from them.
And now Hunter’s off the leash dropping “F-bombs” like the Easter bunny drops chocolates reminding us how badly all the living Bidens need those pardons.
I thank him for stepping down, and I thank him for endorsing Harris.
I had to look to see what idiotic channel bothered to interview Hunter Biden. A Philadelphia podcast. I suppose it’s news, but not very important news.
It was the best birthday present I ever received.
Seems like only yesterday
I left my mind behind
Down in the Gypsy Café
With a friend of a friend of mine
Who sat with a baby heavy on her knee
Yet spoke of life most free from slavery
With eyes that showed no trace of misery
A phrase in connection first with she I heard
That love is just a four letter word
–Bob Dylan, “Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word
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Just the way my mind works.
As to the idea of “seems like only yesterday…” My mind goes in two different directions. It does seem like only yesterday, yet also a long time ago.
What happened to all the 2020 mail-in votes?
Had Biden remained, increasing awareness of his diminished faculties would have diminished his votes.
Had Kamala (Que mala) had more time to campaign, this would have enabled the electorate to better know her—and become more aware of her ineptness.
Steph:
Happy birthday!
Kamala got 75 million votes, Biden 81 million, to Trump’s 77 million & 75 million, after decades of 60-65 million enough to win. Trump beat Clinton, 63 to 66 million (Clinton more votes, Trump more states).
Mail in ballots are a new game, and Turn Out The Votes needed to change.
I believe there were thousands of fake ballots to make Biden win, better laws & watching hugely reduced cheating in Republican competitive areas. You can stay at home and vote. Maybe even a few times.
I guess very few over 24 year olds were 2020 non-voters, with only a million more voting, mostly for Trump. Another million more Dem to Rep changes, but those were for Trump, against the Dems.
Votes then would have been similar staying with Biden BUT the media covering for Biden would become a bigger issue. They deserve a bigger hit than they’re getting so far, but it would have been worse with more cover up, and would be harder to hide Biden’s incapacity on a 24/7 watch. He’s still occasionally cogent even now.
As more Dem voters are against the other side, 60 million ?, rather than for their side, who the Dem candidate is. Only some 50-55 million Reps are against Dems.
I was NeverHillary, then pro-Trump in last 2.
Neo, have you tried asking your Dem friends if they are only against Trump, or do they actually think Kamala or Biden would do a good job? I’m going to try that on some of my friends.
huxley:
“What happened to all the 2020 mail-in votes?”
They weren’t all “mail-in”.
Many of them were recycled (as in reused).
That’s right…GO GREEN!
Hmm. Looks like Hunter’s off his meds.
(Easy there, son…you know Dear Old Daffy Dad loves ye’….)
“‘F%*# Clooney & Carville’ – Hunter Biden Goes On Expletive-Laced Rant About… Everything“—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fk-clooney-carville-hunter-biden-goes-expletive-laced-rant-about-everything
Hey, here’s an idea!
Hunter can replace Colbert on Late Night.
He’s handsome, articulate, exciting…and he’s got way better jokes. LOADS better.
Yep, if he can keep it up he’ll be a…veritable hit!
(Cue McCartney…)
Speaking of meds, the WSJ seems to be off theirs, as well…
“Dershowitz to Newsmax: WSJ Won’t Let Me Verify Letter to Epstein”—
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alan-dershowitz-jeffrey-epstein-newsmax/2025/07/21/id/1219526/
– – – – – –
Back to Hunter, who seems to be evolving into the gift that doesn’t stop giving…
“Rep. Comer to Newsmax: Hunter’s Ambien Claim Is Big News”—
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/james-comer-newsmax-joe-biden/2025/07/21/id/1219535/
Regarding the Wall Street Journal, something to keep firmly in mind with regard to them is that they are owned, more or less, by Rupert Murdoch.
There is a widespread misapprehension that Murdoch is a conservative. He might agree with conservatives on some points, and he helped create FOX News, which prospered by giving a news space to right wingers in a news environment utterly dominated by leftism.
But none of that means that Murdoch is necessarily a conservative ideologically. Creating FOXNews was just good business, after all. As the joke goes, Murdoch and Aisles profited by identifying an underserved niche market consisting of 50% of the population.
But Murdoch is a big globalist. He loves and adores open borders policies, in the UK, in America, more or less everywhere. Jeb Bush would be his ideal President, I suspect.
He detests Trump and is hostile to MAGA. On top of that, even before Murdoch owned them, the WSJ editorial page was publicly calling for open borders policies.
So, it should come as no surprise that the WSJ suddenly dumps stuff like the supposed letter.
(But don’t forget that whatever his faults, Rupert is likely far better for conservatives than his offspring will be.)
Kamala was a terrible candidate, who repeatedly made bad decisions (like her veep choice), but to be fair, she was shackled to Biden. Even after he left the race, she was still tightly tied to him. If she didn’t repudiate him, she was seen as Biden’s proxy. If she did, she was seen as disloyal. It was an inescapable trap.
(Gore had some of the same problem in 2000.)
It was 80 years ago today,
Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.
I’m listening to 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and The Democrats Lost America, a new book by three reporters: Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, and Isaac Arnsdorf. I heard about it on the Ruthless Podcast.
It’s very informative. A relatively even-handed look at both the Trump Campaign and Biden’s exit and Kamala’s train wreck of a campaign. You can detect the bias from the reporters, but it’s not overly pronounced. It’s the best journalistic analysis of what happened in the past year that I’ve seen.
For example, yesterday Hunter ranted that it was Pelosi who torpedoed the Biden campaign. None of these guys suggest that Pelosi did anything but give tepid, perfunctory support to either Biden or Harris. I’d take these reporters’ word over a vindictive former drug addict even though I despise Pelosi.
I recommend it. It’s on Spotify. Probably on Audible, too.
@HC68
I will agree she was trapped in the support/disloyal trap.
The whole Dem party was trapped in the dump Kamala and lose a significant chunk of women in general and black women specifically or keep the worst candidate that either party has nominated in the modern age.
@Martin:dump Kamala and lose a significant chunk of women in general and black women specifically
Doubt it. The women who voted for Kamala Harris will vote for anything with D after it, the women who said in 2008 “Party Unity My Ass” after Hillary Clinton was passed over for Obama still voted for Obama, those women’s votes were not going anywhere. And the women not fitting that description didn’t vote for Kamala Harris.
Tribe-based politics will do that, I guess.
(Hard to keep track of the pecking order du jour…so as a result, you pick the candidate who’s the best common denominator, despite being god-awful(!)…and then pray fast and furious and/or throw billions of dollars away begging, borrowing, stealing to persuade the electorate that said candidate is either compos mentis or the Almighty’s great gift from heaven…or both…all the while making sure that your Media lackeys are falling over themselves singing hilarious hosannas to the hapless, earnest, erstwhile puppet chosen to run for office and “save our Democracy”….)
I think the biggest problem with dumping Harris is that it would have called attention to what a bad choice she was for VP in the first place. And whoever they “anointed” at that point would have been a complete back room machine candidate, Harris could at least claim to be “rightfully promoted”.
A very bad look. And the left never likes to admit they did anything wrong.