The United States cannot afford a 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. president
The Spectator,
by
Roger Kimball
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
7/4/2024 12:46:49 PM
In 1927, Sigmund Freud published a book about religion called Die Zukunft einer Illusion (The Future of an Illusion). As a contribution to the understanding of religion, it is, like much of Freud’s work, both banal and outrageous. But it occurs to me that its catchy title as well as its main thesis — religion, Freud wrote, was invented to fulfill “the oldest, strongest and most urgent wishes of mankind” — has a certain pertinence to the large-scale entertainment now being offered to the public by Democrats eager to salvage the reputation of President Joe Biden.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
FLCracker 7/4/2024 12:57:14 PM (No. 1749635)
For reference, the Hamas attack on Israel started a dawn, 6:15 am Gaza time, right in the middle of Biden's downtime.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/4/2024 1:03:03 PM (No. 1749639)
Again, a misdirection. If Pinnochio Joe was awake 24 hours a day his damage to America would only be worse. I'm looking forward to his noon to 2:00 pm workday, three days a week instead of four.
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Now Xi and Pooty know when to do what they want.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
rytwng 7/4/2024 1:14:52 PM (No. 1749648)
I'm looking forward to when he is planted so he can't screw up the country anymore..
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 7/4/2024 1:17:45 PM (No. 1749652)
Gaslight all they like, but we see Brandon between 10 am and 4 pm making speeches, greeting sports teams, presenting awards, etc. He is no more coherent then, than he is from 4 pm to 10 am. This is just the coverup for the coverup.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/4/2024 1:18:48 PM (No. 1749653)
Nice try, Roger. But we need to keep biden the cheater on his feet and at 98.6 degrees until November 5th.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 7/4/2024 1:19:12 PM (No. 1749654)
FTAIt seems that Democrats are considering every option except one: run the most dignified campaign you can, with the candidate you chose — and lose.
Only Republicans run campaigns with a guaranteed loss. Remember Dole, McCain, and Romney? Dems have not accepted losing since Dukaka in 1988 - they have disputed every loss and will do the same in November.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
slipstik 7/4/2024 2:11:17 PM (No. 1749680)
The Democrats are being forced into an incredibly ironic position.
They have to assassinate three people .
Sniffer will be heavily juiced so that he resembles being alive. Sooner rather than later his cork will pop the last time. Enough meth and benzos can do anything.
Cackling Kammy will be touring the presidential bunker and "accidentally" get stuck in the 60 ton blast door.
DJT better steer clear of grassy knolls, book repositories, and afghans on the 10th floor with a muzzle loading, single shot flintlock long rifle.
The Democrats vitally need a reboot and this is the only way. Take out ALL the players and start over. The deep state has no problem with any of this. They've done it before. Again has arrived.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
chillijilli 7/4/2024 2:43:40 PM (No. 1749691)
Remember this Hillary ad?
"It's 3am and your children are safe and asleep. Who do you want answering the phone?"
Not Biden, not an age thing. Old people can answer the phone and you can normally believe what they say. Demented people likely can't answer the phone @ 3a and you probably cannot trust the accuracy of what they say.
Hillary slaps down Joe, from afar. PIAPS' words. They always come back to haunt her.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Venturer 7/4/2024 3:46:23 PM (No. 1749733)
We may not be able to afford it , but we've got it.
In fact we don't have any President at all unless it's Obama and Dr. Jill.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mushroom 7/4/2024 4:23:58 PM (No. 1749748)
Oddly enough, isn't that pretty much the hours of all government "services"? Seems we only need them to be there so we can pay fees for the privilege of daily living.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 7/4/2024 5:00:19 PM (No. 1749763)
It is the dem lust for power and their visceral hatred of Trump that has put them in this position. Trump has slowly deconstructed dems since he started to ascend the presidential stage. First, he went after the propaganda media. Since he did, their credibility has almost disappeared and many outlets are on the verge of closing. To be sure, it has been their own actions that have doomed them but Trump kept the spotlight on their failures.
Next, he slaughtered many dem sacred cows, for example, significantly lowering taxes to free the economy. Not only did personal wealth increase but more economic activity actually increased the over tax revenue collected. Win-Win. Basically, he proved the dem anti American way of doing things did not work and that MAGA way DID.
Also, he rebuilt the federal courts, especially the SCOTUS, by appointing Conservative judges. That has paid enormous dividends, especially lately, as their decisions have gutted the power of the deep state and beaten off attacks against the presidency, in the persona of Trump himself. While the striking down of Roe-Wade was a great moral victory and reestablished Constitutional law, the recent decisions returning proper balance between the branches of government completely undermines dem actions.
The Left loathes Trump for the nearly fatal blows he has struck against them. Their lies and attacks have poisoned the thinking of the independent electorate. If we had gotten to this point of Biden's collapse with any other Republican besides Trump, the republican would be ahead by huge margins. Unfortunately, the dems vile actions against Trump have made it difficult for him to build support among independents, who are unsure and believe some aspects of the lies.
I suspect that the dems will eventually try to dump Biden. It will be messy, especially if Biden fights it, and there are legal blockades in the primary process that may make it almost impossible to change horses. They have only 4 months to connect to the public with a replacement and their propaganda media was as gravely wounded as Biden. Who will message for them? Who will believe them?
It will be an interesting 4 months to November.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 7/4/2024 5:15:13 PM (No. 1749767)
The problem is that OTHER PEOPLE are doing "official acts" while perporting to be "the president" because Joe is out of the loop most of the time. Periodically they put a stack of papers in front of him and he signs them, probably after Jill says something like "I looked at them Joe, they are good, you should sign them."
Who is actually making most decisions? Joe isn't. Jill probably is doing a lot, and then "staff" are probably doing most of the "being president" in day to day stuff.
NOT LEGAL, and not right.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mifla 7/5/2024 5:21:29 AM (No. 1749967)
Especially one who is on vacation 40% of the time.
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