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Subject: Biden 2024 Tue Apr 25, 2023 2:04 pm
So, he finally committed to running again, even though every poll says NO WAY!!!
Let's Talk About Joe Biden's Ominous Campaign Slogan
If there was anything that stuck out to me in Joe Biden’s campaign announcement was the apparent campaign slogan “Finish the Job.”
“Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for their fundamental freedoms. I believe this is ours,” Biden said in his announcement. “That’s why I’m running for reelection as President of the United States. Join us. Let’s finish the job.”
The slogan is also prominently displayed on his refreshed campaign website and social media accounts. This is not the first time he’s used the slogan, as it was used repeatedly during his 2023 State of the Union address. It’s a bizarre slogan, in my opinion, because when I hear the phrase “finish the job,” I think of hitmen and organized crime. This phrase is often used to refer to the completion of a contracted killing or a violent task assigned by a criminal organization, be it in real life or in Hollywood. We’ve seen the phrase in this context in movies and TV shows depicting hitmen as ruthless and cold-blooded criminals who are willing to do whatever it takes to complete their tasks. The phrase has also been used in real-life criminal cases and investigations involving hitmen and organized crime.
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Subject: Re: Biden 2024 Tue Apr 25, 2023 2:11 pm
80-year-old Biden will announce with ‘finish the job’ as slogan By JOE BATTENFELD | joe.battenfeld@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald April 22, 2023 at 6:40 a.m.
With the ominous sounding slogan of “finish the job,” Joe Biden plans to announce his re-election campaign next week as nearly half of Democratic voters in key states want him to step aside.
The reality is that Democrats are stuck with the 80-year-old president in 2024, unless you count Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s vanity campaign – which his own family has disavowed.
And Republicans are likely going to have 76-year-old Donald Trump as their nominee, meaning that 2024 will be a rematch of 2020 – only both will be four years older and shakier.
Biden is saddled with a 52% disapproval rating and will be 86 if he finishes a second term, making him by far the oldest president in history. But the mainstream media continues to gloss over questions about his fitness for office.
In Ireland last week, Biden struggled to answer a simple question from a child.
“What’s the top step to success?” the child asked.
“What’s the top what?” Biden responded, then had to get his son Hunter to explain the question.
Biden’s shakiness is probably the reason why his advisers have him announcing his re-election next week in a video, where he won’t have to face questions. It’s scheduled to drop on Tuesday, the four-year anniversary of his 2020 launch.
The president also reportedly plans a big meeting with mega-donors after his announcement, to give the appearance that Democratic heavy hitters are united behind him.
It’s notable that Biden doesn’t appear to be launching a nationwide tour or meeting with ordinary voters after his announcement, part of a strategy to keep him out of potential trouble.
But you can’t ignore the numbers. Biden will enter the campaign with serious weaknesses, just 43% approving of his performance. That includes an astonishing 67% disapproval rate among independent voters.
Even among his base, Biden’s support is squishy at best. Less than seven in ten Democrats say he deserves to be re-elected.
In New Hampshire – where Democrats have dropped its first-in-the-nation status – nearly half of Democratic voters don’t want a second act.
Biden also announces next week with his son Hunter under investigation on multiple fronts and the president himself under investigation for his handling of top secret documents found at his home and garage.
Biden’s reelection team is reportedly interviewing top staffers this week, but his message is already set.
“We should stand behind him to finish the job,” an ad from a Biden super PAC running in key swing states declares.
But voters might be asking, what has Biden done exactly to finish?
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Subject: Re: Biden 2024 Tue Apr 25, 2023 5:55 pm
Why is Biden announcing 2024 bid now, and what will change? Associated Press | WILL WEISSERT Tue, April 25, 2023 at 5:00 AM MDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has formally announced he's seeking reelection. But he's also still the president, with roughly 20 months left in his term regardless of whether he wins a second one on Election Day 2024.
With Tuesday's campaign video release, Biden is following through on months of saying he intended to seek reelection. Top Democrats have remained solidly unified behind the president, despite his low approval ratings and many Americans saying they'd rather not see the 80-year-old Biden try for four more years in the White House.
But all that has meant Biden faced relatively little pressure to make his 2024 bid official. Here's a look at why he announced now and how things will, and won't, change for him going forward:
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WHY NOW?
A formal reelection announcement means the president is now allowed to raise money directly for his campaign. It's a change from his speeches at donor events benefiting the Democratic National Committee or other outside political groups that he has given since entering the White House.
Biden will spend campaign funds on salaries and logistics building out a 2024 staff and holding events outside his official presidential business. He plans to have dinner in Washington on Friday with leading Democratic donors and DNC leaders, paying special attention to those who write big checks to ensure his reelection campaign stays well funded.
Some party donors and organizers had begun grumbling about a lack of movement on the reelection front, and the announcement, followed by Friday's gathering, will allow the president to reassure them.
Another reason why Biden waited until April was that it allowed him to avoid releasing publicly how much his reelection campaign raised during the year's first quarter. That's when donors typically slow down their contributions — and some top Democratic givers wanted a break after a busy election season during last fall's midterms and before next year's presidential race kicks into high gear.
President Barack Obama waited to announce his 2012 reelection bid until early April of the previous year. Tuesday also marks the fourth anniversary of Biden's announcement of his 2020 presidential campaign.
President Donald Trump, meanwhile, first filed for reelection on Jan. 20, 2017, the day of his inauguration, and held his first campaign rally in February 2017. But his second White House campaign didn't formally kick off until June 2019 with an Orlando, Florida, rally that fell roughly four years after he first entered the 2016 presidential race.
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WHAT ABOUT HIS AGE?
Biden is the oldest president in U.S. history and would be 86 by the end of a second term. He has acknowledged that age is a “legitimate" concern but scoffed at questions about whether he will have the stamina for another campaign, much less four more years in the White House. “Watch me," he has repeatedly declared.
Voters will now get the chance to do just that — but that is unlikely to make such questions go away.
Republicans have often highlighted Biden's age, and even some Democrats have questioned whether the president is living up to promises he made during the 2020 campaign to be a “bridge” to a new generation of leadership.
One Republican running for president, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, has called for mental competency testing for candidates over 75 — a category that would include both Biden and Trump, who announced his own 2024 campaign in November. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre brushed aside such testing, noting that Biden helped lead Democrats to a surprisingly strong midterm showing.
“Maybe they’re forgetting the wins the president got over the past few years, but I’m happy to remind them anytime,” Jean-Pierre said in February.
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WILL SEEKING REELECTION CHANGE HOW BIDEN HANDLES BEING PRESIDENT?
There won't be big changes, Biden aides insist, at least for now.
The president is still hosting South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at the White House for a state dinner on Wednesday and planning overseas travel later this summer. As he has done in recent months, Biden also will continue to hit the road domestically to highlight legislation his administration helped push through Congress.
Biden has already visited many parts of the country, highlighting how a bipartisan public works package will help repair roads, highways, bridges, ports and train tunnels and how increased federal spending approved as part of other legislation will bolster U.S. manufacturing, lower prescription drug prices and improve broadband internet access in rural areas.
Such events often blur the line between official business and promoting the president and his party politically, and the distinction will only get murkier going forward.
Since the weeks leading up to the midterms, Biden has frequently denounced “extreme" Republicans loyal to Trump's “Make America Great Again” movement as posing a threat to America's core democracy. It's a message he will continue to champion as the 2024 race begins heating up.
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WILL BIDEN HAVE TO COMPETE FOR THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION?
Probably not much.
Self-help author Marianne Williamson and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are the only Democrats to challenge the president. Neither of them presents the type of primary opposition that wounded previous incumbents, such as Sen. Ted Kennedy's campaign against President Jimmy Carter in 1980 or Pat Buchanan's run against President George H.W. Bush in 1992.
The DNC is so fully committed to Biden this year that it is not planning to schedule primary debates, sparing the president from sharing a stage with Williamson, Kennedy or any other potential challenger.
Also benefiting Biden is the fact that South Carolina's primary is set to replace Iowa's caucuses in leading off the Democratic primary voting next year. Biden revived his 2020 campaign after losing the first three contests with a resounding South Carolina primary victory, and he personally directed that the state go first in 2024 — solidifying his popularity among Democrats there. That may counterbalance Democrats' deep ambivalence to Biden elsewhere.
An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll last week found that only 26% of Americans — and only about half of Democrats — said they wanted to see Biden run again. But the poll found that 81% of Democrats said they would at least probably support the president in a general election.
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WHO WILL BIDEN'S REPUBLICAN OPPONENT BE?
Trump is the 2024 Republican presidential field's early leader, setting up a potential general election rematch with Biden.
Although Trump announced his bid back in November, the rest of the 2024 Republican primary field has been slow to form around him. The only other declared GOP candidates in the race include Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchison, businessman Perry Johnson, “Woke, Inc.” author Vivek Ramaswamy and radio host Larry Elder.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is widely expected to be a leading Trump alternative but is in no hurry to announce his campaign. Also expected to join the race but not officially in yet are former Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina.
Biden's political team has for months been preparing to face Trump again. But even if an alternative like DeSantis wins the GOP nomination, Biden's aides argue, many of the same criticisms about adherence to MAGA extremism apply since so many top Republicans agree with Trump on key policy and social issues.
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Subject: Re: Biden 2024 Thu Apr 27, 2023 2:38 pm
Sith Lord of Rudeness wrote:
The rudeness is very strong in GeorgePapa19. LOL.
What's interesting to me is, I don't follow his channel, yet his tweets always show up in my YAHOO daily email feed, as do a few more conservative tweeters.
Can we say - algorithms are in play???
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Subject: Re: Biden 2024 Thu Apr 27, 2023 5:29 pm
The Wise And Powerful wrote:
Sith Lord of Rudeness wrote:
The rudeness is very strong in GeorgePapa19. LOL.
What's interesting to me is, I don't follow his channel, yet his tweets always show up in my YAHOO daily email feed, as do a few more conservative tweeters.
Can we say - algorithms are in play???
Big brother wants to make sure you get your entertainment.
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Subject: Re: Biden 2024 Sun Apr 30, 2023 2:24 am
Sith Lord of Rudeness wrote:
Big brother wants to make sure you get your entertainment.
Speaking of entertaining, this video made by Vitriol is so good, I had to poast it twice!!!
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Subject: Re: Biden 2024 Sun Apr 30, 2023 2:54 am
Biden jokes about his age at White House Correspondents' Dinner BBC | 4 hours ago
US President Joe Biden said 92-year-old tycoon Rupert Murdoch made him look like singer Harry Styles, and joked that he was friends with one of the US founding fathers, James Madison, at an annual press dinner.
The president traditionally faces friendly jibes in front of journalists at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Mr Biden, aged 80, has announced he plans to run for re-election, and took aim at critics who think he is too old to do so.
What the fuck I just saw a Joe Biden campaign commercial on television. Good thing it made me throw up because if I weren't busy puking I would have thrown my remote through the screen. The election isn't for another 18 months for crap's sake.
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Subject: Re: Biden 2024 Mon May 01, 2023 11:00 am
elsewhere, Oliver Clotheshoffe wrote:
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Subject: Re: Biden 2024 Mon May 01, 2023 11:05 am
BTW, since YouTube doesn't allow people to view how many dislikes a video has, the Firefox browser has an addon feature that shows dislikes:
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Subject: Re: Biden 2024 Fri May 26, 2023 12:51 pm
< shaking head >
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Joe Biden Finally Gets It: Kamala Harris Is the Key to 2024 Philip Elliott | Time Fri, May 26, 2023 at 10:53 AM MDT·5 min read
Kamala Harris this week had clearly, finally, and decisively earned a piece of the action. It sure took long enough.
After two years on the sidelines, carrying garbage headlines and defending some fairly patently indefensible policies, the Vice President merited a good news cycle befitting her role in helping President Joe Biden make inroads with women—specifically, women of color—and delivering him the White House. So this week, the ex-Senator made a quick stop back home in California to help roll out what is being billed as the world’s largest semiconductor site, a direct product of the Biden Administration’s successful push for $53 billion for new tech manufacturing included in last year’s CHIPS and Science Act.
At long last, Harris got to spike a football in her home end zone. It was a subtle sign that the West Wing is finally starting to understand that the—at best—benign neglect afforded to the Office of the Vice President for much of Biden’s term may spell trouble for his prospects next year.
When a sitting President runs for a second term, the role of the Vice President can be a tricky one. It’s as if the voters are asked to cast two ballots: one for the top of the ticket, and one for the back-up plan. It gets even dicier when the incumbent President is the oldest ever to try again.
To be sure, Harris is starting from an unenviable place. For the last two years, leaks and sniping from the West Wing dogged her and her team. Turnover was rampant, morale ebbed more than it flowed, and missteps were amplified by those looking for trouble. Harris, for her part, did herself few favors with some standout flubs during interviews and speeches. Biden’s team did her even dirtier, saddling her with the politically impossible task of dealing with the immigration crisis on the U.S.-Mexican border even as it was unclear day to day whether the White House would treat it as anything more than an annoying hiccup.
Slowly, though, Biden’s team has started to realize they might be unable to stay in power if they can’t use Harris in strategic ways—and move her away from no-win tasks like migration and give her spots where she can credibly make the case. Abortion rights, for one, has given her a sweet spot. Voting rights is another. And, as was the case in her native California, the up-sides of domestic spending plans like the CHIPS Act can give the Silicon Valley workers—and tech donors—reasons to stick with Biden.
All VPs go through such a tension, especially if they have political ambitions of their own. People lacking ambition seldom set up shop on the west front of the West Wing, where the VP’s ceremonial offices are. But usually, the gray-haired old men around an incumbent President realize their own obits are tied to the fortunes of the person sitting in the VP’s office; Biden’s team has sat in those club chairs before but somehow missed that Harris is now the heir to their boss’ own legacy.
At the grand opening in California, Haris spoke effusively about how “semiconductors are the brain of modern technology,” and “essential to every electronic device that we currently use.”
It was all plenty bland, but soaring rhetoric wasn’t exactly needed when Applied Materials’ $4 billion investment is expected to employ 1,500 construction workers to get the 180,000-square-foot facility up and running, and then host 2,000 engineering jobs once open. It represents the single biggest upgrade to American chip capacity of late, and it’s merely one more proof point that the Biden team can cite as it prepares to seek a second term next year. And, there in Silicon Valley, Harris was finally getting cut into the victory laps that the White House for more than two years seemed to routinely deny their own understudy.
It took seemingly forever for the Office of the Vice President to get looped in, but as is the case in Washington, in the words of one of her biggest boosters, “it’s better late than never.” Scoreboards only really matter when the crowds shuffle out of a stadium; anything seen before that is a snapshot that misses the tension of an ongoing contest. Harris at long last getting her due can only be seen as a hint of a reboot in an administration that has for way, way too long missed that one of their biggest assets has been stuck in neutral in the driveway.
From the start, Harris’ relationship with Biden was an awkward one. She made headlines early in the campaign by attacking Biden’s record on desegregation only to concede it was a stunt without substance. Biden’s pledge to pick a woman as his running mate left him with a handful of options, and Harris’ moment to plug into the Biden orbit was far from smooth. The President, frankly, needed Harris far more than she needed him, but she smartly bided her time with Biden, and it’s finally paying off.
In a perverse way, Harris has never had more power inside the cozy boys’ club of Biden’s making. If the President is going to seize a second term, he needs Harris and all that she represents, the doors that she opens, and the symbolism incumbent on her very existence. There is exactly a zero-percent chance he can win a second term without her, the OVP knows this, and is finally starting to flex its clout after two years of patiently watching the team across the alley operate in a cloud of dismissiveness, paranoia, and delusion.
The task at hand now is fixing the fractured relationship between the two political teams that nominally share an interest in having Harris as a player, both now and into the future. To get across the finish line. Biden might have to not only boost Harris in the short term, but fully embrace that his legacy will be wrapped up in her legacy for the balance of his life.
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Subject: Re: Biden 2024 Thu Jun 01, 2023 4:51 pm
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Subject: Re: Biden 2024 Fri Jun 02, 2023 9:33 am
I'm sure you've all seen the videos of Biden Falling down during the graduation ceremony at the Air Force Academy on Thursday, but look closely at this pic.
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