Saturday, July 13, 2024

Sarah Kendzior on the Biden/Trump debate

I still haven’t watched it, because watching Biden and Trump is like staring straight at the sun. Or in Biden’s case, an eclipse: a retina-destroying entity that doesn’t burn you outright but kills your ability to see. “Dark Brandon” was an eclipse all along.

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Ghost Biden may still be your preferred pick. This is because the other candidate is a pathological liar who spent his life in organized crime before committing sedition, and then getting immunity when no one — not Congress, not the January 6 committee, not the DOJ, not the very president he tried to overthrow — used the legal means granted to them to contain him in time.

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Because Trump is widely loathed, beating him should have been easy — in the debate, and in the 2024 election. All Biden had to do was remain marginally coherent and not do something unforgivably sadistic.

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It is telling that bombing the debate instead of bombing the children of Gaza was the dealbreaker for Biden’s backers.

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Biden’s cult is so loyal that they [...] stressed the importance of voting for Biden again, so he can let down America with less surprise next time.

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Blame the media, blame the lighting, but above all, blame yourself — blame yourself, voter, you did not vote hard enough! Blame yourself for having expectations! Blame yourself for being betrayed.

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Biden now sounds more like Trump. Under pressure to leave both the presidency and the race, he has proclaimed that he is the only one who can fix things, that his tenure is determined by God, that the polls are lying, and that he is the target of an elite plot. His skin is now dyed a deep unnatural tan.

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Back in November, I called Biden “The Placeholder President”, installed to fill the gap between two terms of Trump, and make Trump’s vicious policies palatable to liberals.

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“I'll feel as long as I gave it my all and I did the goodest job as I know I can do, that's what this is about,” says Biden. From his vantage point, it doesn’t matter what happens to America, but only to him.

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Despite his recent moves, Biden and Trump are not the same. It is essential for their mutual backers, and those backers’ plans, that they are different. Trump is the abuser, and Biden is the enabler. This is more effective than overt tyranny.

Abusers are challenged far less when parties are prioritized over people. When the abused ask for help, they are reprimanded by abuser and enabler alike.

  Sarah Kendzior
I think Biden probably said "as good a job as I know I can do," but he slurs a lot these days.  Either way, it's a telling and frightening statement.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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