Re: Spin Cycle: The Fix Is In, And There Was No Fix

On 5/19/2025 10:52 AM, Rhino wrote:

On 2025-05-19 1:03 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Crosspost to newsgroups Ubi doesn't read cut
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Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On 2025-05-19 5:02 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

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Here's the citation to the story that Ubi the shithead plagarized.
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Spin Cycle: The Fix Is In, And There Was No Fix:
They committed to the narrative...
By Virginia Kruta
The Daily Wire
May 19, 2025
https://www.dailywire.com/news/spin-cycle-the-fix-is-in-and-there-was-no-fix >
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With just days to go before the release of "Original Sin" -- a book exploring
former President Joe Biden's obvious cognitive decline from Jake Tapper (CNN)
and Alex Thompson (Axios) -- everyone on the Sunday political shows was
talking about Biden, who knew what, and when they knew it.

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For those who don't spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television --
and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week's worth of
network and cable news media spin -- The Daily Wire has compiled a short
summary of what you may have missed.

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Rep. James Clyburn took things to a whole different level on CNN's "State of
the Union," telling anchor Jake Tapper that he wasn't even sure Biden would
be incapable of serving a second term in the White House.

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"Yes, I thought [he could serve another term] back then. I still think that,
but I don't know that," he said.

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    .@RepJamesClyburn on whether he still believes President Biden could
    have served another term: "Yes, I thought that back then. I still
    think that, but I don't know that." pic.twitter.com/hfRtH5REyl

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    -- State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) May 18, 2025

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As to Biden's disastrous debate performance, Clyburn continued to play
defense. "Whether or not that was just an incident or whether that was a
condition that was being kept from people, we have no way of knowing which
one was true," he claimed.

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    .@RepJamesClyburn reflects on Biden's disastrous 2024 debate
    performance: "Whether or not that was just an incident or whether
    that was a condition that was being kept from people, we have no way
    of knowing which one was true." pic.twitter.com/Sso7mSltX0

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    -- State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) May 18, 2025

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Is it too late to charge Dr. Jill with elder abuse?

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For the record, Dr Jill is a PHD, not an MD. So there's nothing to charge her with.

I don't suppose there's anything that can be done legally about the
media lies about Biden being sharp as a tack but that probably doesn't
matter. We know now that they are shameless liars and their credibility
has suffered a well-earned decline. They are surely aware of that as
their ratings/sales fall ever further.

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I don't see much of an effort to clean up their acts either: they still
seem determined to gaslight the public with yet more of the same
hysteria that they greeted every word and action uttered by Trump and
his people in his first term. They only calm down when a Democrat is in
the White House and they can go into full-time fluffer mode.

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It's fine though. They are destroying themselves so here's hoping
they're completely irrelevant in the near future.

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You might have noticed that America works poorly with two irrelevant
national political parties.
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You're not going to learn anything about the book from those talking
heads. They're the target of the book. I listened to radio interviews
with the authors. It was quite disturbing. David Plouffe spoke on record;
no one else did. Most recently, he managed Kamala's campaign.
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The "original sin" of the title was not letting Biden have his choice
for running mate -- Gretchen Whitmer -- after the death of George Floyd.
No one in his administration wanted to work with Kamala and no one
thought she was ready to be president nor win an election.

 But Harris was "black" so that seemed like an obvious vote-getter with the Democrats' traditional base, even though a lot of blacks see her as more South Asian than one of them. Either way, lots of obvious virtue-signalling points for including Harris on the ticket. Too bad she was such an unlikable candidate. In any case, America really dodged a bullet when she failed to excite the electorate.
 The Dems have only themselves to blame for their president parlous state. They ended up running Biden when he was well past his prime because he was the only one who had a chance against Comrade Bernie and then saddled him with Harris who was much more an anchor than a sail. They must have seen how depleted Biden was because they hid him away as much as they could and counted on their allies in the media to deny his decline. Then they staged that first debate with Trump months earlier than usual and finally EVERYONE could see that Biden didn't have another term in him.
 Personally, I think that debate happened so early because the people pulling his strings were certain he was too far gone to run again but hadn't been able to convince him - and Dr. Jill - that he was done so they had the debate BECAUSE they knew he would shit the bed AND BE SEEN TO HAVE DONE SO. It was so bad that they were finally able to get the House and Senate to (largely) abandon him. Finally, Biden understood that he was done and stepped aside.
 But then, rather than having a proper convention to choose a new candidate from among several prospects, they essentially appointed Harris. I don't really understand how that happened and can only speculate that none of the other potential candidates thought they had a chance of winning from a start that close to Election Day and just decided to give it to Harris unopposed. They raised a bunch of money and gave it to her, she blew it all, but failed to impress as a candidate.
 The Democrats messed up all the way along by not building a bench of potential candidates going back to Obama's time in office. Everything else follows from that.