As I write this intro, it is Friday morning. I usually wait until later in the day, but my life is a little bit crazy right now so I decided to get an early start on this.
So I went to see what the folks were talking about online.
It was not a great way to start my Friday.
And oh lord, the doom and gloom out there took made my head spin.
Evidently a REPUBLCAN special counsel who was appointed by TRUMP to office tried to take Biden down with classic ageism because he couldn’t take him down any other way. What a surprise (not).
Also not surprising: people seem to be losing their minds over this. Who knew that one bad news item IN FEBRUARY a good 9 months before the actual election was the end of all good things forever and ever?
I am being snarky but I get it. The stakes are really high. It is very stressful to see Biden hit on what is really his only weakness (his age) in a race that should otherwise be a cakewalk (he has been an amazing president).
Folks, if you are one of the people who got panicked about this I have a few things to say to you. 1. I get it. I really do. This is stressful. 2. It is a marathon, not a sprint. This will not be the only day in the next nine months with bad news for us. This is how it works — the press needs a story. There will also be tons of days with good news. That is how marathons go. 3. Keep your eyes on the prize. I have every faith that we will win this election. We have a great candidate. They have a terrible candidate. With our hard work (and this includes you!) we will be just fine. 4. maybe this is what we need to get us all angry enough to take off the gloves.
from Heather Cox Richardson
It may be, though, that the report has been a game changer in a different way than Hur intended it. Hur’s suggestion that Biden does not remember when his son died seems to echo the moment in the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings in which Senator McCarthy was trying to prove that the U.S. Army had been infiltrated by Communists. Sensing himself losing, McCarthy attacked on national television a young aide of Joseph Nye Welch, the lawyer defending the Army.
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“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Welch demanded. “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” McCarthy didn’t, but Americans did, and they finally threw him off the public stage.
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Biden supporters took their gloves off today, producing videos of Trump’s incoherence, gaffes, and wandering off stages, and noting that he mistook writer E. Jean Carroll, whom he sexually assaulted, for his second wife, Marla Maples, when asked to identify Carroll in a photograph. They also produced clips of Fox News Channel personalities Sean Hannity and Jesse Watters messing up names themselves on screen, and gaffes from Republican lawmakers.
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Senior communications advisor for the Biden-Harris campaign T.J. Ducklo released a statement lambasting Trump for a speech he gave tonight in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, saying: “Tonight, he lied more than two dozen times, slurred his words, confused basic facts, and placated the gun lobby weeks after telling parents to ‘get over it’ after their kids were gunned down at school. But you won’t hear about any of it if you watch cable news, read this weekend’s papers, or watch the Sunday shows.”
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But it was Biden who responded most powerfully. “There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died,” he told reporters. “How in the hell dare he raise that…. I don’t need anyone to remind me when he passed away.” And when asked about Hur’s dismissal of him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Biden responded with justified anger: “I am well-meaning, and I’m an elderly man, and I know what the hell I’m doing. I’ve been President. I put this country back on its feet.”
I’ve have seen this fire here on Dkos and elsehwere. As I write this the lead article is: Here's the thing. It's not 1980. We're not taking the smearing of Joe Biden sitting down.
Amen.
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and THIS is where the good news for the day would go.
Right here!
Unfortunately, I need to go right to the Lighter Side. Not because there wasn’t lots of good news. There was! But my MIL went into inpatient hospice care this week and it has taken my already overstuffed schedule and really destroyed it. I am really sorry that I wasn’t able to gather good news. My husband and I are the only ones to be with her, so we have added splitting time in Hospice to our already thin schedule of caring for my FIL, parenting two teenagers, a home, and two full time jobs. Plus activism. But such is life, right? The challenges and joys go hand in hand.
So I am afraid that I wasn’t able to keep up this week.
Sending you all tons of love. Now onto the Lighter Side
On the Lighter Side
I am so lucky and so proud to be in this with all of you 💓💚💛🧡✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿✊❤️🧡💛💚