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Subject: Re: Spin Cycle: The Fix Is In, And There Was No Fix
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On 2025-05-19 3:52 PM, shawn wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2025 13:52:59 -0400, Rhino
> <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-05-19 1:03 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>> Crosspost to newsgroups Ubi doesn't read cut
>>>
>>> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2025-05-19 5:02 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:
>>>
>>> Here's the citation to the story that Ubi the shithead plagarized.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>>> . . .
>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>>> "Yes, I thought [he could serve another term] back then. I still think that,
>>>>> but I don't know that," he said.
>>>
>>>>> 	.@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
>>>
>>>>> 	-- State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) May 18, 2025
>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>>> 	.@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
>>>
>>>>> 	-- State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) May 18, 2025
>>>
>>>>> . . .
>>>
>>>> Is it too late to charge Dr. Jill with elder abuse?
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>> It's fine though. They are destroying themselves so here's hoping
>>>> they're completely irrelevant in the near future.
>>>
>>> You might have noticed that America works poorly with two irrelevant
>>> national political parties.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
> 
> She was but then Whitmer was also female so I don't know why she
> wasn't allowed to be chosen as running mate or even who is going to
> have that power.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> It's not clear to me that the fault lies with the Democrats in power
> as some of what I've read suggested that it was the inner core around
> Biden who did their utmost to keep any weaknesses of Biden hidden from
> everyone, not just the public. It's too bad they couldn't get Biden to
> step aside so the Dems could have had a real race for the Presidency
> to get a good candidate.
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> 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 timing is why I always assumed they went with Harris. She already
> had a campaign set up for her by taking over the Biden campaign. If
> Biden had stepped aside months earlier I think they would have had a
> proper convention to choose another 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.
> 
> True, and I can't say the Republicans are doing any better. There are
> clearly no standout replacements for Trump when you have people
> strongly suggest Vance should be his replacement.

I've heard definite enthusiasm for both Vance and Rubio as Trump's 
successors. I don't know if any of the rest of his cabinet or major 
appointments is similarly favoured.

Personally, I've always preferred Ted Cruz over Trump and some of the 
other senators like Hawley and Kennedy seem very good in hearings; I 
don't know if they have the chops to be President though.


-- 
Rhino