What is there to defend? No one has actually accused the elder or younger Biden of anything they can argue against. That’s the hellish genius behind the GOP’s character-assassination campaigns over the last ten years: They don’t WANT to accuse anyone of anything concrete. Instead they ask ominous-sounding questions.
- Where are the servers?
- Where are the missing emails?
- What’s on the missing emails?
- What do these people get in return for a meeting?
- What was Hunter Biden doing that was so shady?
- What did Joe Biden do to help his kid?
Most of the questions can be answered by some variation of “there’s nothing to see here”, but it doesn’t matter since (a) the answer isn’t the dramatic reveal that everyone wants it to be and (b) it won’t stop them from asking the same thing over and over and over and over again.
Scott’s question is more valuable: If Joe’s great friends he’s made across the aisle are supposed to be his great asset here, then their cowardly silence certainly lowers his net worth.
HumanTon
5429
(scratches head) “Even on Bill Maher?” Maher is the king of bothersiderism. He’s just snarkier about it than most of his ilk.
Rock8man
5430
I agree, but usually he has on at least one guest who pushes back. That’s why I was surprised that neither of his two liberal guests spoke up in defense of Biden. They even muttered that it was inappropriate or something.
Timex
5431
There aren’t any actual allegations against Biden.
You can see this is the argument Jim Jordan tried to make that Tapper called him on… What crime did he commit? There isn’t any that anyone can actually name. It’s just like, “he got paid a lot for a job that he probably wasn’t qualified for, because he’s the soon if a rich politician”.
Seriously? TRUMP?
I mean, he’s relentlessly anti Trump and has said repeatedly that he wishes for a recession if it will help Trump lose in the next election. He also believes Trump will never leave office and that his presidency amounts to a “slow moving coup.” Maher says some stupid shit, and he’s not always on the same page as most Democrats, but he routinely says the Democrats are the only sane party left. I guess you can find stuff in there to label both-siderism but you can’t say he hasn’t planted a flag.
antlers
5433
Perhaps instead of “bothsiderism” one might say Maher is guilty of “dull-witted cynicism”.
Tim_N
5434
Maher’s top issue is climate change and the environment (at least the last few years), and uses his platform to remind viewers how most other issues are dwarfed by this dying elephant in the room. Never seen him bring in a climate denialist either.
That is indeed a better description.
This is an excellent description.
Far too often, Maher’s show devolves into the dumbest of drive-time talk radio lowest-common-denominator idiocy, mostly because that’s what Bill’s limited intellectual capacity seems able to handle. It seems to him that being a cynical dullard is somehow the same thing as intellectual heft.
Just goes to show how many people all over the world truly love DJT and America!!
This set of circumstances is less than ideal.
That’s the understatement of the year.
I was just pondering all this yesterday, and how a very simple, obvious case of the US President seeking help from a foreign government to discredit a political rival is being buried in a campaign of obfuscation/diversion/whataboutism by Trump and his defenders, and thinking that our country doesn’t work anymore because everyone just chooses the mental reality they want to live in.
MikeJ
5441
“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.”
Trump administration to Wisconsin dairy farmers: drop dead
Posted in this thread because, while it’s hardly surprising to hear a Perdue praise factory farming, it is kinda surprising to hear a cabinet official tell supporters in a must-win state for their boss that they can go screw.
Hope this isn’t too serious. That there’s little detail to it, however, suggests that this wasn’t planned or expected.
Details:
Stents aren’t too difficult to recover from, especially for a guy in Bernie’s health.
MikeJ
5444
My impression has been that running for president is physically gruelling, even for much younger people. I hope he’s not pushing his schedule too hard.
It absolutely is grueling.
But I think an awful lot of doctors would tell you that if you have an arterial blockage such that it becomes noticeable through chest pain, and you are 78 years old, a stent procedure is probably the very best possible outcome.
But you’re right: concern is warranted. The schedule is tough.
Things that make you go hmm
Skipper
5447
Whoa … is he backing out?
