By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
McALLEN, Texas |...Real Newsmen know the drill. The story will be taken to its end and then it'll make a predictable turn. For now, the Press is all over President Joe Biden after a woeful Debate One performance. Soon enough, that same press will switch its aim and point their guns on flawed Republican Donald J. Trump.
Bank it.
We've been there. Newsrooms will buzz up the angles and editors will call meetings. The Story of The Day is never the Story of The Year. Democrats know it, as do Republicans. The week's punching bag has a habit of being you for now and him next week.
Biden will likely survive the media's call that he leave the campaign. He's 81, see. Too old and visibly painful to watch and hear. Photos show an old man trying to hang on, his dutiful wife at his side, some pundits saying she whispers answers in his ear during interviews. It's a horrible optic.
But the plot twists in politics are part of the journey. Every candidate knows there will be good and bad weeks. One misstep and all will be on his/her case. A rebound of sorts will follow, as supporters rush to the scene of the crash. New Ads and speeches clear the way for a comeback.
Joe Biden has been there many times before. And the press has been there with him.
Donald Trump is enjoying the lack of media attention, but it won't last.
American politics is a seesaw. One hour you may be up, but the next one will have you down. Opponents will lob criticism grenades at you while you're down. It's called "The Test" and mettle of a candidate for public office. You see it in local and state elections, but kit is magnified at the national level.
Come September, the same tireless news media that is hounding Democrat Joe Biden now will have exhausted themselves of Biden stories and openly head for new meat. That hamburger will be Trump and his campaign.
Yes, the media trailed Trump for most of the year prior to Biden's debate stumble, as it should have.
This daily assault on Biden, however, is merely a break.
Know this: Donald Trump will be sunk in the Fall...No news reporter wants a dictator...
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The worm will turn on him.
DeleteWhere's Melania?
DeleteOh, Melania knows.....
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DeleteWould it be possible for the media to actually *report* that rather than running around with their hair on fire?
ReplyDeleteEcho that.
Deletemedia swings from side to side. As this article says, they'll be back on Trump's ass soon.........
DeleteI took an oath to defend our constitution and our country, back in 1971, and I meant every word. That includes the right to free speech, even if I don't like what they say. Rabid patriotism like these MAGA clowns exhibit is just wrong and creates more problems than it solves. Former US Navy submarine sailor here.
ReplyDeleteVoters decide the election. Donors decide the candidate. If Biden steps aside, it will be for one reason and one reason only. He lost the donors.
ReplyDeleteSince when is committing espionage an OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL ACT???
ReplyDeleteRemember when Navy father & son Walker went straight to jail. I am beyond angry!!!
White Supremacist Project 2025 has a fundamental misunderstanding of what this country is and always has been. They're not in the process of taking it back. It was never what they purportedly want it to be like.
ReplyDeleteThey would be better off buying their own country and turning it into whatever they want.
Project 2025 would send Mayra Flores back to Mexico!!!
DeleteMayra's done. Congressman Gonzalez has the whammy on her. Mayra looks at him and sees a real college education, the kind she wishes she had. She'll lose big time again!!!
DeleteWho cares if Biden is a little forgetful or has trouble finding words. We'll still have the government that is the envy of the world, while with Trump that government will be overturned, and with them revoking most of our rights, we may never get it back again.
ReplyDeleteWhy doesn’t President Biden get rid of the Supreme Court? He’s got all the power now.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the crime rate would be lower if Trump and his colleagues stopped committing them.
ReplyDeleteHow many of Trump's administration are in prison or lost their law license? Yeah.
DeleteFrom 2025's goal. " collectively, pave the way for an effective conservative Administration." The concept of "collectively" is leftist by nature. But because neither side knows anything about conservative or liberal, neither side sees the problem.
ReplyDeleteThis what Democrats really need to do now: Be like Republicans and stick with Biden. This is critical. Stop fighting.
ReplyDeleteRacist hyperbole and King Crazypants’ clownery may be media gold in a free country. Under the Trump empire, journalism will be a crime punishable by death without trial.
ReplyDeleteI'll be damned if I leave a dictatorship to my grandchild.
ReplyDeleteChilling thought.
DeleteI cannot stand what this country is becoming.
ReplyDeleteHear that more and more.
DeleteBiden clearly has good days and bad days and wretched days. Again, it’s fair to interrogate whether such a person should be president. But it’s unfair - or at least inaccurate - to reduce Biden to his debate performance alone.
ReplyDeleteTrump cannot win without a large percentage of voters backing him under the false belief he's "not so bad." The more they find out about what he intends to do in office, the more will have second thoughts about risking another Trump term.
ReplyDeleteTrump vs. U.S
ReplyDeleteTrump vs. Democracy
Trump vs. Human decency
Trump vs. Freedom
Trump vs. Truth
Trump vs. ALL OF US
Congress now considering the new Farm Bill. Republicans want to cut food stamps....................
ReplyDeleteCan’t wait for the day when Donald Trump’s name and voice will never be heard from again.
ReplyDeleteQuestion: What would Republicans do if the President were pregnant and was put-on long-term bed rest? Fred Mcmurrey played the VP with a pregnant wife as president. Let's see how the Republics do with VP Harris' husband testing + for Covid. No one believes Biden would survive Covid. As to VP Harris she is past her time to have a baby. But maybe the Democrats need to argue would the Republicans demand the President step down if she were pregnant?
ReplyDeleteImagine the excuses that will come from Trump when he loses again in Nov
ReplyDeleteOh, he's already said it will be rigged if he loses.
DeleteThe governing has been great. What we need right now is much better campaigning. And simpler, better speaking and focus on the messages that really matter, and which will give people the kick in the ass they need to wake up to this threat.
ReplyDeleteWithout that, you don’t win and get to keep governing. It isn’t happening enough right now.
And what will hit us instead is a nightmare.
Democrats need to fall in line and stop this goddamn scattering all around.
ReplyDeletestay in the race, Joe! Please - stay in the race!
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ReplyDeleteJoe's got this. He's got Kamala on his team. She's his backup. My confidence is with both of them.
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump cannot jail Liz Cheney and others and get away with it. Come on, the American people wouldn't allow it!!!
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