The 2020 election was not between Trump and Biden.
It was between Trump and Not Trump.
So, instead of Trump, we got a serial liar and plagiarist; the epitome of an empty suit politician who has gone whichever way the winds of popular opinion have blown him for the past 40 years.
And now he has increasing vascular dementia to boot, all the while supporting policies that edge us closer to an economic catastrophe and a Third World War.
EVERYONE liked Trump when he was only a TV personality/Rich Guy; it wasn't until he took on "WithHER" that the knives came out and he became Public Enemy Number One.
Oh do not misunderstand me, I was pleased with his performance as president and I too will vote for him again. I am not impressed with any of the Republican candidates. I do like Pompeo (on everything but Ukraine) but apparently he will not run against Trump. I hold no illusions that the Dems or the executive branch career bureaucrats will allow a fair election but I think if it is Trump they will fall to new lows.
Not even popular opinion but the opinion of whoever is loudest within the Democratic Party. I was honestly surprised when he got on board with the current gender ideology but I shouldn’t have been.
My sentiments exactly. Please, please explain to me why people I’ve known for years and respected are simply unable to see this. The one thing all these people have in common is they read the NYT daily - that’s my only explanation. I’d rather put a lit cigarette in my eyeball than read the NYT.
Ben, you have nailed it, again. And in so few words. One minor correction: more like 50+ years Joe has been tacking in whatever direction he senses the political wind is blowing. That's a long time!
My sentiments exactly. Please, please explain to me why people I’ve known for years and respected are simply unable to see this. The one thing all these people have in common is they read the NYT daily - that’s my only explanation. I’d rather put a lit cigarette in my eyeball than read the NYT.
It is tough to blame anyone who has been influenced by the biggest subliminal messaging campaign in human existence. Human nature is being used against us through overload of unimportant or misleading data. Pray for them.
This moron is supposed to be a college professor who has never heard of a search engine. If he is a college professor, he is teaching a Moron U. The school for the not so bright.
you are always wrong huggy , and don´t give me this better learn to identify black folk better , I do the same with white green and yellow Huggy just suits you live with it
I will remember him as the worst President in my lifetime who doubled the price of everything, caused the deaths of 13 soldiers, torched billions of dollars literally (see Ukraine) while pushing more homelessness (with more to come due to the millions more poor coming in). Really people! ANYBODY BUT THIS JACKASS PLEASE.
We are so tired of paying double to fill up our cars: My husband, our college-aged daughter and me. She is 2 1/2 hours from home so we don’t see her as often. It adds up and I’m sick of it.
The truth is, we now pay less for gas than any other western nation. Inflation soared after the pandemic worldwide, due to supply chain and other issues. Yes, we're all sick of high prices, but it could be a hell of a lot worse-- ask France, Britain, etc.
Under Biden, inflation has come down faster in the United States than it has in other countries around the world. Let's get some perspective here.
Why settle? We saw how good it was under Trump. We’re not stupid.
I guess we also shouldn’t complain about not being able to buy a home since in most countries people can’t afford that. Those well stocked grocery stores, nah, we don’t need that. Anything else you think we should give up so that we don’t have mean tweets?
Other western nations tax gas/diesel much more, that's not a valid comparison to make. Inflation soared because we kept printing money after the lockdowns, that was a huge mistake. Now, Biden brags about cutting the deficit by $1 trillion, but that was an artificial spike of stimulus...that is directly responsible for the inflation we've had.
itś not that bad I pay $8.00 a gallon $25.00 for race fuel , the US has had it good for years get used to it , not going to get better one way or another they are going to get you into an erectric car
How about Boebert? Or MTGreene? How about that grifter DJT?
Biden is getting old, has no charisma, but is actually doing a pretty good job. And I love democracy too much to vote for the traitorous Orange Blowhard.
Sure odious Republicans exist. But don’t kid yourselves that the Dem party is interested in nothing but one party rule and moving the country toward socialism. The end justifies the means. They say that part out loud now.
Both parties suck, but the Dem party sucks orders of magnitude more in the ways that matter.
Good point. Shirley. Part of the Democrat's strategy is to cause so many problems it is hard to keep track of them. The southern border by itself is enough of a reason to reject Joe Biden's bungling
Bari - if you choose to publish patent bullshit and nonsense peddled by partisan nitwits and clowns you will soon go the way of your previous employer.
Don't waste our time.
Not only is Biden a now senile but always corrupt imbecile but he has presided over inflation that tangibly has hurt working Americans, lunatic and ruinous energy policy, divisive politics, the weaponization of the Justice Department, chaos abroad and turning our beloved nation into an international laughingstock. Worst of all - he has subverted our laws, opened our borders and unleashed a tidal wave of migrant criminals.
You are coming perilously close to losing readers like me if you think anyone with a firing neuron choses not to believe that this stumbling, bumbling clown is a national disaster.
I know, this piece is too much like the ass-kissing piece the NYT ran recently "explaining" Bidenomics to us "unwashed masses" who are too dumb to understand that our paychecks don't pay for our gas and groceries anymore!!
Divisive? Check out this interview with our Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. It’s nearly as incoherent as a Biden presser, and the chief of education in this country can’t use his pronouns correctly. Miguel, people are who, not that. You parents think you know what’s best? “Civility” is DOE code for sit down and shut up.
The pudgy little toad also brayed that he had no respect for "... people that have a problem when we’re trying to provide some support for those who are buried in debt complain about a 10 thousand dollar support for thousands of their constituents but are Ok taking over a million dollars in loan forgiveness themselves as an elected official.”
Hey Miguel, we have something in this country known as "the Constitution." It says that the power to spend our tax dollars vests in Congress - not with the senile imbecile for whom you work. Or with unelected nitwits like you.
I don't know, Bruce. I know you are one the the premier commentators here and people laud your every comment - BUT, as I read this, I thought - WOw - this site is worth the five dollars a month just for Douglas Murray's Sunday poetry offerings. If I don't have the "time" to waste reading people with whom I disagree,I can CHOOSE to go back to Middlemarch instead. I dont have to threaten Bari with her" coming perilously close to losing readers like me" I mean, Bruce, isn't it just the tiniest bit of hubris to think that before making her every editorial decisison, she should consider whether she was "wasting your time? There are other readers as I am sure you know.
You and a couple of other very popular commentators here waste MY time by your often times snarky comments - that is when I leave and go back to Middlemarch. just a thought you might reflect upon in YOUR spare time.
Fair comments and you make good points. In fact, I was musing as to whether to rein in my comments and let others opine. On the other hand, I found the Biden apologia particularly irritating because Biden's decline in mental and physical acuity is beyond peradventure and he was always mediocre, at best, to begin with. So, other than holding it up to ridicule as a example of partisan derangement, I don't get the point of Bari inflicting it on her readers.
As far as the snark......don't you consider it part of my "charm?"
I like that you wrote it so that I didn’t have to. I knew this piece was a huge joke when I saw that the author had convinced himself Biden wasn’t so bad. But of course, the election is coming up. Orange Man Bad!
As far as the poetry crap everyone is lauding, thats entertainment/lifestyle. Is that what is unique about TFP? We can find that anywhere else.
Bari, I’m one of your first subscribers. Get back to being critical of both sides. This piece totally misses the mark on an easily criticized target. It’s not insightful to paper over the very obvious failure of this administration on countless points. You can do much better. If I want some apologist talking about Biden I can watch MSNBC.
The fp can produce political discourse and let readers decide what their views are on those subjects. This person is a mainstream democrat propagandist. Well? There isn't much an interviewer can do with it except a.) report it, or b.) ignore/censor it.
Instead of looking at the feckless loathsome shill, look at the journalist. Does the interviewer act like a cnn anchor, or a fox anchor? I would say, no, it looks like a journalist. I expect the interviewer had to drain the ocean afterward to get the slime off.
Han, I couldn't agree more with what you said. I liked this piece because it gave me insight into how his supporters can twist their own mind to make apologies for this. This was Mental Gymnastics 401.
These are people that can look at film of election officials running the same stack of ballots through the machines three and four times, and say, "she's not cheating. That's been debunked."
If you hold them up to the light, everyone can see them for the garden slugs that they are.
I almost stopped reading here: “He didn’t want to upset Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, the largest donor to the Biden campaign.”
But I thought no: read the interview. I had to stop after reading here: “On the surface, yes, it is. It is lying. But there are different reasons why people lie.”
I hope this works in courts across America now as it’s working for the POTUS. Apparently we are burning this country to the ground for the democratic nominee’s comfort.
Free Press: please consider your standards for writers peddling books.
It is a fair point. The opposite of it, really, is the kristen welker leslie stahl stepanopolous method of shrieking over their guests. Shouting "THAT'S BEEN DEBUNKED" isn't anything to do with journalism.
On the other hand, giving this feckless shill any air at all is disgraceful.
The lies bit got to me too. Yes, there are many reasons people lie. There are also many reasons people commit theft, murder, rape. The reasons for committing a crime do not excuse the crime. And yes, I say crime - perjury and plagiarism are crimes.
Scary, huh? Making unbelievably impactful policy decisions based on angering a union leader for votes. No trying to please a constituency- pending to one tiny group. That’s almost a definition of corrupt to me.
If anyone had told me in 2010 that men can get pregnant, UFOs are real and that a man with dementia could be a two term President I would have laughed for hours.
Don't get too worried Kevan, only one of those 3 things have a basis in reality. Unfortunately for us Biden wouldn't recognize reality if it slid up his leg and bit him in the ass.
Well, UFOs are real. I'm not saying there are alien spaceships, but there are objects that fly and we don't know what they are, so they are unidentified.
Agree. I started reading and about 1/3 thru determined it’s not worth my time. He’s old, he demented and he is way past his prime. Does anything mentioned in this story change that? Don’t care about his history, his policies or even his involvement in Hunter’s deals. He doesn’t have the mental capacity. Period.
No, he is not the father figure of the West. He is the perfect example of a senile old politician addicted to power and won't do the decent thing and go home and retire. He is the old, demented relative who needs a babysitter everyday. No way should he have the nuclear codes.
This is the point when I realized I was listening to a propagandist. No one with a working brain cell could possibly look at Biden and believe this is true. I have no problem with different perspectives, but I do take issue with obvious lies.
The foreign policy part kills me. When has he ever made a good foreign policy decision? He’s still negotiating with Iran FFS. That alone is grounds for impeachment in my eyes.
I love FP and TGIF is the highlight of my week (so grateful for commentary that is unflinchingly honest while simultaneously making me laugh out loud, gives me hope) - but also relieved to see these comments (I am not alone). As I listened to the interview, I kept thinking “this guy is obviously a shill for Biden, when do the tough questions start - maybe there will be some kind of critique at the end - etc” - and it was all the more disappointing after listening to the prior week’s interview of Leonard Cohen’s biographer, which kept me spellbound all the way through, so well done. Honestly (no pun intended), the only meaningful mea culpa I can think of is to allow a Trump apologist to appear on the show - but I do not think that is what FP is supposed to be about. Put another way, this was no exchange of ideas, it was just a commercial for Biden with no meaningful pushback - you guys have set a high bar, please do a better job of living up to that.
REALLY?!? I get not wanting to be ageist. But anyone with one eye and half a functioning brain can clearly see that we shouldn’t let Biden drive... much less run a country. If he were my Dad If be taking away the keys. It’s criminal and dangerous to play politics with the President. Imagine if Biden had an R after his name rather than a D. He’d be long gone with Harris in charge.
As usual...the question is wrong...its not his age that is the issue...its his seriously declining mental ability. This dementia can affect people of any age. The truth is the Democrats chose Biden because they could manipulate and control him...hence the "basement Biden campaign" in 2020. Anyone with any ability to think critically knows the Obama progressives in the White House are deciding policy...with disastrous results for the US!
Agreed. Thomas Sowell has been making the rounds for his recent book and he’s sharper than ever at the age of 93. It’s never been about age. It’s the senility we all have a problem with!
As a habitual commenter on The FP, I’ve learned the first one out of the gate gets the most likes, our currency, regardless of the quality of your work. Foer obviously understands this, which explains his hagiography of Brandon. Foer a skeptic? Call me skeptical. By the way, this man’s most notable work before this biography was How Soccer Explains the World. Deep.
Now we have the view of Biden from The Atlantic. So the next interview should be a partisan view from the other side. Millions of migrants pouring into the country from all over the world, costing billions. Biden firing thousands of unvaccinated US workers by decree, but allowing legions of non-citizens to enter the country without testing or vaccination and then flying them under the cover of night to different cities. If this was really about contagion, how did this policy make sense? Regarding the pandemic, Foer only mentions school closures. What about American citizens who lost their income and pensions due to Biden’s mandates? Kind of a vicious policy for our dear “father” seeing as the shots didn’t even prevent transmission. But Foer has apparently forgotten them all. (I personally doubt anyone fired during Covid will ever vote for a democrat again.) The interview could also examine if Biden’s lies really are the right kind. Lots more to talk about. If this really is The Free Press, let’s hear from the other side.
His age is not the disqualifying factor. His dishonesty, corruption, incompetence, failure to uphold the laws of the land, implementation of policies designed to weaken and ultimately end the United States as a constitutional republic, sickeningly irresponsible decision to withdraw the way he did from Afghanistan, and absolute failure to address the struggles so many Americans are facing render him unfit to hold office and unfit to seek re-election. Shame on TFP for hosting such blatant partisanship and distortion of the truth.
The 2020 election was not between Trump and Biden.
It was between Trump and Not Trump.
So, instead of Trump, we got a serial liar and plagiarist; the epitome of an empty suit politician who has gone whichever way the winds of popular opinion have blown him for the past 40 years.
And now he has increasing vascular dementia to boot, all the while supporting policies that edge us closer to an economic catastrophe and a Third World War.
But at least he doesn't have mean tweets, right?
Yes, but to be fair that is how we got Trump in the first place. I, and many, many, many others voted against the odious Hillary Clinton.
Maybe some, but I personally like Trump.
Should he run again? meh...
Would I vote for him again? Hell yeah, I will.
EVERYONE liked Trump when he was only a TV personality/Rich Guy; it wasn't until he took on "WithHER" that the knives came out and he became Public Enemy Number One.
Thank you for reminding people of reality!
Oh do not misunderstand me, I was pleased with his performance as president and I too will vote for him again. I am not impressed with any of the Republican candidates. I do like Pompeo (on everything but Ukraine) but apparently he will not run against Trump. I hold no illusions that the Dems or the executive branch career bureaucrats will allow a fair election but I think if it is Trump they will fall to new lows.
I will vote for anyone but a Dem/Soc.
Nailed it.
He does know that WWII is in the past and that Obama isnt president anymore. That's progress
Not even popular opinion but the opinion of whoever is loudest within the Democratic Party. I was honestly surprised when he got on board with the current gender ideology but I shouldn’t have been.
I doubt Joe could post a tweet
HMT
just now
My sentiments exactly. Please, please explain to me why people I’ve known for years and respected are simply unable to see this. The one thing all these people have in common is they read the NYT daily - that’s my only explanation. I’d rather put a lit cigarette in my eyeball than read the NYT.
The TL;DR of this podcast: he's a liar, but he's MY liar.
Ben, you have nailed it, again. And in so few words. One minor correction: more like 50+ years Joe has been tacking in whatever direction he senses the political wind is blowing. That's a long time!
100% this!
I like how Trump is not a serial liar. At all.
He broke the promise of another recession.
You never fail to facetiously nail the fallacies being presented to us in all seriousness. They take us for fools, but why not, many are.
Thanks for the laugh.
My sentiments exactly. Please, please explain to me why people I’ve known for years and respected are simply unable to see this. The one thing all these people have in common is they read the NYT daily - that’s my only explanation. I’d rather put a lit cigarette in my eyeball than read the NYT.
It is tough to blame anyone who has been influenced by the biggest subliminal messaging campaign in human existence. Human nature is being used against us through overload of unimportant or misleading data. Pray for them.
Where do I contribute?
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What evidence do you have that happened?
One key piece of evidence is that you think it didn’t happen and you are wrong 100% of the time.
Maybe that Ashley wrote it in her diary. Please try not to encourage this buffoon. I prefer a troll free read.
Get some aloe for that man's burns!
This moron is supposed to be a college professor who has never heard of a search engine. If he is a college professor, he is teaching a Moron U. The school for the not so bright.
Lol. Nope. Right about everything, esp. Giuliani's false claims :)
Now, let's try again. Maybe you won't scurry off into your sewer...
What evidence do you have to support your claim?
Maybe you left it next to "Planned Parenthood Offices Are Castrating Children?"
I have developed a new theory that the obese sociopaths running election in Fulton county are actually eating the Republican ballots.
No, stick with your original theory:
"Because they're black."
Now, do you have any other evidence besides that, lying rodent?
you are always wrong huggy , and don´t give me this better learn to identify black folk better , I do the same with white green and yellow Huggy just suits you live with it
Always? No, actually, there is nothing you can point to that I have ever been wrong about. You cannot provide one single example.
I have told you repeatedly that the photo is NOT Antonio Fargas i.e. "Huggy Bear," but you continue to claim it is.
No, Huggy does not suit me. I am neither an actor, nor a person that exploits women for financial gain. You are wrong again.
But you do it with white, green and yellow?....lol...."yellow?"
Not aware of any green people, but ok.
Well, it is good to know that you are an equal opportunity moron.
I will remember him as the worst President in my lifetime who doubled the price of everything, caused the deaths of 13 soldiers, torched billions of dollars literally (see Ukraine) while pushing more homelessness (with more to come due to the millions more poor coming in). Really people! ANYBODY BUT THIS JACKASS PLEASE.
We are so tired of paying double to fill up our cars: My husband, our college-aged daughter and me. She is 2 1/2 hours from home so we don’t see her as often. It adds up and I’m sick of it.
The truth is, we now pay less for gas than any other western nation. Inflation soared after the pandemic worldwide, due to supply chain and other issues. Yes, we're all sick of high prices, but it could be a hell of a lot worse-- ask France, Britain, etc.
Under Biden, inflation has come down faster in the United States than it has in other countries around the world. Let's get some perspective here.
Why settle? We saw how good it was under Trump. We’re not stupid.
I guess we also shouldn’t complain about not being able to buy a home since in most countries people can’t afford that. Those well stocked grocery stores, nah, we don’t need that. Anything else you think we should give up so that we don’t have mean tweets?
Other western nations tax gas/diesel much more, that's not a valid comparison to make. Inflation soared because we kept printing money after the lockdowns, that was a huge mistake. Now, Biden brags about cutting the deficit by $1 trillion, but that was an artificial spike of stimulus...that is directly responsible for the inflation we've had.
You sound very privileged. Are you Joy Behar?
Better than the worst it was is still much worse than it was.
The US inflation curve took off 6-8 months into Stupidnomics in mid-late 2021.
Biden’s admin wants to talk about an inflation rate that doesn’t include food and fuel.
That’s like their calculation of unemployment without considering the labor participation rate-lowest since Jimmy Carter.
Joe Friday moment-“just the facts ma’am”!
Does the US include fuel costs and food in its inflation index?
itś not that bad I pay $8.00 a gallon $25.00 for race fuel , the US has had it good for years get used to it , not going to get better one way or another they are going to get you into an erectric car
Now I am too old for an erectic car. Can barely get erectric in a bed
How about John Fetterman? Or Kamala Harris?
How about Boebert? Or MTGreene? How about that grifter DJT?
Biden is getting old, has no charisma, but is actually doing a pretty good job. And I love democracy too much to vote for the traitorous Orange Blowhard.
Have at it.
Yes sir, let’s “save democracy” by destroying it with our stupid policies-energy, inflation, immigration, crime . . . All thanks to JoeB.
Let's destroy the First Amendment while we're at it
Sure odious Republicans exist. But don’t kid yourselves that the Dem party is interested in nothing but one party rule and moving the country toward socialism. The end justifies the means. They say that part out loud now.
Both parties suck, but the Dem party sucks orders of magnitude more in the ways that matter.
Be careful what you wish for.
Jimmy Carter is relieved.
Let’s not forget the sieve that is our southern border ...
Good point. Shirley. Part of the Democrat's strategy is to cause so many problems it is hard to keep track of them. The southern border by itself is enough of a reason to reject Joe Biden's bungling
Anyone who writes this about anyone..."He’s one of the most supremely human beings I’ve ever met."...isn't qualified to opine on anything.
Given: Human beings are flawed.
Ergo: To be “supremely human” is to be supremely flawed.
I therefore accept the premise.
because if that is his honest view, he can't have met more than 1 person in his entire life.
AI wrote it...
More than likely
He didn’t write this. It’s a transcription of an interview. I challenge anyone to speak using perfect syntax.
Bari - if you choose to publish patent bullshit and nonsense peddled by partisan nitwits and clowns you will soon go the way of your previous employer.
Don't waste our time.
Not only is Biden a now senile but always corrupt imbecile but he has presided over inflation that tangibly has hurt working Americans, lunatic and ruinous energy policy, divisive politics, the weaponization of the Justice Department, chaos abroad and turning our beloved nation into an international laughingstock. Worst of all - he has subverted our laws, opened our borders and unleashed a tidal wave of migrant criminals.
You are coming perilously close to losing readers like me if you think anyone with a firing neuron choses not to believe that this stumbling, bumbling clown is a national disaster.
I know, this piece is too much like the ass-kissing piece the NYT ran recently "explaining" Bidenomics to us "unwashed masses" who are too dumb to understand that our paychecks don't pay for our gas and groceries anymore!!
100% with you. This article might be the final nail in the FP coffin for me. I keep hesitating because of Douglas Murray.
I may change my mind later, but I cancelled my sub after that piece they ran on 9/11 about some Gitmo prisoner’s artwork
I missed that one, thankfully. Not exactly shot in the tail over that concept.
Divisive? Check out this interview with our Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. It’s nearly as incoherent as a Biden presser, and the chief of education in this country can’t use his pronouns correctly. Miguel, people are who, not that. You parents think you know what’s best? “Civility” is DOE code for sit down and shut up.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/23/us-education-secretary-cardona-slams-parents-behavior-at-school-board-meetings/
The pudgy little toad also brayed that he had no respect for "... people that have a problem when we’re trying to provide some support for those who are buried in debt complain about a 10 thousand dollar support for thousands of their constituents but are Ok taking over a million dollars in loan forgiveness themselves as an elected official.”
Hey Miguel, we have something in this country known as "the Constitution." It says that the power to spend our tax dollars vests in Congress - not with the senile imbecile for whom you work. Or with unelected nitwits like you.
I don't know, Bruce. I know you are one the the premier commentators here and people laud your every comment - BUT, as I read this, I thought - WOw - this site is worth the five dollars a month just for Douglas Murray's Sunday poetry offerings. If I don't have the "time" to waste reading people with whom I disagree,I can CHOOSE to go back to Middlemarch instead. I dont have to threaten Bari with her" coming perilously close to losing readers like me" I mean, Bruce, isn't it just the tiniest bit of hubris to think that before making her every editorial decisison, she should consider whether she was "wasting your time? There are other readers as I am sure you know.
You and a couple of other very popular commentators here waste MY time by your often times snarky comments - that is when I leave and go back to Middlemarch. just a thought you might reflect upon in YOUR spare time.
Fair comments and you make good points. In fact, I was musing as to whether to rein in my comments and let others opine. On the other hand, I found the Biden apologia particularly irritating because Biden's decline in mental and physical acuity is beyond peradventure and he was always mediocre, at best, to begin with. So, other than holding it up to ridicule as a example of partisan derangement, I don't get the point of Bari inflicting it on her readers.
As far as the snark......don't you consider it part of my "charm?"
I like that you wrote it so that I didn’t have to. I knew this piece was a huge joke when I saw that the author had convinced himself Biden wasn’t so bad. But of course, the election is coming up. Orange Man Bad!
As far as the poetry crap everyone is lauding, thats entertainment/lifestyle. Is that what is unique about TFP? We can find that anywhere else.
Bari, I’m one of your first subscribers. Get back to being critical of both sides. This piece totally misses the mark on an easily criticized target. It’s not insightful to paper over the very obvious failure of this administration on countless points. You can do much better. If I want some apologist talking about Biden I can watch MSNBC.
Amen Bruce. Great comment.
Hi Bruce. Consider the options.
The fp can produce political discourse and let readers decide what their views are on those subjects. This person is a mainstream democrat propagandist. Well? There isn't much an interviewer can do with it except a.) report it, or b.) ignore/censor it.
Instead of looking at the feckless loathsome shill, look at the journalist. Does the interviewer act like a cnn anchor, or a fox anchor? I would say, no, it looks like a journalist. I expect the interviewer had to drain the ocean afterward to get the slime off.
Han, I couldn't agree more with what you said. I liked this piece because it gave me insight into how his supporters can twist their own mind to make apologies for this. This was Mental Gymnastics 401.
Right.
These are people that can look at film of election officials running the same stack of ballots through the machines three and four times, and say, "she's not cheating. That's been debunked."
If you hold them up to the light, everyone can see them for the garden slugs that they are.
I almost stopped reading here: “He didn’t want to upset Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, the largest donor to the Biden campaign.”
But I thought no: read the interview. I had to stop after reading here: “On the surface, yes, it is. It is lying. But there are different reasons why people lie.”
I hope this works in courts across America now as it’s working for the POTUS. Apparently we are burning this country to the ground for the democratic nominee’s comfort.
Free Press: please consider your standards for writers peddling books.
Who in their right mind would buy this book?
Mainstream journalists who can't come up with Biden apologetics on their own?
The whole book sounds like something that might be said on the View
The President sounds batshit crazy!
I know FP is trying to be fair, but this is an out-there stretch and borders on the credulous and gullible.
It is a fair point. The opposite of it, really, is the kristen welker leslie stahl stepanopolous method of shrieking over their guests. Shouting "THAT'S BEEN DEBUNKED" isn't anything to do with journalism.
On the other hand, giving this feckless shill any air at all is disgraceful.
If the FP is really trying to be "fair and balanced", try a column by Steve Schmitt, not this wuss.
Steve Schmitt? Isn't he the multi-millionnaire consultant who has never managed a winning campaign? The Lincoln Project Grifter?
Amen.
The lies bit got to me too. Yes, there are many reasons people lie. There are also many reasons people commit theft, murder, rape. The reasons for committing a crime do not excuse the crime. And yes, I say crime - perjury and plagiarism are crimes.
Scary, huh? Making unbelievably impactful policy decisions based on angering a union leader for votes. No trying to please a constituency- pending to one tiny group. That’s almost a definition of corrupt to me.
If anyone had told me in 2010 that men can get pregnant, UFOs are real and that a man with dementia could be a two term President I would have laughed for hours.
Now, not laughing.
Add to that list Biden is the father figure of the West.
More like the laughingstock of the West. The Democrats may have the emperor has no clothes syndrome, but our adversaries know Biden has no brain.
Which means no conviction. Or strength.
Don't get too worried Kevan, only one of those 3 things have a basis in reality. Unfortunately for us Biden wouldn't recognize reality if it slid up his leg and bit him in the ass.
When Obama became President all bets were off with me.
Plus tattoos and parachute shorts in the Senate. More signs o' the times.
I will be really worried if we see tattooed aliens in shorts freely conversing with John Fetterman.
Well, UFOs are real. I'm not saying there are alien spaceships, but there are objects that fly and we don't know what they are, so they are unidentified.
I could not read nor listen to this article in full, which is unusual for me if I’m going to comment.
However, the very premise of the piece is, to use that overly used word, gaslighting. Not just ordinary gaslighting, but gaslighting in the extreme.
For goodness sake, just stop this nonsense, please. You take us all for fools, it’s insulting to our intelligence.
Foer is selling a book at the expense of honesty. Ugly stuff.
“Biden is “the father figure of the West,” someone deeply experienced in foreign policy and racking up policy victories at home.”
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I’ve decided I’m going to listen to this while I’m taking a dump.
Agree. I started reading and about 1/3 thru determined it’s not worth my time. He’s old, he demented and he is way past his prime. Does anything mentioned in this story change that? Don’t care about his history, his policies or even his involvement in Hunter’s deals. He doesn’t have the mental capacity. Period.
No, he is not the father figure of the West. He is the perfect example of a senile old politician addicted to power and won't do the decent thing and go home and retire. He is the old, demented relative who needs a babysitter everyday. No way should he have the nuclear codes.
At least he’s consistent as a father figure seeing as how he is also raping the country.
Unfortunately, you have a point.
Print first, then use when u r done
It will likely lead to constipation.
Good. Finally some place other than here.
This is the point when I realized I was listening to a propagandist. No one with a working brain cell could possibly look at Biden and believe this is true. I have no problem with different perspectives, but I do take issue with obvious lies.
The foreign policy part kills me. When has he ever made a good foreign policy decision? He’s still negotiating with Iran FFS. That alone is grounds for impeachment in my eyes.
TMI
I love FP and TGIF is the highlight of my week (so grateful for commentary that is unflinchingly honest while simultaneously making me laugh out loud, gives me hope) - but also relieved to see these comments (I am not alone). As I listened to the interview, I kept thinking “this guy is obviously a shill for Biden, when do the tough questions start - maybe there will be some kind of critique at the end - etc” - and it was all the more disappointing after listening to the prior week’s interview of Leonard Cohen’s biographer, which kept me spellbound all the way through, so well done. Honestly (no pun intended), the only meaningful mea culpa I can think of is to allow a Trump apologist to appear on the show - but I do not think that is what FP is supposed to be about. Put another way, this was no exchange of ideas, it was just a commercial for Biden with no meaningful pushback - you guys have set a high bar, please do a better job of living up to that.
Agreed
I find TGIF the only good part of TFP. Bari seems to have jumped the shark. I was really hopeful for awhile.
REALLY?!? I get not wanting to be ageist. But anyone with one eye and half a functioning brain can clearly see that we shouldn’t let Biden drive... much less run a country. If he were my Dad If be taking away the keys. It’s criminal and dangerous to play politics with the President. Imagine if Biden had an R after his name rather than a D. He’d be long gone with Harris in charge.
Spot on!
As usual...the question is wrong...its not his age that is the issue...its his seriously declining mental ability. This dementia can affect people of any age. The truth is the Democrats chose Biden because they could manipulate and control him...hence the "basement Biden campaign" in 2020. Anyone with any ability to think critically knows the Obama progressives in the White House are deciding policy...with disastrous results for the US!
Yes my grandmother is older and way sharper than him. And she doesn’t even have his amazing academic credentials.
Biden doesn’t have his amazing academic credentials 😂!
Exactly
Agreed. Thomas Sowell has been making the rounds for his recent book and he’s sharper than ever at the age of 93. It’s never been about age. It’s the senility we all have a problem with!
This 👆
What I get from this, and too many recent articles, is that The Free Press is becoming The New York Times Lite. If this keeps up, I’m out of here.
Agree
As a habitual commenter on The FP, I’ve learned the first one out of the gate gets the most likes, our currency, regardless of the quality of your work. Foer obviously understands this, which explains his hagiography of Brandon. Foer a skeptic? Call me skeptical. By the way, this man’s most notable work before this biography was How Soccer Explains the World. Deep.
Brilliant.
Learned "hagiography" from Matt Taibbi referencing a book about Hilary. It's an awesome word describing the works of today's "journalists."
Fancy word for puff piece. 💨
Now we have the view of Biden from The Atlantic. So the next interview should be a partisan view from the other side. Millions of migrants pouring into the country from all over the world, costing billions. Biden firing thousands of unvaccinated US workers by decree, but allowing legions of non-citizens to enter the country without testing or vaccination and then flying them under the cover of night to different cities. If this was really about contagion, how did this policy make sense? Regarding the pandemic, Foer only mentions school closures. What about American citizens who lost their income and pensions due to Biden’s mandates? Kind of a vicious policy for our dear “father” seeing as the shots didn’t even prevent transmission. But Foer has apparently forgotten them all. (I personally doubt anyone fired during Covid will ever vote for a democrat again.) The interview could also examine if Biden’s lies really are the right kind. Lots more to talk about. If this really is The Free Press, let’s hear from the other side.
It’s not the age it’s the cognitive problems and you know, the graft and corruption.
And the censorship and the use of the justice system as a weapon against your critics and, you know, the threat to democracy.
Perfect and succinct.
His age is not the disqualifying factor. His dishonesty, corruption, incompetence, failure to uphold the laws of the land, implementation of policies designed to weaken and ultimately end the United States as a constitutional republic, sickeningly irresponsible decision to withdraw the way he did from Afghanistan, and absolute failure to address the struggles so many Americans are facing render him unfit to hold office and unfit to seek re-election. Shame on TFP for hosting such blatant partisanship and distortion of the truth.