Editorial: One candidate is patently unfit for the White House. It’s not Biden.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-07-11/la-trump-unfit-for-office-biden-election
By The Times Editorial Board
July 11, 2024 3 AM PT
Democrats are in crisis at the moment, divided over whether President Biden should stay in the race after his disastrous debate last month or clear the way for another, younger candidate.
Biden’s shaky performance raised concerns about whether he can win in November, and prompted calls from prominent Democrats, columnists and others for him to step aside. It’s up to the Democratic Party to sort this out. But it’s time to refocus attention on the only candidate in the race who is patently unfit for office — any office — and an imminent threat to democracy: Donald Trump.
It’s unbelievable that the nation is spending so much time on the question of Biden’s verbal acuity, when the greatest concern ought to be that his challenger is a self-aggrandizing felon and twice-impeached election-denier. Trump fomented the Jan. 6 insurrection, shows contempt for the rule of law and shamelessly lies in pursuit of more power. He’s an authoritarian who admires murderous despots, wants to jail his political enemies and has publicly flirted with declaring himself a dictator on his first day back in office.
With fervent support from the Republican Party, he peddles cruelty, racism and misogyny, demonizing immigrants as “poisoning the blood of our country,” demeaning women‘s looks and intelligence, and using disgustingly fascist language to criticize his opponents as “vermin.” He’s a man who lied about his wealth for years to cheat on his taxes, whose business was convicted of criminal tax fraud, and who’s been denounced by many former aides and Cabinet members as a “malignant narcissist” who recklessly puts himself before the American people.
Trump is the only man in the presidential race manifestly unworthy of holding a position of power, and has no business ever returning to the White House. If the GOP had any decency left, its members would be discussing whether to dump Trump for a candidate who isn’t out to bulldoze democratic institutions in favor of autocracy.
Voters should resist viewing this contest through the politics-as-usual lens of past elections. This November is not about dueling personalities, middle-of-the-road policy differences, or as some might see it, an 81-year-old man being the lesser of two evils compared with a 78-year-old man. It’s nothing short of a referendum on our 248-year democracy, and a choice between a trustworthy public servant who upholds American values and a serial liar who wants to push the country into authoritarianism.
Leaders of the Democratic Party have to stop the self-defeating discussion about Biden’s fitness and decide whether to replace him or unify behind him. And Americans must start hearing more about how the records, positions and character of Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and any of the prominent Democrats being floated as possible replacements make them all unquestionably superior to Trump.
@Suzianne saidLOL
Editorial: One candidate is patently unfit for the White House. It’s not Biden.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-07-11/la-trump-unfit-for-office-biden-election
By The Times Editorial Board
July 11, 2024 3 AM PT
Democrats are in crisis at the moment, divided over whether President Biden should stay in the race after his disastrous debate last month or cle ...[text shortened]... ent Democrats being floated as possible replacements make them all unquestionably superior to Trump.
@Suzianne saidYour 'verbal acuity' point does not fly, simply because he has not done it for his 50 years.....He has had no verbal problem except for his lying about his life and his awards and college grades, and so it went.
Editorial: One candidate is patently unfit for the White House. It’s not Biden.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-07-11/la-trump-unfit-for-office-biden-election
By The Times Editorial Board
July 11, 2024 3 AM PT
Democrats are in crisis at the moment, divided over whether President Biden should stay in the race after his disastrous debate last month or cle ...[text shortened]... ent Democrats being floated as possible replacements make them all unquestionably superior to Trump.
Biden has been failing, for lack of a better word, for a couple of years. It is evidence of sickness, of brain skews, that makes us realize we need to get him the hell out of there. That is it in a nutshell, so you are wrong right out of the gate.
How bout telling us how long it has been since he had a presser, or how long since he had a cabinet meeting? Speaking of cabinet, his Sec of Defense he went unannounced to a hospital, no one knew he was even gone. Suzianne, should he fire that secretary? Is there one person anywhere that just might need firing.
He is unfit for just that simple reason....He Cannot Run Anything. He never has. Your post holds no water. Just like Sonhouse posts. All guided by hate.
And if he whispers at me one more time, I am going to slapp him
@AverageJoe1 saidYou couldn’t swat a fvcking fly, you inbred moron.
Your 'verbal acuity' point does not fly, simply because he has not done it for his 50 years.....He has had no verbal problem except for his lying about his life and his awards and college grades, and so it went.
Biden has been failing, for lack of a better word, for a couple of years. It is evidence of sickness, of brain skews, that makes us realize we need to get h ...[text shortened]... se posts. All guided by hate.
And if he whispers at me one more time, I am going to slapp him
@shavixmir saidHow is your 20-hour work week going? I guess I could live on a few hundred quid a week. Taking in all of life!!
You couldn’t swat a fvcking fly, you inbred moron.
@AverageJoe1 saidFine. I’m on holiday in Southern France and Spain, thanks for asking.
How is your 20-hour work week going? I guess I could live on a few hundred quid a week. Taking in all of life!!
Just 3 weeks, touring with the family, but pretty soon (August 1st) I’ll be back, slaving to make parts of the world even better than they already are.
No holidays for you?
@AverageJoe1 saidWhat's your excuse?
Your 'verbal acuity' point does not fly, simply because he has not done it for his 50 years.....He has had no verbal problem except for his lying about his life and his awards and college grades, and so it went.
Biden has been failing, for lack of a better word, for a couple of years. It is evidence of sickness, of brain skews, that makes us realize we need to get h ...[text shortened]... se posts. All guided by hate.
And if he whispers at me one more time, I am going to slapp him
@Cliff-Mashburn saidHe knows, he just misspoke.
“Look,” Biden replied, “I wouldn’t have picked Vice President Trump to be vice president if I didn’t think she was qualified to be president. So let’s start there.”
That is all people need to know right there. He doesn’t even know who his VP is.
At least he doesn't intentionally lie every time he opens his mouth.
@shavixmir saidRetired. Will be where you are in November, but UK and other environs before that. And Lake Como, my favorite. No, not near Clooney's house.
Fine. I’m on holiday in Southern France and Spain, thanks for asking.
Just 3 weeks, touring with the family, but pretty soon (August 1st) I’ll be back, slaving to make parts of the world even better than they already are.
No holidays for you?
Did you see where he cannot make up his liberal mind about who should run our country. My side knows who should run our country.