So many dems and supporters treated Joe Biden like crap, why should he not do as he pleases?
He was abandoned by the party after he did so much good for this country! If I was treated that way I would tell everyone to jump in the lake!
By the way, if Ford had not pardoned nixon, perhaps that would have helped to be a check on trump! We have been pathetic in telling other countries to hold their corrupt leaders accountable and yet, here we are with supposedly rational, smart people talking about pardoning trump! We deserve to be the laughing stock of the world!
Oh give me a friggin’ break! You toss around the term “war criminal” like someone that doesn’t understand what a REAL war criminal is, like Goebbels, Assad, or Milosevic. Israel is a sovereign nation and we cannot control what they choose to do in Gaza, in spite of how horrible that is.
I’m *so* disappointed in people that see the world in black-and-white, and you are unfortunately *far* from alone on that one Timothy, instead of understanding the nuance of the world stage, ESPECIALLY the Middle East!
We need to keep saying this. Drinking and womanizing and rape accusations aside, Hegseth is not qualified to run a local City Council, never mind an organization with a trillion dollar budget, 3 million employees, which happens to be the most lethal force on the planet. It greatly disturbs me that the "bright shiny" of the personal face plants has totally wiped out any discussion of what he brings with his resume. Be honest - can you picture this man running AT&T or Disney, or General Motors? A local city council?
Biden SHOULD be in hiding. His..and Jill's..incredibly selfish and ill-conceived refusal to listen to the 78 percent of Americans who said he was too old and inept to run has left us under the yoke of a soon to be President Trump. Ugh. And Bidens legacy is now cemented. He is the guy who refused to accept that it was time to say goodbye.
I was not originally a fan of Obamacare. I worked for the government and then a large firm where insurance was part of the package employees received. When I left the firm, started my only solo business, and had no insurance, Obamacare was the best option for me as it was less expensive and covered more than any other options. I thought Obamacare was a great option at that point and would hate to see it repealed.
"I hadn’t thought of Joe Biden in weeks," writes Chris. Well, yes, unless Chris has an opportunity to rip on the president. Remember, that quote was written by the guy who "forgot" to vote on election day 2024. Just sayin'...............
Agreed 💯. I’m finding Chris’s opinions more and more out-of-touch, Wayne. His going through Trump’s lines has become nothing more than an opportunity for Chris to crack jokes and post funny memes when *other* journalists I follow put in the work and *truly* analyze what’s being said (like the folks at The Bulwark or Jay Kuo). Very sad.
I’ve been here since Chris first came to Substack and I’m finding this column less and less of value.
No one thinks that the Syrian Government collapse totally looks like a CIA op that Biden has run to avenge Al-Bashir’s brutal gassing of his own people, something Obama stupidly backed away from? I’m not convinced Biden is hiding. It’s the media narrative but we know buy now that’s really driven by the Republican media billionaires.
Pete Hegseth. Do we really think putting a candidate with zero experience and values so bad, even his own mother has condemned him is a good idea? On what planet are we living? Is Trump really this incompetent. There are plenty of other experienced candidates to pick. This isn’t a glee club. It’s the US Government. lol
I’m glad they caught the killer of the Healthcare CEO. But the extremely popular and bipartisan condemnation of healthcare billionaires is a warning which Trump needs to deal with. As his own wandering tech bro DOGE billionaires find ways of cutting Americans social security and healthcare. It’s not going to be an easy 4 years for Donald if he behaves without understanding that it’s the economy stupid. Or shirks his responsibilities and plays golf for a year like last time.
"No one thinks that the Syrian Government collapse totally looks like a CIA op that Biden has run to avenge Al-Bashir’s brutal gassing of his own people, something Obama stupidly backed away from?"
They wish they were that competent and on top of this situation.
Biden should pardon Trump because, for one thing, I think Trump would hate being pardoned. It's the closest were going to get to find him guilty of his crimes.
On Joe Biden, Nowhere Man. C’mon Man! Chris, would you please provide a list of activities Trump did (other than try to steal the election and inciting a riot) when Joe Biden won in 2020? You and others have been saying for months he should have faded away sooner than when he did because of his age. So give the guy a break and let him get to the end gracefully! Give it up already! In any event Trump is and will continue to take all the oxygen in the room for the next 4 + Years.
For that matter, Chris should provide a list of activities Trump did while he was POTUS. Besides what you said and lowering taxes for the wealthy, he did next to NOTHING! He built like 30 miles of his beautiful wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for. Every day was Infrastructure Day which never happened. Mostly what he did was lie, which he continues to do. But hey, eggs.
What might make me more willing fro agree would be be the usual background checks for everyone who would normally have one and resolution of conflicts of interest. You can’t earn money from the government and keep a government contract. Even for Musk. One sure way to have a rebellion or get voted out next time would be to mess with social security. Instead Musk should use his spare change to repay what the former GOP borrowed and didn’t pay back. Otherwise he is just stealing money from people who worked for it.
I agree with your position, Sharon. However. "Most people" can't earn money from the gov't and keep a contract." Probably true unless you are in Trump's orbit. Rules don't apply to them, remember? And remember all the Republican caterwauling about "unelected people" - like heads of organizations they don't like - running things? Guess it's OK though, if it's Vivek and Elon.
I suspect he will enrage many in the MAGA base but hey. Why not. No safety nets for health. Starving kids, no school lunches while the fat cats eat and drink like times are better.and the president of the USA still isn’t paying his bills. Let the good times roll.
‘Willing to agree’ but only after results of background checks are known and it’s voted on. I see no evidence of solid citizens in this line-up so far.
No pardons whatsoever for the convicted felon rapist and yes, murderer. What are these people thinking, pardon mother f****ing 45…. Is there no law rethugs and dems (rilly J Cliburn?) aren’t willing to break to make sure this piece of worthless crap gets to hose us over and hard? And what, we just say That’s OK that you stole and sold classified documents, you led an insurrection on our nation’s capital, people are dead from that and so much more? No. No. NO.
We watched what’s his f**k break the law on average of like once every 36 hours while in office. Expect the same and worse the second time around. Why would anyone pardon these crimes?! The only thing that will be healing for this country is to watch him be legally accountable for his crimes. Nothing less than that because at this point no one is above the law except for him. I don’t want to live in a country like that, do you?
Clyburn’s wants to move on and not focus on the past? He gave every neo-confederate a lot of ammunition there. I can hear my racist relatives now: “It was over a hundred years ago. They need to move on and stop whining about the past.”
Biden has been largely nonexistent for most of his term. The man got his infrastructure bill passed and did not do a nationwide tour touting it. Any other President would have gone to every state in the union to tour the projects they funded. Not Joe! The only places Biden travels to these days are Delaware and Scranton unless he needs to attend a NATO meeting.
Sadly, Pete Hegseth will be SecDef until he shows up drunk at Cabinet meetings, meeting with Trump, or, like Wilber Mills, ends up almost drowning in the Reflecting Pond with a stripper. I think Ernst is just biding her time because she knows he'll f**k up.
All the hand-wringing and finger-pointing by the Dems makes them look like fools, again. And I've been fairly active in the party for 45 years. We think the sky is falling when we lose, and we think too much of ourselves when we win. We knew this election was going to be razor thin and it was. Placing blame on Biden is a fools errand. His legacy will go down as the only person to beat Trump, and to have received more votes than anyone who has ever run for office. And with that record of accomplishment he was pushed out by Dem elites and insiders. Pardoning his son will have no impact one way or the other, except to the pundits who think they know everything.
Dems have every right to be majorly down on Biden running for a second term. When he ran four years ago, he certainly gave the impression he was going to be a one term president and many Dems were looking for him just to stabilize things until a new younger candidate could come along to take over in 2024.
He reneged on that implied promise.
And I know his wife and his close advisors knew his mental faculties were declining at the time he declared his candidacy for a second term. So I just can’t fathom why they were supportive of him running again. Is there any reporting to explain that?
So many dems and supporters treated Joe Biden like crap, why should he not do as he pleases?
He was abandoned by the party after he did so much good for this country! If I was treated that way I would tell everyone to jump in the lake!
By the way, if Ford had not pardoned nixon, perhaps that would have helped to be a check on trump! We have been pathetic in telling other countries to hold their corrupt leaders accountable and yet, here we are with supposedly rational, smart people talking about pardoning trump! We deserve to be the laughing stock of the world!
Sorry. Biden deserved it all and more. He is dishonest ans a war criminal to boot.
Oh give me a friggin’ break! You toss around the term “war criminal” like someone that doesn’t understand what a REAL war criminal is, like Goebbels, Assad, or Milosevic. Israel is a sovereign nation and we cannot control what they choose to do in Gaza, in spite of how horrible that is.
I’m *so* disappointed in people that see the world in black-and-white, and you are unfortunately *far* from alone on that one Timothy, instead of understanding the nuance of the world stage, ESPECIALLY the Middle East!
We need to keep saying this. Drinking and womanizing and rape accusations aside, Hegseth is not qualified to run a local City Council, never mind an organization with a trillion dollar budget, 3 million employees, which happens to be the most lethal force on the planet. It greatly disturbs me that the "bright shiny" of the personal face plants has totally wiped out any discussion of what he brings with his resume. Be honest - can you picture this man running AT&T or Disney, or General Motors? A local city council?
Biden SHOULD be in hiding. His..and Jill's..incredibly selfish and ill-conceived refusal to listen to the 78 percent of Americans who said he was too old and inept to run has left us under the yoke of a soon to be President Trump. Ugh. And Bidens legacy is now cemented. He is the guy who refused to accept that it was time to say goodbye.
I was not originally a fan of Obamacare. I worked for the government and then a large firm where insurance was part of the package employees received. When I left the firm, started my only solo business, and had no insurance, Obamacare was the best option for me as it was less expensive and covered more than any other options. I thought Obamacare was a great option at that point and would hate to see it repealed.
"I hadn’t thought of Joe Biden in weeks," writes Chris. Well, yes, unless Chris has an opportunity to rip on the president. Remember, that quote was written by the guy who "forgot" to vote on election day 2024. Just sayin'...............
Agreed 💯. I’m finding Chris’s opinions more and more out-of-touch, Wayne. His going through Trump’s lines has become nothing more than an opportunity for Chris to crack jokes and post funny memes when *other* journalists I follow put in the work and *truly* analyze what’s being said (like the folks at The Bulwark or Jay Kuo). Very sad.
I’ve been here since Chris first came to Substack and I’m finding this column less and less of value.
No pardon for Donald J Trump. Did we not learn our lesson with Richard M Nixon???
No one thinks that the Syrian Government collapse totally looks like a CIA op that Biden has run to avenge Al-Bashir’s brutal gassing of his own people, something Obama stupidly backed away from? I’m not convinced Biden is hiding. It’s the media narrative but we know buy now that’s really driven by the Republican media billionaires.
Pete Hegseth. Do we really think putting a candidate with zero experience and values so bad, even his own mother has condemned him is a good idea? On what planet are we living? Is Trump really this incompetent. There are plenty of other experienced candidates to pick. This isn’t a glee club. It’s the US Government. lol
I’m glad they caught the killer of the Healthcare CEO. But the extremely popular and bipartisan condemnation of healthcare billionaires is a warning which Trump needs to deal with. As his own wandering tech bro DOGE billionaires find ways of cutting Americans social security and healthcare. It’s not going to be an easy 4 years for Donald if he behaves without understanding that it’s the economy stupid. Or shirks his responsibilities and plays golf for a year like last time.
Yes, Trump really is that incompetent!!
"No one thinks that the Syrian Government collapse totally looks like a CIA op that Biden has run to avenge Al-Bashir’s brutal gassing of his own people, something Obama stupidly backed away from?"
They wish they were that competent and on top of this situation.
Biden should pardon Trump because, for one thing, I think Trump would hate being pardoned. It's the closest were going to get to find him guilty of his crimes.
But wait for Jack Smith's report first.
Interesting take. I would never forgive that.
On Joe Biden, Nowhere Man. C’mon Man! Chris, would you please provide a list of activities Trump did (other than try to steal the election and inciting a riot) when Joe Biden won in 2020? You and others have been saying for months he should have faded away sooner than when he did because of his age. So give the guy a break and let him get to the end gracefully! Give it up already! In any event Trump is and will continue to take all the oxygen in the room for the next 4 + Years.
For that matter, Chris should provide a list of activities Trump did while he was POTUS. Besides what you said and lowering taxes for the wealthy, he did next to NOTHING! He built like 30 miles of his beautiful wall that Mexico was supposed to pay for. Every day was Infrastructure Day which never happened. Mostly what he did was lie, which he continues to do. But hey, eggs.
Love to see that from Chris!
What might make me more willing fro agree would be be the usual background checks for everyone who would normally have one and resolution of conflicts of interest. You can’t earn money from the government and keep a government contract. Even for Musk. One sure way to have a rebellion or get voted out next time would be to mess with social security. Instead Musk should use his spare change to repay what the former GOP borrowed and didn’t pay back. Otherwise he is just stealing money from people who worked for it.
I agree with your position, Sharon. However. "Most people" can't earn money from the gov't and keep a contract." Probably true unless you are in Trump's orbit. Rules don't apply to them, remember? And remember all the Republican caterwauling about "unelected people" - like heads of organizations they don't like - running things? Guess it's OK though, if it's Vivek and Elon.
I suspect he will enrage many in the MAGA base but hey. Why not. No safety nets for health. Starving kids, no school lunches while the fat cats eat and drink like times are better.and the president of the USA still isn’t paying his bills. Let the good times roll.
None of that doom and gloom gonna happen, you know better.
So it's all just idle talk from a jerk with no impulse control?
I guess we will wait and see.
Yup
yep, yep and yep.
‘Willing to agree’ but only after results of background checks are known and it’s voted on. I see no evidence of solid citizens in this line-up so far.
No pardons whatsoever for the convicted felon rapist and yes, murderer. What are these people thinking, pardon mother f****ing 45…. Is there no law rethugs and dems (rilly J Cliburn?) aren’t willing to break to make sure this piece of worthless crap gets to hose us over and hard? And what, we just say That’s OK that you stole and sold classified documents, you led an insurrection on our nation’s capital, people are dead from that and so much more? No. No. NO.
We watched what’s his f**k break the law on average of like once every 36 hours while in office. Expect the same and worse the second time around. Why would anyone pardon these crimes?! The only thing that will be healing for this country is to watch him be legally accountable for his crimes. Nothing less than that because at this point no one is above the law except for him. I don’t want to live in a country like that, do you?
Clyburn’s wants to move on and not focus on the past? He gave every neo-confederate a lot of ammunition there. I can hear my racist relatives now: “It was over a hundred years ago. They need to move on and stop whining about the past.”
Biden has been largely nonexistent for most of his term. The man got his infrastructure bill passed and did not do a nationwide tour touting it. Any other President would have gone to every state in the union to tour the projects they funded. Not Joe! The only places Biden travels to these days are Delaware and Scranton unless he needs to attend a NATO meeting.
Sadly, Pete Hegseth will be SecDef until he shows up drunk at Cabinet meetings, meeting with Trump, or, like Wilber Mills, ends up almost drowning in the Reflecting Pond with a stripper. I think Ernst is just biding her time because she knows he'll f**k up.
All the hand-wringing and finger-pointing by the Dems makes them look like fools, again. And I've been fairly active in the party for 45 years. We think the sky is falling when we lose, and we think too much of ourselves when we win. We knew this election was going to be razor thin and it was. Placing blame on Biden is a fools errand. His legacy will go down as the only person to beat Trump, and to have received more votes than anyone who has ever run for office. And with that record of accomplishment he was pushed out by Dem elites and insiders. Pardoning his son will have no impact one way or the other, except to the pundits who think they know everything.
Agreed 💯, Paul.
Dems have every right to be majorly down on Biden running for a second term. When he ran four years ago, he certainly gave the impression he was going to be a one term president and many Dems were looking for him just to stabilize things until a new younger candidate could come along to take over in 2024.
He reneged on that implied promise.
And I know his wife and his close advisors knew his mental faculties were declining at the time he declared his candidacy for a second term. So I just can’t fathom why they were supportive of him running again. Is there any reporting to explain that?
Bill Burns
another good one Chris.....thank you!