12 Leaked Questions From CNN's Upcoming Presidential Debate

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"Who's A Good Boy?  Huh?  Who's A Good Boy?" Says Jill Biden Congratulating Biden With A Treat

 

ATLANTA, GA — Following Biden's debate performance, First Lady Jill Biden offered her husband a treat for his efforts at a rally following the event.

"Who's a good boy?" Jill asked a glazed-over Joe.  "Does my Joey want a snacky-snack?  Good boy!  You did so great up there, not dying and totally staying upright for so many minutes.  Atta boy!"  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/whos-a-good-boy-huh-whos-a-good-boy-says-jill-biden-congratulating-biden-with-a-treat

[Crazy Cat 41,806]

What Biden said during the debate about the murder of Americans by illegal aliens is unbelievable and irrational. 

[Crazy Cat 41,806]

There will be no 2nd debate.  Why would Trump agree to another one?  The mercy rule is in play, too.

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16 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

The mercy rule

Trump could have stuck the dagger all the way in if, in his closing statement, he'd mournfully said, "Something else we need in this country is stronger protection against elder abuse."

 

Independent of the above, I think that both of them really muffed their closing statements.

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This, I think, is a particularly good analysis from a P.R. standpoint.

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Democrat Operatives Committed the Classic PR Blunder

 

Whelp… 

Over the next several days, there will be a litany of kneejerk reactions to assess the debate's PR fallout via opinion polls and various audience snapshots, but alas, they won't tell you anything useful.  This was one of those events where the sands of popular opinion will still shift dramatically over the next several days.  So, it really doesn't matter where we are right now; what matters is where we're going to be.

 

Media outlets love to rely upon these Frank Luntz-inspired polling experts who'll bloviate endlessly about which moments triggered the most clicks or what an audience thought on a minute-by-minute basis, but this information is mostly irrelevant.  Why?  Because these events – and, specifically, that level of Biden trainwreck – don't consist of a bunch of individual moments multiplied.  The human brain didn't score the Trump-Biden debate on a 10-point must system, where you add up the scorecards and see who won the most rounds.  That's just not how an audience processes information.

 

What's truly important isn't the sum of individual moments but the feeling when all those moments are over.  [...]

 

https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/06/29/democrat-operatives-committed-the-classic-pr-blunder-n4930252

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Nice description and reasoning by one of my favorite columnists.

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How 'The Debate' Turned Reality on Its Head

 

Color me shocked.

I knew the June 27 debate between President Biden and Donald Trump would be a historic event, but virtually every other prediction I had made about the event was dead wrong.

I was not the only one.  For the last few weeks, Democrats in particular seemed to be willing to imagine a Biden who was sharp, glib, and might even do cartwheels on the stage.  Trump supporters worried about the debate format, and especially about whether frequent Trump critics Jake Tapper and Dana Bash would join Team Biden while serving as supposedly fair moderators.

In the world prior to the debate, it was legitimate to surmise any kind of outcome.  CNN host Erin Burnett said, "We will see what we will see," after a contentious interview with GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik.  Stefanik had insisted that Biden would be crushed by Trump, an opinion that obviously made the interviewer nervous, but Burnett was right.  We did see, and what we saw was not what we expected.  [...]

 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/06/30/how_the_debate_turned_reality_on_its_head_151186.html

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Here Are The 20 Biggest Whoppers Biden Told During His Debate With Trump

 

[...] From the crisis he created at the U.S.-Mexico border to manufactured hoaxes about his opponent, there was almost no subject Biden didn't lie about.  Here are the 20 biggest whoppers he told during Thursday night's matchup with the Orange Man.  [...]

 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/06/28/here-are-the-20-biggest-whoppers-biden-told-during-his-debate-with-trump/

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Holy mackerel, but John Kass lights into everybody!  A fun read.

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Biden Debate Disaster and the Root of Democrat Panic

 

[...] It was over within minutes, Biden babbling, his  eyes unable to focus, Biden shouting "The idea!  The idea!!" and other nonsense.  All he needed was a cane to wave at the clouds in the sky.  I'm not sorry for him.  I love my country.  Let others be sad for the Bidens.  I'm not sad.  They knew what they were doing at the expense of their countrymen.  If he were your father, you'd gently escort him off the stage into doctor's care and out of politics.  But if he were your father, you and your siblings would never have let it get this far.  [...]

 

https://johnkassnews.com/old-joe-unfocused-lost/

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Slate, of all outlets, actually published this.

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We Can't Unsee What We Saw

 

[...] The debate was shocking, upsetting, nearly impossible to watch.  Based on my anecdotal research, lots of folks turned it off after 10 minutes, unable to witness the humiliating performance by our current president.  Others held out hope it would turn around in real time, that Biden's jaw would be vacuumed shut again, eyes refocused.  Still more of us had the sinking, correct assmption: This would not come to pass.  We knew what was happening.  We were watching the president of the United States, un-teleprompted, fail in a spectacularly human way in front of us.  He was not OK.  Which meant the impending presidential election was more like an impending disaster.  [...]

 

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/07/joe-biden-age-spin-is-even-worse.html

[Crazy Cat 41,806]

Biden told some people yesterday, that he almost fell asleep during the debate due to fatigue from his European travels............ 2 weeks ago.   His debate prep started at 11:00 ...with an afternoon nap daily.

 

Biden Debate Prep Started at 11 a.m. and Included Time for a Nap - Business Insider

 

 

 

Edited July 3 by Crazy Cat

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Bidementia truly is 81 going on 101 years old.

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KJP Claims Biden Still Had Jet Lag From Driving That Big Rig Around In The '60s

 

[...] White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has stated that Biden was impaired during the debate as he was still suffering from jet lag from driving that big rig around during the '60s.

According to her statement, Biden was so exhausted from the jet lag caused by long days and late nights of driving an 18-wheeler tractor-trailer back in the summers of the '60s that he ended up completely unprepared for the first presidential debate.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/kjp-claims-biden-still-had-jet-lag-from-driving-that-big-rig-around-in-the-60s

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8 Excuses The White House Is Using To Explain Biden's Poor Debate Performance

 

[...] Thanks to some tough undercover journalism, we at the Babylon Bee have managed to acquire a copy of the top eight excuses currently floating around the White House.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/8-excuses-the-white-house-is-using-to-explain-bidens-poor-debate-performance