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How old do you think the word “upstart” is?
1550s, “one newly risen from a humble position to one of power, importance, or rank, a parvenu,” also start-up, from up (adv.) + start (v.) in the sense of “jump, spring, rise.” As an adjective from 1560s. Compare the archaic verb upstart “to spring to one’s feet,” attested from c. 1300.
By tomorrow how many articles like these will have been published?
This debate was a disastrous opening performance for Biden | Moira Donegan | The Guardian
It is vital to America that Democrats beat Trump. In the first presidential debate, Biden did not always seem like someone who can.
The writer’s Bluesky post
https://subium.com/profile/moiradonegan.bsky.social/post/3kvximpskna2v
The poor earnest libs. How can you polish an old turd named Joe Biden?
Also - they have amnesia about their rockstar hero Obama?
Full text
A Bluesky post subheader is: “He must withdraw from the race.”
President Biden, I’ve Seen Enough
By Nicholas Kristof
President Biden is a good man who capped a long career in public service with a successful presidential term. But I hope he reviews his debate performance Thursday evening and withdraws from the race, throwing the choice of a Democratic nominee to the convention in August.
One of the perils facing this country, I believe and Biden believes, is the risk of a victory by Donald Trump. And after the debate, it’s hard to avoid the feeling that Biden remaining in the race increases the likelihood that Trump will move into the White House in January.
Biden has never been a great debater, but his voice and manner didn’t put to rest the doubts about his age and effectiveness. Rather, he amplified them. I happened to chat today with a woman who is undecided about whom to vote for — she says she distrusts both Trump and Biden but will choose based on who will do better for the economy — and I bet that now she will be supporting Trump.
In some sense, this may be unfair. This was one debate. A candidate’s physical frailty, hoarse voice and rambling responses may not be good predictors of how that person will govern. But in this election, they probably are good predictors that the candidate will lose in November and not have a chance to govern again.
We see the world through narratives, and one of the narratives about Biden is that he is too old. His performance reinforced that narrative when he needed to shatter it. Biden, unable to puncture Trump’s repeated falsehoods, allowed a convicted felon to win the debate.
Biden can resolve this by withdrawing from the race. There isn’t time to hold new primaries, but he could throw the choice of a successor to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The Democratic Party has some prominent figures who I think would be in a good position to defeat Trump in November, among them Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Gina Raimondo, the secretary of commerce. And there are many others.
My phone has been blowing up with texts from people saying, as one put it: “Dear God. What are we going to do?” Another, also a fan of Biden, texted: “It’s imperative we change horses.” But Democrats have been reluctant to say this out loud and undermine Biden. So it will be up to Joe and Jill Biden to make this choice themselves.
This will be a wrenching choice. But, Mr. President, one way you can serve your country in 2024 is by announcing your retirement and calling on delegates to replace you, for that is the safest course for our nation.
Take the C out of cold and he’s old
Beastie Boys’ voice: Trump - illest at illeism.
I remember when he was very weirdly concerned about Kristen Stewart’s love life.
If it was six - would they get a Pulitzer and a free sub?
EXCUSIVE
For fuck’s sake. A comment about a celeb isn’t breaking Watergate.
Soon the only way somebody can be prosecuted for bribery in the US is if they do this in public and there’s a photo or video.
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Hexbear hosted images are fucky.
Maybe next time I make a post like this I’ll put [Banned in the_dunk_tank!] in the headline.
ManVsFilm (especially after what happened with his wife)
What happened to his wife?
Why is he smoking a cigarette?
Hot-off the presses - Scientists identify new Antarctic ice sheet ‘tipping point,’ warning future sea level rise may be underestimated - Hexbear
I guess we need to do a Kosner and grow gills.
The normalization of a batshit insane reality in the US is highly disturbing.
Trump voice: “If we stop counting - we’d have fewer dead.”
DangerOps is a Cohen Brothers movie about the MIC. What’s the plot? I don’t know. It’s up to them.
DangerOps a fantastic term. - https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg?t=84
What did they think would happen after they showed the horse the entire Predator franchise?
My guess before I checked was 100 to 150 years.