The Real Danger Within the Democratic Party of a Fundamental Crack-Up 

Exactly. I feel like so many institutions and centers of power are making mistakes like this and then wondering why trust in them is falling

That's what the DNC and mainstream Democrats do. "You can't complain! Fall in line!" Is how progressives and critics on the left are dealt with.

Bidens weaknesses can simply be mitigated with AI to digitally enhance him physically & remove stutters / gaffes.

Biden is the best person to beat Biden. Just look at thr record between Biden and Trump. Biden has a great team around him. Trump people that had around him are, awaiting court, in prison. Most people would rather have Biden than project 25 and a felon that is wanting to take away the people rights. Vote Biden is great. Trump is a danger to USA. VOTE BIDEN ALL THE WAY.

Whaaaaa Whaaaa. Democracy

That was the first thought that came through my mind. Democrats keep losing because they would rather hang to power than make hard decisions.

You mean Diane Feinstein who died in office in the past year, and didn’t even know she was dying

RBG didn't have a Vice Supreme Court Member. Biden will have a Vice President. I'ce said before that this will be a race of Vice Presidents and not Presidents for the first time in American history and even of the history of democracies.

@@shaunzaarrae3727 Let's hope she can convince the Lord Almighty to come down.

Joe Biden Ginsburg

How so?

@@Michilar : Not understanding anything about what their lives are like, how they think, what they value, and how they come to conclusions about the world.

​@@MichilarBecause they, like the rest of the bicoastal D elites, live in a complete bubble.

@@itsallfunandgames723 I agree that in general, the pundits don't really understand what motivates people, etc, however, in the case of Biden, I think they are more on the mark than off the mark. The vast majority of even Democrats did not want Biden to run and that was before the debate.

The New York Times worships at the altar of the Corporate Duopoly. They are pathetic scumbags.

Keeping DEMENTIA Secret since 2019 also unacceptable.

What planet are you on? (1) Shale Revolution = We no longer care about the Middle East's oil. (2) We're done trying to deal with a mess in the Middle East that Britain and France created with Sykes-Picot. (3) You can't be isolationist and anti-war/anti-corporation AND also demand that we "do something". (4) Biden has done more not only to repair our alliances and build new ones in 3 years than the last several administrations combined. (5) He'll probably do more in the next few years than you will accomplish in your RU-vid lifetime.

@@ShirleyAnnPetrillo-oj7sc I agree: You should have told us, Shirley. I can never trust you, now. 🙄

It is unacceptable and, with this now being public knowledge, it is enough to hand the presidency to Trump (unless Biden steps down and ends the insult to American voters).

@@ronald3836 I believe people would rather vote for Biden's coffin than to allow Trump and MAGA to get anywhere near the White House or any other position of power ever again. That said, Progressives need to be blocked, too.

Karine Jeane Pierre yesterday in the Press Briefing being like "He had an EIGHTEEN MINUTE! phone call with the congressional black caucus yesterday!" like she's a proud mamma talking about how good her baby did.

Biden has spoken publicly 16 times since the debate yet the media dwells on one. Motive?

@@lindamckibben2828 Clearly it's a conspiracy. 🙄

@@lindamckibben2828 Watch his most recent NATO speech and comment here again.

@@lindamckibben2828 one? Have you watched the interviews he's done since, or the coverage of the NATO summit?

I love how the NYT is like, trying to distance themselves from the shit show that is the Democratic Party. The NYT are the Democratic Party. They're one and the same. But like rats deserting the always sinking ship, now they're all condescending and coolly judgmental. Joe Biden's condition doesn't need to be carefully parsed and considered. It speaks for itself.

The largest investment in the Infrastructure Act since the Eisenhower Highway Program, Biden did it. -Inflation Reduction Act in that we see the largest investment in Green Energy in America's history, creating the most American JOBS in green energy in history, assures the US leadership in green energy while impacting the health of our planet over the next decade, Biden did it. Medicare is finally able to negotiate drug prices for seniors, capping insulin costs to $35 per month, Biden did it. Expanded Veteran's healthcare coverage, yep Biden. Chips and Science Act investing in American manufacturing Biden's. Ended America's longest war when multiple Presidents couldn't summon the result, Biden again. A bunch of student debt relief, yep, Biden. An incredible vaccine rollout in the American Rescue Plan for America to recover under Biden. National Labor Relations Board protects the rights of private-sector employees, under Biden. There is something to vote for in 2024. Vote.

And to say there's no "evidence" that Harris is a bad candidate, is absolute lunacy. The evidence is all over RU-vid. Google: Tulsi Gabbard Harris debate.

Of course Ezra loves the Democrat establishment when he gets the invites to the luncheons

It’s fascinating. A lot of talk about how to influence public opinion based on optics, and perception. Zero talk about how to help the country, which should be the goal of a political party. It’s all about convincing people to not believe what they’re experiencing and to buy the spin.

Really well said

Blue MAGA is out there, they can't be reasoned with, they can't be bargained with and they absolutely will not stop, EVER.

The thing is, news organizations aren’t really unified institutions with a single opinion. There are probably a lot of journalists with major disagreements on this in the NYT

Because it would be hard. It takes a majority of either congress of a majority of principal officers of executive departments declaring that he is incapacitated to the point that he can't execute his duties. That is a high bar which he doesn't appear to have met yet, even if it seems he likely will within 4 years. It is also a move that Biden can contest

@@youareobscure Thanks for that answer. I didn't realize it was that complicated because when Trump was president I kept hearing CNN panels saying that his cabinet can just take a vote & use the 25th amendment to boot him out. They made it sound like it was something quick.

@@notawinemom8540 The cabinet would be at least part of the principal officers. But yeah, since it requires him to be unable to perform his duties then if he arguably isn't, then it could be contested in court

@@notawinemom8540 That's only for when Democrats are doing it.

​@fredfreddy8684 how?

So many Secrets. So much Money. So many Top Ranked Democrats involved. REALITY has arrived. Consequences will follow soon

Bidens basically George Washington. Got it.

@@WhizzingFish12 He could be, but he refuses.

None of these people will say it, but they've trapped themselves with Identity Politics. They've trapped themselves in a DEI cage. They know Kamala can't win, they know she's radioactive, but they can't fire the DEI hire.

Biden has spoken publicly 16 times since the debate yet the media dwells on one. Motive?

Trump did even less. He just made speeches, signed stuff other people took care of, played golf and watched TV. That why the presidency didn't age him like it did all other presidents.

I agree, except Warren Buffet? Or "He is not making strange or erratic decisions in the way Trump did."

At the end of this four years, Biden's excellent staff has got to be burn't out. But if Trump had to be constantly surrounded with people to prop him up.... Isn't a Propped up Biden preferrable?

I think people are reading into Biden's stutter way too much. My father has a stutter. He's almost the same age as Biden, and he talks in a very similar way. Especially if he's under pressure, or getting emotional, it comes out. He's getting old, he used to be able to compensate for it better. When I watched the debate, that's what I saw. And old guy who's stutter is coming out, under extreme pressure. It's a shame, because people listen to the way you talk, and naturally draw conclusions about your intelligence. I've seen this happen with my old man his whole life. He's professionally licensed as both a mechanical and industrial engineer, and spent his career working for defense contractors designing and testing vertical launch missile systems. He's no fool. But God forbid he stutters, or he has to restart a sentence. If he does that, even the clerk at the pharmacy will start to condescend to him and talk to him like he's five. Some people just communicate differently. They require a little bit more time. It's not automatically linked to their intelligence or mental capacity. I will say, I never understood why/how Biden won the primaries. It's really weird that this is the candidate the party chose. I am also quite surprised that liberals seemed totally unaware of how Biden speaks. When he was one candidate among many in the primary, I didn't vote for him. But here we are.

But the president doesn't do everything in government, we don't live in an authoritarian dictatorship.

Which narcissist old man are we talking about, again?

@@WhiteCamry Both, of course

Or maybe he knows he's the only one who can beat a real narcissist, you know, the type that puts his name on everything and attacks people who stop being subservient.

Has never happened before in history...

@@facespaz you mean the guy whose threatening the country. If I don’t win you deserve trump… hmm i like being a hostage

Having the Black church cravenly weaponized again is tiring.

@@jimAthompsonfuel4u Oh right, let's weaponize Ezra instead.

I found it interesting anyway, but yes, in a fast-moving situation like this, they need to get the podcast out in hours, not days -- even at the price of not editing it as well.

@@5pp000 LOL I decided not to listen and there in my right-side suggestion feed, what do I see but a new Michael Moore upload about the same subject. I was like 'YES!' because I was still in the mood to hear a good rant about Biden .... so I clicked on it .... and Moore had ALSO recorded his on Friday (but at least he had seen the ABC interview0). Oy!

Well said!

If the stories about Trump's incompetency as a leader are even half true, he makes Biden look like Bismark. You say it's not okay for the staff to run the country.... says who? why not?

Michelle has emphatically stated that she is not interested; she hates politics. Agree with you about Harris.

democrats have had very little role in US federal economic policy. If you can find me a lasting federal economic policy that emanated from progressives in the last 30 years, I'll eat my shoe. You don't see stock buybacks dominating fortune50 company budgets, and private equity destroying healthy businesses, because of center-left economics. IMO, the amazing thing is the Republicans have branded themselves as the party of the economy, and this is still widely believed, even after they've totally destroyed the economy. Every important industry today is dominated by a monopoly or an oligopoly. Their colossal size, and the lack of competition, means they can price gouge. You're talking about groceries... grocery stores have merged down in just a few giant companies. Then when you go inside the grocery store, odds are, 88% of what you spend at the grocery store goes to PepsiCo conglomerate. Not to mention, meat packing, dairy, and US agriculture have all become dominated by cartels and oligopolies. This is why you feel like you're getting ripped off a dozen different ways... you are! Between health insurance, healthcare, housing, groceries tech products, airlines, power, media... you are being harmed by the lack of fair competition in the US economy. And that's not the result of progressive policies. That's flat Reaganism. Republicans destroyed the economy in 2008 through deregulation, then authorized the bailouts while GWB admin was calling the shots. GWB used deficit spending w/Medicare Part D, which was widely seen as a handout to his core constituency. Trump admin, 2017 tax code, we freely added two trillion to the deficit to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and dole out another handout to the richest companies in the world. And yet, the Republican's branding is so good, they're still considered fiscally conservative, and the party who knows how to run the economy. Even when their actual record on the economy is just a litany of catastrophic failures. You literally could not be _more_ wrong on economic policy, than the Republican party has been for the last 25 years straight.

Groceries are going to get a lot higher in the coming years. With climate change, a lack of people to harvest crops and no water for crops you're going to see farms close or food rot in the fields. I really worry about what is coming and pray it's not Trump handling the next four years.

Except those same voters found out you can't advance EVER under the parties of the Right, who promote only about profit and tax breaks for the wealthy at best and nationalism and racism and concentration camps at the worst. And NEVER about say, supplemental income and actual affordable housing, because their donors and owners would have their taxes raised on their zillions.

@@ashley3471I pray with you, Ashley, to any Gods that love us! In New York State we already saw fruit crops rot on the ground last year, because of anti immigrant hate in the areas where we could have put those folks to seasonal work!

Ashley is right -expenses will rise as resources fall and we get a reputation for turning away people running from worse poverty than we have seen since the Dust Bowl days, people who just might be willing to work at any job at all. Do you want them to be picking crops, learning to be elder caregivers, answering the census so we get more money given to our local areas, OR do you want them selling candy on the subways or coke in the alleys?

Jill Biden will not be remembered kindly.

Trump 2024....we are coming !!

@@ntran74 TDS is an interesting phenomenon. It is people who suffer from it that see it in others. I suppose that is because Trump projects all his flaws on others so his followers mimic.

@@ntran74 TDS is an interesting phenomenon in that those who suffer from it only see it in others.

It's called a primary. The dems don't believe in democracy so they didn't allow challenges to biden and hold a true primary.

​@ntran74 They need help 😂. I know a good therapist, lmao.

The levels of leftist elitist costal bubble cope going on the last week and half have been astronomical.

Turning the candidate into the enemy is the prime achievement of the NYT in the past months. They could have been uniting us and giving us the tools to beat Trump, but instead they made good people like you think that the most successful president in my lifetime is an evil force in our country. Sad.

How about Nikki donors, "you ain't MAGA."

Whitner is toast, her Covid policies will become a major talking point and she will crash in the polls

Joe used her as a black woman. But, from a state that the democrats would win anyway. The threshold should have been selecting a woman. Joe was showing his aged thinking back then. Harris quit in SC! Lastly, the polls, presently, are lies. Maybe MAGA at work.

​@Agtsmirnoff she would not be running against Reagan or Eisenhower.

@@larryames8831they don’t call Gretchen-Hitler for no reason…

Hillarys issue wasnt just vibes. she had been peddling influence for decades and her husband was president. Youre just another sixty something stuck in the past if you think biden is more viable than harris. open convention is good for everyone EXCEPT dinosaur biden

Don’t worry! Dementia gets better with time!

@@ntran74 To be fair, there is a new med out there that's just being released.......

No it won't get better. No we are not propping up Biden's damaged brain with a med that will make him 2% better for 3 hours. Ridiculous. Give him a job bagging groceries but DEFINITELY NOT THE JOB OF BEING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

That drug is Hopium 😊😮

@@raiconlan1 No, that's the one I'm on 🙂 This new one is called Donanemab, just approved by FDA.

and the worst type o blind is the one who doesn't want to see. (Biden, not you, btw).

Never underestimate a conservative...

Not really. Democrats on the left of the party were bringing this up during the 2020 primaries. They were told by the Democratic establishment to STFU and vote for Biden because of his "electability" and that any criticisms of him would result in a potential win for Trump. Basically, he didn't win because he was the best man for the job, he was propped up by party elites. Conservatives just hopped on the bandwagon because they don't know how to talk policy.

You just answered your own question: No!

in the top 10% economically - private prep schools - top tier colleges - family money & connections .. high end jobs - catalytic marriages .. just ask his wife ....

GREAT question.

Sometimes listening to Klein talk to some other leftist NYC bubble creature sounds like listening to aliens having a conversation.

@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat reminder - there are elites from the right who also sound alien .. but in a more alarming and cruel way

i know, right?

Don't worry - they will remove your Comment like they always do to mine. DEM lovers are cowards.

If Biden resigns before the end of his term, then MAGA Mike Johnson becomes V.P.

REALITY is hard to swallow after so many years of DECEPTION.

Biden has done 16 successful speech events since the debate, yet media is stuck. Motive?

@@lindamckibben2828 It's not the media. They are the messenger. Orders have come from above. Clooney, Axelrod, CNN, NYT are following the line from the highest authority, Biden has been given the word and at some point will get in line

@@ShirleyAnnPetrillo-oj7sc It was for me as well, but that was ten years ago now. Trust but verify ALL of them.

Choices have Consequences

I don't know that she's a lightweight. I also really don't think she is corny either. Quite the opposite. I think she could have tried a lot harder on the border, but couldn't be bothered to work really hard at something despite being from California with two immigrant parents like immigration because it wasn't an easy glamorous issue like abortion.

Typical woman.

It's a debate because the Democrats have been warning us about the dangers of Trump ad nauseam (while not doing very much against it for 4 years) and then they presented us with a petrified Biden that couldn't stop Trump from winning a presidential debate by lying a gazillion times and by humiliating him for his geriatric performance.

Biden’s first stimulus check led to 20% inflation, and you wanted him to continue to do it?

Same boat with my daddy lol

that's a trip. My dad literally calls Obama a communist dictator... He used to say Obamacare was communism gaining a irreversible foothold, and said it was selling American down the river, and we lost our freedom, and there are going to be death panels. But homeboy loves his expanded coverage now that's he 75, lol. Apparently he found a way to tolerate this loss of freedom when it comes to his paying for his heart surgery and diabetes medicine. you can't help some people, lol. they live on their own planet.

Perhaps take another sip from the humanity cup and realize that these people have the power to end humanity with the push of a button and if they have mental health issues the whole world is in danger (this goes for Trump just as well).

Can’t DO The Job. Can’t HAVE The Job.