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Lester did not ask all the questions in the list above. Joe was his usual semi-incoherent self and continued to lie about what Donald said. Here is an excerpt I found on YouTube. Conversation with Trump after shooting & "put Trump in the bullseye"; did you incite violence? 4:26 Length. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjpQtjigKPk&list=RDNSpUO_zrPYocE&index=3

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Joe calls for resolving political differences "at the battle box". https://www.stevesailer.net/p/biden-calls-for-resolving-our-differences

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The American people are Charlie Brown to Schultz’s character Lucy pulling the football 🏈 one more time.

BOTH men are human beings!! President Biden should not be subjected to this… it’s elder abuse & no one is willing to give HIM dignity.

We are officially in the land of OZ. Which leader LITERALLY would you want to actually protect you from anything or say even a frisky puppy? Help you into a car ? No spouses are allowed to help.

I’m a law abiding, tax paying citizen & it feels & the facts speak to those feelings— &&& it’s not just me.

NO one we elected is running our country.

Tonight will be another “play” for all the world to watch. The democrats FINALLY want to turn down the temperature & suddenly EVERYONE who practically & publicly for weeks called for President Biden to step down - have fallen silent.

Fool me once shame on you, but we’re the FOOLS & have no choice until???

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I would give him three words to remember and after 5 minutes ask him to repeat them.

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The only question for BOTH candidates is debt. I’ll post your fellow free press contributor, Niall Ferguson:

“According to the CBO, the share of gross domestic product going on interest payments on the federal debt will be double what we spend on national security by 2041, thanks partly to the fact that the rising cost of the debt will squeeze defense spending down from 3 percent of GDP this year to a projected 2.3 percent in 30 years’ time. This decline makes no sense at a time when the threats posed by the new Chinese-led Axis are manifestly growing”

Currency collapses and war are much more important than mean tweets or rhetoric, seriously. On The All In podcast Trump did not go too much into this for my liking, although there’s a lot of grift and global U.S. transfers he said he would cut. What would a Democrat do, has any responsible numerate person even asked?

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This is like the children’s song about the song that never ends….

REMEMBER: The lead to Bari’s 6/28 “They Knew” Bari, correctly wrote: ”Biden is no longer fit to be president. Last night's debate exposed the lies we've been told. By Bari Weiss. June 28, 2024.”

WHAT HAS CHANGED???

Timeline below.

6/27 1st DEBATE & the emperor had no clothes was actually murmured… enough that everyday people dared to question the legitimacy of our mainstream press. But we woke to ⤵️⤵️

6/28 Bari’s brave, “They Knew” - the THEY being the mainstream press.

7/05 1st INTERVIEW since the DEBATE, directly followed by the First Lady’s Vogue interview.

7/11 1st PRESS CONFERENCE since nine months elapsed.

7/12 Free Press’s awesome truth telling Baiya Ungar-Sargon article. In this we knew the 1st amendment & freedom to speak & write about such things was intact & this article confirmed that.

NOW it’s mainstream media AGAIN for another ⤵️⤵️

FIRST ➡️fill-in-the-blank SINCE fill-in-the-blank

7/15 1st INTERVIEW since the assassination attempt on former President Trump.

WHAT HAS CHANGED? ??

Lester Holt *is* very much mainstream MEDIA.

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Jul 15·edited Jul 15

I couldn't care less about his staged interviews, unless he chats LIVE with Fox News and other opposing channels. Like Trump chatted with Savannah Guthrie 4 years ago.

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Couldn't have said it better, that all hits it right on the head. Everyone in DC knew Decades ago that that rhetoric would be Devastating to the government and the Country and the People if such lies about an Opposing party were allowed to stay and actions were taken on because of it. Now it is Blindingly Clear, the Democrats are the Fear Mongers the Democrats are the Hate Speechers the Democrats are the ones INCITING Violence. but why should they care , anything that hurts America they View as a Good thing. that's Treason.

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If Mr. Holt were not a stooge, he would also bring up Antifa and the BLM riots.

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Lester Holt is a stooge. Every question will be a softball thrown as gently as possible. Holt's questions will probably be given to Biden in advance.

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Actually-he'll probably receive the questions from Biden's people.

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Yes. And this is not what we mean by "Democracy".

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I have one question and one question only - for anyone and everyone. How exactly will Trump become a dictator? This man has zero institutional power. The military leadership hates him, the bureaucracy hates him, the regime media hates him. The U.S. has a 250 year old democracy that has withstood a civil war. I can’t comprehend how a 78-year-old man will suddenly flip that over.

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I was going to write this exact question! What evidence from his first term proves or supports the claim that he will be a dictator? Just ridiculous.

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You've answered all your own questions - Trump has never been a "threat" to democracy, and anyone with half a brain already knew that. The Left are the ones who are the threat .... lawfare, censoring counter views, colluding with journalists (which is really state-run media at this point) to craft specific narratives, the list goes on and on. I was an Obama guy, long-time "liberal". That all changed with Trump. Not because I liked him or initially voted for him (I didn't). But when I saw just how vast, deep, and disgusting the leftist hypocrisy was in conjunction with a corrupt media apparatus - I completely changed sides. And don't know if I could ever go back to be completely honest.

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founding

Congrats! You've wandered out of the politiverse.

My only (2-pqrt) question is: who, exactly, is running the country and why won't *anyone* in the MSM media ask that?

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Every politician during their victory speech makes the claim that they will govern for all the people, even those who didn't vote for them and be a uniter. This non-partisan promise seldom lasts longer than it takes the words to slip out of their mouths.

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founding

Great questions!

Unlikely to be asked now that American journalism has been steeped in the Pravda tradition.

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Biden is as complicit as anyone in the devolution of our rhetoric. If he were to admit this, he will be a statesman and actually help the situation. Virtually anything less is just pablum.

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Good questions

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Washington, D.C.

July 15, 2024 – The Democratic National Committee today announced the untimely death of its beloved mascot and spiritual leader, Dark Brandon.

“We are grieving today as a community of friends, voters and donors. Dark, as he preferred to be called, was the very soul, substance and future of the democratic party and everything we do and were hoping to do in our political journey,” stated Senator Chuck ‘Reap the Whirlwind’ Schumer. “And I mean everything,” he added.

Reached by phone at her Atlantic estate, “ForeverLand,” the DNC’s unofficial Stage Manager, “Dr. Jill, Ed.D.,” was beside herself. “We are truly lost without…I mean, I’m at a loss for…Dark meant so much to me. And to his handlers and donors, too. I don’t know how we’re going to meet payroll now, he was our only hope, him and his son, Hunter that is, who is nowhere to be found…and I’m reading this card right now like Dark taught me to but my tears are making the ink run.”

Dark Brandon was the brainchild of a popular character actor named Joseph "C'mon, Man" Biden and a small, shadowy group of staff writers. Mr. Biden, besides being famous as a transgender woman playing the role of Miranda Priestly in off-Broadway productions of The Devil Wears Prada, also played the role of the Menacing Mascot Brandon on several notable occasions, including his most famous routine as the Nation’s Unifier and its spin-off, Unify THIS! His dark glasses were perhaps his most iconic feature, and his appearances were often choreographed surrounded by a thuggish coterie of menacing armed guards on a movie set bathed in a crimson background.

Mr. Biden could not be reached for comment but was said to be devastated by the macabre mascot's death. He was last seen staring from the windows of his temporary residence on Pennsylvania Avenue.

And while the exact circumstances of the death are still not clear, sources suggest Dark Brandon may have been killed by friendly fire. He had been scheduled to appear on the nation’s television screens in selected states over the coming months but his death has curtailed those performances.

It is not known if the Democratic National Committee has chosen a new mascot, but insiders say a cackling, female character actor named Kammie Harpy and a heavily moussed beachcomber and layabout named Gabbey Newbie were seen waiting anxiously at the side entrance to the White House Theater in Washington under a blinking red light that appeared to read, “Auditions.”

(Staff reporters Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi contributed to this article.)

Reprinted with permission: https://brigattista.substack.com/publish/post/146604893

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