The first presidential 2024 debate held June 27 on CNN between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump marked the first time watching two opponents square off against each other where, within the first 15 minutes, I immediately knew who’d won!
The mano a mano event reminded me of the exhibition match in “Rocky IV” (1985) between former World Heavyweight Champion, Apollo Creed. and Russian boxing champion Ivan Drago.
In this case, I saw Trump as Drago and Biden as Creed. (I just know Trump haters will love that comparison)!
When Drago delivers that fatal blow to Creed who stands erect for a moment in mid-air before crashing to the canvas face down, and tells shocked spectators, the press and the world, “If he (Creed) dies, he dies,” I equated that scene to the comment Trump made towards the end of Thursday’s debate as Biden struggled to answer one of the moderator’s questions.
“I really don’t know what he (Biden) said at the end of that sentence,” Trump told CNN moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. “I don’t think he knows what he said either.”
When the two candidates sparred citing how one had the better golfing handicap, I cringed. The last time I did that was when I saw Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy sing the nursery rhyme, “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” at a campfire in “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” (1989).
There was Trump acting like the bigger man telling his challenger how the two of them should not act like children.
“You are a child,” Biden told him.
“He (Biden) challenged me to a gold match,” the former president said. “He can’t hit a ball 50 yards.”
“I’d be happy to have a driving contest with him (Trump),” Biden told the moderators boasting about his shooting six strokes over par. “I’m happy to play golf with you, if you carry your own bag.”
Oh my God! How I yearned for that “Will you shut up man” comment Biden said to Trump during the September 2020 debate!
The past three years this country has lived in what might as well be called the “Bizzaro World” Jerry Seinfeld spoke of in that episode of “Seinfeld” (1989-1998) where Superman lives in a time where everything is the opposite.
Bad is good. Black is white.
In “Biden Land”, our withdrawal from Afghanistan was as much an honorable exit as President John F. Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba in 1961 where 1,400 America-trained Cuban forces, with the help of the Central Intelligence Agency, failed to remove Fidel Castro from power.
Rising grocery prices? Come on, man!
The men and women in the US military had nothing to worry about in “Biden Land”. All came home safely. Those 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing near Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Internation Airport in August 2021? Didn’t happen!
Nor did those three U.S. soldiers who died during a drone strike on a U.S. base in Jordan in January 2024. These two tragic incidents were “deepfakes.” A word White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a news conference in reference to the recent videos of President Biden looking confused. I wouldn’t put it past her if she’d have called that August 2021 and the January 2024 terror attack “deepfakes” if given the chance, assuming there was such a word back then.
If only such a place as “Biden Land” existed where a president doesn’t look at his watch three times as the remains of 13 military servicemen and women arrive in flag-draped coffins at Dover Air Force Base.
Biden did after all say he was the only “president this century that doesn’t have any this – this decade, any troops dying anywhere in the world, like he (Trump) did.”
Makes me want to quote what Trump said at the debate earlier saying, I really don’t know what the current commander-in-chief said about how no one in the military died under his watch since 2020 and, I don’t think he knows what he said either!
As for the border crisis? What border crisis? A migrant crime wave? That doesn’t exist in “Biden Land!” No good piece-of-shit illegals killing Americans? If such were the case, Biden's second-in-command, Vice President Kamala Harris, who was only chosen as the president's running mate in 2020 because of her skin color as a means to score the women and black vote, would have done something about the border crisis!
In "Biden Land" no one’s heard of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, 16-year-old Lizbeth Medina, Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five or 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley.
Oh wait! President Biden has heard of Laken Riley! I mean, “Lincoln” Riley! Got to get my quotes right.
In “Biden Land”, the Border Patrol has our current president’s back!
The president even said they did at the debate and to quote Seinfeld’s George Costanza, “It’s not a lie, if you believe it.”
I’m no fan of Biden or former President Trump. I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 and 2020 and whether I chose to NOT vote for him again this time not even Yoda, the 900-year-old Jedi Master from the Star Wars movies can see into the future.
That doesn’t mean I wanted to see President Biden crash and burn like he did Thursday night. You Trump supporters might want to hold your cheers. The election is still 126 days away as of this blog. A lot can change.
I was horrified by Biden’s performance. I wanted to see the anger and the will to fight he exhibited at the first debate in 2016 with Trump when he walked out on stage with his arms up welcoming his challenger like he was ready for battle. Much the way Apollo Creed urged Ivan Drago to get his hands up to touch his opponent’s gloves as a sign of respect before their exhibition match.
Seeing that moment at the 2016 debate reminded me of the words Creed told Drago in “Rocky IV.”
“Come on, get your hands up, man! You need an interpreter? It’s time to go to school!”
When Creed’s gloved hands slammed down on Drago’s there was an ominous thud.
The ominous thud at last night’s debate showed how much the current president had changed mentally the past three years.
Both candidates are liars. The question is like Pinocchio, which candidate has the longer nose.
I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them. Trump making promises to bring American journalist Evan Gershkovich home from Russian custody and ending the war between Russia and Ukraine before taking office next January, if elected, makes me want to ask him the question from that 4imprint ad, “Are you 4imprint certain?”
The mano a mano event reminded me of the exhibition match in “Rocky IV” (1985) between former World Heavyweight Champion, Apollo Creed. and Russian boxing champion Ivan Drago.
In this case, I saw Trump as Drago and Biden as Creed. (I just know Trump haters will love that comparison)!
When Drago delivers that fatal blow to Creed who stands erect for a moment in mid-air before crashing to the canvas face down, and tells shocked spectators, the press and the world, “If he (Creed) dies, he dies,” I equated that scene to the comment Trump made towards the end of Thursday’s debate as Biden struggled to answer one of the moderator’s questions.
When the two candidates sparred citing how one had the better golfing handicap, I cringed. The last time I did that was when I saw Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy sing the nursery rhyme, “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” at a campfire in “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” (1989).
There was Trump acting like the bigger man telling his challenger how the two of them should not act like children.
“You are a child,” Biden told him.
“He (Biden) challenged me to a gold match,” the former president said. “He can’t hit a ball 50 yards.”
“I’d be happy to have a driving contest with him (Trump),” Biden told the moderators boasting about his shooting six strokes over par. “I’m happy to play golf with you, if you carry your own bag.”
Oh my God! How I yearned for that “Will you shut up man” comment Biden said to Trump during the September 2020 debate!
The past three years this country has lived in what might as well be called the “Bizzaro World” Jerry Seinfeld spoke of in that episode of “Seinfeld” (1989-1998) where Superman lives in a time where everything is the opposite.
Bad is good. Black is white.
Rising grocery prices? Come on, man!
The men and women in the US military had nothing to worry about in “Biden Land”. All came home safely. Those 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing near Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Internation Airport in August 2021? Didn’t happen!
Nor did those three U.S. soldiers who died during a drone strike on a U.S. base in Jordan in January 2024. These two tragic incidents were “deepfakes.” A word White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a news conference in reference to the recent videos of President Biden looking confused. I wouldn’t put it past her if she’d have called that August 2021 and the January 2024 terror attack “deepfakes” if given the chance, assuming there was such a word back then.
If only such a place as “Biden Land” existed where a president doesn’t look at his watch three times as the remains of 13 military servicemen and women arrive in flag-draped coffins at Dover Air Force Base.
Biden did after all say he was the only “president this century that doesn’t have any this – this decade, any troops dying anywhere in the world, like he (Trump) did.”
Makes me want to quote what Trump said at the debate earlier saying, I really don’t know what the current commander-in-chief said about how no one in the military died under his watch since 2020 and, I don’t think he knows what he said either!
As for the border crisis? What border crisis? A migrant crime wave? That doesn’t exist in “Biden Land!” No good piece-of-shit illegals killing Americans? If such were the case, Biden's second-in-command, Vice President Kamala Harris, who was only chosen as the president's running mate in 2020 because of her skin color as a means to score the women and black vote, would have done something about the border crisis!
In "Biden Land" no one’s heard of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, 16-year-old Lizbeth Medina, Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five or 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley.
Oh wait! President Biden has heard of Laken Riley! I mean, “Lincoln” Riley! Got to get my quotes right.
In “Biden Land”, the Border Patrol has our current president’s back!
The president even said they did at the debate and to quote Seinfeld’s George Costanza, “It’s not a lie, if you believe it.”
I’m no fan of Biden or former President Trump. I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 and 2020 and whether I chose to NOT vote for him again this time not even Yoda, the 900-year-old Jedi Master from the Star Wars movies can see into the future.
That doesn’t mean I wanted to see President Biden crash and burn like he did Thursday night. You Trump supporters might want to hold your cheers. The election is still 126 days away as of this blog. A lot can change.
I was horrified by Biden’s performance. I wanted to see the anger and the will to fight he exhibited at the first debate in 2016 with Trump when he walked out on stage with his arms up welcoming his challenger like he was ready for battle. Much the way Apollo Creed urged Ivan Drago to get his hands up to touch his opponent’s gloves as a sign of respect before their exhibition match.
Seeing that moment at the 2016 debate reminded me of the words Creed told Drago in “Rocky IV.”
“Come on, get your hands up, man! You need an interpreter? It’s time to go to school!”
When Creed’s gloved hands slammed down on Drago’s there was an ominous thud.
The ominous thud at last night’s debate showed how much the current president had changed mentally the past three years.
I did not expect to see the president exhibit a raspy voice. Talk too fast. Look down at his notes. Lose his train of thought. Look at the television screen and the moderators like a waxed figure who wasn’t sure where he was. Looking at former President Trump as his opponent gave conflicting views. Trump not once, glancing back at Biden, or if he did I either didn’t notice or he didn’t do it as often.
I dare anyone, pro/anti Biden supporters to tell me what they saw Thursday night was not “beyond devastating” and a “nightmare” – words used to describe Special Counsel Robert Hurr’s report on the president earlier this year.I can’t tell you how much it pains me, if not for millions of Americans, that the choice come November to be the next commander-in-chief is either going to be a convicted felon or a current president whose age and mental health are as much for discussion as Trump’s legal troubles.
Both candidates are liars. The question is like Pinocchio, which candidate has the longer nose.
I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them. Trump making promises to bring American journalist Evan Gershkovich home from Russian custody and ending the war between Russia and Ukraine before taking office next January, if elected, makes me want to ask him the question from that 4imprint ad, “Are you 4imprint certain?”
Trump is no President Ronald Reagan.
Biden was right about one thing concerning his debate with the former president when he spoke to a crowd of supporters the next day in North Carolina.
“I know I’m not a young man, to state the obvious. I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to.”
He had me there for a second, that is before adding how he knows right from wrong, how to do the job and how to get things done.
If only Biden had quit while he was ahead.
©6/28/24
Biden was right about one thing concerning his debate with the former president when he spoke to a crowd of supporters the next day in North Carolina.
“I know I’m not a young man, to state the obvious. I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to. I don’t debate as well as I used to.”
He had me there for a second, that is before adding how he knows right from wrong, how to do the job and how to get things done.
If only Biden had quit while he was ahead.
©6/28/24
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