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Susan Mackey's avatar

Mixed feelings on the leak. Was it stupid, probably, but maybe exactly what we needed to hear. I am on team, don’t walk it back, don’t apologize, don’t cower. Let it be and move forward. Be bold, aggressive and stand tall. I still want a campaign ad with that quote. Haha.

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Mary Stromquist's avatar

nah……humanizes Joe for the younger crowd, gives the rest of us at least a grin……..and it’s accurate

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Beth Donica Sackett's avatar

Or yard signs ... “A sick f*ck or America?”

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Susan Mackey's avatar

I love this Beth!

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Charlie Austin's avatar

😃👍👍

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Mike Hammer's avatar

Republicans want entertainment rather than governing. Democrats want to govern but right now I think we need a good laugh.

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Susan Mackey's avatar

Also, unfiltered truth.

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Beth Donica Sackett's avatar

I personally love that he said this. I sort of wonder if the leak was on purpose to make Joe look like a bad ass.

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Charlie Austin's avatar

He is a badass.

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Karyn Cummings's avatar

He is Dark Branson

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WPI Fiddlehead's avatar

Look, DJT says stuff like this every hour of every day on every platform available to the point that such statements barely register lukewarm media outrage until the next utterance or Xitter blast. But when Biden is overheard saying ONE thing like this in “private”, suddenly everyone has got their hair on fire. I think it’s awesome that he said it for two reasons. (1) it’s true, and (2) we all think so, too. It’s time to get over ourselves. I’m so tired of the country being buffeted around by the severe mental illness of one clearly deranged sick f*ck. I’m most concerned that he has such a dedicated following and that presumably serious people (Dimon, et al) now talk about the guy like he’s got something to offer. Please.

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Charlie Austin's avatar

It's not a problem. To beat Trump, you need to punch him in the face at every opportunity. Sometimes, you have to drown the pig in his own slop.

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Gar Millar's avatar

"President Biden refers to Donald Trump as a “sick f**k” in private."

Eloquently stated. I have no problem with it, and personally, I'm on the conservative side regarding salty language.

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Stephen Banks's avatar

Any notion that Biden's comment, that Trump is a "sick fuck," should be withdrawn or somehow contextualized is infantile, it suggests that we the American public are delicate and will somehow be offended by the honesty and categorical language of the quote. Biden is managing this country through some of the most fraught and difficult times in our history, for him to make an entirely human observation and comment about the threat that Trump presents to our future makes him more human reassures us that he gets it, and that he takes our concerns and fears seriously. In response, I think he should take a lesson from Trump and own it, the official response from the White House should be, "Sure he made the comment, what of it? Next question."

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Hildagarde Miller's avatar

Steven: Exactly !!!!

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Mark Heuschkel's avatar

I say bring on MORE candor like this! It is certainly spot on and helps the President seem more energized and engaged.

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Jane Carr's avatar

I’m glad Biden accurately described Trump and that the comment was leaked.

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Frank LaGrotta's avatar

Dirty words are catchy, but no more a sign of toughness or masculinity than big trucks, big guns, or big mouths.

Conclusion: It's irrelevant to the mission.

Here's what IS relevant and what Joe Biden should pound home every second of every day between now and Election Day.

trump is a liar. he is a mortal threat to you, to your family, to your community and to our country.

trump is not sick, he is evil. he plays people, he cons them, he lies to them, to get what HE wants.

and he knows EXACTLY what he is doing.

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Al S's avatar

Loser, Liar, Rapist, Thief. Repeat

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Thomas O’Leary's avatar

I;m not much for chanting but that is catchy.

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Al S's avatar

I stole the cadence from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. But you probably knew that. :-)

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Ann Langley's avatar

I think "sick fuck" pretty much sums up the evil part.

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Dale  Simison's avatar

I agree with Frank’s comments. I would add to Trump being a liar, moral threat et al that he is indicted for felonies.

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Thomas O’Leary's avatar

you got it 100%, He is bad; not sick.

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Mad Libs by Jody Nardone's avatar

Trump is indeed the sickest fuck that ever lived. I hope Biden says it every day on the stump until Election Day. It’s time to put an end to the double standard of treating Trump’s childish, petulant and classless behavior with kid gloves. Take the kid gloves off, put on the boxing gloves and knock him the F out, Joe. Honestly, I hope Joe calls Trump a sick fuck to his face during each debate. Time to fight fire with fire and call this imbecile and his MAGAt brainwashed sick fuck followers what they actually are at every opportunity.

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Ann Langley's avatar

Republicans don't seem to have any problem at all with Trump calling everyone names. "Birdbrain" did a pretty darn good job on Saturday Night Live if you asked me.

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Christine's avatar

I have no problem. Biden calls it as he sees it and that is what Tfg is, among other things.

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Barbara B's avatar

You mean tsf?

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TAS's avatar

The truth shall set ye freeeeee! You go, Joe.

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Thomas O’Leary's avatar

Ignore comments on this but never deny them

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Martin Berliner's avatar

I agree. It’s spectacularly on the numbers. But not “ sick” in teen-age jargon. Literally F’d up.

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Julie's avatar

Do NOT muzzle POTUS. TOO LONG has it been the norm in the media to yawn while Trump says and does an entire panoply of despicable and repulsive things and then ALL CAMERAS ROLL when Joe Biden says literally ANYTHING that can be twisted in a negative way.

FUCK THAT. The truth is that Joe Biden has to fight the fight he’s in. And Joe Biden is 100 percent correct. Donald Trump is a sick fuck and a fucking asshole who delights in the misery of others. Reflect back to half a million of our fellow Americans dead now of COVID due to colossal Trumpian hubris and mismanagement. Kids in cages. Some of whom have YET to be reunited with their families. Calling our troops LOSERS AND SUCKERS. Flushing docs down the toilet. Who else besides a sick fuck and a fucking asshole DOES that shit?

What’s really disgusting is that the same sick fuck has skirted any consequences and is again running for president when he never should have been in office in the first place. He has made fools of the courts, Congress, and the office of the presidency. And it’s an issue when Joe Biden calls it EXACTLY like it IS??

The campaign needs to get Joe out there every day and allow Joe to be Joe.

Every day I become more disgusted by this shit. WHAT IS WRONG here that a fucking asshole is leading in the polls over one of America’s most DECENT men and the best President since FDR??

Let Joe be Joe. Get him out in every state every day along with every surrogate available. Hang that twat Mike Johnson around the neck of Trump and every Republican running for office. Blast out the hypocrisy and the truth. Republicans do NOT care about the border or the American people in any way. Donald Trump is a fetid husk. Kim Reynolds and WTF is the governor of Nebraska and a few others turned DOWN FEDERAL FUNDS for summer school lunches for “food insecure” children. That shit doublespeak means HUNGRY. They stood up loud and proud for HUNGRY KIDS.

Every Democrat has a smorgasbord of material upon which to run and win. Joe Biden has all the tools to beat back that fucking asshole Donald Trump and hopefully banish him for good.

And we all, ALL of us in this community and beyond, believe that Donald Trump is a sick fuck and a fucking asshole. We need to pull together and vanquish him.

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blackdog1955's avatar

I like Biden more then before the leak. He seems more human and not so politically correct. Let it go. Don't make more of it then it's worth.

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Barbara B's avatar

Exactly!

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