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Biden Makes Very Bad Comment About Colorado Ruling on Trump, Gets Confused Over Hostages Question

Joe Biden made a lot of comments on Thursday, between his Conan O'Brien interview and his remarks to the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce. He was asked about the ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court booting former President Donald Trump off the ballot in a disgraceful move.

First, Biden responded with the right thing, that he wasn't going to comment on a court decision. But then, because Joe is Joe, he turned around and then commented on it anyway--when he should not have been commenting on a pending matter, especially not because it involves his political opponent. "Is Trump an insurrectionist?" a reporter asked. Biden then said:

Well, I think it's... self-evident. We saw it all. Now, whether the 14th Amendment applies, we'll let the Court make that decision. But he certainly supported an insurrection. There's no question about it. None. Zero.

This is exactly what he is not supposed to do from his position -- determine someone is guilty before a criminal trial, without even a criminal charge. Not to mention, the facts don't support his claim contrary to his assertions -- where is the evidence that he "supported an insurrection" to support this statement?

ABC News Goes Full Degenerate, Launches Vile Attack Against Mike Johnson and His Daughter

Most political news stories can be brushed off as partisan slap-fighting. On the other hand, some stories are so vile, they deserve to be condemned in the harshest of terms.

Enter ABC News, which had a supposed "investigative reporter" write a piece attacking Speaker Mike Johnson and his daughter. Apparently, and you may want to sit down for this stunning revelation, the two once attended a father-daughter dance in which a pledge of abstinence until marriage was made.

The German news segment documented Johnson and his family preparing for and then attending a purity ball, a controversial formal dance event, popular among some conservative Christians, that gained notoriety in the early 2000s. At a typical event, fathers and their teenage daughters dress in formal ball attire for a night that involves dinner and dancing and culminates with the daughter signing a pledge to her father to abstain from dating and to remain sexually abstinent until marriage.

Only an absolute degenerate would think to attack someone's daughter and their mother for saying that sex before marriage is out of the question. Even forgetting the religious aspects, which do matter because Johnson and his family are devout Christians, on a practical level, far more negative things come from pre-marital sex than not.

One of the quickest ways into poverty in the United States is to become pregnant out of wedlock. However much you despise the mainstream press, it's not enough. These people are awful. There is no low that is too low for them.

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