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The most discussed topic following the first 2024 presidential debate on Thursday was not the return of former President Donald Trump to the debate stage, but rather the questionable-at-best performance of President Joe Biden. But it seems that attention, or lack thereof, has not been well received by Trump. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The presumptive Republican nominee spoke out on Saturday, posting on Truth Social, his very own social media platform owned by the Trump Media & Technology Group.

Coming off what was widely regarded as a disastrous debate performance, President Joe Biden, 81, faces a growing chorus of calls for him to step aside. Biden typically recoils from any criticism related to his age, but the urgent crisis he faces has become too pressing for him to ignore.

PTSD is getting in the way of supporting our president. Not C&L readers, of course -- I assume by now you already know not to panic. But PTSD consisting of every disappointing loss we've suffered in our lifetimes is paralyzing too many Democrats. Joe Biden has one bad night, and according to the Village elites, the sky is falling. The New York Times wrote an editorial called "To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race." First of all, fuck you, New York Times.

I guess they felt so empowered wiping out decades of MTV News that they decided, WTH, let’s get rid of the comics, too: Comedy Central Website Shuttered, Decades of Daily Show and Colbert Report Clips Gone in a Blink Paramount has effectively shut down its Comedy Central website, TVLine has confirmed. Prior to this week, ComedyCentral.com had been home to a repository of clips that included video from every episode of The Daily Showsince 1999 and all of The Colbert Report. Also included in the purge: snippets from and episodes of @midnight, The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore and The Opposition With Jordan Klepper. Future Historians are not going to find original sources to understand what we were thinking and our reaction to it.

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The National Republican Congressional Committee finally joined its peers when it announced its first batch of fall TV ad reservations on Tuesday, making it the last of the four largest outside groups involved in House races to do so. The NRCC's bookings total $42.2 million across 29 different media markets, which the committee says is intended to target 22 districts.