SOON: Biden to hold news conference as White House attempts image makeover
It will get better. Look we're not there yet, but we will get there!
Joe Biden is going to try and explain it all away with a single press conference. He hasn't held many press conferences. There are reasons why Biden's and Harris' handlers limited their exposure. Harris can be hard to follow as her sentences zigzag down roads to nowhere. And Biden tends to introduce strange new words into the lexicon and freely commits gaffes. What will today hold?
Btw as Biden attempts to answer spontaneous questions, the faux "voting rights bill" is about to be voted down in the Senate. Russia is poised to invade the Ukraine and inflation is hurting the American people.
And here he is.....
He starts by reading a teleprompter telling us what a great job he's done!
Joe Biden says it's been a year of progress. Bragging about vaccination, job creation, unemployment, child poverty, new business applications, etc. Claims working people got a raise
Excuse me if I don't take his word on what he says. Afghanistan, empty grocery shelves, and the border crisis are still fresh on my mind!
Fact check:
Biden says he is making 1 billion tests available. HHS says new contracts are not for test manufacturing, but simply for distributing 50 million tests sitting in warehouses
Would these be the tests that don't differentiate between Covid and the flu? No matter, more than likely, they will end up like the mail along the railroad tracks in California.
I only hope they are made by Abbott Laboratories.
Says he should have done more "testing" earlier in his administration but that they're working on it now. Advertises government site that will reportedly get you tests, mailing them out a week to two weeks after you request them.
"We're in a better place than we've been, clearly better than a year ago." Says schools should stay open.
Because two weeks after you get sick is such a useful time to get a test. This is better than a year ago?
If you get sick, keep your ass home. It's NOT rocket science.
Right, but there are treatments that are most effective in the first few days of being symptomatic. That’s why it’s important to know ASAP if a person is sick from Covid and not something else.
Hopefully, people are getting test kits in advance of getting sick, but apparently getting test kits to everyone in advance of a big spike in cases didn’t occur to anyone in Washington.
I heard one main reason people cannot get test kits is because the Biden administration is sending huge numbers of them to third world countries overseas. I could be wrong though.
Based on way Biden administration does things you a probably right.
Doubtful.
You heard wrong.
You can order test kits for free.
I ordered mine.
How about you?
4 per household address, shipping end of January. No charge.
Funny, I got four on the way by using the USPS site. One kit consists of four tests. And you can only get one kit per household address.
I ordered mine and it said I could get 4. I hope the needs of US Citizens are taken care of first
Of course you do. Is this offer open to folks outside the US?
I mean for fucks' sake - they're being shipped by the US POSTAL SERVICE.
So that comment was completely unnecessary and pointless. Makes absolutely zero sense to make such a comment.
Notice that my last sentence said I could be wrong. Thank you for the information.
Yep the kit comes with 4 tests but you can only get one kit, at this point anyway, per household address to keep people from hoarding them.
Just ordered mine right now through USPS.
Democrats make final plea for voting rights ahead of filibuster showdown.
Just in: Putin: "Nothing less than NATO expansion ban is acceptable."
AKA: “We demand what we already have!”
No, the gop/gqp are fighting very hard to make sure that those brown and black folks don't have their say.
Sorry, but I'm one of those brown people and I have my say just fine.
If you can demonstrate that voting for people of color is decreasing, I'd be interested in seeing it. But the data I have seen is that minority voting has been on a general increase for a couple of decades, at least. It has never been easier for people of all backgrounds to cast a vote than it is right now.
Biden says he has outperformed expectations.
Fact check: Very false
Here is Joe laying out those expectations.
What about the performance?
At that time, we had 220K Americans dead and he said anyone responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president. More than twice that number have died under his watch.
At that time, Joe was outraged because there were 1000 deaths a day. Yesterday, we had almost 3000 deaths.
At that time Joe was outraged because there were 7000 new cases a day. Yesterday, we had over 1 million new cases.
There’s the performance versus expectations.
Perhaps we needed this to wake up this country. The democratic party exposed itself last year.
My hunch is they won't be winning many elections in the near future.
"Biden says he outperformed expectations."
Only if we expected a disaster.
And we got one anyway!
First reporter lists some of the country's major problems. Gently asks "Did you overpromise what you could achieve and how do you plan to course correct?" "Why are you such an optimist," Biden responds?
"I didn't overpromise," Biden says, and adds you have to acknowledge his enormous progress. But says his one failure is getting Republicans, who he recently disparaged without substantiation as vile and evil racists trying to destroy country, to "get in the game."
My guess is that he was given the questions ahead of time and he practiced them this past weekend.
If Fox is not called on, then it proves I am 100 percent correct. If Fox is called, then I stand corrected because there is no way Doocy will give up his question prior to.
You got it!
Keep your eye on Doocy and that gorgeous Jackie Heinrich
a FOX wanker and a FOX skanker...
Doesn't matter what you think of him.
Definitely triggers you pretty hard just by the mention of his name.
he'd be a delivery driver if it wasn't for his dad.
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Hey, don't knock delivery drivers, I'm still waiting for a part for my Jeep.
Gee I wonder what Heinrich's qualifications are. She's listed as a journalist on Fox news.
Contrary to his stay-at-home posture of recent years, says he's going to go on the road a lot to campaign for Dems and make the case that his first year has been a huge success and to make the case that more needs to be done.
ABC reporter says it's not GOP but his own party who is blocking his legislative goals right now. "Do you need to be more realistic and scale down these priorities to get something passed?" He says "no."
Uh yeah. Mr. President, Senators Manchin and Sinema are not Republicans. Try again, sir.
Yeah, they essentially are.
They're fucking DINOs.
Biden attempting to put the burden on Republicans to "be for something" when Democrats control the House and Senate is...a joke.
Coming tomorrow: The Castles in the Sky Act!
WTF does the Democrats 'controlling the House and Senate' have to do with the Republicans being FOR something Vic?
Hint: Not a fucking thing.
The RNC hasn't bothered to even convene to hash out a platform. McConnell hasn't cited a single goal for the Republican Senate that he so dearly desires. And speaking of 'a joke' there's McCarthy.
Hey Vic, did you see the Washington Examiner interview with Gov. Sununu? Maybe I'll seed it just for shits and giggles.
They don't have a platform - they got theirs - so fuck everyone else.
Just about everything. They live in two separate worlds. One represents the real world and the other radical theory.
The RNC hasn't bothered to even convene to hash out a platform.
The Presidential election is a long way off. I'm sure that platform will be based on America first, freedom, safe streets and secure borders.
Hey Vic, did you see the Washington Examiner interview with Gov. Sununu? Maybe I'll seed it just for shits and giggles.
Send it over. That name is golden in the state of New Hampshire.
Yet you don't single out ANYTHING.
They WHO Vic.
Yes Vic, the Republicans represent the radical theory of the Big Lie and about 75% of their constituents believe their Big Lie.
So, in your scenario, that leaves the Democrats representing the real world. Well done.
It seems right wingers are awash in fear. Fear of everything but authoritarianism.
How about Republicans wanting a secure border or secure elections?
They WHO Vic.
Republicans and the indoctrinated.
Yes Vic, the Republicans represent the radical theory of the Big Lie and about 75% of their constituents believe their Big Lie.
Oh really? Joe Biden just cast doubt about the integrity of the next election. Isn't that a big lie?
How can something that hasnt happened yet be a lie?
Because he said:
"I'm not saying it's going to be legit. The increase in the prospect of being illegitimate is in direct proportion to us not being able to get these reforms passed."
Passing his so called "reforms" will have no effect on the legitimacy of the next election. He lied. The same thing the Trump-haters claim that Trump did.
And his VP made that lie worse:
Stop projecting John.
It is not helping your cause one iota.
You dont have the slightest idea whether that is true or not.
Then I guess it stands to reason you don't either. I guess no one does. So to hell with it. Why bother?
I was blessed with common sense.
"Lets be clear: The president was not casting doubt on the legitimacy of the 2022 election. He was making the opposite point: In 2020, a record number of voters turned out in the face of a pandemic, and election officials made sure they could vote and have those votes counted."....Jen Psaki
More attempted backtracking from Psaki
Problem is that he said it multiple times..
How about it?
Republicans are the indoctrinated.
Yes really Vic.
The KIND of integrity he cast doubt in isn't the same as what Trump is talking about, is it Vic?
Damn he bumbles when answering. Cue the "but he had a stutter when he was young" excuses LOL
That was a big narrative - he stutters! Lol
Why do you characterize it as a 'narrative' Vic?
Could it be because IT IS A NARRATIVE.
Because it was a creation to explain away Biden's cognitive failure.
Is your posit that Biden has NOT worked to overcome a stutter for most of his life? If so, post some evidence.
Is your posit that Biden has NOT worked to overcome a stutter for most of his life? If so, post some evidence. If not, your comment is bullshit.
Keep doubling down on that nonsense Vic. You bury your credibility.
I'm saying he is suffering from some form of dementia. I have yet to hear him stutter.
I'm sorry, your honor, but my clients life is at stake.
So a stutter that President Biden has been dealing with his whole life - was a creation to explain away his alleged cognitive failure?
There wasn't any to begin with.
It's my "posit" that the stutter is only brought up when he starts fumbling his words. Reality is, the man is fucking clueless and the "stutter" is that of somebody trying to find comprehendible words to say.
Y'all just make up this ignorant shit as you go along.
Then prove me wrong or move along.
Ignorant shit is wrong. What's to prove?
Nobody made the "stuttering" excuse for Joe Biden during the first 40 years of his political life. It only miraculously appeared as he approached 75.
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Biden’s Stutter: How a Childhood Battle Shaped His Approach to Life & Politics
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Why do you imagine this rebuts anything I wrote?
Doesn't. I read it. It only goes through his senior high school year that I can see as a problem for him.
GREAT, please post what evidence brought you to that unfounded conclusion Jeremy.
Yes, that seems to be their posit.
Yet the only thing they've posted as evidence is their feelings.
Ironic ain't it?
The jokes on us, courtesy of 78 million brain washed voters.
I wish I could say that that comment is beneath you Vic. Alas...
I'm keeping my promise. I won't flag the old wordsmith!
I didn't flag your sweeping generalization so there's that...
Amazing how a stutter can go away for 50 years.
The other version we heard was that he was Irish and the Irish tend to talk too much.
He didn't have that problem during the campaign.
Sean, James Earl Jones is a stutterer, he's 91.
Ahh, got videos?
Remember Jimmy Stewart? He had a stammer.
Yes, wasn’t he in that movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”?
That was acting.
If you really gave a fuck about seeing a video about James Earl Jones stuttering, all you had to do was google it. There are multiple interviews over the years of him talking about it, how he managed it AND stating 'once a stutterer, always a stutterer'.
That google search will take you just as long as it took you to post another one liner here Greg.
Please proceed.
Is James earl jones the topic?
YOU started this thread, and YOU made the topic stuttering.
I cited James Earl Jones who has stuttered for most of his life. He stated that he couldn't even manage to introduce himself to family friends. He also stated, 'once a stutterer, always a stutterer' and said that he STILL struggles with stuttering.
There are multiple videos on the internet of interviews with James Earl Jones in which he speaks openly and eloquently about it. Go watch one...
So, stuttering doesn't 'go away' Sean, it's MITIGATED and it isn't 'amazing' that over a lifetime, a stutterer learns to do so, especially a stutterer who choses an occupation that requires public speaking.
Deal with it.
Lol.. The topic was Joe Biden and his childhood stuttering.
Pay Attention!
re are multiple videos on the internet of interviews with James Earl Jones in which he speaks openly and eloquently about it.
Good for James Earl Jones! That has exactly zero to do with Joe Biden.
o, stuttering doesn't 'go away' S
So you believe Joe Biden lied about this as well.
Although the fact that you think James Earl Jones experience somehow translates to everyone else is a laughably pathetic argument.
LOL, if that's true, why is it that the author of the seed gave you a thumbs up INSTEAD of deleting my comments for being off topic?
FAIL!
The problem is the Republicans ... whom I didn't call ... because I was having too much trouble reining in Democrats .
This supposed "reset" has thus far included no resetting, mostly an insistence that things are actually going quite well.
Biden, who has said that if his voting bill doesn't pass, the election will not be legitimate, is asked if he actually believes that. He gives unclear answer.
12 out of the 14 comments on this article are from you. are you filibuster ing?
I am. Somebody has to fact check this gaslighting clown.
gee, don't be so hard on yourself...
Consider me a translator.
more like a converter, alt-news to complete bullshit...
No, that's we get from y'all.
Definitely a pro at that! Ya!
The biggest joke is Biden starting off by touting that only 2 million people were vaccinated when he took office and 210 million are vaccinated now. The vaccine had barely been on the market when he took office.
C'omon man!
He's desperate.
Not to mention almost a million people a day were receiving vaccinations when he was sworn in.
And the vaccine came out not long before that!
Biden does his old-man whisper thing when asked if he's going to actually do anything to keep schools open. He whispers that most are open and then says tons of funding has gone to have buildings safe.
Won't commit to fighting the teachers unions who are banning children from schools, just says that most schools are open.
Reporter asks about confused Biden administration response to Putin troop buildup on Ukraine border. Biden says Russia will be held accountable. Says if it's a minor incursion, maybe one thing, but if big incursion, it will be a "disaster" for Russia in terms of sanctions.
He essentially greenlit a Russian a "minor" invasion of Ukraine.
The first day that Putin got a good look at him!
A Reporter just gave Biden an opportunity to clean up a previous answer where he seemed to give permission to invade Ukraine a little bit.
They chuckle about the whole thing.
Bottom line of his answer seems to be NATO's not on same page, so consensus is small incursion would be OK.
He keeps digging deeper. He's a menace.
What does Putin have on him?
Putin looked into his eyes and saw a blithering fool.
Did Biden just refuse to say midterm elections will be free and fair if his voting rights bill doesn't pass?
YES, in fact on questioning, he said that if
I heard that and said WOW, he really is looking for a democrat take over of control of elections in this entire nation leaving Republicans out of the loop..
He actually said that...
So now Biden also owns the big lie?
NYT reporter says Biden told reporters months ago that last thing Putin wanted was a Cold War. Lists some of Putin's aggression and asks if Biden's view of him has changed. If so, and he does invade, would Biden move back to Cold War containment posture of years ago?
Biden: "How can I say this in a public forum?" Says Putin is dealing with tragic loss of empire and demise of Soviet Union, trying to find place between China and West. Says he's not sure Putin is certain what he'll do -- although Biden thinks he will invade.
Yeah he really was building up Putin wasn't he, that was another shocker as well..
Biden believes in diplomacy via appeasement. After seeing how he exited Afghanistan, the Ukraine has to be concerned.
Biden says he can work with Putin on parts of what Putin wants -- and Ukraine is not ready to join NATO and so there is room to work -- and then says he probably shouldn't go any further. Not well articulated, but not awful policy, if anyone can understand what he's trying to say ?
The guy who promised to "shut down the virus" claims he didn't overpromise, but really overperformed.
Does he have anyone in his group that can tell him he's making an ass of himself?
LMAO!
WSJ asks about inflation and asks if he's admitting he's limited in what he can do if his spending package doesn't pass and Fed doesn't do anything. Biden says inflation has everything to do with supply chain. Lol!
Oh yeah, he also said inflation is nothing to worry about!!! WE HAVE THE FEDERAL RESERVE TO HANDLE INFLATION!!!!
NO SHIT!!!
YES, HE ACTUALLY SAID THAT!!!!
In his the Fed is doing a good job. Somebody should have asked what will happen to the stock market when the Fed is finally forced to raise interest rates?
Biden refuses to accept the 2022 election will be legitimate.
Pure comedy.
If we don't have Marc Elias running the elections it can't be legitimate!
Meanwhile the Nasdaq hits correction as rate fears sink stocks!
CBS says McConnell says mid-terms will be report card on Biden administration. "Do you think that's a fair way to look at it?" Biden says report card is looking good and that Mitch is just fighting him for political power. Asks "What's Mitch for?" on immigration, Russia, etc.
Biden says they don't have a single GOP vote as his buddy John McCain is gone.
Can you imagine being so ignorant as to to not know what McConnell wants on immigration?
How bout securing the southern border and enforcing the laws on the books for starters? Is Biden not aware of that?
He's to be pitied.
Nope..
Ridiculed?
Not only that he said he didn't even bother to ask any republicans... (no, cause he thought he had it in the bag and didn't need them)
If he was a little less radical, maybe he could work with them.
They're worthless and useless. Nobody needs the gop/gqp or the republicans or the alleged conservatives.
Fuck them all!
I wish I could say there was something interesting about the comments on this article but not so far
So you are saying your comments are not interesting?
Hell, John, we knew that years ago.
Your trolling is obvious
Biden claims he talks to Republican Senators who agree with him on policy, but are afraid of a primary. He refuses to name them.
Yep, Five of them that completely agree with him and if they came out and voted for him they would never be re-elected.... I"m pretty sure at this point it is very true that is a republican vote support for Biden there is a very high probability they wouldn't be elected, and would never be electable as a republican ever again..
But is there actually five that would say that? no way in hell... he was asked to name them, and looked at the reporter and said, "You Kidding"
Shall we add it to the list of lies he has told?
Biden says that state efforts to restore any integrity to voting are in his view "unconstitutional" and that he's using his (extremely politicized) DOJ to go after them.
Thus far, these questions are just embarrassingly weak. Where is the vigor and hostile positioning we saw every minute of every day during the Trump administration?
We heard from the right endlessly for a couple years Joe Biden was senile that he couldn't speak that he lost his train of thought in the middle of sentences that he had no stamina etc etc and now he's been on that podium for an hour with pretty much non-stop speaking by him. First his remarks and then questions from the reporters and although he hesitates in his speech a little bit here and there, he hasn't had any issues that relate to what he's been accused of for the past couple years , so when are you all going to apologize to the man?
If that's directed at me, the answer is never. He prepped for this for days and so far all he got was friendly questions.
I think you were right about the double hit of Prevagen
He's gonna need a pretty long nap after this is over................
You bet!
Biden-Harris 2020 .... came to you live from uncle Joe’s basement.
What I was told was that this was the strangest press conference that has ever been seen... the report I got was a reporter would ask a question and he had to refer to a notebook he had before answering it, that is why it appeared as he was haltingly disjointed in the question and answer department...
He's telling Putin to go ahead and invade Ukraine.
As a matter of national security, he can't be allowed to talk.
I didn't hear him tell Putin to invade Ukraine
He announcing NATO's divided and we won't really sanction him if it's not a "significant invasion"
Do you think Putin wrote his answers for him, or is he just trying to predict what Putin wants to hear?
He spoke a lot but didn't say anything worthwhile
“We heard from the right endlessly for a couple years Joe Biden was senile that he couldn't speak that he lost his train of thought in the middle of sentences”
do you know why those things were said? Because there is video clip after video clip of his verbal stumbles.
“so when are you all going to apologize to the man?”
apologize? Never, fuck him.
A lot of those clips were either taken out of context or tampered videos.
Joe Biden stammers a little. He stammered a little today occasionally. But no honest person can claim he exhibited lack of or deterioration of faculties today, And he seemed to get stronger the longer the thing went on.
I looked at twitter a little while ago. The Biden haters are still out there saying he has dementia. Like I said, no honest person would come to that conclusion if they watched this press conference.
I’m thankful the black women at the grocery store stocked the shelves so we could buy food because poor kids are just as smart as white kids and you’re not black if you don’t vote for me because there was a guy named cornpop, a bad guy, one day i took the logging chain off his neck and whipped him with it after that the kids would run up and pet the hair on my legs because of the, the, uh, umm, the thing, you know, the thing, they used to call tornados, they ravaged the heartland, the wetlands in iowa and nevada but now they’re called, you know, the the the things.
yeah, doctored my ass. The entire world (except for American liberals) sees the cognitive failings of our joke of a president. But hey, drug cartels and human traffickers love him
i think you need a sedative
Apologize for what? You must be joking, or have a set of blinders on a mile wide!
2 miles wide, minimum
Somebody needs to tell him that there is no democrat “voting rights” bill in DC. It does not exist. It has never existed. It is not being voted on. There is only legislation making it easier to vote under a false identity, harvest illegal ballots, vote as noncitizen, or to otherwise perpetrate criminal fraud.
Welker says that black Americans she interviewed say that Biden's racialized voting push is more about Biden not having helped out black voters with what they really want and need than anything else.
This is just painful. Weak, weak, weak questions, rambling answers, weird whispering, complete disconnect from reality by possibly everyone in the room.
Where the hell is Doocy or Heinrich?
Your filibustering and being the sole poster on this article it's not a good look. youre lucky you have me and Sean commenting. I can imagine everybody else is just skipping over all this
Their loss. I like the play by play whether you think it isn't a good look or not....................
And yet here you are.........just couldn't resist eh?
I had to fact check this so called "press conference." I knew the American media was a part of the democratic party, but this was outrageous.
Don't worry, I'm going to wrap it up soon.
Fact checker!
I thought I heard Doocy's voice.. He wasn't called.
The questions are about as easy as can be. Contrast the premises behind them to those used for Trump, or any other Republican.
Trump faced angry debates and he took questions all the time.
... and how many press conferences during his term?
About a hundred times what this coward has done. This is what you wanted. Take a good look at him.
So how many press conferences? Wasn't it like two?
93 in the first 39 months and well on his way to bypass several others.
How many press conferences where trumpturd took questions from anyone except Faux 'news'?
All of them. Remember Jim Acosta? [removed]
How easily they forget. Trump faced hate on a daily basis.
Everyone of them...remember the hostile Jim Acosta.
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Do you really think they'll tell him?
If they did he wouldn’t understand the magnitude of such a situation anyway,
Biden says country is more unified than when he was elected. (Technically true, I guess, but only because so many Democrats and independents who voted him have joined with Republicans.)
What a weasel he is. On the Atlanta speech:
"I think Mitch did a real good job of making it sound like I was attacking them. You notice, I haven't attacked anybody publicly, any senator, any congressman publicly."
No, he was just saying that they were voting with Bull Connor.
Finally, Peter Doocy!
Great question. Why did he pull the country so far to the left?
He's already complaining about how long he's been out there.
Only 20 more minutes is all he can take. What a POS
I thought James Rosen asked a good one:
He brought up the Politico/Morning Consult poll finding that 49% of registered voters disagreeing with statement that Joe Biden is mentally fit. "Why do you suppose such large segments have come to harbor such profound concerns about your cognitive fitness?"
Biden said: "I have no idea."
Another thing we learned from Biden today - "upcoming elections could easily be illegitimate."
"Can you think of any president who has done as much in one year? Lol!
Can't wait to see the old quotes from Democrats about Trump "attacking democracy"
And the "It's Biden so its completely different when he does it" responses from his apologists.
I'm going to conclude this with two observations:
Joe Biden hasn't done a press conference in months and we can all see why.
And let us never forget that having about four sane people and a room of delusional people is not helping anyone, especially this country.
Good night.
As much as I can take
Election will be illegitimate
NATO is divided, Russia will only sanctioned if it's a major invasion.
Polls are lies. Here are some polls
Republicans more obstructionist than ever. Care about nothing but making me look bad. Also Biden: I passed the largest Bipartisan Infrastructure Package in history
Republicans have no agenda. I oppose the Republican agenda.
It goes on and on
2 hours of taking questions, not a flub in there. This is easily Biden's finest hour as president.
Agree with him or not, he handled this press conference beautifully, no matter what the far right thinks.
Did you have him on mute? Or did you miss him doing a Trump impression?
Joe Biden , repeatedly today, "What are the Republicans for? "
They didnt lay a glove on him, AND he took questions for two hours. Are you going to stop saying he has "lost it" or are you going to be delusional ?
Why do you imagine repeatedly asking a question that makes him look ignorant helps him?
hey didnt lay a glove on him, AND he took questions for two hours
You are right, he stood there for two hours and the media didn't lay a glove on him. The damage was all self inflicted.
Are you proud to support a man who repeatedly undermined our democracy? What would 2020 John Russell say about your support of a President calling elections illegitimate?
It's stunning you can't say how much Trump and Biden mirror each other.
What is the Republicans positive agenda? They didnt even have a party platform in 2020.
I find myself agreeing with JR above. With all the fiascos that happened over the past year, this could have been Biden's finest hour. Of course that's a rather low bar...
You're joking...right?! "It's the economy, stupid!" ~James Carville
“This is easily Biden's finest hour as president.”
pretty damn sad when a president pours sugar on a turd and an ardent supporter call it his finest hour. Lol
Well, we’re gonna disagree John, big surprise, eh? No doubt his handlers had him amped up on drugs to get through this. By the way, only partisan douchebags would defend what this cognitively impaired mental midget has done since taking office.
It's started...
Ukrainian official told CNN's Matthew Chance that he is "shocked that the US President Biden would distinguish between incursion and invasion." "This gives the green light to Putin to enter Ukraine at his pleasure," the official said. "Kyiv is stunned."
It was 2 hours of Joe trying to convince people he is not pissing down their necks, it is rain. Pretty sad when his biggest accomplishment is that he stayed awake and semi coherent for two hours.
He’s exceeding expectations. For example, inflation is higher than predicted.
Up? As in employment, wages and the market?
Up as in the worth of our homes and our retirement accounts? That up? Things are not all that bad...
Wages are up 4%.
Inflation is 7%.
Do I really have to do that math for you? We’re losing wealth, not gaining it.
Yeah, you do to some of them, they believe that more zeros on the end means more value... {chuckle}
So the inflation is his fault, right Tacos?
Yes....prove otherwise
Well, I guess we're going to have figure out what - if anything - he is responsible for. I suppose he gets credit for higher wages, but inflation isn't his fault?
The point is he's trying to take a victory lap when certain key facts - e.g. inflation, Covid, supply chains, Ukraine, etc. - are worse than they were when he took office, not better.
So it's not me blaming Biden. It's Biden himself taking credit for the current situation. I'm just taking a critical look at that situation. And it doesn't look as good as he makes it out to be.
There it is in a nutshell.
Folks on the left want to give him credit for anything good but not assign blame for anything bad.
Such is how folks think in the land of crackpottery.
All that was is more evidence for when/if the 25th is invoked.
”finest hour”
That was a mistake that won’t be replicated anytime soon…
I just got off the phone from the last of a few of my old friends that are still in the political game and asked them for their take on this "Press Conference"
#1 overall presentation? a dog and pony show, completely scripted, questions known in advance with a notebook of applicable answers. The notebook was cause they wanted it to appear natural.. (no teleprompter) they failed...
#2 it was made to appear like he is healthy sharp and on top of everything, in reality he looked like a bumbling fool stumbling around flipping pages to find the correct answer, he lost concentration several times and had to ask the reporter to repeat parts of their questions on several occasions... And he rambled a bit clearly loosing his train of thought in the middle of an answer he got off a printed page...
#3 there was nothing we haven't heard before except for the attempt to get his BBB bill back but in pieces to get most of it passed... (yet to be seen)
Final Collective Consensus, it was interesting to watch, it represents that the democrats know he is failing and was an attempt to revitalize and rehabilitate his affect to the people, all it did was make him look more the ancient old fool than before...
Final judgment, it didn't help him....
Can you imagine the outrage coming from our friends on the left if Trump had ever performed that badly? And they give Biden a complete pass.
The hypocrisy at play here is epic.
I imagine it would have been identical to the outrage they had all the other days. It's not like they had any room to the upside. They were all outrage all the time.
Today is cleanup day, as the administration "clarifies" that Biden didn't really mean anything he said.
I think he got tired yesterday and briefly deviated from the all-is-well script. Today Psaki will have her work cut out for her.