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Biden’s address was a moving piece of political theatre and a rebuke of Trump
The Guardian | Yahoo ^ | July 25, 2024 | By David Smith in Washington

Posted on 07/25/2024 5:54:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

There was 6 January 2021, and a violent coup attempt by a president desperately trying to cling to power. Then there was 24 July 2024, and a president explaining why he was giving up the most powerful job in the world.

Joe Biden’s address on Wednesday night was a moving piece of political theatre, the start of a farewell tour by “a kid with a stutter from modest beginnings” who entered politics in 1972 and made it all the way to the Oval Office. For diehard Democrats it was a case of: if you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

The speech was also a rebuke of his predecessor Donald Trump’s authoritarian impulses in both word and deed. Although he never mentioned his predecessor by name, Biden laid out two radically different visions of the US presidency set to clash again in November.

In 2020, the year of a global pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests and Trump trauma, Biden’s signature empathy born of personal tragedies made him the right man at the right time to heal hearts and defend democracy. In 2024, his time has passed. That he came to recognise it reluctantly, and decided to pass the baton, taught a lesson about the presidency that Trump will never learn.

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KEYWORDS: biden; bidenoutspeech; bidensmentaldecline; davidsmith; election2024; fjb; gaslighting; gaslightmedia; journalism; marxism; press; speech; thegaslightmedia; thegrauniad; yahoooo
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To: Torahman
Bullsqueeze? Consider the source.

The UK's Deep State.

And the citizens there don't have a Trump standing between them and theirs.

21 posted on 07/25/2024 6:44:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Churchillspirit
Biden got what he wanted....a ‘clean’ exit in January fulfilling his term as President. It doesn’t matter o Bide in the least what people say or how they view him - ...never has...as long as he holds office. The primary goal of his lifetime.
22 posted on 07/25/2024 6:49:28 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

::a president explaining why he was giving up the most powerful job in the world.::

WHAT speech were they watching?


23 posted on 07/25/2024 6:53:07 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: caww

Let’s give Hollywood their due…….they do have some amazing makeup artists that can completely transform a face, then add the lighting wizards A quick call to Spielberg and we have a fresh, renewed and younger Joe Biden.


24 posted on 07/25/2024 6:58:49 AM PDT by Toespi ( )
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To: woodbutcher1963

Look at his watch. It’s taped...not live.

Either taped earlier in the day, or even possibly a week ago.


25 posted on 07/25/2024 7:01:30 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Joe Biden’s address on Wednesday night was an absolute shitshow; a self-serving quarter-hour of mindless, dishonest drivel delivered by a brain-damaged liar who spent the entire time staring at a spider on the ceiling and blinking with almost chronographic precision every five seconds.
26 posted on 07/25/2024 7:02:19 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Toespi

It’s only amazing if you don’t notice it.


27 posted on 07/25/2024 7:03:02 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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To: pepsionice

It was tapped earlier. They should have made him hold up a copy of yesterdays Washington Post.


28 posted on 07/25/2024 7:05:06 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They watched a different speech.

From replays I’ve seen ... it was The Twilight Zone, redux.


29 posted on 07/25/2024 7:05:14 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters was K as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The author makes a lot of pro-Biden, anti-Trump arguments in this article but the fact remains - Biden is gone and Trump is stronger than ever. Biden is kicked out by his own party in an unprecedented humiliation and Trump has survived both a political, lawfare assassination attempt and a real assassination attempt.


30 posted on 07/25/2024 7:05:34 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

31 posted on 07/25/2024 7:28:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Should have played “Ride of the Valkyries” during the speech.


32 posted on 07/25/2024 7:38:36 AM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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To: Leep

It was very moving when Biden said “I am not seeking re-election.”

Oh wait—he never said that.


33 posted on 07/25/2024 7:41:08 AM PDT by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Guardian of Communism.


34 posted on 07/25/2024 7:45:48 AM PDT by Kaiser8408a (i )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I watched his delayed speech. Make up overdone to add color to the cadaver skin of his, seems like new fittings on his lower jaw teeth, and that same old whisper voice delivering every self-serving platitude, catchy juxtaposition and useless mission statement that one of his writers and ChatGPT can spit out.

The big question never asked or answered? If not running again is “for the good of the country,” “WHY is he still remaining in office?”

End result? Hardly anybody tuned in to watch it on YT.


35 posted on 07/25/2024 7:47:24 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
There was 6 January 2021, and a violent coup attempt by a president desperately trying to cling to power.

Wrong, a lie. A "stop the steal" rally, by a president trying to correct the illegitimate results of a fraudulently decided election, infiltrated by ANTIFA and Occupy (who initiated the violence) and three letter dot gov agencies (who encouraged the violence). This writer is so full of crap his eyes are brown!

36 posted on 07/25/2024 8:38:43 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: RoosterRedux

Ol’ Mumbles at his finest.


37 posted on 07/25/2024 8:41:20 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: central_va; Oldeconomybuyer

It’s good to know your opponent’s thinking.


38 posted on 07/25/2024 8:53:51 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina (The time is out of joint. - Hamlet)
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To: Jane Long

One screen,two movies.


39 posted on 07/25/2024 8:56:15 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina (The time is out of joint. - Hamlet)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

IT WAS ALSO PRE- RECORDED.

JILL IS IN PARIS

SHE WAS NOT AT THE WHITE HOUSE LAST NIGHT


40 posted on 07/25/2024 9:11:22 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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