The front runner?
Is that photoshopped? I can't even tell. Holy heck, Joe Biden is totally insane!
Posted on 10/16/2019 8:51:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Vice President Joe Biden was the clear loser of the night, not only rambling his way through responses, and at many points making completely incoherent statements, but failing to give a strong defense of his son, Hunter, over his gig at Burisma while he was vice president overseeing Ukraine policy—an issue he should have been more than prepared to discuss.
Here are some examples of why Biden crashed and burned last night:
1. He largely dodged Anderson Cooper’s question about Hunter, insisting his “son did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong. I carried out the policy of the United States in rooting out corruption in Ukraine. That’s what we should be focusing on.”
Biden went on to argue that he never "Discussed a single thing with my son about anything having to do with Ukraine. No one has indicated I have.” CNN even fact checked him over this because Hunter himself has said otherwise.
Further, why he actually highlighted Hunter's interview with ABC is anyone's guess. Biden insisted his "son's statement speaks for itself. He spoke about it today. My son's statement speaks for itself." In that interview Hunter admitted he probably would never have gotten the job with Burisma if his last name weren't Biden and that he had no knowledge of the natural gas industry or Ukraine.
2. Biden's debate performance did nothing to assuage concerns about his mental sharpness. Below are just some examples where he really...shined.
When each candidate was asked about friendships that would surprise people, Biden at the start mentioned two people, but never discussed who the second person was.
He also seemed to not be able to keep Middle Eastern countries straight. He mistook Iraq for Syria when he said he would "not have withdrawn the troops and I would not have withdrawn the additional thousand troops who are in Iraq, which are in retreat now, being fired on by Assad's people." And then he stumbled again when he said, "what is happening in Iraq is going to -- I mean, excuse me, in Afghanistan, as well as all the way over to Syria, we have ISIS that's going to come here."
On a different note, his entire response on whether he believed Sanders and Warren's tax plans demonize the wealthy was a train wreck. It was so bad it's best to just read it for yourself:
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No, look, demonizing wealth -- what I talked about is how you get things done. And the way to get things done is take a look at the tax code right now. The idea -- we have to start rewarding work, not just wealth. I would eliminate the capital gains tax -- I would raise the capital gains tax to the highest rate, of 39.5 percent.
I would double it, because guess what? Why in God's name should someone who's clipping coupons in the stock market make -- in fact, pay a lower tax rate than someone who, in fact, is -- like I said -- the -- a schoolteacher and a firefighter? It's ridiculous. And they pay a lower tax.
Secondly, the idea that we, in fact, engage in this notion that there are -- there’s $1,640,000,000,000 in tax loopholes. You can’t justify a minimum $600 billion of that. We could eliminate it all. I could go into detail had I the time.
Secondly -- I mean, thirdly, what we need to do is we need to go out and make it clear to the American people that we are going to -- we are going to raise taxes on the wealthy. We're going to reduce tax burdens on those who are not.
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3. An awkward moment came when Biden yelled at Warren on the debate stage for helping get her votes for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It was not a good look.
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Needless to say, Biden had a terrible evening and to cap it off, he defended his age (he'd turn 80 during his first term), by arguing that he's running because of his "experience" and "wisdom." Good luck with that argument.
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Twitchy Team ✔ @TwitchyTeam Joe Biden wants those clipping coupons in the stock market to pay their fair share https://buff.ly/2VUvg6l
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Ryan Saavedra ✔ @RealSaavedra Joe Biden says that he is going to name friendships he had with 2 people who had different political beliefs
Biden mentions John McCain and then forgets to mention whoever the second person is
Another bad night for Biden in terms of being mentally sharp
Angus Johnston ✔ @studentactivism · 14h Biden just called Syria "Iraq." Again.
Angus Johnston ✔ @studentactivism "Iraq. I'm sorry, Afghanistan. And all the way to Syria." —Joe Biden, fourteen minutes later.
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Did the other candidates attack him on Ukraine or did they do what Bernie did on Hillary’s emails?
Your eyes and ears don't lie. His staff must be despondent.
“I carried out the policy of the United States in rooting out corruption in Ukraine.”
What the hell is this schmuck doing poking his nose into Ukraine internal issues? How about rooting out corruption in your own house and the Corrupted States of America you prick?
As much as I genuinely hate all the others, it’s good to see this moron crash and burn.
>someone who’s clipping coupons in the stock market <
LOL, whut?
The front runner?
Is that photoshopped? I can't even tell. Holy heck, Joe Biden is totally insane!
The “clipping coupons” on stocks was hilarious on a couple of levels.
Bonds have coupons, not stocks—which shows Biden is a financial illiterate.
Stocks pay dividends which are deposited in the holder’s brokerage account or bank account.
Printed _bond_ coupons are an anachronism. This article explains:
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/12/business/yourmoney/coupon-clipping-the-oldfashioned-way.html
or fruit & vegetable market, or fish market....
its like the Germans bombing Pearl harbor....go with the flow!
Any one out there in Freeper land have Democrat POTUS Debate viewer numbers available. Rumors across the internet has it that the TV viewer numbers were horrible. Thanks!!!
Of course, neither “Headline Hollywood” or “the Drudge Report” are saying anything!!!
Good point. To hell with Ukraine, we have major corruption problems of our own to root out.
Biden’s campaign mgr counted last night’s debate as a big win because Biden’s teeth didn’t fall out live on camera.
Joe is slowly boiling like a live lobster...next stop Memory Care unit...muttering it should have been me not Hillary...
Biden isn’t the sharpest knife the Democrats have and he’s damaging himself far more than he’s hurting Trump.
Can’t be too many people that are both school teachers and paid firefighters simultaneously, but hey for those people Joe is the candidate so long as they don’t clip coupons in the stock market.
He should have stayed home...clipping coupons and playing the record player.
Another strange moment was when Biden referenced Putin and pointed straight at Bernie. Bernie took offense and Biden said, “Sorry. “
I’ve seen women in the grocery store with notebooks full of coupons. I had no idea they were in the Stock Market.
What the hell is this schmuck doing poking his nose into Ukraine internal issues?
Unfortunately he is half right. Their was a treaty signed in 1999 by Clinton by way of congress that set up policy for the Ukraine and the US to work together concerning corruption within our workings. So he claimed he was doing that. That’s the half right if he had kept it to that and not concerning him.
The half wrong is that he was taking the stance and acted at the time to terminate an employee of the Ukrainian government that was attempting an investigation into corruption that, just happened to be within the scope of the old man’s area, and might have identified what he did which he admitted to publicly anyway after the press buried it.
rwood
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