Posted on 03/01/2022 6:48:51 AM PST by SJackson
Everyone - including our enemies - can see he's not in charge.
It’s one of the most awkward twenty seconds ever captured on video in a disastrous administration that lurches from one awkward moment to another: when asked “Do you think you may have underestimated Putin?,” Old Joe Biden first continued to stare in the general direction of the question, a slight smirk on his face, expression absolutely unchanged from what it had been before the question was asked. A few seconds later he turned his head to face the camera and, after a few more seconds, grinned sardonically. A few seconds later, he began picking his teeth with his thumbnail, and then grins a bit vacantly before the video mercifully runs out. Amid all the wrong choices, erroneous policies, abject failures, and stupid missteps of this disastrous administration, it was a trivial moment, but it was a telling one.
Biden has more than once made it clear that he isn’t the person in charge. On Dec. 21, 2021, he told a press conference: “I’m not supposed to be having this press conference right now.” Why not? Who was telling him not to? No one in the sycophantic Leftist establishment media seemed to think it newsworthy to ask the president of the United States who was telling him what he was supposed to be and not supposed to be doing, and so we can only guess.
Nor was that the first time that Biden had hinted that he was just a puppet in the Oval Office. In June 2021 at the G7 Summit, Biden said: “I’m sorry, I’m going to get in trouble with staff if I don’t do this the right way.” At a press conference in Nov. 2021, the Oval Office puppet gave the impression that he was not supposed to take too many questions: “I can take…I’m going to get in real trouble … this is the last question I’m taking.” On Sept. 8, 2021, Biden announced to a puzzled world, “I‘m supposed to stop and walk out of the room.” On Aug. 30, 2021, he told a reporter, “I’m not supposed to take any questions, but go ahead,” but when the question turned out to involve his catastrophic mishandling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, he said: “I’m not gonna answer Afghanistan now,” and walked away.
Biden’s press conferences are scripted; on June 19, 2021, he said: “I’ll take your questions, and as usual, folks, they gave me a list of the people I’m going to call on.” Through all this, however, the establishment media steadfastly refuses to ask Biden who is running things and telling him what to do. That person may be Barack Obama, who said in late 2020: “I used to say if I can make an arrangement where I had a stand-in or front-man or front-woman and they had an earpiece in and I was just in my basement in my sweats looking through the stuff and I could sort of deliver the lines while someone was doing all the talking and ceremony, I’d be fine with that because I found the work fascinating.” But since everyone is determined to keep up the façade, we may never know either way.
Anyway, what happened when Biden was asked if he underestimated Putin? He may have judged that it was a lose-lose situation: if he answered that he hadn’t underestimated him, the situation in Ukraine would stand as a rebuke to his claims, but had he admitted that he had underestimated Putin, he would be admitting to an error, which his pride and political calculation will never allow him to do. Or did his scripted notes not cover such a question, and so it had to be ignored?
There are any number of other possibilities, but the length of the awkward situation is also odd. A White House aide can be heard saying “Thank you” several times at the beginning of the video, apparently shooing reporters out so they won’t ask Old Joe tough questions such as, “Did you underestimate Putin?” But they don’t manage to stop the video feed until we get to watch the old man stare vacantly into space and pick his teeth. Biden’s handlers are so weak and feckless that they can’t even competently provide the illusion that their man is in cool, confident command. Everyone can see it. Vladimir Putin can see it. Xi Jinping can see it. They and others are going to act upon what they see.
There must have been some sort of glitch with the Bluetooth audio device in his ear feeding him answers. So, he just waited.
Who?
Yes ladies and gentlemen that is the man that got the most votes ever for president..
And I have some oceanfront property available for sale in iowa.
Watched a bit of news this morning. The State of the Union speech was being heralded as a major event. News readers said that Joe Biden would “reset” his presidency, or efforts, or whatever he calls it.
That the Biden people can seriously say that Biden can “reset” his presidency by reading a teleprompter, and the MSM can report it and repeat it, is insanity.
We can all be comforted the next time we tank up at the gas pump, or buy groceries, or buy anything, we are assured that because of Biden’s speech, we will be starting a new day and it will all turn out good.
“There must have been some sort of glitch with the Bluetooth audio device in his ear feeding him answers. So, he just waited.”
Some people might think you are being sarcastic, but I think it is exactly the case.
He’s an animated turnip...on his best day.
Please, feel free to comment on Putin’s mental health, but not Mr Potato Head.
Surprised he didn’t scratch his butt.
Putin ? Who’s Putin ?
I wonder if they will use an actor to stand in, that is how suspicious l have become of these evil bastards
He punks people too by coughing into his hand before shaking their hand. The sheeple have been told to cough into their elbow area.
Can anyone imagine what would happen if that teleprompter somehow failed tonight or was hacked.
There must have been some sort of glitch with the Bluetooth audio device in his ear feeding him answers. So, he just waited.
highly probable he had the same during the debates.
Of course he will have something during the SOU address as its longer and he may get tired unless juiced up for that performance.
On the plus side, he still knows how to pick his teeth...
“..Putin? Who’s Putin?...”
I think it was more on the lines of something like: “Did someone say puddin’? Where’s my puddin’?”
Both he and his “81 million manufactured votes” are an utter disgrace to the dignity of this country.
Can anyone imagine what would happen if that teleprompter somehow failed tonight or was hacked.
he would blurt out. “ what am I supposed to say here” , “ they are telling me its time to go”
Get ready, get ready, coz here she comes, get ready, coz here she comes...
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