There must have been some sort of glitch with the Bluetooth audio device in his ear feeding him answers. So, he just waited.
“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.
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.
Biden’s CIA Director Doesn’t Believe Biden’s Story about Ukraine
Substack ^ | February 7, 2022 | Peter Beinart
Posted on 3/1/2022, 4:37:00 AM by gattaca
If you’ve followed the diplomacy over Ukraine closely, you may have noticed that the Biden administration has relied heavily on CIA Director William J. (Bill) Burns. In November it dispatched him to Moscow where, according to CNN, he served as a “key intermediary” between the US and Vladimir Putin. In January he flew to Germany to discuss Ukraine with the new government in Berlin. This all makes sense. Burns is the Biden administration’s highest-ranking Russia expert. He’s a fluent Russian speaker who has served twice in the US embassy in Moscow, the second time as ambassador. Which makes it all the more striking that Burns, in his memoir, flatly contradicts the Biden administration’s narrative about how this crisis came to be. Remarkably, one of the most trenchant critics of official US discourse on Russia and Ukraine is the sitting director of the CIA.
But first a word about next week’s Zoom call. We’ve delayed Ahmad Khalidi’s session on the history of Palestinian nationalism until later in the month so we can discuss something more timely: The report that Amnesty International released last week entitled, “Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians.” What is “apartheid” and how does it apply—or not apply—to Israeli control over Palestinians? I have my own thoughts, but I’ll put them aside on Friday to moderate a conversation between two smart people with very different views on the subject. Philip Luther is Amnesty’s Middle East and North Africa Research and Advocacy Director. He was intimately involved in drafting the report. Michael Koplow is the chief policy officer of Israel Policy Forum. He critiqued the report after it came out. I’m thrilled they’ll both join us. I hope you will too.
Back to Bill Burns. To hear the Biden administration tell it, the Ukraine crisis is the product of one man: Vladimir Putin. Putin fears that if Ukraine joins NATO and becomes a pro-Western democracy, Russians will want the same for themselves and thus rise up against his tyrannical rule. The idea that Russians genuinely think NATO poses a security threat is transparent bunk.
The Biden narrative isn’t entirely false. Putin surely does fear that a democratic, pro-Western Ukraine could inspire popular uprisings in his country. But it is partially false because it suggests that were Putin not in power, Russia’s government would have no problem with Ukraine joining NATO. And it implies that the US bears no responsibility for the current standoff. According to Bill Burns, Biden’s own CIA Director, neither of those claims are true.
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Given how the Biden administration is bending over backwards to protect Putin’s cash flow, you’d think Hunter was on his payroll.
How else to explain that the Biden administration has explicitly excluded financial transactions “related to energy” from any impact from sanctions?
The definition of “related to energy” the Treasuring Department put out can literally be interpreted to mean about 99 percent of all transactions anywhere. Read this and ask yourself what sanctions actually matter? You won’t find many.
You really do have to think Hunter is cashing checks directly from Putin at this point. It’s the only way to explain the disconnect between the rhetoric and the reality coming out of the President’s mouth.
Stupidity and senility only go so far, this is so blatant that there has to be more to it. Joe Biden has always been worthless, he’s now taken that skill to a whole new level. And a lot of people are dying because of it.