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‘I hibernated’: Biden makes apparent joke while discussing wind power
The New York Post ^ | 08/09/2023 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 08/09/2023 8:13:02 PM PDT by thegagline

President Biden unexpectedly told an audience in New Mexico Wednesday that he has “hibernated” in the past, an apparent joke that resurrected memories of former President Donald Trump bestowing the unflattering nickname during the 2020 election campaign.

“Siemens Corporation laid off workers who were making wind turbine parts and put the plant in Iowa and Kansas into what they now call, they refer to as ‘hibernation’,” Biden said at a wind-tower plant in Albuquerque.

“I hibernated in a while — all, you know, in Iowa for a while,” he said to a smattering of chuckles.

“But look, now we’re reopening both these plants and rehiring workers.”

Biden, 80, largely ran for the White House from his basement at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, holding few events while Trump stuck to a packed schedule of rallies.

An NBC poll released in late June found 68% of voters believe that Biden lacked the mental and physical health needed to be president.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biden; crook; dolt; fjb; grift; manchurian; scam; wind
Joe Biden is doing to America what Dylan Mulvaney did for Bud Light.
1 posted on 08/09/2023 8:13:02 PM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline
Biden broke wind. As usual. We don't call it "hibernating" we call it something else.

2 posted on 08/09/2023 8:21:31 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: thegagline

The correct term is dementia, Joetato, and you won’t be coming out of that “hibernation.”


3 posted on 08/09/2023 8:44:52 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: thegagline

Siemens Energy just booked 2.4 billion in wind turbine losses. They aren’t coming out of hibernation any time soon.


4 posted on 08/09/2023 8:47:23 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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“Siemens Corporation ..... we’re reopening both these plants and rehiring illegeal alien workers..Makeing Germany great again.”

Siemens is the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe.

/s


5 posted on 08/09/2023 8:58:28 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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“There is no evidence that humans can go into hibernation, an extended state of torpor. Torpor is the physiological state of metabolic depression, in which your body temperature, breathing, and energy expenditure drop. But humans have distant ancestors that did hibernate.” Healthline.com

What if we send Biden and a few dozen Dems into deep space to test methods of long voyages. They will have to slow down their body functions and be reawakened much later. If it doesn’t work, well....


6 posted on 08/09/2023 9:28:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: thegagline

Funny, wind power hibernates a majority of the time.


7 posted on 08/09/2023 10:19:30 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (The Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself. )
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To: thegagline

What an excellent comparison!


8 posted on 08/10/2023 12:05:59 AM PDT by HollyB
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To: TigersEye

Seems there was something about him or hc where they were put in a ‘slumber’ prior to some campaign event so they would be physically and mentally able to go up against DJT. I remember this from a while back so not sure of other details.

Both had cognitive issues during campaign so I don’t doubt.


9 posted on 08/10/2023 3:35:35 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: TigersEye

10 posted on 08/10/2023 5:28:52 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Being a Democrat Means Never Having to Accept an Election Loss
Op Ed By Timothy P. Carney, Washington Examiner, October 05, 2021

Before former President Donald Trump refused to accept an election he clearly lost, there were the Democrats. They literally have not accepted a single presidential election loss this century.

After Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016, she declared that Trump was an “illegitimate president.” As the Washington Post aptly characterized it, she also “suggested that ‘he knows’ that he stole the 2016 presidential election.”

This was in 2019, after Democrats in Congress and hostesses on MSNBC spent years trying to prove a false conspiracy theory that Russia somehow rigged the election in Trump’s favor.

The previous time the Republicans won, George W. Bush in 2004, Sen. Barbara Boxer and dozens of House members objected to Ohio’s electoral votes going for Bush, even though he won the state by more than 100,000 votes.

Rep. Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, promoted a conspiracy theory whereby enough votes were switched from Kerry to Bush by voting machines and enough voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls that it “could have been” determinative of the result in Ohio and, thus, the whole presidential election.

And the time before that? Well, famously, Al Gore sued in Florida and in the Supreme Court to overturn George W. Bush’s insanely narrow victory in that state. Democratic congressmen, even after the lawsuits ended, called the result a “coup d’etat.” They also challenged the electoral votes.

Why do I bring up the distant past? Because Democrats continue to peddle the line, which would be called “dangerous” if a Republican made the same argument, that Bush “stole” the 2000 election.

Watch this video of Terry McAuliffe in 2004 , claiming Republicans stole the 2000 election. McAuliffe, who has never recanted that false claim, as then the Democratic nominee for the governor of Virginia and has the backing of the entire Democratic establishment.

That’s because the Democratic and liberal establishment say the same thing as McAuliffe:

20 years later, McAuliffe will not retract his claim that the 2000 election was stolen. Whereas Youngkin said onstage this week that Biden won. https://t.co/NLPyuium6h

— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) October 1, 2021
And here’s Jonathan Chait at New York magazine last month, saying Bush never won the election fairly.

The Drum/Chait case, which is the most sophisticated version of the argument, is that the most liberal recount method utilized by a consortium of newspapers yielded a Gore victory. That recount method was one of the methods that counted overvotes, described by the Orlando Sentinel as “ballots rejected because machines detected markings for more than one candidate but when examined reveal voter corrections and other clear signs of intent.”

But every other version of the recount by the newspapers yielded a Bush win.

How does Chait decide the only method ultimately favorable to Gore was the right one? Conveniently, Chait thinks that’s the fairest method. We don’t need to argue which was the fairest method, though, because the Chait Method was a post-hoc innovation by the newspapers explicitly not permitted by law.

The recount ended when the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore, striking down a ruling by the Florida Supreme Court. But had the Florida Supreme Court ruling stood, all 67 counties would have counted some ballots, and, according to the newspaper, this count would have yielded a Bush win, the New York Times reported : “[I]f Florida’s 67 counties had carried out the hand recount of disputed ballots ordered by the Florida court on Dec. 8, applying the standards that election officials said they would have used, Mr. Bush would have emerged the victor by 493 votes.”

Gore’s campaign was asking for a different, less defensible remedy — a selective hand recount only in four very pro-Gore counties. Again, the New York Times noted that that too would have resulted in a Bush win: “Even under the strategy that Mr. Gore pursued at the beginning of the Florida standoff — filing suit to force hand recounts in four predominantly Democratic counties — Mr. Bush would have kept his lead, according to the ballot review conducted for a consortium of news organizations.”

Again, the facts establish that if Gore had won the Bush v. Gore court case, Gore would still have lost the 2000 election. It isn’t even controversial unless you are unfamiliar with the facts.

Returning to the Chait Standard, requested or ordered by neither the Florida Supreme Court nor the Gore campaign, Chait’s evidence that it was the real standard, rests on this passage in the Orlando Sentinel:

“If the recount had gone forward, it might have been expanded beyond what the Florida Supreme Court ordered by the man responsible for overseeing it, Leon County Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis. The recount was halted before he decided how it would finally work, but Lewis said in an interview earlier this year that he would not have ignored the overvote ballots. Though he stopped short of saying he definitely would have expanded the recount to include overvotes, Lewis emphasized, ‘I’d be open to that.’ ”

Again, “I’d be open to that.” The judge in charge of the recount would “be open” to maybe implementing a counting method that would have given Gore the victory. That’s a very thin thread upon which to hang a claim that Gore really won the election.

Florida law, on the other hand, was not open to that. The law explicitly said, “If an elector marks more names than there are persons to be elected to an office or if it is impossible to determine the elector’s choice, the elector’s ballot shall not be counted for that office.”

Note that first clause — and the “or.” A ballot with two votes marked for president “shall not be counted for that office.” So, counting overvotes, which Lewis said he would consider, would have been illegal.

“Without overvotes,” the Orlando Sentinel explained , “Gore could not have won a statewide recount, the ballot study shows. In every recount scenario examined, Bush would have reaped more of the undervotes.”

You can always argue that the law should allow a more liberal vote-counting standard, but in fact, the law didn’t allow it. Under Florida law, Bush won. Had courts overturned that victory, they would have been rewriting the law in order to give Gore the victory. That would have been stealing the election.


11 posted on 08/10/2023 2:46:49 PM PDT by Liz (More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones. St Teresa of Avila)
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