Posted on 07/11/2024 10:56:32 PM PDT by NetAddicted
If President Joe Biden‘s goal in tonight’s press conference were to avoid being outed from office through the 25th Amendment, he would have succeeded. But in trying to save his campaign, he utterly failed.
Biden clearly showed he is not completely non compos mentis. In general, he is aware of what is going on, and when he isn’t in a bad spell, he can essentially keep track of policy. What he did not come close to doing, though, is to convince anybody with half a brain that he will be up for the job for four more years.
Biden looked and sounded old. Biden rambled a lot, even if not entirely insensibly. He committed yet another howler of a mistake by referring to Vice President Kamala Harris as “Trump” on the same day that he referred to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as “Putin.” He repeatedly did that weird and unsettling thing where he suddenly lowers his voice sometimes almost to a whisper, for effect, but rather randomly, without any real reason to do so. He almost never speaks distinctly, showing that even on a comparatively “good” night for him, he still garbles words, runs words together, and repeats phrases in odd ways.
Biden barely reassured watchers that he has the vigor expected of the leader of the free world for the next six months. There is no imaginable way that he can still be doing so in 2027 or 2028 — or, frankly, even by this time next year.
It is utterly irresponsible to ask the country to elect him to serve until January 2029. Again, this is not about whether he can kinda-sorta-semi-manage the presidency now. This is about grappling with China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, terrorist Islamists, and others when he is 85 instead of 81.
A doddering old man cannot project even reasonable strength, much less power. But a president who cannot project power leaves 330 million people at risk, not to mention perhaps billions more around a world that could become far more unstable if the president is weak and ineffective.
Biden is acting like a selfish man refusing to accept reality or put country above self. He ought to withdraw with dignity before he is shoved aside like frayed, torn old furniture.
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Kevin McCarthy claims Biden dilemma is turning into Democratic Party’s ‘Watergate’
I wonder if they require some sort of ID to vote in that contest...
FJB has been going downhill for 10 years
The fake news hid the decline
pResident Magoo has the delegates and the money and controls the convention
Most importantly, pResident Magoo important millions of illegals to steal the election....
That said, will anyone believe the steal?
That's the reason for the Dims to get rid of him. But will Kamala make it more believable?
The Dominion voting machines will save him.
The drugs must have been wearing near the end of his press conference when he alternated between whispering and yelling.
Quin Hillyer owes me a new keyboard. When I read this gem, “He ought to withdraw with dignity,” I spit some of my coffee out laughing so hard.
Biden has NEVER had any semblance of Dignity. Biden is just a Plagiarist, Pervert, Pedophile, Sexual Deviant, LIAR, Kiddie Diddler/Sniffer, and general A@@HOLE!!!!!
Whatever befalls Biden, I’m sure that Karma has a rather extensive list from which to build a response to him from. These buffooneries need to stop, but like a train wreck so damn hard to not watch.
Agreed, not so bad they can shove him out today. But out he’s going, whether he likes it or not. President Pudding is going to get beaten around like a pinata for the next 5 weeks, and if that’s not enough, they’ll pull the rug out from under him at the convention.
While it will be delightful to see the horrible Bidens finally get what’s coming to them, we’ll almost certainly get a more competent challenger. Oh well, it is what it is, this jerk Joe Biden clearly isn’t running anything, and hasn’t for a long time. Get him out of there, even if it means President Harris for a time.
Yes. Precisely. Trump should be running ads against Harris now. Get Americans thinking about the bait and switch. Even my hardcore Democrat brother has acknowledged feelings of uneasiness about switching out Biden for Harris just so he can win.
The big unanswered (and unasked) question just who is running America policy? What is their agenda? Has a silent coup d’etat taken place and the entire swamp in on it?
Non Compos Mentis Traitor = Biden.
Yes! FR is full of them! Doom & gloom, no matter how good the news. I’m seriously beginning to think that a segment of Freepers & conservatives get off on playing the victim. It’s funny, they, like most conservatives make fun of Democrats & lefties for their victim psychology in seeing oppression & bigotry around every corner, their victim culture in identity politics & hyphenated Americanism & their victim behavior in making excuses & blaming others for their own failures.
Enter stage right- the latest group of conservatives who, though making fun of leftists for victimhood, have decided to cash in on the trend & define themselves by their negativity, hopelessness & exasperation. As they tell it, they can see the future & there’s no hope. It’s been decided from on high- they have talked to God (bumped into him at a neighbors bbq) & confided to partygoers personally: ‘I shall smite thee’...yada yada...’thou shall descend into a lake of fire’...something something...’thine acts of treachery shall be revisited upon thee’...Yada yada...then something about ‘roasting in the fiery pits of hellfire’ because of, you know, sin & some other stuff! So....yeah...I guess they say he was pretty frosty! Mmm hmmm! Pretty alarming, isn’t it?
So, they’ve been saying all this & so I said back: ‘well, I for one do not believe the Lord was at that neighborhood BBQ. I think you are making that up’. So then they said: ‘Na ah’. Aside from negative nancy bbqers who are all downtrodden & pessimistic & awaiting the rapture, you also have their cousins (basically, a bunch of pinheads from Albuquerque shouting ‘no more’, ‘never again’. So I walked up & I asked what they are doing & they said ‘opposing Rinos’. So I say: ‘OK, I agree with you, can’t stand the bastard Rinos’. They said ‘that’s our biggest priority this election- getting rid of rinos.’ I said ‘shouldnt the first priority be defeating the communists that want to kill us & the next priority cleaning out all the rinos’. Then they said I was an establishment Rino for daring to say that. They also said that if Trump picks the wrong VP, they’re going to boycott! They also say that they aren’t going to support any other Republicans- they’re going to boycott! I asked if that was counterproductive, just willingly allowing Democrats to win? Why would an intelligent person be motivated to do something so breathtakingly stupid? They replied: ‘to save the country’ & ‘we have principles’! Soo...yeah...we are betting our futures, our pasts & our nation & freedoms on our conservative coalition making sound choices, believing in success & turning out in force in the election- even though it’s glaringly clear every time I sign back on to FR: about a quarter of our voting Bloc are negative nancy, defeatist pinheads whose iqs don’t rise above room temperature & whose snarky, miserable doomsday attitudes are really starting to piss me off 😡🤬
Could be related to sniffing something stinky and coming back to life.
‘acting like’ needs to be struck.
See, Biden hasn't changed at all. Go, Brandon!
One thing for certain: The Democrat/Communist Party does not abide losing ... be it losing an election; losing a big donor; or, most importantly, losing their absolute power.
The time has never been better for Mitt Romney to switch parties, declare his candidacy for President and save the day for The Lincoln Project.
“What is their agenda?”
international socialism
(for most people)
with
a luxurious topping of globalism & crony capitalism
(for themselves and enough backers)
These people don’t care about rules. Nothing stopping Harris from taken over and having hurt VP ultimately run. I would assume it would be the Harris-X person ticket and just like Harris can take over the funds x-person, one would assume, could take over the funds. Bottomine is, they’ll find justification to get whichever outcome they want. These people are well past “Democracy”. If you didn’t believe they cheated in 2020 this episode really should give you pause.
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