Asks Peter Baker (at the NYT).
Back in 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson stunned the nation — and many of his own advisers — by adding a secret 90-second bombshell finale to an Oval Office address on Vietnam that he was pulling out of the presidential campaign. With war raging, he said, he should not “devote an hour or a day of my time to any personal partisan causes.”
No one should expect President Biden to emulate Johnson during his State of the Union on Thursday night, no matter how much some Democrats and commentators have floated the idea....
The SOTU is still over an hour away, but please put your SOTU comments on this post.
Posts
73 comments:
I read that LBJ was hoping that the Democratic Convention in Chicago would still draft him and he would "reluctantly" accept.
Everyone in DC is jonesing tonight and scratching themselves like Tyrone Biggums caus the secret service has cleaned out the beltway's adrenochrome supply to keep Biden lucid for the next 2 hours. Don't let your kids play outside tonight.
I think he'll finish by putting on the one ring and disappearing.
I believe it was Ludwig Wittgenstein who wrote "If a Biden could talk, we could not understand him." Tonight, we will find out if this is true.
Biden's basically going to announce he will re-instate all of Trump's policies because they work and it is his only hope of winning the election.
I will be happy to not watch it. The best way to deal with a sociopath and remorseless liar like Joe Biden is to not allow him direct access to your mind.
An aneurysm for the big guy would be nice
There appears to be an insurrection at Statuary Hall right now.
link to live shot from Statuary Hall
Too bad the blog is not live. I coluda make comments while watching.
Good thing I looked up "Statuary Hall"; I was spelling it "statutory".
Mob Husk Puppet Sauron endures!
For democracy! You can't spell demon without democracy.
We've already experience a bunch of Biden's LBJ moments.
1) LBJ took the oath of office after he knew the CIA knocked off JFK. Biden took the oath of office after knowing the was installed via voter fraud.
2) After JFK, LBJ escalated a stupid war in Viet Nam. JFK wouldn't have punched that tar baby. Biden, after fraudulently replacing Trump, escalated conflict with Russia via NATO expansion, and a shitload more that 55,000 Ukrainians are dead as a result.
LBJ bowed out in 1968 knowing he was mortal, and wanted to go to heaven. LBJ washed his hands Pontius Pilate style.
Biden's assignment is to implement hell on earth. Ol' Joe has succeeded.
Anyone else seeing a lot of a Seth Myer's anti-trump clip and other anti-trump posts on Twitter just now? I mean more than usual. I'm seeing what looks like an inordinate amount, almost as if there are groups trying to game the algorithm.
Tim In Vermont.
Precisely.
I just watched a live feed. Eesh.
Talking Heads jabbering.
Twenty years ago, Americans were convinced to fear a fake "Axis of Evil" by the Bush II administration. I'm guilty...
Tonight the United States' very own "Avatar of Evil" takes the stage in front of Congress, the country, and the world for all so see...
America's credentialed elite will applaud like seals...and carry Biden's missiles on their backs like Oswald Cobblepot's penguins...
Greg Gutfeld: "Trump will correct Biden because no one else will"
I'm gonna watch the SOTU on NBC broadcast feed. Lester Holt hosting.
If I make it through, I'm expecting some time off Purgatory.
Do you think Mitt Romney will be fellating Biden underneath the podium like Pam Morrison did for a drunken Jim Morrison when The Doors recorded "The Soft Parade"?
Pam's assignment was to keep Jim focused...
"Rachel Maddow Challenges MSNBC's Decision to Air Trump Speech (Super Tuesday Win), Citing Irresponsibility"
What is Maddow going to do if Trump wins?
The cabinet is filing in.
"President Biden has already said he won't make any orders during his SOTU speech tonight to address our Southern Border crisis.
But he will order U.S. troops to build a port in Gaza so we can ship them more taxpayer-funded aid."
Rep Tom Burchett
Well - at least Crook husk puppet pro-Hamas Joe is consistent.
So many people that I despise, all in once place. Ugh.
I that Justice Kennedy?
I thought he retired.
MTG spoke to Biden in full MAGA regalia. 🫣
Women looong past their expiration date in terminating pregnancy team lack if colors. Not like we have any other problems I suppose…
Fox slurping over Andropov shuffling in. I’m tapping out….
They better hurry Biden up. They're burning up his alertness time before the drugs wear off with all of this schmoozing.
Biden's providing help and assistance to our enemies (Hamas). That's treason.
Someone should hijack the teleprompter and insert LBJ's words when he told the world he would not run for re-election. Biden would read them verbatim and then freeze in place just before he was "evacuated" by the Secret Service. What fun!
Putin boogeyman and NATO expansion to start the speech.
We clearly know the priorities...more war.
Summary so far....
"Get off my lawn!"
Die Götterdoddering
Die Götterdoddering
The doddering of the idols.
Biden sounds like a dictator.
Biden's speech trying to pump up the electoral power of women wasn't very empowering when he slurred the final line.
Thought I would try to watch but I just can't stomach it. I know it will be rechewed for days anyway.
One feature will apparently be the seaport to be constructed to aid the Gazans . . . words fail.
New drinking game: Take a drink every time Biden says “my predecessor”.
Biden spurring his sleech!
If that Belvidere Auto Plant is making batteries for EVs like he seemed to suggest those jobs won't be there for that many more years given America's reception to EVs.
Biden sounds like he’s on some form of amphetamine.
Biden sounds like he’s on some form of amphetamine.
The Obamacare still being a big deal line was pretty funny.
Hey. Let's fly to Moscow with Biden to get cheaper prescription drugs! Drop some bombs on the way! Two-fer!!!
Is Biden on drugs?
Biden going off script to deal with the Laiken Riley issue didn't play well for him. Him calling the murderer 'an illegal' will make the Left unhappy. Him seemingly confusing the time lines of the bill between 6 weeks time and 6 months time won't reassure anyone of his cognitive abilities.
Oh my God. This is just pathetic. Lie, pander, lie more, pander more, and keep repeating. OMG it’s awful.
Truth Social is down -- how is the country going to get the truth now. Maybe Putin really does prefer Biden.
Did President Biden say he taught 2nd Amendment law for 12 years?
I dream of a day when a president of the U.S. returns to sending a letter to Congress as the SOTU. I'm tired of the performance.
Thomas LaDuke:
"Lets be honest.
That was the most Reagan-esque speech ever.
In Reagan's current condition"
I so often hear from my friends who were among the original Trump supporters; "We like him because he fights. We want a fighter."
You're gonna get a fight. You're gonna get a whole lot more fight than you ever wanted, or that you can handle. We're going to outraise you, outspend you, outwork you and genrally outflank you while Trump spends the summer in court.
That beginning of the speech, which I missed, but since watched, was on of escalating a war.
Biden is off his rocker.
Howard. Were you inspired? Was it everything you thought it would be? LOL He certainly met my expectations.
If you really want a good laugh- watch this thing at 1.5 speed. Most speeches are easily understood at 1.5-2.0 speed, but Biden was so amped on meth and slurring words together so badly, it was nearly all gibberish at 1.5.
Whoever wrote this speech for him did him literally no favors- I would almost be willing to claim this speech was written to bury him politically.
“Old Man Yells at Country”
The wisdom of Joe Biden:
“Trump said do nothing but I said stop it!”
“HAMAS ENTERED THIS CRISIS BY ENDING THE HOSTAGES!”
L
This is your president on speed.
He is awful, this country is toast under this asshole.
Chuck said...
I so often hear from my friends who were among the original Trump supporters; "We like him because he fights. We want a fighter."
You're gonna get a fight. You're gonna get a whole lot more fight than you ever wanted, or that you can handle. We're going to outraise you, outspend you, outwork you and genrally outflank you while Trump spends the summer in court.
3/7/24, 9:44 PM
so you finally admit you are a BIDEN Progressive....like we didn't already know it.
Tell me again how this man, who doesn't know where he is, is running the country. THIS is pathetic, and the idiots who cheered his hate on are BIGGER pathetic idiots.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1765951233469075497
Captures the moment perfectly
Blogger Lem the artificially intelligent said...
New drinking game: Take a drink every time Biden says “my predecessor”.
1. Took me 1.5 bottles of wine to play that game.
2. He seemed to become more understandable as the game went on as I became demonstrably less so.
3. It will be a rough morning at work today.
We can scratch uniting the country off the list.
From Legal Insurrection...
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/03/electric-grid-nearing-overloaded-due-to-green-energy-push-and-ai/
How can the political system in the world's largest economy lead to these two candidates? Both are too old and unfit for such an office. But clearly Biden is the less bad choice compared to the narcissistic criminal that is Don the Con.
Whenever I see LBJ, I always think of Clinton and Liberal Blow Job.
Why does he yell so much? Is it “No one Fs with a Biden”? Is it fight or flight? Is it a drug cocktail? It’s very unnerving and obviously is an extremely poor speech strategy.
He's running, and despite his obvious infirmity, he will be re-elected. They've figured out what is required and will lock up anyone who dares to stand in their way. Would YOU join a protest to contest the election in DC? I daresay, I'd prefer to avoid the gulag.
Whenever somebody says "clearly" it means, I don't actually have any evidence for this, but everybody I agree with is saying it. Try this definition next time somebody says "clearly" and you will see it works almost every time.
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
The optics appear to be that Pro-Hamas protestors get to block traffic with impunity and Gold Star parents are led away in handcuffs.
11:45 PM · Mar 7, 2024
My primary take away was economic. Bidenomics s a sweeping success. The Stop inflation act (actually the add green new deal pork bill) is a smash hit adding swell jobs everywhere.
(/sarc)
Because of all this wondrous wealth showered upon us we need the federal government to:
Take the sting out of bouncing checks.
Get us fuller bags of Doritos.
Help people be able to buy a home because interest rates are too damn high.
And more, much more.
Boy am I glad the economy is "the envy of the world". I can't stand any more "good" news. My grandchildren sure as hell can't.
Post a Comment