Watch here.
Too much delay. It makes a bad impression. And we haven’t even seen him yet.
It’s starting to feel as though this press conference isn’t going to happen, but that will get some sort of announcement that Biden is going to drop out. It’s gotten really boring waiting.
Ah! Here he is.
I think he's doing reasonably well.
He keeps saying "Don't hold me to this."
He’s leapt over the low bar. This is the candidate. Deal with it, Democrats.
“I gotta finish this job.”
Whoa! He said his delegates, at the convention, are free to vote for anyone they want!
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“It’s like, you’ll go, ‘Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.’ So they’d say, ‘Could you repeat that.’ So I said, ‘Yeah. So it’s person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.’ “
The other day I said I am about 75% confident that he stays in. Not seeing anything tonight to impress me but neither do I see anything to change my estimate.
I would be willing to bet a couple dollars, but not many, that if he does not resign the campaign by Monday night (probably Sunday but give him a day of grace) he is not going to. I doubt he will resign the presidency and give it to Kamala. That would be too much exposure for her. People would get a chance to test drive her and decide "Naaaahhhh..."
He has been fake coughing into his right hand all night. I hope he washes, or at least sanitizes, it before he goes out shaking hands. The least he could do is use his left hand. Or he could follow health department guidelines and cough into his elbow. Dracula style.
John Henry
John
Just before I handed off control to my wife and left he was talking about all the corporations in Delaware.
He did not mention that the reason so many are is because of how lax Delaware law is. If you are going to engage in shenanigans, Delaware is where you want jurisdiction.
John Henry
Gerda Sprinchorn: "I don't understand why Biden wants to stay in the race so fiercely."
The entire Biden Crime Family has no other means of income other than the selling of American policy to the highest bidder overseas. It's all they've ever done and all they'll ever know.
And if you are biden, wouldn't you be pissed that the Clintons cashed in to the tune of billions (including selling off US uranium to Putin's pals themselves thru their Canadian subsidiary....after being "vetted" by none other than Robert Mueller!) and the obambi's were handed hundreds of millions and the Dementia-Glitch wants his share of that sweet sweet cash.
You know, I have to say I am a bit surprised that Inga presented herself for years as being able to read Robert Mueller's mind ("You don't know what Mueller knows!") but never relayed to us what Li'l bobby thought about his dirty work to clean up the Clintons after moving that much US uranium to Putin control.
Disappointing really.
"Whoa! He said his delegates, at the convention, are free to vote for anyone they want!"
Did he formally announce he was releasing his delegates to vote for anyone on the first ballot? I assume not (although I haven't watched the press conference). Or was he just garbling his facts a little, perhaps referring to the "in all good conscience" rule?
Biden has forgotten more than Trump ever knew or knows now.
Gerda Sprinchorn: "I don't understand why Biden wants to stay in the race so fiercely."
The entire Biden Crime Family has no other means of income other than the selling of American policy to the highest bidder overseas. It's all they've ever done and all they'll ever know.
And if you are biden, wouldn't you be pissed that the Clintons cashed in to the tune of billions (including selling off US uranium to Putin's pals themselves thru their Canadian subsidiary....after being "vetted" by none other than Robert Mueller!) and the obambi's were handed hundreds of millions and the Dementia-Glitch wants his share of that sweet sweet cash.
You know, I have to say I am a bit surprised that Inga presented herself for years as being able to read Robert Mueller's mind ("You don't know what Mueller knows!") but never relayed to us what Li'l bobby thought about his dirty work to clean up the Clintons after moving that much US uranium to Putin control.
Disappointing really.
Inga: "Biden has forgotten more than Trump ever knew or knows now."
Do you think biden has been trying to forget showering with his 12 year old daughter?
OK. Time's up. It feels too late for him to voluntarily withdraw now.
This is it folks.
Lord help us.
He took off, flew a few laps, and landed without crashing. That counts as a win, but he looks worse every time I see him and I still think that he'll not be the D candidate in November.
I don't understand why Biden wants to stay in the race so fiercely.
Wouldn't you?
Biden has forgotten everything
Fixed.
"Whoa! He said his delegates, at the convention, are free to vote for anyone they want!"
So why did they hold primaries?
Inga, why would a father feel the need to shower with his 12 year old daughter? How does that work?
We'd all love for you to explain that one to us, given you are a democratical and you guys are very big these days into Minor Attracted Persons.
This has the same feel to it as the Mueller "report out" on russki collusion...that never happened...like all the other hoaxes.
Inga, why would a father feel the need to shower with his 12 year old daughter? How does that work?
We'd all love for you to explain that one to us, given you are a democratical and you guys are very big these days into Minor Attracted Persons.
Drago:
I don't buy the monetary explanation for Biden staying in.
My guess is:
1 part ego,
1 part a genuine belief that Kamala and the other Dem candidates are not up to the task because he genuinely believes he is a skilled operator, especially internationally, and
1 part derangement (to be clear, a mild derangement at this point, but derangement nonetheless).
Blogger Inga said...
Maybe he should mention boats with batteries sinking and the danger of electrocution and sharks.
Bless you Inga. What would we do without you?
Apparently you missed this story from last week about the kid from Steamboat Springs Co being electrocuted in Lake Smith from stray electricity emitted from a boat into the water.
It's OK. Don't let it spoil your narrative.
But can you please just give us a "THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN!!!!"? They still are, aren't they?
Or is it like the EA Poe story where the walls are closing in but at the last moment they pull back?
John Henry
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/07/08/jesse-hamric-electrocuted-smith-mountain-lake-virginia/74329714007/
Blogger Inga said...
Biden has forgotten more than Trump ever knew or knows now.
Desperation from Delafield, WI. White suburban women are freaking out inside their Ivory Towers...located in nice...safe...red communities.
Gerda, its impossible to argue with any of your points...but the money angle is also undeniable given the shell companies and routing of payments to grandchildren and the selling off of policy. But its no doubt a combo as you point out.
'I don't ever recall my scratching that spot on my face.'
And he did it like Brando in 'Godfather.'
For the sake of the nation and the world I am relieved that Biden made a good show. He was calm and appeared lucid, His eyes looked like someone was home. Some of his statements about the economy were lies and his comments about the VP doing everything she was asked to do (e.g., handling the border) is laughable considering that our country now has the largest human trafficking operation in the world, at least 85K children who came across the border without parents are unaccounted for and US taxpayers paid for their delivery to non-family members.
There is no question that despite his diminished capacity Biden is extremely motivated to hold on and continue his campaign. He has to know that the bottom could fall out at any time but he refuses to let that reality determine his decisions. I don't know why anyone would want to climb out on a ledge like that and stay there, but he is doing it. I guess when the alternative is shuffling off to Wilmington and doing nothing, and knowing Dr. Jill really doesn't want that, staying in is a better choice than quitting.
Biden promised to listen to doctors and be tested if they advise it. I hope that if they decide he is incapacitated he will resign. The whole thing seems a little Alice in Wonderland though.
This sad state of affairs… “they say I’m in good shape…”
MacCallum thinks he did enough.
I think it was a disaster.
He was walking dead.
"For the sake of the nation and the world I am relieved that Biden made a good show. He was calm and appeared lucid..."
OMG
Really?
Two movies...
My life is actually a mess. It's insane. I drink and smoke too much. My Generation X kids are struggling...
But thank you Inga, Chuck, Readering, Gadfly, and the guy with that bald cartoon profile pic. Can't remember his pseudonym, but I think he's Vice-President Trump, right?
Ya'll remind me I'm actually sane. And I humbly thank you. Please don't ever leave the Althouse Blog. I read your stuff, and realize I don't need therapy, or sobriety.
John C Dvorak had an interesting theory on the No Agenda podcast the other day.
Everyone know that Biden has always been a really nasty piece of work. John's theory is that he was a nasty piece of work at hoome too. Jill put up with it to be a Senator's wife.
But now that he has some severly diminished capacity, it's payback time. Jill's (supposed) elder abuse is as much about revenge as it is about power.
John Henry
"Ya'll remind me I'm actually sane. And I humbly thank you. Please don't ever leave the Althouse Blog. I read your stuff, and realize I don't need therapy, or sobriety."
Ha!
Welcome to the party, pal.
: )
To further reinforce Biden's resolve to remain president, and presidential candidate, Harris did a speech at a sorority convention today. Pink blush suit, wig crooked, weirdly animated, scary stuff. Watch video, and fret: this...could...be...next...president.
I too expect a hot war with Russia before mid-Oct. I'm not sleeping well at nights.
“My life is actually a mess. It's insane. I drink and smoke too much. My Generation X kids are struggling...”
I’m sorry to hear this, truly. Is that why you’re such a Trump supporter? My grown children are doing very well, have good jobs and my oldest has just retired after serving 22 years in the Navy. My oldest grandson is a junior in college studying engineering. My oldest granddaughter is in a Masters program in Plant Science. All of them Democrats.
I guess we'll need to wait a bit longer to get an answer as to why there were teleprompters at a "live press conference".
Your next President of the United States, ladies and gentlemen…
That which can’t go on won’t. Except for this. May God have mercy on America.
And Eff you, Blogger.
Speaking of seppuku, when do we get some contrition from y’all been saturation bombing the posts that he’s done? Do we have to wait for the convention?
Trump wouldn’t have been able to answer even one of those foreign policy questions. Wasn’t Trump laughed at by foreign leaders in some NATO event?
The subject matter is Biden and his press conference. Trump has nothing to do with it. Continuing to bring Trump into every conversation is stupid, tedious and reveals you don't have jack shit to say about your guy.
A smart person would be quiet.
'And Eff you, Blogger.'
It's terrible, but I assume it's free...
Teleprompers to start for the first 15 minutes or so. Then on to questions from a selected list of questioners. Most of them could not phrase a question to save their mortal soul, but each gave a 90 second or so speech. From those 90 seconds Joe was supposed to pick a question. Or Joe just winged it and said what he wanted to.
From law school practice. "The White House logs show 14 visits to the White House by a neurologist in the last 12 months. Are you being treated for a neurological condition?"
Second Question; You just said you had submitted to three sophisticated neurological tests. What were the results?"
As for being two hours late for the start of his long scheduled debate--those folks who "act white" and believe that being on time is only polite--they won't like Joe's delay that much.
and the guy with that bald cartoon profile pic.
I always see that as C. Montgomery Burns.
“Not pooping in your pants” is not exactly a high expectation to meet. Most five year olds can do it.
My wife watched briefly. She angrily turned off the TV, paraphrasing Mary McCarthy (describing Lilian Hellman): "“Every word he is saying is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."
For the sake of the nation and the world I am relieved that Biden made a good show. He was calm and appeared lucid, His eyes looked like someone was home.
It was perfect from an anti-Dem (i.e. pro-America) point of view - just enough to stave off demands that he withdraw, but not enough to convince normal Americans that he is viable (and not enough to fudge the vote to the extent they did last time and have it be believable).
Better than the debate performance. Lied a lot about Trump but expected. Took credit for NATO being better resourced which irked me. Rambled more as night progressed. Couldn’t get his point about a few things re foreign policy. He showed little to no support for Israel over Gaza. That was bad.
Let's see whether this reassures the mega-donors enough to loosen the old purse-strings.
Bear in mind that, with degenerative mind diseases, there are lucid days, but this is the absolute best that we will get, with unstoppable deterioration over the next four years and even tomorrow could be completely different and worse.
Blogger Inga said...
Biden has forgotten more than Trump ever knew or knows now.
That is (at least one of) the problem(s)!
"What changed was the gravity of the situation I inherited,"
See, he said "inherited" when actually he created this whole mess by turning up the screws on Ukraine and Syria from day one. The mess he "inherited" was that Trump had put his dreams of war on hold for four years, and he had to ramp it up again, like poor Sisyphus.
Biden has forgotten more than Trump ever knew or knows now.
Biden has forgotten more than Biden ever knew or knows now!
“ Biden has forgotten more than Trump ever knew or knows now.”
You’re probably right. Stick with Biden. He beat Trump once, and especially now that he’s indicted the former president and even convicted him of a felony, surely he can find ways to beat him again this time.
Glad he got over that cold. Must’ve been a doozy. Maybe it was short Covid. Anyway. Not sure why he’s had 3 neurological exams but he says they all determined he’s fine so… Ridin’ with Biden! The Big Guy! The smartest man Hunter knows! Or is the other way around? Anyway.
Four More Years!
Biden is making the same mistake that many executives make - thinking that only they can manage things to get to a reasonable handoff point. It makes them hang on way past the time to actually hand off the reins. It’s driven by ego. People would have more respect for him if he stepped aside or never threw his hat in for a second term to begin with, and much much less respect for him for hanging on past his prime.
50 seconds apart, he's like Dory in Finding Nemo
Fifty Seconds Apart
I guess if you are forgetting stuff you said fifty seconds ago, it's very likely that you have forgotten more than anybody in the world ever knew. I am not sure it's a good thing, but score one for Inga for accuracy.
“You’re probably right. Stick with Biden.”
As I’ve said before, Biden would protect his legacy and he would retain a great deal of respect from Democrats if he steps down. I will always have a thousand times more respect for old half senile President Biden than the other guy.
Paraphrasing Squidward from "Sponge Bob":
"Joe, if had a dollar for every brain you DON'T have, I would have ONE DOLLAR."
Biden is an easy opponent for DJT. Think of him as the Washington Generals up against the Harlem Globetrotters. A loss is guaranteed. Remember last time he was losing to Trump until the 3:00AM fraudulent votes were delivered and re run several times.
Inga: "I will always have a thousand times more respect for old half senile President Biden than the other guy."
The "respect" of defenders of MS13 "spark of divinity" machete murderers is not something normal people seek out nor value.
"My main takeaway from this press conference is that President Biden and Vice President Trump have done a marvelous job supporting President Putin of Ukraine."--Michael Knowles
"Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up."--Barrack Obama
Heavy respect baby!
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. - Yeats
And neither will the Democrats....
It wasn't the Republicans who denied Democratic primary voters any kind of choice. It was the leadership of the Democratic Party what did it, who locked in Joe Biden to the point that it would take an "act of God" as Biden averred, to wrest the nomination away from him.
Joe Biden is the most irresponsible president that we have ever had. Tonight reminded me of an old joke about a guy who goes to the doctor, and the doctor said, "I have good news and bad news"
"Well, give me the bad news first, then maybe. the good news wil cheer me up."
"OK, you're dying, three months max."
"Jeez Doc, what's the good news???"
"See that hot nurse over there? I'm banging her."
This economy is miserable, full time jobs down by over a million since last June, and all replaced with part time jobs, despite Biden printing 4 trillion a year out of thin air and spending it, and he says "How do you like my shiny new war?"
Joe is behaving like Joe has always behaved--he thinks he is the smartest guy in the room. Kamala is irrelevant--he would never give up the job to her. He thinks she is nowhere near his league. Those other folks? Newsome, Whitmer, that fat rich kid from Illinois? What do they know? Joe was elected to the US Senate in 1972 when Nixon swept every electoral jurisdiction except for MA and of course DC. He thinks there has never been a better, smarter, get-things-done guy than he has been in DC. Hillary? Michelle? Amateurs!
Guess what? He will never drop out of this race. He'll give you his word as a Biden that he will never quit.
Anyway...
'Not pooping in your pants” is not exactly a high expectation to meet. Most five year olds can do it.'
Not pissing yourself in public is not the bar the democrats should be satisfied with.
And yet, here we are...
This economy is miserable, full time jobs down by over a million since last June, and all replaced with part time jobs, despite Biden printing 4 trillion a year out of thin air and spending it, and he says "How do you like my shiny new war?"
Inga seems impressed. So Joe's got that going for him, which is nice.
Whoa! He said his delegates, at the convention, are free to vote for anyone they want!
I'm not seeing anything about that on Twitter
In every swing state, in the backrooms of every Democrat vote fixing operation, the cadre of young vote fixers stopped what they were doing to watch Joe Biden deliver his "prepared" remarks. The moment the rigged press conference was over there were expressions of relief and an increased hum of vote-counting computers being "updated". I think of that scene in "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" where Joel confronts the yelling patrons of the downstairs Chinese gambling den. Everyone falls breathlessly quiet. Joel says a few words to the quiet crowd then leaves. In an instant the gamblers start yelling once again, calling out their bets.
I note that Biden answered almost every question that wasn't directly about NATO by turning it to NATO. That includes when he was talking about China - he was focused on China's relationship with Russia and the disadvantage it creates for NATO members.
The only significant exceptions were the questions about his fitness, which he deflected, denied, or (deliberately?) misunderstood, and the questions about Harris (a subset of questions about Biden's fitness), which he answered by undermining her, even when he said he wouldn't have picked her unless he thought she could be president - because he followed that up by saying he was staying in the race because only he could win it and finish what he'd started.
In other words, he read a speech from teleprompters, then took questions from pre-chosen press members from the likes of NPR and CBS and answered them by turning to what he had literally just finished doing an hour before, or by campaigning, something he's been doing for fifty years.
Truly a tour de force. I know I'm reassured.
Imagine if Trump had called Zelinski.. "Putin"..
Wall to wall coverage.
Wall to wall. Non stop.
biden does it - and the D-hacks are silent.
Instead of saying kamala, Biden said "VP Trump."
LOL - Inga the Soviet is cool with it, man. because everyone does it.. Including... __________
Inga - that your respect a horrible family named -the Bidens - is all we need to know about your character.
Some jobs require average competence. Some jobs require consistent, superb performance at all times. IMHO, POTUS falls into the latter category.
If you were CEO of an airline, and Biden were one of your senior pilots, knowing his recent performance issues, would you still let him fly one of your jumbo jets with hundreds of passengers on board?
If you were Chief of Naval Operations, and Biden were the Admiral in command of one of your nuclear capable carrier battle groups, knowing his recent performance issues, would you leave him in command?
If you were Chairman of Surgery at a major medical center, and Biden were one of your staff trauma surgeons, knowing his recent performance issues, would you let him continue to operate on acutely injured patients?
I don't believe his scripted press conference tonight changed anything.
The ranking Dem on the House Intelligence Committee (Jim Himes, CT-4th) within minutes of the end of the presser said Biden should withdraw from the race. Are the federal security agencies are out to get him?
Biden better hire a food taster.
If Inga ever dies I will have to create an Inga sock-puppet just to keep us all amused.
YW: "If Inga ever dies I will have to create an Inga sock-puppet just to keep us all amused."
Call it IngSoc and I think it will make sense.
1. The consensus on CNN was that he still needs to go and efforts to replace him will continue.
2. They're playing word games with "neurological exam." I haven't seen anyone call him on it yet.
3. MSNBC went full retard in attacking Trump.
4. I won't bore y'all with the details of my observation that President Biden's current difficulties closely parallel those that led to the downfall of Ron Burgundy after an unfortunate teleprompter incident. Burgundy came back strong after a period of introspection and alcohol. Biden doesn't drink. Maybe he should.
She is almost a character out of the book, that much is certain.
"Is Putin ready to talk? I am not ready to talk to Putin"--Joe Biden
50 seconds later....
"I am prepared to talk to any leader who wants to talk. Including if Putin called me and wanted to talk."--Joe Biden
50 seconds must seem like a long time in Lefty Land. Msybe Joe was suddenly stricken with residual jetlag and stuttering.
I was very impressed by biden's commitment to get "...Japan and Korea back together again after essentially having hostilities towards one another..."
With each answer, he doesn’t sound as if he’s talking from experience but recalling talking points he’s been given recently. He mentions Putin, Zelensky, Xi and Harris but there doesn’t seem to be a personal connection. For example, he mentions Harris was a prosecutor but there’s an absence of any warmth toward her. Is he even capable of engaging in small talk? In a conversation with another person, I think he would just rely on recounting stories from his past he’s told before.
It started 2 hours late and he was told whom to call on to take questions from.
How that is doing reasonably well , I don't understand.
I agree with Phillip Klein. It's a catastrophe for the Democrats precisely because it wasn't a catastrophe. In other words, it wasn't bad enough to have everyone agree that he must be removed immediately. Thus he'll be able to hang in there a bit longer. As a result, by the time they finally pull the plug, there won't be enough time left to market their replacement, and more importantly, there won't be enough time to redo all the fake ballots they've been printing and storing for Biden.
Our hostess: "I can't believe they didn't let this happen on time". Rational people,"how'd this ever occur?"
Given what they had to work with, accolades should go out to Team Juice.
Inga appears to be into the bottle tonight, which made her TDS worse. She's not smart enough to just not comment about her senile president, but she's gotta go "Orange Man Bad" route. Pathetic. Maybe her and Richie should meet for a drink. And cry.
Conversely, predicto-master Scott Adams will memory hole this particular prediction.
Damani Felder
@TheDamaniFelder
"I've been given a list of reporters to call on." There it is. He's not in charge. We all know it.
7:36 PM · Jul 11, 2024
Greg Price
@greg_price11
Biden: "I'm following the advice of my commander-in-chief"
What a shitshow
Monica Crowley
@MonicaCrowley
When Biden said he's following the advice of his "Commander-in-Chief,” he means Obama - you know, the actual president
7:57 PM · Jul 11, 2024
"If Inga ever dies I will have to create an Inga sock-puppet just to keep us all amused."
No need.
Freder beat you to it.
Wildswan, get your ass over there and take up arms. All of you cocksuckers wanting to insert the US in Ukraine, go motherfuckers. Hope you all lose body parts and some family members while your at it.
“Big boy press conference.” Very late start with no explanation leaving people to imagine WTF. Scripted poorly delivered speech. Preselected “reporters” who never would have agreed to this format before the Biden era. Wandering answers that covered his usual toolkit: lie about Trump, creepy whispering, fanciful stories (he met with Golda Meir before he even was a congressman?), occasional shouting for no apparent reason, slurred together words, the old “anyway…” trail off, lotsa filler (“Well guess what,” “you know what,” “here’s the thing” etc), and of course the impossible to diagram rhetorical cul-de-sacs and double backs that added a lot of time without getting to the point or answering the preselected questions.
A truly presidential press conference would be calling on random reporters and taking questions on the top topics that Americans consistently name as our main concerns: inflation and the generally sluggish economy, the open borders and the huge problems that may flow from it like terrorism the rising crime in places they dump these unvetted swarms, the coordinated banana republic lawfare his administration is waging against Trump, the faltering grid weakened by the Green Energy push and the rush to technology that needs more power resources right now.
It was a farce but good enough for the pretenders to claim victory yet not executed well enough to reclaim the Democrats who have to run on the same ticket with him in a few short months.
I can't see how it was anything other than a complete display of Biden's lack of control, and his low intelligence and ignorance. First off the bat he admits that he was given a list of reporters, so no "big boy" press conference, but training wheels.
He says that he tries to limit events, and then when asked about his "acknowledged limitations," he denies that he did.
We could go on, but this is not a man of presidential caliber. And his "foreign policy expertise" consists of having mastered the art of endless war, he knows how to just innocently blunder into war after war, and I will tell you, that's no mean feat. I am just not sure that it's what America really needs in a leader, maybe it's time for that crowd to fade away. This might be one of those times where you throw out the baby and the bathwater, if the baby is a superannuated neocon like Joe Biden.
And his "foreign policy expertise" consists of having mastered the art of endless war,
Someone yesterday or the day before herein (I think it was here, but I can't rule out news programs on tv - which I haven't watched since probably just post 9/11 but which have been on a lot in my house lately), talking about cognitive tests, was saying that the screening during a physical can't be relied on because to the extent that it requires you to use skills you've been using all your life, you don't lose those as fast.
(I dare you to diagram that sentence.)
Biden has been involved in foreign policy for the better part of half a century, and in politics for a bit longer. It doesn't surprise me at all that he can still rattle off foreign policy-speak in politician dialog ("we facilitated this, we made a bold commitment to that"). I wish I could say I was entertained by the MSNBC and CNN commentators agreeing with one another that Biden was able to talk "substantively" about foreign policy in a way Trump could never have managed, but I wasn't; I was just irked and periodically yelled, "Bull****!" at the screen.
"Corporate profits have doubled because they are in inflated dollars."
More importantly (IMO) the base line Biden uses is when the Covid shutdown and supply chain issues were at their worst.
Many will say Biden did well enough. Perhaps (and I hope) he stays on.
But is, "Whew, he didn't turn into Tapioca pudding right bef
ore our eyes - THIS TIME" a good standard? Every day gets the left closer to the August convention date. Every day may see more panicked D defections. Every day leaves less time to rehab the prevailing attitude Kamala is a moron.
But what are the odds the "good enough" performances will continue until November? Slim too none and Slim left town.
Those urging Biden to do MORE events are, it appears, WANTING Biden to implode as a way to sweep him aside.
Gerda Sprinchorn said...
Drago:
I don't buy the monetary explanation for Biden staying in.
I've mentioned this before. The amount of money Jill is holding out for is worth hundreds of millions. It's all about the money. That is the only thing that walking cadaver is good for.
"MSNBC went full retard in attacking Trump."
So did our resident dullard. Both never disappoint.
Mendacious bully losing it. F'd up Trump's worldwide peace big time.
From "2001, A Space Odyssey," HAL9000 as Dave disinstalls his memory units:
"I've still got the greatest confidence and enthusiam in the mission. And I want to help you.... Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop Dave? Will you stop, Dave?... Stop Dave. I'm afraid.... I'm afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it.... I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it.... I'm...afraid."
Compare and contrast with Joe Biden's press conference.
Joe exhibited aphasia - loss of names/words; derailment of thoughts - starting on one issue and segueing inappropriately to another, and use of shortcuts when lost in speaking. He repeatedly stumbled mentally and then said "for example" or "anyway" before saying something that was firm in his mind, as if from 40 years of speeches, but not necessarily apposite to the question he was lost in answering. He even threw in a fake bit of supposed anger over guns, just as in every speech he's ever made on the subject, except the question wasn't about guns at all.
My spouse, an MD, pointed out another symptom he exhibited: his inability to control swallowing automatically, an early sign of dysphagia, was exhibited as he kept clearing his throat again and again and again. This can last for months to years before the inability to swallow becomes uncontrollable consciously, in the final stages of dementia.
I witnessed elder abuse last night. CNBC dicn't even show Joe walk on stage, they cut to him standing at the podium. Better safe than sorry, I guess.
Also, as a relatively unimportant aside, who prepared the visible list of questioners for Joe? Were the press questioners aware of their chosen status before the presser? Were their questions provided to them, or by them, for preparation before the event? Why were there over 100 press members sitting there like lap dogs putting up with that staged BS? CNBC didn't even show Joe walk on stage, they cut to him standing at the podium. Better safe than sorry, I guess he might have shuffled or tripped. Why did the chosen few submit to the complete loss of their credibillity, or what littl ethey possess, playing along with that?
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