Said President Biden, next to the plane out of which emerged those freed by Russia in the prisoner exchange.
I'm glad the erstwhile prisoners are home, and I'm glad Joe Biden still walks and talks among the living, but I don't believe "There's nothing beyond our capacity when we act together," I don't believe we are "working together," I think it's interesting that a President said "Nothing. Nothing. Nothing," and I don't approve of the intensifier "the hell" on this occasion.
Most importantly, I want to muse over the announcement "We are the United States of America." It's not just a Bidenism. It's very widespread. It's "American exceptionalism." But the Russians got their prisoners back too. Is Putin out there saying «Мы — Россия»?
I get a Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair vibe. But what is grand about a prisoner exchange?
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It's a desperately needed win. If you want to call it that.
We are all just glad he waited until now to release a bunch of murderers and spies to make this deal right before the election.
If he did it a year ago it wouldn't have been a campaign prop.
Also important that Biden said "Why didn't he do it?" referring to the fact Trump didn't get them released.
But Biden doesn't even know they were taken under his watch.
Especially where their prisoners are real criminals while most (or all) of ours are political prisoners.
The things an incumbent can do in support of his campaign!
Compare that to mere dollar contributions and expenditures.
Why wasn't this deal done a year ago?
And yet the incumbent is stuck with the reality of everything that goes wrong.
I see "The American job market significantly slowed in July, the Labor Department reported on Friday, adding 114,000 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis."
Biden/Harris, the incumbent, is encumbered — burdened (not unburdened by what has been).
Joe Biden: the encumbered incumbent.
Come on man, we got some hostages released for a few trained assassins, But no 6 billion dollar sweetener. I guess Crooked Joe had no reason to fund our enemy like Smiling Obama wanted to fund Iran.
I suspect Moscow wants to act nice now that Trump is going to be in charge of our military again in 6 months.
Maybe he thought the prisoners were astronauts back from Mars?
I think he was clearly confused. I was watching a clip of the event as it ended and as he and Harris were walking away, Biden walked up the steps of plane the released prisoners had just gotten off. May have thought it was AF1? I don't know, anyway, Kamala and a couple of guys in suits stood outside just kind of looking around waiting for him to come back out.
Zero doubt we gave the farm away and this was purely politically motivated. This follows the the absurd proposal to pack the SCOTUS, which only acts to further undermine the credibility of an institution they purport to care so much about. They'll do, or destroy, anything necessary to retain power.
Ann Althouse said...
and I don't approve of the intensifier "the hell"<
The "the hell" is "Badass, Irish Joey Biden from Scranton" performing. And you know, Joey and Cornpop and the boys know that swearing makes you manly and tough...on your way behind the gym to knock the hell out of someone.
My best guess is there was some sort of routing error and the President's thoughts travelled along the same neural pathway where he keeps the lyrics to pop songs.
I mean, it's great for the people ready to mortgage the country to pay the ransom for certain WSJ reporters, but literally everyone else is wondering what the regime REALLY paid for the photo-op. Normal people paying $8 for peanut butter dgaf about Evan Gershkovich.
I hope all American citizens are out of Russia now. If not they have a big target on them the next time Russia wants to spring one of their citizens.
If I'm Putin, I'm airing Biden's words to my people as another example of US chest thumping and suggesting this shows America's desire to push around the rest of the world.
Sort of like a mashup of "Put your little hand in mine, together there's no mountain we can't climb" and "We are the champions."
Zero doubt we gave the farm away and this was purely politically motivated.?
I guess it depends, if you're one of the returning prisoners, you probably think whatever the price was and whatever motivated the US to pay it, it was perfectly correct.
“But no 6 billion dollar sweetener.”
That we know of yet.
"...what is grand about a prisoner exchange?"
Not much, other than the families who get to have their loved ones back. In the big picture, however, an exchange only encourages more exchanges in the future.
There are at least 6 American hostages being held by Iranian-backed HAMAS in Gaza that Joe Biden isn't even trying to get back.
Why? Because we don't have any Palestinian prisoners in our possession. Now why would that be? I think one reason it might be is that Joe Biden has been funding HAMAS, through Iran, by releasing billions of US-captured dollars from the Iranian hostage crisis when they stole a piece of the United States (the US Embassy in Iran is American soil.)
There are some things that the United States, led by its arch enemies within its own borders, are unable to accomplish.
Why do we have Americans in Russia in need of being exchanged? And why do we have Russian prisoners? Are they spies?
If they are spies, I’d think this sort of exchange should be done under the radar. But it’s just a ‘marine’ and ‘media’ people. Under what circumstances were they imprisoned by Russians, if they truly are what they are? If so, what Russians did we send back in exchange? I’m pretty sure the US is not in the habit of imprisoning random Russians off the street.
But it looks like Biden is doing good things for America, so thumbs up, I suppose.
"There's nothing beyond our capacity when we act together. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Remember who the hell we are. We are the United States of America."
Yes. A country led by a foul-mouthed senile hack that makes sordid deals.
"I don't believe "There's nothing beyond our capacity when we act together," I don't believe we are "working together,""
Correct. The urge to shovel BS even on this occasion is quite something.
"But what is grand about a prisoner exchange?"
Nothing. It's a humiliation. The only thing grand is the blowhard grandstanding. Showing who the hell we are. As Vlad and Xi and the mullahs well know.
Bill, in Texas, said: "I hope all American citizens are out of Russia now."
They aren't. Russia still holds many OTHER American citizens in its jails inside Russia (Mark Fogel for example).
Biden traded ONLY to get back CIA assets, not other Americans being unjustly held.
He only got the spooks out. Not real people.
God knows what else he, or his handlers, will do next.
“I get a Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair vibe. But what is grand about a prisoner exchange?”
What else can they tout as a ‘success’? Anything?
"But Biden doesn't even know they were taken under his watch."
He doesn't even know it's Friday. He's a turnip.
For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard,
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding, calls not Thee to guard,
For frantic boast and foolish word—
Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord!
This is like saying, My wife and I got in a big fight. I dared her to walk out on me and she did. Now we're separated and headed for divorce. My lawyer is costing me a fortune and he says my wife will probably get everything. But on a positive note, yesterday she wanted to take the riding lawnmower. I guess her new place has a big yard. So I told her she could only take it if she let me keep our hamster and guess what? She agreed! This feels like win!
A prisoner exchange with Russia. It shows how little has changed. It shows that Biden Administration hubris has taken us back into a cold war with Russia.
And how is this something Americans did together? Nobody even knew this was in the works until it was done.
Prisoner exchanges incentivize hostage taking. They provide a cushion of safety for the malefactors.
A prisoner exchange should be followed up with severe limits on future economic and cultural exchanges. Anyone pulling a visa for Russia should be required to acknowledge Russia's past practices of jailing innocents, and should agree that, in the event of their imprisonment, no exchange should occur.
Joe doesn't remember who Joe is. Did you get a load of Kamala's word salad??
"This is just an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy,” she said to the press corps.
Of course, when her team supposedly quoted her, they fixed her rambling to make it make sense...
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/08/kamala-harris-hq-rewrites-her-world-salad-when-addressing-prisoner-release-to-sound-coherent/
(Just saw the previous post about the Russia prisoner swap). Timing does seem a little off on this ‘swap’.
It's a win for the Biden administration. It had to happen sooner or later. Law of averages sort of thing.....That said, I don't put this up there with V-E Day, but that's how some of the news people are depicting it.
I was proud to see Simone Biles win the gold last night with a flawless floor exercises routine. I turned to my wife and said "There's nothing beyond our capacity when we act together. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Remember who the hell we are. We are the United States of America."
I think it was Steve Hilton who pointed out last night that Biden and Harris basically acted as Putin's emissaries to US allies around the world on behalf of Putin to get his thugs released.
I would say that anyone who travels to Russia should accept the risk themselves and be quiet. Why is the public responsible for someone who takes an unreasonable risk?
The collective bitterness on this blog is amusing.
The real story here is Biden blamed Trump for not getting the prisoners released during his term, despite the fact that 3 of the 4 released were taken prisoner during Biden's administration. Not that Biden remembers that. I'm not sure he cared either. He certainly does not care about our hostages in Gaza. Also, not that our press corps even noticed the timeline issues.
Releasing assassins to free (most likely) innocents is not a good policy. It just encourages taking more hostages whenever Putin wants another one of his murderers back. I am glad we got our people out, but getting out people out just for more of our people to be taken hostage is not a good exchange.
Not only did putin get his number one hit man his number one hacker seleznev two spies that had been sentenced the previous week in austria
There is very little that disgusts me as much as this corrupt old bastard waving the flag. The damage he has done to the country is incalculable.
As an American citizen, I cringe....when our media and the elites pretend he is still president when it's obvious that he has no clue where the hell he is....
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Joe Biden climbed back up the stairs of an airplane that had just arrived and he wasn’t flying on, as Kamala watched in amazement
I mean, he legitimately has no idea where he is or what he’s doing
https://x.com/ianmSC/status/1819382555109683700
Ummmm
I don't remember him saying anything this lovely at his last state of the union addres. As a matter of FACT, it was exactly the opposite.
“Remember who the hell we are. ”
…and who the hell are you? …and who the hell am I?
tim maguire said...
“Especially where their prisoners are real criminals while most (or all) of ours are political prisoners.“
Was it ever otherwise?
Can’t tell if this is true or not, but it sure is funny.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1819393683751313898
He remembered!!
I was listening to NPR, some bluegrass. Suddenly, an interruption, for Breaking News. Then, the news announcers started in, with the low, thrilling intonement that The President was expected any minute. Speaking in that low voice, the one usually reserved for PGA live broadcasting, during the putts. They must have wasted nearly an hour on this minor news story: The backstories, the events, the masterful hand of The President, the wrap-up, so forth.
If you hate the Legacy Mainstream Media, you don't hate them nearly enough. They are Government-sanctioned Propagandists playing handmaidens to corrupt pols.
The Russians won.
Sorry, that's the truth.
There is a tweet with video purporting to show JRB wandering up the wrong stairs to the wrong airplane, after the conclusion of the welcoming event. The most amusing aspect was Mrs Harris and the others happily waiting for a couple of minutes, smiling and chattering, for him to come back down the stairs, evincing no concern whatever.
"Can’t tell if this is true or not, but it sure is funny.
https://x.com/amuse/status/1819393683751313898"
My, God. This is what the democrats foisted upon us just so they could be in power.
Within a month or two, more arrests will be made of US citizens in Russia, to hold against the capture of Russian assets abroad. Hostage taking works. It works for Russia, it works for Hamas, it works for anyone facing a feckless, gormless, amoral, unprincipled opponent. And that is the Biden administration right there, for certain.
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"But what is grand about a prisoner exchange?"
What a spoilsport.
I'm glad these folks are back. It's a win for the Biden administration. I don't assume it was done for naked political gain. (Unless I start hearing that the VP was instrumental in the negotiations.)
“ There is a tweet with video purporting to show JRB wandering up the wrong stairs to the wrong airplane, after the conclusion of the welcoming event.”
So cute. Reminds me of how my then girlfriend’s dog Gus used to try to get on the bus with her in the morning on her way to work.
Dixcus said...
Because we don't have any Palestinian prisoners in our possession. Now why would that be?
We had some Palestinian protestors as prisoners, but they've had charges dropped without anything in exchange.
"There's nothing beyond our capacity when we act together. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Remember who the hell we are. We are the United States of America."
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For some reason, an image of Biden holding a straw while Kamela tries to pee through it passes through my mind....
effinayright said...
" For some reason, an image of Biden holding a straw while Kamela tries to pee through it passes through my mind...."
What a class act.
I wish I lived in a world in which negotiations over the release of US citizens imprisoned by the Russians worked like this:
The US drops a bomb from orbit on a major Russian radar installation in the Russian Arctic. After the debris settles, the US President sends this message to the Russian President: "That's 1".
I think we may have to wait for the Vance Administration (he was a Marine, you know; those guys are crazy, they could do anything). I can be patient.
Despite how the press tries to spin things, Biden always was a blustery blowhard.
"There's nothing beyond our capacity when we act together. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing."
How about secure elections, with safeguards to prevent fraud? How about that, Brandon?
Beats trading five, hardened terrorists for a deserter. So, there's that.
Wendybar made the point I wanted to address.
It was the first unscripted words I've heard pour from her mouth since her ascension.
I'd call it a word salad, but it was mercifully short. More of a word side salad.
Doctoring the transcript is pathetic, but not unexpected.
Jill, Kamala, the White House staff and every high-ranking Dem are just lying skanks for hiding the President's mental incapacity for years. They don't give a fuck about the nation, only their cushy status.
I mean, he legitimately has no idea where he is or what he’s doing
https://x.com/ianmSC/status/1819382555109683700
I honestly could not tell for sure, but it looked like Harris was laughing about it. Holy F**k.
In other news:
https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/us-news/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-revokes-plea-deal-for-9-11-terrorists-in-shocking-reversal/
In other news:
https://nypost.com/2024/08/02/us-news/defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-revokes-plea-deal-for-9-11-terrorists-in-shocking-reversal/
I'm guessing that didn't work as well as they thought in the focus groups.
All of the neocons believe that we can and should conquer the world, that’s what Joe Biden is saying, and not only can we, but we should, and any country that opposes us is evil.
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