October 4, 2024

"Well, she’s — I’m in constant contact with her. She’s aware of where — we all — we’re singing from the same song sheet."

"We — she helped pass the l- — all the laws that are being employed now. She was a major player in everything we’ve done, including passage of legislation, which we were told we could never pass. And so, she’s been — and her — her staff is interlocked with mine in terms of all the things we’re doing."

Said President Biden, at the end of his press conference today, when he was asked what role Kamala Harris has played working on the "crises" of the last few days.

It almost seems designed to hurt her, but perhaps we can credit him with being so out of touch that he thought this was helpful. Has he not noticed that she's been trying to appear unattached to the Biden administration?

77 comments:

Jersey Fled said...

Oops

Dixcus said...

Acting President Kamala Harris has ordered the US military to kill some brown people for Israel.

https://nypost.com/2024/10/04/us-news/us-british-forces-launch-airstrikes-on-yemens-iran-backed-houthi-rebels-targeting-weapons-systems-and-bases/

I'm guessing she's not going to win Minnesotastan after all.

Yancey Ward said...

When asked for a comment, Kamala Harris said, "Who is Joe Biden?"

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

... perhaps we can credit him with being so out of touch that he thought this was helpful.

Yes you can. You're never going to get Biden to admit that his policies did nothing but cause and exacerbate problems. There's no way he could ever see that Harris might want to disassociate from him.

Yancey Ward said...

You gotta know that if Harris does lose the election next month, Joe and Jill Biden are going to say, "I told you so" to more than just a few people.

BUMBLE BEE said...

In olden times we used to call it "f*cking the dog". That is where they've been.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/04/gaetz-whistleblowers-say-troops-other-responders-sat-idle-waiting-fema-orders-assist-hurricane-helene/

BUMBLE BEE said...

This is where...
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/04/gaetz-whistleblowers-say-troops-other-responders-sat-idle-waiting-fema-orders-assist-hurricane-helene/

rehajm said...

Just stop trying to make them work…there’s another option…

BUMBLE BEE said...

"What storm?" - Joe Biden

BUMBLE BEE said...

The hostess will remember this one. They're out here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-btLulfFtds

FullMoon said...

Looking forward to his forthcoming book detailing how his party stabbed him in the back when he was about to win a second term. Be at dollar store -($1.25)
in February.

narciso said...

The mayor of hamtramack who endorsed trump is a yemeni immigrant

Dave Begley said...

Ann is exactly right. The miserable and catastrophic failures of the Biden Administration need to be hung around Kamala’s neck like an anchor.

J Severs said...

I think the President's comments are partially motivated by "You removed me from office, so I will keep reminding people that you were part of my administration, just to poke you a little bit."

Rt41Rebel said...

Biden is Harris’s October Surprise!

Inga said...

The port strike end is to Biden and Harris credit, it’s going to be hard to take that away from them.

Duke Dan said...

I see we are still pretending this is normal

Duke Dan said...

I see we are still pretending this is normal

Original Mike said...

Hasn't it just been postponed until mid January?

JRoberts said...

The first time I heard the expression “The most dangerous place in Washington is between X and a TV camera” it was in reference to Joe Biden.

Joe is simply showing he will not go quietly into the good night.

Leland said...

Ok. Except it wasn't ended, only postponed. They managed to convince labor leaders to support the Dem team and postpone the strike until after the election. [slow golf clap]
For postponing, the due payers are being offered a smaller raise package and none of the other issues they wanted, such as less automation. Keep paying chumps!

Mason G said...

From the link above:

"Gaetz slammed Mayorkas’s comments on Thursday, when Mayorkas said that FEMA did not “have enough funds to make it through” the hurricane season."

NOAA still expects above-normal Atlantic hurricane season

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-still-expects-above-normal-atlantic-hurricane-season

If you believe that "Climate Change" is a thing and that the hurricane season is going to be "above-normal", wouldn't the prudent thing to do be to hold in reserve whatever funds you can in the event things turn out the way you are predicting they will instead of spending money supporting an illegal alien invasion?

Asking for a friend.

Achilles said...

The unionists realized they would look bad holding a strike while people were dying a few hundred miles away in North Carolina.

Inga cheers as red state people suffer. FEMA is not only completely failing to help anyone but they are now trying to stop anyone else from doing their job for them.

Everyone in this administration who drained FEMA funds to ship in illegals should be tried for treason.

Original Mike said...

Automation is not something on which the ports can simply acquiesce. This is far from over.

Achilles said...

"What Storm?"

Jim at said...

The port strike end is to Biden and Harris credit, it’s going to be hard to take that away from them.

I want them out there today and every day saying they ended, er .... postponed the strike until after the election. Shout it from the hilltops. Have them take credit for that.

traditionalguy said...

Joe acts like he’s still President. Better send in Barack again.

FullMoon said...

Joe knocked it out of the park, a genuine touchdown of a speech. I'd loke to see maga Trump or vicious Vance have a no-holds barred impromptu verbal MMA style press conference like that.
Minor criticism, the paper napkin in his suit jacket pocket was kind of weird.

Achilles said...

They should get Dick Cheney to help them out.

Dixcus said...

Yeah, no ... the port strike hasn't "ended." Postponed 90 days until after Trump becomes President to destroy the country on his watch.

Gospace said...

The thing about an above normal season is- we don't even have a true baseline of what a normal season is. Before satellites, Kirk and Leslie and some of the others we've had this year that started out and ended in the ocean would never have been noticed by anyone but a few mariners. Some of whom wouldn't survive the experience.

I really don't care how many start and end in the ocean. The only ones that count are the ones that impact land. Seems to average about 20 per DECADE. So year to year isn't even all that important a measure.

As for the flooding in TN and NC- all of it occurred on existing flood plains. How did they get to be flood plains? Because it flooded there in the past- maybe before there was anyone around to record it. So the flooding is not unprecedented- just unprecedented in the historical era.

Some people don't pay attention to such things. One of my sons went on a camping trip where the leaders of that troop allowed the Scouts to set up too close to the river bank. Two Scouts were cut out of their tent before it was let go and floated away downstream. And it wasn't yet raining at the campsite. That came a few minutes later...

All the Scouts had a grand old time and remember the excitement. The leaders not so much. Was a camping trip I missed...

Christopher B said...

Whoever is using Joetato for a sock puppet arranging to pre-empt live coverage of Harris's speech in an area known to be heavily pro-Hamas/Hezbollah might have been helpful if she could take advantage of the lack of coverage but the quote you highlighted, not so much.

Inga said...

Achilles is a sucker for any lie that’s floating around his personal toilet bowl.

No, Biden didn’t take FEMA relief money to use on migrants — but Trump did
. Donald Trump falsely accuses President Biden of redirecting disaster funds, a budget maneuver Trump himself approved in 2019.

Democrats Love Waste Fraud Abuse/ Rachel Maddow = Lying Psycho said...

Yes - Inga - FEMA blew a pile of money of illegals. As directed.
"FEMA has spent more than $1 billion on border-related matters because of the emergency situation it has presented to border communities and cities within the U.S. that have received high numbers of immigrants.

Data on FEMA’s website show that Congress funded more than $1 billion in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 to reimburse nonprofits and state and city governments that paid for shelter and food to help immigrants released by the Border Patrol."

Democrats Love Waste Fraud Abuse/ Rachel Maddow = Lying Psycho said...

The truth behind FEMA’s hurricane funding shortfall and $1 billion migrant expenditure

Mr Wibble said...

It'll be right next to all the tell-all books by former admin officials about how he was mentally gone for most of the second half of his administration, and the whole show was being run by staff in constant conflict with each other.

Democrats Love Waste Fraud Abuse/ Rachel Maddow = Lying Psycho said...

Hi FEMA - where are you?

Michael Fitzgerald said...

Sure, all us working stiffs just love seeing union goons get 60% raises while the private sector goes broke.

rhhardin said...

The questions are all stupid.

Aggie said...

You don't f*ck with the Bidens ! !"

Aggie said...

Funny, how when a moderately-strong major hurricane forms in the 'Hurricane Alley' region, in the most-active part of the hurricane season, that it's impact is due to 'Climate Change'.

deepelemblues said...

Reminder that Joe Biden is one of the most egotistical, prideful, backstabbing little pukes in modern American political history, so maybe Obama and Pelosi should have thought a little harder about dumping him halfway in the trash can. The half that's out can still stick knives in Kamala's back any time he feels like it, and he's felt like it several times since she was anointed.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...
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Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Unburdened...

DINKY DAU 45 said...

Dark Brandon And Kamala have pulled off the biggest bait and switch in political history leaving the previous losing presidents head in a spin and he has become more unstable and looks like hell,,he cant even get his bronzer on correctly and looks a mess. Kamal doing way better than Nancy Reagan did managing as Ronnie was counting the curtains in the EAST WING.. This play will go down in history and the grandkids will be reading about it like Patrick Henry,John Wilkes Booth, Benedict Arnold,Dred Scott, etc. Repubs trying to erase history,banning books making up shit about history but it will be documented. Marjorie Taylor Green says Dems control the weather and sent hurricane in to NC. iTS OBVIOUS SHE WAS BANNED BOOKS GROWING UP yIKES

Democrats Love Waste Fraud Abuse/ Rachel Maddow = Lying Psycho said...

Inga - tell us about the union goon's mansion. The best part of union grift is the high prices.

Maynard said...

The port strike end is to Biden and Harris credit, it’s going to be hard to take that away from them.

Not just shrill and stupid, but tediously so.

Butkus51 said...

brainwashing to the highest levels.

n.n said...

Biden offers another bribe to a union that responds with a deferred action.

Employment rides a debt-ridden bubble of unprecedented proportions.

Americans are replaced in civil actions and the GDP is temporarily inflated.

It's raining cats and dogs and the political climate is static.

They're aborting babies and cannibalizing fetuses and sequestering the "burden" of evidence.

Men in women's spaces, in their faces, raping the girls... we didn't start the conflagration, it's always been progressing, metastasizing with liberal license.

Mutaman said...

"Miserable failures" in the past week:
1. Ends dockworker's strike"
2. Incredible 9/24 jobs report
3 . Positive response by Republican Governors to Biden's storm relief.

Dr.Bunkypotatohead said...

What I wouldn't give to have political leaders who could express a thought coherently. This guy and his replacement both sound like they're stoned, and Trump's not a whole lot better.

Drago said...

Obama was certainly a dreamy speaker, no? Actual results? Who cares I guess..

Mutaman said...

Althouse
"Do we have a real President right now and for the next 4 1/2 months?"

In past week:
1. Ends dockworker's strike"- No comment from Althouse
2. Incredible 9/24 jobs report- No comment from Althouse
3 . Positive response by Republican Governors to Biden's storm relief- No comment from Althouse

RAH said...

Who is running the government? It was obvious it was not Biden or Harris . Just the staffers , advisors and idiots appointed to Cabinet. It was those unknowns that pushed their agendas. However Biden and Harris signed onto to those agendas. So Biden is correct. Yes his political skills are fading acknowledging that . Plus he is angry and that anger leads him to sabotage Harris.

Aught Severn said...

1. He played what role in suspending the strike until 15Jan?
2. Based off of the significant downward revisions of recent job reports, better to pay a wait- and-see approach before hanging your hat on this one
3. Fog of war is still a big factor here, most responses seem to have the flavor of pro-forma (ie, a polite "thanks for showing up and doing your job") which is to be expected at this phase

Mutaman said...

Aught Severn
1. "He played what role in suspending the strike until 15Jan?"

https://fortune.com/2024/10/04/biden-dockers-strike-opening-ports-patriotic-hurricane-helene/

Mutaman said...

Aught Severn

2. "Based off of the significant downward revisions of recent job reports, better to pay a wait- and-see approach before hanging your hat on this one"

While i'm waiting I'll be reviewing my 401 K and boy, its spectacular. Thanks Joe.

Mutaman said...

Aught Severn

3. most responses seem to have the flavor of pro-forma (ie, a polite "thanks for showing up and doing your job") which is to be expected at this phase

You mean like Trump's "pro-forma " lie:
“I’ll be there shortly, but don’t like the reports that I’m getting about the Federal Government, and the Democrat Governor of the State, going out of their way to not help people in Republican areas.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/us/politics/trump-helene-fema-fact-check.html

tim maguire said...

He sounds like he doesn’t know anything but feels like he must say something, so he’s just throwing out phrases that make her sound involved, without any concern for the bigger picture, like knowing or caring if they’re true.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Many affected areas in the Appalachians were not flood plains, they were mountainous regions that had not seen significant flooding in over a century. That’s why so much of the damage was unexpected. In some places whole towns have been washed away. I know some snarky progressives were blaming the victims for building in “flood plains” this is the first time I’ve seen it show up here. Is this the new normal, that we start blaming victims before the survivors are rescued or the bodies have all been recovered or at least tabulated? That’s pretty fucked up, almost as bad as the federal response to this disaster. Lastly anyone who thinks Kemp is praising Biden’s performance is not paying attention.

tim maguire said...

Right, because the Houthis aren’t bothering anyone except the Jews…

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

It is amazing Achilles how the media are ignoring the most boneheaded statement ever made by a US president during an ongoing disaster. Disregarding how stunning the implications are for his mental fitness, the fact he is so disengaged with the ongoing events that the word “storm” doesn’t ring a bell shows us that everyone around Biden is trying to move on, as they say, and pretend nothing is happening in NC or TN.

Lucille Ballers said...

Stock prices at all time highs
Gold prices at all time highs
Bond/cash prices at 4-5%
Unemployment rate at 4,1%
Inflation rate 2.5%

I hope their administrations are in lockstep because it doesn't get much better.

Robert Cook said...

"Acting President Kamala Harris has ordered the US military to kill some brown people for Israel."

What makes you think Harris is the acting president?

Dude1394 said...

Well heck, all of the good people have been telling me how Biden has been the greatest president since Washington. Why wouldn’t he agree. Certainly she would want to be associated with such a great president, right?

RMc said...

You're right, Robert. Nobody is president right now, acting or otherwise.

RMc said...

Another Rich and/or Ignatz sock-puppet, I see. (Or maybe Vicki from Pasadena...?)

Iman said...

Biden will return to hidin’ and Harris will continue to embarrass… herself, democrats and the country.

Curious George said...

LOL "Biden helped end the dockers strike by saying reopening the ports to help Hurricane Helene victims would be patriotic" Fucking powerful.

Michael K said...

I don't know if he knows what his policies are.

Michael K said...

More nonsense from the Dink.

Michael K said...

Mutant Man is back with a few lies and fabrications. Suspending the strike is another turd left for Trump to flush. Job Reports we know all about. The "Fog of War" is about Ukraine and where the FEMA money went.

Michael K said...

Mutant Man is a daily reader of the NY Times ! Wow ! What a surprise !

Michael K said...

Another empty profile troll.

Lazarus said...

In Joe's condition, new messages don't dislodge older ones. Years of telling people that he was an essential part of Obama's administration, in on every decision, and that Kamala was an integral part of his administration, the last one in the room, have stuck and the new message doesn't get through.

Mutaman said...

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

"It is amazing Achilles how the media are ignoring the most boneheaded statement ever made by a US president during an ongoing disaster. "

More "boneheaded "than :
"We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.” ??
1/20/20

More "boneheaded "than :
"Looks like by April, you know in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” ??

More "boneheaded "than :
2/10/2020


More "boneheaded "than :

"No, I’m not concerned at all." ??
3/20/20

Lot more where that came from.

Greg The Class Traitor said...

He is really bitter about the way she threatened him with Amendment 25