Obviously this has been a clown show administration since day one, but it’s so laughably absurd now, I’m really starting to wonder if it’s “someone’s” plan to hang Biden out to dry in order to replace him with someone even less legitimate. And I doubt very much it would be Kamala too. Among other agendas, it seems like Let’s Go Brandoning the fossil could act as a sort of pressure release valve for a sizable portion of the population. Not to be all conspiratorial, but it seems possible this was considered as a possibility way back when his campaign started (though I think “they” would have had to have underestimated how deeply unpopular Harris would prove to be).
I had a disagreement with an old friend recently. I said Biden was losing it, she replied that he wasn't experiencing expressive aphasia, it was his childhood stuttering. Well, this recent set of catastrophes has proven us both wrong. He's just plain old fucking stupid.
Biden comes off as an asshole in his news conferences. Short-tempered, whiny, condescending, lies about what he said as if nobody was listening and it isn't all on video. He's basically phoning it in as president and is angry he's being held to account. He's going to Mr. Magoo the US into a hot war with Russia.
I agree and that Biden (and the whole 'state of the Union') is sad, pathetic, dangerous, etc. but thanks for the laugh-out-loud at your reference to Mr. Magoo... I imagine many readers are too young to get it. Grateful to have something to laugh about!
Anyone who have or has had a relative with senile dementia recognises it - the rambling speech, loosing the thread or topic, and the angry outbursts. I wonder if the paranoia has set in yet? Given the way his staff continously undermines him by contradicting what he actually says, it's not impossible that he's just doing the normal thing in such circumstances: acts more and more "out there" to prove his independence and that he has his own mind.
Tl;dr-version: I'm sure it reassures him that mr Red Line is involved...
Longer version:
Sad thing is, the way this has been handled, the russians loose nothing by continuing the war and the ukrainians get the shit end of the stick no matter what Biden does (or rather the menagerie of grey eminences surrounding him).
If Russia retreats and call it mission accomplished, well the sanctions will remain for years anyway, and Putin's powerbase will destabilise (and he also has a lot of people to take into account regarding support and financing) the way it happened during Yeltsin's years - and no one in Russia or neighbouring Russia wants that. Better a stern hand however corrupt on the tiller than chaos is something british and americans may have trouble understanding, yet look at Iraq post Saddam for an example: that utter bastard held the nation together by being a bastard. Sometimes that's what it takes and the alternative is chaos, which is much worse.
If Russia grinds on, the US and her cronies must either step up to bat or get off the pot so to speak, since every day of tongue wagging without action Obama-style, is one more day cementing the Russia-Iran-China-India trade alliance which is rapidly growing, and is more and more interesting to other nearby states. There is a finite limit to the US/western ability to buy influence and if that limit can be made to break as it plunges the US into inflation crisis, it's a win-win for it's rivals. And there are a /lot/ of people with an axe grind to grind regarding US foreign politics these past 30 years.
And if Russia wins and occupies Ukraine in order to install its own puppet regime, well, what's the US going to do then that it's not willing to do now? Not to mention all Russia needs to say to undermine any moral outrage is this:
"Weapons of mass destruction", using the invasions of Iraq as pretext.
No, I think it's safe to say that the US et al played themselves into a corner here. Like a gang of pet dogs hounding prey only to find out the deer was in fact a kodiak.
My only sympathies in this is the ukrainians - heaping blame and scorn on them is silly and wrong, and seeing all to many people do just that as if the whole nation was some kind of voodoo proxy for [insert favourite globalist whatever here] i frankly disgusting.
The families that has been taken in down in the village are just that, families fleeing a war. I meet some of them att church. The same day they arrived, they asked if they could help out with anything, professing their gratitude and a need to make up for what they are given.
It's all to cover-up the absolute absence of any substantive intelligence. Joe Biden is the very definition of an empty suit. There is no there there, and we all know it.
Hopefully Mr. Putin realizes it, too, not that he will take pity, but that he will not set off the nukes on the POTUS's account.
It’s getting worse. Do you understand what I’m saying? I’m sure you do. Total seriousness here, truly not being sarc. He’s not there. There’s truly something missing in ole Joe. Almost feel sorry for him if he weren’t in charge.
But in a recent NBC poll, 33% of 1,000 adult Americans still think he's doing a great job with the economy! And an underwhelming 42% think he's handled foreign policy like a champ. So, there is that. Go get 'em Joe!
They are only answering so because all they have left is to go with what they WANT to be true. It's all the anti-Capitalist, class warfare-ist has in the end, those 33%.
No matter ANY reality, 33% will praise the economy of the Democrat Statist in charge.
Give him some ice cream, change his diaper, and put him down for a nap. The people who pull his strings can just make up a story to explain away what he said. The puppet masters no longer even pretend that they believe the general population is capable of critical thinking or remembering anything for longer than a few minutes. Squirrel!
Have elections ever mattered, especially on a national level of buy-your-way-in politics? The US is a corporatocracy. That said, if we can wirelessly connect the whole world, go to Mars, institute a worldwide plan to dictate and control what used to be considered human rights and freedom of speech, etc., could we not also have a secure system of online voting where every American can have input into decision-making that affects their lives?
The old adage of the four boxes, (soap, ballot, jury, ammo) is wearing thin. Hope is not a winning strategy, but for the time being, it's about all we have.
Unless we rid ourselves of electronic voting machines and institute verifiable paper ballots nationwide, there is no good reason to trust any election result.
Agreed. But without a "proletariat" referendum, such as an Article Five Convention of States, there's little chance. If only the "red states" correct their processes, the blue and purple (and grey as I call those with obvious voter fraud) will still win.
Those we think we are electing, do not seem to have the ability or desire to fix the issue. The options are few for the uniparty seems hell bent on "fundamentally changing" our once great nation.
Yeah, almost seems like starting over, or at the least arguing over what is "baby" and what is "bathwater," which could go almost any way imaginable!
Maybe our main hope should be that things don't get so bad as to trigger such a states' rebellion. But are we already past the point of return to a Constitutionally corralled State?
BION, we do that in Puerto Rico. No one cries "Racism!" or complains that Puerto Ricans - whose poverty level is TWICE that of America's poorest state - are somehow disenfranchised by the ink.
Joe Biden is forgetting. Now what he's forgetting is the question: (1) That he's actually up in front of a podium acting as president and not showing off for "Corn Pop" and all his old buddies around coffee and scones and that this might not be the time to make the fish tale just a little bit bigger, or (2) That these things are very true but that he's giving away the plot (meaning the US "leadership" really is planning regime change in Russia and that's the whole point of this exercise, and we probably are going to (if we haven't already) send troops of one sort or another into Ukraine and we probably would release a chemical weapon). I don't doubt that he often forgets things ten seconds after he says them so when he says he didn't say that, he honestly doesn't remember. All this is to say, no matter the option, the rest of us are in an awful lot of trouble.
Sorry, I’m in one of the least sarcastic moods I’ve been in in a year. It’s kindof sad to truly and on live feed see dementia. What else can you call this? Unless Schwab turned on 5G in Europe and Biden didnt get saline? Again, I’m really really not being sarcastic!
I honestly don't remember that much about him when he was Obama's VP because he was never that much a part of the show, and I still went to CNN for my news in those days. (Yes, I have been since much enlightened.)
Like Reagan choosing Bush!!! Obama (sorta, kinda, the Dem's Reagan?) picked a loser, and the 2020 Democrat powers-that-were thought they could work the puppet strings of a moron.
If only it was the 8 years of the Obama administration. Prior to that, he spent 40 years as a Senator. Yes, he's been a politician for 50 years. Since 1972! There are endless videos of his so called "gaffes".
I forgot to mention, he's not just an idiot but has also been wildly corrupt for years. And a liar. But other than that, he's a swell guy!
Yup, he’s been a piece of garbage his entire career. It’s a good thing that people have been engineered into having no long term memory, or else you’d think having to drop out of the Presidential campaign in the 80s due to plagiarism would have rendered him unelectable:
A form of intimidation or psychological abuse, sometimes called Ambient Abuse where false information is presented to the victim, making them doubt their own memory, perception and quite often, their sanity. The classic example of gaslighting is to switch something around on someone that you know they're sure to notice, but then deny knowing anything about it, and to explain that they "must be imagining things" when they challenge these changes.
A more psychological definition of gaslighting is "an increasing frequency of systematically withholding factual information from, and/or providing false information to, the victim - having the gradual effect of making them anxious, confused, and less able to trust their own memory and perception.
I’m sincerely not being sarc on this post: are you talking about Biden? He seriously sounds like he is absent. Brain not clicking. “Confused, and less able to trust their own memory and perception”
Or he's oblivious enough in his dotage, and PRACTICED enough (in his overly loooooong public "service" career) in the art, that it now is NATURAL for him to rely on the technique.
How very sad and amazing that this is has been and is continuing to be successfully carried out on the whole world. It is no wonder many people are at their breaking point.
Obviously this has been a clown show administration since day one, but it’s so laughably absurd now, I’m really starting to wonder if it’s “someone’s” plan to hang Biden out to dry in order to replace him with someone even less legitimate. And I doubt very much it would be Kamala too. Among other agendas, it seems like Let’s Go Brandoning the fossil could act as a sort of pressure release valve for a sizable portion of the population. Not to be all conspiratorial, but it seems possible this was considered as a possibility way back when his campaign started (though I think “they” would have had to have underestimated how deeply unpopular Harris would prove to be).
The only person besides Kamala that wanted Harris to be VP was Obama.
I had a disagreement with an old friend recently. I said Biden was losing it, she replied that he wasn't experiencing expressive aphasia, it was his childhood stuttering. Well, this recent set of catastrophes has proven us both wrong. He's just plain old fucking stupid.
Biden comes off as an asshole in his news conferences. Short-tempered, whiny, condescending, lies about what he said as if nobody was listening and it isn't all on video. He's basically phoning it in as president and is angry he's being held to account. He's going to Mr. Magoo the US into a hot war with Russia.
I agree and that Biden (and the whole 'state of the Union') is sad, pathetic, dangerous, etc. but thanks for the laugh-out-loud at your reference to Mr. Magoo... I imagine many readers are too young to get it. Grateful to have something to laugh about!
Anyone who have or has had a relative with senile dementia recognises it - the rambling speech, loosing the thread or topic, and the angry outbursts. I wonder if the paranoia has set in yet? Given the way his staff continously undermines him by contradicting what he actually says, it's not impossible that he's just doing the normal thing in such circumstances: acts more and more "out there" to prove his independence and that he has his own mind.
Which is not so good seeing where he works.
But at least you got Harris as a back up....
I'm sure the Obama group is burning up the phonelines to Moscow trying to reassure Putin. The idea of it makes me laugh.
Tl;dr-version: I'm sure it reassures him that mr Red Line is involved...
Longer version:
Sad thing is, the way this has been handled, the russians loose nothing by continuing the war and the ukrainians get the shit end of the stick no matter what Biden does (or rather the menagerie of grey eminences surrounding him).
If Russia retreats and call it mission accomplished, well the sanctions will remain for years anyway, and Putin's powerbase will destabilise (and he also has a lot of people to take into account regarding support and financing) the way it happened during Yeltsin's years - and no one in Russia or neighbouring Russia wants that. Better a stern hand however corrupt on the tiller than chaos is something british and americans may have trouble understanding, yet look at Iraq post Saddam for an example: that utter bastard held the nation together by being a bastard. Sometimes that's what it takes and the alternative is chaos, which is much worse.
If Russia grinds on, the US and her cronies must either step up to bat or get off the pot so to speak, since every day of tongue wagging without action Obama-style, is one more day cementing the Russia-Iran-China-India trade alliance which is rapidly growing, and is more and more interesting to other nearby states. There is a finite limit to the US/western ability to buy influence and if that limit can be made to break as it plunges the US into inflation crisis, it's a win-win for it's rivals. And there are a /lot/ of people with an axe grind to grind regarding US foreign politics these past 30 years.
And if Russia wins and occupies Ukraine in order to install its own puppet regime, well, what's the US going to do then that it's not willing to do now? Not to mention all Russia needs to say to undermine any moral outrage is this:
"Weapons of mass destruction", using the invasions of Iraq as pretext.
No, I think it's safe to say that the US et al played themselves into a corner here. Like a gang of pet dogs hounding prey only to find out the deer was in fact a kodiak.
My only sympathies in this is the ukrainians - heaping blame and scorn on them is silly and wrong, and seeing all to many people do just that as if the whole nation was some kind of voodoo proxy for [insert favourite globalist whatever here] i frankly disgusting.
The families that has been taken in down in the village are just that, families fleeing a war. I meet some of them att church. The same day they arrived, they asked if they could help out with anything, professing their gratitude and a need to make up for what they are given.
It's all to cover-up the absolute absence of any substantive intelligence. Joe Biden is the very definition of an empty suit. There is no there there, and we all know it.
Hopefully Mr. Putin realizes it, too, not that he will take pity, but that he will not set off the nukes on the POTUS's account.
What a crazy world.
Very true, unfortunately.
He's only 'being held to account' by one guy that I can see.
It’s getting worse. Do you understand what I’m saying? I’m sure you do. Total seriousness here, truly not being sarc. He’s not there. There’s truly something missing in ole Joe. Almost feel sorry for him if he weren’t in charge.
But in a recent NBC poll, 33% of 1,000 adult Americans still think he's doing a great job with the economy! And an underwhelming 42% think he's handled foreign policy like a champ. So, there is that. Go get 'em Joe!
They are only answering so because all they have left is to go with what they WANT to be true. It's all the anti-Capitalist, class warfare-ist has in the end, those 33%.
No matter ANY reality, 33% will praise the economy of the Democrat Statist in charge.
I’m scratching my head at even 33%.
I mean I’m right wing. And if Trump has done THIS kind of behavior, I still woulda said, he’s got dementia, rein him in.
How exactly can the 33 percent support a person in this condition?
On a lighter note, there’s an interesting conspiracy theory about 33...... maybe that’s it.... ok, now I’m being sarc..... 🤪
My guess is they are massively oversampling Democrats, probably using 'base ratios' from the height of the Obama admin.
Give him some ice cream, change his diaper, and put him down for a nap. The people who pull his strings can just make up a story to explain away what he said. The puppet masters no longer even pretend that they believe the general population is capable of critical thinking or remembering anything for longer than a few minutes. Squirrel!
The affability act has always been used to cover for Joe's unique variety of low-testosterone belligerence.
224 days.
Let's hope elections still matter.
Have elections ever mattered, especially on a national level of buy-your-way-in politics? The US is a corporatocracy. That said, if we can wirelessly connect the whole world, go to Mars, institute a worldwide plan to dictate and control what used to be considered human rights and freedom of speech, etc., could we not also have a secure system of online voting where every American can have input into decision-making that affects their lives?
The US Presidential election mattered in 2016 and 2020.
The old adage of the four boxes, (soap, ballot, jury, ammo) is wearing thin. Hope is not a winning strategy, but for the time being, it's about all we have.
Unless we rid ourselves of electronic voting machines and institute verifiable paper ballots nationwide, there is no good reason to trust any election result.
Agreed. But without a "proletariat" referendum, such as an Article Five Convention of States, there's little chance. If only the "red states" correct their processes, the blue and purple (and grey as I call those with obvious voter fraud) will still win.
Those we think we are electing, do not seem to have the ability or desire to fix the issue. The options are few for the uniparty seems hell bent on "fundamentally changing" our once great nation.
An "Article Five" might happen, but things might have to get even worse first. The question is, would the Constitution already be moot at that point.
The future is quite scary.
I'm also not thrilled thinking of what they might come up with on the other side.
Yeah, almost seems like starting over, or at the least arguing over what is "baby" and what is "bathwater," which could go almost any way imaginable!
Maybe our main hope should be that things don't get so bad as to trigger such a states' rebellion. But are we already past the point of return to a Constitutionally corralled State?
I'm literally at the 'dip your finger in ink' stage.
But don't disparage a perfectly reasonable and practical technique!
BION, we do that in Puerto Rico. No one cries "Racism!" or complains that Puerto Ricans - whose poverty level is TWICE that of America's poorest state - are somehow disenfranchised by the ink.
Yes. Yes. Did I say yes?
Joe Biden is forgetting. Now what he's forgetting is the question: (1) That he's actually up in front of a podium acting as president and not showing off for "Corn Pop" and all his old buddies around coffee and scones and that this might not be the time to make the fish tale just a little bit bigger, or (2) That these things are very true but that he's giving away the plot (meaning the US "leadership" really is planning regime change in Russia and that's the whole point of this exercise, and we probably are going to (if we haven't already) send troops of one sort or another into Ukraine and we probably would release a chemical weapon). I don't doubt that he often forgets things ten seconds after he says them so when he says he didn't say that, he honestly doesn't remember. All this is to say, no matter the option, the rest of us are in an awful lot of trouble.
I don't buy the argument that he's recently lost his marbles. He's always been a fucking idiot!
More like an "empty suit," who found his niche as "conservative Democrat," a la Sam Nunn, way past the shelf life of the existence of such.
As one of the sarcastic Reason commenters says: Biden is as sharp as ever!
Sorry, I’m in one of the least sarcastic moods I’ve been in in a year. It’s kindof sad to truly and on live feed see dementia. What else can you call this? Unless Schwab turned on 5G in Europe and Biden didnt get saline? Again, I’m really really not being sarcastic!
"Unless Schwab turned on 5G in Europe and Biden didnt get saline?"
Gonna use this.
I, too, am so past the sarcasm in others, and then I find myself reverting to it, and I feel such the hypocrite!
🤣😂
I honestly don't remember that much about him when he was Obama's VP because he was never that much a part of the show, and I still went to CNN for my news in those days. (Yes, I have been since much enlightened.)
Like Reagan choosing Bush!!! Obama (sorta, kinda, the Dem's Reagan?) picked a loser, and the 2020 Democrat powers-that-were thought they could work the puppet strings of a moron.
We could rely on Obama‘s assessment of him. “Never underestimate Biden’s ability to f*** things up.”
If only it was the 8 years of the Obama administration. Prior to that, he spent 40 years as a Senator. Yes, he's been a politician for 50 years. Since 1972! There are endless videos of his so called "gaffes".
I forgot to mention, he's not just an idiot but has also been wildly corrupt for years. And a liar. But other than that, he's a swell guy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jyT1rnW9fA
Yup, he’s been a piece of garbage his entire career. It’s a good thing that people have been engineered into having no long term memory, or else you’d think having to drop out of the Presidential campaign in the 80s due to plagiarism would have rendered him unelectable:
https://youtu.be/fmuAB5MqP0Y
Also, obligatory and for fun:
https://youtu.be/no0e-mkhhbs
Receipt obtained.
Gaslighting
A form of intimidation or psychological abuse, sometimes called Ambient Abuse where false information is presented to the victim, making them doubt their own memory, perception and quite often, their sanity. The classic example of gaslighting is to switch something around on someone that you know they're sure to notice, but then deny knowing anything about it, and to explain that they "must be imagining things" when they challenge these changes.
A more psychological definition of gaslighting is "an increasing frequency of systematically withholding factual information from, and/or providing false information to, the victim - having the gradual effect of making them anxious, confused, and less able to trust their own memory and perception.
Agree, straight up gaslighting. The grinning afterwards is "Duper's Delight."
I’m really not even sure that Biden is conscious enough anymore to know what he’s doing. I’m sure the administration as a whole is though.
He seems to have moments of clarity (or half-clarity) but yeah he's barely clinging to reality.
I’m sincerely not being sarc on this post: are you talking about Biden? He seriously sounds like he is absent. Brain not clicking. “Confused, and less able to trust their own memory and perception”
He's spry enough to use gaslighting techniques.
Or he's oblivious enough in his dotage, and PRACTICED enough (in his overly loooooong public "service" career) in the art, that it now is NATURAL for him to rely on the technique.
How very sad and amazing that this is has been and is continuing to be successfully carried out on the whole world. It is no wonder many people are at their breaking point.
That 'psychological definition' succinctly defines the current modus operandi of the world media.
Lots of women and children standing in front of 'a damn tank' in Poland, do you think?
You'll see soon when you're there.