Joe Biden Discussion

[rustled]

USA TODAY
Fact check: Biden honored service members killed in Kabul, checked watch only after ceremony https://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-biden ... 12827.html

"Only"?
In the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlLR6hiCxjM and elsewhere, Biden checked his watch at the first available opportunity, as those around him were just beginning to go from respectful attention to "at ease". It was disrespectful of him, IMO - it clearly gave the impression he was not present in the moment.

[foenix]

USA TODAY
Fact check: Biden honored service members killed in Kabul, checked watch only after ceremony https://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-biden ... 12827.html

"Only"?
In the video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlLR6hiCxjM and elsewhere, Biden checked his watch at the first available opportunity, as those around him were just beginning to go from respectful attention to "at ease". It was disrespectful of him, IMO - it clearly gave the impression he was not present in the moment.

Good Gawd.....here's the entire 41 minute ceremony.....President Biden after all the doors of the motorcade with all the caskets are closed, he looks at his watch at 39 mins. 43 second mark. At that point everyone is at ease and is exactly when President Biden looks at his watch.......another NOTHING BURGER...

https://www.c-span.org/video/?514338-1/ ... fghanistan

[nucksRnum1]

Good Gawd.....here's the entire 41 minute ceremony.....President Biden after all the doors of the motorcade with all the caskets are closed, he looks at his watch at 39 mins. 43 second mark. At that point everyone is at ease and is exactly when President Biden looks at his watch.......another NOTHING BURGER...

https://www.c-span.org/video/?514338-1/ ... fghanistan

Its an everything burger to conservatives.

[PoplarSoul]

So someone checking out a watch is a sign of dementia now? That's a desperate gasp at nothing.

People with dementia don't even know what a watch is for.
Like it or not President Biden will be around for quite some time yet.
Republicans and Trump's cult members better get used to it.
Go President Biden. Go!

[The Green Barbarian]

Go President Biden. Go!

Yes. GO! Get lost! You truly are speaking for the American people right now, and I salute you for it!

Biden Job Approval Underwater in Most Swing States Amid Afghanistan Fallout

According to a new national poll conducted by Civiqs, President Joe Biden’s job approval rating is underwater in most swing states. The military withdrawal and chaotic civilian evacuation from Afghanistan overseen by Biden left the country in Taliban control and led to the deaths of 13 American soldiers and countless Afghans.

In six hotly contested battlegrounds during the 2020 election — namely Arizona, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas — Biden’s approval rating is underwater by ten or more percentage points.

In Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Virginia and Wisconsin too, more Americans disappointed in, rather than satisfied with, Biden’s job performance, but by a single digit margin. Biden beat Trump in each of these states in 2020.

Biden’s net approval rating has dropped from a positive five percent when he assumed office in January to negative eight percent in August, Civiqs calculated.

The fiasco in Afghanistan, as well as the spread of the delta variant, are believed to have contributed to Biden’s plummeting numbers. While the poll suggests that the vast majority of Democrats still support Biden, an even greater proportion of Republicans still oppose him, and 58 percent of independents are now displeased with the president.

The latest numbers from Civiqs suggests that the American public, and unaffiliated voters especially, has registered the Afghanistan episode as a foreign policy failure, despite the Biden administration’s insistence that the haphazard nature of the pull-out was largely unavoidable and should be counted as a success.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/bid ... an-fiasco/

[The Green Barbarian]

Time To Demand Accountability After Biden’s Failed Victory Lap

The first third of Joe Biden’s speech defending the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal was full of lies, blaming everyone but himself while also claiming it was a big beautiful evacuation, and done in completely bad faith.

“Mr. Biden described the evacuation as if it were a triumph, and that his Administration had planned for such a contingency in case the Afghan military collapsed. This is, literally, unbelievable. Multiple media reports have revealed that the White House was caught by surprise and preparing for vacation en masse when Kabul fell,” concluded the Wall Street Journal editorial board. “The President even had the ill grace to blame Americans for not leaving Afghanistan sooner, and Afghans for not fighting. But his own government clearly felt no urgency, as the U.S. Embassy had to frantically destroy documents in the final hours.”

The rest of the speech was not as bad — it seemed the writers were very eager to pivot to the popularity of the decision to leave itself, if not among the press or the leadership class, among the voters — which is not an unwise approach. Biden’s Republican critics would therefore be wise to focus on the former portion, not the latter. If a year from now most Americans are saying “hey, it was a mess, horrible, but he made the hard call and at least we got out”, then Biden’s spinners will have succeeded.

https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/01/ti ... ctory-lap/

[barianqueen]

USA TODAY
Fact check: Biden honored service members killed in Kabul, checked watch only after ceremony https://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-biden ... 12827.html

Correct. I watched the ceremony and Biden only checks his watch at the conclusion.

Why is checking a watch being equated with dementia anyway? The argument is irrational.

[rustled]

USA TODAY
Fact check: Biden honored service members killed in Kabul, checked watch only after ceremony https://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-biden ... 12827.html

Correct. I watched the ceremony and Biden only checks his watch at the conclusion.

Why is checking a watch being equated with dementia anyway? The argument is irrational.

IMO it's not being equated with dementia, it's being equated with disrespect. That said, though, a person in Biden's position without dementia would understand the bad optics of checking your watch at the moment Biden checked his - he gave the clear impression he needed or wanted to be somewhere else immediately. Not a good look. Whereas someone with dementia would have their dementia as an excuse for being in too big a hurry to be more respectful.

[Y-Wine]

when I saw that in my News feed I was totally disappointed in Biden
so disrepectful
He won't last the full term

I think the people who put him in place were hoping he'd last to the 2022 elections, though.

I'm thinking that he will be assassinated by his own people (think Kennedy) about the 36th month of his Presidency. Just as the election season starts. The Democrat's will blame Republicans/Trump and the evil Proud Boys and anyone on the right side of the spectrum. This will do two things to help keep them in power.

First, they can proclaim *bleep* Harris as the 1st Black, Woman President and divert the attention away from the Democrat's bad choice in Joe. She can be the new saviour of the embattled USA. BLM, feminist groups etc. will fall over with joy and Joe can go down in the books as Martyr.

Second, it will divide the country even further and will portray the Republicans as Treasonous, Corrupt and Dangerous. Democrats falling back on the "Insurrection that wasn't" mantra of yesteryear to keep the division going. Vote for "US". We are here to protect you!
Can you you say "Civil War" in our life time?
I hope not.

[nucksRnum1]

IMO it's not being equated with dementia, it's being equated with disrespect. That said, though, a person in Biden's position without dementia would understand the bad optics of checking your watch at the moment Biden checked his - he gave the clear impression he needed or wanted to be somewhere else immediately. Not a good look. Whereas someone with dementia would have their dementia as an excuse for being in too big a hurry to be more respectful.

A leader doesn't have to do every single thing. Biden delegated to the military leaders putting a plan together. In the end, that plan made by sr staff failed. Biden has taken responsibility for the plan not working. And now it's over.

[The Green Barbarian]

. Biden has taken responsibility for the plan not working.

"Taking responsibility" means resigning. Just saying that you "take responsibility" means absolutely nothing if all you do is stumble out and read off of teleprompter (badly) and babble on about how badly you screwed up. Joe needs to go. Now.

[The Green Barbarian]

Joe Biden is scaring "the hell" out of Americans right now. Did anyone think that this was going to go any other way?

[foenix]

Joe Biden is scaring "the hell" out of Americans right now. Did anyone think that this was going to go any other way?

Lindsey Graham is hardly worth listening to so it really doesn't matter what he says. He's got no room to criticize anyone.because he's right up there with Ted Cruz Playa de Carmen.

[The Green Barbarian]

Lindsey Graham is hardly worth listening to

Unless you want to hear what a disgusting and senile old man Joe Biden is. Then yes, he's well worth listening to.

[normaM]

Just because he is older doesn't make him senile.. sheesh
The optic of looking intently at his watch - negative. There are far more subtle ways