ChelseaBoy 2,196 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 Joe Biden will never change The Spectator Stephen L Miller During a rare press conference on Wednesday, which lasted well over an hour, President Joe Biden told the press corps that he ‘didn’t believe the polls’, said he’d ‘over-performed’ in his first year, accomplishing more than any president in history in his first year, scolded RealClearPolitics reporter Philip Wegmann and blamed the country for somehow misunderstanding what he meant when he labelled his political opponents as allies of Bull Connor, who opposed the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Biden also noted that without his voting legislation, the 2022 and 2024 elections would be rigged and not legitimate. The presser came at a time when a phenomenon is occurring in Biden-friendly media. Commentators are grappling with the realisation that Joe Biden is not the ‘competent’ (Washington Post) ‘non-divisive’ (Daily Beast) and ‘stable’ (Washington Post, again) magic grandpa capable of uniting a fractured America with a whisper and a hug. That Joe Biden is the man the Biden campaign sold the pundits on, and it comported with the ideal Joe Biden the pundits had concocted in their collective anti-Trump hivemind. But sadly, that ideal doesn’t match the reality of who Joe Biden is: a man who once told an audience of African Americans that Mitt Romney would re-enslave them. As Biden’s approval ratings hit the kind of lows not seen since the Truman era, the pro-Biden, or at very least Biden-curious, media has issued a series of course correction instructions. These warnings, from the likes of the Washington Post and the Bulwark, are once again based on their own false notion of who they want and consider Joe Biden to be, and not who he actually is. There is no chance that Joe Biden and the Visiting Angels who run his administration will change the slant of his presidency. His Joe Rogan-length press conference this week offered more evidence of that. It would be easier to welcome rigorous criticism of an inept president from DC’s punditry elite had they not spent the campaign and his first year in office wilfully ignoring Joe Biden’s 40-year track record in the US Senate and as vice president, in order to sell voters on the image that Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, wanted to project. Instead the commentariat’s about-face is jarring for average Americans. Most of them aren’t pro-Trump and really did just want to get some sleep after four years of Twitter screaming. Most of them have since been quick to realise that Joe Biden is not a ‘very stable genius’ who could prove to be the comprehensive antidote to Donald Trump. The Washington Post’s Ashley Parker tweeted ‘Biden was supposed to be the anti-Trump — steady, stable, competent. But the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal undercuts that image, and facing a cascade of crises — covid, etc — Biden has never been able to recover.’ Parker is seemingly unaware that Joe Biden is facing multiple crises of his own making. On top of that, often Joe Biden is the crisis, as demonstrated during his marathon Wednesday presser. This is not the president that was elected a year ago — and certainly not the ideal one that so many DC pundits had concocted in their own heads. He and his administration were elected to ‘shut down’ a virus that he has for the most part ignored since July, when he declared ‘masked or vaxxed’ and then stuck his foot in a hole in Afghanistan. His administration handlers ensured that the defining image from the Kabul catastrophe was footage of him turning his back to the American people, as he refused to answer questions about the manner of the troops’ withdrawal. We were told that Joe Biden was elected because of his empathy and competence. The commentators who told us that have since learned that he has neither quality. Joe Biden is not suddenly going to become coherent when he speaks to the press. He can’t make Vladimir Putin back down by whipping out his aviators and heading to the nearest ice cream parlour. The pundits who bought the gingerly grandpa act may be praying that he can capture any fleeting fairy dust bestowed upon him by Barack Obama’s pop-culture prowess. But that won’t transform Biden into someone able to ‘shut down the virus.’ David Brooks thinks Biden needs to ‘begin revamping his presidency.’ ‘Jennifer Rubin claims that ‘Biden needs a reset.’ Frankly, any paid pundit begging for Biden to become the fantastical wise elder statesman they fantasised about should keep their thoughts to themselves. The rest of us should ignore their ‘expertise’ when making any serious assessment of this defeated old man’s tenure. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
compo 5,952 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 There were some wallys on CNN last night telling the people he was doing a great job . I would bet that are missing Mr Trump 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChelseaBoy 2,196 Posted January 20, 2022 Share Posted January 20, 2022 47 minutes ago, compo said: There were some wallys on CNN last night telling the people he was doing a great job . I would bet that are missing Mr Trump CNN, NYT, WP, NBC are all cut from the same cloth - by doing a great job, they mean doing nothing. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 3,715 Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 Biden should be playing bingo with his nurse. The people that put him where he is should be ashamed. That includes all of the people that voted for him. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 3,715 Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 A great follow up question would have been "What question did you just answer?". He couldn't tell you. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 3,715 Posted January 21, 2022 Author Share Posted January 21, 2022 Quite. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo79 13,354 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 They've went from a wind-up merchant to a senile old man. Deary me. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill 13,687 Posted January 21, 2022 Share Posted January 21, 2022 (edited) Putin must be laughing his cock off. I can see him and his cronies watching compilations of Biden speeches in the Kremlin cinema, howling like kids at a Saturday matinee Edited January 21, 2022 by Bill 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
forlanssister 3,048 Posted January 22, 2022 Share Posted January 22, 2022 (edited) One morning we'll wake up to the news that Russia invaded Ukraine, China invaded Taiwan, North Korea invaded the South and Iran attacked Israel and Joe Biden got his nappy changed and went back to sleep. Edited January 22, 2022 by forlanssister 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 3,715 Posted March 7, 2022 Author Share Posted March 7, 2022 I don't know who this old man is but please be careful when listening to his words. This misinformation may serve The Kremlin. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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