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The Biden Disconnect, or Biden’s Bubble
Maybe it’s his mental capacity, but Biden, even before he took office, seemed to be barely connected to anything outside the prospective Presidency. I have to admit that I am not following him closely, but has anyone heard him address the following to any extent?
- Violence in the streets that continues to this day
- His goals of working with Congress
- His expectations (pro or con) of the upcoming impeachment
- What his plans are to encourage unity
- An appeal to Democrats to stop attacking Republicans
- Why any of his Executive Orders will be good for this country
- Explain to the public how mask mandates are good for the economy
I could go on, but it seems to me that Biden is living in a bubble. Does he actually consult with people to determine the benefits or limitations of his actions? Or do they just make a list for him and have him follow it? Did he just go back to the Obama agenda and dress it up for 2021? Did he decide simply to remove every Executive Order that Trump passed, rather than assess if any of them might be helpful?
More than ever, I think Joe Biden is barely clinging to reality. I don’t think he even knows how seriously limited he is. Certainly, everyone reassures him that he’s doing a good job in initiating actions—their plans—so why should they complain?
The new President just wants to be liked and accepted. Anyone who thinks he will take a stand against the radical Left is misguided. He will do what they tell him with sincerity and commitment. After all, he’s just along for the ride (although he doesn’t know it).
Welcome to the Presidency, Mr. Biden.
Enjoy your bubble.
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What could be interesting is how liberal people in a progressive city react to continued street violence under Biden, if they did buy into the idea that any protests would disappear once Biden was sworn into office. The networks and most of the national news outlets might not what to report what’s happening in Portland, Seattle and other cities, but the locals won’t be able to escape it — I suppose they can convince themselves that all those Antifa people are really Q Anon Trump supporters, but that’s going to be hard to maintain if the read the banners and see the spray paint the protestors are putting out. Then it’s going to come down on how willing they are to continue to take one for the team when they see the Democrats running their local government, their state government, the White House and both houses of Congress.
Not until there’s a collective decision that it’s Kamala Time, and only if Dr. Jill then refuses to let Joe leave. If those to things come into play, then you could see a bunch of SNL skits mocking the president’s cognitive abilities, and even some of the weeknight late night hosts doing angry Trump-lite bits on Biden, for his refusal to accept the inevitable.
The Usurper* cannot handle even a softball question from the press. By contrast, recall Donald Trump fielding highly combative questions with confidence during long pressers or on the fly to/from flights.
https://mobile.twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1352351780018016256
*Usurper (Wikipedia): an illegitimate or controversial claimant to power, often but not always in a monarchy. In other words, a person who takes the power of a country, city, or established region for themselves, without any formal or legal right to claim it as their own. [1] Usurpers can rise to power in a region by often unexpected physical force, as well as through political influence and deceit.
Wow. They shuffled the press outta there pretty quickly once it became clear that Joe was sundowning.
I think we’re going to see more little explosions. His handlers can’t always keep him away from the press; I expect at some point he’ll want to be out there a little more. As the stresses of the job increase, and as reporters feel less inclined to be pleasant, it will be interesting to see what happens, @mim526.
It’s in the WSJ and The Guardian.
“C’mon, man!”
Interesting that Twitter is now apparently de-platforming pro-Antifa accounts, in the wake of Wednesday’s protests. Combined with the lack of media coverage, this seems like an attempt to non-person activists who might cause trouble from the left for the new administration.
Not sure how progressives are going to take it, if Big Tech is working with the Biden Administration to now drop them into the same digital crocodile pit they sent Trump to two weeks ago. And given how many woke progressive types are now in the media, I also don’t know if there may not be some internal uprisings, if the orders go out to start treating any SJWs who don’t get with the program the same as Trump is treated…
The people in suburban Portland and Seattle don’t care about the riots. That is not their neighborhood. They are selfish and don’t care about justice and they are afraid to stand up for the people are getting harmed.
Will there be principled conservative response about freedom of expression being suppressed?
https://t.me/tommy_robinson_chat/164608
This appears real. Or not, actually. It’s funny either way.
That should be interesting to watch, @jon1979. I’d love to see more dissension within the Left regime.
Yes. Well, at least from me.
But I’d rather see Twitter burned to the ground.
If nothing else, it may suddenly boost the number of people advocating for Section 230 reforms, when additional oxen are being gored by people who claim they’re only information pass-through portals like the phone company, and not active editors like a newspaper.
The campaign was a rehearsal: if the MSM can help Jill “Edith Wilson” Biden
prop Joe upsteward Joe for two years until Jan 20 2022, then Harris can take over and then run for president twice. Provided that Commiela and Jill can cooperate that long.I think that may be asking for a whole lot, OTLC. They are both power hungry and will want to get their own way, I’m sure.
True, but Harris has had to suck it up and be patient more than once on her rise to power; two years in exchange for four may be worth it to her. Besides, if it gets to the Weekend at Bernie’s point, Harris would have constitutional support and Jill would not.
It’s not about Biden, nor that silly woman, but who actually will run things is not at all clear. If it’s the big three or four Google et al, then the question is whether they understand China or the rest of the world enough to actually govern. I think we should hope that power moves to the house and senate and away from the fringes. We’re better off in the hands of crooks who just want a fast buck than in the hands of Biden who doesn’t know what’s going on, the giant trading companies who don’t understand anything beyond their own bottom line, or the radical leftists who like to burn things and make noise. The only relevant domestic question is whether we get honest elections in the future, and whether they purposely or through ineptitude with China pulling their strings, destroy the economy.
Unfortunate wording regarding Harris…
This is brilliant!
Looking at my friends on FB and how they looked at things in Seattle, the CHAZ was a triumph of self government and self rule. There was no violence and it was just a big party where everyone loved everyone and shared equally. Any mention of violence or discord were just lies.
When people truly think like that…you will never reason with them.
I have been vacillating between Quid Pro Joe, President Buyden, 46, and just plain *, but Usurper is pretty darn good as well.
In other words, nothing that anyone on the Left will read.
I wonder what it feels like to live a life of such delusion, @dbroussa. On second thought, no I don’t.
Who is Biden these days?
Unless and until we get an honest, thorough audit of 2020 battleground state voting that I can believe is non-partisan (including scrubbing voting machines to figure out their capabilities), it’s Usurper Joe Biden for me. It’s apparent from the judicial 3-ring circus post-Nov 3, that our system is not equipped to address national voter fraud questions.
And I doubt I’m alone in this sentiment. It’s convenient for those who dislike him to label people like me deranged Trump voters. They seemed great with years of investigating Trump, so auditing a national election in areas with proven anomalies should be no problem. Do the audit, issue detailed public findings so we can all know the truth of our 2020 election.
What’s further left than The Guardian?
Joe Biden is a visionless hack who is most comfortable when attacking the caricature he creates for his adversaries, real and imagined. The “they wanna put y’all back in chains” reflects the essence of the guy.
He’s not even sure.
On something like that, I wonder how much was the willful desire to be in denial because of Trump hatred. The idea that to criticize CHAZ or Antifa would be akin to helping Trump may have caused a lot of liberals to be willing to put up with things that they might not accept going on into the summer of ’21 and beyond, with Biden in the White House, Democrats running Congress and Dems in control at both the state and local level in Seattle.
Acceptance of a permanently lower quality-of-life when there’s no Republican in sight in power to demonize may not be that easy a sell (and realization of that could be why you’re starting to see some liberal push-back against Antifa).