LIVE: Everybody Watching Biden Press Conference For Some Reason, Probably Just Bonkers For Press Conferences
Weirdos.
Today at 4:15 p.m. ET, after capping off the NATO summit by meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Joe Biden is doing something called “event on the Ukraine Compact.” No, it’s not some kind of situation where Biden is going to surprise Ukraine with a used Geo Metro. (Or is it?) It’s a new agreement, among nations! Commitments from the US, Canada, Japan, European nations, as Ukraine works toward eventual European Union and NATO membership!
It is a whole thing. (Throwing in a Geo Metro might be nice, though.)
After that, there is a different thing:
But after that, there is another thing. It is a press conference with President Joe Biden, and all the news are saying it’s pretty important. Why? Guess they’ve all just got boners for pressers! Or maybe they think there is going to be a surprise at the end! (Geo Metro?)
Guess we’ll just have to watch it and find out whether the world is still standing after it’s over.
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Scary transit experience number 4,032. Get on the bus and a man near the middle is pretending to shoot several people in the back that are getting off. He was enjoying it too. Creepy AF! I immediately sat down at the front of the bus. Didn't want this guy catching sight of my inclusive pride flag tee shirt. Tends to make me a target with this kind of man. I was getting some seriously bad vibes from this one. As he loudly proclaimed "People call me crazy!" then to a woman near him, "I know you. I'm from here, you hear it?(he makes a hissing sound) Hiss! Hiss! Do you hear it? Hiss, hiss, hiss. It's the bus. That lady is abusing her child. Hiss!"
And I got off at the next stop.
My motto is now, Always follow your gut and get off the bus!
I don't know the guy well enough to know how he spoke 10 or 20 years ago. I know he has a stutter and that one effect of that is that you get stuck and have to pick a new word, which often (though not always) means you have to come up with a completely different way to express the same idea.
That looks like stopping mid sentence and going off on a tangent, but it's really not. It's going off in a new direction to avoid a closed road and still get to the same destination.
Combine that with just ...slowing down their speech, as people do when they get old, and I think you get Joe now. No other concerns, no other issues. But it's at least theoretically possible that there's something else going on besides slower speech and lifelong stutter. So, okay. It's theoretically possible. But there's no evidence of some hypothetical other thing and he has the best health care in the world. (We're really great at that in the US when we choose to actually provide the care.)
I don't know what happened debate night, and this is the first time I've watched him speak since the debate. But he seems way more competent than TFG, and that's entirely ignoring the fact that if TFG were, in fact, competent, given his goal is evil, chaos, shredding the constitution and instituting dictatorship, that would actually be EVEN WORSE.
All this shit about making life hard for those opposing Trump by switching horses midstream without even knowing if there's another horse available is incredibly dumb.
FTF NYT.