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Old Joe Biden has always been a gaffe machine, and his dementia haze has only accentuated his tendency to run off at the mouth and say things that his handlers end up having to walk back. His current Europe trip has seen one verbal disaster after another: Old Joe told American troops they were going to Ukraine, and said that the U.S. would respond “in kind” to a Russian chemical weapons attack, and now he has made it a trifecta: during a Saturday speech in Warsaw, Old Joe thundered: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” referring, of course, to Vladimir Putin. The Washington Post’s White House bureau chief, Ashley Parker, tweeted: “Worth noting that the Biden administration so far has been at pains to NOT even hint at anything approximately regime change.” Right. And the Biden administration still hasn’t done so. Only Old Joe did, and it’s by no means clear that he was enunciating official American policy.
Biden’s words were clear enough. CNN ran with them, headlining its report this way: “Biden calls for regime change in Russia, saying Putin ‘cannot remain in power.’” CNBC announced: “Biden says Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in sweeping speech on Russian invasion of Ukraine.” The Hill, still gushing over Old Joe even at this late date, chimed in with “Biden declares Putin ‘cannot remain in power’ in fiery Warsaw remarks.” Fiery but mostly peaceful, eh?
The White House, on the other hand, immediately went into cleanup mode. An unnamed Biden administration official offered this explanation: “The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.” Regime propagandist Jim Acosta dutifully amplified this: “WH officials say President Biden was not calling for ‘regime change’ when he said Putin ‘cannot remain in power.’”
Obama’s foreign policy wonk Ben Rhodes gave us his own spin: “That speech was not about regime change in Russia it was about the long term stakes in the fight between democracy and autocracy. Unless the Biden team formally says it has a regime change policy, I wouldn’t take one line as such a consequential shift.”
Blake Hounshell of the New York Times contributed a take on Biden’s overheated remark that was the very soul of cool: “I’m reminded today of Obama’s comment on Syria in 2011, ‘Assad must go,’ which never really became U.S. policy in a serious way.”
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Andrew Blackadder says
2+2=5
Frank Anderson says
The final correct answer in 1984 was, “How much do you want it to be?”
Roland says
Biden should be talking about regime change in Iran before it’s too late.
gravenimage says
I don’t think you’re going to get anyone even vaguely decent in power in Iran.
Hank says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8G6WElcQbU
Joe Biden should have hired this 95-year-old as his speech writer. She said it all in a little more than 3 minutes and went straight to the point. It was not theory for her
She addresses the problem with godless Russia, Putin and all the man made war, famine and yoke of suffering it causes other nations.
Even now Putin is trying to cause another “North-South Korea” division of misery for another country – Ukraine. An East-West Ukraine.
Another problem is the problem of separatists. https://twitter.com/abwwoood/status/1503365360124317704
Walter Sieruk says
“Biden calls for regime change in Russia” Vladimir Putin’s response to that would probability be something like “So what? ” or “Did he now ?’ That’s because Putin knows and well understands that what Joe Biden says means nothing ,at all, because Biden is a weak useless shallow and empty figurehead “president.”
Wellington says
Three “Ds” apply to Biden—dumb, dementia-ridden and dangerous.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Yes indeed.
May I add one more “D”?
Depraved.
somehistory says
Deceitful.
Devilish.
Wellington says
You and James, somehistory, have me rooting for more “Ds.” Here’s another—detrimental. And yet another—downer. One more—disgusting.
Methinks there are many others but enough for now.
somehistory says
Dank and decrepit. .Deleterious, and damaging. those who are polling in his favor are delusional.
Isn’t this fun? Wish it was something good we could say about someone doing a fantastic job.
Frank Anderson says
S.H., it may be a real strain, and seriously tongue-in-cheek, to apply the teaching that there are no perfect humans, either good or bad. But this collection, Biden, Harris, Pelosi and all other of their following are as perfect enemies of the United States as any. They are living examples that oaths mean nothing after the US Supreme Court case of Bond v. Floyd. “Support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic?” Best wishes and hope for better soon.
somehistory says
FA,
🙂
CogitoErgoSum says
If any country right now needs a regime change it’s the United States of America. Biden is a blithering idiot. Kamala Harris is an air head and Nancy Pelosi is just as demented as Biden is. I can’t think of a single person from our federal government that I would want to be President. The fate of the world right now is in the hands of a bunch of idiots.
somehistory says
And the idiocy has spread to the “common” people…some of them, anyway.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/thank-you-for-your-service-he-said-before-hurling-the-word-traitor-at-me/ar-
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The Pueblo Chieftain
‘Thank you for your service,’ he said, before hurling the word ‘traitor’ at me”
Alvin Rivera
the writer was wearing an 82 airborne cap and a biden lapel pin. He parroted the line about the Jan 6 “insurrection” as being the “traitors’ actions.
tim gallagher says
Excellent summary of the mental abilities of Biden, Harris and Pelosi, CogitoErgoSum. It is an extraordinary situation. These three people are embarrassing buffoons and must seem so to scum of the earth like Putin and Xi and other evil leaders in so many different countries around the world. All the evil leaders must be thinking, now, how do take advantage of this wonderful situation with the USA having complete fools in charge at the moment.
Infidel says
This guy has gone insane. Vladimir Putin would be on more solid ground if he were to call for regime change in the US
Westman says
Did we just observe the President of the US call for the head of another nation to be removed from power? Yes we did! And then the “White House” clarified that our hearing was out of context.
That signals, clearly, that Biden and the, “White House”, are two distinct political entities. OMG! Biden may not be in charge! /sarc
French Pres Macron: “I wouldn’t use this type of wording because I continue to hold discussions with President Putin,” Macron said Sunday during an appearance on France 3 TV channel. “We want to stop the war that Russia has launched in Ukraine without escalation — that’s the objective.”
So, which is worse: The Handlers, Harris, or, Pelosi running the Presidency? God, save the USA!
CogitoErgoSum says
As long as everyone knows that whatever Biden says should be taken as the ramblings of an old man with diminished mental abilities we may be alright. The danger is that sooner or later we will encounter a situation where he will make a decision affecting not just the lives of millions (Afghanistan) but billions of people and he will be somewhere out in La La Land when he does it. Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi being the next two in the line of command should scare everyone even more. The United States is in deep trouble and those who helped put Joe Biden in office should be the ones to pay the price but in the end the entire world will suffer. The worst is yet to come.
Infidel says
That’s the question I was asking yesterday: what is this ‘White House’ creature that I keep reading about? Usually, it’s synonymous w/ the President: he is the White House. Who exactly is the White House to deny anything the president says?
James Lincoln says
Infidel,
The “spin” part is likely spearheaded by Baghdad Bobette (CircleBack) Sacky.
Walter Sieruk says
The reader might notice that Vladimir Putin didn’t dare invade Ukraine when President Trump was in the White House. This is because Donald Trump was not only a genuine United States President, but he kept Putin from acting up in such horrible murderous ways because he understood Trump to be a strong as well as an intelligent President who will back up his words with might.
In contrast Putin knows that Joe Biden is neither strong or intelligent and just an old windbag because that so called “President” in nothing but a “paper-tiger” and a terrible one at that.
James Lincoln says
Notice a pattern?
1. Biden speaks gibberish.
2. The White House decodes the gibberish – and tells us what Biden *really* meant.
3. Rinse and repeat.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Wellington says
Double yep.
Oh man, are we in trouble. Think Biden, Harris and Pelosi and I dare any sane and honest person to conclude otherwise.
gravenimage says
If this happened peridically, it might be understandable. But this is just constant–and some of this “misspeaking” is potentially very dangerous.