When Biden showed up in Poland, the speechwriters dug through Reagan’s old speeches in the hopes of making him sound Reaganesque.
Too bad generations of speechwriters have already been farming that territory for too long. There were a few resonant unoriginal lines in what was otherwise a rambling and repetitive address that more closely resembled the rhythm of a Brezhnev speech.
What made Reagan speeches compelling wasn’t just words, it was the authoritative delivery and the moral authority behind the words. Reagan had built his political career around speaking things that the political elites didn’t want to be uttered: especially when it came to the Cold War. There was bold moral clarity in Reagan labeling the Soviet Union as evil because for so long the liberal elites had resisted stating the obvious. There’s no great moral triumph in pointing out that Putin is bad and that his invasion of Ukraine is wrong. Even few of Russia’s allies are especially enthralled with defending the move.
There’s no bold moral clarity in restating the popular consensus. Especially when it’s backed by nothing.
Reagan wasn’t in a rush to get into a war with Russia, but he also made it clear that America and the free world wouldn’t be pushed around. Biden has proven quite willing to borrow Reagan’s speeches and to be pushed around by Putin.
Biden is polling as weak on the Ukraine war and so he wants to borrow a little Reagan to sound tough, but despite the borrowing, he still sounds like Carter.
Walter Sieruk says
This picture reveals something. Which is Joe Biden showing his real mentally level. As his sitting down and having a slice of pizza is about the speed of Biden. Next feeble old Joe will become happy and delighted if he finds out that he will be given ice cream for dessert..
What a simple -minded idiot. Still ,since he’s masquerading as a genuine US President he actually a very dangerous and subversive simple- minded idiot.
mortimer says
When the doddering ‘Big Guy’ Joey reads Reagan’s words from the teleprompter in a rambling, stumbling manner, it is not convincing because it lacks any conviction. The ‘Big Guy’ has no principles but opportunism and bribes.
mortimer says
The Bribed-man practically invited Russia to invade in the month of January 2021 … and NOW he is posing as a principled statesman after Putin took him up on his offer of a free pass to invade PART of Ukraine.
What a confused old fool.
Walter Sieruk says
What Joe Biden is trying to do in the photo is what the sociologists call “impression management.”
Meaning this fake of a “president ” to do is making a feeble attempt to look like an all American down to earth leader, like Ronald Reagan.
This staged show that Biden is such an obvious “put on” Still simple- minded Joe feels that he will be able get away this public image without anyone catching on that it’s just all an act.’
CogitoErgoSum says
Biden’s leadership capabilities were summed up when at the end of his State of the Union speech he proclaimed, “Let’s go get him (or ’em) and everyone looked around asking “Get who?” Yes, he’s a real leader alright. You know your country is at a low point when you hope the rest of the world will ignore what your leader says because he’s losing his mind. My concerns are doubled when I think that Putin may actually be losing his mind also. Let’s hope the two of them have at least as much sense left as Will Smith and Chris Rock and know when to stop with the nonsense.
somehistory says
Didn’t Mr. Reagan say something about winning one for the Gipper? In reference to football, I seem to recall.
Yes, from the movie, but then it followed him through life. When he was seeking to be president, he said it.
Perhaps biden was mixing things up with his “go get ‘im” or whatever the last word or partial word was…wanting to sound “presidential” and failing because no one “gets him.”
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, all the world’s a stage and our leaders think they need to put on a good show since they see themselves as the stars of a great play. It’s our misfortune that so many of them have started living in their own fantasy world and lost touch with reality.
CogitoErgoSum says
Reagan was a pretty good actor and could deliver a great speech. Joe Biden can’t even remember his lines and really should just be just sitting in the audience munching on popcorn or milk duds.
Infidel says
3 gems that he released over the week:
‣ If Russia uses chemical weapons, the US will respond in kind
‣ What US troops can expect once they are in Ukraine
‣ Calling for regime change in the Kremlin
On the third one, it seems that Biden is determined to oust Putin, rather than allow him an off-ramp to get off the invasion, and that’s what has kept this war going. Having failed so completely, it looks like he’s now determined to make regime change his single achievement. And in doing so, he makes WWIII more likely. And the cancellation of Russia by the entire West is not helping, and makes it more, rather than less, likely
Graham Cracker says
There are two Wests: the traditional West and a malignant cancer of NWO Globalists that is overtaking the traditional West and a lot of influential people in the traditional West are being manipulated and a lot are going along with this global coup. I guess Putin isn’t cooperating and that’s why he has to be taken down.
CogitoErgoSum says
I just want to know who is going to take Putin’s place and what is going to happen to all the nuclear weapons in Russia. Joe Biden has absolutely no idea and has probably never even thought about it. It would probably make his brain shrink even faster than it currently is.
somehistory says
You probably are familiar with the phrase that has the words, “the devil you know”…
Bad is frequently replaced with worse.
gravenimage says
#1 is also alarming–does Biden even know what “in kind” means?
James Lincoln says
Yes, gravenimage.
A good definition from Collins dictionary:
“If you respond in kind, you react to something that someone has done to you by doing the same thing to them.”
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/in-kind
gravenimage says
Exactly, James.
Wellington says
“…But he’s still Carter.”
If only. Takes a lot to make Carter look less bad. Biden the Dope has managed to do this.
All things considered, and at this point in Biden’s faux Presidency (yes, I believe the election was stolen from Trump and consider that the two main groups averring otherwise, the Democratic Party and the MSM, were the same two groups that assured us for years that the 2016 Trump campaign colluded with Russia even though the Clinton campaign arranged and paid for the fake Steele dossier that began this giant lie), he is shaping up as the worst President in American history. I thought Obama was. No, as bad as Obama was, Biden is even worse.
The only silver lining in this very dark cloud is that Biden is so awful, though he was pushed by Democrats ad nauseam, that perhaps, just perhaps, many more Americans (N.B., illegals are NOT Americans) will realize not just how awful Biden the Dope is but how awful the Democratic Party is. It should be no more.
As for Biden himself, my prediction is the worst is yet to come. Count on it.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
You’re certainly correct about Jimmy Carter.
To me, he was certainly an “enigma” as President:
1. Very intelligent. A Bachelor of Science degree from the US Naval Academy, and graduate of the US Naval Nuclear Propulsion School. Distinguished duty aboard Naval submarines.
He had the makings of a truly excellent US Naval submarine officer, but did not finish his career due to the death of his father and unfinished business with the peanut farm.
2. He was an ineffective Left-leaning president. No question.
Stephen Hess summed it up well when he wrote in 1978 while Carter was still president: “His passion in government is for how things are done, rather than what should be done.”
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/jimmy-carter-why-he-failed/
Doomer says
The most astute observers are 100% in agreement on this:
1. And they are in youtube: Alex Mercouris , Alex Christoforou, and Richard Medhurst,
Jimmy Dore, Aaron Mate, Glen Greenwald, Gonzalo Lira, Black Pigeon,
Breakthrough News with Rania Khalek, George Galloway.
Some are antiwar Leftists, some Conservatives.
They all say the US from the BEGINNING provoked Russia into war on purpose to
OVERTHROW Putin and install a government that will be the servant of Big Tech,Soros,Big Pharma,just like EUROPE is right now.
2. And that BIDEN is just a PUPPET: the ones who make the decisions are Obama,Hillary Clinton and Soros.
3. Another thing they agree on: the US government is So Fanatical about it that it knows and does NOT care about Destroying the Economies of the US and Europe if it would mean regime change in Russia.
They are willing to start WW III.
Check out this video by Christoforou( in youtube ):
“Blinken & Truss, sanctions end if Russia surrenders. Ukraine wants Georgia second front. Update 1”
Doomer says
Then there is PATRICK LANCASTER who is in Mariupol and nearby ,an American who has lived in Ukraine for 8 years,
and speaks Russian, he personally has interviewed Mariupol refugees and they ALL tell him the Azov regiment prevented them from escaping, by shooting at them,or would kick them out of their homes, check out his youtube interviews of Mariupol residents in youtube :
Nothing but interviews:
1. “Refugees Expose Mariupol War Crimes Of The Russia – Ukraine War” (yesterday)
2. “Mariupol Refugees In Russian Controlled Hospital (Special Report)”
3. “Mariupol Human shields (Special Report) Russia – Ukraine War”
4. “Church & School Targeted By Militants in Russia – Ukraine War”
5. “Woman Found Tortured in School Basement “Military Base” in Mariupol”
In the Alex Christoforou (who is bilingual: Greek-English) video I suggested he says that NOT all internet and cellphone connection was cut off for 4 weeks.
1. Alex in that video says he saw interviews in Greek TV of Greeks living INSIDE Mariupol at the time, and they were using their cellphones,
and they were telling the Greek TV people that
the AZOV group was PREVENTING people from leaving the city,it was shooting at civilians.It was using civilians as Human Shields.
2. That is independent confirmation of the info given to Patrick Lancaster by non-Greek residents. The Azov group was made up of 14,000. It was 400 in 2014.
Wellington says
Bullshit. The US and NATO expansion never destroyed a single Russian city, town or village.
If Russia had been smart, which it most certainly hasn’t been under Putin, it would have aligned with the West and been in NATO by now against thug regimes like China, North Korea and Iran. Besides, Russia, minus former Soviet Republics, which Putin in full self-pity mode pines for so much, is still by far the largest nation on Earth, over 6 million square miles, and with more natural resources than any other country. Russia under a Washington or Lincoln or Churchill, not a Putin, would be one of the three or four most productive countries on the planet. But Putin instead, who is massively corrupt and a killer (surely you know at least this much), has made more of a mess of Russia than First Secretaries and Czars did. He is a sophisticated idiot and a tragedy for Russia, for Ukraine, for Europe, for the West and for all the world.
Putin is so deficient that even the Soviet economy was more diversified than Putin’s Russia. This is monumentally idiotic on Putin’s part, who is both a monster and massively corrupt. Damn ignorant too.
I completely reject your assessments, Doomer. They are the “stuff” of excusing authoritarianism and totalitarianism, replete with at least many whiffs of silly conspiracy nonsense.
Doubt me? Well then, consider what literally millions of Ukrainians think by now. You could start with the over 2 million Ukrainians as refugees in Poland (thank you, Poland—you make me proud to be of Polish descent). Think they blame America for the war in Ukraine instead of Putin? Think again.
Putin is a monster, highly limited in the way a clever dictator can be ruthlessly efficient as Stalin and Hitler were but still stupid. Please, Russia, no more Putins.
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
As usual, factual and evidence-based. My compliments.
Doomer says
They also agree that in a week or so there will be a FALSE FLAG by the US:
1.Either a Chemical Attack in Ukraine ( real or Hollywood-type special effects)
2. Or the claim Russia had attacked POLAND with a Tactical Nuclear Weapon
3. Or even the claim that CYBERATTACKS in the US that cut off internet, cellphone service, water supply, etc were caused by Russia ( another False Flag).
Biden a few days ago was warning that Russia was going to carry out cyberattacks on the US.
One or a combination of the three would be the RED LINE: the event that would make NATO and the US declare war on Russia, WW III.
gravenimage says
Uh huh…
Doomer, Jimmy Dore has claimed that sanctions against Iran is “terrorism”. “Black Pigeon” claims that equal rights for women destroy societies and that women should be used as sex slaves.
George Galloway is notoriously for the “Palestinian” Jihad against Israel, and he regularly rants against Jews. He said “Hezbollah has never been a terrorist organisation” and called them “freedom fighters”. In addition: “I glorify the Hezbollah national resistance movement, and I glorify the leader of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah”. Aaron Mate also hates civilized Israel.
Perhaps the worst is Rania Khalek, who was an editor for the pro-Jihad “Electronic Intifada”. Even the anti-Israeli publication “The Nation” doesn’t go far enough for her, saying, “have you noticed what the magazine’s real problem is? Too many Jews!”. She has said that the murder of Jews is not terrorism, but “defiance”. She’s said that President Trump “riled up fascist sentiments” and attempted a coup. She is a big fan of Ilhan Omar. She also lauded brutal Iranian general Qassim Suleimani. She has whitewashed Jihad terror attacks in France.
And this is just off the top of my head.
Great bunch you cite here.
Wellington says
+1
gravenimage says
Thank you, Wellington.
gravenimage says
Doomer, I can’t find it now, but you asked me about Black Pigeon’s views on women and taking away their equal rights and making them sex slaves, saying you had never heard of such a thing. He has said, “By allowing women to f*ck freely, the West has de facto entered a matriarchy”.
Of course, this is utterly grotesque. What he means is that women should not be allowed to pick sexual or romantic partners. What would you call this, if not sex slavery?
And similarly, men can pick their sexual partners–this does not of course mean that society is a patriarchy. Or it would, but only if *only* men could choose.
But in anything resembling a free society, men and women *both* decide, and sexual and romantic relationships are *consensual and mutual*. This is what Black Pigeon is railing against.
Sounds like Islam.
gravenimage says
In Poland, Biden Wants To Be Reagan, But He’s Still Carter
………………..
The headline alone is sadly brilliant!
OLD GUY says
The only conviction for Joe would be his son going to jail along with him, for selling out his country.
E T says
Yes Hunter’s investments I.e. Metabiota – – producing Pandemic-causing diseases that could be used as bio weapons. Not that anyone would use them right?
Joe has been involved in an awful lot of seedy ventures.