My friends- this! -is why it is a danger to have Joe Biden as a president-
A man who- in his best days- was gaffe prone with no edit button, and who is now -clearly-failing mentally and routinely says things that a smarter, careful president would never say aloud.
His foolish ad-lib in Poland- as he got carried away -and said ‘Putin cannot remain in power’ is dangerously foolish.
Look-When Biden was making gaffes as a US Senator, that was bad enough, but at least those around him realized he was being foolish. But now as President of the United States, openly call for regime change in a different global superpower is dangerously foolish.
And this comes after Joe Biden has called Vladimir Putin everything from ‘killer’ to ‘butcher’ to ‘war criminal’.
And it’s not like Putin isn’t all those things, but when you are the leader of the free world and you and your regime are responsible for trying to -de-escalate tensions-
When you are expected to lead the free world in efforts to-stop a brutal war and help restore peace-
The dumbest thing you can do is dump insults onto the fire and call for regime change in a superpower country.
What a dope.
This was really reckless.
Initially, it had a flood of left-wing news members and neo-cons like Rick Wilson applauding Biden on social media.
Huzzah, huzzah. Biden is tough and resolved. He’s laid down the marker for regime change.
For heaven’s sake- many of them were likening it to Reagan’s ‘tear down this wall moment’.
Biden was...of. So forceful. Such a leader. They cooed on social media and on the left-wing cable stations.
The leftists who want to pretend to be ‘doves’ when a republican president is in office are ready to leap into a wider war to try to depose Putin...and cheered this nonsense...
Only to have his handlers and white house aides spend the next two days trying to downplay it. Correct the global gaffe.
If you missed the moment- we’ve got it here: Biden is in Poland, giving a speech that is meant to be uplifting and fiery. He’s insisting Russia will never win this war...and will never realize his dream of reconstituting the Soviet Union.
But Biden is so feeble and feeble-minded now...that he’s slurring his words so that half of what he’s saying can’t be understood...but his
Ad-libbed call for regime changes sure was clear.
Listen to him slur his way into this.
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He drops that into the speech, and if you watch the video, it’s clearer that he is going ‘off prompter’...but he says this in a speech in which-the rest of the context is he is asking American allies to...join him.
Then he drops the bomb and says Putin’s got to go. Of course, the rest of the world is going to believe that was intentional. That that was part of the speech.
Of course- President Zelensky in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin in Russia- are going to hear that as‘Joe Biden calling for Putin’s ouster’.
Any global leader listening to this-and assuming joe Biden is a competent president- is going to take that as ‘America is escalating the war’.
Folks, this is Biden making a slip...in his dementia haze...that could touch off WWIII!
A president’s words -matter. Every word a president utters-matter. Is going to be interpreted, misinterpreted, analyzed, examined for meaning, subtext, intent...
And here’s our doddering dope of a president calling for regime change in Russia, just off the cuff.
And aside from that gaffe- this also needs to be emphasized- which none of the mainstream news outlets are doing-
It also needs to be emphasized that-even without that gaffe- everything about Biden’s speech was ‘escalating’, not ‘de-escalating’.
It’s one thing to reinforce the resolve we in the west have been showing in the face of Putin’s aggression and the Ukrainian’s heroism...but it’s another thing to engage in harsh rhetoric that Putin -is only going to take for escalation.
There was nothing in Biden’s speech on Saturday that allows for a Putin off-ramp...or a de-escalation of the standoff, which is also irresponsible, when you learn that-to this day. To this moment, now five weeks after Putin started this war-
To this day- neither Anthony Blinken or anyone from his State Department staff has reached out to engage their Russian counterparts in diplomatic negotiations.
This is something that surprised even me, as someone who was telling listeners from the outset of this presidency that Biden and Blinken are dangerous clowns.
Even knowing how terribly inept they are-I would have thought that Blinken and the Biden team would have established diplomatic lines with Russia early here, so this war didn’t get out of hand- or ‘go nuclear’ over some mistake, or excess brutality displayed on the ground.
I all wars- mistakes are made. Horrors are realized that can escalate things in a heartbeat-and so- it is very important that the two sides’ leaders- diplomats and military leaders- have open channels of communication to speak to-or message- each other-at a moment’s notice.
According to various reports this weekend- we do not have those lines of communication open.Our sect of state-Anthony Blinken-has yet to call Russia or engage in any attempts to establish those lines of communication-
And Putin won’t let his military leaders take phone calls from our Pentagon officials. And so-this is a war in which Joe Biden is out there ‘escalating tensions’ when his team has no diplomatic or military contact with Russia.
That. Is insane.
But that is what’s going on with his incompetent president and a crazy-incompetent staff.
Do you remember when Biden was elected, and the question of his mental abilities was already being raised? Can this guy do the job?
Remember the claim that, ‘well, the democrats will surround him with good people and won’t let him do anything foolish’...
Well, here’s the result of that sort of thinking: that we can have an incapable president at the top...because he’ll have this cadre of smart, capable people around him, anyway.
Wrong.
Not a single member of Biden’s staff-from Ron Klain his chief of staff...to his Defense Sec or cabinet members. To General Milley and his ‘woke’ joint chiefs....to Jen Psaki, his lying, scummy mouthpiece...none of them have displayed even a basic competence in their jobs.
And when they are supposed to be leading the free world-that! - is dangerous and alarming. Anyone who voted for Joe Biden had better wake-the-hell up here...because...after a year’s worth of moves that have destroyed the country domestically- your party leaders now have us bumbling our way into a wider war in Europe.
It's one thing of a presidential staff is moving to clarify a small mistake.... here or there...but Biden is making big, bold, potentially dangerous mistakes...that his staff of ‘incompetents’ then needs to spend the next several days cleaning up.
And that was the-third- blunder of the trip that the white house needed to clarify.
You might have seen that-on Friday, Biden, the dope- met with soldiers from the 82nd airborne and told them they were headed to Ukraine.
They are not. Biden has promised we’d have no soldiers in Ukraine, only in the surrounding NATO countries.
But there’s Biden- talking to them-at length-about what they are going to see in Ukraine. How they are going to represent us in Ukraine...
And yep, it was a clear blunder, but how do we know how Russia is going to read that-thru translation? Is this just an elderly man being more honest than he was supposed to be? Does the u-s military have a plan to sneak units into Ukraine to fight?
If nothing more-Putin can use it as propaganda in Russia. He controls the media and what the Russian people see- and now he’s got a video of the American President preparing u-s troops to enter Ukraine. Biden -says- Ukraine!
This president and this regime are dangerous. For the first time in my lifetime-I believe that we have a dangerously inept and reckless group of nincompoops running this country.
I never felt Carter or Obama were going to bungle us into a world war...Biden is.
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