09-03-2022, 01:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-03-2022, 01:46 PM by Eric the Green.)
(09-03-2022, 07:31 AM)JasonBlack Wrote: "Is President Biden too old and dated"
Yes, and tbh, he was a weak puppet long before becoming so. Even Neil Howe openly referred to him as a "lame duck president".
"with all his shortcomings, even though he is also Slow Joe"
If it were me calling him stupid, you would be justified in viewing that as a partisan cliche, but since these are your words...yeah, not being retarded is kind of a necessary starting point to being a Grey Champion.
Well, Neil Howe is wrong on that one, even though he's right a lot of the time.
Yes "Slow Joe" were my words, but "retarded" is YOUR word, and those are not the same thing. About to turn 80 years old, Joe moves physically a bit slow like an old man, which he is. And he was slow to pick up on some things and take charge, like protecting our troops during the Afghan withdrawal, or not mobilizing the national guard to help with the supply chain crisis, as I asked him to do, or getting baby formula out more quickly. But it's debatable whether anyone else would have done better with the info and powers available. These speeches show not only that he can speak dramatically and not stumble or mumble any more than other speakers do, but he is sharp, articulate and well-informed on the issues. He's a bright guy, not "slow" in the sense of retarded. But that's how his detractors mean the word, I guess. Including the conceited guy who lost the election in 2020 and refuses to concede, and who also lost to Biden on the national debate stage too.
Quote:In the mean time, I will concede that a lot of conservatives misrepresented this speech (ex: "he called half of Americans enemies of democracy!" when he clearly said "the majority of Republicans are not MAGA Republicans"). Yes, the Darth Sideous-esque lighting had me bursting with laughter at the start, but the speech itself was relatively undramatic. Granted, his actions are creepy, privacy-invading and blatantly globalist, but the speech itself wasn't particularly alarming, certainly not warranting the "he sounds just like HITLER!" screeching I've grown so tired of hearing every 5 seconds about whoever is in power at the time. Still, he seemed more like 70-80% there tonight rather than his usual 40%, and, for once, seemed to have some semblance of a personality, so that was a nice improvement.
What I liked the most though was that he unapologetically said that we are the greatest nation in the world. For once, he had the balls to say something genuinely controversial, even if the majority of people knew it was true just a few decades ago. Credit where credit is due, this gets a small nod of respect.
I was going to mention about the absurd reactions to the speech by Republicans, so thanks for that. His speech was certainly "dramatic"; I don't know how any speech could be any more dramatic. But yes, when people focus on his off-the-cuff press conferences when he seems like he's not all there, they miss the fact that in these speeches he shows he is all there when he decides to be. And saying this about the USA is not a new thing at all for him; he has always been saying that in his speeches. So add together your small nod, with others you need to give him to add up to a large nod for his continual reference to the USA as the greatest nation, and especially to his continual statements that there's nothing we can't do if we act together.
This does give him a greater appeal to rank and file Democrats and some independents, as opposed to some leaders further left who focus on the problems that we have because of who really runs the country-- the oligarchy. Confidence and optimism always works well for candidates for USA president.