“It’s part of our incredible transition” to green energy he proudly said.
Possibilities:
1) Biden is incompetent, and Chris is saying that nobody should believe a word that this idiot says at this point.
2) Biden is not really a “sitting POTUS” in that he is not making the policy decisions.
3) Biden was lying - doing his usual “say both sides and later on use the video clip of whichever comment is advantageous during next campaign”.
4) Chris is wrong, and we have an ideological POTUS who is willing to take the political hit to enforce his zealotry.
We should also consider that BidenAdmin’s regulations and contract cancellations suggest he meant every word of what he said.
Also, Obama said he wanted gas at over $5/gallon a decade ago but couldn’t do it then, and he does look to be the guy making the calls.
Chris, you actually called someone a “moron” for wondering about Biden when no rational, non hyper partisan person would do otherwise.
You can do better.
necessary transition away from fossil fuel burning will face less of the mindless opposition that their elders are displaying...once again, our current gas price increases were not created by Joe Biden...numerous articles are available that explain the 'etiology', as Curly likes to say, of it all (COVID and Putin).
As for Baron, once again he demonstrates his inability to think objectively about an "incredibly" serious problem facing all people living on this "Blue Marble".
Link: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/25/916238283/light-years-ahead-of-their-elders-young-republicans-push-gop-on-climate-change
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Unless you think he wants his party to get massacred in 2022 and lose again in 2024.
C’mon Baron. You know this.
At this point, it looks to me like he's just trying to get through the day. My feeling (and I'm aware it's not yours) is that he's given a script for the day and he's to say whatever his advisers tell him to say .(At this point, he can no longer stay on script for even a day.)
As I stated below, the White House was stocked with Obama advisers, so much so that Biden's campaign people were complaining during the transition. And Obama was, once upon a time, downright thrilled with the idea of high gas prices. Probably more so now that he has $100 million and two beachfront homes.
Given Biden's condition, I believe certain advisers are running the show...and they don't care about re-election or the long term. They're trying to effect (and affect) what they can in the moment and tomorrow be damned. These people are making decisions divorced from the direct consequences of them...and Biden no longer knows or cares what the consequences may be. He's just an 80 year-old man wanting the people around him to stop bothering him.....
I think he is sending a deniable message here. Or at least he thinks he is.
I think he senses that having a President make “gaffes” and then waking it back might contribute to strategic ambiguity.
I don’t think they are mind-farts. I don’t think it is part of a big plan, but three times is no accident.
the guy at the top...just enough to keep them from getting too confident in their world view...
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...he "ordered the Code Red"?
Floating gaffes to send messages seems like really risky business for a President sporting a 60% disapproval rating.
He's doing it so convincingly...the public will continue to lose faith in him to an even further degree...
I don't believe it's due to comments about China...more likely folks suffering from COVID exhaustion and having to endure higher costs from the pandemic and Putin...they want relief and who better to complain to than the guy at the top.
...think messaging via gaffe and walk-back (on the odd chance that's actually what's happening) will do him any favors in that regard.
I am certain of one thing...Hunter's book after Joe's demise will paint this all as planned...
....that is your BEST case answer...that he is a liar.
But given that his admin's actions match his words here along with how he was hidden in his basement during the campaign, and his inability to maintain coherent thought on recurrent occasions, and given that his "people" frequently "walk back" things that he says definitely later even when his statements are one word without the possibility for miinterpretation (most recently :'yes" when asked if he would go to war with China if they invaded Taiwan),.........given all of that......I believe it is #2. Biden is not really making the calls, and he is not really in charge. It's really quite obvious at this point.
Me too. Simpler times.....
We'll fight China over Taiwan! Well hang on....
If ruskies use chemical weapons, we'll respond in kind! No not really.....
A minor incursion is a okay! Umm.... Joe. A word....
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They sent Jill Biden to Ukraine for goodness sakes!
Please stop spinning...you don't have to do it. It won't change what is happening. (Unless you are worried about how it might affect you at your job, in which case, I understand). There is someone on the board who would probably report you if you broke from the script.
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That’s how it works. They wouldn’t be allowed to “walk back” or “clarify” the president’s comments unless he let them.
Happens in every administration.
And he’s mentioned this multiple times ( and this despite multiple briefings not to do so).
And before you poo poo this, consider that they sent Kamala to Poland, and when that went poorly, they sent Jill Biden to wartorn Ukraine - his biggest event as POTUS.
But lets put that aside, and go with your assertion. If Biden is being briefed and yet consistently makes such big mistaked, then he is no longer competent or safe to have as a president.
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posters being scolded when it happened with the past President.
their narrative. I think you have rules for this people.
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a massive low-interest government spending spree under Obama, tightens under Trump, and then loosens too long and tightens too little under Biden, causing "transitory" inflation which is now a year old and counting.
The Fed doesn't care about you or me. It cares about protecting the spending spree in Washington DC.
Were you sleeping from '16 to '20?
Trump has hectored the Fed on multiple occasions to lower its benchmark overnight borrowing rate, which is currently targeted in a range between 1.5%-1.75%. He complained bitterly when the central bank hiked rates, and has not offered much support for the policymakers even as they reduced the funds rate three times last year.
Despite the cuts, Trump has said the Fed is still moving too slowly to loosen policy.
The national debt has swelled during the Trump administration to $23.2 trillion, an increase of 16.4%. The fiscal deficit was more than $1 trillion for calendar year 2019.
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