Biden's Virtual Town Hall Was a Complete Train Wreck
Source: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall
Somebody thought it was a good idea to have 77-year-old Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden host a virtual town hall event on Friday. Who would have guessed that the same candidate who told Americans to listen to their record players at a debate last year might run into some technical difficulties?
Awkward video of people sitting in front of their computers and random audio feeds dominated the first 14 minutes of the 38-minute event. After a short introduction by Dick Durbin, Biden finally made an appearance around the 15-minute mark and began speaking – or began moving his mouth at least – because there was no audio from Mr. Biden for the first minute or so.
When Biden's audio did come through, it was garbled and cut in and out, denying viewers the privilege of catching who knows how many gaffes. Perhaps that was by design... Anyway, the first half-hour of the 38-minute town hall was a complete waste. The problem was finally rectified around minute 31 when somebody gave the former vice president a cell phone to capture his audio.
"Am I on camera?" Biden can be heard asking at one point.
Biden then struggled to recall the date of the next presidential inauguration.
While discussing his promise to expand Obamacare, Biden said, "... But even I can't do that for another two years -- another year -- between now and November. Or actually January."
And while the candidate was discussing the Endangered Species Act, he seemed to forget he was even on camera and started pacing around the room. His team, surely exhausted at this point, put an image up on the screen to obscure the candidate as he wandered about.
It was a disaster.
THREAD.
Joe Biden doesn't understand the concept of time.
The latest example: tonight.
During his virtual town hall, he got the time frame between now and November WRONG by well over a year.
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The campaign apologized for the problem-riddled event.
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Nolte: Joe Biden Forgets Year, Meanders Off Frame in Disastrous Livestream
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Grandpa Joe Biden wants to run the country and save us from coronavirus when he can’t even run a livestream and has no idea what year it is.
On Friday, Grandpa Joe held what his campaign billed as a “virtual town hall” in Illinois. In my colleague Kyle Olson’s must-read reporting on the event, you will discover the whole thing was a fiasco, like something out of a sitcom. Guests appeared and then disappeared. The sound was garbled. People were introduced, followed by an awkward pause when they didn’t appear. Babies cried…
“Biden seemed to be reading from a teleprompter, but the broadcast suffered from severe tech issues, as Biden’s words were caught in a feedback loop, muddying the whole presentation and making the candidate nearly indecipherable,” Olson reported.
After starting two hours late, the fiasco lasted about 45 minutes. For my money, this clip from The Honeymooners, where Ralph and Ed attempt to do a live television commercial, is the funniest thing ever captured on film. Sounds like Grandpa Joe just took that crown.
Technical difficulties, however, are technical difficulties. That doesn’t mean those technical difficulties are not newsworthy. After all, we are talking about a major presidential campaign, about the competency, or lack thereof, of the people hand-picked by Biden to run his campaign. So it is a bit disconcerting that Joe and his staffers were unable to put on the equivalent of a video podcast, something millions of everyday Americans are able to do every day in their basements without a hitch.
But what about Joe’s performance?
How did the 985-yead-old Democrat frontrunner do?
The media tell us that any criticism of Grandpa Joe’s mental acuity is a hoax, is fake news, is a desperate and desperately unfair personal attack…
And then this happens:
“Even I can’t do that for another two years — another year, between now and November … … … or actually, January … …. …. …. …. …. But to be covered.”
For the Biden-challenged, allow me to lay this out as simply as possible. The date of the livestream was March 13, 2020. The presidential election will take place in November of 2020. The next president will be sworn in in January of 2021…
Did you get that?
Would you like me to type it again slower?
“Even I can’t do that for another two years.” No. There are only ten months between now and the next inauguration.
“…another year, between now and November.” No. There are only eight months between now and November.
“…or actually January.” Why don’t we warm you up some oatmeal and see who’s guest-starring on Matlock with that nice Andy Griffith today?
And then Joe shuffles off to watch Matlock while rambling on about estuaries and international species.
Watch the full virtual town hall here:
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Are Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) really going to do this? Do they really think they can hide this guy for the next eight months? Do they really think they can scream hoax every time his feeble mind and body appear feeble for the next eight months?
Watch this… And this is not a video sent back to us from the future. This is not video sent to us from President Biden’s last day in office in January of 2029 when he’s 87-years-old. This video was taken Tuesday:
Just now: @JoeBiden was asked by @mikememoli if he has any regrets about his testy exchange with the voter this morning, noting that both the Sanders and Trump campaigns are targeting him about it.
“I’m surprised that Sanders is joining Trump. It’s surprising,” Biden replied.
Early on, he’s self consciously trying not to shuffle, he has that waxy look on his face, and then he almost falls over.
Are Democrats really going to do this?
And here’s video of Grandpa Joe screaming that someone’s “full of shit” about something called an “AR-14.”
Honestly, outside of a nursing home when the power goes out during Wheel of Fortune, I’ve never seen anything like this…
But…
Don’t believe your lying eyes.
Do believe your elite betters…
Don’t you understand? There’s a conspiracy afoot to get Joe to yell and shuffle and forget the year and meander and walk off camera…
Even though Democrat presidential candidates like Cory Booker, Julian Castro, and Tim Ryan were the first to express concerns about Biden’s mental acuity, it’s all a Trumpian plot!
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A Biden candidacy — what's the plan? There is always a plan
The Democratic Party Is
Wounded and Dangerous
BIDEN: DEAD MAN WALKING.... Along side Hillary Clinton pushing Joe
over the edge and into the grave.
Joe Biden is as corrupt a politician as there ever was, who
absolutely is guilty and compromised by his efforts to enrich his ne'er-do-well
son, his brother, sister and daughter.
Hillary is also a narcissist of the worst order, the kind who
never takes responsibility for the havoc she has wrought on the lives of
others, let alone her country. She is in fact one of the most corrupt
politicians ever to prevail for so many years, to become fabulously wealthy for
her many deceits and crimes.
A Biden candidacy — what's the plan? There is always a plan
Why,
when Joe Biden's mental decline is so obvious, are so many former Obamaphiles
pledging their spurious support for the man? Something's up. It
is beyond clear that Biden is not up to the job. This fact cannot
escape the notice of Susan Rice, James Comey, John Brennan, et al., all those
conspirators who tried so treasonously hard to destroy Donald
Trump. They surely know better than most that Biden is a dead man
walking. So why the all-out campaign to support his
candidacy? Hmmm.
They
must have a plan. Is their plan to submarine Joe before the
convention, admit he is incapacitated, and put up a heretofore untested
candidate at a brokered convention? Or do they have a plan to
appoint a V.P. candidate they assume will become president in short
order? Perhaps, as Joel Gilbert
speculated here
yesterday, the plan is to install Hillary as the candidate to run against
President Trump in a last-ditch effort to derail his fabulously successful
presidency. They certainly have some devious scheme to replace Biden
by hook or crook, for his dementia cannot possibly have escaped their notice.
The
now available Hillary documentary for all to see is probably meant to prime the
public for her potential last-minute candidacy. It is not very
likely to be successful. She is the kind of harridan who makes
Elizabeth Warren seem kind and gentle! Hillary is also a
narcissist of the worst order, the kind who never takes responsibility for the
havoc she has wrought on the lives of others, let alone her
country. She is in fact one of the most corrupt politicians ever to
prevail for so many years, to become fabulously wealthy for her many deceits
and crimes. She has been a blight upon the U.S. since she gained
power as the wife of the governor of Arkansas. She spent forty years
covering up for her husband's crimes against women and has somehow lived to
tell no tales. Her fans are certifiable morons, susceptible to any and all
of the propaganda the left propels into the mainstream media. She
has yet to endorse Biden. To support his candidacy is to deny his
indisputable advancing dementia.
Credit
to the voters of South Carolina is due for sure: they understand the horror an
American-hating communist would perpetrate upon this great nation. A
Bernie Sanders presidency would be the end of America as
founded. Those who support him either are tragically ignorant of the
genocidal reality of socialism wherever tried or hate their own nation so
much they are willing to suffer the monstrous consequences of electing a
communist president.
Make
no mistake: Bernie Sanders intends to be a communist president if
elected. Like Castro, Maduro, Chávez, Lenin, and all the dictators
he so admires, he would be a tyrant. For nearly fifty years, he has
wanted to punish those who fend for themselves and succeed. A man
who admires Fidel Castro must never come to power in America. Never. Bless
those voters in South Carolina who know this.
Sadly,
Joe Biden was their only other choice. Chances are, those same
voters will vote for President Trump in November. They were savvy
enough to know that Sanders would be a disaster; they are shrewd enough to know
that Joe Biden is senile. Most of us of a certain age recognize
advancing senility when we see it because we have seen it ourselves; we know
the heartbreak. Joe is done. So what is their plan?
Whatever
it is, it cannot be good for the American people. The left never
considers the American people, never gives a thought to its
constituents. Leftists are always and only about power and their continued
access to the wealth that power provides for them. They are certain of
their own superiority, their due privilege to lead and control the rest of
us. The fact that Mike Bloomberg actually thought he could step in
and purchase the presidency with his billions is proof of the left's
mindset. His failure to succeed was delicious; the American people
cannot be bought. Some of them can be fooled for a while, but in the
end, their good sense prevails. That is how we elected the best
president in decades, Donald Trump. They will re-elect him in
November despite the left and left media's never-ending attempts to destroy his
presidency. When the history of the left's wholesale assault on
America, its founding principles and values from the 1960s on, is written, it
will prove that the nation was under constant assault by the anti-American
left. The left has successfully indoctrinated two generations of
university students to loathe their country. Leftists have
successfully made race, class, and sex the defining characteristics of every
person, who must be a designated member of a victim group or an oppressor. They
give no credence to the value of the individual or to any individual's
character. MLK is rolling over in his grave.
All
of those leftists coming out of the woodwork to support Joe Biden know only too
well that he is an intellectual lightweight, "wrong on every foreign
policy issue for forty years," (Robert Gates), a mean-spirited bastard who
delighted in destroying Robert Bork and humiliating the great Clarence
Thomas. He is as corrupt a politician as there ever was, who absolutely
is guilty and compromised by his efforts to enrich his ne'er-do-well son, his
brother, sister and daughter. The thought of this man even becoming
close to the presidency is abhorrent. Whatever his pseudo-supporters have in
mind, it is not good for the American people; not one bit. We will soon learn
what their plan is. Chances are it won't be pretty and chances are the American
people will not fall for it.
The Democratic Party Is
Wounded and Dangerous
Beware
the wounded animal. In pain and desperation, it will do violent
things. It seems to me no coincidence that Joe Biden's big win on
Super Tuesday was followed by Democratic senator Chuck Schumer threatening
conservative members of the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Joe
Biden is hardly Lancelot to President Trump's dragon. The Democrats
and the Deep State needed a first-class warrior; instead, their best option is
a walking advertisement for Alzheimer's awareness. In his best days, Joe Biden
was the political equivalent of Jack McCall, shooting his adversaries in the
back. When he wasn't using his position of power for financial
gain or stealing other people's words, he was helping his family line their own
pockets. Today, he's a disoriented and stumbling shell of an
unimportant political hack who looks on in confusion while his wife does his
fighting for him. If you've ever wondered what happens to the
shriveled soul of a lifetime liar and Democratic swindler, just cast your eyes
upon Old Joe. He's a walking, talking effigy of Democratic
corruption and amorality. He's what the Democratic Party usually keeps
far off the main stage for the back-alley entertainment; now he's the main
event, but no amount of stick-prodding by Donna Brazile or Tom Perez is going
to turn Joe Biden into Fred Astaire. He's a freak-show carnival
attraction at best, amazing onlookers by his ability to occasionally jumble
audible words together into a sentence. The Democrats needed a man
who could command a movement; all they got was a man who can barely control his
own.
I'm
not saying President Trump's re-election is in the bag. Far from
it. We've never seen such an array of villains acting in concert to
take down an American president. The Democratic Party has most of
the permanent bureaucratic Deep State (as well as stealthy anti-Trump
Republicans), Wall Street, Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, cosmopolitan Europe,
global warming doomsayers, the Middle East's worst terrorists, and domestic
Antifa terrorists here at home all actively working to dislodge President Trump
from the White House. In the past, the chiefs of our intelligence
agencies and clandestine services retired into relative obscurity, cognizant
that duty commanded their silent withdrawal into the pages of
history. After orchestrating a coup against the American president,
however, it is not unusual to see the former heads of Obama's CIA, FBI, and NSC
all tirelessly justifying their criminal acts on cable news each
night. The corporate news media and institutional government have
spent years trying to gin up enough hysteria in the nation that mock beheadings
of the president and ritual re-enactments of his assassination during summer
theater might lead the American people to clamor for the real thing.
So,
no, the 2020 election will not be over until all the votes have been counted on
November 3, and it becomes clear that we have successfully preserved Western
civilization for at least a little while longer from this most recent
manifestation of Vienna's bloody 1683 siege. All I am saying is that
Joe Biden was never meant to be the establishment's champion for resurrecting
their oligarchic power. They wanted a formidable presidential
nominee, someone who could check all the right identity politics boxes while
stringing words together that were substantively meaningless while singularly
inspiring. Instead, they're settling for a politician past his
expiration date who sounds less crème de la crème and more
soused in crème de menthe. The Democratic Party may depend on dead
voters to win elections, but running dead candidates is another thing
altogether.
So
just because the cable news anchors and Carville clones are all high-fiving
each other and cheering for managing to narrowly prevent a communist disciple
of Stalin and Castro from sewing up the Democratic nomination for president by
the beginning of March, don't forget how disappointed they are at
heart. If Biden goes on to clinch the nomination, the Democratic
Party will have managed to take all the aloof, plain, manila-folder blandness
of John Kerry and combine it with the alertness and energy of a nursing home
after pill rounds. This is the one whom the commentariat is
celebrating right now, the guy Obama and the gang blocked from running in 2016
because they felt him not quite up for the challenge when he was four years
younger. The vice president during the slowest economic recovery
since the Great Depression, the wordsmith who marveled at Obama for being
strangely "articulate" for a black guy, and the obtrusive
shoulder-rubber whose chief political instinct was to sniff the hair of the
wives and daughters of White House officials and visiting
dignitaries. Imagine being in such dire straits because the previous
Democratic president so hollowed out the party's future by losing over a
thousand elected officials across the country during his time in office that
the last, great hope to beat President Trump this year is just hoping to make
it to bed each afternoon before saying something so inappropriate or illogical
or ridiculous that Red Bernie becomes the Democrat's Dear Leader by
default. For every minute of his few wakeful hours, his handlers
have to be on constant guard against the possibility that a voice in Biden's
head will scream, "Oh, look, a young child with wonderful-smelling
hair." "Comeback Joe"? More like
"Come back, Joe!"
The
Democrats and the Deep State have spent the last four years constructing the
greatest wag-the-dog spectacle America's ever seen in an attempt to cover up
the malfeasance and criminality of the last administration, while preventing
the current one from achieving too many victories. Considering that Brennan
and Comey are still free and Obama and Hillary are still smiling, they've been
remarkably successful. But the Mueller obfuscation and Schiff circus
are behind us, the dance music of delay is dying down, and the Democrats' and
Deep State's ability to keep pushing back their day of reckoning is coming to
an end. If they don't win in 2020, they cannot keep justice at bay,
regardless of how stacked in their favor it has always been in the
past. And standing in the gap as their last-ditch prospect to save
them from President Trump's re-election and spare them from long delayed
judgment is none other than Corn Pop's archenemy. The one
"reasonable" Democrat in the race who has already burnished his
"moderate" credentials by fully embracing Bernie's Green New Deal,
Warren's Medicare for All, and Beto's door-to-door gun
confiscation. Nothing says "electable centrist Democrat"
like "D'oh!" Biden's full tilt toward Marxist
socialism. No wonder Chuck Schumer sounds like some injured animal
in the forest, lashing out at tree branches all around him. That's
what small, weak, dying creatures do when they know the end is near.
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