Biden News Conference Megathread:

https://lemmy.world/post/17459620

Biden News Conference Megathread: - Lemmy.World

Biden’s latest attempt to convince everyone he has what it takes to stay in the race will air at 6:30 PM Eastern / 3:30 PM Pacific. More on where and how to watch here: https://apnews.com/article/how-to-watch-biden-press-conference-a70590e7574fc9680229b6b6289f6a02 [https://apnews.com/article/how-to-watch-biden-press-conference-a70590e7574fc9680229b6b6289f6a02] My expectation is that it will be on all the usual sources. CNN, MSNBC, etc. etc. with in depth coverage on the talking head shows later tonight.

I really want to see Biden as the last man standing… let the conference run 3 hours.

“C’mon, man! Ask me your questions! Ohhhh are you all getting ‘too tired’? Do you need to go home for naps?”

Why do they have to make everything a battle royale these days?

Next thing you know it’ll be open world too.

I think extraction shooter is up next unfortunately.
Extract to where, tho
Death Road to Canafa
These free-to-play are always pay-to- win

Super immersive

You don’t even need hardware

Goddamn fetch quests have already been added.

“To get your bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom, you first must travel 300 miles…”

Don’t get me started on the escort missions.

Oh wait that was the last administration.

I would walk 300 miles and I would walk 300 more

Just to get the rights the were denied to me by the shitty Supreme Court

WHATS THIS? IT’S BIDEN FROM THE TOP ROPE!

IS THAT A FOLDING CHAIR?!!

“BIDEN GOES COAST TO COAST WITH THE FOLDING CHAIR!” – Michael Cole.

Friendly reminder that WWE once ran a wrestling match, trump vs rosie o donnell. They were impersonators, but still. They actually promoted that match on their flagship show.

They also ran a long storyline leading to their version of the superbowl (wrestlemania), where trump picks a guy, and the owner of the wwe (at the time) picks a guy, and whoevers guy loses, they shave the head of the one who bet on him. It’s a predetermined show, so the owner of the wwe got his head shaved. Whats funny is, the guy they picked for trump was a big black guy. The big black guy wins, the owner of the wwe gets his head shaved, and then shows up a few days later on a secondary show wearing a durag, passes Booker T (a different black guy) in the hallway, and proceeds to say “What’s up, my --------???”

The word I’m censoring is a derogitory term, that’s very racist, and it was just said by the white owner of the wwe to his black employee. On TV. On purpose. As written in the script. The same script that the owner of the wwe wrote himself. Nobody forced him to do this. This was his own idea, and done because he thought it was good tv.

Anyways, Vince McMahon is now being taken to court by the government AGAIN (happened in 1993 for completely different reasons). This time it’s because he’s had a 20+ year history of human trafficing women, who were his employees.

…I really don’t even remember what the point is anymore, other than you reminding me what a piece of shit Vince McMahon is. He’s always been a piece of shit, and the wwe will always be tainted for me now.

I always assumed the whole “Vince McMahon owns the WWE” was a bit because I only ever knew him as the ring announcer.

I was like “Wait… THAT Vince McMahon?”

Turned out, the ring announcer thing was the bit.

Watamanuever!!! THIS IS…THE XFL!!!
That’s a recipe for a broken hip

AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, HE’S BROKEN IN HALF

Just climbing to the top rope would be that reciepe.

let the conference run 3 hours.

That’s not a good idea. His bedtime is 8.

I feel like this is going to be a nothing burger, but lets discuss the history of presidential news conferences:

…ucsb.edu/…/presidential-news-conferences

So I think the above statitstic is a bit misleading because it doesn’t single out solo conferences.

…ucsb.edu/…/bidens-solo-news-conferences-perspect…

Presidential News Conferences | The American Presidency Project

I just saw a stat saying he hasn’t had a full cabinet meeting since last October? So take press conferences out of it… it’s kind of dire how low a profile Biden is maintaining.

www.cnn.com/2024/07/11/politics/…/index.html

“Ahead of closed-door Cabinet meetings that Biden attends, it is customary for Cabinet officials to submit questions and key talking points that they plan to present in front of Biden ahead of time to White House aides, two sources with direct knowledge told CNN.

“The entire display is kind of an act,” one of those sources told CNN. “They would come and say, ‘Hey, the president is going to call on you about 25 minutes in, and ask this question. What are the bullet points you’ll respond with?’”

The second source, who echoed that same description, said when Biden attends Cabinet meetings, they are “not free-wheeling, and pretty well-orchestrated.” And the meetings themselves are infrequent, with one Cabinet secretary telling CNN they are uncertain of Biden’s condition because they so rarely see him.

In fact, the last full Cabinet meeting took place on October 2, 2023. Sources also said Cabinet meetings during the Obama years, which Biden attended as vice president, were not pre-scripted this way.”

Angry and stunned Democrats blame Biden’s closest advisers for shielding public from full extent of president’s decline

At a star-studded fundraiser for President Joe Biden in Los Angeles last month, George Clooney wasn’t the only one who came away concerned about the president.

CNN

Man. Like.

Putin is invading Europe. There is a genocide and a warm/ hot war in the middle east.

And this guy doesn’t go to his cabinet meetings?

That sounds like a well run meeting with a concrete agenda.

Yea we should go back to Mike Pence falling asleep in the background…

It’s not like the last 4 years have been worse than the past 4 years…

The problem is what is the criteria of success? Not even a good cogent group of answers will be enough for some people.
the guy could win 10 rounds of Jeopardy!, and people would still call him “cognitively impaired.” It’s absurd.

Throwing out some options:

If he says “jack” you gotta take a shot of whiskey.

If he says “bud” or “bub” you gotta do a hot knife or bong rip.

If he says “malarkey”, you need to crack a beer and start drinking; you can’t stop till he says “listen here”.

If he pauses for longer than 5 seconds, you have to hold your breath; you can’t breath again until he finishes a complete sentence.

If he yells at a reporter, throw your shoe at the screen.

If he has to get pulled off stage, throw your screen (device, whatever), out of the nearest window.

Deal. Boarding in about an hour. This flight sure is going to be interesting.
Please do not attempt this. You will die.
Well now you make it sound enticing!

This is like taking a shot every time they say “man animal” in battlefield earth…

A death sentence…

hot knife or bong rip

OH MY GOD!!! I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU SAID THAT…and also…WHAT IS THAT???

Urban Dictionary: hot knife

Method of smoking hash where a blim is sandwiched between two red hot knives. The resulting smoke is collecting in a plastic bottle (which has had the bottom removed) and inhaled.

Urban Dictionary
His doctor should inject him with meth like JFK did
Why was JFK injecting Biden with meth?
What else was he going to use? Suppositories? This was the 60s for crying out loud.
Jesus, he shot Biden up as a child?? That can’t have been healthy.
Biden was born in November, 1942. I guess if it was done in 1960, he was 17 years old for most of that year… so technically…

Dude it was all meth back then

Vitamin B12 in the ass, meth, Dexedrine, we were just getting things in full swing with our full control of the natural world at all times and the girl-can’t-get-pregnant pills and it was basically just a normal thing like yo I’ll have some meth and then I’ll have energy and can focus

Pretty much still a thing - Adderall is just slow-release amphetamine.
And so that’s all he could bring while time traveling into the present?
This hold music is atrocious
ok I’m not waiting any longer, have fun
The average American voter everyone.

I mean, with this hold music, I don’t blame them.

I do wonder why none of the media uses dark mode, though

I’d hope the average american voter has enough self respect not to let anyone waste their time like this
Flipping between CNN and MSNBC so no hold music for me… just talking heads trying to fill air time…

“So…How 'bout that Biden?”

“…what?”

“Biden. You know. The president. What do you think he’s going to say?”

“What? He’s giving the speech right now. Just tune into the main CNN feed…why are you doing this?”

“No Jon. It’s been delayed. We’re live pal!”

“Oh, I think Biden is going to hit all the major talking points, such as…”

I’m not watching right now. I’m at work. But I suspect CNN with all their professionalism have essentially said this. I’m not sure what MSNBC is saying. I’ve never been clear about why they exist. I’m sure SOMEBODY watches them. Maybe a family of raccoons who somehow obtained a TV remote, and use it to troll a family from outside in the bushes. You know, they’re just inside, watching American Idol or some bullshit, and then suddenly MSNBC. Everyone looks around, but can’t find the remote. Then the family of raccoons runs off to the backyard where they play on the tire swing the family put up. Maybe they terrorize some cats later on. Or maybe the cats would respect their give-no-fucks attitude, and befriend them. Then the golden retriever comes over, and he’s just a big dumb happy dog. He doesn’t care what they’re doing. He’s just happy to be involved. So they all venture into the city, where they take over a train, which only travels to a small abandoned town in the forest. And they set up their own shops, with the birds, and horses, and gorillas for some reason. Ok, now I’m just describing Animal Crossing on Gamecube. How many of you actually noticed that I went from discussing modern politics, to discussing a game about a raccoon running a criminal empire to exploit the local wildlife population?

this hold “Muzak” is atrocious
Hopefully this is the nail in the coffin so we can start running Kamala or whoever.

Tell us how you really feel…

No really how much do you hate Kamala?

Kamala is a cop. But she’s the better chance to beat Trump.

I really want to see what the ACAB crowd would do. Vote for a cop, vote for trump, or not vote.

I mean, you could always vote for a 3rd party, but that would just be throwing your vote away.

I don’t believe I’ve ever voted for a person who wasn’t a bastard, there’s no conflict of interest

I love how we all pretend to be neutral the there’s you!

Calling names and cutting BS. She’s a cop, they are crap and everyone is lesser-than as far as you are concerned… everyone is worse than trump in your eyes. Aka trump is better than everyone…