De vraag ‘WIE is uw president?’ wordt gaande USA2021 steeds belangrijker. Er was voor gewaarschuwd, en verstandiger mensen beseften het reeds, maar Joe Biden is niet helemaal in orde.

De Biden-gaffes uit de campagne worden eenvoudig voortgezet, en mensen doen als of er niets aan de hand is. Zie dit tamelijk onschuldige filmpje, met een tekst die een president in een zo zwaar geregisseerde politieke omgeving als de USA anders nooit uit zijn mond had laten vallen:

COOPER: "You’ve already spent a great deal of time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Except now you’re living there and you’re president. It’s been four weeks. What’s it like? How is it different?"

BIDEN: "I wake up every morning, look at Jill, and say 'where the hell are we?'" pic.twitter.com/vdAjxUnWOT

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 17, 2021

Als de gaffes van Biden íets zeggen over zijn innerlijke overwegingen, dan zal de USA nog heel veel spijt krijgen dat men president Trump heeft laten gaan. Een recente serie:

Elsewhere during the car crash exchange, Biden claimed that former military and former police officers are fueling the “growth of white supremacy,” while claiming President Trump refused to condemn it:

Later, Biden went on to claim that people of color don’t know how to use the internet:

"Minorities… don't know how to use, know how to get online."@JoeBiden is perpetuating a racist trope that minorities don't know how to use the internet.#BidenTownhall pic.twitter.com/hsVuC02PdC

— Steven Cheung (@CaliforniaPanda) February 17, 2021

Joe Biden says "bIack on bIack crime" is the primary concern of many minority communities, not police brutality, and then stops himself mid sentence realizing he has just committed the cardinal sin of uttering aloud a hate-fact. #BidenTowhall pic.twitter.com/ixHYdVgolz

— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) February 17, 2021

BIDEN: "Did you ever five years ago think every second or third ad out of five or six should turn out to be biracial couples?" pic.twitter.com/1jVYuSqQuI

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 17, 2021

So what Biden is pretty much saying is that genocide is a cultural norm !?pic.twitter.com/5lFPo9FN8C

— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) February 17, 2021

BIDEN: "No one should go to jail for a drug offense." pic.twitter.com/75usLcTWlA

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 17, 2021

De betrouwbaarheid van wat Biden zeggen wil (kortom: zijn programmering) is duidelijk evenmin erg hoog:

Joe Biden says that a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants would be essential in any immigration bill pic.twitter.com/VHkF0SVmQv

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 17, 2021

At the beginning of the town hall, President Biden claimed he didn't have a vaccine when he came into office.

The first shots occurred on December 14 and one million doses were being administered per day when he took office on January 20. pic.twitter.com/NX61LTvqF7

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 17, 2021

Met als klap op de vuurpijl

Pres. Biden is asked when he thinks everything can go back to normal:

"By next Christmas, I think we'll be a different circumstance God willing than we are today.. A year from now, I think there will be significantly fewer people socially distanced, not having to wear a mask." pic.twitter.com/gUUVQfbyH2

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 17, 2021

Een dodelijk commentaar over de stilte hierover tot nog toe:

As LibertyNation’s Mark Angelides points out, it appears by the lack of coverage of this disaster that America’s Fourth Estate has entered a new era of wilful blindness

Maar dan de vraag: WIE is uw president? Daarover valt wel een en ander op te merken. Zoals over wie het buitenlands beleid vormt – traditioneel een constitutioneel prerogatief van de Amerikaanse president:

The New York Post reports that Harris spoke at length with French President Emmanuel Macron this week.

Het blijkt dat wie Joe Biden belt, maar al te vaak Kamala Harris aan de lijn krijgt. Ook op bezoek gaan kunt u zich besparen. Van The Hill:

President Biden is unlikely to meet in person with a foreign leader for “a couple of months,” press secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday.

Verduidelijkend:

“I would anticipate for all of you that it will be a couple of months before the president invites a foreign leader to meet in person here at the White House,” Psaki said at a news briefing.

The Hill concludeerde voorzichtig:

The comments offer the first glimpse of a timeline the White House has given of when Biden might resume in-person meetings with foreign leaders as the coronavirus pandemic rages on. Biden has held calls with numerous foreign leaders since taking office, but he has yet to meet face-to-face with any of them.

Angst voor Corona, aha. Ja, dat tast het reukvermogen aan , nietwaar?

Maar daarna kunt u hem opzoeken in een staatsinstituut voor de bewildered?

En dan is er deze tweet van dinsdag:

Glad we had this first talk @VP Kamala Harris! Let's move forward together on all the challenges we face: climate, gender equality, regional crises, and our space cooperation with (hopefully) a new step this Thursday with Perseverance’s landing on Mars! https://t.co/5Qb1T8Pkqp

— Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) February 15, 2021

De door Macron gebezigde woorden zijn duidelijk genoeg. Harris bepaalt nu de buitenlandse politiek, punt. Zo wordt er ook verslag over gedaan:

The Vice President’s office released a statement noting that the two “agreed on the need for close bilateral and multilateral cooperation to address COVID-19, climate change, and support democracy at home and around the world.”
“They also discussed numerous regional challenges, including those in the Middle East and Africa, and the need to confront them together,” the statement added.

Dit was ook niet de eerste keer:

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks with Trudeau in first foreign leader call https://t.co/tHybZdwpNf

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) February 3, 2021

Is this normal? The President isn’t speaking to any foreign leaders, but the VP is.

The short answer is no, it isn’t normal.

The NY Post notes that former Vice President Mike Pence “occasionally spoke directly by phone with foreign leaders, but that role generally was performed by former President Donald Trump, especially last year.”

“A review of press notices from Pence’s final year in office reveals no readouts of direct calls with the leaders of foreign nations,” the Post added.

Wat doet Biden wèl zelf?

The media is finally back to doing dogged, hard-hitting investigative reporting. pic.twitter.com/UcOiCCSjj3

— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) February 16, 2021

En fanatiek ook:

Biden playing Mario Kart at Camp David pic.twitter.com/LTXYFnzt4c

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) February 14, 2021

De enige vraag is dus nog wanneer ze het officieel maken? Of wil Jill Biden nog een tijdje genieten van haar rol als president?

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