President Joe Biden

[FogBlueInSanFran]

1 stumble no, maybe not 2 but 3 shows a physical issue of some sort.
Also his total absence from press conferences is a problem. What does he have to hide?

What an inane post this is.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Possibly the greatest American president of the 20th Century and the man who got them out of the great depression and through World War 2 would have had far greater problems getting up those steps.

As would Gerald Ford.

 

[west didsblue]

1 stumble no, maybe not 2 but 3 shows a physical issue of some sort.
Also his total absence from press conferences is a problem. What does he have to hide?

Yes, potentially a physical problem but nothing to do with losing his marbles.

To be honest, watching it, it looked like the first stumble shook him up causing the other two before he got his shit together.

As for press conferences I read nothing into that at all. He has made plenty of public appearances so it’s hardly like he’s hiding.

I’d be inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt at the moment.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

1 stumble no, maybe not 2 but 3 shows a physical issue of some sort.
Also his total absence from press conferences is a problem. What does he have to hide?

He has a daft habit of doing an unnecessary kind of run-walk. He was going to quickly up a steep flight of stairs for a bloke his age. He is probably trying not to look his age that's all. The result was the opposite. No drama is it?

 

[mancity1]

I don't think his control is active, but passive. As he begins to have to fight off criminal charges and lawsuits more regularly, his time and ability to actively be involved in the party will diminish, as it already has since he was removed from office. He won't be re-platformed by traditional internet media content distribution behemoths either. Eventually he'll die . . . but I think you're right that he will continue to passively control the party from beyond the office (and eventually the grave) in that no present congressional Republican will risk being primaried if there's a threat of such by standing against him or what voters perceive would have been him.

I agree and his influence will quickly diminish with the passage of time.

just a past president and anybody who thinks his influence is much more than passive as I believe you are correct in assuming is overstating the narrative.

the Republican Party need to move on from the past 4 years and reset which they will in due course.

 

[Vic]

Better here than in the general US politics thread:

BREAKING NEWS

Enrollment in health insurance under the Affordable Care Act has surged, and two deeply conservative states are considering its Medicaid expansion.​

Monday, March 22, 2021 3:47 PM EST

More than 200,000 Americans signed up for health insurance under the law during the first two weeks of an open enrollment period created by President Biden — a sign that those who lost insurance during the pandemic remain in desperate need of coverage, according to federal officials and health policy experts. And a provision in the president’s $1.9 trillion stimulus law to make Medicaid expansion more fiscally appealing has convinced deep-red Alabama and Wyoming to consider expanding the program to residents whose incomes are too high to qualify now but too low to afford private health plans.

 

[Magicpole]

Biden's 3 stumbles going up the steps onto Air Force One were a bit of a worry.
Still he said he would be a team presidency and Trump was a fecking disaster so a anything is better than him, even if Biden is losing his marbles.

How is tripping a symptom of losing his marbles? Are you up for a Nobel Prize in Medicine you're keeping quiet about?

I take it you have heard of FDR? He would have needed to be dragged up on a rope. Not a bad President though. I know fuck all about his marble situation to be honest.. That could be the game changer. Brought the US and the world out of the GP, kept us going against Hitler, and was a wonderful conversationalist. Biden not in that class, but hardly so bad. After Trump any long term psychiatric patient would be a step up. Oh fuck, steps again.

 

[lazerblue]

if he'd have been coming down the stairs they would have woman president now

 

[Shadz69]

Coffin ships, Irish sea, Brits fault. Lol.

 

[AltrinchamBlue]

Possibly the greatest American president of the 20th Century and the man who got them out of the great depression and through World War 2 would have had far greater problems getting up those steps.

A fair point but he wasn’t 78 when they first elected him. You could say the same about Kennedy too, but neither of their illnesses were apparent dementia like it could be with Biden.