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Home Front: Politix
Joe Biden Calls a Lid on Public Appearances and Remarks Indefinitely
2021-08-20
[PJ Media] During the presidential campaign, the Biden administration introduced a new word into the lexicon: a "lid." His campaign has called a lid countless times without explanation, meaning it was cutting off all media appearances for that day.
The teleprompter broke? His puppeteer has Carpal Tunnel?
Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. S I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass....
 went on vacation to Camp David just before Afghanistan fell to the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
 and gave no public remarks on the matter until more than 24 hours after the fall of Kabul. That was a speech Biden delivered from the White House Monday, after which he took no questions from the media.

He went silent again, then delivered another speech on Wednesday, this time on COVID. He took no media questions after the conclusion of this address. He sat for an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Wednesday. That interview has caused yet more problems. Biden’s performance in it has been seen as heartless and incoherent.

Fox News reports that Biden has effectively called a lid, this time indefinitely.

In what appears to be a continuation of his campaign bunker strategy, and following his widely panned interview with ABC News on the stunning fall of Afghanistan, President Biden’s schedule Thursday contained no planned public remarks or press briefings.

The president took all public remarks, press briefings and pressers off his schedule as he and his administration deal with the blowback from their botched troop withdrawal that saw Kabul fall into the hands of the Taliban.
Posted by:Omaviper Lumumba3702

#12  The latest appears to be a shouting match btwn the Cdr, 82nd Abn and the senior British officer at the airport. Evident the CG asked the Brits to STOP their downtown operations and the kak hit the fan.

Unconfirmed of course, but likely accurate.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-08-20 20:44  

#11  I met Ed Daly owner of World Airways in Oakland Ca.in 1981. He defied the US State Department and flew Vietnamese orphans out of Da Nang in one of his planes. They tried to stop him by lying about a plane the State Dept were going to use.
Those pricks never change.


Posted by: crazyhorse   2021-08-20 19:53  

#10  lord garth, I'm glad his doctors got right on it, few years late but .
Posted by: Chris   2021-08-20 17:11  

#9  Kamala has been the behind the scene President. She blew it on Afghanistan
(Not that Biden's dementia infested mind could have done better), so she has hoped a plane to get as far away from the fall out as possible.

"Good Morning Vietnam!"
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-08-20 15:10  

#8  Biden may have had an, obvious to his doctors, mental breakdown.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2021-08-20 14:55  

#7  "Nobody does more harm than the person who feels baaaaad about doing it. Heaven protect us all from a difficult decision at the Pentagon..."

- William S. Burroughs
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-08-20 11:08  

#6  “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

~ C.S. Lewis
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-08-20 10:52  

#5  If only what's going to hit the fan only affected Bidet voters. I'd love Never Trump GOPe idiots to get an extra helping.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-08-20 07:44  

#4  Reports indicate he has left Washington for his home state of Delaware, or soon will.

I wonder if he's often returning to his private residence because medical treatments and visits by medical personnel can be kept secret more easily because public records laws and FOIA would only fully apply when the POTUS is residing in a public facility.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2021-08-20 07:25  

#3  In the mean time the international community should prosecute Biden and his top generals for the coming genecide.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-08-20 01:59  

#2  Just like the election he just has to sit back and leave it up to the Leftist Machine to get him across the obstacles. But this time Trump is not the obstacle. Savage terrorists are the ones on the move and so far The Leftist Machine has no answer yet.
Posted by: Blackbeard Barnsmell6454   2021-08-20 01:07  

#1  Kam has orders for Vietnam. Elections have consequences.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-08-20 01:00  

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