Media Coverage of the Biden-Putin Meeting

Joe Biden owns Come On Man though. That is true. He really does. Come on man. Crystal is just showing me a video that he flipped out at some reporter today. Did you see this? He's at this summit with Putin and Biden lost his shit. He was asked a question that he didn't like. He turned around and started yelling. No. Yeah, no. He was very cranky, cranky old man status in this. Dude, he's- I think it's from Fox News, Jamie, if you want to show Joe that. He's legitimately falling apart and it's really sad. You know what's really weird though is the media is, first of all, the left wing media completely ignoring how odd it is the way he behaves. The one nine year old girl that was sitting there with her legs crossed like, look at her over there. Look at her. Like a 19 year old girl that legs crossed. What the fuck are you saying? What is that? So there's- The whole army's- I'm sorry, go ahead. Yeah. But then they'll pretend things are happening that aren't. Glenn Greenwald called it out today on Twitter. I was reading his Twitter feed. Some guy was talking about how Putin and Biden shook hands and then how Putin looked away and then Biden's looking him in the eyes as if he's trying to say that in any way Putin is scared of Joe Biden, that Joe Biden is like dominating Putin. Like what if bizarre, like Glenn described it perfectly. Like go to Glenn Greenwald's Twitter because it's so strange because they do this thing where these world leaders, they shake hands and they look at the camera and they shake hands and look at the press. And so in that moment, Biden had forgotten to look at the press and he's making it seem like Biden's staring him down. He's showing him what a real man's like. It's like a bizarre fantasy, like almost like a pro wrestling thing. Like you know that you can't possibly believe what you're saying is true, that Putin who's a fucking straight up killer, literally, and a Judo black belt, who's the fucking head of the Soviet Union, well, whatever, Russia, forever and probably until he dies, killed a gang of people, killed a bunch of people don't like him, killed a bunch of people, talked shit about him, made journalists disappear allegedly, allegedly all those things I said allegedly. Like, oh, there's the handshakes one. They look at each other, shaking the eye and then Putin looks away to the press and by the way, imagine, look at this, but look at this. Can you scroll up please? No, where you had it so I could see it? Just the horse. Biden looked Putin in the eye, Putin immediately looked away. What? But go to Greenwalls because the way he covered it is hilarious. The way Greenwalled made fun of them. Well, if you click show this thread. So scroll down there, scroll right there. Nope, back right there. The obsession over who squeezed whose hands hardest, who led, I guess he meant let go, who let go first of the grip, whose body language shows masculine authority and whose shows submission is fucking demented. A bunch of liberal professionals not allowed to speak this way except here. So true. That's exactly what it is. He said Joe Biden can barely complete a sentence. Half the time he drifts off in the middle of his words. He's constantly bowing his head and muttering about how he'll get in trouble if he continues. Nobody is fucking afraid of him. Stop feeding liberal hordes this warped pablum. Pablum. That's a weird word. Pablum. So, um. Pablum. You ever use that word Jamie? Pablum's a good word. So it's interesting because this is why people hate the media, right? Everybody feels like they're arguing more from a narrative than they are just sort of objectively describing what's happening. And with Biden it's particularly weird because early on in the Democratic primary when the media was convinced it's not going to be Biden. It's going to be Pete Buttigieg or it's going to be Kamala Harris or it's going to be, you know, whoever, fill in the blank with whoever imploded and was terrible. They actually were open and honest about the fact, for example, that Joe Biden sort of sundowning and he's not all there and he can't really complete full sentences. So they actually were the ones who brought it up in debates with him, for example, Julian Castro very famously was like, do you even know what you just said like five seconds ago? This was a big moment in the debate. And so the media would openly talk about, I don't know if Joe's all there anymore, but the second that he got the nomination, they stopped. Nobody's allowed to say it. And if you say it, you're a right winger. Exactly. Even though, you know, I was the biggest Bernie supporter out there and I was like, here's a compilation of Joe Biden clearly having some mental issues. And so it was just incredibly dishonest. I've been to your point on Putin and Russia. The narrative that they're using for Biden is he's tough, he's standing up to him. It was the exact opposite for Trump where they were saying, oh, he's Vladimir Putin's puppet. And they're actually incorrect for both of those things. So in terms of what Trump was doing, Trump bombed Syria, who's Russia's top ally. Trump rejected this pipeline called the Nord Stream Pipeline, which would have greatly helped Russia. Trump armed Ukrainian rebels on the ground who are fighting Russia. Trump did a NATO buildup on Russia's border. Now I don't agree with those policies, but those policies are incredibly hawkish and raise tensions with Russia. Now in the case of Biden, Biden actually just approved the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which is a pipeline that's going to greatly help Russia because it makes it so that Russian oil and gas is going to be used in Germany now. And so that's a very, that's a very peaceful move. That's not hawkish, that's not raising tensions. So he's basically giving Putin something that Putin wants, which again, I actually agree with that. I'm not dealing with the pipeline, but they're framing it as if like, Joe Biden, he's so weak and, and he's, you know, Vladimir Putin, or excuse me, Joe Biden is so strong and he's dominating Vladimir Putin. Yeah, I don't understand why they think that they can do that and that people won't be more hesitant to believe the news. Dude, you would be surprised at, unfortunately, some of this stuff lands. There is a backlash to it, but some of this stuff lands. I saw a great Pew poll the other day. When it came to Donald Trump, it was like over 70% of the time they talked about him, they would talk about his like character and leadership qualities or lack thereof. And so when that's how you're talking about the person, you can say, what the fuck you want? What does that even mean? Let me talk about this person's character. It's subjective. Somebody could say, I think he's got great character. Somebody could say, I think he's got terrible character. So it was always out of the realm of policy. And then that same poll, it was like 60 or 65% of the time when they talked about Biden, they talked about policy. There was this huge dichotomy in how they discussed the presidents and obviously the ones who they liked, they'd go a little softer on when it came to Trump and they despised him. They would talk about ... And the crazy thing, the thing that drives me crazy, Joe, is that there are a lot of ways to go after Trump. They're actually very intelligent that I would agree with. When you stick to policy, I disagree with him on almost everything when it comes to policy, but they didn't do that. It was all about he's a bad person. Character assassination. Yeah, character assassination all day long, which is gross. Do you think that Biden is making actual decisions? That's a good question. I don't think I would ever say that about any other president. Other than Trump. Some of the Trump stuff, I was like, I wonder how much he pawns off on the generals. Well, W. Bush was also an idiot too. But we all knew that Dick Cheney was kind of- He was calling the puppet strings. Yeah. So in the case of Biden, I think it's 50-50. I think some of the stuff he probably makes and some of the stuff he doesn't. He clearly is having struggles mentally and he's getting very old and I think everybody around him knows that. But a lot of the big decisions, I'm sure they have to land on his desk. What did they do for him during the debates with Trump when he was sharp? One debate. I said this too with the Bernie debate as well. This is all speculation. I just want everybody to know. I have no facts on this. I'm talking out of my ass. But yeah, I think he was on some sort of upper that allowed him to be sharp. I feel like it had to be more than that. So you think it's some anti- I don't know. Psychotic or- But he was in the groove. He acted like a normal person. Well when he was younger, he actually- again, I don't agree with him politically. I think he's a terrible corporatist. But he was sharp in terms of debating. There was that debate with Paul Ryan in 2012. You remember that? He made Paul Ryan look like a little baby. Oh really? Oh yeah. The 2012 VP debate. It was amazing. You're such a politics fan. You talk about debates like some people talk about playoff games. And guess what? I watch them like that too. I got my popcorn. I got Twitter up. I don't know. I get all excited and into it. 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