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Biden lecturing Americans about “play by the same rules” and “pay their fair share” while Hunter Biden sits in the room is the height of hypocrisy. pic.twitter.com/mfxQQff8Ib
— Bobby LaValley (@Bobby_LaVallley) January 16, 2025
Ed: Painful to watch. My take on this speech can be found here.
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“When we see what transpired, what we’ve witness[ed], what has transpired over the last year plus. He was supposed to step away. He was supposed to be a transitional president, and you didn’t do that,” Smith said. “You decided that you wanted to stay in the race, and then you got exposed because you showed up on a debate stage June 27, and you were not what people on the left have purported you to be. Then you ultimately [were] forced out by a party and the candidate, Kamala Harris, was somebody that you immediately endorsed.” ...
“I was sad. Of course the president is entitled, and he should give a farewell speech. There is no question about that. But different times invade us all, and when you see the times that we live in sometimes you see something and you just say, ‘Silence or a simple goodbye would suffice.’ That’s how I felt about the president tonight,” Smith said.
Ed: An old saying goes: Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Not that there was much doubt left after four years.
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Joe Biden can’t even read. Every time he speaks it gets worse. Trying to run him in 2024 is the most reckless and indefensible presidential decision in any of our lives.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) January 16, 2025
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“When I watch this tonight, I remain astonished that he, his family and other people around him thought he could ever run for another term,” Jennings, who worked in the George W. Bush administration, told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”
“There’s no way he could serve another six months, much less another four years,” he continued.
“The fact that they pursued that farce for as long as they did, to me, remains one of the most astonishing things about this term.”
Ed: As I wrote earlier, I deliberately avoided watching the video replay, as I had seen enough televised elder abuse in the last four years already. I did see and hear a few clips later, and it's astonishing that the Bidens and his White House handlers thought that even this was a good idea. He might be ready to transition to memory care after the Inauguration on Monday. It's disgraceful, and we may never really get an accounting for it.
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Farewell Biden
— Mark Penn (@Mark_Penn) January 16, 2025
The danger that Joe Biden failed to warn about in his speech was the power of government and its abuse.
Abuse when government determines what can and cannot be written on social media.
Abuse when government gives jobs and money to political friends instead of…
Abuse when political opponents are arrested and charged at the urging of the president. Abuse when the laws are not enforced and the border left open for political reasons. Abuse when hundreds of billions of dollars in loans are forgiven for political gain despite court rulings. Abuse when a president says others should pay taxes while pardoning his own son for failing to pay taxes on millions shaken out of shady global interests.
Ed: Mark Penn was Hillary Clinton's pollster in 2016.
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JUST IN: Democrat Senator Chris Coons accidentally says the quiet part out loud, says Nancy Pelosi “orchestrated” a coup against Biden.
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 16, 2025
The comment comes after the left has claimed for months that Biden stepped down all by himself.
Coons was responding to Jill Biden’s comment… pic.twitter.com/AMngf5B5Ta
Ed: If it was "the right thing to do," why didn't Coons speak out against Biden running for a second term in the first place?
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Instead, in four years’ experience with Joe Biden, we saw a venal cynic who lied about such basic matters of integrity as pardoning his son when he wasn’t violating his promise to be a “bridge to the future.” We saw an incompetent bumbler who threw open the borders and watched the world light itself ablaze as a detached spectator. Most of all, we saw a frail, dependent old man whose mental and physical condition had weakened to the point where he allowed himself to be hidden from view and governed by a coterie of his closest advisers, who sought only to please the activist “Groups” whom they gleefully slopped favors to from America’s policy trough. Finally, remember: This man, who was already collapsing in the first months of his administration, sought another four years in office.
It is this grand imposture that will inevitably be Biden’s legacy.
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BERNIE SANDERS: "Do you agree with President Biden who last night stated 'an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that threatens our entire Democracy...'"
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 16, 2025
SCOTT BESSENT: "The three billionaires who you listed [Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos] all… pic.twitter.com/lRg84D0P8O
Ed: Of course Sanders is condemning the people he's naming! And while Bessent's delivery needs a lot of work, he scored a great point on Sanders' grandstanding.
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Joe Biden's Goodbye was as Bad as his Presidency https://t.co/FD8KDtnyI3
— Tony Katz (@tonykatz) January 16, 2025
Ed: I get the real final word tonight, because .... RHIP. My segment starts at about the 24-minute mark of this video.
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