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US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians
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There is a sandbag visible in the videos. What I have not seen is a video of him tripping on it because the camera is following him and not his feet on the couple I viewed.
Here's a photo:
President Joe Biden falls on stage during the 2023 United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony at Falcon Stadium, Thursday, June 1, 2023, at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
White House says Biden is 'fine' after he tripped and fell on stage at Air Force graduation
Associated Press (archive.ph)
By Darlene Superville
2023-06-01 20:53:24GMT
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — President Joe Biden fell on stage at the U.S. Air Force Academy graduation Thursday and the White House said he was “fine” after tripping over a sandbag.
Biden had been greeting the graduates in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the front of the stage with salutes and handshakes, and turned to jog back toward his seat when he fell. He was helped up by an Air Force officer as well as two members of his U.S. Secret Service detail.
Onlookers, including some members of the official delegation on stage, watched in concern before Biden, who at age 80 is the oldest president in U.S. history, returned to his seat to view the end of the ceremony.
“He’s fine,” tweeted White House communications director Ben LaBolt. “There was a sandbag on stage while he was shaking hands.” Two small black sandbags were on stage supporting the teleprompter used by Biden and other speakers.
Biden has been dogged by questions about his age and his fitness to serve, and his missteps have become fodder for political rivals as he campaigns for a second term in 2024. He has stumbled before going up the stairs and onto Air Force One and he once got caught up in his bike pedals while stopping to talk to reporters near his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Biden’s personal doctor said after the president’s most recent physical exam in February that Biden “remains a healthy, vigorous 80-year-old male, who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the Presidency.” Dr. Kevin O’Connor also documented the president’s stiffened gait, which O’Connor said was the result of spinal arthritis, a previously broken foot and neuropathy in the Biden’s feet.
Biden is far from the first national political figure to stumble in public.
President Gerald Ford fell down while walking off Air Force One in 1975. GOP Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, the GOP presidential nominee at the time, fell off the stage at a campaign rally in 1996. President Barack Obama tripped walking up the stairs to a stage at a 2012 event. “I was so fired up, I missed a stair” he told the crowd.
President Donald Trump’s gingerly walk down a ramp at the 2020 West Point commencement also sparked concerns about his health.
Trump, 76, was campaigning in Iowa when he heard about Biden’s stumble and alluded to his own episode.
“He actually fell down? Well I hope he wasn’t hurt,” Trump said after an audience member told him about what had happened to Biden. “The whole thing is crazy. You gotta be careful about that ... ’cause you don’t want that, even if you have to tiptoe down a ramp.”
The audience laughed as Trump recounted slowly inching his way down what he said had been a slippery ramp at the U.S. Military Academy graduation.
“If he fell, it’s too bad,” the former president said. “We gotta just get this thing back on track. That’s a bad place to fall when you’re making, I think it was the Air Force Academy, right? That’s not inspiring.”
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Of the clip you posted, I could see the sandbag now that you pointed it out in that photo.
Moving the clip manually, you can track where the sandbag is in relation to where he's stepping, he was planted firmly on his right foot as he brought his left forward, and fell over.
Seems like he had some kind of issue with his balance, but definitely not a typical trip that leads to a fall. Still odd but not as bad as I had thought at first having not noticed it.
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Kamala put the sandbag there.
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They're getting uppity in Chicago about illegal aliens getting the gibs instead of the Kangs. I love it.
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I bet every black motherfucker in that room has a smartphone made with african slave-labor sourced cobalt.
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That fall is no joke Biden could have been seriously fucked. It's insane how hard the cope is around it.
It's not even a political point here, Biden is ancient and he obviously aged horrendously compared to Trump or even say Carter and Bush Dad. He is probably hooked on that good shit 24/7 to keep him functional. It's possible he is weak and didn't notice because of the meds being used to keep him somewhat alert and aware. If he had fallen down a staircase as small as 3 steps he might have been sent to the hospital wit a fracture.
It's not even a political point here, Biden is ancient and he obviously aged horrendously compared to Trump or even say Carter and Bush Dad. He is probably hooked on that good shit 24/7 to keep him functional. It's possible he is weak and didn't notice because of the meds being used to keep him somewhat alert and aware. If he had fallen down a staircase as small as 3 steps he might have been sent to the hospital wit a fracture.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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It wouldn't surprise me if someone from the Trump team reads this site, it was brought up here before and now Trump confirms what I've been feeling
Meatball lashing out again with weak slaps and pretending we all knew 4 years ago how deep the swamp is and that Trump could clean up Biden's mess before he was in office, he comes across as petty and weak and trying too hard to have a snappy comeback. Maybe when Chris Christie is in the race he'll actually try and put his weight behind some real attacks. It also doesn't help how weird and rushed he is in trying to interact with people, if you notice when Trump walks into a room of people he makes his way, they don't stop him, he expects you to move with him to get your photo or shake his hand. Almost like he's been around people for 50 years, rude New Yorkers no less.
Meatball lashing out again with weak slaps and pretending we all knew 4 years ago how deep the swamp is and that Trump could clean up Biden's mess before he was in office, he comes across as petty and weak and trying too hard to have a snappy comeback. Maybe when Chris Christie is in the race he'll actually try and put his weight behind some real attacks. It also doesn't help how weird and rushed he is in trying to interact with people, if you notice when Trump walks into a room of people he makes his way, they don't stop him, he expects you to move with him to get your photo or shake his hand. Almost like he's been around people for 50 years, rude New Yorkers no less.
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Why didn't Trump clean up Biden's mess in his first four years...before Biden became President? Is Ron suggesting that Trump is a time traveler or something? I'm confused.
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Don't be - this is just Orange Man Bad but in Neocon Flavor.
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This tired ass argument is something I have seen from a LOT of Neocon and DeSerter types over Trump. "Oh he didn't do enough" ok nigger you try and do good work when the literal ENTIRE FUCKING UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IS SABOTAGING YOU fucks sake it's like they keep fucking ignoring the entire context of the fucking thing. They assume Trump just didn't try. It's like they simply WANT to ignore the reality of how much shit there is going on.
None of them seem to understand the nature of the beast being fought or how hard trying to do good in such a position is. It's like the people who think you can get rid of crimes by just banning guns, they don't understand the problem and suggest a solution that makes no sense whenever you actually think about it.
None of them seem to understand the nature of the beast being fought or how hard trying to do good in such a position is. It's like the people who think you can get rid of crimes by just banning guns, they don't understand the problem and suggest a solution that makes no sense whenever you actually think about it.
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Those same people complaining that Trump has not DONE anything in his one term are the REASON that Trump was elected in the first place. Now, suddenly, these people know how to run a country.
That's like ... I don't even have a good comparison with an actress, that annoyed the hell out of me.
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Even with the difficulties with the swamp, Trump did more to advance a lot of the Conservative movement's alleged goals in four years than the National Review Crew's favorite pols have done in the past 20.
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Hillary Clinton makes a better dark horse than Ron DeSantis. At least she doesn't try to try so hard.
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DeSantis hasn't shown up to a group of hispanics with a mini-bottle of salsa in his pocket.
Yet.
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It's truly a feat that somebody as rich as Trump can make somebody appear more privileged and out of touch through their OWN ACTIONS. They keep proving his point for him.It wouldn't surprise me if someone from the Trump team reads this site, it was brought up here before and now Trump confirms what I've been feeling
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He is right. The correct term is "Cultural Marxism" since the usual suspects are claiming it's an "antisemitic conspiracy theory".
In other news, I heard about this review on federal spending Senator Ernst released today. So the question, which is worth the ever-growing national debt, is if Russia is the international bad guy, why is the United States giving them taxpayer money for government projects?
Where Did Millions in Tax Dollars to Russia and China Really Go? Ernst Gives Us an Idea.
Spencer Brown | May 31, 2023 2:05 PM
Caroline Brehman/Pool Photo via AP
It's no secret that hardworking American taxpayers often watch as the fruits of their labor are co-opted by the government and used to fund projects, agencies, or priorities that don't align with their own. It's frustrating, but taxes are notoriously the one certain thing other than death.
Some federal government uses of tax dollars are more inexplicable and infuriating than others, especially those that see revenues leave America's shores while taxpayers see their fellow citizens — sometimes even their own families — struggling to build a good life at home.
Well, prepare to be even more infuriated at bloated government and its use of tax revenues thanks to new analysis of tax dollars that ended up in Russia and China over the past five years released by U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Wednesday afternoon.
According to this new review of federal spending in Russia and China, more than $490 million worth of taxpayer-funded grants and contracts were awarded to entities in China while even more — $870 million — went to Russian entities. That's just the $1.3 billion-plus tax dollars that could be tracked to Russia and China, as Ernst notes, because federal agencies aren't currently required to follow tax dollars to their ultimate destination and report that information.
What's more, the federal government itself has admitted there's a "government-wide issue" with its limited ability to track tax dollars. In a Government Accountability Office report from earlier this year, the GAO explained this flaw:
"It is gravely concerning that no one in Washington can actually account for millions sent to Russia and China for pointless projects. But I have the receipts," Senator Ernst told Townhall. "I’m shining a light on this reckless spending, so bureaucrats can no longer cover up their tracks and taxpayers can know exactly what their hard-earned dollars are funding."
What was found in the analysis of taxpayer-funded projects in Russia and China over the last five years by Ernst included art exhibits for "gender equality," Russian research of alcohol addiction, food for American school lunches from Chinese companies, payments to a Russian company that has been sanctioned by the U.S. government, and more than $750,000 for a Russian government-run lab to put cats on treadmills.
So how did the work of Americans turn into paydays for those in Russia and China, including entities being economically punished by the U.S. government? An apparently staggering lack of accountability paired with a federal spending binge that seems to know no bounds.
To that end, Ernst — along with Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) in the House — unveiled the Tracking Receipts to Adversarial Countries for Knowledge of Spending (TRACKS) Act on Wednesday to bring clearly needed transparency and accountability for taxpayer dollars as they make their way around the world while making it more difficult for waste, fraud, and abuse to go unnoticed and unchecked.
The TRACKS Act would amend the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to require those spending U.S. tax dollars to "collect and report data relating to subawards granted to entities outside of the United States" and to make that information publicly available for oversight, holding the government more accountable to the taxpayers who fund it.
"Washington’s continued spending is so out of hand it is losing track of Americans’ hard-earned taxpayer dollars," Ernst noted to Townhall. "Enough is enough; I am creating accountability for every penny," she pledged.
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I love how the faggots keep insisting that Cultural Marxism is the same as Jewish Bolshevism. They literally have only that argument to make.
I like to counter it by just linking them their own theory. It's always amusing to see them desperately play semantics and kvetch about exact terms as if saying "akshually the name of it different so it doesn't exist" is a argument.
I like to counter it by just linking them their own theory. It's always amusing to see them desperately play semantics and kvetch about exact terms as if saying "akshually the name of it different so it doesn't exist" is a argument.
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A whole new meaning to the term "sandbagging"
You're assuming that he isn't here himself
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The scam they're pulling boils down to: Trump didn't get as much done as he said he would (mainly because we used the Uniparty-Controlled-Congress and the Mueller witch-hunt to stymie him), so you should replace him with our Uniparty Trojan Horse candidate or else the Uniparty Corpse Puppet will remain in power.
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