Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 9:07 am
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 8:48 am
Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 7:38 am
She’s not that smart. Domain knowledge in one topic doesn’t mean much overall. And using WSJ op Ed and Nat Review as evidence isn’t very compelling.
Biden is lazy more than dumb IMO. Combine laziness with age and you get something that looks like dumb.
hmmm, I never got the impression of 'lazy'... He's definitely not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and he admits that openly; but we keep getting told that leaders who are really, really bright (even simply top 10%, much less top 2%) are not desirable to a huge segment of the voters.
That's not how I feel, but I hear the opposite view quite a lot.
When it was a binary choice with Trump, Biden compared really, really well.
Unless he’s selling aloof I see a guy who floats-at least the last decade or so. Obviously the campaign requires work but it’s clear he was propped up given simply the day half the field dropped out and backed him in early 2020. Understood it and made sense to get Dbag Trump gonzo but we have to accept the reality of what we have as well. He’s not simplifying when he attempts to articulate things to the public that’s his understanding of those things and with near 50yrs in office that’s pretty weak. Talks slowly-thats because he hasn’t worked at trying to have a more elevated understanding. And being locked in for 45-50yrs to the beltway gig(s) creates a heck of a lot of complacency. I actually give more credit to Pelosi for jamming Biden into having to get involving in their intervene squabbling from his previous hands off approach.
And 6-8mo in the comparison doesn’t do much for me. Time to move forward, other than Letitia James jamming the fat orange scum sucker up for previous tax dodges and related offenses (I hope). And even if she doesn’t it’s clear he’s in a world of pain financially with a bunch f negative cash flow assets and a maturity wall coming, no foreign support left because he’s useless to them and a PR nightmare (even Afghanistan is putting up the facade of trying to care). There will be no Phoenix like resurrection for him the way there was for Harry Macklowe, who was on the bad borrower list banks had in the 90s but he actually added value by putting in that bubble and Apples store at the GM building in the early 2000s creating $50mm of incremental FCF (at a 3-5% cap rate thats $1-$1.5Bn in added value). (Of course Macklowe blew himself up leveraging that property w DB in mezz debt to buy the NYC portfolio when Blackstone chopped up Equity Office Properties in the greatest “buy wholesale, sell retail flip on front of the financial crisis-deal blew up not only Macklowe but Callahan in Denver and MaGuire in LA who all bought at a 3% cap what Blackstone acquired at an implied 4.5% cap rate in 07-08)
No issue with itching for 'better'. Me too.
But no, Biden speaks 'slowly' because he has a serious issue with stuttering; it's also why his words get twisted up from time to time, why he starts and stops sentences/thoughts, as they jumble up. Doesn't mean he's stupid, nor lazy. (and he's definitely old).
I find him overall to have a strong clarity of thought and purpose.
However that doesn't mean he has the right answers.
And I do worry that he's insufficiently nimble in his willingness to re-think given new incoming info, obstacles. I don't think that's laziness, but rather a bit of obstinance...of course, it could actually be discipline and patience...I sure hope it's the latter, though worry it's the former.
Right now, he's losing a lot of ground and support among the 'persuadable' given various stumbles and the slow, slow grind of getting legislation actually passed.
I'd like to see the basic infrastructure bill passed, a modified reconciliation bill passed, and then a hard focus on voting legislation, including breaking through current stupid filibuster process to a speaking filibuster...eventually the Manchin proposal will pass and the hard line GOP folks who attempt of speaking filibuster will lose the GOP most of those persuadables in the meantime. Total jackasses....make them speak in the Senate.
Do it again on any other 60+ % issues. Make'em speak.
(in the
long haul, this will be good for the GOP to regain its footing and reject the extremists).
Immigration is a topic that Dems can't win on, but it's going to be a hard problem. My wife had a long conversation with our maid about her family (she's here legally, goes back and forth to visit family in Mexico, we pay Soc). She's one of 9 siblings, 5 here in US, 4 sisters still in Mexico with the mother. The cartels dominate their region, own everything, and every so often one of the remaining sisters is kidnapped and ransomed, $4k immediate cash, must be US dollars...they track who has people in the US working! If you don't pay, killed. Police are in the pocket of the cartels. She says Mexico is full of immigrants coming from the south fleeing even worse.
Not sure what we do about this that isn't a political problem for Biden.
And then there's Taiwan...