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Joe Biden's Debate Performance and Broader Political Context

the machine has gone into overdrive to ensure that we regard Joe Biden's debate performance simply as a bad night in fact he refers to it as being a bad night so many times that the phrase bad night starts to sound like your own name when you say it too many times you bit high and you start saying your own name again and again and again you go mad here's Joe Biden on his comeback tour an attempt to recoup some credibility and as usual when watching Joe Biden you may vacillate between those two states one of incredible sympathy an empathy for him and a kind of an almost desire to sort of wrap him up in a swaddling clothes cradle him in your arm and perhaps breastfeed him like at the end of and M and Men I believe that happens in Steinbeck's great book and I think that is a sort of visual alory to remind us that it isn't the role of the nursing mother to feed the decrepit you let me know what you think Steinbeck meant by that in any event should any of us be tip feeding by mouth president Joe Biden the answer to that is yes I was Mr President thank you for doing this thank you for having me let's start with the debate uh you and your team said have said you had a bad night but your did I sure did and that's why I'm smiling about it he's been told smile about it don't take it too seriously if you don't look bothered by it is this the advice you give a bullied kid at school isn't it it's the advice you give a bullied kid find the biggest Trump supporter and punch them and when that one goes over the whole lot of them will go down but your friend Nancy py actually she framed the question I think is on the minds of millions of Americans was this a bad episode or the sign of a more serious condition it's a bad episode uh no indicated of any serious condition I was exhausted I didn't listen to my instincts in terms of preparing and had a bad night you know you say you were exhausted and and I know you've said that before as well but you came and you did have a tough month but you came home from Europe about 11 or 12 days this is him being on yeah you're right Grapes of Roth it was Grapes of Roth sorry about that I was wrong about that it was Grapes of Roth where the old man I keep showing you my nipple I think it's cuz my little son was on me this morning and like my wife went there and like he sort of like saw my chest and sort of looked at my nipple and went sort of like well are you of any use could you do anything I like I can't do anything mate I got nothing for you I got nothing son it Grapes of Roth where a nursing mother feeds an old man and that's yeah I don't why I bought it up but it sort of seems like you know the image of nurturing the decrepit and the fra rather than letting them sort of slowly enter into decrepitude and decline is a sort of an image that Steinbeck was messing with in his dust ball era Americana and literary uh Marvel let's just see where our man's going here by the way just remind yourself in case you've forgotten he's going on the TV go look that was a bad night that I'm normally better than that as unfortunate happened like oh it's like when you tell someone like to watch like maybe bring someone to watch a stand-up comedian and then they come and watch them and they're [ __ ] that night oh no he's usually good this is Joe Biden trying to reassert his abilities as an orator and Communicator before the debate spent six days in Camp David why wasn't that enough rest time enough recovery time because I was sick I was feeling terrible matter of fact the docs with me I asked him they did a covid test people trying to figure out what's wrong covid wouldn't justify would it I had covid a couple of times bad is it it's like a bit like coffee they did a test to see whether or not I had some infection you know a virus I didn't they just had a really bad cold and did you ever watch the debate afterwards I don't think I did now what do you mean don't you know don't you know I remember that I watched it was late at night I was confused I was smoking a cigar I was in a leopard print dressing gown I remember it I remember it and I wasn't even in it well what I'm trying what I want to get at is what were you experiencing as you were going through the debate did you know how badly it was going I just had a bad night I don't know why it's bad it was a bad night baby bad night you know Casino lose a little bit of money maybe drink a bit too much make some mistakes not demonstrate to the world that you're incapable of leading the country and in fact can't have been running the country for the last few years and provide people with enough material to make comparisons to your former self to show the evident decline to in a sense confirm people's fears that the world is run by a global card Ray of powerful corporate interests that maneuver and manipulate political figures like Joe Biden who simply got the role of President because it was his turn a Democrat Party even with a sort of sensible eye on cynical power would have said get a better candidate and how how quickly did it did it come to you that you were having that bad night well Kan was having a bad night when I realized that even when I was answering a question even though they turned his mic off he was was still shouting if he was shouting at me that was distracting that shouting gave me c now dementia and I I let it distract me that I'm not blaming on that but I realized that I just wasn't in control but part of the other concern is that uh this seems to fit into a pattern of decline that has been reported on recently New York Times had a headline on July 2nd Biden's lapses are said to be increasingly common and worrisome are you the same man today that you were when you took office three and a half years ago in terms of successes yes we know that they' have had these questions in advance cuz we now know that's how it rolls and it's still not a good enough performance but at point I do I got that grapes a rough feeling someone needs to suckle that guy right up I also was the guy who put together a priece plan for the Middle East that may become an aishan I was also the guy that expanded NATO I was also the guy that grew the economy I took on big farmer I beat them that didn't happen did it he didn't beat big farmer we beat farmer this year a few rudimentary and slightly tepid measures were introduced to control the prices of one or two drugs that weren't significant and were clearly measures that were negotiated in conjunction with big farmer countries as to not significantly affect their profits hey this is exciting we've got a great partner today it's Rumble but beyond Rumble it's rumble's latest Venture let me ask you first are you a sleepy Joe type character with zero cognitive performance struggling to master focus and brain power for basic things like running the United States of America you got to stop drinking woke liberal coffee that hates you in your way of life and start your day 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save 10% on your first order oh come on why choose you know okay back to the content no one said I could beat them I took on all the things we said we got done we're told we couldn't get done the part of it is what I said when I ran was I want to do three things restore some decency to the office restore some support for the middle class instead of trickle down economics both from the middle out and the bottom up the way the wealthy still do find everyone does better and unite the country but what has all that work over the last three and a half years cost you physically mentally emotionally well I I I just think it cost me a really bad night because I grew up in a black church I know exactly how to behave whenever I'm in one whenever I'm in a black church what I do is I sit like this bolt upright I get the old hands I place them on the palms maybe I'll do B of drumming to show that I'm familiar with the procedures and Protocols of the black church space then what I do is just nervously flip my eyes from side to side not really even acknowledging when the black Pastor to my left moves on that's the way you're supposed to behave when you're very very familiar with the old black church how sweet the sound that like me also though when they say the word me tap oh chest let the other members of the black congregation know that you know who you are what was that one I live in again who do I live in me was lost but now I found [Music] I see let us stand together oh at the cross the cross where I first saw the light that's one of the moments where I feel that feeling of he needs a good swaddling he needs a good swaddling and a good old grapes are [Music] roing of my heart roll away it was oh no Joe Biden is not capable of running the country macron's not capable of running for K St is not capable of running the UK where is the power who's controlling all this who's manipulating this media judicial and State Global state power play who's in charge who's interests are being served sometimes I think it's helpful just little facts like they were in that spiked article for example telling you that police expenditure had gone up significantly under macron that's one of the ways of recognizing that you're in an authoritarian regime is the amount of expenditure on policing the population another way is looking at which institutions groups or corporations benefit or profit have the military for example and I mean military industrial complex there rather than military personnel benefited under the Biden Administration what groups are benefiting if you look at you know what they call it quono is that what it is qu Bono yeah quid pro quid Bono qu Bono who benefits is what I'm basically trying to say and I'm trying to use Latin even though I was never taught it the simple fact is if you look at who's benefiting you'll understand where the power actually is a lot of you will say look at who you're not allowed to criticize won't you look at who you're not allowed to criticize that also is an indicator of where power really lays and my prayer is that a response to the increasing power of globalism no matter what inflection it Bears whether it's traditional conservative and free market or apparently new emergent neoliberalist models we the actual people are somehow able to regain purchase of the levers of control regain did we ever really have them did we have them under surf them did we have them in the Industrial Age and will we have them because one thing I agree with Tony Blair on is we're entering into a new phase defined by technological power which if it falls into the wrong hands and currently there's nothing to suggest that it won't fall into the wrong hands will be used for extreme citizen management I imagine in conjunction with the omn crisis or Perpetual crisis or ongoing crisis each crisis used to legitimize further authoritarian measures to ultimately incrementally we're ushered into states where our individual freedom is just at the periphery of our memory we no longer recall think of how things were just before covid think about how things were before 9/11 if you look at B footage of like France in the 19 is I'm not talking about demographics and racial mixes here I'm talking about the sense of a country and a culture I'm talking about the sense of connection that you have prior to the Miracles and advances that technology pledges and promises but is unable to deliver because these are ultimately tools they are therefore utility they do not provide ideology corporations and the state do not provide ideology principle or purpose that has to come from us but that's just what I think why don't you let me know what you think in the comments and the chat thank you so for Jo glor will back hey thanks for watching if you want to see more uncensored content where Free Speech can flourish join our live stream click the link right here to watch the next video if you want to or become a member of a growing 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