Putin challenges Biden to a pushup contest
No, not really.
But pushup contests are apparently one of Biden’s favorite things. Remember this from a little over a year ago?:
And then there was this:
So, here’s a tale Biden told recently in an interview with George Stephanopoulos in which he also called Putin a “killer.” He’s boasting about something he alleges he said to Putin in 2011:
Biden tells Stephanopoulos he once told Putin "I said, I looked in your eyes and I don't think you have a soul. He looked back at me and said, 'we understand each other.'"
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) March 17, 2021
Just reflect on that. Not only is macho man Biden telling Putin that the latter has no soul, but Putin is agreeing? The story is quite simply bizarre. It seems to be Biden’s way of inverting this:
After Biden made his remarks, Putin seems to have gazed back into Biden’s soul, and he issued a challenge for Biden:
[Putin] spoke about Biden agreeing that he was a “killer” in the interview, Putin’s response was Biden was projecting, “He who calls names, is called that himself.”
But Putin then showed he’s pretty aware of Biden’s cognitive issues and responded to the gauntlet that Biden threw down, challenging him to an open and live debate…on one condition, that it be live, online, without any lags, in direct discussion, saying it could be interesting for Russians, Americans, and other people. That of course is his way of saying, yes, I know your issues.
I think the entire world is aware of Biden’s issues.
I’ve got to think that the word has been out to all foreign leaders to take with a grain of salt anything this ‘President’ says and just know that Susan Rice and ultimately Obama are really in charge.
Mandelbaum, Mandelbaum… I mean Biden, Biden, Biden… You think you’re better than me? It’s go time!
It must be a family complex.
Lefty Democrats like John Kerry and Joe Biden say and do this kind of thing all the time, thinking they are so clever and smarter than the crude rubes around the world. Anybody grounded in the slightest bit of reality instantly sees how weak, out of touch, and easily dismissed they are. It’s an astounding projection of weakness, you sense that Putin is almost embarrassed to need to respond. God help America, the world is watching and planning to press to their advantages while our leadership is so vile and degraded.
And leftists claimed to be really worried by how Trump dealt with foreign leaders.
I wonder if Putin’s counter in that old quote wasn’t in fact meant to say more than the Marionette realized. Maybe Putin was essentially saying “Likewise, buddy,” only in a form intentionally made too subtle for a person like The Man from Scranton to comprehend.
The showboating in which the Marionette is now indulging is all the more unseemly considering his own personal frailty at this point. If Trump had bragged about physically challenging Putin or anyone else, aside from any character-related evaluation on the part of the listener, it could come off as relatively plausible merely because Trump is simply built better physically than this other fellow is. I haven’t seen recent videos of Putin to judge his physical state of today, but I imagine that time in the dojo over the years has kept him in reasonable shape even as long as he’s been in office; he doesn’t quite seem like the type to let himself go. And of course Putin has cultivated his tough-guy image for many years in other ways.
It’s like we all forgot when Trump was risking nuclear war by calling Kim Jong Il “fat” and “rocket man”.
Incidentally the Chinese nickname for Kim Jong Il is “Three Fat”.
Has Dr Bandy Lee chimed in on Biden’s mental fitness? She was so gosh darn concerned about Trump so I imagine she is very worried about Biden.
Poor Joe. He can’t keep his Scranton, PA, macho-man foot out of his mouth. He thinks he’s being tough, but forgets that he’s now on the big stage and men like Putin are willing and able to play him. It’s very sad and dangerous for our country.
So Biden must be about to condemn Xi for the persecution of the Uighurs. Not holding my breath though.
Honestly, he should challenge Biden to a game of Tic Tac Toe. He would pretty much guaranteed to win.
I think it will come out in the next few days probably, that Biden is repeating an exchange he read about someone else having with Putin on the topic of the foundations of Putin’s morality.
It was one in which the critic/interviewer was characterizing the implications of Putin’s moral sensibilities in the form of an alarming hypothetical involving the meaning of the absence of a soul as a species attribute, and Putin in response, used that line as a retort.
Let’s see if my memory turns put to be conformed or accurate.
Personally, I’m mostly agog at “Philip Melanchthon Wegmann.” Holy cow! I’ve heard some pretty on-the-nose Lutheran names, but this one takes the cake.
First it was North Korea. Then it was Russia. Now China.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/18/politics/blinken-sullivan-china-alaska-meetings/index.html
You can’t fool all the people all the time and the rest of the world, particularly its bad actors, are not fooled about Biden’s fitness and what the lack of it means to American resolve and capacity to act.
Mike
I find it inconceivable that Joe Biden has talked tough to anybody but someone
he saw as a subordinate in his adult life.
Remember Hillary’s 2 a.m. phone call?
Look Fat !
https://kunstler.com/writings/clusterfuck-nation/
I’d like to see the two in a Roman cage match. Winner walks out of the cage, the loser gets to fight a very hungry lion. Biden is taller and runs his mouth, so it’s a fair fight.
}}} I think the entire world is aware of Biden’s issues.
Honestly — I seriously doubt if 75% of liberals/Democrats have a clue.
}}} are not fooled about Biden’s fitness and what the lack of it means to American resolve and capacity to act.
America’s resolve and capacity to act has far more to do with the (D)s in power than it does to any one particular individual’s overall physical or mental fitness. We aren’t a nation run by a strongman, we are a nation run by a political party with specific approaches to solving problems.
“America is eeeeeeevil” in not conducive to resolve or capacity to act.
And that’s the operating principle of almost all of those using the (D) these days.
I cite again : Postmodern Liberalism is a social cancer. Literal, not figurative.
Putin is going to have fun with this …
https://nypost.com/2021/03/19/biden-falls-as-he-climbs-up-stairs-to-air-force-one/
Dwaz:
Ah, but Biden has considered everyone a subordinate for a long time.
Note on the first video what he says to the guy, quite gracelessly: “I’ve been around for a long time and I know more than most people.”
This is the guy who, when wooing his first wife, told her parents that one of his qualifications was that he was going to be president. He was about 23 at the time and his main accomplishment up to that point was being good at sports, being class president, and being a poor student.
Forget Putin.
Michelle Malkin can take him.
WH is now saying the “wind” blew Joe over… LOL
Joe needs one of those devices around his neck. I’ve fallin and I can’t getup!
Wind blew me over once … in a hurricane!
Never read Meaning in History before. Seems good
https://meaninginhistory.blogspot.com/2021/03/increasingly-hard-to-hide-zhou-baiden.html
“a power vacuum in the US–or chaos in the regime–won’t be a laughing matter indefinitely.”