Biden’s latest attempt to convince everyone he has what it takes to stay in the race will air at 6:30 PM Eastern / 3:30 PM Pacific.

More on where and how to watch here:

https://apnews.com/article/how-to-watch-biden-press-conference-a70590e7574fc9680229b6b6289f6a02

My expectation is that it will be on all the usual sources. CNN, MSNBC, etc. etc. with in depth coverage on the talking head shows later tonight.

Edit Conference is running 20+ 50+ minutes late after already being pushed back 1 hour from 5:30 to 6:30.

Not sure if that’s good news or bad news.

Here we go! 58 minutes late, but he’s on a roll talking about NATO.

Oh, snap! Reminding everyone that Article 5 has only been used once… 9/11.

Speech ran less than 10 minutes, but was a strong speech, now the questions.

Fumbles on the first answer, calling out “Vice President Trump”. :(

Ended after almost an hour with one final question on “Vice President Trump” - Biden’s answer “Listen to him.” End conference.

Overall, I’m pretty happy with how it went!

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      2 years ago

      Like three times, and then said he’d beat Trump a second later…

      I don’t think he realized.

        • Doubletwist@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          (And for the record, it’s sad that voters are holding Biden to a much higher standard than Trump. But here we are.)

          Except that’s been the whole point of this exercise from day one!

          The voters on the right have proven that they have NO standards that a candidate needs to live up to, while the voters on the left are the ones who are screaming “we need to have high standards for the people who are going to run the country”

          Until recently, while the left would have preferred an even better candidate, Biden at least just barely fell above the seemingly minimum bar, especially when compared against Trump. But now Biden seems to have fallen right to the cusp of where the voters who still have standards are wondering if he’s fallen below them, and if there’s might be a better option, both from the standpoint of meeting their standards, and the standpoint of actually being able to win against Trump, who MUST lose for our nation to avoid disaster.

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          43·
          2 years ago

          Dude.

          It’s sad that this is the standard we’re holding Biden too…

          You know what a momma cat does when it can’t feed all the kittens? It carries the runt off and abandons it

          The Republican party is the runt, we can’t save both and the Dem party has the best chance of surviving.

          Why waste valuable time and effort calling on trump to step down? He’s literally never going to do it and there’s zero chance republicans go against him

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          (And for the record, it’s sad that voters are holding Biden to a much higher standard than Trump. But here we are.)

          Trump already fails even lower standards. In fact, I can’t think of any serious standard that Trump doesn’t fail.

          “don’t be a jackass” Fail.

          “don’t be a fascist.” double fail.

          “Be human.” Tripple fail.

          “don’t be a rapist”. fail-tacular.

          “Don’t be a child rapist”… Failing-spree.

          In any case, I think a lot of people are afraid of trump winning- and with very good cause, so Biden has a lot of scrutiny. “I beat him before” doesn’t really hold water. he squeaked that under the wire in four states, any 3 of which flipping would have given it to trump. (PA, AZ, GA, CO,) and plenty of others were pretty damn close, too. Trump has had 4 years to improve his image and energize his base. Biden is less popular than he was in 2020. Anyone whose not worried is gonna have a rude awakening, I think.

  • Suavevillain@lemmy.world
    151·
    2 years ago

    This is the guy that stands between whatever this status quo is and the Trump brand of fascists. We’re cooked.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldOPM
    14·
    2 years ago

    I really want to see Biden as the last man standing… let the conference run 3 hours.

    “C’mon, man! Ask me your questions! Ohhhh are you all getting ‘too tired’? Do you need to go home for naps?”

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      2 years ago

      As someone who is in the camp of calling for Biden to step down, if he would’ve just done this during the debate, we wouldn’t have ever had a problem. Sure, he stumbled and mixed names up… Whatever. George W Bush did far worse, let alone Trump. But that debate performance? That looked closer to outright dementia, I’m sorry. And now in the back of everyone’s minds is when is the inevitable next time he does this? For he certainly isn’t getting any younger, and that sure as shit wasn’t a cold. Meanwhile the apathetic battleground swing-voters who will decide this election and hate both candidates just got the confirmation they needed to say, “both sides / they’re all the same.”

        • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          2 years ago

          Oh please… I don’t have to be a fucking doctor to have that perception while also having gone through several of these cases with grandparents and Great-grandparents alike. Like… Are ya blind? Show me Obama doing something like that on the debate stage. Hell even show me 2012 Biden doing that.

          What a weak cop-out…

            • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              Okay sure I’ll cede that. For your part can you go back and read that I wrote, “closer to dementia-like”? Old age, dementia… Whether it truly was dementia or not skirts bottom-line that there is no good excuse for that. The problem is Trump is old but was far more coherent (and simply his usual pathologically-lying self).

              • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 years ago

                That looked closer to outright dementia, I’m sorry.

                ≠

                that I wrote, “closer to dementia-like”?

                • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  2 years ago

                  I edited incorrectly. Regardless, changes absolutely nothing substantively. “looked closer to” versus “dementia-like”. Both imply the same notion.

    • return2ozma@lemmy.world
      33·
      2 years ago

      It’s already trending on Twitter. The constant throat clearing is a little much. He talks too low also.

      • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        2 years ago

        A board-certified neurologist stated on NBC the other night that “it is a fact that he has Parkinson’s” based on a variety of his behaviors, the slow and low-toned voice being one indicator of many.

  • pjwestin@lemmy.world
    121·
    2 years ago

    Well, that started very bad, got a bit better in the middle, and then fell apart at the end. What I’m worried about is that he did just well enough to convince himself not to drop out. I doubt anyone feels much better after that though.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    He did alright. Alright isn’t enough. He needed a homerun to unfuck this, and he hit a single. I think from here on out, Biden is a detriment to the party ticket. If he stays in, our fight becomes much harder.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 years ago

      He did alright. Alright isn’t enough. He needed a homerun to unfuck this, and he hit a single. I think from here on out, Biden is a detriment to the party ticket. If he stays in, our fight becomes much harder.

      I would have agreed with that analogy up until that last question. He seems to have this thing about not knowing when to quit…

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 years ago

    The problem is what is the criteria of success? Not even a good cogent group of answers will be enough for some people.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    124·
    2 years ago

    Throwing out some options:

    If he says “jack” you gotta take a shot of whiskey.

    If he says “bud” or “bub” you gotta do a hot knife or bong rip.

    If he says “malarkey”, you need to crack a beer and start drinking; you can’t stop till he says “listen here”.

    If he pauses for longer than 5 seconds, you have to hold your breath; you can’t breath again until he finishes a complete sentence.

    If he yells at a reporter, throw your shoe at the screen.

    If he has to get pulled off stage, throw your screen (device, whatever), out of the nearest window.

    If he complains or whines, pour a glass of wine and start drinking. Don’t stop until he says “C’mon”.

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    91·
    2 years ago

    If only his speech were one-tenth as good as his deeds.

    His inability to communicate obscures his accomplishments.

    • xenoclast@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      Misread what you posted at first … But yeah agree.

      He used to be the catty bitch. Now he’s a tired granny.

      Still vote for his saggy shriveled left nuts before Trump though.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    91·
    2 years ago

    Well that was fun. Every body stand up and stay standing for at least 5 minutes.

    Walk around the house, go to the yard, whatever; get your heart pumping blood.

    It will be time to return to our regular doom posting shortly, but in the mean time, look out for yourselves kings and queens: Its your health that matters.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    91·
    2 years ago

    This is like, actually the worst answer he’s given in the conference. Like, dude, you are polling in the 30s. Don’t bring up the polling if you are trying to make your case. Whatever you do pretend the polling doesn’t exist.

    Biden: No ones saying that.

    Bruh. Everyones saying that. Fuck he fumbled ENTIRELY on the final question. That went from minor win/ good to… fucking disaster in that last minute.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
        41·
        2 years ago

        Yeah I had it as a slight win even with the first couple major gaffes.

        It doesn’t matter that he had several good, if spoken slowly, cogent answers on Ukraine, Europe, defensive production and budget, etc…

        That last question: “Talk to him” and “The campaign hasn’t started”.

        Bruh.

        BRUH

        That puts more weight on the first few gaffes. Like jesus christ dude just take the fucking W and walk off the god damned stage.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    103·
    2 years ago

    So there’s a premade list of who gets to ask a question?

    Also. Joe’s all jacked up on mountain dew and just fucking said trump is his vice president…