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Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« on: August 25, 2024, 03:23:50 pm »
These are tweets from NY Post writer Miranda Devine:

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After a week vacationing at a billionaire’s estate in Santa Barbara, President Biden is heading to his Rehoboth beach house from Sunday to Tuesday, according to the FAA No Fly Zone alert.
11:39 AM · Aug 23, 2024

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America, this is a constitutional crisis. There is no Commander in Chief.
After goofing off in Santa Barbara all week, POTUS is taking another vacation at his beach house from Sunday for NINE days - I thought it was just until this Tuesday but it’s the following week.
If he is incapable of doing the job, his VP needs to step up.
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2024, 03:26:40 pm »
Yes, he was vacationing in Santa Barbara, too.
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Biden lies low during vacation at Democratic donor Joe Kiani's estate near Santa Barbara
Story by Laura J. Nelson, Queenie Wong
Aug. 23, 2024

Hours after delivering a swan-song speech to a roaring crowd at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, President Biden was relaxing on a serene, sunny vineyard thousands of miles away in California.

Biden, the first lady and several of their children and grandchildren are spending the week at an 8,000-acre spread owned by major Democratic donor Joe Kiani. The president is scheduled to depart for Delaware on Sunday.  ...

The relationship has riled up Republicans, who have raised ethical concerns about Biden vacationing at the homes of Democratic mega donors.

Elected officials, including the president, are generally required to disclose gifts as part of the ethics laws passed in the wake of the Watergate scandal. But officials are not required to disclose “any food, lodging, or entertainment received as personal hospitality.” ...
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2024, 03:28:03 pm »
'Access granted': Biden's free vacation at friend's California mansion draws ire of critics
Story by Alec Schemmel
Aug. 23, 2024
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President Biden wants to establish an enforceable ethics code for Supreme Court justices, but the lame-duck president has been criticized over his own apparent conflicts of interest, including his relationship with friend and billionaire donor Joe Kiani.

Following his address at the Democratic National Convention Monday, Biden and his family flew to Santa Ynez, California, to vacation at Kiani's ranch-style estate. The first family is reportedly staying there for free, said White House officials who described Kiani as a "friend," according to the New York Post.

Kiani has given Biden's super PAC, foundation and inaugural committee nearly $3 million, according to House Republicans who have taken issue with the relationship. Meanwhile, in September 2021, Kiani won an appointment from Biden to sit on his Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, which advises the executive branch on policy matters involving Kiani’s medical tech business, Masimo. Since Biden took office in January 2021, Masimo has received nearly $3 million in federal contracts, according to Republicans.

In addition to his appointment, Kiani received tickets from Biden in 2022 to attend a state dinner with French President Emmanuel Macron, the Post reported. The outlet said it granted the billionaire CEO access to trans-Atlantic business officials and other global elites. ...
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2024, 03:30:29 pm »
He wasn't really in charge anyways.. :shrug:
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2024, 03:36:28 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on August 25, 2024, 03:30:29 pm
He wasn't really in charge anyways.. :shrug:
No, that's quite evident. But our servicemen and women might have a passing interest in who the heck is their commander in chief, because it clearly isn't the vacationing Poopypants.
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2024, 03:38:34 pm »
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No, that's quite evidence. But our servicemen and women might have a passing interest in who the heck is their commander in chief, because it clearly isn't the vacationing Poopypants.

I would like to know who is making these military decisions.
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2024, 12:46:28 pm »
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I would like to know who is making these military decisions.

Milley and Austin?  We in trouble....
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2024, 04:55:22 pm »
Quote from: mystery-ak on August 25, 2024, 03:30:29 pm
He wasn't really in charge anyways.. :shrug:


Nope. I just hope and pray nothing truly horrible happens between now and January that would force them to prop him up and try to look strong. Or worse yet, have Kammie come to the rescue. **nononono*
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2024, 06:36:27 pm »
President BeachBum has bikini bunnies to scope out.
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #9 on: August 27, 2024, 08:56:58 am »
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As Joe Biden disembarked Air Force One in the early hours of Tuesday morning in California last week, he was visibly shaking.

It was approaching 5.30am East Coast time and the president had been awake almost 24 hours.

Walking slowly down the plane's stairs, he struggled to step up into the SUV waiting to take him to the 8,000-acre Santa Barbara ranch where he and his family have just enjoyed a week-long vacation. One of his Secret Service agents moved to shield him from the watching cameras, before giving him a helpful boost into the car. On the tarmac, First Lady Jill Biden watched, visibly concerned. For her husband — who dropped out of the election race almost a month ago to the date — had just ended his exhausting journey from Democratic nominee to lame-duck president. ...
Daily Mail, Michelle Obama's secret feud with Biden... what Nancy Pelosi thinks of Kamala Harris... and why the president was left physically shaking: EMILY GOODIN's dispatch reveals what REALLY went down at the DNC.
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2024, 09:13:09 am »
Reporter James Rosen asks John Kirby who is running the country:

https://twitter.com/JamesRosenTV/status/1828410967706791971
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #11 on: August 27, 2024, 09:20:11 am »
None dare call it a coup.
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2024, 09:22:33 am »
Looks like ol' Joe has decided to "slow quit" his job.
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2024, 09:23:50 am »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 26, 2024, 12:46:28 pm
Milley and Austin?  We in trouble....

Milley's retired now.  It's Jake Sullivan, Lloyd Austin, and Anthony Blinken who're running the military now, or trying to, or something.
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2024, 09:27:29 am »
Biden is in charge of country on second straight vacation, White House insists
John Kirby denies Biden 'a ceremonial figure in some sense at this point'
By Danielle Wallace Fox News
Published August 27, 2024 7:30am EDT

The White House insisted again Monday that President Biden remains in charge of the country despite being on a second straight week of vacation.

During a teleconference Monday, White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby recognized the three-year-anniversary of the Aug. 26, 2021, Abbey Gate suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members and more than 100 Afghans outside Kabul Airport.

Biden, who is at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, for the week, notably remained out of public view on the anniversary of the deadly terrorist attack. Last week, Biden was vacationing in California, including when the Israeli military said they launched a preemptive strike destroying thousands of Hezbollah rocket launchers in Lebanon, essentially deterring a major attack by the terrorist group intended for central Israel. 

A journalist noted Biden's public absence in a question to Kirby on Monday.

"The President’s public comportment and the paucity of events on his public schedule, as on this very day, have fostered a public perception that Mr. Biden is increasingly disengaged from the presidency," Newsmax's James Rosen said on the teleconference. "Time and again, the question I am hearing from members of the general public, and which I put to you here, Admiral, is: Who is running the country?"

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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2024, 09:36:20 am »
The same people are in charge today who were in charge before Biden was coup d'etat'd... and they are the same ones who will be in charge if Kamala succeeds Biden.
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #16 on: August 29, 2024, 05:43:58 pm »
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What we’ve learned from Biden’s tenure is that apparently it’s an option to just not have a president. We’d always imagined that the presidency is a rather essential job. I guess not. We can go 4 years without one. Maybe that should be an option on the ballot in future elections.
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #17 on: August 29, 2024, 05:47:54 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 26, 2024, 12:46:28 pm
Milley and Austin?  We in trouble....
It may be worse than that, as it might not even be a military person or maybe even a foreign government.
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« Reply #18 on: August 29, 2024, 05:54:53 pm »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on August 29, 2024, 05:47:54 pm
It may be worse than that, as it might not even be a military person or maybe even a foreign government.

Could be anybody from this bunch.
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #19 on: August 29, 2024, 06:28:06 pm »
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on August 29, 2024, 05:54:53 pm
Could be anybody from this bunch.
Whoever it is, it is unacceptable
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #20 on: August 29, 2024, 07:37:31 pm »
Quote from: IsailedawayfromFR on August 29, 2024, 06:28:06 pm
Whoever it is, it is unacceptable

Anybody other than President Puddinhead is unacceptable.
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #21 on: August 31, 2024, 05:56:30 pm »
No evidence Obama is in charge. None, I tell you!

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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #22 on: August 31, 2024, 06:09:02 pm »
The Bidens close out August with sixteen consecutive days away from the White House.
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« Reply #23 on: August 31, 2024, 06:20:23 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on August 31, 2024, 06:09:02 pm
The Bidens close out August with sixteen consecutive days away from the White House.

..and counting.
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Re: Biden on vacation for foreseeable future (who is the president?)
« Reply #24 on: August 31, 2024, 09:24:37 pm »
He'll leave Delaware for a couple of quick campaign  trips, but will be back on the beach in no time.
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