Joe Biden confuses Gaza with Ukraine in airdrop announcement
www.theguardian.com
President says US will ‘insist’ Israel does more to facilitate help, saying ‘children’s lives are on the line’
  • CraigeryTheKid@lemm.eeEnglish
    943·
    9 months ago

    I was talking to my wife, and three times in a row I called the shower a “closet” and it just kept happening, while I got mad and she laughed at me.

    Does saying the wrong word make me incompetent?

    But anyway biden is still too old and it’s embarrassing that he’s our “pick”, I agree.

    • gingernate@lemmy.world
      211·
      9 months ago

      I think I agree with you. But he’s speaking to the entire world, not to his wife about the shower… Gotta keep your words straight!

    • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
      131·
      9 months ago

      This. Saying the wrong word in the moment is not a great look, but it certainly doesn’t imply an actual cognitive issue

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        31·
        9 months ago

        It’s especially annoying that his way of speaking is critiqued so hard by the right considering he’s worked to overcome a stutter. There are very valid criticisms to make of the man, but somehow it’s more convencing to talk about banal things like how someone speaks, which has zero effect on how good they are as a president.

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      9 months ago

      Perhaps if you stopped hanging your clothes in the shower you wouldn’t keep confusing the 2. Also, your pants are on backwards.

    • spider@lemmy.nz
      404·
      9 months ago

      …who would likely be winding up his second term* were it not for DNC f**kery.

      *at roughly the same age as Biden starting his

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      12·
      9 months ago

      I still think he should retire as well, but yeah, both Trump and Biden have senior moments, don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like that with Sanders.

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      143·
      9 months ago

      Every time people try to blame shitty politics on “old people” i think of Bernie and smh. Greed and corruption is the problem, folks. A new generation of people like Gaetz and Boebert aren’t going to magically save you.

      Bernie is one of the few successful politicians of lifetimes that focused on the true source of rot in our political system. We’ve lost decades of progress by missing the opportunity to make that man our President.

    • ferralcat@monyet.cc
      411·
      9 months ago

      He’s 83 too and there’s plenty of fox news articles out there about times he’s confused bush and trump or ebola and COVID.

      • Nobody@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        I haven’t seen those articles or clips of Bernie having senior moments like Trump and Biden. Mind to link them?

  • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
    149·
    9 months ago

    Speaking in the White House on Friday, the US president said: “In the coming days, we are going to join with our friends in Jordan and others who are providing airdrops of additional food and supplies in Ukraine [sic].”

    Biden said the US would “seek to continue to open up other avenues in Ukraine [sic], including the possibility a marine corridor to deliver large amounts of humanitarian assistance. In addition to expanding deliveries by land, we are going to insist Israel facilitate more trucks and more routes to get more and more people the help they need.”

    The United Arab Emirates, Egypt, France, Jordan and the UK have already carried out airdrops.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
    52·
    9 months ago

    Serious question: what’s the procedure if he wins it, then decides to step down to ‘take care of my health’ after, say, a year into his second term? Does Kamala sit out the remainder of the term, or is a fresh election held, and how does it affect the cycle?

    • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldΕλληνικά
      1·
      9 months ago

      It can literally happen a day after he wins the election. If the VP is president for more than two years (IIRC), then it counts as a term for them.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Joe Biden twice confused Gaza with Ukraine as he was announcing that the US would provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians.

    The US president, 81, confirmed on Friday that humanitarian assistance would be airdropped into Gaza and said the US would “insist” Israel did more to facilitate help for those affected by famine and the effects of war, saying: “Children’s lives are on the line”.

    Biden twice mistakenly referred to airdrops to help “Ukraine”, leaving White House officials to clarify he was in fact talking about Gaza.

    Biden’s announcement comes a day after the Hamas-run health ministry said 30,000 Palestinians had died since the war began last October.

    Speaking in the White House on Friday, the US president said: “In the coming days, we are going to join with our friends in Jordan and others who are providing airdrops of additional food and supplies in Ukraine [sic].”

    Biden said the US would “seek to continue to open up other avenues in Ukraine [sic], including the possibility a marine corridor to deliver large amounts of humanitarian assistance.

    The original article contains 332 words, the summary contains 176 words. Saved 47%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • ReallyKinda@kbin.social
    1·
    9 months ago

    I’m no fan but mixing up (proper nouns for) two things you’ve been super focused on seems kinda reasonable to me. after covid lockdowns I kept calling people my partner’s name by accident for awhile. Surely he’s sleep deprived too.

  • Zeke@kbin.social
    1·
    9 months ago

    Biden doesn’t even want to be president. He’s only doing it because Republicans are threatening democracy. Plus, no one knows how much shit the president has to deal with. I’m in my 30s and I mix shit up all the time and I don’t have to deal with the shit that he does.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3534·
    9 months ago

    Downvoting this stuff doesn’t make Biden more competent.

    There’s still time for him to step aside for damn near anyone else so trump doesn’t win.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      582·
      9 months ago

      There really isn’t time. Nobody, not Harris, not anyone will be able to raise the money and coordinate a national campaign between now and the election. The time for him to step aside was like two years ago. Harris needed time to establish her own identity as president to take on Trump. If he withrew from the race, he would have to step down as President because he’d be basically admitting he’s too feeble. Harris trying to run as VP would have all the negatives of Biden and none of his strengths. And that’s assuming ten more candidates don’t step up to try to take the nomination from her.

      I agree with you that I wish we had a better Democrat because we really cannot afford another Trump term, but Biden is it. Unless he dies, he’s the nominee. I hope he finds the strength to win it.

        • Telorand@reddthat.com
          6·
          9 months ago

          It’s not just money. It’s getting the name recognition out there, and most people simply don’t pay any attention to the VP. Biden might as well pick a total stranger.

          Plus, it’s about charisma. In general, people have to like the candidate before they’ll vote for them, and Kamala is less charismatic than Biden.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      294·
      9 months ago

      The second sentence is why you’re getting downvoted.

      Under the constraints of the system we’re forced to use to elect our politicians… there’s actually not. And yeah, I hate it too. But if it’s Biden or overt fascism, I pick Biden.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1022·
        9 months ago

        We don’t have other options because Biden and the DNC didn’t want a primary.

        The general still hasn’t started yet, it’s still not too late.

        • ctkatz@lemmy.ml
          192·
          9 months ago

          that’s because when political parties primary presidential incumbents, that party loses the white house. you want to put trump and his christian nationalist wet dream project 2025 in power?

          besides there’s the other fact that no other democrat was inclined to run for president, nor are any of them able to now. signature requirements to run in the super tuesday states were due last thursday iirc. so the only way biden will not be the candidate is if he has to step away from the presidency between now and the convention.

          biden is the candidate. if you have a problem with that you should have done something about that in 2016.

    • jonne@infosec.pub
      59·
      9 months ago

      Especially since Biden has been polling below ‘generic Democrat’ in pretty much every poll.

      • Jordan117@lemmy.worldEnglish
        111·
        9 months ago

        A generic candidate will always poll higher because they have no specific flaws and every type of voter can project their own ideal platform onto them.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        125·
        9 months ago

        For either party, they could run an empty suit and easily win this election. Anyone else could beat trump, and anyone else could beat Biden. It’s like we’re running the literal lowest common denominators.

        And the only rational anyone can give for “why” is that it’s too late, which is so obviously not true but they just keep repeating it and eventually it will be

    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
      1024·
      9 months ago

      They want everyone to pretend it’s not happening and that everything is fine. That’s how you lose the general