Posted on 01/09/2024 7:45:51 PM PST by george76
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe sounds off on the Biden administration's handling of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's hospitalization during a time of war ..
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It will be interesting if we ever see Austin again - and what he looks like if/when he does appear in public
Could go either way, based upon what I’ve seen with several friends who have gone through this kind of surgery. Regardless, the fact remains that such a complete and utter disconnect between the President and one of his most important Secretaries existed cannot be excused. This is shocking, at least to anyone over 50 who remembers what the Real World was like...
Thats the problem. We have two generations of people who have no idea what normal government looks like, no idea what Austin did wrong or why they should care.
It will be interesting if we ever see Austin again - and what he looks like if/when he does appear in public
However, the fact that he called prostate surgery ‘elective’ and didn’t bother to inform his boss, or apparently his staff that he would be ‘out of the office’ for a while is, to my mind inexcusable.
We are not in a time of war. We are not in a war. We have retreated. I don’t care for Austin but whatever about him has nothing to do with any war. Hiding his health status and not informing the resident or ongress is a problem but that is just because of military readiness. And it’s disrespectful.
Austin thought he could just quiet quit his job because nobody cared what he was doing. There’s no daily briefings or command decisions being made from the whitehouse. The lights are on, nobody’s home. Secretary of Defense? Huh? Havent seen him in 12 months anyway, who cares. Send him a get well card.
Trump Leading Biden by Twelve Points in Michigan,
After Biden “defended democracy” at Valley Forge
Gateway Pundit ^ | Jan. 9, 2024 | By Cassandra MacDonald
Posted on 1/9/2024, 10:39:32 PM by Kazan
Former President Donald Trump now leads Joe Biden by twelve points in Michigan. The Democrat took the battleground state in 2020 by a very narrow margin. The Detroit News and WDIV-TV released the new statewide poll on Tuesday. When given a list of Trump, Biden, and third-party candidates, Trump led Biden by 12 points.
“Trump’s lead over Biden widened to as much as 12 points when voters surveyed were given a list of third party candidates. Biden, the current president, and Trump, the former president, are widely expected to emerge this year as their parties’ nominees.”
In a hypothetical head-to-head match-up between just the current president and the former, 39 percent of likely general election voters said they prefer Biden, while 47 percent support Trump. The pollsters report, “47% of likely voters said they preferred the Republican, while 39% selected Biden, an 8-point advantage for Trump, according to the survey with a margin of error of plus or minus 4 points. In addition, 3% said they would vote for another candidate, and 11% said they were undecided.”
“If I were a Democrat in Michigan, I would be breaking the emergency fire alarms in the White House and demanding to know what the plan is for Michigan,” Richard Czuba, founder of Lansing-based Glengariff Group, which conducted the poll, told The Detroit News. “Because these numbers are very bad for any party incumbent.”
When asked if they believe Biden had performed well enough to deserve to be reelected, only 17 percent said he deserves another shot — 77 percent said that they were ready for a new leader. Asked the same question about Trump, 33 percent of the poll’s respondents said Trump deserves a second term, while 62 percent said they would prefer someone else.
The Detroit News reports: Three years into his first term, the survey found 29% of participants had a favorable impression of Biden but 58% had an unfavorable impression. The numbers demonstrated a significant drop in support for the Democrat, a former two-term vice president and longtime U.S. senator from Delaware. In September 2020, ahead of the November 2020 election, a similar poll of likely Michigan voters found 43% had a favorable impression of Biden.
Likewise, 50% of participants in the new survey said they “strongly” disapproved of the job Biden is doing as president. Another 11% said they somewhat disapprove for a total disapproval percentage of 61%. Only 35% said they approve of Biden’s performance, and 4% didn’t offer an answer.
“He is who he is. And that’s who he’s going to be. I can expect Trump to be Trump,” Bennario Chapman, a 29-year-old self-described independent from Muskegon who participated in the poll, told the pollsters. “And I can “go for somebody who stands in their own truth. Biden is not that.”
Austin may be suffering more from shell shock than prostate cancer.
Once you understand that Joe Biden IS NOT in the position of President of the United States it all makes sense. Every time you see him in public you witness it on full display. At every stop you see him with the “What do I do?” movement. Every time! When he called Xi a dictator you saw with your own eyes Anthony Blinken wince in utter pain. No one needs to tell Joe Biden about any cabinet member because they all know that he is not the acting President! He is the PERFECT blackmailed person to hold the office. Everything you see about him and Jill reveals his blackmailed status. Do everything we tell you to do and it all goes well - deviate from the plan and Kamala becomes pResident!
Didn’t Dems change the law that said a military general could not be the Defense Secretary just for Austin?
Austin’s been MIA since the day he became Defense Secretary. The entire DOD has been totally toothless since then. What’s a couple of days spaced out in ICU compared with that?
BTW, why is anyone taking Deep State’s word for the SecDef being in for prostate surgery...?
Just curious.
I want to see Secy of Defense Lloyd Austin’s travel schedule for December 2023. The story that he had elective cancer surgery and did not tell Pres. Biden or Congress sounds awfully fishy.
We have not seen Secy of Defense Austin in the hospital or in a morgue. Is he dead or alive? Tell us the real story, no more tall tales.
AUSTIN LLOYD WENT TO UKRAINE AND WAS WOUNDED.
NATO and the West have an OFFICIAL POSITION that no Western or NATO officers are in Ukraine.
Reports are close hold in Russia.
well, Covid is still around, so I imagine he will mask up and also wear that ridiculous face shield outside.
Any blackmail threats probably only get communicated to Dr. Jill. And Bronco Bama's the one who communicates with her. I doubt Joe even knows where he is at any given moment.
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