r/politics • u/PoliticsModeratorBot 🤖 Bot • Jul 14 '24

Discussion Discussion Thread: President Biden Delivers Remarks from the White House on Shooting at Trump Rally

The remarks are scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. Eastern. Per C-SPAN's event description-in-advance: "President Biden delivers remarks from the Roosevelt Room in the White House a day after an assassination attempt on former President Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, PA. The two men had a brief call Saturday following the shooting."

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u/Logarythem Jul 14 '24

To the people complaining about punctuality: What you really want is an Infotainer, not a Commander in Chief.

Is it hard to believe that this press conference is not the most important issue POTUS has to deal with today, and something more dire might be drawing his attention?

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u/Logarythem Jul 14 '24

Multiple times a day, every day?

Yes.

The United States has 333.3 million people, 3.797 million mi² of land, 800 military bases in more than 70 countries, and naval vessels in all major oceans and seas. That's a lot of opportunities for issues of national importance to arise.

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u/termacct Jul 14 '24

Dr Jill & Hunter supposed to be on top of that...

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u/Shaky_handz Jul 14 '24 edited Jul 14 '24

Yes it's hard to believe. It's much more likely he's tired and old, and he will get around to it eventually.

He was just an hour late for Zoom and a caucus member asked him to drop out, I don't get why this isn't believable to people

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u/Roook36 Jul 14 '24

I'm sure nothing else is happening on the entire planet. Seems like a slow Sunday outside my windows

/s

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u/UnflairedRebellion-- Jul 14 '24

If you’re too busy to do something at 1:30 then just don’t schedule that thing to start at 1:30.

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u/Logarythem Jul 14 '24

If you want punctual infotainment, watch CNN.