This was an historic speech. It will be a lasting marker of Biden’s presidency. While Joe’s delivery can be bumpy the written words and what he is saying is extremely powerful! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u... - ThreadSky

johnwdean.bsky.social • 38 days ago

This was an historic speech. It will be a lasting marker of Biden’s presidency. While Joe’s delivery can be bumpy the written words and what he is saying is extremely powerful!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/us/politics/full-transcript-of-president-bidens-farewell-address.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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djvagirl.bsky.social•38 days ago

Very powerful speech

nico-02.bsky.social•38 days ago

I watched on CBS & afterwards, norah o’donnell, margaret brennan, the washington correspondents broke it down & oooh, the criticism 😳
Mainly bc “he didn’t talk enough about his accomplishments & spent too much time on warnings”.
I thought norah was leaving CBS?

tonyc70.bsky.social•38 days ago

The thing is . It was from his heart

turtlegirlcc.bsky.social•38 days ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/us/politics/full-transcript-of-president-bidens-farewell-address.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk4.Z3tm.jHqnc98ccXgP&smid=url-share

huffandpuff.bsky.social•38 days ago

Thank you John Dean!!!!

wtfkrwi.bsky.social•38 days ago

Yes, it reads much better and hopefully that is how it will be remembered

annathevagabond.bsky.social•38 days ago

Considering his speech disorder, I find his ability to speak in public incredibly inspiring.

kakisler.bsky.social•38 days ago

I do, too!

maudi63.bsky.social•38 days ago

👇 https://bsky.app/profile/maudi63.bsky.social/post/3lftlf224pk2n

lavenderbluesummer.bsky.social•38 days ago

He will be Carter
He will be remembered as a great man

shar76.bsky.social•38 days ago

That wasn't "bumpy" at all, Mr. Dean.

sacwired.bsky.social•38 days ago

I couldn’t watch. I would have been a total mess. I ❤️ you President Joe Biden.

johnwdean.bsky.social•38 days ago

If this doesn’t open to non subscribers I will pull it down and find one that is available.

rimaregas.com•38 days ago

Which makes this screenshot of WaPo's alert all the more jarring. A newspaper owned by an oligarch puts the word oligarchy in quotes. As an editor and writer, it's the first thing that hit my eye.

peterjosyph.bsky.social•38 days ago

Paywall, John. But I would like to read it…

plaintanjane.bsky.social•38 days ago

Here’s the archive, paywall-free.

https://archive.md/2025.01.16-035322/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/us/politics/full-transcript-of-president-bidens-farewell-address.html

peterjosyph.bsky.social•38 days ago

Thanks!

libertyview.bsky.social•38 days ago

Thank you!

plaintanjane.bsky.social•38 days ago

And the video

https://www.youtube.com/live/J0FEi8Jh5KI?si=ZAqxny9KJESsFiz_

plallard.bsky.social•38 days ago

I couldn’t open it.

johnwdean.bsky.social•38 days ago

See below. Thank you, Nancy

https://archive.md/2025.01.16-035322/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/us/politics/full-transcript-of-president-bidens-farewell-address.html

themdragons.bsky.social•38 days ago

This will be the last coherent speech by a President!

debbieloudconnelli.bsky.social•38 days ago

This did, thanks again.

bkr8un.bsky.social•38 days ago

Thank you, John.

chudonew.bsky.social•38 days ago

Thank you

plaintanjane.bsky.social•38 days ago

My pleasure.

joy-full.bsky.social•38 days ago

Thank you so much for sharing!

lauriloo.bsky.social•38 days ago

Thank you.

resistagain-2.bsky.social•38 days ago

Thank you for this! 💙💙💙💙

yarkot.bsky.social•38 days ago

Here is President Biden’s full speech, and a full transcript open to the public:

https://www.youtube.com/live/J0FEi8Jh5KI?si=3mpwNrVgXWEFIIL9

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/farewell-address-the-nation-4

sciencefrog.bsky.social•38 days ago

Diddy list

ffgson.bsky.social•38 days ago

Here is a gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/us/politics/full-transcript-of-president-bidens-farewell-address.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk4.B59o.yw9_w6G0sJ4A&smid=url-share

rick33.bsky.social•38 days ago

Thank You.

georgereese.imaginary.com•38 days ago

I find it about as useful as Eisenhowerʻs warnings about the military-industrial complex.

Too little, too late.

debbieloudconnelli.bsky.social•38 days ago

Doesn’t open. Thank you!!

read88.bsky.social•38 days ago

Doesn’t work

forestcitizen.bsky.social•38 days ago

yes, please. “pay us money to read the speech you paid for”

gpgomez.bsky.social•38 days ago

It didn't open for me.

snowpeak-mtnzone.bsky.social•38 days ago

You can gift tge article by tapping the share full article icon just to the left and below the story title.

sundayk.bsky.social•38 days ago

These times have parallels to the Eisenhower farewell address.

detmojohowitz.bsky.social•38 days ago

Carter said the same shit. Democrats ignored him. These are words. Empty words that will foster NOTHING. Nobody is going to save us. It's only going to get worse until we do something ourselves. But were are too "entertained" by our toys and memes.

photocat24.bsky.social•38 days ago

It did open, at least for me. Not a subscriber.

feralboy12.bsky.social•38 days ago

So, you like it better than "I am not a crook?"

brunopara.bsky.social•38 days ago

Yes, it will stand in stark contrast to the absolute shitstorm that is coming

eileenmont.bsky.social•38 days ago

It’s what a person says that matters to me.

ihatemaga.bsky.social•38 days ago

Not really. Unless I missed the part where he said Trump can't be sworn in because of the insurrection and how the 14th Amendment forbids Trump from taking office.

bashbish.bsky.social•38 days ago

I wanted to feel the bumps of the delivery because I’ll miss Joe and his calm leadership. Thanks for all the years. It reads beautifully.

rose-hartigan.bsky.social•38 days ago

Absolutely historic.
I’m sure the right will crucify him tomorrow for it, but it was the exact speech for the moment.
💙🇺🇸💙

katog617.bsky.social•38 days ago

📌

seattlegigi.bsky.social•38 days ago

What he said! 👆

countrygal.bsky.social•38 days ago

Hah, talking points on the way.
Hate radio host tonight. Oh, I fell asleep during the speech. lol......they really can't deny Biden's truth.

transitfossil.bsky.social•38 days ago

Not powerful enough.

Autocracy won.

maudi63.bsky.social•38 days ago

The special preparation he does for big speeches to help him conquer his stutter. 👇

greg1961.bsky.social•37 days ago

Trump’s perspective of when America was “great” appears to be during “The Gilded Age” of the Robber Barons (Oligarchs) at the end of the 19th century:

cburdick.bsky.social•38 days ago

It's a shame that low information voters won't hear anything about this speech. Or if they do, social media will either call it a bunch of lies or it will be drowned out by some other disinformation.

shanlei00.bsky.social•38 days ago

Bumpy? Please! 🤨

margotsibley25.bsky.social•38 days ago

Long ago allegations of plagiarism seemed to define him all along the way. Not a credible soul. He fit the stereotype of a sleaze conducting his life accordingly. No metal. He offered a legacy of failure which cannot be hid. Even his avuncular projections were simply makeup for a bitchy SOB in TWH.

mtdeeley.bsky.social•38 days ago

All I can think is, "Why haven't Democrats fought those threats? They've existed for 20 years."

putawomanincharge.bsky.social•38 days ago

Made me cry.

uilleccdubh.bsky.social•38 days ago

Yeah…

Listening to some idiot comment that the first child to overcome a stutter & rise to occupy the Whitehouse;

“isn’t a good communicator…”

was the height of tone deaf.

It, like him, will been held in higher esteem by history than by his contemporaries…

let’s face it, it’s an ignorant time…

jdemeter.bsky.social•38 days ago

He has always had a stutter. So what? He devoted 50 years of his life to public service and was never convicted of a crime. Tell us more about your bumpy career.

funkypants70.bsky.social•38 days ago

The delivery makes it so everyone tunes out. Someone literally should have delivered the speech for him. Ugh!!! Some written speech that no one heard is going to make a difference in the times we are in? Frustrated X a million

annathevagabond.bsky.social•38 days ago

The only thing that could have made a difference would have been voters on the left showing up. for the most critical election of our lifetime. They didn't and Trump is the result.

ihatemaga.bsky.social•38 days ago

More people voted for Harris than Obama but ok.

annathevagabond.bsky.social•38 days ago

I'm not sure what your point is here?

Several million voters who showed up for Biden in 2020 didn't vote for Harris. The numbers below show the difference in AZ, which happened in all the swing states (source: TargetSmart).

normansigler.bsky.social•38 days ago

100 days to run for president is absurd. Biden’s hubris caused this. Remember when he tried to get “Bidenomics” to stick?

There are several reasons T is potus-elect from MCConnell to SCOTUS to broligarchs to foreign nut jobs to the non voters

annathevagabond.bsky.social•38 days ago

I agree 100 days is absurd.

Which is why that cabal of rich white Dems should never have pushed Biden out.

normansigler.bsky.social•38 days ago

I was ridin with Biden. It was too late. He would have gotten the racist white male vote in PA and MI. Probably would have lost NC, AZ and NV though.

clj5.bsky.social•38 days ago

Has any US President’s farewell address included a warning & call to action like #Biden’s did?

mickeleh.bsky.social•38 days ago

Yes. Most famously Washington — and Eisenhower. Biden quoted Eisenhower’s warning about the military-industrial complex and updated it to the tech-industrial complex.

clj5.bsky.social•38 days ago

Yes, thanks

pennyg1.bsky.social•38 days ago

It was amazing! Good for him!
It won’t stop the coming apocalypse but at least he addressed it.

jamesstaal.bsky.social•38 days ago

It was the most important address of the last decade. It was a seminal moment. Years from now it will be recognized as a great signaling of the paradigm shift.

normansigler.bsky.social•38 days ago

Shift happened when Clinton released capitalistic predators on us by repealing Glass Steagall, passing Telecommunications Act, Crime Bill, 2000 stolen election and Citizens United.

tracyquannyc.bsky.social•38 days ago

Thanks for this comment. Have you a website?

resistagain-2.bsky.social•38 days ago

Paywall; I don’t subscribe to it anymore.
Loved Biden’s speech, though.💙

troodledoodle.bsky.social•38 days ago

Closing the door after the horse has bolted

winniedawg52.bsky.social•38 days ago

We are gonna miss Joe Biden.... Get ready for constant lunacy!

milwaukee2024.bsky.social•38 days ago

He gave us our marching orders.

ritapassal.bsky.social•38 days ago

Thank you I’ll take bumpy over crazy he does have a stutter that people seem to forget.

abbailey.bsky.social•38 days ago

Piss on the NYT. We don’t read it.

clarissaclemens.bsky.social•38 days ago

Yes and for a person who was a stutterer, he does phenomenally. 😁

joyfulwarrior8.bsky.social•38 days ago

Stuttering means your mouth can’t keep up with your brain. (Smart)
With stinky, his brain can’t keep up with his pie hole- 🤷🏼‍♀️ (💩)

worcestergirl.bsky.social•38 days ago

Stop with this "bumpy" nonsense. You had to find something wrong didn't you?

rosecrystalangel.bsky.social•38 days ago

It's ALL about the message.For people to continue to citizen him on his delivery from time to time, they need to look deeply in the mirror of their own projection.

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