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Leigh Silverton, Ph.D.'s avatar

thanks for the follow-back and corroborating the notion that with age comes experience. I think my video of me with Biden says a love (although sometimes i can't hear the music so feel free to friend me on facebook and it's hard for me to face the topic of Israel unemotionally.

Mary McMurtry's avatar

Hi, Rick, we met briefly years ago (in a bar in San Francisco, no less) after a talk you gave. I agree with your assessment of Biden—I think he's the best POTUS in my lifetime and I am old enough to remember the JFK assassination in real time.

Leigh Silverton, Ph.D.'s avatar

I'm trying fo figure out where i was when i read Bandy Lee's interview about trump. This techical stuff is gosh darn complicated. Could you point me in the right direction. BTW I really like the pic of you smiling it makes the world seem a friendlier place.

Leigh Silverton, Ph.D.'s avatar

could you please remove the thread supra. you don't seem to like it.

larry gassan's avatar

Yeah, imagine the GOP supporting a legitimate strong US President, when they're hating America with ass-clowns Jordan, Mace, and the rest of the GOP Red Guards.

Leigh Silverton, Ph.D.'s avatar

mace rothenberg is a friend of mine so i carefully watch anything said with that name. that said if he were a company I'd buy him.

Aly_Ayl_'s avatar

Thank you, Rick.

Amezed's avatar

Mr. Wilson, thanks for being an inspiration, and providing a cogent roadmap to navigate the strange - but not inexplicable - position in which the US finds itself. Your work is outstanding.

Leigh Silverton, Ph.D.'s avatar

The brain continues to regenerate as we get older. In addition to becoming wiser, he can enhance all the features of intelligence (which, by the way psychologists haven't yet defined). You've proven your intelligent worth as has Biden. Thanks you for your observations.

chichi robado's avatar

Very well said. There is a reason many indigenous societies revered their elders. Some modern cultures still do. They carry the knowledge base and transmit the cultural values that hold the group together. Maybe we could learn something from those “primitive” people.

LAMusing's avatar

So well said. Thank you, Rick. (the porch reminds me of Periscope days)

In retrospect Joe Biden was made for this time - I don't know that anyone else who could have navigated the post Trump mess of our economy, covid, and our diminished standing in the world.. Then add the world in crisis with Russia invading Ukraine and Hamas attacking Isreal, multiple climate disasters, etc. He's faced it all with such clarity and empathy. He's moved forward some groundbreaking legislation to bring jobs to communities, repair infrastructure, lower drug costs, and so much more. He re-united us with our allies, and is such a good human that regardless of his choices you know they come from his wisdom, compassion, very clear moral compass, and his love for country.

Rick Wilson's avatar

I miss the Periscope days. Should see if I can do that via Substack.

Janet Corley's avatar

Amen.

Dgerzeeboy's avatar

Joe knows this job. He’s been around it, with it and part of it for decades. And why is he so good at it. And why do I feel comforted by his bona fides that few in DC have? Wisdom, experience and age. Age.

Thornton Prayer's avatar

Amen to everything you said. We're in a worldwide fight between democracy and authoritarianism. Anyone who fails to understand this struggle will be blindly swept into the chaos of death and destruction the authoritarians are lusting to bring to us all.

Christine's avatar

Thank you so much for this! I agree that Biden is balancing the best of dem and R foreign policy , it’s amazing to see

Nola Nowland's avatar

Thank God for experience, wisdom and political “mileage”. For now, America is in safe hands.

Heather Wimberly's avatar

Thank you Rick, for your commentary.

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Thank God Joe Biden is our President.

HyeUp's avatar

My heart is broken for those suffering in the catastrophe now in progress.

My mind reels at the insanity on display by the Republicans.

Since 2015 I have struggled to see tfg and his sycophants and followers as fellow Americans who have been hoodwinked. No longer! No longer can I consider them hapless victims of the puppet masters pulling the strings of tfg. The reasonable voices have been raised from the beginning, and they have chosen not to make sincere efforts at studying and learning truth. They are willfully ignorant and proud of it. If ever they were in possession of moral or ethical compasses, they’ve abandoned them. Now I must struggle to limit my perception of these people to “human.”