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Joe Biden whisked to safety by Secret Service as car slams into motorcade

www.independent.co.uk

Biden was emerging from his Delaware campaign headquarters when the car ploughed into an SUV guarding his motorcade

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden were rushed to safety by the Secret Service after a car suddenly ploughed into a parked SUV that was guarding the presidential motorcade.

Mr Biden was walking out of his campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday night to his waiting armoured SUV when a silver copper sedan hit a US Secret Service vehicle that was closing off intersections for the president’s departure.

The sedan, which carried a Delaware licence plate, then tried to continue into a closed-off intersection, before Secret Service personnel surrounded the vehicle with their weapons drawn and instructed the driver to put his hands up.

Mr Biden was captured looking stunned and froze when he heard the loud bang close by.

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The article says that Biden "looked stunned and froze", but there is video embedded in the article and it's clear that Biden was stunned in the sense of "Holy shit, what was that?", and not in terms of having some sort of episode. But now we're gonna get all the idiots reminding us that they think Biden is too old for all this.
- I mean Biden is too old, so is Trump, so is Nancy, so are most of the folks currently running our government. It’s a problem, but it’s not one unique to Joe, it’s systemic
  Biden the a far better and more mentally qualified candidate than Trump for virtually any position but especially president, not to mention not expressing desires to be a dictator or echoed Hitler.
- He is to old for this, hell he even says he doesn't want to do this anymore but is because trump is running....but this is not why he is to old for it.
  
  Given the lunacy of cult45 and their delusions of empires pay master pootie, I suspect everyone is too old for this shit.
  
  he did not even want to run the first time but did for the need to defeat trump.
- They say it unprompted, so nothing in the conversation will change.
- They've been pushing hard on the 'Biden is senile' bullshit for years, and no surprise they're going extra hard to weaken him in the minds of the stupid and easily swayed.
... I never expected to say, but I hope he was just drunk. I mean, of all the car accidents you could possibly get into, this is pretty high on the shitty list.
- Driving tester: Ok proceed through this intersection.
  Driver: But it looks closed, there's SUVs parked blocking it.
  Driving tester: Proceed through this intersection or you will be failed.
  Driver: What am I supposed to do about the parked vehicles?
  Driving tester: You had an opportunity to ask questions before we started. This is not a driving lesson, it is a driving test. Now proceed through the intersection and then look for a space to parallel park.
  Driver: Slams into SUV
  Driving tester: Scribbles notes
  Driver: Now what? Those secret service agents don't look very happy.
  Driving tester: Proceed through the intersection.
  Driver: !?
  Secret service agents: Swarm
  Driving tester: You've failed. Can't even make it through an intersection without threatening the president.
  Driver: What was I supposed to do you crazy asshole!?
  Driving tester: How about slow to a stop and wait for the motorcade to pass instead of ramming a secret service SUV and trying to leave the scene of the accident because you need to get through the intersection? And you're acting like I'm the crazy asshole...
- Like a few weeks ago when a couple of people tried to car jack a secret service. Sounded like they didn't know it was secret service, they just saw a fancy looking black SUV that they thought they could break into until a punch of guys with guns came running at them.
  
  my fellow buffalo, how many guys are required to form a punch of guys?
Finally a headline with "slams" and it actually means something!
- Kbobabob slams journalists!
I was expecting more urgency from the security. Yeeting Joe into the car, slamming the door then duel wielding guns and just start blasting in every direction.. Kind of urgency.
- And instead they exhibited calm professional and actually useful behavior. Real World Professionalism VS Movie BS means no one needed to die.
  
  Yeah. The Bidens are safe. The assailant is under arrest. Nobody's dog got shot.
  It's obvious why this is a confusing outcome.
Whisked.
Making the Secret Service the Whiskers, And Biden the Whiskey.
Poetic .
- Radio codes:
  "Mush-a ring dumb-a do dumb-a da" = shit's happened, we're bailing
  "whack fall the daddy-of" = shots fired
  "whiskey in the jar" meaning POTUS is in the beast.
For people arguing Biden isn't too old to be president...
This points out he's not spending the next two years just being president, he's running for president at the same time.
It's a shit ton to expect out of someone in their mid 80s.
We'd be better off if he stepped aside and focused on one job he's 20 years too old for instead of fumbling one for two years and now adding another.
At least one of the two will fall behind, maybe both
- Biden is 81, not young but also not mid-80s. Trump is three years younger than him. Why is Biden's age a problem but not Trump's?
  
  I'm trying to figure out how an election less than a year away means he'll be spending the next 2 years running for president
  
  Because for Trump and his followers, every accusation is an admission.
  
  Fascist propaganda doesn't work when you attack the senile leader of your cult's mental acuity. I mean, just remember how good his memory is: person woman man camera tv!
  
  What?
  They both are.
  Climate change is a problem too, I didn't list every issue that's threatening our country
  
  Queen Elizabeth II was 96 when she died. Age has no meaning, the individual does. If they are mentally able to act as President then that is all that matters.
- Name someone who has a better chance to beat Trump.
  
  Bernie, if he chose to run, which it seems he's firmly decided not to. But, if he did, he would (imo of course) probably defeat Biden in the primary, and then completely obliterate the general.
  The drive to find a viable "outsider" is stronger than ever, and Bernie has that, while also having a pretty firm lock on the moral high ground to shell Trump from. Biden has unfortunately lost that edge, due to his staunch support for Israel, which many of us consider to be the incorrect position in the modern day and are trying hard to pressure him away from.
  I don't think Bernie wants to, though. I think he's okay supporting Biden, all things considered, and is also getting rather old himself. He blazed the trail that other progressives will have to follow to keep that torch aloft, and someday carry it into the presidency.
  
  Have you seen the polls?
  Biden isn't the best chance against trump.
  trump is the best chance politicians like Hillary and Biden had/have at becoming president
  We're 1/2, and polling for round three is a lot worse than last time.
  
  Marianne williamson, Dean Phillips. Both are on the primary ballot.
- My god... this argument again.
  Everyone is sooooo concerned about Biden's age, but not Trumps. It's bizarrely unbalanced.
  Fine dude. Convince him to step aside. I'll vote against Trump no matter who the Democratic Party fields. Can you say the same?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mr Biden was walking out of his campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sunday night to his waiting armoured SUV when a silver copper sedan hit a US Secret Service vehicle that was closing off intersections for the president’s departure.
The sedan, which carried a Delaware licence plate, then tried to continue into a closed-off intersection, before Secret Service personnel surrounded the vehicle with their weapons drawn and instructed the driver to put his hands up.
Special Agent Steve Kopek, a Secret Service spokesperson, said in a statement that the vehicle struck had been securing the route for Mr Biden’s motorcade.
The Bidens had spent the night aving a meal with members of his re-election team inside the Biden-Harris 2024 headquarters in downtown Wilmington at the time of the incident, according to a White House press pool report.
The president and first lady had emerged from the headquarters into the rainy downtown area at around 8.07pm, where Dr Biden waved to pool reporters and wished them “Happy Holidays”.
Wilmington Police Department spokesperson David Karas told Axios that local officers were “investigating the motor vehicle collision”.
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- im a bernie supporter but unfortunately I think the last time was the last chance to have him run and he is quite old but that is fine.
  
  The first time was very problematic. Is he the reason Trump won in 2016? Almost certainly.
  Bots know this.

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