Thread: NYT - Joe Biden Has Short Temper; Outbursts of Profanity; Micromanager

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/u...decisions.html

Beneath Joe Biden’s Folksy Demeanor, a Short Fuse and an Obsession With Details

As Mr. Biden settles into the office he has chased for more than three decades, aides say he demands hours of debate from scores of policy experts.

WASHINGTON — The commander in chief was taking his time, as usual.

It was late March, and President Biden was under increasing pressure to penalize President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for election interference and the biggest cyberattack ever on American government and industry. “I have to do it relatively soon,” he said to Jake Sullivan, his national security adviser.

Mr. Biden had already spent the first two months of his presidency debating how to respond to Mr. Putin, and despite his acknowledgment in March that he needed to act quickly, his deliberations were far from over. He convened another meeting in the Situation Room that stretched for two and a half hours, and called yet another session there a week later.

“He has a kind of mantra: ‘You can never give me too much detail,’” Mr. Sullivan said.

Quick decision-making is not Mr. Biden’s style. His reputation as a plain-speaking politician hides a more complicated truth. Before making up his mind, the president demands hours of detail-laden debate from scores of policy experts, taking everyone around him on what some in the West Wing refer to as his Socratic “journey” before arriving at a conclusion.

Those trips are often difficult for his advisers, who are peppered with sometimes obscure questions. Avoiding Mr. Biden’s ire during one of his decision-making seminars means not only going beyond the vague talking points that he will reject, but also steering clear of responses laced with acronyms or too much policy minutiae, which will prompt an outburst of frustration, often laced with profanity.

Let’s talk plain English here, he will often snap.

Interviews with more than two dozen current and former Biden associates provide an early look into how Mr. Biden operates as president — how he deliberates, whom he consults for advice and what drives his decisions as he settles into the office he has chased for more than three decades.

What emerges is a portrait of a president with a short fuse, who is obsessed with getting the details right — sometimes to a fault, including when he angered allies and adversaries alike by repeatedly delaying a decision on whether to allow more refugees into the United States.

Hmm, conservatives told me the NY times is fake news?
Who to believe now, hmmm?

This is terrible!!! I hate him now!!!






But it would be cool if he admitted to being a sexual predator and grabbing women by their pu$$ies without permission.

lol when this is all Trumpers have that's kind of sad. No wonder they lost so badly.

sounds right on par with other dementia patients

Originally Posted by x-trainer ben

Hmm, conservatives told me the NY times is fake news?
Who to believe now, hmmm?

Could be...

Interviews with more than two dozen current and former Biden associates provide an early look into how Mr. Biden operates as president — how he deliberates, whom he consults for advice and what drives his decisions as he settles into the office he has chased for more than three decades.

Who are these anonymous "associates"?

Originally Posted by x-trainer ben

Hmm, conservatives told me the NY times is fake news?
Who to believe now, hmmm?

puff piece to make joe sound tough lmao.

thx for the low iq take ben

Originally Posted by Mountaineer92

puff piece to make joe sound tough lmao.

thx for the low iq take ben

You guys don't do jokes after the election any more, everyone is so angry and pissed the fk off.
Make r+ p great again, remove the stick.

We'll show how non-partisan we are with this hard hitting piece, "Joe Biden's greatest weakness is that he is so detail orientated and works so hard that sometimes it's a bad thing!"

Oh lawd, Trumpers swore that Sleepy Joe was somewhere taking naps.

"aides say he demands hours of debate from scores of policy experts."

"He convened another meeting in the Situation Room that stretched for two and a half hours, and called yet another session there a week later."

Trump could never do this lol

Of course I have an obsession for details!

I wrote the damn bill!

Straws

Grasping

For

Originally Posted by Jayarbie

They also told me Biden is a drooling dementia patient incapable of forming complete sentences mch less hours of detailed policy debate.

I watched the debate and state of the union and that prediction was fake news.
Exaggerated bigly.