What am I doing wrong?

The "Method:" needs to be manual and the ipv6 settings should be disabled

Yes. I seen that mistake after I posted, and no it did not fix the proplem.

What does

ip a

report?

jason@debian:~$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:01:2e:4c:47:7f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 169.254.5.217/16 brd 169.254.255.255 scope link eth0:avahi
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether b8:03:05:de:bc:64 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.86.36/24 brd 192.168.86.255 scope global dynamic wlan0
valid_lft 86063sec preferred_lft 86063sec
inet6 fe80::ba03:5ff:fede:bc64/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
jason@debian:~$

Set to manual, save, reconnect.

Right so for some reason your editing setting a static IP address was not applied