Michael Goodwin: Joe Biden spins & stumbles on his way out of the White House - "Instead of polishing his record, he’s inadvertently highlighting what a total failure he’s been and why voters were right to elect Donald Trump. Even as Biden paints himself as a big success, a Gallup survey captures the truth: Large majorities say America has gone backward in key areas during his watch. These include the federal debt, immigration, the economy, crime and the US position in the world. The contrast is striking but familiar. The White House and Democrats spent much of the last four years denying what Americans could see with their own eyes. Remember when Bidenomics was working, inflation was transitory and the border was secure? Maybe the president and his party should have listened to the public instead of trying to fool it. Take Exhibit A — the border. On Day One, Biden began fulfilling his campaign promise to dismantle the security protections he inherited from Trump. You know, all those racist, inhumane, heartless barriers Hitler put up to keep out hard-working, innocent immigrant families who deserved to be here. Immediately after taking the oath in which he pledged to unite America, Biden began dividing it by throwing open the border door and rolling out the Welcome Wagon to the world. In his first 100 days, he issued 94 executive orders on immigration and the border, nearly all making it easier for illegals to cross into the United States or more difficult for officials to deport them. Come on in, he said, and come they did. Endlessly. In anticipation of his largess, the crowds waiting to claim asylum immediately swelled in Mexico and caravans formed throughout Central America. The result has been an invasion of foreigners unlike any ever seen in our nation’s history. Biden’s own administration reports that Border Patrol agents had more than 12 million “encounters” with illegal crossers during his term. That’s four times as many as the 3 million encounters reported in Trump’s first term. And the 12 million doesn’t include as many as 2 million additional “gotaways” who made it into the US without being stopped. New York and other large cities effectively became “border towns” thanks to the unvetted influx, with state and local taxpayers shelling out billions upon billions to provide housing, food and health care. And don’t forget the predictable outbreaks of crime. Yet here was Biden on Monday, telling White House reporters that illegal immigration sharply declined after he took office. “Let’s get something in mind about the border. When I became president, the numbers came way down,” he claimed. There wasn’t a smidgen of truth in that, and fact-checkers would have gone crazy if Trump spun a yarn half that big. But when it’s Biden, or any Democrat, crickets. The second stop on his tall-tale tour came later Monday with a speech on foreign policy delivered at the State Department. He again tried to rewrite history by insisting that America is stronger and our adversaries are weaker because of his policies and actions. “Right now, in my view, thanks to our administration, the United States is winning the worldwide competition,” he said. It was nice of him to qualify the claim by saying “in my view” because very few people agree with him. He also said, “I put together one of the most competent foreign policy teams in American history,” which is a howler even among the many die-hard Dems who regard Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan as incompetent lightweights. The most consequential move Biden made was the abrupt withdrawal of our military from Afghanistan. It is now widely seen as a signal of weakness that emboldened our adversaries and endangered our allies. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was one result, and Iran’s unleashing of its terror proxies on Israel another. Yet Biden still insists the withdrawal was the “right thing to do,” and mentioned only in passing the 13 “brave service members whose lives were lost during the withdrawal.” What he didn’t say was that his own military brass advised against complete withdrawal. Nor, as even the New York Times felt compelled to add, did he “acknowledge the Afghan allies who were left behind or the fact that the withdrawal opened a vacuum for the Taliban to take over the country again.” It’s also a distortion to include Iran as among those who have suffered setbacks. It was Israel, often against Biden’s wishes, that defeated Hamas and Hezbollah and defanged Iran’s defense systems, which helped lead to the overthrow of the Syrian butcher Bashar al-Assad. While it’s true Biden helped supply Israel’s military, he simultaneously undermined the Jewish nation with his micromanaging and public criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Much of that criticism was aimed at appeasing rabid antisemites who would normally vote Democratic, and it helped prolong the war. Blinken inadvertently conceded as much when he said in a Times interview that “Whenever there has been public daylight between the United States and Israel and the perception that pressure was growing on Israel … Hamas has pulled back from agreeing to a cease-fire and the release of hostages.”... My hope is that after Trump takes office, the White House will release transcripts and other data showing how Biden and Blinken tied Israel’s hands in a war that could have been won months ago."
Bonchie on X - "Mike Johnson describing Joe Biden having no idea he had signed an EO banning LNG exports, instead believing he had just authorized a study, is the biggest presidential scandal in history. Staffers were lying to Biden about EOs they wanted and getting him to sign them. Insane."
PoIiMath on X - "There should be a Congressional investigation. Put Joe Biden at a table and any executive order he cannot remember authorizing, any bill he cannot remember signing becomes invalidated."
MAZE on X - "April 3, 2024. KJP is asked why Biden cares so deeply about the issue of LNG (liquified natural gas) exports. Turns out, Biden didn't even know he signed a ban on LNG exports. That's how deeply he cared. 🤣 Will we ever know who was running the country?"
Andy Ngo on X - "Former State Department Special Envoy for LGBTQI+ rights, Jessica Stern (he/she/they), wrote a message defending her $183,500 salary role in the Biden-Harris administration before her work account was retired on Jan. 20. Not a single Islamic or African country decriminalized homosexuality under Stern’s four years of taxpayer-funded work."
Max Meyer on X - "So, Biden's staff didn't double check the ACLU's list of "nonviolent drug offenders" and gave clemency to a drug lord in Connecticut who murdered an 8 year old boy and his mother to stop them from testifying. CT Sen. Blumenthal : "someone dropped the ball... This was a really vicious murder that changed our laws""
End Wokeness on X - "Tapper then: It's a conspiracy theory to say Biden has cognitive decline. It's a stutter.
Tapper now: A book on the cover up"
i/o on X - "This actually makes Tapper — a liberal journalist who had previously dismissed allegations of Biden's decline — the best person to write the book. Since he can't be accused of partisan motives, his book will carry more weight and be more resistant to attack."
For Some Reason, Hunter Biden Can’t Sell His Paintings Anymore - "Hunter Biden is struggling to make money and is now requesting to drop a lawsuit he filed in 2023 on account of his lack of funds. In a court filing on Wednesday, Biden outlined his precarious financial situation exacerbated by the recent Pacific Palisades fire and a sudden inability to sell his paintings and books. “Since late 2023 and through today, my income has decreased significantly,” Biden said in the filing. He said his two main sources of income, selling his paintings and copies of his memoir, “Beautiful Things,” have dried up in recent months... “Given the positive feedback and reviews of my artwork and memoir, I was expecting to obtain paid speaking engagements and paid appearances, but that has not happened,” Biden said. In 2023, Biden filed a lawsuit against former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler and the company he founded, Marco Polo. Biden accused Ziegler of violating both state and federal law in accessing the contents of Biden’s now-infamous laptop, abandoned at a Delaware computer store in 2019... Critics have raised doubts about the nature of Biden’s art sales for years. The amateur artist routinely brought in large sums of money for art pieces from anonymous buyers. In 2021, The Wall Street Journal editorial board called on then-President Joe Biden, Hunter’s father, to explain the nature of his son’s art business in the interest of transparency."
Meme - Joe Biden @JoeBiden: "All Donald Trump can see from Park Avenue is Wall Street. He thinks the economy is doing well if the Dow Jones is doing well. Believe it or not, Mr. President, most Americans don't live off the stock market."
President Biden @POTUS: "Good news for folks as we start the weekend. The stock market going strong is a sign of confidence in America's economy."
Dem polling memo: Treat Black Americans like swing voters | Semafor - "Black voters are more likely to consider the president “too liberal” than “too conservative.”... Blueprint’s advice mirrors what most Democrats already think. What’s it not advising? Appeals to racial equity and justice that Biden ran on then implemented after the summer 2020 protests."
From 2023
Tony Kinnett on X - ""It's transitory inflation." "Afghanistan was a success." "The border is secure." "Robert Hur lied. Biden is fine." "Those videos are cheapfakes." "Biden had jetlag." "Biden had a cold." "Biden isn't going to be replaced." "Biden isn't going to pardon Hunter.""
Scott Jennings on X - "There has never been a bigger set of liars in this office than the Bidens. Not even close. The entire term. One after another. Over and over and over. And not on small petty stuff, either."
Meme - Alexandros Marinos 🏴☠️ @alexandrosM: "If the world was sane, this would be front page news for a month. Unfortunately, since it implicates the press in election manipulation, you'll find out about it from me."
Matt Orfalea @0rf: "EXCLUSIVE: In a newly discovered Zoom recording, the Biden/Harris team reveals how they manipulated voters to think Biden's mental decline was "disinformation". 🧵/1"
HOPE not hate: "We're getting started with tonight's webinar, hearing from @Rob_Flaherty, @BexRink and @timothydurigan about how the Biden campaign tracked and countered disinformation during the Presidential campaign."
Joe Biden finally opens up about the REAL reason he dropped out of the 2024 election - "Joe Biden claimed it took him so long to bow out of the 2024 presidential race because he was being 'successful' in office. The 82-year-old former president also said it there would have been no difference if he had withdrawn sooner, implying that Kamala Harris would have lost anyway. Biden whispered, mumbled, coughed, and paused for long moments as he conducted his first broadcast interview since leaving office... Biden told USA Today in one of his final interviews before ending his one-term presidency that he thought he could have won in a rematch with Trump if he stayed in the race."
Democratic Party Leaders Vow To Save Democracy By Overruling Voters, Staging Coup | Babylon Bee - "Leaders of the Democratic Party have vowed to overturn 14 million votes in the Democratic primary and stage a coup d'etat against the sitting President in order to save democracy. "We have to overrule the will of the people, because democracy is at stake," explained Representative Nancy Pelosi. "The democratically elected leader of our party must be destroyed, or else democracy will be lost once and for all."... Instead of allowing citizens to vote for their preferred candidate, the Democratic Party will instead have the most powerful and wealthy people on earth choose who should rule the people... At publishing time, the billionaires who pay for Democratic Party campaigns had reminded them they were withholding money until Biden dropped out, so they better hurry up with the coup."
Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 HOLY SMOKES: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just revealed that the Chinese said during their closed-door talks that they IGNORED their trade commitments under Biden because they knew he was weak. "The Chinese delegation basically told us that once President Biden came into office, they just ignored their obligations." "We had an excellent trade agreement with China and the Biden administration chose not to enforce it." Biden's people totally screwed over our country in MANY ways. Weakness on the world stage caused massive damage."
Nick Hlavacek on X - "A long time ago, I was a Missile Launch Officer. The way I describe that job is 24 hours deep underground praying you don't have to do your job. Because that job is to launch ICBMs with nuclear warheads. As you might guess, people in that job spend a few thoughts on the nuclear unlock codes and who has control of them. It's just a talking point for most people, but when it's your hand that will be turning the keys, it gains some real importance. For the four years before this January, the person who supposedly had that control was not mentally competent. Think about that. If North Korea or China decided to get frisky and launch, the only person with the authority to do anything couldn't even remember what he was doing from one minute to the next or the names of the people he worked with. That should scare the crap out of people. This should be a scandal that makes every other political scandal in our nation's history look like tiddlywinks. Instead the people who knew are pretending nothing was wrong, and the people whose job it was to find these things out are acting shocked but otherwise unconcerned about it. All of the above are hoping the whole story goes away (but only after people buy their tell-all books, of course). It shouldn't go away. There needs to be consequences. We can't let this happen again."
Nick Sortor on X - "🚨 WOW: Joe Biden said literally over TWO YEARS AGO that he had cancer. The Biden regime at the time called it a “gaffe” Have they been covering this up for YEARS?"
Miranda Devine on X - "If this is true, what does it say about Biden's personal physician, Dr Kevin O'Connor, who kept giving him a clean bill of health?"
Dr Steven Quay on X - "Prostate cancer is the easiest cancer to diagnose when it first starts and to watch it progress to bone metastases. The PSA blood test shows the rate of cancer cell growth. For even with the most aggressive form, it is a 5-7 year journey without treatment before it becomes metastatic. Meaning, it would be malpractice for this patient to show up and be first diagnosed with metastatic disease in May 2025. It is highly likely he was carrying a diagnosis of prostate cancer throughout his White House tenure and the American people were uninformed."
Catturd ™ on X - "If Trump was diagnosed with terminal cancer, every single Left influencer on X, who are suddenly demanding sympathy, would be laughing, cheering, celebrating, and rubbing it in 24/7. Fact."
Meme - "Republicans are praying that Joe Biden has a full and successful recovery
A lot of Democrats complained that the man who shot at President Trump "missed"
We are not the same"
Biden’s White House chief of staff made all the ‘big decisions,’ was nicknamed ‘Prime Minister’: book - "Ron Klain, who served as Biden’s chief of staff from the start of his term until February 2023, was thought of as having “Prime Minister” status by people inside the administration because the president was so “limited”, according to Thompson... Klain was said to be “startled” by the president’s demeanor during debate prep at Camp David. “He’d never seen him so exhausted and out of it,” The Guardian reported. “Biden was unaware of what was happening in his own campaign. Halfway through the session, the president excused himself and went off to sit by the pool.”"
Fact check: Biden received multiple draft deferments from Vietnam - ""Lifeguard/Football player Joe Biden got five draft deferments for asthma during Vietnam," a post claims, alongside a photo of high-school-aged Biden. Some users also compared his record with that of his opponent, President Donald Trump... Biden received five student draft deferments, first as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware and later as a law student at Syracuse University. And after a medical exam in April 1968, he received the "1-Y" classification, which meant he could only be drafted in a national emergency... Based on our research, the claim that Biden received five draft deferments is TRUE. He was granted five deferments as a student before he received a medical exemption for asthma. Similarly, Trump was granted four deferments as a student before his exemption for bone spurs."
Time to mock Trump's bone spurs again even though Biden was exempted more times
Democrats' Biden lie will haunt them for years - "Traumatized by a decisive loss to Donald Trump in last November’s presidential election and unable to capitalize on Trump’s mishandling of the economy and erratic foreign policy, the Democratic Party, the world’s oldest active political party, is in a shambles. Its troubles are largely self-inflicted, according to two new books on Joe Biden’s doomed re-election bid: Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again and Chris Whipple’s Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History. Biden’s physical and mental deterioration had long been evident but was masked by luck and a loyal inner circle. COVID restrictions during the 2020 campaign allowed his advisors to minimize his public appearances and gloss over his missteps. His decline clearly accelerated while in office but it was covered up by ploys such as a reduced schedule, fewer interviews and the use of teleprompters even for routine public speaking. Biden’s doctor was complicit, never administering even simple tests of cognitive ability and not collecting basic health data for a man his age: Biden’s prostate cancer could and should have been diagnosed years before it metastasized. People outside Biden’s inner circle were routinely appalled by what they saw. David Axelrod, chief strategist in both of Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns and senior advisor to Obama in his first term, went on record opposing Biden’s running again because of his growing infirmity. Special Counsel Robert Hur recommended not charging Biden for mishandling confidential documents because he believed a jury would not convict “a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” Instead of seizing on Hur’s report to question why Biden so scrupulously avoided interviews and press conferences the mainstream press mainly attacked the messenger. Shielding Biden from outside scrutiny likely backfired, however, by helping reinforce his decline. As one former high-ranking Biden aide told Whipple, seeing fewer people “allowed his faculties to atrophy. But I think, like knives, they have to be sharpened. They get sharpened by rubbing them up against steel. And they don’t get sharpened by sitting in the drawer.”... The battlefield that fully revealed Biden’s unfitness for the presidency was last June’s debate with Trump. Whipple underlines how the terms of the debate favoured Biden. The host network was CNN, which is Democrat-friendly CNN (with Jake Tapper as one of the moderators). There was no audience and therefore no audience feedback for Trump to play to or to help fine-tune his messaging. And microphones were muted to prevent a repeat of Trump’s incessant interruptions in the 2020 debates. Despite all this, just 12 minutes in, after Biden made his infamous and incoherent claim that “we finally beat Medicare,” Tapper’s co-anchor, Dana Bash, passed him a note reading: “he just lost the election.” Still denying the obvious, however, Biden, his family and his close advisors circled the wagons, dismissing his performance as just a bad debate, an explanation first offered by then vice-president Kamala Harris in an immediate post-debate interview. But Biden’s obvious inability to campaign or govern effectively, now unmistakably revealed, soon led moderate Democrats to search for another candidate. It is revealing that two main groups still resisted Biden’s stepping down. One band of loyalists consisted of his aides, who needed Biden to remain as a figurehead so they could continue to exercise power. The other, ironically, was the Democratic Party’s progressive wing, led by Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which strongly supported Biden’s implementation of its collectivist agenda — despite Biden having defeated his more left-wing rivals for the 2020 Democratic nomination by stressing his own moderation. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and former House speaker Nancy Pelosi were finally able to pierce the protective wall around Biden and convince him to withdraw by presenting polls showing he had less than a five per cent chance of winning. It is unclear if Biden’s 28-day delay in withdrawing cost the Democrats the election. Even if he had dropped out in June, cramming a full slate of primaries into the few weeks that would have remained before the Democratic convention was not feasible. Virtually by default, therefore, Harris became the nominee and, for a few weeks, sparked hopes of salvaging the election. But she severely hurt her chance of being elected by refusing to distance herself from Biden’s unpopular policies — a failure not lost on our own Mark Carney, who, taking over from a leader who had also lost all credibility with the public, quickly disavowed Justin Trudeau’s legacy. Harris, however, when asked “would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” replied “there is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of — and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.” She thereby handed over the mantle of change to Donald Trump. By lying about Biden’s fitness to govern, Democratic leaders were guilty of trying to hide from the American people the obvious truth that he was no longer mentally and physically competent to stay on as president, never mind serve another term. It will take years for many Americans to again trust that Democrats have the nation’s and not their own interest at heart — the very sin they accuse Trump of committing."
Meme - Bill Mitchell: "One of the greatest self-owns of all time."
BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan: "BREAKING: President Biden has just accepted an invitation from CNN to DEMOLISH trump in debate on June 27th. Let's fucking go."
BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan: "I will NEVER watch another bullshit CNN debate."
Hunter Biden Interview: Five Biggest Takeaways - Newsweek - "Speaking about the Democratic Party, Hunter Biden specifically condemned people who had called on then-President Biden to step out of the 2024 presidential race and was critical of the Democratic establishment more broadly... He then criticized Jake Tapper, who co-authored a book about efforts to allegedly cover up then-President Biden's mental decline... Hunter Biden said: "If you think the prison in El Salvador is not a f****** concentration camp, then you're out of your f****** mind." "We just sent a bunch of people without due process, some of them most likely legally in the U.S," he continued. "How are we getting those people back from f****** El Salvador? Because I'll tell you what, if I became president in two years from now, or four years from now or three years from now, I would pick up the phone and call the f****** president of El Salvador and say, you either f****** send them back or I'm gonna f****** invade," he said."
If he had run and lost catastrophically, as polls showed, the cope would've been even more entertaining
Left wing logic: Trump is waging war throughout the world, but declaring war on foreign countries so they will release criminals shows you have empathy
Insurrection Barbie on X - "100 billion dollars of tax payer money was committed to corporations to build bridges to nowhere in the last 76 days of the Biden administration. Now add to that the fact that we have absolutely no idea who is making these decisions and who is authorizing this because we all know it was not Joe Biden. I understand that the level of corruption has reached such epic proportions that nothing stuns anybody anymore, but this is stunning, and this needs to be addressed. And I’m sorry but people need to go to jail."
