Meme - The Virgin Biden: "Get a cold and stays home for five days
Can't read words off a teleprompter
Lizzo eats all the food at his events
Showers with his daughter
Wears special shoes so he doesn't fall "
The Chad Trump: "Ignores the teleprompter and talks for 3 hours
Get shot in the head and does a convention 2 days later
Hulk Hogan shows up to his events
Showers his daughter with affection
Makes the Secret Service get his shoes after he's shot because they're so cool"
Meme - Donald J. Trump: "*Wheel of Fortune*
"Z_L_NS_Y. Ukraine President"
Joe Biden: "Putin!"
*Hysterical laughs*
Biden's gaffe has ruined months of our hard work, say European officials - "On stage, Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz defended the president over a slip of the tongue in which he called Volodymyr Zelensky “President Putin”. The US leader went on to call Kamala Harris “vice-president Trump”. But roaming the corridors of the summit, aides were more frank in their verdict of the president’s performance. “It was awful,” an official said, describing standing in the crowd as events unfurled. The consensus amongst diplomats and officials who spoke to The Telegraph, and were granted anonymity to speak more freely, was that it took less than a minute to change the narrative of an entire summit. The sources realised they would be forced to read about the gaffe on tomorrow’s front pages instead of stories of their successes. “It’s taken the focus away from what has been a great summit for us,” a diplomat said. Before the slip-up, officials and diplomats were overjoyed with the outcomes of the meeting, which marked the alliance’s 75th anniversary with a show of unity in defiance of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine."
Biden is a danger to the free world – he should resign now - "It hardly bodes well that Beltway insiders now see every press conference announced by the White House as a potential signal that the president is about to announce his withdrawal from the Democratic candidacy... He certainly took waverers off the fence: forget the candidacy, it is now increasingly doubtful whether Biden should even remain in his position as elected president now. If there were ever a time to invoke the 25th Amendment, this is it. Trump’s team could hardly believe their luck: more humiliating soundbites showing Biden’s now unmistakable cognitive decline, with just enough arrogant defiance to indicate he won’t be backing out of the race willingly anytime soon. Suggesting that at least one person at Biden HQ has MAGA sympathies, an official Biden campaign social media account even made the decision to highlight the humiliating Zelensky interaction. Democratic operatives find themselves in a nightmarish position, unable to admit publicly their fears that Biden is now unfit to serve (a fact many of them were aware of long before the disastrous June debate) and afraid that their private urgings on the president to stand down are falling on deaf ears. But that’s not good enough. This is no longer a domestic issue. Our Prime Minister had already insisted earlier in the week that Biden is “on really good form”. The demands of diplomacy are evidently more powerful than the demands of reality. Still, with the enemies of the West searching for any sign of weakness, we cannot afford to have the president of the most powerful nation on earth babbling about his nap time at Nato. Special Counsel Robert Hur’s assessment of the president back in March - “a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory” – was, if anything, too kind. Well-meaning? Biden’s 36 years in the Senate and two unsuccessful presidential campaigns were spurred by two deep-rooted emotions essential to understanding Biden’s mindset: ambition, and burning resentment. His first presidential run more than 30 years ago ended in scandal after it was revealed that he had plagiarised a speech from Neil Kinnock. Perhaps we ought to ask the former Labour leader to draft a new speech for Biden’s benefit: standing down from public life."
Meme - Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze: "Here is the press conference from April 26th, 2023. Listen to LA Times WH reporter Courtney Subramanian's question, and then look at the notecard Biden was photographed holding at the time. @Kelly0 has never explained this, while accusing others of making a false charge."
Kelly O'Donnell @KellyO: "To those who make the false charge, the WH press corps does not provide questions in advance. The president has a list of media who are credentialed in advance. His team knows who will be in the room and chose reporters from news wires, TV, print, and radio including a Polish journalist. We did not know who would be selected in advance."
Joe Biden latest news: Democrats plot to push Biden out of White House - "The money is on hold at the biggest pro-Biden political action committee, Future Forward... Plans are underway by critics of Mr Biden to push him out of office amid renewed calls for him to step aside after a Nato press conference in which he referred to Kamala Harris as Vice President Trump. Some of Mr Biden’s closest allies from his long career, including Barack Obama, are also said to be concerned about him staring in the race. But Mr Biden’s team gave a robust defence of the president overnight and appear to be digging in to keep his campaign alive."
George Clooney's Hollywood propped up Joe Biden. Now it could now destroy him - "Michael Douglas, who in April hosted a Biden fundraiser at his home and was complemented by the President on the success of his fictional administration in his 1996 film The American President, said that Clooney had a “valid point” and he was “deeply, deeply concerned” about Biden’s prospects. Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore said that the Democrats were committing “elder abuse” by having the President run again, while Rob Reiner claimed that “we lose our democracy” if Trump wins, and novelist Stephen King said that Biden ought not to seek re-election “in the interests of the America he so clearly loves”. Ari Emanuel, chief executive of talent agency Endeavor and brother of Biden’s ambassador to Japan, Rahm, put it most bluntly. “We are in f— city,” Emanuel told Tina Brown at the Aspen Ideas Festival last month and suggested that he would like to see an upper age limit imposed on the presidency. “I’m pissed off at the founding fathers. They had the start date of 35 years old… and well, everybody died [back then], so they didn’t have to give the end date.” Emanuel has also accused Biden of “self-aggrandising delusion on a Trumpian scale” by not withdrawing from the race. Unlike in Britain, where celebrities getting involved in politics are dismissed as bleating luvvies, Hollywood’s heavyweights have played crucial roles in election fundraising and have genuine influence. Steven Spielberg has been roped into the campaign to help “tell the President’s story” at next month’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Nobody holds more sway than Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder (with Spielberg) of animation studio DreamWorks and the man behind films such as Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Lion King and Kung Fu Panda. Katzenberg, a 73-year-old billionaire, is co-chairman of the President’s campaign team and has the twin role of helping craft a compelling narrative and encouraging deep-pocketed donors to open their wallets... “Age is his superpower,” he has said about the President and drawn parallels with sprightly octogenarians such as Harrison Ford and Mick Jagger. Until that debate, the strategy worked: at the end of May Biden had raised almost $220 million, $20 million more than Trump’s campaign. “I don’t think George Clooney alone is going to change President Biden’s mind [about whether to run],” says Kathryn Cramer Brownell, professor of history at Purdue University and author of books on Hollywood’s relationship with politics. “But celebrities like Clooney speaking out sustains attention on the issue and creates more opportunities for more people to jump in and create momentum.” Brownell also tells me that if donations to Biden’s campaign continue to dry up that would be “really significant” and would force the party to confront the Biden challenge head-on. The importance of Katzenberg to the Biden project is hard to overstate. Steve Ross, a history professor at the University of Southern California and author of Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics, told American news site The Wrap that if Katzenberg pulled his support, “then you’re going to have a very serious problem, because how is [Biden] going to fund his campaign in the last few months?”... After support for Biden from the likes of Clooney has dribbled away, all eyes are now on Spielberg and Katzenberg, neither of whom have publicly commented on Biden’s campaign since that disastrous debate with Trump – though the latter led an unsuccessful effort to kill the actor’s New York Times piece. The pressure is building on Katzenberg, especially, who has been variously accused of “agewashing” the President and lying “about the whole Biden thing”. As one insider put it: “everyone in town is furious with him”."
I guess “self-aggrandising delusion on a Trumpian scale” means Joe Biden is no longer "the far better human and it's not even close." The NPCs need to update their programming
On private call, Democrats weigh 'comatose or dead' Biden and alternatives - "While Carville offered them advice on pushing Biden out and Begala stayed neutral on the question, Biden had one advocate. Mehlhorn, whose key patron LinkedIn founder Hoffman has been a staunch advocate for sticking with the president, argued that Biden should stay in the race — if in the darkest possible terms. Swing voters, he said, already believed Biden is feeble — but they like Vice President Kamala Harris even less. “Kamala Harris is more threatening to those swing voters than a dead Joe Biden or a comatose Joe Biden,” he said. “So if Joe has to go, it’s gonna be Kamala and if it’s Kamala, it’s gonna be harder.”"
Biden’s Lapses Are Said to Be Increasingly Common and Worrisome - The New York Times - "by many accounts, as evidenced by video footage, observation and interviews, Mr. Biden is not the same today as he was even when he took office 3½ years ago. The White House regularly releases corrected transcripts of his remarks, in which he frequently mixes up places, people or dates... Last week’s debate prompted some around him to express concern that the decline had accelerated lately. Several advisers and current and former administration officials who see Mr. Biden regularly but not every day or week said they were stunned by his debate performance because it was the worst they had ever seen him. “You don’t have to be sitting in an Oval Office meeting with Joe Biden to recognize there’s been a slowdown in the past two years. There’s a visible difference,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian. “I’ve been amazed on one hand,” said Mr. Brinkley, who has not seen the president in person in a year. “The president can zip around the country like he does. But the White House may only be showing the Biden they want us to see.”... Mr. Biden’s trips to Europe were marked by moments of sharpness in important meetings — including a complex session on diverting income from Russian assets to aid Ukraine — mixed with occasional blank-stared confusion, according to people who met with him. At some points, he seemed perfectly on top of his game, at others a little lost... There was an awkward moment when Mr. Macron made sure the president got safely down the ramp, then came back up to shake all the veterans’ hands. Mr. Biden had been expected to stay for the handshakes, though aides said he was leaving to lay a wreath. During a meeting the next day with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, Mr. Biden spoke so softly it was almost impossible to hear and said a new burst of aid was meant to reconstruct the country’s electric grid when it was not."
Nate Silver on X - "This isn't normal or acceptable for an American president. It sounds like a story from an authoritarian country."
Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 on X - "This is even worse than most authoritarian countries. At least in authoritarian countries, the leader is usually a competent and mentally alert (if malevolent) individual. What we have in the White House now is rule by anonymous unelected unaccountable staff. Antithetical to democracy and incompatible with rule of law."
Angry and stunned Democrats blame Biden’s closest advisers for shielding public from full extent of president’s decline - " Even before Biden made remarks that night, whispers of concern rippled through the audience at the Peacock Theater about the president who had just arrived from a long flight from Italy. Some of the biggest donors at the $30 million fundraising event, who had waited in line to take pictures with Biden, expressed unease at how the president looked and carried himself. “He was less cogent than usual,” said one attendee, who was surprised that during a smaller meeting with donors before the main event, Biden barely spoke. Instead, this person said, he left virtually all of the talking to former President Barack Obama, which struck some guests as unusual for a loquacious politician like Biden. Biden’s appearance in California struck attendees as starkly different from a fundraising gala he attended in March at Radio City Music Hall in New York, one Democrat guest told CNN, when Biden appeared on stage with Obama and former President Bill Clinton. “There is a marked difference in the president from the spring to the summer,” a senior Democrat told CNN. “He’s just not the same.” Back in Washington, there have been clear signs throughout his term of Biden being increasingly stage-managed, with lists of talking points, names of questioners and drawings of where he should walk presented to him by aides. Ahead of closed-door Cabinet meetings that Biden attends, it is customary for Cabinet officials to submit questions and key talking points that they plan to present in front of Biden ahead of time to White House aides, two sources with direct knowledge told CNN. “The entire display is kind of an act,” one of those sources told CNN. “They would come and say, ‘Hey, the president is going to call on you about 25 minutes in, and ask this question. What are the bullet points you’ll respond with?’” The second source, who echoed that same description, said when Biden attends Cabinet meetings, they are “not free-wheeling, and pretty well-orchestrated.” And the meetings themselves are infrequent, with one Cabinet secretary telling CNN they are uncertain of Biden’s condition because they so rarely see him. In fact, the last full Cabinet meeting took place on October 2, 2023. Sources also said Cabinet meetings during the Obama years, which Biden attended as vice president, were not pre-scripted this way... That Democrat was blunt about how the president’s closest advisers have responded to any criticism or concerns expressed about the president – including his age and fitness: “Everyone who expresses any level of suspicion or contrary views? They call everyone and they beat the s*** out of them and say: ‘Stay on message.’”... Bursts of activity are often followed by planned downtime which is fiercely protected on the president’s schedule. The practice of planned downtime extends to overseas trips as well. French officials involved in the planning of the June state visit said that the Biden team had requested two days of rest during the five-day trip... When he arrived in Italy days later, one European diplomat mentioned that his exhaustion was apparent, as it had become in many recent encounters."
Clearly, if you don't vote for Biden, you're a danger to democracy
Milwaukee radio station says it agreed to edit interview with Biden - "Civic Media, a Wisconsin-based progressive talk-radio network, said Thursday it had agreed to make two edits to an interview with President Joe Biden at the request of his campaign before the broadcast aired, a decision the station said fell short of "journalistic interview standards." Still, the station said, it stands by its popular host Earl Ingram, who conducted the interview with Biden... The two edits, according to the station, were:
At time 5:20, the removal of “...and in addition to that, I have more Blacks in my administration than any other president, all other presidents combined, and in major positions, cabinet positions.”
At time 14:15, in reference to Donald Trump’s call for the death penalty for the Central Park Five, the removal of “I don’t know if they even call for their hanging or not, but he–but they said [...] convicted of murder.”...
Ingram, a longtime Biden supporter, told ABC News last weekend, "Yes, I was given some questions for Biden."... Trump recently canceled an interview with a news outlet after learning what questions the reporter planned to ask. He also previously agreed to an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel during which he did not receive topics or questions ahead of time."
Meme - "Smile... For even in death, you have become Children of Thanos."
Joe Biden: "You tell Darkseid he can go f**k himself" *raises hands in triumph*
Seth Moulton: Why Biden should exit the race - "I saw him in a small group at Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day. For the first time, he didn’t seem to recognize me. Of course, that can happen as anyone ages, but as I watched the disastrous debate a few weeks ago, I have to admit that what I saw in Normandy was part of a deeper problem. It was a crushing realization, and not because a person I care about had a rough night but because everything is riding on Biden’s ability to beat Donald Trump in November."
Union support for Biden weakens amid calls for him to step aside
End Wokeness on X - "Biden dropped out over 4 hours ago, yet we literally have ZERO evidence that he knows about it. Not even a photo. The paperwork has already been filed. The campaign cash is being transferred. Endorsements for Kamala are pouring in. Yet, we have no clue who sent that post."
Bill Ackman on X - "If this were a hostage situation, that letter would not qualify as proof of life."
Name Redacted on X - "A sitting President doesn’t end his reelection campaign through a social media post on a piece of paper without official White House letterhead. He would hold a press conference or make an Oval Office address to the public. This is a coup. Who’s running the country right now?"
Republicans float conspiracy theory that Biden won't be on the ballot
From October
ADVERSAREAL on X - "There is no announcement on https://t.co/69Idnq9e0e or https://t.co/9hSSnWhD6u. It would be hilarious if this was a coup executed by a single social media manager – because even if that was the case, it would simply be too irrecoverably joever for him regardless. There is an episode of The Thick Of It where a party apparatchik is slowly memed into disgrace by his own party and the coup de grace to get rid of him is they release a resignation letter to the news. (No point in him going out there to say that he didn't write it, he was done.)"
Ross Douthat on X - "Resigning by letter and tweet when there are questions about your mental and physical condition inevitably raises further questions about your mental and physical condition."
POLITICO on X - "Biden's announcement stunned White House and campaign aides, who up until this afternoon were insisting he'd stay in the race. "We’re all finding out by tweet,” said one Dem. “None of us understand what’s happening.”"
Jacqui Heinrich on X - "Ran into Steve Ricchetti tonight as he was getting out of an elevator. I asked, “Are you ok? Is he ok?” “He’s ok,” Ricchetti said with a slight nod and a tight smile, and kept walking. Ricchetti helped Biden write his withdrawal letter in the overnight hours according to the NYT. Biden did not notify his VP, campaign manager, or chief of staff until this morning - and the rest of his staff didn’t find out until a minute before he posted the letter to social media."
Jeff Blehar is *BOX OFFICE POISON* on X - "Joe Biden has not been seen in public since he boarded a plane, in extremely unsteady health, on Friday. He resigned the nomination in a poorly-written statement clearly penned by a subordinate. He "endorsed" Kamala Harris only in a tweet (A TWEET) later sent by a social media account (!) he does not control or use. He has not been seen in public since then. Kamala Harris is speaking this morning before he has even explained why he's stepping back to the American people. He is in a parlous state right now, is my guess. How parlous? You guess that yourself."
toddstarnes on X - "Something smells. Why would President Biden announce such a momentous and historic decision on a Sunday afternoon on a social media platform? The letter he posted was not written on White House stationary. And his signature appeared to be photoshopped. Also, Biden's signature was underlined and typically he does not underline his name. His staff only found out once the message had been posted on X. And Cabinet members were notified by the Chief of Staff -- not Biden. The last time the public saw Biden he feebly walked down the stairs of Air Force One and had to be physically assisted into the presidential limo. He has not been seen in public since. How do we know Biden wrote that letter? And how do we know that Biden posted the letter on his X page? There wasn't even an official White House photograph of the moment. His brother, Frank Biden, told CBS News that health "absolutely" was the deciding factor in the decision. And then he told CBS “Selfishly, I will have him back to enjoy whatever time he has left." Is President Biden still alive? Is he awake and alert? Is he in command of his faculties? With respect, we need to see proof of life."
End Wokeness on X - "In the end, the Party Elites always win: In 2016, they rigged it for Hillary by using superdelegates against Bernie. In 2020, all the candidates dropped out, endorsed Biden, as soon as the primary momentum was building for Bernie. Now they forced Joe Biden out despite RECEIVING 87% IN THE PRIMARY. This is not how democracy works."
David Sacks on X - "Let’s review. Joe Biden said repeatedly that he didn’t want to step aside. Then came reports that Democrat Party insiders led by Nancy Pelosi would ratchet up the pressure until they drove him out of the race. We still don’t know what pressure they used, but Biden suddenly announces his resignation as nominee via a tweet, with no address to the American people. Even his own campaign and White House staff are caught by surprise. We still haven’t seen or directly heard from him hours later. For all we know, someone hacked his X account. But the entire Democrat Party and MSM are praising the situation, acting like this is completely normal. Apparently they have no interest in finding out what changed. “Democracy” just means falling in line with a new X handle, with no questions or transparency about how this happened."
Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ on X - "I love that the Left has spent more than a year trying to destroy X, but when it came down to it, announced the most important news of the decade right here on the timeline. Well done, @elonmusk."
Matt Walsh on X - "A poetic way to end this year of reckoning with the madness of DEI. It concludes with the DEI Vice President likely becoming the nominee despite not receiving a single vote. Very fitting that the first black female presidential nominee was handed the job and didn’t earn it."
FischerKing on X - "Comparisons of the USA to late USSR communism are overdrawn, but true in one clear way. The regime lies to us, we know they're lying to us, the regime knows we know, but we go about like it's all true. Biden will now be praised to the heavens for a brilliant career that ends in honor. When in reality it was a backroom knife fight full of threats, bribes and corruption. The one redeeming quality of all this is that it's faintly amusing. The level of cynical dark humor in the USA now also is reminiscent of the USSR."
Collin Rugg on X - "Trump was ridiculed by the media earlier this month when a hidden video camera captured him saying he beat Biden so badly in the debate that Kamala Harris would be replacing him. Today, that became a reality. "How did I do with the debate the other night? Kicked that all-broken-down pile of cr*p. He just quit.""
David Burge on X - "I genuinely feel empathy for Biden. I watched my own beloved Grandma deteriorate from dementia & Alzheimer's for over a decade, and I wouldn't wish that fate on anyone. At the same, the idea of him as a truth telling, unifying healer is ludicrous. His whole 50 year career in DC was based on being a self-aggrandizing, blowhard attack dog from a safe seat, first volunteer to smear anybody. While I sincerely wish him and his family the best in their difficult times ahead, I won't be participating in the effort to rehabilitate him into some sort of Rushmore-worthy statesman."
Vivek Ramaswamy's Biden Exit Prediction Video Goes Viral, Elon Musk Reacts - "In the video, Ramaswamy says, "I also want to close with one message to the Democrat Party. End this farce that Joe Biden is going to be your nominee. We know he's not even the president of the United States. He's a puppet for the managerial class. So have the guts to step up and be honest about who you're actually going to put up. So we can have an honest debate. Biden should step aside and his candidacy now so we can see whether it's Newsome or Michelle Obama or whoever else. Just tell us the truth so we can have an honest debate."
Jimmy Dore on X - "Feels like this was the party’s plan all along. Which is why they didn’t allow any debates or a real primary and why they had to make sure they forced RFK out of the primary because he would be next in line for the nomination in this situation. doing it this way only loyal establishment Party delegates would be selected for the convention so when the party finally forced Biden out they would have only establishment loyal delegates to choose the new nominee assuring an establishment nominee. So the Democrats rigged another primary, which makes that three in a row, from the party who says that democracy is on the ballot! Lol! once again, the Democratic party doesn’t have elections, They have a selection for the presidential nominee and you’re just gonna have to take it."
End Wokeness on X - "Rosie O'Donnell, on the verge of tears: The therapist isn't helping me to cope with the election. Our democracy could die before Thanksgiving."
mirax on X - "But zero concern about "who" is running the country right now. It isnt that senile bloke elected president. The USA is already a banana republic. Funny no one seems to have noted that."
Wesley Yang on X - "Two things that aren’t a coup:
— Party elites strong arming an incumbent president to drop out of a race he was losing
— a disorderly and delusional protest at the capitol with zero means or plans to prevent the presidential succession"
It's only not a coup if he agreed to stand down
Charlie Kirk on X - "Got a weird lead on a story that people should look into. I got a call from a source close to Las Vegas Metro. The official story was that Joe Biden's trip was cut short last week due to COVID. However, according to this source, US Secret Service informed LV Metro that there was an emergency situation involving Joe Biden and to close necessary streets so that POTUS could be transported immediately to University Medical, which they began to do in earnest. Then, mysteriously, there was a stand down order and the USSS informed local Vegas PD that they were going to "medivac" POTUS to Johns Hopkins, which they presumed meant fly him back east ASAP. Apparently the rumor mill in the police department was that Joe Biden was dying or possibly already dead. I didn't think too much about this lead, seemed too wild to be true, but given that Joe Biden has been out of public sight for days and dropped out of the race via an 𝕏 post, and his brother James indicated health was a factor, I'm beginning to grow more curious if COVID or something else has been more serious than reported. If anyone with LV Metro has information, please email Freedom@CharlieKirk.com. I want to hear if there is more to the official story than what they're telling us."
gfodor.id on X - "I’m gonna sound like Alex Jones but I legit think they ran a coup on Joe. Here’s what I suspect we will find out to some degree or another (probably never confirmed fully.) I understand the coup they ran on Trump with the FISA warrant so I’m cynical enough to imagine they would do this. They threw everything at Biden get him to drop out. They tried to destroy his character (set him up with the debate, all the other character assassination.) Then Hunter and Jill put up a wall. The remaining avenue was to bribe them. I’m guessing they offered them pretty much anything. But the issue to me fundamentally is you can’t offer something to the First Lady better than another term, and you can’t offer something to a father better than pardon power if he has a son whose past crimes are not fully understood and who may be entangled with things that lead to future crimes. So where you end up is you have to reach deeper into the toolbox. The way I think this goes is you realize that the way to finally get capitulation is to have the public believe for a news cycle that Biden has dropped out of his own accord, but hasn’t. In this scenario, it can’t be walked back (run it through.) So to run this play you really just need two things: you need a way to distribute an ostensible resignation from a credible source, and you need the candidate to be maximally incapacitated to respond. So, you flip the right comms people who can post to X and other social media. Then (this is dark), you send people into the White House with COVID. This is where crimes may have occurred but it is basically a perfect crime. Then, once the candidate tests positive, you do a dry run to see if your flipped comms people end up getting blowback for posting something the candidate would never allow. (“I’m sick”) You also now leak fake stories to the press that the candidate is imminently going to drop out. You line up party leadership to agree that if Biden resigns they will line up the way you want. If things look good, you wait until the day the candidate is maximally ill during the course of COVID and blast out a resignation. As long as you have a solid cycle where the candidate can’t even physically react, and his family knows that the game theory now is against them. The public and even the party leadership is now set up entirely to accept the resignation, and many people who flipped have insane counterincentives to accept any claims by the candidate it was not intended. And the candidate, of course, wakes up a day later, and realizes if they dispute the resignation they lose everything. Instead, they now take the deal, with the entire world already aligned on the new reality."
Shipwreckedcrew on X - "I've mentioned here a couple of times my long-standing antipathy towards Joe Biden going back to my time in the mid-80s living in DC and watching him in his role a Senator from Delaware. Now that he seems to finally be about to rid the country of the long national nightmare that has been his prominent position as an elected member of the Democrat Party, I want to summarize in bullet point fashion what his 6 decades DC have represented:
1. He a despicable human being. He has exploited the accident that claimed the life of his first wife and daughter, falsely attributing fault to the truck driver she collided with.
2. At the age of 35 he marries Jill, 26 at the time. But Jill was first married in 1970, and Jill and her husband worked on his 1972 Senate campaign. After Joe's first wife was killed, the 21 year old Jill started helping babysit Joe's sons Beau and Hunter. They have both lied through the years about having first met on a blind date after her first marriage ended, but that has always been BS to help keep the real story covered up. The 31 year old Joe started an affair with a 22 year old who was then married. 31 year old Joe had the hots for the babysitter barely out of her teens.
3. With the exception of Beau, his children are trainwrecks. Hunter starts an affair with Beau's grieving widow and turns her into a crack addict like he was.
4. Joe gets nicknamed "Senator MBNA" -- a "bank" that is really just a credit card issuer based on Delaware, part of an industry he could never find it within himself to say "No" as long as the campaign funds kept coming. Did I mention that Hunter's first job out of law school was as a "Vice President" at MBNA? Cashing in on the power of his elected office was never a problem -- it has been a Biden family vocation/tradition for 50 years. He sees NOTHING WRONG WITH IT.
5. He has ALWAYS been a liar, braggart, and blowhard who is the central actor in the fantasy life he has fashioned for himself in his brain. He is the walking embodiment of the "Walter Mitty" complex. This was made plain by the story just published last week where he lionized himself as the "most influential" politician in the world -- "Ask anyone!!!" -- who had put NATO back together, blah blah blah. Yet US citizens remain as hostages held in Gaza and he never mentions their existence.
6. He was DONE with politics after being a distant also ran for the Dem. nomination of POTUS in 2008 -- his third try. After 36 years in DC, he polled at less than 5% nationally. He withdrew after receiving less than 1% of the vote in Iowa. Some guys never take the hint.
That should have been it for him. But Obama wanted a VP who did not have the initials HRC. Biden had the attractive quality of being someone they could park in the corner and tell him to be quiet. That is the ONLY reason at 81 years old we've been consumed by the drama of "Will he or won't he" in the 2024 race. The two epitafhs he deserves to have on his headstone are:
1. Robert Gates writing in his book that Biden had been "Wrong on nearly every major issue" involving foreign policy for 40 years.
2. Obama's comment "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fook things up."
In my lifetime he has been the single worst politician in the country -- both as a person and on issues of consequence. Good riddance Joe Biden."
Of course, "He is the far better human and it's not even close"
Kyle Becker on X: "Let's recap this historic day:
Melissa Chen on X - "These pundits think voters are stupid. They’re spinning Biden’s withdrawal - though curiously he’s not resigning from the Presidency - as a courageous, heroic act. Democratic Party insiders did everything they could to shield Biden from anything resembling a democratic process. There were no debates, and Biden was not subjected to scrutiny and competition as insiders manipulated the rules in real time to ensure popular candidates who challenged his cognitive fitness were marginalized (see RFK Jr and Dean Philips). The Democratic parties in Florida and North Carolina canceled their primaries altogether, declaring Biden the winner. Wisconsin left Phillips — a sitting member of Congress — off the primary ballot and had to be sued all the way to the state's Supreme Ccourt to add him back. The Democratic Party didn’t just shut out independent voters, Dem voters were robbed of the opportunity to play a meaningful role in the nominating process. Everybody was robbed of the ability to ascertain for themselves whether Joe Biden was really mentally capable of running for Office and serving as leader of the free world for the next 4 years. In what way exactly, Ezra, is dropping out after being anointed by party leaders in an uncontested primary process and then anointing your veep without democratic input, heroic? It’s been a total farce and puts America in a weak, vulnerable position. It is the opposite of heroic."
• Joe Biden suddenly *RESIGNS* via @X
• White House staff find out ONE MINUTE later
• Joe Biden "resignation" letter not on official letterhead
• Biden "signature" suspect (underlined?)
• Steve Richetti helped write letter
• Jill Biden tweets *heart emoji* response
• White House *WIPES* Biden's schedule
• WH Chief of Staff calls Cabinet, manages Comms
• Frank Biden confirms health a factor
• Family suggests Biden may have terminal illness
• Joe Biden holds no LIVE Press Conference
• Where is Joe?
Just another perfectly normal day in Biden's America."
