It’s been just over a week since The Debate Heard ‘Round the World, and Joe Biden’s historically bad performance immediately led to some very uncomfortable questions about his fitness for office:
Immediately, Democrats “at all levels of the party” started having serious conversations about the future, says Jamie Raskin:
“I mean, sure, one of our slogans is ‘Vote Blue No Matter Who’, but it’s THE OTHER SIDE that is a cult! Honest!”
In defense of Biden, Democrats wheeled out Nancy Pelosi, who sure seems drunk before 10 am on a Sunday:
“ACTUALLY, TRUMP IS THE ONE WITH DEMENTIA!”, she haltingly sputtered.
The Economist summed up the entire situation with a simple picture:
But the outlet’s actual article gets to heart of the debate about Joe Biden’s fitness — it’s only partly about Joe Biden’s fitness, it’s mostly about the press covering up Joe Biden’s condition:
Indeed, the press acting surprised at Joe Biden’s diminished capacity makes me hate them even more than I already do — and I hate them a lot already. I don’t pay much attention to Joe Biden himself (not that he does many things in public to cover) and his deteriorating condition was painfully obvious to me four years ago. And the mainstream media literally has hundreds of reporters JUST COVERING THE WHITE HOUSE.
How is it possible they ALL missed what the rest of us already knew? Remember, it was only a couple weeks ago the press was in all-out attack mode, raging against “cheap fakes” that suggested Biden wasn’t up to handling the most demanding job the in world. (This before/after Morning Joe clip perhaps tells the story the best.)
And now the liars who told us Joe Biden is ‘the best Joe Biden ever’ have to write stories outlining how ‘the best Joe Biden ever’ isn’t going to do events past 8 pm because he needs a lot of sleep:
Now people are sort of waking up to the obvious ongoing coverup of Biden’s condition, and wonder what else the media has been lying about. (Hint: It’s basically everything.) Of course, learning the media altered its reporting because honest reporting would have helped Trump isn’t a surprise — it’s the media filter we’ve been living under since at least 2016 and a large reason this ‘Stack exists in the first place.
And make no mistake, the media didn’t just suddenly have a collective awakening and realize they need to start telling the truth — it’s more like they got marching orders and realized they needed to start telling different lies. You may have heard the newest one:
In fact, nearly immediately after the ruling, Joe Biden went in front of the cameras to lie about what the ruling actually said.
Luckily for us all, Jonathan Turley is on the case with his awesome article discussing the particulars of the ruling. Spoiler alert: It’s nothing like what Biden suggests above.
One of the most glaring moments in the address came when President Biden declared that “for all…for all practical purposes, today’s decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what a president can do.”
That is not true.
The Court found that there was absolute immunity for actions that fall within their “exclusive sphere of constitutional authority” while they enjoy presumptive immunity for other official acts. They do not enjoy immunity for unofficial, or private, actions.
(Honorable mention to another new narrative-supporting fib: “It’s hard to debate a liar” - while completely ignoring the lies propping up Joe’s debate substance. For example, here’s the relevant portion of the “very fine people” press conference — it’s only about 3 minutes long. How is Biden still getting away with this lie, 4 years later?)
So after “very serious discussions”, (and perhaps a gander at election finance law) it looks like the idea is to run Biden out there for events and ‘reassure’ people that he’s up to the task of being president, while having Harris warm up in the bullpen. To further this end, today Biden held a rally in Madison, Wisconsin…….which ran a little behind schedule:
“Waiting for Joe Biden 2024!”
But here he is — fired up and ready to speak. (For nearly 20 minutes!) Biden is adamant that he’s the nominee and that he’s going to win. One of my favorite moments of the rally, while Biden was talking about his debate performance:
“When you get knocked down, you get back up!”
Later, we got this section that was so classically Biden I had to create a clip of it. Here, Biden rails against ‘the biggest liar and the biggest threat to our democracy’ — then proceeds to lie about Trump repeatedly in 90 seconds:
(Side note: Are we all supposed to be really pissed at Herbert Hoover? Does Biden have a personal grudge against this guy from his younger days or something?)
I see that somebody in the White House really loves that ‘alleycat’ line — but Gangster does not approve of being compared to Donald Trump. (Orange Cat Good!)
During the rally, this little delayed exchange also stood out to me:
“Did everybody have a good Fourth of July?”
10 minutes later:
“You can’t be pro America and pro insurrection!”
And Biden finished up by once again lying about the recent SCotUS ruling:
“It’s about honesty! Also, the Supreme Court just said Trump can be a dictator! This is not hyperbole!”
Narrator: It was hyperbole.
Watch the whole event below. (Biden takes the stage at about 27:30.)
If the plan is to run this guy out there for the cameras for 20 minutes a day and pretend he’s fit to be president for four years…..it’s not going to work.
Of course the real question is — who the hell is actually running the country, because it’s obviously not Joe Biden. Of course, the media couldn’t be bothered to ask that question — it fell to Vivek Ramaswamy to do so.
And while I don’t have a definitive answer to the question, I have a theory — much like cockroaches control an abandoned house, The Swamp is in control of an ‘abandoned’ DC.
Let’s think back briefly to what we learned during covid: Government employees such as Anthony Fauci dole out hundreds of millions of dollars in government grants, with very little oversight into where that money goes. (We don’t even know how much taxpayer money went to Chinese labs!)
And Fauci is far from alone. In every nook and cranny of the government, somebody is spewing out millions in government (once again, TAXPAYER) cash with little to no accountability — especially while Biden is checked out. This means that effectively, each corner of government is controlled by the regulators and bureaucrats tasked with handling that little corner of government — nobody else cares enough to dive into the minutia of loopholes and government credits. So, for example, the ‘rural broadband internet’ corner of the government is being run by The Swamp in charge of the ‘rural broadband internet’ corner of the government, with predictable consequences:
This is obviously not a new turn of events — I remember then-VP Cheney being ROASTED by media outlets when his former company (Haliburton) started making record profits off the wars stoked by Cheney himself. (This is back when it was cool to cover powerful people in DC)
You can almost draw a direct line from Cheney/Haliburton to the fishy stuff going on with Biden/Ukraine. And this applies to all levels of government. California has spent $20 billion on the homeless since 2019, much of it missing. Oakland’s mayor was just raided for allegedly using California Waste Solutions to launder campaign donations — something that might be straight out of The Sopranos.
And what every mob boss — or Swamp creature — hates more than anything is ATTENTION. When snoopy reporters or higher-ups come around asking difficult questions, that upsets the gravy train. When nobody’s looking into the dark recess of the government, it’s easy to hide the graft. The only REAL threat is if people start actually paying attention — therefore, it’s no surprise that the entire swamp reacts as one when it’s threatened by attention.
Do you think The Swamp is more threatened by Comatose Joe, or by the guy who says “DRAIN THE SWAMP”?
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Edit: The first clip from Biden’s interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos is out:
The full interview should drop in about 40 minutes.
Edit: Here’s the full interview:
Finally read, very belatedly!
So refreshing to read an honest, well-researched report in this political climate.
Good grief. He’s still trotting out the “inject bleach” and “suckers and losers” lies along with saying Beau died in Iraq. There is a Twitter/X thread about the young black lady behind the podium who Biden ignored after his speech. I hope someone invites her to a Trump rally. https://x.com/johnmcurtis/status/1809350189481881807