In February, when special counsel Robert Hur’s report described President Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the mainstream media couldn’t possibly believe it.
He rides a bike after all, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow told us. He couldn’t possibly be facing mental decline.
Kamala Harris’s team is concerned that Democrats will install a white candidate ahead of her to replace Joe Biden, arguing that it would be “offensive” to black voters to overlook her should the president stand aside.
Mr Biden is facing calls to step back from the race over concerns about his age, after a disastrous television debate performance against Donald Trump on Thursday.
The Biden campaign, which is a joint ticket between the US president and Ms Harris, has dismissed calls for him to step aside for a younger candidate.
We just witnessed a live m*rder on X pic.twitter.com/uae5Leof3M
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 1, 2024
The past 36 hours showcased two Joe Bidens: the veteran president rallying voters in a swing state, and an 81-year-old man struggling to string thoughts together in a debate.
Interesting reveal of Biden’s battle with dementia. No idea how anyone could possibly consider him fit for duty
"Sharp as a tack" pic.twitter.com/xI6BaoBUnH
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) July 1, 2024
h/t Mauser
Joe Biden might not remember his debate performance, but the world does, and it’s etched on our memory as a symbol of national decline. As the Democrats discussed who might replace him on the ticket – “Can Jimmy Carter still walk?” – I thought, “They’ll have to prise it from his cold dead hand.” For this tragedy is about a man in total denial, enabled by a system steeped in paranoid fantasy. The Democrats kept us distracted with Russiagate, January 6 and “Trump humped a porn star” while the world’s last superpower was being run by a zombie.
Harry Enten on new poll for Biden — I have never seen numbers this bad for an incumbent president during my lifetime.pic.twitter.com/3tJPd2unlU
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 1, 2024
h/t DS
Some of the country’s largest media outlets have called on President Biden to step aside and allow another Democrat to take on former President Trump in November, following the president’s concerning debate performance last week.
Biden’s first debate performance raised alarms among some Democrats and supporters, with the president struggling to string ideas together or rebut Trump’s many false statements. Almost half of Democrats in a new poll say Biden should allow a different candidate to take the party’s nomination.
In the aftermath of Joe Biden’s debate debacle, there is one constant: Dr. Jill’s delusional self-belief that she can save the day.
Under the thrall of her Rasputin-like adviser Anthony Bernal, the first lady is acting as if she is the candidate — at the expense of her husband and the country.
She is the keeper of Biden delusions.
From an unusually good source: Obama’s tweet supporting Joe Biden was disingenuous. In private, Obama is telling people Biden can’t win, and he is therefore in favor of an open convention. Obama will not say whom he supports, nor as of yesterday afternoon had he met personally…
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) July 1, 2024
h/t DS
Jill Biden took the hand of her 81-year-old husband on Thursday night, and steadied him as he gingerly left the podium.
It was a poignant moment. One that millions of anxious Democrats are hoping will soon be replicated on the national stage. There is no formal mechanism for replacing the president as the party’s nominee for the November election, but within his inner circle, there is no one he trusts more than his wife of 47 years. If anyone can follow in Dennis Thatcher’s footsteps and tell their spouse it is time to pass the torch to the next generation, it’s Jill. In public, at least, she has given no hint whatsoever that she might do that.
"Joe, you did such a great job answering every question. You knew all the facts."
Jill Biden is a monster.
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) June 28, 2024
At some points in the debate, you could tell that as Biden kept mumbling and fumbling, Trump actually felt sorry for the guy.
Not too sorry, but enough to be saying…here, let me help you out, followed by Trump’s blistering sallies, often on the topic of mindless immigration.
I’d even say, that occasionally, Trump chose to be deferential. Because the other guy was so pathetic and no match.
A lot of jobs are 9 to 5 PM. And plenty of people have checked out an hour before they leave work.
President of the United States isn’t really a 9 to 5 job. But under Biden, it apparently is because he can’t work evenings or nights.
4 P.M. is his limit.
The latest Friday edition of Washington Week with The Atlantic, airing on taxpayer-funded PBS, passed around anecdotes of the various levels of panic from Democratic politicians and strategists, after President Biden’s disastrous debate performance. But one exchange in particular, between host and Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg and Atlantic writer Mark Leibovich, was striking…
President Biden’s team clearly seems eager to put Thursday’s debate debacle in the rearview mirror. They trotted Joe out to a fundraiser at another wealthy donor’s mansion in New Jersey yesterday and invited him to address the supportive audience in a friendly environment. Rather than avoiding the subject of the gaffe-filled confrontation with Donald Trump and all of the liberal outlets now calling for Scranton Joe to step aside, Biden decided to tackle the subject directly.
He needs to be freed from his vile wife.
NEW: Nancy Pelosi claims ‘healthcare professionals’ say Trump is actually the candidate with dementia before having a senior moment of her own.
This gaslighting is crazy.
During an interview with CNN, Pelosi gaslit the American people before she was seen seizing up, appearing… pic.twitter.com/qm92OY1fL8
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 30, 2024
President Biden hunkered down with family at Camp David Sunday to discuss the future of his re-election campaign following his disastrous debate performance, according to a new report.
People close to Biden, 81, believe only the president and first lady Jill Biden, will determine the future of his presidency, NBC News reported, citing several top Democrat sources.
I am not hopeful Jill the monster will do the right thing.
Some 60% of American voters believe that US President Joe Biden should be replaced as the Democratic presidential candidate following his debate against Republican candidate Donald Trump last week, according to a Morning Consult Pro poll published Friday.
Democrats hoped the debate would serve as an opportunity to quell rising public concern over Biden’s age and mental capabilities. However, many criticized the president’s performance, noting several moments where he struggled to speak clearly, American media reported.
It’s not about Joe Biden, it’s about why Joe Biden?
For example, as the clamor about Robert Hur fades away, now never to be heard again, does anyone still wonder why Attorney General Merrick Garland was so desperate to prevent Americans from witnessing the recording of the president’s logorrheic, hours-long interview by the special counsel? The one that caused Hur to conclude that the president — notwithstanding his decades of willful Espionage Act violations — was too mentally deteriorated to indict? A conclusion that can only mean that he was too incapacitated to assist in his defense against criminal charges, or that the prosecutor feared a jury would think it an act of Eighth Amendment-level cruelty to subject so dissipated a man to the rigors of a felony indictment and trial?
You might think what you saw on Thursday night was a debate. It wasn’t. Well, technically, it was in that it had all the requisite elements to it, i.e., candidates, microphones, moderators, TV cameras, etc. Make no mistake, however. What you were watching was a highly scripted, highly choreographed Kabuki theater play that you weren’t supposed to recognize as such.
