“President Dementia AKA Joe Biden”

At the June 15 event at L.A.’s Peacock Theater, some donors said this week that they noticed Biden seemed slow. He seemed frail. As he greeted donors lined up for photos, he trailed off or spoke too quietly in small talk conversation to be heard.

Hollywood executives, performers and thousands of other Californians filed into a Los Angeles theater last month, expecting a star-studded fundraiser for President Biden, backed by actors George Clooney and Julia Roberts, that would inject millions of dollars into Biden’s static campaign and launch him on a path to beat Donald Trump in November.

Instead, many attendees — led by Clooney — now say they watched a dud and a preview screening of what the nation saw two weeks later in Biden’s prime-time debate against Trump.

Don’t Go Joe!

To repeat my theme from a couple of weeks ago, I am less concerned about Biden’s increasing incapacity as it relates to the election than I am as it relates to America’s current, urgent need for a president who can function as such. Do I want Kamala Harris to be president of the United States? No, but we have to have a president. Our constitutional system and national security require it. Harris is the elected vice president and she is first in line if the president is incapable of being president all day every day.

As Joe Biden struggles to contain the fallout from his poor debate performance, a gulf is widening between how the president’s most inner circle and the rest of the Democratic Party — including some in his campaign and White House — view his political viability.

Even as he worked to reassure nervous lawmakers and donors this week while playing host to world leaders at NATO’s annual summit, Biden faced mounting pressure over his candidacy from a growing group of Democratic lawmakers and prominent donors urging him to drop out or consider doing so.

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Biden’s Fundraising Currently Rated ‘Disastrous’

As we’ve discussed here previously, one of the most instructive indicators of how a political campaign is doing is found in their fundraising numbers. Those are even more indicative than polling numbers. People don’t like flushing their money into something they see as a lost cause and they don’t seek to purchase influence from someone who probably won’t be in a position to do anything for them. Using that rule of thumb, the outlook is far from brilliant for Team Biden at the moment.

Joe Biden does not appear likely to go gentle into that good night.

Seems like everybody out there has his or her own assessment of what’s actually happening with respect to the collapse of Joe Biden’s presidency and reelection hopes. I’ll give you mine in a moment.

But before I do, a recommendation: If you’ve never seen The Death of Stalin, the satirical 2017 thriller directed by Armando Iannucci starring Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, and Simon Russell Beale about the aftermath of the Soviet dictator’s demise, now would be a good time to remedy that. The movie is bitingly hilarious, which is reason enough to give it a watch, but it’s also a fairly insightful study into the behavioral dynamics of power-mad psychotics in high political positions.

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Once again, the media is only 5 years too late pic.twitter.com/ZVlUzDAphS

— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) July 10, 2024

Under siege from fellow Democrats, President Biden’s campaign is quietly testing the strength of Vice President Kamala Harris against former President Donald J. Trump in a head-to-head survey of voters, as Mr. Biden fights for his political future with a high-stakes news conference on Thursday.

The survey, which is being conducted this week and was commissioned by the Biden campaign’s analytics team, is believed to be the first time since the debate that Mr. Biden’s aides have sought to measure how the vice president would fare at the top of the ticket. It was described by three people who are informed about it and insisted on anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information. They did not specify why the survey was being conducted or what the campaign planned to do with the results.

The most devastating argument against Joe Biden’s re-election bid may have come not from a politician or a pundit, but from a film star.

But George Clooney, with his stinging New York Times opinion piece, isn’t the only one speaking out. A growing chorus from Democrats is sinking the president’s hopes of steadying his campaign this week – and perhaps ever.

This all comes after it appeared that the president had turned a corner, with the influential Congressional Black Caucus and key liberal members of Congress just voicing their support for him.

Trump posted this last night on Truth 🤣 pic.twitter.com/uyqr7tJ2Xo

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 11, 2024

Mia Farrow Turns on Joe Biden Week After Defending Him: ‘Time to Pass the Torch‘

Actress Mia Farrow changed her tune on President Joe Biden on Wednesday, saying that the time has come to “pass the torch” after defending him last week.

In a post on X, Mia Farrow repeated the same talking-points that Democrat leaders have been pushing in various interviews.

As President Joe Biden digs in his heels at the top of the Democratic ticket, the nonpartisan Cook Political Report shifted six swing states toward former president Donald Trump, with three — Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada — moving from “Toss Up” to “Lean Republican.”

The most important swing states in the race — Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — remain in the “Toss Up” category. But three other states have moved toward Trump, going from “Likely Democratic” to “Lean Democratic” — Minnesota, New Hampshire, and one of Nebraska’s three electoral votes.

.@realDonaldTrump challenges @JoeBiden to a golf match at Trump National Doral, Miami—giving Biden 10 strokes a side and $1,000,000.00 should he win, to the charity of his choice… pic.twitter.com/soJvbQSJcW

— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) July 10, 2024

h/t DS

By the time we saw Joe Biden’s debate debacle, the media had spent four years covering up his mental and physical decline to help Democrats. After Biden’s fragile mental state was exposed, the media instantaneously began pushing Biden out of the presidential race to help Democrats.

The goal remains the same.

I’m a lifelong Democrat; I make no apologies for that. I’m proud of what my party represents and what it stands for. As part of my participation in the democratic process and in support of my chosen candidate, I have led some of the biggest fund-raisers in my party’s history. Barack Obama in 2012. Hillary Clinton in 2016. Joe Biden in 2020. Last month I co-hosted the single largest fund-raiser supporting any Democratic candidate ever, for President Biden’s re-election. I say all of this only to express how much I believe in this process and how profound I think this moment is.

ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos admitted Tuesday that he does not believe President Biden can serve out a second term — days after conducting a closely watched interview with the commander-in-chief following his disastrous debate performance against Donald Trump last month.

Stephanopoulos, 63, was recorded by TMZ answering a question from a passer-by in Midtown Manhattan about Biden’s political future.

Interesting that his employer ABC distanced itself from Stephanopoulos’s remarks. 

WOW

What a brutal interview for Joe Biden. Everyone who responded to the poll said that they think Joe Biden is a senile retard.
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— Philip Anderson (@VoteBidenOut) July 6, 2024

A New York-based neurologist who specializes in treating Parkinson’s disease suggested Monday that President Biden is exhibiting “classic features of neurodegeneration” as speculation swirls about his political future.

Dr. Tom Pitts made his assessment based on Biden’s public appearances, while the White House faced questions about why another Parkinson’s expert visited the executive mansion eight times in an eight-month stretch last year and early this year.

Parkinson's specialist Dr. Tom Pitts speaks to NBC News.

He says Biden clearly has Parkinson's Disease.

The doctor is a lifelong Democrat.pic.twitter.com/rGBEW2kaXV

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 9, 2024

Joe Biden calls NATO secretary an “intellectual wigger.” pic.twitter.com/EWaZmFbBKX

— Vigilant News (@VigilantNews) July 9, 2024

h/t Mauser and DS

You all know the ending of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, right? Surely this remains a universal American cultural reference point. Slim Pickens and the boys in his bomber crew are struggling heroically (despite damage to their airplane and on-board radio) to complete the mission they’ve been assigned from the man at the top. It is, of course, a bit of a shame that in this case the man at the top happens to be a psychopath seeking to trigger a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviets, but hey, that’s not their department. These boys are hard-working Americans, and when Americans set their mind to a task, then Sir, you’d best believe they get it done, come hell or high water. And so there Slim is, trying to get the hydrogen bomb stuck in the plane’s damaged bay to drop, stomping on the release latch to open the doors, when — SNAP! — he unexpectedly succeeds such that the bomb drops with him atop it, and he rides that sucker down to the ground, waving his cowboy hat like a bronco-buster as he sends himself along with the rest of the world to our final reward. Wildly hilarious or deeply despairing? Both, and in ample measure, which is the point.