CARTOON -- IGNORE YER LYING EYES: Really, Joe's Good To Go!
Hey, really, all's good ... just close yer lying eyes!
“What happened was the Democrats had created this alternative reality bubble in which Biden was fine. Millions of voters sat down on Thursday and they expected Joe Biden to come out strong, vigorous and really take it to this notoriously unprepared demagogue. Instead, what did they see? Joe Biden comes shuffling out and he’s incoherent, confused and often inaudible.
“They were shocked by it but I guess the big question is, why should they have been so shocked? The answer is because they had been in a Biden bubble. We all talk about the alternative reality bubbles on the right but what we saw was the Democrats had created one of their own around this question of Joe Biden’s age and his fitness.”
— Charlie Sykes
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The Long History Of Corporate Media BS About Biden’s Obvious Dementia
(EDITOR NOTE: The original headline for this story is “Warning Signs: A history of Joe Biden’s verbal slips”. While the ‘slips’ were newsworthy, the real story the corporate media continually downplayed and danced away from was what those ‘slips’ indicated: Dementia. THAT was the hidden story suddenly on full display during the debate, exposing corporate media for the compliant dupes of corporate rule they are. — Mark Taylor)
“Let me start with two words: ‘Made in America.’”
— Joe Biden, Hagerstown, Maryland (10/7/22)
By David Smith
The Guardian (7/5/24)
Warning signs of Joe Biden’s decline were hiding in plain sight well before last month’s calamitous US presidential debate performance against Donald Trump.
But Biden had the perfect cover: a long history of verbal slips and other blunders that made it hard to blame his age alone. “I am a gaffe machine,” he admitted in December 2018 when asked about potential liabilities of his election campaign.
He also medical experts on his side. In 2021 Dr Kevin O’Connor, the president’s physician, pronounced Biden “a healthy, vigorous 78-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency”.
Critics say there was a conspiracy of silence at the White House, however. The 36 press conferences that Biden had given by the end of June were fewer than any president in the same timeframe since Ronald Reagan.
Biden’s team came down hard on reporters who questioned whether the oldest president in American history – now 81 – was still fully capable of doing the job. Journalists also wanted to avoid the accusation of ageism or that they were helping to elect Trump.
“It is simply astounding for the entire country, including its most seasoned reporters, to be as shocked as everyone was by the ugly and painful reality of Biden’s debate performance,” Jill Abramson, former executive editor of the New York Times, wrote on the Semafor website this week.
While it was a “super hard story to report”, she said it could have been done. Instead, Abramson said, the American press failed in its duty to hold those in power accountable. Here are some of the dots that, with the benefit of hindsight, could have been joined sooner:
19 March 2021: Biden stumbled three times as he climbed red carpeted stairs to Air Force One to board a flight to Atlanta. A White House spokesperson blamed windy weather.
1 March 2022: At his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill, Biden said “Iranian” when he meant “Ukrainian,” “America” when he meant “Delaware” and “profits” when he meant “prices”.
26 March 2022: Biden upended a carefully crafted speech in Warsaw, Poland, by ad libbing about the Russian president, Vladimir Putin: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” White House aides were forced to hastily clean up the remark.
18 June 2022: Biden fell off a bicycle near his Delaware beach home, moments after greeting reporters with a wave and a cheery “Good morning!” Asked what caused the fall, Biden said the “toe cages” on his bike got caught.
28 September 2022: Biden sought out Jackie Walorski, an Indiana congresswoman who died in a car accident in the previous month, during a conference on food insecurity. Biden thanked other conference organisers then asked…
Biden Debate Debacle Torched Any Last Scrap Of Corporate Media Legitimacy
Al Jazeera English (7/6/24)
After a disastrous debate, President Joe Biden etched questions about his cognitive capabilities into the public consciousness. Liberal media outlets and commentators, who long downplayed warning signs about Biden’s ageing, have changed their tune. Many are now calling on him to step down.
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So typical of the bizarre time we live in... NOW they want Biden to "step down." He might FALL down any minute now. And I say this is Very High Sympathy for those who have dementia, including my own parents, and NUMEROUS clients I worked with as a Caregiver, including my own grandparents. It's NOT funny. And it's NOT a "given," either. It USED to be relatively uncommon, if not rare, in the elderly.
Two points to make from me: 1) Now that we all can understand that Biden should, or ought to, step down, why is it he has a CHOICE? My parents are almost certainly going to lose their home, because they don't get to be HEARD in a courtroom, they are "incompetent" and as such, they don't get a CHOICE about a damn thing, while a court-appointed Conservator makes $250/hour, and their own son, who was "temporarily" but still functioning as the appointed Guardian can use THEIR money to put them in a facility, all the while being PAID with THEIR money to do it. And they want to DISOWN him, but can't. They want him in their home, but soon, they won't have one anymore. Why am I not their Caregiver? That's a whole nuther story about how our "Justice" system works. Okay, not to turn this totally into MY thing, but to show the outrageous privilege Biden has.
2) KAMALA HARRIS??????????????? That psychopath was District Attorney in San Francisco when I lived there. She's a mean little shit-- one thing always comes to mind about her: She denied a $5 DNA test to copious "felons" that would have exonerated them... out of... spite? She's a horror show.
What's another word for "worthless"? D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T. What's another word for "dirty tricks"? D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T. What's a group of words meaning "puppets of the oligarchy"? You guessed half of it probably. It's D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T and R-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N. Another word for that is "duopoly" or "uniparty."