Maureen Callahan, the terrifying scandal, Joe Biden

[icanhelp1]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...den-health-Jill-exposed-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html

MAUREEN CALLAHAN: The terrifying scandal is that Biden was NEVER president. The full truth about the cover-up, Bad Doctor Jill and all the enemies within must be exposed​

The knives have come out — and so has the truth.

Having been lied to for years by the Democratic Party machine and most of the mainstream media — who insisted Joe Biden was not diminished by his age but energized by it — well, it turns out we skeptics were right all along.

And what we're learning is terrifying. Infuriating. An unacceptable abuse of power, a usurpation of the presidency itself by a nameless, faceless cohort.

Will we ever know who these conspirators are?

Two bombshell reports out this week, in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, depict a president thoroughly out to lunch for his entire term: Top cabinet members unable reach him. Staff regularly taking his place at official events. Biden refusing to hold morning meetings but clocking out at 4pm — even though he naps every day and, in July, announced that he'd no longer hold events after 8pm.

How many hours has Joe Biden actually spent working? How was the 25th amendment not invoked? Was the danger of a President Kamala Harris — who the liberal media also tried to sell as viable — truly that unthinkable?

'Drain the swamp' resonates for a reason.

Meanwhile, Biden's campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz sought to deflect his boss's dereliction by, you guessed it, going after Trump.

 

[Politruk]

The Daily Mail is . . . not a reliable source, to put it kindly.

 

[Politruk]

How many hours has Joe Biden actually spent working?

A great many more than Trump, we may be sure.

 

[Politruk]

And what we're learning is terrifying. Infuriating. An unacceptable abuse of power, a usurpation of the presidency itself by a nameless, faceless cohort.

Will we ever know who these conspirators are?

Nameless, faceless, and nonexistent.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Well, I'm not surprised. He never was the sharpest tool in the shed. He is a lying sack of unconscionable shit. All puffery and no action, if he could be arsed to do the puffery.


Worst president this century.

 

[PaxNurgle]

Second worst. Nobody in the entire history of the U.S. has been as toxic to this country as Trump. Not even Biden. Lets be honest.

And lets forget, George Bush got us involved into an unnecessary war with Iraq, and profiteered by a huge price spike in oil while he was president. So... third worst.

 

[DeluxAuto]

The knives have come out — and so has the truth.

Will we ever know who these conspirators are?

lololol

'Drain the swamp' resonates for a reason.

The swamp was infested with convicted felons under trump's reign of error.

You fucking trump Kool-Aid guzzlers are the dumbest most gullible dipshits on the planet.

 

[Lazaran]

Second worst. Nobody in the entire history of the U.S. has been as toxic to this country as Trump. Not even Biden. Lets be honest.

And lets forget, George Bush got us involved into an unnecessary war with Iraq, and profiteered by a huge price spike in oil while he was president. So... third worst.

Nixon???

Ronald Reagan???

George H. W. Bush???

Ironically, when historians consider Joe Biden’s one four year term in retrospect, he will likely rank in the top ten (even though he should rank even higher due to all the primitive racists and misogynists who historians traditionally rank quite high for "some" reason.

 

[Rebel5soul]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...den-health-Jill-exposed-MAUREEN-CALLAHAN.html

MAUREEN CALLAHAN: The terrifying scandal is that Biden was NEVER president. The full truth about the cover-up, Bad Doctor Jill and all the enemies within must be exposed​

The knives have come out — and so has the truth.

Having been lied to for years by the Democratic Party machine and most of the mainstream media — who insisted Joe Biden was not diminished by his age but energized by it — well, it turns out we skeptics were right all along.

And what we're learning is terrifying. Infuriating. An unacceptable abuse of power, a usurpation of the presidency itself by a nameless, faceless cohort.

Will we ever know who these conspirators are?

Two bombshell reports out this week, in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, depict a president thoroughly out to lunch for his entire term: Top cabinet members unable reach him. Staff regularly taking his place at official events. Biden refusing to hold morning meetings but clocking out at 4pm — even though he naps every day and, in July, announced that he'd no longer hold events after 8pm.

How many hours has Joe Biden actually spent working? How was the 25th amendment not invoked? Was the danger of a President Kamala Harris — who the liberal media also tried to sell as viable — truly that unthinkable?

'Drain the swamp' resonates for a reason.

Meanwhile, Biden's campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz sought to deflect his boss's dereliction by, you guessed it, going after Trump.

There is always going to be a group telling us that our eyes are lying.

 

[Politruk]

Nixon???

Ronald Reagan???

George H. W. Bush???

"Of this century."

 

[Politruk]

There is always going to be a group telling us that our eyes are lying.

Yours usually are.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

There is always going to be a group telling us that our eyes are lying.

Fuck their feelings.

 

[DeluxAuto]

There is always going to be a group telling us that our eyes are lying.

The ones who tell you that Haitians are eating pets and geese?

 

[Rebel5soul]

Fuck their feelings.

Pretty much. They have no credibility left to lose.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Pretty much. They have no credibility left to lose.

They didn't have much to start with.

 

[Rebel5soul]

They didn't have much to start with.

How long do you think it's going to take for it to sink in that they're considered lying pieces of shit that no one is paying attention to?

 

[YDB95]

How long do you think it's going to take for it to sink in that they're considered lying pieces of shit that no one is paying attention to?

When you finish this conversation with yourself, I'm sure you'll have settled on an answer.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

How long do you think it's going to take for it to sink in that they're considered lying pieces of shit that no one is paying attention to?

Us? We knew that they were/are lying pieces of shit when first we laid eyes on them.


Some will never believe it.


Some will never listen.


Teh Narrative remains the same

 

[icanhelp1]

https://www.wsj.com/politics/biden-white-house-age-function-diminished-3906a839

How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge​

“During the 2020 presidential primary, Jill Biden campaigned so extensively across Iowa that she held events in more counties than her husband—a fact her press secretary at the time, Michael LaRosa, touted to a local reporter.

His superior in the Biden campaign quickly chided him. As the three rode in a minivan through the state’s cornfields, Anthony Bernal, then a deputy campaign manager and chief of staff to Jill Biden, pressed LaRosa to contact the reporter again and play down any comparison in campaign appearances between Joe Biden,”

 

[Wat_Tyler]

We were conned into voting for an empty clown suit.


At least we got the clown in the suit with O'Bama.

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

The Daily Mail is . . . not a reliable source, to put it kindly.

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are cited as sources for the Daily Mail piece. I haven’t read the NYT piece but here are excerpts from story on Wednesday. Most Americans didn’t have to rely on media accounts to recognize the severity of Biden’s cognitive decline. We saw it with our own eyes.

How the White House Functioned With a Diminished Biden in Charge
By Annie Linskey , Rebecca Ballhaus , Emily Glazer and Siobhan Hughes
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During the 2020 presidential primary, Jill Biden campaigned so extensively across Iowa that she held events in more counties than her husband—a fact her press secretary at the time, Michael LaRosa, touted to a local reporter.

His superior in the Biden campaign quickly chided him. As the three rode in a minivan through the state’s cornfields, Anthony Bernal, then a deputy campaign manager and chief of staff to Jill Biden, pressed LaRosa to contact the reporter again and play down any comparison in campaign appearances between Joe Biden, then 77, and his wife, who is eight years his junior. Her energetic schedule only highlighted her husband’s more plodding pace, LaRosa recalls being told.

The message from Biden’s team was clear. “The more you talk her up, the more you make him look bad,” LaRosa said.

The small correction foreshadowed how Biden’s closest aides and advisers would manage the limitations of the oldest president in U.S. history during his four years in office.

To adapt the White House around the needs of a diminished leader, they told visitors to keep meetings focused. Interactions with senior Democratic lawmakers and some cabinet members—including powerful secretaries such as Defense’s Lloyd Austin and Treasury’s Janet Yellen—were infrequent or grew less frequent. Some legislative leaders had a hard time getting the president’s ear at key moments, including ahead of the U.S.’s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan.
*****

Press aides who compiled packages of news clips for Biden were told by senior staff to exclude negative stories about the president. The president wasn’t talking to his own pollsters as surveys showed him trailing in the 2024 race.

Throughout his presidency, a small group of aides stuck close to Biden to assist him, especially when traveling or speaking to the public. “They body him to such a high degree,” a person who witnessed it said, adding that the “hand holding” is unlike anything other recent presidents have had.

This account of how the White House functioned with an aging leader at the top of its organizational chart is based on interviews with nearly 50 people, including those who participated in or had direct knowledge of the operations.
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‘Good days and bad days’
The president’s slide has been hard to overlook. While preparing last year for his interview with Robert K. Hur, the special counsel who investigated Biden’s handling of classified documents, the president couldn’t recall lines that his team discussed with him. At events, aides often repeated instructions to him, such as where to enter or exit a stage, that would be obvious to the average person. Biden’s team tapped campaign co-chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, a Hollywood mogul, to find a voice coach to improve the president’s fading warble.

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If the president was having an off day, meetings could be scrapped altogether. On one such occasion, in the spring of 2021, a national security official explained to another aide why a meeting needed to be rescheduled. “He has good days and bad days, and today was a bad day so we’re going to address this tomorrow,” the former aide recalled the official saying.
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That’s what Rep. Adam Smith of Washington found when he tried to share his concerns with the president ahead of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. Smith, a Democrat who then chaired the powerful House Armed Services Committee, was alarmed by what he viewed as overly optimistic comments from Biden as the administration assembled plans for the operation.

“I was begging them to set expectations low,” said Smith, who had worked extensively on the issue and harbored concerns about how the withdrawal might go. He sought to talk to Biden directly to share his insights about the region but couldn’t get on the phone with him, Smith said.

After the disastrous withdrawal, which left 13 U.S. service members and more than 170 Afghans dead, Smith made a critical comment to the Washington Post about the administration lacking a “clear-eyed view” of the U.S.-backed Ashraf Ghani government’s durability. It was among comments that triggered an angry phone call from Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who ended up getting an earful from the frustrated chairman. Shortly after, Smith got an apologetic call from Biden. It was the only phone call Biden made to Smith in his four years in office, Smith said.
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Dealing with advisers
Interactions between Biden and many of his cabinet members were relatively infrequent and often tightly scripted. At least one cabinet member stopped requesting calls with the president, because it was clear that such requests wouldn’t be welcome, a former senior cabinet aide said.
One top cabinet member met one-on-one with the president at most twice in the first year and rarely in small groups, another former senior cabinet aide said.
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Former administration officials said it often didn’t seem like Biden had his finger on the pulse.

Traditionally, presidents have more frequent interactions with certain cabinet secretaries—often Treasury, Defense and State—than others.
But Treasury Secretary Yellen had an arm’s length relationship with the president for much of the administration. She was part of the economics team that regularly briefed the president, but one-on-one discussions were more rare, and she typically dealt with the NEC or with the president’s advisers rather than Biden directly, according to people familiar with the interactions.
*****

Defense Secretary Austin also saw his close relationship with Biden grow more distant over the course of the administration, with Austin’s regular access to Biden becoming increasingly rare in the past two years, people familiar with the relationship said.

During the first half of the administration, Austin was one of the cabinet members who would regularly attend Biden’s presidential daily briefing on a rotational basis each week. That briefing would be followed with a routine one-on-one in which Austin and Biden would meet personally behind closed doors.
*****

In the fall of 2023, Biden faced a major test when Hur, the special counsel, wanted to interview him. The president wanted to do it, and his top aides felt that his willingness to sit down with investigators set up a favorable contrast with Trump, who stonewalled the probe into why classified documents appeared at Mar-a-Lago, according to people familiar with the sessions.

The prep sessions took about three hours a day for about a week ahead of the interview, according to a person familiar with the preparation. During these sessions, Biden’s energy levels were up and down. He couldn’t recall lines that his team had previously discussed with him, the person said.

The actual interview didn’t go well. Transcripts showed multiple blunders, including that Biden didn’t initially recall that in prep sessions he had been shown his own handwritten memo arguing against a surge of troops in Afghanistan.

Insulated on campaign
Biden’s team also insulated him on the campaign trail. In the summer of 2023, one prominent Democratic donor put together a small event for Biden’s re-election bid. The donor was shocked when a campaign official told him that attendees shouldn’t expect to have a free ranging question-and-answer session with the president. Instead, the organizer was told to send in two or three questions ahead of time that Biden would answer.
At some events, the Biden campaign printed the pre-approved questions on notecards and then gave donors the cards to read the questions. Even with all these steps, Biden made flubs, which confounded the donors who knew that Biden had the questions ahead of time.
*****

But this summer, Democratic insiders became alarmed by the way Biden described his own polling, publicly characterizing the race as a tossup when polls released in the weeks after the disastrous June debate consistently showed Trump ahead. They worried he wasn’t getting an unvarnished look at his standing in the race.

Those fears intensified on July 11, when Biden’s top advisers met behind closed doors with Democratic senators, where the advisers laid out a road map for Biden’s victory. The message from the advisers was so disconnected from public polling—which showed Trump leading Biden nationally—that it left Democratic senators incredulous. It spurred Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) to speak to Biden directly, according to people familiar with the matter, hoping to pierce what the senators saw as a wall erected by Donilon to shield Biden from bad information. Donilon didn’t respond to requests for comment.
On July 13, Biden held an uncomfortable call with a group of Democratic lawmakers called the New Democrat Coalition, aimed at reassuring them about his ability to stay in the race.

The president told participants that polling showed he was doing fine. He became angry when challenged, according to lawmakers on the call. At one point, Biden looked up and abruptly told the group he had to go to church. Some lawmakers on the call believed someone behind the camera was shutting it down.

Biden dropped out of the race eight days later.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

This will continue to get worse as more of the lid is pried off and we get to see what's festering inside.


We have the Anybody But Trump voters from 2020 to thank for this, and they should be punished.


The DNC put this fraud up for consumption. They should pay dearly.

 

[icanhelp1]

This will continue to get worse as more of the lid is pried off and we get to see what's festering inside.


We have the Anybody But Trump voters from 2020 to thank for this, and they should be punished.


The DNC put this fraud up for consumption. They should pay dearly.

Now the Dems want to pass a huge omnibus bill. There are no limits on how far they’ll go to hold the America people hostage to failed budgets and policies.

Let the government shut down till Jan 20th.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Now the Dems want to pass a huge omnibus bill. There are no limits on how far they’ll go to hold the America people hostage to failed budgets and policies.

Let the government shut down till Jan 20th.

Only if they are required to forfeit their Xmas prezzies.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Now the Dems want to pass a huge omnibus bill. There are no limits on how far they’ll go to hold the America people hostage to failed budgets and policies.

The “Dems” want to pass an omnibus bill?

The Dems aren’t in control of the House. Everything happening in the Clown Show is completely the responsibility of the Republicans.

But we all know that taking responsibility for your actions is something that you oppose.