Today I need to start by thanking you for all the very nice birthday wishes and funny, warm comments. I love this online family that CO created, and for nine birthdays now, you all have made it much more fun to fight my creeping senescence. I haven’t been this happy since I saw Ras Baraka open for Bob Marley at Reggae-Fest ’79!
Unless it was when I saw Creeping Senescence open for Metallica at the Rosemont Horizon in ’86. I’ve still got a little tinnitus from that one.
Anyway, one of the pleasures of a road trip is being cut off from most of the news of the day, and I feel like I should enjoy that more often. But by the same token, one of the satisfactions of being back home is that you can catch up on what you missed when you were gone. (And realizing how much you are happy to have missed!)
I’ve been able to zip through 10 days’ worth of podcasts on high speed this week, and it sounds like some of the biggest stories were a trifecta of revelations about Joe Biden: the audio tapes of Hur’s Biden interview were released, Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis was revealed, and Jake Tapper’s book came out, outlining the shocking discovery that Biden was out of his gourd for his entire presidency.
Unexpectedly!
I’ve read a bunch of excerpts of the book and listened to Megyn Kelly’s solid interview of Tapper and his co-author, and it’s both fascinating and ridiculous.
The behind-the-scene details were the fascinating parts: Biden’s staff planned to put him in a wheelchair after he won re-election, but had to keep him tottering around in those waffle-stomper shoes until then. During debate prep, ol’ Joe would just get up and wander out and sit by the pool. He once waved around an ice cream cone to show Joe Scarborough the sword fighting moves he used to defeat Corn Pop in a duel.
Okay, I made that last one up. But it was still believable, right?
Everything else about the book is ridiculous. A bunch of professional politicians, media figures and “journalists” sat for interviews in which they beclowned themselves by either pretending that they had no idea that Biden was cuckoo fried chicken, or admitting that they gaslighted everyone about his dementia.
Sam Harris, a famous atheist with an undeserved reputation for being super smart, managed to combine the worst of both gambits on a recent podcast.
He started by playing dumb: “[Biden] clearly understands the issue as well as he ever did. He’s just not a fluid speaker, and less and less fluid by the hour. Right. That is what I assumed was true. Because of how effective this cover up was, I no longer believe that to have been true. I think it’s quite possible that he was just checked out to a degree that I did not suspect at the time.”
Got that? Sherlock Harris is just now beginning to suspect what all of the millions of us PWFE (People With Functioning Eyes) knew in 2019, if not before.
We assembled such data points as: shook hands with a ghost; mixed up his wife and sister; tripped over a sandbag; mangled the “all men are created equal” quote; tripped over a sandwich; went straight from hollering Grandpa Simpson to Creepy Whispering Guy; tripped over a grain of sand; pooped on the Pope.
And we connected those dots. And they formed a flat line on an EEG. Which Sam Harris could not decode.
But a few minutes later he gave the game away by admitting that he would prefer a diminished Biden if the alternative was Trump. Or as the Breitbart headlined summed up his argument, “Harris: Would Rather Have Biden ‘In a Coma’ than ‘Evil’ Trump.”
Well, we got four years of Biden in a coma, and that was more than enough, Sammy.
The story of Biden’s metastatic prostate cancer diagnosis only adds more incriminating evidence to the Biden cover-up scandal. At first the MSM tried to act like this was a surprising new development, but many cancer doctors almost immediately came forward to say that it takes at least 5 years – and more likely 7 to 10 – for slow-growing prostate cancer to spread to the bones.
Then some poor hack suggested that many men are no longer screened for prostate cancer after they turn 75, since they’re more likely to die of other causes before their prostate kills them. So Biden probably wasn’t even aware he had it.
Annnnddddd… then PWFBs (People With Functioning Brains) all pointed out that sure, maybe Gus, the retiree on the local HOA board, might not get PSA tests after 75. But you know who Gus isn’t?
<engage Kinison filter> THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD!! OH!! OHHHH!!!! <end Kinison filter>
Nobody is going to believe that Biden has had cancer since at least age 74, and that he “served” as “president” from age 78 to 82, and nobody on the White House medical staff knew it. Especially after it came out that the most prominent side effects of the drug commonly used to treat prostate cancer are problems with balance/heightened risk of falling, and mental fogginess.
(If you look up “heightened risk of falling” and “mental fogginess” in a dictionary, you’ll find Joe Biden’s picture beside both entries.)
Finally, where does Robert Hur go to get his reputation back? After he interviewed Biden as part of the investigation of Biden’s illegally keeping classified documents, he got flak from all sides, because his conclusion – Biden was guilty, but a jury wouldn’t convict him because he was an elderly man with a bad memory – satisfied no one.
The GOP rightly said that if Biden was too mentally incompetent to stand trial, he was too mentally incompetent to be president. But that logical point was drowned out in an epic Schiff-storm of Democrats and MSM empty heads screaming that Hur was dishonest, incompetent and corrupt.
They said that it was gratuitous and unprofessional to even bring up Biden’s memory, ignoring what everybody knew: Biden had kept records that he never had any right to take, and he kept them in at least three different locations, one of which is a super-safe and secure location. I.e. in a limp cardboard box partially closed with duct tape, beside a Corvette in an unlocked garage through which Hunter’s parades of hookers would regularly wobble, on precariously high heels.
So if Hur couldn’t give a reason why he wasn’t going to prosecute Brandon, he would have had to prosecute Brandon.
But last week, after over a year of the Democrats smearing Hur, the recordings of the Biden interview were released, and they were even worse than Biden’s debate performance. Among other revelations, it turns out that Biden DID forget when his son Beau died – a fact he repeatedly denied.
Biden had also ranted to the press about Hur bringing up Beau, barking, “Who the hell does he think he is?!” But the tapes show that it was not Hur but Biden who brought up Beau, in a vain attempt to figure out when he had taken some of the documents.
In other words, it was a “they said/Hur said” situation, and they were lying. (Unexpectedly!)
If the Republicans are smart, they will investigate and archive all the details of the outrageous, gaslighting coverup the Dems orchestrated. Because when any Dems who were anywhere around Biden try to run in 2028, the ads will write themselves:
Cut from the Dem in question praising Biden (“Behind the scenes he’s sharp as a tack. He’s the best Biden ever!”) to any random video of Biden slurring, falling up stairs, or losing his train of thought. Then cut from a clip of that Dem attacking Hur’s report for lying that Biden is too old or has a bad memory, to a painful excerpt of his halting fumbling for an answer.
Then fade to black, and the Voice-Over tag line:
“They lied to you then. They’re lying to you now.”
Hamas delenda est!
welcome back from your travels. I missed your regular posts.
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