I can’t believe we have eight more months of the Trump/Biden Show. That dreadful series should’ve been canceled in 2020, not picked up for another election season, especially since the stars are two crusty, grumpy old men with zero impulse control.
Sometimes, I’ll read a new report that makes me long for a time machine. That way, I could travel back to 2022, find Donald Trump, shove him into a rocket, and shoot him into space. At least that way, Republican primary voters could’ve thrown their support behind a candidate who wasn’t hated by more than half the country and, as an added benefit, was half Joe Biden’s age.
But no! Instead, we get Season Two of Grumpy Old Men.
Does RNC stand for Ridiculous Nepotistic Clowns?
I saw this headline from CBS News yesterday morning and thought for sure it was a joke.
Do you remember that scene in The Godfather Part II when the neighborhood mobster turns up at the store where Vito Corleone works and strong-arms the owner into hiring his nephew?
I thought of that scene when I read that headline.
Lara Trump?
Really?
I’m guessing her burgeoning music career was a bust. Meh, that’s what happens when you have a voice like a strangled cat.
The RNC deserves to lose if it agrees to make Lara Trump its co-chair.
This is not a serious party, you guys.
You don’t need to be a 3-D chess master to get what Trump is doing here. Hell, you don’t even need to be a master at checkers.
Trump is sticking his daughter-in-law at the top of the RNC to ensure that any money raised goes directly to his lawyers.
It’s also why Trump endorsed his campaign advisor, Chris LaCivitia, for the RNC’s chief operating officer.
This isn’t about righting a sinking ship. It’s about squeezing every salvageable penny from the hull before it hits the bottom of the ocean and splits in two.
Lara confirmed this was the plan in an interview on Newsmax Tuesday night, explaining that her priority was to see that “every single penny” the RNC raised would go to electing Trump.
It’s almost as if Team Trump’s goal is the utter electoral defeat of every down-ballot Republican in November.
Lara told Newsmax that electing Trump was the RNC’s “one and only job.”
Sorry House and Senate candidates. You’re just dead carcasses banging on the side of this sinking ship. Have fun in November!
Seriously, the DNC is going to make mincemeat of Republicans this year. It’ll be like watching a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Urkle.
Now, the voting members of the RNC may ignore Trump’s “complete and total” clown show endorsements. But I’m not holding my breath.
These are the same fools who followed Trump’s lead and reelected Ronna McDaniel last year despite her record of failure. I have a sinking suspicion that if Trump tells them to shoot themselves in the face by electing his slate of candidates, they’ll happily load the pistol and fire.
“You’re not a doctor!”
Since Special Counsel Robert Hur released his final report into the investigation of Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, cable news talking heads and White House officials have argued that Hur had no right to mention old Joe’s failing memory because he isn’t a doctor.
Really? Only a doctor can say, “Gosh, he sure is forgetful?”
If Karine Jean-Pierre walked into the briefing room with her eye dangling out of her socket, it wouldn’t take a doctor to point out that something was wrong.
My body temperature runs between 97.4 and 97.8. If it’s 101.6, I don’t need a doctor to tell me I have a fever.
Symptoms are dead helpful in that regard.
If your symptoms include noticeable memory loss, irritability, disorientation, difficulty finding words or communicating, poor coordination or physical control, or confusion, you might have dementia.
Robert Hur noticed Biden’s memory loss. Noticing doesn’t require a medical degree. It just requires eyes and ears.
Given the Democrats’ obsession with “experts,” it isn’t entirely shocking that they’re going with the “You’re not a doctor” defense. But it’s a silly defense, especially since the president refuses to get examined by a doctor to confirm that his symptoms are caused by dementia.
I’d wager that most people presenting symptoms of dementia only go to a doctor because the people around them notice the symptoms and urge them to go.
And we notice, trust me. It’s impossible not to.
At first, my dad was the only one who suspected my mum was struggling with her short-term memory. My brother and I didn’t notice at first since we weren’t around her as much. Eventually, however, there was no missing it. The symptoms had worsened to the point that it only took a phone conversation or an hour-long visit to notice that Mom’s memory was slowly fading. By 2017, only Mom’s long-term memory remained solid. By last year, even that was slipping away.
The all-hands-on-deck defense of Joe Biden’s mind is a perfect example of just how committed the Democrats are to winning.
While Republicans argue over whether a possible RNC chair is sufficiently MAGA, Democrats won’t even let something like the health and well-being of an 81-year-old president get in the way of victory.
It’s enough to make even Machiavelli gasp in horror.
Aaaaand Joe Biden Lied Again
So remember that moment in Biden’s ill-conceived press conference last week when he railed at Robert Hur for daring to ask him about his son Beau?
Yeah, he lied.
From NBC News:
“How in the hell dare he raise that?” Biden told reporters in an impromptu White House press conference. “Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business.”
But Hur never asked that question, according to two people familiar with Hur’s five-hour interview with the president over two days last October. It was the president, not Hur or his team, who first introduced Beau Biden’s death, they said.
Whoopsie!
Considering Joe’s talent for inserting Beau’s death into every conversation, I’m not at all surprised that he was the one who dragged Beau into his interview with the special counsel, are you?
Joe has been squeezing every ounce of political capital out of his son’s death for nearly nine years.
All of this could’ve been avoided if Joe had just resisted his Tourette-like urge to burp out his son’s name at random intervals.
From NBC News:
Biden raised his son’s death after being asked about his workflow at a Virginia rental home from 2016 to 2018, the sources said, when a ghost writer was helping him write a memoir about losing Beau to brain cancer in 2015. Investigators had a 2017 recording showing that Biden had told the ghost writer he had found “classified stuff” in that home, the report says.
Biden began trying to recall that period by discussing what else was happening in his life, and it was at that point in the interview that he appeared confused about when Beau died, the sources said. Biden got the date — May 30 — correct, but not the year.
Based on Joe’s claim that Hur was the one who mentioned Beau, the DNC sent out multiple fundraising emails from Jill Biden who expressed her dismay at Robert Hur’s temerity of daring to invoke her dead stepson’s name.
Regrets. They Have a Few…
From the look of things, I think the White House knows how damaging that evening press conference was for the president.
As it is, it appears that the White House is taking steps to bury the evidence as much as possible.
Typically, the main page of the “Briefing Room” section of the White House website offers a detailed description of each transcript.
Like this:
But when I searched for the transcript of the press conference the other day, this is how the White House described it:
Odd.
As someone who frequently scans the “Briefing Room” section of the White House website (usually to find examples of Kamala’s frequent use of the phrase “in terms of”), I can tell you they always include a brief description of what the “Remarks” were about. But not for that press conference.
Then again, what were they going to say? “Remarks by President Biden in which he confirms that his memory is as bad as Robert Hur said.”
The other day, my brother Mark suggested that the White House deliberately placed Biden in a room full of reporters and cameras to show the country just how far his dementia has progressed. I countered that it was more likely that Joe was the one who insisted on the press conference against the better judgment of his aides.
Looks like I was right, Mark.
On Tuesday, Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed that holding that evening press conference was Joe’s idea.
Well, of course it was. It isn’t as if Joe Biden understands that he can only venture out in public during the evening hours if he is heavily medicated to prevent him from sundowning on camera.
There’s a reason most of Biden’s public events wrap up before 4:00 p.m., and it isn’t so he can make the early bird special at the Golden Corral. Late-day confusion is yet another symptom of dementia.
Anyroad. I’ve prattled on quite enough for one day. I’d say I’m suffering from verbal diarrhea but I’m not a doctor.