He’s sinking fast.
Call off the search, Joe Biden has been found.
After days of people wondering exactly where the former VP has been, Biden decided to appear before some friendly faces on The View today. He was interviewed remotely from what I’m assuming is his home, as it’s the same background he’s had for the last several videos he’s made. Apparently, all the rest he’s been getting the last few weeks has done nothing to sharpen Biden’s mental faculties, as he ended up devolving into incoherence rather quickly.
Follows, a Tweet quoting some trademark Biden-blibber: “We have to take care of the cure. That will make the problem worse no matter what—no matter what.”
Wait, what? Yeah, I’m not going to even attempt to translate that. I have no idea what Biden is attempting to say there.
It got worse, though.
How could it not? The man is actually lapsing into morbidity and decomposition publicly, in real-time. Jazz Shaw picks up the rapidly unraveling thread, and remarkably, it gets worse still.
This is about as close as we can get to a transcript of Biden’s remarks falling into disarray.
“And uh, and, and in addition to that, uh, and in addition to that, we have to, uh, make sure that we, uh, we are in a position that we are, well, lemme, lemme go a second thing. I’ve spoken enough on that”
To be clear, there was almost certainly some sort of technical failure going on here. A couple of seconds into the clip you can see Biden gesturing with his right hand, most likely urging a staffer to keep the teleprompter rolling. I’m assuming it just froze up at that point. But it was the former Veep’s performance after that technical failure that sends some worrisome signals.
Let’s keep one thing in mind. This wasn’t some moment where Biden got caught by surprise when a reporter tossed a loaded question at him or an awkward answer to a pointed comment from an audience member at a town hall. This was a planned, staged event where Biden was able to set the tone and tempo at a time of his choosing. All he had to do was successfully read the words on the teleprompter. And even if the prompter failed, he had plenty of time to practice the remarks in advance, allowing him to push forward and summarize his message in the same general theme. He didn’t even manage to meet that low bar.
I swear to you that I’m not trying to be unkind to Joe Biden or just run him down in the name of gaining some momentary political advantage. My family has struggled with “mental clarity” issues involving some of us in our advancing years, as I’ve mentioned here in the past. I can totally sympathize. But this guy is asking to be made the leader of the free world and be given the launch codes. And if the Democrats are taking this election seriously and honestly care about something besides just replacing Donald Trump with any other warm body they can find, the DNC should be having a long, serious discussion about this by now.
Ahh, but they don’t care about anything else. It’s dubious at best, should he somehow survive and win the Presidency, whether they even have any intention of allowing Uncle Gropey to operate in any capacity other than as a front for the real Power operating behind the scenes anyway. If Biden can stave off his escalating collapse and decay long enough, we could well end up with a ventriloquist’s dummy as POTUS. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you President Charlie McCarthy!
Think I’m kidding? Think they’re not desperate enough to be gaming it all out even while we all watch in horror as Gropey continues to disintegrate before the eyes of the nation?
Think again.
Stay Alive, Joe Biden
Democrats need little from the front-runner beyond his corporeal presence.Voters seem to have coalesced around Biden for his past—who they have known him to be for the past four decades in American politics—rather than for anything in his present. It’s as if Biden exists primarily as an idea, rather than an actual candidate.
Today, as the country (and the world) enters what is likely to be a prolonged period of darkness, left to the mercy of a deadly virus, Biden is grappling with the reality of what he can—and must—do in this hour of crisis, as the man who would like to take over leadership of the United States.
Gropey is grappling with reality, period.
In all likelihood, the desire to oust Trump will be piercing in the coming days, as death and chaos escalate. The president has been reckless, duplicitous, and morally hazardous in his leadership during a pandemic that is likely to be the defining event of a generation—forget about a campaign cycle. But the many union members looking at their closed casinos and the mothers in lockdown with their children and the students forced off their campuses and the older Americans living in complete isolation may find it impossible to imagine that their earlier fears about another four years of Trump have abated, or that the ferocity of their desire to get him out of office has lessened. Indeed, the emotion of this moment may displace any that has come before it.
Biden’s team appears to understand this, and to believe that what matters most now is keeping their candidate alive in the American imagination as an alternative to Trump.
Keeping him alive at all is the real task.
His appearances these days have an almost parallel-universe quality to them:
Don’t they. Don’t they just.
Biden’s audience-less remarks from his home in Delaware have the suggestion of an Oval Office address, and their content seems intended to offer a glimpse into the twilight zone
Okay, is this hapless bint just trying to be funny now?
where someone else, someone more empathetic and capable, is president. It’s as if Biden is telegraphing to his public: You have already imagined that I can beat Trump; now imagine what it will be like when I am president.
Oh, that one’s easy: we’ll be treated to seeing Gropey (or a stand-in) being trotted out now and then to recite a few meaningless words, maybe taken for a brief stagger ’round the White House lawn, then trank-darted back into stasis and returned to his sarcophagus until another PR turn is required of him. Meanwhile, the nation will continue to be (mis)ruled by a shadowy cabal of Swamp critters—out of view, out of reach, out of control, answerable to none.
Thus will the status quo ante be restored, and the Deep State preserved.
“If Biden can stave off his escalating collapse and decay long enough, we could well end up with a ventriloquist’s dummy as POTUS.”
DNC insiders want exactly that.
Like John Gill in the Star Trek TOS episode on planet Ekos.
Or Barry Soetoro for eight years!!!
Politicians no longer bother doing the work needed to do even politiciking these days. They just read scripted words.
That said, that was even more incoherent than ZeroBama.
Does he even know the gist of what he wants to say without reading it?
Because if that is the case I don’t see how he participated in debates. Were the answers whispered in his ear or something?
WHen he said “Lyin’ Dog Faced Pony Soldier” did a Bernie Bros sympathizer break in on his frequency.
I’m sorry, but Kenneth don’t know what frequency that is but he’s toast. But if Sanders isn’t then chosen then the Dems are toast because the Bernie Bros will go INSANE after what happened in 2016.
PS If he has the Nuclear Codes he won’t use them. Watch China and Russia launch Nukes at us and we don’t respond.
Meanwhile the Deep State heads for the Bunkers and shuts the doors behind them.
Oh, my. The Dems have done it. They’re going to nominate someone who will be drooling and unable to remember his wife’s name by November. Unless the Cuomo is the candidate.
This reminds me of a movie.. something about a weekend.. if only I could remember it.
My guess is that they need Dopey Joe to stay alive and in the mix to try to stave off any Ukraine investigations. That particular thread appears to be capable of unraveling the entire sweater.