Tag: Joe Biden

Well, Joe Biden’s not a well man, having been diagnosed with what appears to be pretty advanced prostate cancer. The timing of the news is… interesting, for want of a better word:

The diagnosis’ revelation came as Democrats were publicly grappling with new questions about Biden’s mental acuity throughout the last two years of his presidency, which culminated in a disastrous debate performance and his decision to drop out of the 2024 campaign.
David Axelrod, the longtime Democratic operative and former Barack Obama adviser, said on CNN minutes after the diagnosis was revealed that conversations about Biden’s mental acuity “should be more muted and set aside for now as he’s struggling through this.”
Biden’s aides have been bracing for the Tuesday release of a new book: “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” chronicling what the authors describe as a White House campaign to cover up Biden’s deteriorating condition while in office.
On Friday, audio clips of the former president’s interview with then-Special Counsel Robert Hur — in which Biden occasionally paused for long periods of time and struggled to remember dates — were published by the news site Axios. One of the dates he struggled to recall was that of his son Beau Biden’s death. Beau Biden, the former Delaware attorney general, died in 2015 of brain cancer.

For whatever little it may be worth, I don’t remember offhand the dates my parents died. But then again I was never the President of the US, so apparently that makes me OK. I feel not very good about citing Politico on this matter, because they’ve been particularly active in the last few days promoting this book about Biden’s putative decline without offering similar speculation about the mental condition of the present incumbent and his fitness or lack thereof to be in the highest office in the land, but eh. The point they cite from Axelrod is correct. Here’s Mushroom Cock’s response to the news on Truth Social:

It is, of course, manifestly obvious that Drumpf wrote not a single word of this himself, and someone wrote it on his behalf to prevent him from posting what I’m sure he actually thinks. Whatever. It’s the correct sentiment to publicly express. Compare and contrast, then, with this post by his namesake idiot son:

Now, Dr. Jill Biden is not an MD, which may be why she ddn’t find cos she’s not trained to, but Drumpf the younger’s clearly just exploiting his MAGA audience’s ignorance of the existence of non-medical doctorates here. It’s the latter point, though, that’s causing the stink. I may have appeared a bit cynical above about the timing of the release of the news, but I’m not really; I suspect Biden may not have been in great health for a while—I mean, he was an octogenarian in one of the world’s most stressful jobs, I’d be surprised if he was—but I don’t think they’ve actually been sitting on this news for ages like a lot of people seem to be assuming.

And I definitely don’t think it’s “yet another coverup”, and indeed I’m not sure how it’s supposed to be… I mean, maybe I’m just not as smart as these creeps in MAGAworld, but I’m not sure how revealing Biden’s suffering from one problem is supposed to distract us from a different one? One far more serious health issue is supposed to cover up a somewhat lesser one? Even fucking News Corp found this idea ridiculous enough to produce this headline:

And the article in question further notes that Piers Morgan took to Twitter to say the following:

It’s a truly strange feeling being on the same side as Piers Morgan, but the latter does have a perplexing propensity for being on the right side of some stories instead of just the right wing. I don’t suppose this will be the last time he confuses me like this.