In an explosive exposé, the Wall Street Journal has revealed how the mental decline of President Joe Biden was pronounced from the start of his term. However, cabinet members and other Democrats lied to the public about his declining levels of acuity and engagement. That effort succeeded largely with the help of an alliance with the media, which showed little interest in whether the President was actually running the government.
After President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance, the solid wall of media and staff shielding his declining mental state collapsed. Even after Special Counsel Robert Hur declined criminal charges against Biden due to his diminished state, Democratic pundits and the press covered for him, claiming that he was sharp and effective. With the debate, the public was able to see what many in the media and the White House had been hiding for years.
After interviewing roughly 50 insiders, the Journal found evidence of a knowing effort to hide Biden’s mental state. For many, Biden’s refusal to leave his home for much of the 2020 campaign was evidence of the insecurity of staff about his ability to engage with reporters. It only got worse during the term as staff virtually tackled anyone trying to ask him a question. Biden was routinely shuffled off stage after reading briefly from a teleprompter.
Behind the scenes, cabinet members reportedly stopped asking for meetings with Biden after staff conveyed that such requests were not welcomed. He held far fewer cabinet meetings and was often considered “down” for any discussions. That included a period during the calamity of the Afghan withdrawal.
One official is quoted as admitting on one occasion in 2021 that Biden “has good days and bad days, and today was a bad day so we’re going to address this tomorrow.” That was just after he was elected.
Yet, Biden was kept within the protective cocoon of media that did not press the issue and was infamous for ignoring scandals while asking Biden about his choice of ice cream on a given day.
Now, some media outlets are re-positioning on the issue as they prepare to resume hard questioning and investigations in the new Trump Administration . . . after a four-year hiatus.
Suddenly, everyone is shocked to learn that Biden was mentally diminished and blaming nameless staff for misleading them.
One exception this week was Chris Cillizza, who served as CNN’s editor-at-large before leaving the network in 2022. On YouTube, Cillizza stated, “As a reporter, I have a confession to make” and admitted “I should have pushed harder earlier for more information about Joe Biden’s mental and physical well-being and any signs of decline.”
Now, everyone likes a redemptive sinner and I give Cillizza credit for admitting his own failure to pursue the story despite many critics objecting for years over the lack of such inquiries.
However, Cillizza only confessed to failing to pursue the story due to a fear of being accused of “age shaming” Biden. The suggestion is that identity politics chilled journalism, not the overwhelming media support for the President and countervailing opposition to Trump.
The “age shaming” excuse is difficult to square with the failure to pursue an array of other scandals during the term from influence peddling to policy debacles.
Nevertheless, Cillizza was remarkably frank that he was only able to push on the story after leaving CNN:
“I didn’t really push on it, if I’m being honest. Now, once I left CNN and once it became a little bit more clear to me about Biden’s age, I think I did write pretty regularly and talk pretty regularly about how I wasn’t sure that this guy was up to it. And then obviously, after the June 27 debate, everybody, including me, was writing and talking about it.”
Putting Cillizza’s statement aside, there is a notable effort by some in the media to retroactively resume journalism after years of docile coverage on issues such as Biden’s incapacity.
The belated interest in the story reflects not only the limits of modern journalism but the limits of the 25th Amendment. From the outset, there was concern over Biden’s acuity and stamina within the White House. It was hidden from the public. His cabinet members like DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, and others quashed claims of any diminishment with first-hand testimonials about how sharp and impressive the President was in meetings. Vice President Kamala Harris echoed those claims.
The Vice President and the cabinet are essential to the removal process under the 25th Amendment. Section 4 allows the removal of a president. One option is what I have called the “mutiny option.” It requires a vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare that the president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” and notify Congress that the vice president intends to take over. If Vice President Kamala Harris could get eight Cabinet officers to go along with a letter to Congress, her status as the “Acting President” would likely be short-lived. Joe Biden would only have to declare to Congress that “no inability exists.” Biden would then resume his powers. That would then trigger a congressional fight.
In reality, the Biden term shows how they can often be part of the cover-up.
The 25th Amendment also does not define incapacity and having “good days and bad days” is unlikely to suffice. As I previously discussed, the issue of “disability” of a president was briefly raised in the Constitutional Convention in 1787. It was a delegate from Biden’s home state of Delaware who asked how they would respond to a disability, “and who is to be the judge of it?” John Dickinson’s question was left unanswered in the final version of the Constitution.
What followed were persistent controversies over succession. This issue came to a head after President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a stroke. After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Congress finally addressed the issue in the 25th Amendment. The amendment addresses the orderly succession of power as well as temporary disabilities when presidents must undergo medical treatment or surgeries.
This process is even more unlikely to occur when the media has formed a protective line around a president.
The problem was never “age shaming,” it was a shameless effort to shield this president from tough questions and public exposure.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Google: 82% Should Not Be Voting
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Why is America so incoherent, irrational, illogical, and incompetent?
What is wrong with the American political system?
In the election of 1789, turnout was 11.6%, and voter qualifications were generally male, European, 21, 50 lbs. Sterling/50 acres.
When America was established in 1789, the vote was designed to be severely restricted; never was America to be a one-man, one-vote democracy.
Democracy was to be of the restricted-vote republican form that had existed since inception in Greece and perpetuation in Rome and America.
One of the qualifications or requirements to vote in America’s first election was 50 lbs. Sterling.
The vote was never to be flippant and awarded on compassion or sympathy; the vote was to be solemn and limited to those of acumen, endeavor, achievement, and success.
The vote was never to be of people of diminutive means voting for the redistribution and social engineering of a welfare state, because Article 8 precludes that welfare state by limiting the power of Congress to tax for only debt, defense, and general welfare (all well proceed), and the power of Congress to regulate only the value of money, commerce among nations, states, and Indian tribes, and land and naval Forces.
According to the results of a Google search, 82% of Americans would not be considered eligible to vote by the American Founders, those voters not having the modern equivalent of 50 lbs. Sterling, or $10,000 (USD).
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AI Overview
According to a recent YouGov survey, around 82% of Americans have less than $10,000 in savings, with 27% having less than $1,000 and 18% having between $1,000 and $10,000 saved.
Key points from the data:
Less than $1,000: 27% of Americans
Between $1,000 and $10,000: 18% of Americans
$10,000 or more: 18% of Americans
– Google
I am a strong believer that those who will be taxed the most on property that they own and work for which they are compensated should be the only ones eligible to vote; and, as a codicil, only those possessing an IQ over 120. and who can name their respective representative, senators and answer how many states we have. If you can’t do that then you are not an informed voter.
EQ scores (Emotional Quotient per Daniel Goleman) reflect five key components: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. EQ scores would weed out far more emotional cripples than IQ scores. people with average to below average EQ scores should not be allowed to vote. They can however contribute to the body politic by trolling online.
Tongue firmly placed in cheek
U.S. debt is $37 Trillion.
U.S. spending is out of control.
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“Government shutdown looms after House conservatives revolt over GOP-backed spending bill”
– CBS News
That’s crazy!
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not, but certainly no one would be dumb enough to think that a society that only allows those with a given measure of wealth to vote would in any way have any actual concern for the poor.
If rich people rule, then rich people make the rules. And the poor pay the price.
Which explains a lot about how we got here…
Can’t argue with you, comrade.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” right?
Wrong.
That rubbish was precluded by the Constitution, which is precisely the reason Karl Marx published the Communist Manifesto 59 years later, because it was not in the Constitution.
What is in the Constitution is freedom and choice.
All Americans are free to donate, contribute, and give away their entire fortunes to the financially challenged if they so choose.
Every American is free to create a charitable enterprise in the free markets of the private sector.
None are forced to fund a compulsory welfare state.
What you are promoting is nothing other than despotism, tyranny, and the “dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e. the hired help).”
Dude, you really need to get out and get some sun once in a while, you’ve got a serious mental issue.
All I said was the poor should be able to “vote”.
I didn’t say, nor “promote” any other doctrines, dogmas or any other of the bs you just invented.
….”Comrade”. oh man….
You really are a fruitcake.
And by the way Kruchev, the “despotism, tyranny and dictatorship” you were babbling about, is declaring only the wealthy should vote.
Seriously, they should box you up and give you as a Christmas gift.
Fruitcake for everyone.
Democracy has been the restricted-vote type since inception in Greece.
Never did the Founders intend for one-man, one-vote democracy.
One-man, one-vote democracy IS the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” the working man, the hired help.
Financially challenged citizens will always vote for largesse, even if largesse and the welfare state are irrefutably unconstitutional per Article 1, Section 8.
The American Founders chose freedom and self-reliance.
Chris Weber chooses the communist dictatorship of Karl Marx.
Enough said.
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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“[We gave you] a [restricted-vote] republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
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With comrades and the collectivist, bleeding-heart liberal, likes of Chris Weber in attendance, you couldn’t.
You seriously have a mental issue son.
By all means, do review:
Democracy has been the restricted-vote type since inception in Greece.
Never did the Founders intend for one-man, one-vote democracy.
One-man, one-vote democracy IS the “dictatorship of the proletariat,” the working man, the hired help.
Financially challenged citizens will always vote for largesse, even if largesse and the welfare state are irrefutably unconstitutional per Article 1, Section 8.
The American Founders chose freedom and self-reliance.
Chris Weber chooses the communist dictatorship of Karl Marx.
Enough said.
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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“[We gave you] a [restricted-vote] republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
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With comrades and the collectivist, bleeding-heart liberal, likes of Chris Weber in attendance, you couldn’t.
The guys a loon. He actually thinks calling me a liberal and marxist is going to conceal his own frustrated liberal elitism.
The troll is angry because the working class poor of this country along with everyone else out voted the liberal leftist communist elite, of which he’s a card carrying commissar.
“endeavor, achievement, and success.”
Those are the traits George Svelaz lacks. Good citizens have those traits. Having a ‘stake’ in society is important. Though you think voting was federalized, as usual, you are wrong. Your numbers are not accurate either.
From what you say on the blog, you prefer illegal voting and ballot stuffing. Don’t tell others about how voting should be when you act like a criminal, defending all sorts of practices that destroy confidence in our elections.
“Let Them Vote For Largesse”
Good call.
So, you couldn’t keep it either, comrade, the republic that is.
Thank you for that bit of incoherent denial of the cornerstones and history of the United States of the Founders and Framers.
Tell it to Hamilton, oh, and Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Madison, Jay, Mason et al.
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“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the people discover they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy–to be followed by a dictatorship.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville
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U.S. debt is $37 Trillion.
U.S. spending is out of control.
“Government shutdown looms after House conservatives revolt over GOP-backed spending bill”
– CBS News
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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“[We gave you] a [restricted-vote] republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
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You couldn’t.
George, did you not note that I was talking about George Svelaz, not to just plain old narrow-minded white bread? It appears that your icon changed. Based on the one who assumed each state had the same voting requirements, I corrected the notion that voting requirements were dictated by the federal government. Voting requirements are part of state rights.
Endeavor, achievement, and success were the initial remarks to which I responded, “Those are the traits George Svelaz lacks.” Did I mention white bread in that comment?
“Your numbers are not accurate either.”
– S. Meyer
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Did you actually notice that those are not my words or my numbers; they are all sourced well.
Your “refutation” is a total vacuous failure, but who cares about facts, right?
“Your “refutation” is a total vacuous failure”
Maybe together we can figure out what each of us is saying. I would like to resolve this issue.
Fear not! It’s Kamala to the rescue.
A couple snorts of Jim Beam and we’re right back in business!
“Kamala Harris suddenly cancels Los Angeles trip to remain in D.C. after Biden decline bombshell”
–By CHARLIE SPIERING, SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER, WASHINGTON, DC, Published: 09:53 EST, 20 December 2024 | Updated: 13:37 EST, 20 December 2024
“If Congress fails to pass a continuing resolution before midnight Friday the government faces a partial shutdown.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14214295/kamala-harris-cancels-los-angeles-trip-joe-biden-white-house.html
Was Kamie going to completely invaded one-party communist state of Foreignfornia to promote the ridiculous, $100-billion-over-budget, High Speed Rail Project, when what is need is a High Speed Water Pipeline from Great Bear Lake, Canada?
Now the question is, how long will it be before the DNC and MSM run for cover, throw Joe under the bus? Who if any one will be held accountable for all the disastrous actions were taken under the name of Joe Biden? That little part in the CR bill about not turning over subpoenas to Congress investigations, was that really about the Jan6th committee or was that part of possible investigations into The Biden Mentally Incompetent Scandal?
Aside from an open border and a damaged economic system, what have Democrats offered us? War and lies. More war and more lies. Democrats are not fit to govern.
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DOD’s Deception: General’s admission on U.S. troops in Syria latest whopper to mislead Americans
From the disastrous Afghanistan retreat to Lloyd Austin’s surgery, Biden’s Pentagon has been flagged regularly for mistruths if not outright disinformation.
The Pentagon vowed to do better after hiding from Americans for days the fact that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was medically AWOL. It also struggled for a week to get its story straight on the nature of a Chinese spy balloon transversing U.S. air space. And it falsely claimed the withdrawal from Afghanistan would be orderly when its own emails conceded there was “chaos.” Videos shown around the world revealed civilians falling to their deaths trying to cling to evacuating U.S. military aircraft….
The trouble with the truth inside America’s most famous five-sided building exploded anew Thursday when a two-star general admitted at the beginning of a Pentagon press briefing that the Biden administration had doubled the number of U.S. troops inside Syria months ago while continuing to provide a false and lower number to reporters.”
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The lefties on this blog lied about almost every major disputed decision the Biden administration and Democrats gave us. They should be condemned and recognized for their lies and ignorance.
We are discussing Biden’s mental decline and the refusal of Democrats to recon with that, but more important is what Biden and the Democrats have done.
https://justthenews.com/government/security/dod-deception-generals-admission-us-troops-syria-latest-whopper-mislead?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
“Democrats are not fit to govern” so true but they are great at creating pork and free stuff for their minions. Sort of similar to the prestige system of government used by the likes of Atilla, the Xiongnu, the Mongols and every tinplated 3rd world dictator who kept his rabble happy by giving them gifts that they stole from others or received as tribute for not attacking other nations. Doesn’t that sound very similar to the schemes run by democrat politicians everywhere?
Yesterday, when Dennis was desperately trying to distract us from this bit of facts, I posted this,
“What are you babbling about? We all knew Biden was mentally incompetent during his election campaign from the basement in 2020. Anyone with any degree of common sense knew that. I am expecting there to be tell all books about the Biden admin and reading that Harris maybe getting book deals, I would not be surprised if she was one of them. Whatever these “insiders” are now coming forth and telling us, most of us are just going to shrug and say, “Yeah, no kidding!” So the real question is who was running the country for the past four years, can they be held accountable for all the disasters they gave us? And if you have not noticed, electing a mentally incompetent, man with dementia was a threat to not only the nation but the world. That should be THE scandal of the century!”
Now, looking over the comments, seems our leftist anonymorns are desperately trying to deflect from what is THE scandal of the century.
How marvelous!
That is right. We all knew. We knew back in 2020 when Biden was campaigning from the basement he was mentally incompetent. Yet, the DNC and MSM for years lied to us, gaslight us about how “sharp as a tack!” Biden was. Turns out, we were right about their lying.
@Upstate
Not just incompetent; very obviously installed. His name recognition made it possible for Obama to run again without actually running again, IMO. So was AOC, though I’d term her ‘hired’. This could cross the spectrum of liberal chicanery and dynasties going all the way back to when Hillary first Met Soros. THAT was the moment the party of JFK died, as far as I’m concerned. Corrupt as sheet. Biggest elitist grift in history.
I still say: we aren’t done. They will try again, and then again. We have got be vigilant in a way we may not prefer for years to come. Always appreciate your comments.
James,
Well said and spot on!
When I was 4 my older brother would give me an unplugged video game controller and tell me I was playing the game.
This is basically what Musk is doing with Trump.
You can’t make this stuff up…
“Wow! One GOP lobbyist just told me he thinks Elon is really the one who’s calling the shots — not Trump.” And Troy responded, “lol no s—t.’
Yay, So What … at least this time around Someone is running the Country. It’s not a ‘Free-for-All’ pork barrel smorgasbord of give me all that you can of the Taxpayers money that the DEMs were having.
The problem with your abject falsehood is that Trump is lucid, coherent, rational, and highly intelligent, as he considers advice, whereas Biden is a slavering, blithering idiot under the direct control of lunatics and similar to, well, you.
final proof from the WSJ that for the past 4 years we were living in a modern-day version of the emperor has not clothes on
Peter K – The biggest scandal is not that they hid Biden’s infirmities. The biggest scandal is that they used Biden’s seemingly moderate veneer to advance a radical, anti-American agenda.
I can rationalize that the many bad policies (Framework for Afghanistan exit, COVID mandates, Unlimited immigration, Bypassing Congress to forgive student loans, Attempting to reduce oil & gas production and then in reaction to higher pump prices cover up with depleting the strategic oil reserve, …) of the Biden administration probably emanated from Joe Biden and his brain trust when Joe was having a good day. I would, however, like enterprising soul to correlate events with Joe’s bad days. For example, I would suspect that the administration’s irrational hesitancy to shoot down a known Chinese spy balloon over sparsely populated areas was because Joe was having a bad day.
I do agree that the President’s physicians have a lot for which to answer as it appears that they did not think they had an obligation to honestly report to the American people. What exactly is the President’s physician obligated to report to the public? I think the 25th amendment is difficult to execute for a purpose but the physician’s responsibilities might need to be clarified.
It would be interesting to compare & contrast the management of Joe Biden’s bad days with both Ronald Reagan’s declining years and especially with Woodrow Wilson’s last year in office after his most debilitating stroke where it is believed that his wife not only ran Cabinet meetings but also signed bills.
Anyone paying attention knows that was Obamas third term
Double Duh! The only ones fooled were those wanting to be fooled.
@Anon @Mespo
Yup. Knew it during the election. Biden was installed. They attempted to do the same with Kamala and failed. It isn’t over, and we have to continue to make them fail. We overwhelmingly do not want their Marxist version of America, that is for certain; that they do not care we don;t want it and will proceed to be tyrants is also certain. Seriously, they had it easier in the Robespierre days when it was as simple as chopping the head off of royalty. Dollars are much more pernicious, as exhibited by the paid anonymous shills still insisting on haunting us even though at this point we literally regard them with all of the respect we’d give 8th grade world history students. 🤷🏻♂️
Still, this is far from over, folks. Do not relent.
The trap was set with the sweet scent of deceit to lure the gullible into pursuing the truth about the mental decline of the leader. Look over here, isn’t this just AMAZING the boss has lost his mind, damn why didn’t we see it! To paraphrase Madam H. Clinton; ‘at this juncture was difference does it make’ or as a former boss I worked for some 60 years ago said when confronted with an issue that was past tense and uncorrectable [what’s the cost of tea in China again?]. Even though it was known the Presidents Metal acuity was suspect, the populous endured thinking he was a better alternative in the long and short term than a simple brained cackler. Who has and still has the rudder of the Ship of State is the question.
Don’t get distracted by this latest piece of Chocolate as sweet as it is (comeuppance), the current legislative governmental is dysfunctional, the republicans must circle the wagons and defend the only party platform I’ve heard that being from President Elect Trump.
Do you think he should remain in power as commander in chief for the remaining 30 days?
I know of no way to remove our dementia, stumbling, mumbling President that could be accomplished before the Inauguration of President Trump. I have empathy for President Biden having experience with a demented mother-in-law for 20 years who progressed to having no past recollection just the present.
If there were to be a significant security event tonight – akin to 9/11 – should this person be making decisions for United States citizens??
I’m certain the cissies of the mass moron media liars machine will quickly come to their senses and realize age shaming of Trump is also as bad as doing it to biden, and they will immediately back off and cover up any problems for the next four years.
Just as soon as they realize this, it will happen.
Since all sign offs and vetos. Etc. Does that make every policy and money given, etc that biden was a part of null and void?
Can we reverse everything and take back the money from the last four years?
And what specifically is so bad?
Do you want to pay higher gas prices? They are currently down, way down.
Perhaps you want to have your wages reduced to 2020 levels?
Or if you have any stock gains since 2020, are you going to donate your gains to the U.S. Government? or donate them to Biden as a thank you? or just take the cash and burn it? Your choice.
OT
Proposals have been made recently to privatize the U.S. Postal Service.
Considering the current strike against Amazon, it will be interesting to watch the International Brotherhood of Teamsters take over the U.S. mail.
That radical union’s most recent victory was $170K for UPS delivery workers.
There are something approaching 650,000 postal workers x $170K per???
Nice!
Seriously? 170K?
Privatized postal workers will vote to join the Teamsters.
UPS skimmed the cream off the top; UPS took, or was “gifted,” the most profitable segment of the post office.
UPS delivery workers were formerly postal workers.
They’re all one and the same.
When the USPS is privatized, postal workers and UPS delivery workers will ALL be radical Teamsters.
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“UPS drivers will earn an average of $170,000 in annual pay and benefits at the end of a five-year contract agreement, UPS CEO Carol Tomé said during an earnings call this week.”
– CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ups-drivers-170000-pay-benefits-compensation/
For four years, the decisions Joe Biden was elected to make in our national interest were being made by a committee of unelected, nameless, faceless, and politicized persons accountable to no one. What an amazing nation we must be to have survived that.
Obama once said,
“If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in and I was just in my basement in my sweats looking through the stuff, and then I could sort of deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony, I’d be fine with that.”
Obama got his guy in Joe Biden to do his third term.
How do you MAGA cultists feel now??
You sent Trump all your hard earned money, bought his shitty hats, sneakers, NFTs, Bibles, gold coins…only to have him turn around and sell the Presidency to Musk for a mere $277 million.
Musk paid $44 billion for Twitter.
The Presidency only cost him $277 million.
What a deal !!!!!
If Trump really is a master deal maker he could have gotten WAY more than a paltry $277 million.
I think Musk clinched the deal with a gift card for free food at McDonald’s for the rest of his life.
Hey, Don’t make fun of me. I got a red MAGA had (made in China) for only $20.
Oh, you mean the SAME presidency that Kamala Harris, HER rich and famous friends and the Dems tried (and FAILED) to “buy” for more than $1 BILLION dollars?
Of course the big difference is that Musk was actually successful, at a fraction of the price.
He is playing Trump for the sucker that he is.
Booooooooohoooooooo
FUNFACT: This idiotic communist loser is here on the Turley Blog precisely because he entirely forfeited his bearings after he, the dumbocraps, and patient #1 Biden LOST, utterly and completely!
“Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”
Congress should add the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS as another “such body” to this list. Especially in the current hyper-polarized political environment, expecting anyone on the President’s Administration or team of advisors to question the President’s fitness to serve due to loss of mental faculties would be unthinkable. The SCOTUS is still recognized as being at least somewhat apolitical, at least by people with reasonably-high IQs, and even some Democrats.
Of course, the problem in the case of the current “administration *” is that, no matter how diminished the current “president *” is, his mental prowess will always exceed that of his “vice president *”. So, maybe we got the better outcome anyway.
There’s that thing about the Democrats that curses them every now and then. JFK had the Marilyn Monroe episode, Bill Clinton had the Monica Lewinsky scandal, now it’s Hunter Biden’s turn to fill the Gossip Gap in the saga of the Curse. We’ll be reading about him in the Check-Out Stalls of the Supermarkets for years to come. Our ‘Inquiring Minds’ fixated on; what. when, where, who, and how much. What musing fun it will be!
This issue is not new. President Biden’s mental health has not negatively impacted the economy or foreign policy. Even if his mental decline was concealed, it is not something that other administrations haven’t done. For example, Reagan showed signs of early onset Alzheimer’s before he left office. Trump also displays mental health concerns, as evidenced at his rallies. Does Turley believe Trump’s cabinet would be more honest than Biden’s? Hardly.
Consider his first Surgeon General, who showed nervousness when discussing Trump’s health. Trump is heart attack waiting to happen. We shouldn’t pretend that Trump is in great shape. At least he has Elon Musk to potentially carry on the mantle if things take a turn for the worse.
Four years is a long time for any of Trump’s health problems to manifest themselves. Will his cabinet also have the boldness to invoke the 25th? I doubt it and Turley won’t be questioning it either.
Professor Turley seems to be getting as much of he can out of the Biden administration before Trump takes office, because he may find himself forced to criticize Trump and republicans since they are going to be incontrol of all three branches of government. Ironically, Trump has already made a mess of things for Republicans and he has not been sworn in yet.
“President Biden’s mental health has not negatively impacted the economy or foreign policy.”
Except for massive inflation, a Russian invasion of Ukraine and a disasterous withdrawal from Afghanistan that’s absolutely true.
And don’t forget to add to that list the invasion going on at our Southern Border
Thank God george the second is an expert and we can rely on his blatant lie to form our identical opinions.
George is a laryngectomy waiting to happen. Can’t imagine how his “voice box” can get any worse over the next four years, when it comes to his “speech,” which of course, is “protected”
” President Biden’s mental health has not negatively impacted the economy or foreign policy. “
George Svelaz is mirroring Biden’s state of mental decline starting at the bottom.