Joe Biden just raised his middle finger and told Americans around the world to “Fuck you.”
In a taped interview that lasted just 22 minutes, the President insisted that his dire poll numbers weren’t real — “fake news,” so to speak — that the Democratic Party has no concerns about his fitness to lead, and that the only way he would drop out of the race is “if the Lord Almighty comes down and tells me.”
What? Barack Obama isn’t close enough?
If Americans had even a modicum of sympathy for Biden after last week’s CNN debate — if they felt that perhaps he didn’t know how serious his condition was, that his family was probably keeping him in the race for their own purposes — well, Joe took that notion into the public square and disproved it.
This interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, intended as damage control, has only further infuriated Democratic politicians and big donors who, since the calamitous debate with Trump, have pressured the President to step aside.
Make no mistake: Joe Biden, for all his hackneyed talk about “fighting for the soul of America,” doesn’t give a damn about that.
He cares about staying in power. Period.
Joe Biden just raised his middle finger and told Americans around the world to “Fuck you.”
Biden may or may not be lying to himself, but he is most certainly lying to the American people when he says everything is fine.
Stephanopoulos: Did you ever watch the debate afterwards?
Biden: I don’t think he has, no.
I don’t think I did?
That debate was burned into the frontal lobes of all who witnessed it. Biden’s performance is a national trauma, enough for his cheerleaders at MSNBC and the New York Times to finally express grave alarm and ask him to step aside immediately.
But almost in the next moment, Biden said he is certain he does not need a neurological exam because, he said with absolute certainty, his doctors have not told him he needs one.
“Nobody told me I had to do it,” Biden said. “Nobody told me. They told me it was OK.”
Which of the two is true? Does he not remember whether he watched last week’s debate (which effectively marked the end of his political career) or is he absolutely certain, despite the panic among the liberal elite, party donors and the entire US mass media, that he is right and they are wrong? Because he cannot be both.
Biden was tanned and very puffy, but he couldn’t hide his slurred speech, his slurred diction or those moments when he’d miss a name or a fact and stare into the distance with that vacant stare.
‘I just… anyway.’
Nor could he hide his anger as Stephanopoulos pressed and pressed, refusing to accept Biden’s repeated argument that “I just had a bad night.”
If that was a bad night, COVID was just a nuisance.
Asked four times whether he would consider taking an independent cognitive test and publishing the results to allay fears, Biden said no.
“George,” he said, “I am the man who created NATO.”
It’s not.
“I’m the guy who silenced Putin.”
Ukraine does not agree.
‘We invented the chip, the little chip, the computer chip.’
Another lie. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce invented the microchip in 1958. Biden would have been 16 years old.
This interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, intended as damage control, has only further infuriated Democratic politicians and big donors who, since the calamitous debate with Trump, have pressured the President to step aside.
Biden may or may not be lying to himself, but he is most certainly lying to the American people when he says everything is fine.
“You know,” he said, “the next president of the United States is not just going to be about whether he knows what he’s doing.”
Isn’t that right? Isn’t that the basic level of the job description: knowing what you’re doing?
Biden—who we recently learned only works “best” between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., and who claimed after the debate that he actually needs to work even less, sleep more, and stop doing things after 8 p.m.—made this incredible statement:
“This is not a scam, it is a group of people making decisions.”
This is exactly our greatest fear right now: that a group of people we neither know nor elect, including Jill and Hunter Biden, will be the ones making the decisions.
Semafor’s Ben Smith reported on a phone call he had with a “freaked out” Biden aide on July 4:
‘Even some members of the West Wing are not clear about which policy issues reach the president and how. Important decisions go into an opaque circle… and the return is complete.’
What is that but a conglomerate?
Yet Biden has the temerity to say that this race is “about the president’s character.”
If he had any character, he would have left already. He would have made a dignified exit.
His refusal to do so, his selfish and megalomaniacal insistence on staying in this race (which is falling in the polls against Trump, whom he calls our greatest “threat to democracy”) means that the party will make him suffer.
When the billionaire donor class abandons you (Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and Disney heiress Abigail Disney are among those who pulled funding), you’re done for.
When Hollywood powerbroker Ari Emanuel, brother of former Obama senior adviser Rahm Emanuel, says Biden’s condition has left Democrats in “F*** City,” well, that’s saying the quiet part out loud.
And when George Stephanopoulos, the top leader of the Democratic Party, repeatedly urges you to leave in a glorified exit interview, you might get the obvious hint.
In fact, left-wing media have abandoned their more baroque explanations for Biden’s age-related decline.
In March, a month after special counsel Robert Hur concluded that Biden was “an old man with a poor memory” who could not recall when his son Beau died or the years he served as vice president, New York Times critic A.O. Scott wrote a lengthy essay claiming that Biden’s forgetfulness was merely akin to the “late style” of great authors like Matisse, Beethoven and Shakespeare.
You couldn’t make this up.
Our big fear right now is that a group of people we don’t know or elect, including Jill and Hunter Biden, will be making the decisions.
If he had any character, he would have left already. He would have made a dignified exit.
In New York magazine, Olivia Nuzzi reported this week that Biden no longer recognizes his old friends.
He quoted a guest who attended a White House event last year as saying Biden’s condition was so alarming that “the guest was now open to an idea he had previously dismissed as right-wing propaganda: The president may not be the acting president after all.”
Something frightening. But equally suspicious was Nuzzi’s admission, in that article, that he had been hiding this information since January. I wonder why?
But, as Joe Biden insisted in last night’s damning, delusional interview (which he and his loyalists will no doubt call a “cheap fake”), his polls are strong (Trump is on the rise since the debate), his approval rating is up (it’s at a dismal 36 percent), and “every governor” is behind him (Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healy reportedly told Biden’s chief of staff that his candidacy is “unsalvageable”).
Lest there be any doubt that Biden’s mask of decency has simply fallen and shattered into a million pieces, consider what he said about Trump in January: “He is willing to sacrifice our democracy to put himself in power.”
Asked by Stephanopoulos whether, by refusing to step aside, Trump — remember, the biggest threat to democracy, the guy who will never go away, no matter what, ahem — wins this election, Biden shrugged:
“I’ll be sorry as long as I’ve given my all and done the best job I know I can do, that’s what it’s all about.”
American women, reproductive rights, the Supreme Court, this vaunted democracy and rule of law… the President just said, “Fuck them. It’s all about me.”
It is now up to Democrats to oust him, forcefully and definitively, and make this race about the American people.
Let Joe Biden’s legacy come to its ignominious and shameful end.
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