One of the Biden White House’s greatest achievements, from the perspective of its staffers, if not necessarily the country, has been to deny the press the kind of juicy leaks that were constant under Donald Trump and frequent under his predecessors. Save for a very narrow period of time, that is, when there was a push to force an aging president toward the exits: Then and only then we got a drip-drip-drip of fascinating inside information.

For instance, we learned that Biden hadn’t held a full cabinet meeting since last October and that his handlers expected scripted questions from his cabinet officials. We learned that his capacities peak between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. and diminish outside that six-hour window. We learned that congressional Democrats, liberal donors and some journalists all had exposure to Biden’s decline that they didn’t discuss publicly until the debacle of the June debate. We learned that none other than Hunter Biden was acting as a close adviser to his father in the crucial days after that debate.

We even learned that from early in his presidency, the first lady’s closest aides worked to shield her husband from the staff that serves the first family in its living quarters, even as the aides themselves were given unusual access to the residence — as though it were essential to create a cocoon of loyalty and silence around the nation’s chief executive even when he isn’t on the job.

These are all interesting and pertinent facts about the man who officially leads the United States in a time of global danger — and they have not ceased to be pertinent because that president is no longer running for re-election.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/opinion/joe-biden-president.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CE4.0hyL.9CNFJAmhWmk2&smid=url-share

https://archive.is/u2JyP

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    bullshit, asshole, bullshit, shithead, bullshit, motherfucker, fucking victim, jerk

    oh my, you tried so hard, explained you are 50, managed to wrote four paragraphs without insult to present yourself like mature person and still ended up looking like a raging lunatic 😂

    I strongly disagree with the assertion that Biden is washed up. Why? Because he’s been a gaffe-machine for as long as I can remember.

    just because something is happening for a long time doesn’t mean it it is ok.

    on top of that, biden’s condition clearly progresses and what we saw in the debate was quite sad. and keep in mind that what we saw in the debate was HIS BEST effort. he knew this debate was coming and he had all the time in the world to prepare for it, and it still ended up like that. if this was his best day, how does his average one look like? how does his worst? how often does someone bring him a memo and he says “huh… which one is iran again?”?

    I would even have voted him for a second term, because I get gaffes and misspeaks, because even I have problems with that.

    and would you be happy about it?

    forget about that “last barrier between us and hell” narrative. if there were fair democratic primaries, you had full knowledge of his condition and you had to chose between him and some other fine contenders, harris being one of them, would you still vote for him? would you really be happy to vote for someone who is in such deteriorated mental state that he doesn’t recognize people he should be recognizing and who will most likely die in the office, if elected? does that sound like a person fit for that office?

    done dirty by the media and people like you.

    and that is where the cult thing starts.

    normal mature person has standards and holds everyone accountable. just because the other side are cheating bastards, doesn’t mean that your side should be cheating bastards as well; because when that happens, is there really a difference between the two?

    if there is a problem on your side, that problem should be found, analyzed and dealt with. because dealing with problems on your side is not a sign of weakness, it is something that improves your long-term performance.

    if you are in a cult though, all you need is to attack the people who pointed the problem out, blame them for ruining your fantasy and insist everything is all right and it is just “media and people like you” who did dirty to our supreme leader 😆

    (I’d) say that continuing to harp on Biden’s age plays into Trump’s hands.

    biden is no longer the candidate and any discussion about age plays against trump at this moment. and talking about a problem will, ideally, lead to not repeating it.

    Biden has 5 months left in office regardless of who wins in November. He’s already in Transition Phase, making ready for whoever takes over.

    no, biden is not in a transition phase, he is full fledged president in a world where multiple military conflicts are in progress and threaten to escalate further and he is in a state where he confuses names of the leaders and countries. that doesn’t really inspire confidence.

    If you think there is a Biden problem, it’ll solve itself in 5 months when Biden hands over the power to the next admin. Let’s work on making sure that next admin is a Harris/Walz admin.

    biden problem is that people around him purposefully hid the truth about his condition from public in order to try to usurp another four years in power and where it is unclear to what degree he actually exercises the power of the office personally and to what degree he is just puppeteered by others.

    the situation will technically go away when he leaves office, the problem will not. it should be investigated and someone held accountable.

    i am very aware they won’t be, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be at least talked about and that it should be swept under the rug as a non-problem.

    that you called people that disagreed with you part of a cult. Listen up here, asshole. I’m trying to stop cults from taking office in January. (…) I’m trying to stop the cult led by Vladimir Putin

    whatever trump or putin did doesn’t absolve biden or people around him from their potential guilt. that is not how it works.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

    I’m trying to ensure that come 20 January, the Orange Cult Leader himself is left ranting and raging on the sidelines as Kamala Harris is sworn in

    and i wish you good luck with that.

    And then you, you shithead, come in here and accuse me of being part of a cult because I dare disagree with your bullshit article saying Biden should still be an issue to harp on. No, motherfucker. You’re not lumping me in with the actual cults. So if you don’t want downvotes, maybe stop playing the fucking victim and realise that Biden is yesterday’s news and we’re focused on putting the Shitgibbon down. That get through your thick skull, you jerk?

    if you don’t want to be called cult member, don’t act like one. that get through your thick skull, you clown?