Does Biden Even Understand Why He Wasn’t Charged?

  Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com) 

 Joe Biden, no matter the politics, is simply mentally incapable to be President of the United States. It’s been clear for years but it is now in writing. It is not a debatable question anymore. Yet, he still may get re-elected. 

Toon added by TD

 "Joe Biden, even though he did take and secrete away secret documents and such, will not be charged with any crime related to what are acts quite similar to those for which Donald Trump was charged with crimes.

"In his report explaining his decision, Special Counsel Robert Hur said today that Biden was too far removed from reality for a jury to convict him of a crime.

"In other words, Biden did it, Biden broke the law, but he is too mentally deficient for anyone to believe he either really did it on purpose or, after the fact, could possibly have remembered what he did, let alone pass along the information (of course, that does leave aside Hunter’s possible use of the documents but maybe that will come up in his tax case.)

"The report read, in part, as follows:

“In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” Hur wrote. “He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him.”

"Because of his obvious inability to think coherently, Hur wrote that a jury would merely see a  “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” rather than be able to see him as an intentionally bad-acting criminal.

"Putting on my public relations hat and warping myself into the White House, I will state clearly and succinctly: The administration would have preferred Biden be charged with a crime it could fight rather than be publicly outed as non compos mentis .

" 'How do we pull a crooked Biden across the finish line?” is a question his team has prepared for. “How do we drag a Biden who has been called a mental basket case by his own Department of Justice across the finish line?” is not." . . .

Too incompetent to be prosecuted but not too incompetent to rule?

 "It’s time for those same Democrats who lied to get Biden into the White House to tell him that he must step aside before the 25th Amendment is invoked. It’s a humiliation, and it’s one that they themselves caused. Jill Biden did this to her husband. His children, his staff, all the people who enabled this charade — this is on them. And Americans won’t soon forget it."  NY Post Editorial Board

Too incompetent to be prosecuted but not too incompetent to rule? - Marcus Ebenhack   . . ."This brings to mind the story of Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, a mafioso who feigned insanity to avoid prosecution.  Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Mr. Biden, at this point, has the capacity to feign anything, least of all competence.  But he wasn’t a pathetic, senile caricature of his current self when these crimes were committed.  Hur’s decision to not charge reminds of James Comey’s speech exonerating Hillary Clinton of her national security breaches." . . .

‘A nightmare’: Special counsel’s assessment of Biden’s mental fitness triggers Democratic panic (nbcnews.com)  . . .“It’s a nightmare,” said a Democratic House member who asked to speak anonymously to provide a frank assessment, adding that “it weakens President Biden electorally, and Donald Trump would be a disaster and an authoritarian.” . . .

Is Joe Biden’s staff sabotaging him or saving the nation? - Patricia McCarthy   "The special counsel’s report on Joe Biden’s illegally hoarded documents from the time he was a senator and vice president was devastating on several counts.  Special counsel Robert Hur found that Biden “willfully and intentionally” took classified documents and stored them carelessly.  He also shared them illegally with ghost writer, Mark Zwonitzer.  But, he won’t be charged with a crime because his memory is now defective—in other words he is elderly and too feeble-minded, and making him a defendant would be cruel!  This is not how the legal system is supposed to work.

"Never having been president at the time, Biden had no right to take any of said documents into his possession.  But, as everyone knows by now, the report also described Biden’s serious cognitive decline, a fact anyone who has been paying attention knows only too well." . . .  "So, the question is: what was Biden’s staff thinking, letting him speak to the nation at a time past his known bedtime, when he was clearly agitated, angry, defensive and obviously disoriented." . . . 

Jill Biden and Dems committed elder abuse on Joe -- now they must force him to step aside (nypost.com)  . . ."What Hur has proven is that Joe Biden’s cognitive decline is not new, and it certainly wasn’t a secret.

"Jill Biden knew. His aides knew. Heck, James Clyburn, the entire Democratic establishment knew.

"Yet, terrified that Bernie Sanders would win the nomination and then fail to take down their mortal enemy, Donald Trump, they propped up Biden like he was a Potemkin candidate — or, more accurately, “Weekend at Bernie’s” — to try to capture some Obama nostalgia. 

"With the benefit of pandemic lockdowns, they could imprison Old Joe in the basement, limit his interactions with the press, and keep him tied to a teleprompter between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. It worked." . . .

Biden insists 'my memory is fine' as he angrily criticizes Special Counsel report (youtube.com)   If Joe sat for a five-hour interview can't he do three minutes during the Super Bowl softball questions?

Colorado Lawyer Flails As Clarence Thomas Calmly Destroys His Trump Disqualification Argument

 Thomas Destroys Lawyer's Argument For Kicking Trump Off The Ballot (thefederalist.com)

“What I would like to know, is do you have any examples of this?” Thomas asked. Unable to provide a definitive answer to Thomas’ question, Murray fell back on his talking point that “elections worked differently back then.”

"By merely asking for examples, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas calmly destroyed respondents’ argument for disqualifying former President Donald Trump from Colorado’s 2024 presidential primary ballot.

"The moment came on Thursday morning, during oral arguments on Trump’s appeal to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court’s Dec. 19 decision to keep him off the Centennial State’s 2024 primary ballot. Colorado’s highest court claimed in its ruling that the former president can be “disqualified” from holding office under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which stipulates that “[n]o person” who has previously sworn an oath as an officer of the United States and has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion shall” serve in any of an enumerated list of offices of the United States.

"The president and vice president are not included in this list of positions.

"During Thursday’s hearing, respondents’ attorney Jason Murray argued that Trump incited the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, and therefore, engaged in insurrection. He also claimed that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment uses broad language, and thus that states possess the authority to include the presidency — and by default, Trump — as one of the positions eligible for disqualification." . . .

Civil War Confederate Veteran in the Senate  "Charles S. Thomas of Colorado was the last Confederate veteran to serve in the Senate. Born in Georgia, he served briefly as a teenager in the Confederate Army. He settled in Denver after the war, where he built a law practice and pursued a Senate career. Following three failed attempts to gain a Senate seat, the 63-year-old Thomas finally became a U.S. senator in 1913, a position he held until 1921." . . .

Confederates in Congress: Gen. Joe Wheeler (americanheritage.com)  "After the war, he became a planter and lawyer, and served briefly in the House of Representatives, where he was said to have worked to heal the differences between Northern and Southern interests." . . .   Confederates in Congress: More here, both good and bad.

The absurd Dem border con - Victor Davis Hanson

  Victor Davis Hanson (jewishworldreview.com)

Still, it remains somewhat unclear why Biden and his Homeland Security chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, destroyed what Trump had achieved. Why would they ensure such misery for both American hosts and millions of illegal immigrants?

"In 2021, President Joe Biden opened wide an inherited, secure southern border that had finally stopped mass illegal immigration.

"When he overturned former President Donald Trump's efforts, a planned flood of over 8 million illegal immigrants entered the U.S.

"Almost all arrived without background checks, health screening, or vaccination certificates — but with massive needs for free housing, education, healthcare, and food entitlements and subsidies.

"For four years, Trump battled the courts, his Democratic opposition, and the open-border establishments within his own party to ensure legal-only immigration. Somehow, he rebuilt some of the old porous border fence. He had begun to build his long-promised new wall to the Gulf of Mexico. He had ended Obama-era catch-and-release.

"Would-be refugees had to apply for asylum in their home country. Trump leveraged Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to police his own border and stop cynically transiting millions of illegal aliens into the U.S.

"There was general Democratic Party opposition to all of Trump's measures, both through Congress and via the courts.

Leftists Disconnected From How Things Work Are Destroying Everything

 Vince Coyner - American Thinker    (Known in New York as "Vinnie", I'm sure.) TD

. . ."Thomas Jefferson understood the problem, saying in 1824: “I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.” That is 2024 incarnate." . . .

. . ."The left today is largely government employees, students, college-educated white women working inside large corporations, Wall Street, academia, the cabal of NGOs, the media, the 40 million who suckle on the government teat through programs like SNAP, and the 47% of the country who either pay no tax or get “refundable tax credits”.

"Few of those people do anything remotely productive for the economy. Few understand that the government doesn’t have money beyond what it takes from taxpayers or prints via taxpayer IOUs. They have no appreciation for Capitalism, the thing that gave us our prosperity. They flush the toilets and expect them to work, flip the light switch and expect the room to illuminate, and go to the store to pick up a pound of beef without knowing how it gets there. Few of them have any real connection to the basic functionality of life.

"The result of this societal bifurcation is that half of our population has little understanding of or vested interest in the country’s or the economy’s continued functioning. More regulations and higher taxes are always the answer because none of them are affected. Regulations make it harder to open a business or keep one running, but they’re easy promises for politicians to offer as the solution to every problem because their voters never pay the price for the consequences." . . .

If I may digress: McCormick "Battle of Shiloh" Advertising Poster | Poster | Wisconsin Historical Society (wisconsinhistory.org)  

". . ."advertising poster produced for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a McCormick binder stored in a shed in the middle of the battle of Shiloh during the American Civil War. The poster was based on an 1885 cyclorama by French artist Theophile Poilpot. Includes the text "the 'McCormick' machines come victoriously out of every contest and without a scratch." The battle occurred on April 6, 1862. The advertising poster was produced in 1885 and features a machine that did not exist until the 1880s."

Israel's American frenemy. From Carter through Obama, there is this yellow streak in Democrat character

 Melanie Phillips

 One consequence of that feebleness was last month's drone attack by Iranian proxies in Jordan, which killed three U.S. service members and injured more than 40. America's strikes in response to that attack have mostly been laughable, with copious warnings ensuring that they largely hit only empty camps.

"Astonishingly, Israel has to fight right now to defend its existence not just against a line-up of mortal foes doing the bidding of Iran but also against the Jewish state's most important ally, America.

"U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who came to Israel this week to bully it into a ceasefire in Gaza, preposterously demanded a one-to-one private meeting with the Israel Defense Forces' Chief of the General Staff, Herzi Halevi.

"At the meeting that took place instead with the war cabinet, Blinken was reportedly put out when Halevi said the war would continue for months because of the challenge mounted by the vast extent of Hamas's underground military infrastructure.

"Put out, that is, by Israel's refusal to leave itself once again at the mercy of Hamas's genocidal agenda.

"Blinken then publicly bared America's teeth. Although in his remarks alongside Israeli President Isaac Herzog, he was careful to say that he appreciated Israel's emphasis on protecting civilians and providing humanitarian assistance, he gave vent at a press conference to accusations that echoed the malevolent demonization of Israel around the world.

"He declared "the daily toll that [Israel's] military operations continue to take on innocent civilians remains too high"; urged Israel "to do more to help civilians"; and said although Israelis had been dehumanized, "that cannot be a license to dehumanize others. The overwhelming majority of people in Gaza had nothing to do with the attacks of Oct. 7."

"This was all breathtakingly malign. Since the ratio of civilians to terrorists killed in Gaza is running at around two or three civilians to one terrorist — far lower than the proportion of civilians killed in U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan — on what conceivable basis is the number of Gaza civilian casualties "too high"?" . . .

Hostage Rescue Less Vital to Many Israelis Than Defeat of Hamas

 Bloomberg

"(Bloomberg) -- The Hostage Families Forum occupies three floors of a high-end Tel Aviv office building. Under the motto “Bring Them Home Now!” the group generates millions of dollars in donations and gets worldwide publicity from international tours by stricken relatives. 

"With so much global attention on the hostages — about 100 remain in Gaza after being taken by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 — it may seem from afar like the main obstacle to their release is the will of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose war aims have become central to his political survival.

"US Secretary of State Antony Blinken this week toured the Middle East for a fifth time since the start of the conflict to try to broker a deal to end the Gaza war, which has been raging for four months since the initial Hamas attack on Israel. Any agreement between the sides would include the release of hostages in return for a cease-fire, yet no deal has been reached.

Read More: Netanyahu Balks at Israel-Hamas Deal Even as Blinken Voices Hope   

Biden avoids documents charges, gets roasted on memory loss

 A long-awaited report cleared President Joe Biden of any wrongdoing in his mishandling of classified documents Thursday but dropped a political bombshell by painting the Democrat as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

. . ."However, in a shock for the Biden campaign, special counsel Robert Hur said his probe had found a president with such reduced mental capacities that he could not remember the dates of his vice presidency under Barack Obama and the death of his son Beau to cancer in 2015.

"Speaker Mike Johnson and other top Republican leaders of the House of Representatives called the report “deeply disturbing” and said it showed Biden was “unfit” for the presidency.

“ 'A man too incapable of being held accountable for mishandling classified information is certainly unfit for the Oval Office,” they said in a statement.

"The 81-year-old Biden, speaking at a Democratic Party meeting, said he was “pleased to see they reached the conclusion… that no charges should be brought.' ” . . .

The Morning Briefing: Maybe Karine Jean-Pierre Doesn't Actually Know That Biden's Lost It – PJ Media

"One way to bolster a mentally iffy leader is to surround that leader with a cast of idiots who make him look good. That would certainly explain why Pete Buttigieg has a job in Biden's cabinet." Stephen Kruiser

. . ."Because Doocy is one of the last members of the White House press corps who is interested in doing real journalism, he brought up Biden's convo with the dead guy to KJP. Matt wrote about it for us:" 

On Tuesday, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about the incident.

“How is President Biden ever going to convince the three-quarters of voters who are worried about his physical and mental health that he is OK, even though in Las Vegas he told a story about recently talking to a French president who died in 1996?” he asked.

“I’m not even going to go down that rabbit hole with you, sir,” an exasperated Jean-Pierre replied.

But Doocy wasn't about to let it go. “What is the rabbit hole? He said he talked to Mitterrand."

“You saw the president in Vegas, in California. You’ve seen the president in South Carolina. You saw him in Michigan. I’ll just leave it there,” Jean-Pierre said.

“How is that a rabbit hole?” Doocy asked, but Jean-Pierre moved on, unwilling to address the issue.

Freed hostage recounts torture of women in Gaza's terror tunnels - Washington Post

The Jerusalem Post  

"In an interview for international media, Agam Goldstein-Almog discussed Hamas's psychological torture, starvation, and her encounter with other female hostages in the tunnels beneath Gaza."  J Post

"Hostages had been drugged with Clonazepam upon release so they would look happy, an official from Israel’s Health Ministry told the Knesset. As the drugs wore off, nightmares, anxiety, and tantrums became the new normal." 

"As soon as Agam Goldstein-Almog (17) was abducted from Kibbutz Kfar Aza on October 7 in Gaza, she was forced to put on a headscarf and a long dress, commanded to look at the ground, was forced to recite Islamic prayer, and her abductors gave her a name from the Quran, Salsabil, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

"In an interview with international media, Agam described the horror she experienced for nearly two months as a hostage inside Gaza while speaking from a kibbutz in central Israel that has largely become a temporary refuge for displaced Israeli civilians. 

"In the interview, Agam addressed the female hostages still in Gaza. She asked, “Have you eaten enough today? Are you together, or have they separated you? Has he harmed you again? Has he asked you, again, if you’re married, if he could set you up with someone from Gaza? Has he entered your shower again, stripped the pajamas that he gave you, touched the wound from the bullet that he shot, that really hurt you? But his control hurt more.” 

Agam was taken to the Hamas tunnels underneath Gaza, to apartments and a school that was also a rocket launching site. Her captors allowed her to shower five times in the 51 days she was in Gaza, the Washington Post reported. 

"At Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Goldstein-Almog’s father and older sister were shot dead by Hamas terrorists in their family home. She was taken in her “tiny shortie pajamas,” half sleeping in Gaza with her mother and her nine and 11-year-old brothers." . . . 

Hamas drugged hostages to look happy, Israeli officials say | National Post

Hamas Hostage Chen Goldstein-Almog on Her Time in Gaza: "Crying Was Forbidden" - DER SPIEGEL  . . ."I know that these girls experienced very serious sexual assaults. There was a young woman who was crying and one of the men took advantage of her weakness, he stroked her, touched her upper body. That is despicable and disgusting. Another guard held a gun to a woman's temple, kissed her and touched her all over her body. There are also other experiences that I can't recount because the women want to tell their families first." . . .

Houthis sentence 13 to public execution on homosexuality charges - report

 

Houthis sentence 13 to public execution on homosexual charges - report - The Jerusalem Post (jpost.com)

MEMRI photo; ISIS

"A court of the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen has sentenced 13 people to public execution on homosexuality charges, the French wire service AFP reported on Tuesday. Another 35 people have been detained for similar charges.

"The ruling was made in Ibb, a Houthi-controlled province from which the jihadist group has been launching attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, opening a war that reached its four-month mark this week. 

"The Houthis have a history of sentencing more people to death than they actually execute, according to a 2022 report by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, which counted 350 death sentences by the group since 2014, only 11 of which have resulted in execution. But the group's attacks on global trade could change this calculus.

" 'The [Houthis] are ramping up their abuses at home while the world is busy watching their attacks in the Red Sea," said Niku Jafarnia, a Yemen researcher for Human Rights Watch.

"A UN Security Council report in 2023 relayed that "the Houthis are [reportedly] detaining children as young as 13 years old," some of whom "are accused of 'indecent acts' for their alleged homosexual orientation.'"

Of course you interview Putin. Who doesn't want to hear his reply to Tucker's questions?

 Of course you interview Putin - Don Surber (substack.com)

The media now opposes freedom of the press. We live in Bizarro

. . ."Alex Barnicoat tweeted, “Tucker Carlson is about to save us from World War 3 with Russia. The West needs to hear the other side of the story.”

"Preventing World War 3? This is why they hate him and why they hate Trump. These idiots want another world war and they really don’t care if America loses.

"All evidence points to their desire to lose so they can set up a totalitarian government. The traitors in Washington have emasculated the military and literally cut the balls off generals. They opened the border to allow our enemies in. The traitors welcome Muslim terrorists and Chinese spies. The traitors depleted our military supplies by giving them away to Afghanistan and Ukraine." . . .

Prison for Tucker? What? Tucker Breaks his Silence EXPOSES Biden for SPYING ON HIM!? Think Patriot Act    Tucker video   Key Takeaways:

•  Tucker’s Moscow Visit: Tucker Carlson traveled to Moscow to interview President Vladimir Putin, emphasizing the importance of hearing all perspectives in journalism.
•  Spying Allegations: Carlson expresses concerns about the Biden Administration spying on him, possibly to prevent his interview with Putin, reflecting on past instances where he believed his communications were monitored.
•  Journalistic Duty: Carlson defends his trip as part of his journalistic responsibility to inform the American public about global events, particularly the war in Ukraine and its implications.
•  Global Repercussions: The video discusses the broader implications of the war in Ukraine, including its impact on global military and trade alliances, as well as the potential shift in the world’s economic order.
•  Challenges to Press Freedom: The video raises concerns about the potential suppression of press freedom, as suggested by the alleged government surveillance of Carlson’s communications.    Much more here.

Tucker Carlson In Moscow: I'm Interviewing Putin "To Inform People" On "History-Altering Developments" | Video | RealClearPolitics

WH's Karine Jean-Pierre Asked If Biden Tried To Stop Tucker Carlson's Interview With Putin: Absolutely No Comment | Video | RealClearPolitics

Schadenfreude: Nikki Haley defeated by 'none of these candidates' in Nevada

"How loud do voters have to get to get her to go home? She doesn't seem to hear anything from them because she isn't listening. Now she can't even win against a none-of-the-above competitor."

Monica Showalter   "Is it time for Nikki Haley to pack up her campaign baggage and get the heck home?

"Sure looks like it. 

"Because out in Nevada, the primary results came out like this:

Nikki Haley suffered an embarrassing loss in the Republican presidential primary in Nevada on Tuesday, receiving far fewer votes than the "none of these candidates" option, according to the Associated Press.

With 86% of the votes counted, Haley received less than half (20,799, or 30.8%) of the 42,534 garnered by "none of these candidates."

It was a contest that former President Donald Trump did not compete in and which the state party tried to have canceled. Nonetheless, a combination of intense support for Trump and distaste for Haley among Republican voters in the state combined to deal her an unusual humiliation.

"That's bad. That's like being defeated by a dead guy." . . .

Nikki Haley Fumes Over Nevada Primary Loss, Says Trump 'Rigged' the Election (thefederalistpapers.org)   . . ."That’s why Haley decided to take part in the symbolic state-mandated primary on Tuesday, which Trump did not. It wouldn’t award delegates, but at least it wouldn’t be “rigged,” right?

"Well, then she lost to … absolutely nobody. So it became “rigged.' ” . . .