Biden Behind the Scenes - 'Lost All Independence'

 Frightening Report Paints an Even Worse Pic of Biden Behind the Scenes - 'Lost All Independence' – RedState  

"The President is sharp as a tack; he really is!"

"At what point is enough enough for Democrats? 

"They've clearly shown they have no conscience, and they'll do anything to win, even putting up and keeping a man in office who has the problems that Joe Biden has. They shouldn't even be talking about him stepping aside — that should be a given. They should be talking about the 25th Amendment. 

"But they don't want to do that and they only are considering him stepping aside because they're afraid they're going to lose and then they'll be out of control. It has nothing to do with doing what's right here. They're just trying to run the percentages at this point — is it better to force him out, or are they in more trouble if they do it? 

"But now there's a new report from Axios that indicates that things are even worse than has been reported so far. 

"According to the report, staffers are miserable, and they feel like it's "Weekend at Bernie's" when it comes to Biden. 

The big picture: "Everyone is miserable, and senior advisers are a total black hole," a White House official told Axios. "Even if you're trying to focus on work, nothing is going to break through or get any acknowledgment" from bosses.

• A high-ranking Democratic National Committee official told Axios: "The only thing that can really allay concerns is for the president to demonstrate that he's capable of running this campaign."
• "Everything else feels like 'Weekend at Bernie's' by his inner circle to prop him up."

"Biden staffers are leaking that there are three aides who've created something of a bubble around Biden. The aides mentioned are Deputy Chief of Staff Annie Tomasini, the first lady's top adviser Anthony Bernal, and longtime aide Ashley Williams, who is part of Tomasini's staff." . . . 

Biden's Bizarre Claim: The First Black Woman President? (tampafp.com)  "In a recent gaffe that has sparked widespread bewilderment and amusement, President Joe Biden made the startling claim that he is “the first black woman to serve with a black president.”

"This peculiar statement has once again raised questions about Biden’s propensity for verbal missteps and his ability to accurately convey facts.

"As the leader of the free world, Biden’s words carry significant weight, and his latest blunder has left many scratching their heads and wondering about the state of the Oval Office.

“ 'By the way, I’m proud to be, as I said, the first vice president, first Black woman, to serve with a Black president,” Biden said during an interview with Philadelphia’s Wurd radio station when referring to his vice president, Kamala Harris, and former President Barack Obama.

"This gaffe comes amidst growing calls for Biden to drop out of the race for another term in the White House; however, in a highly anticipated ABC interview Friday, Biden firmly rejected calls for an independent medical evaluation that would demonstrate his fitness to serve another term in office." . . .

Biden sounds exhausted, out of breath as first clips from George Stephanopoulos interview dribble out... - Revolver News   . . ."Biden stuck to the talking point of having a “bad night,” but if you’re explaining, you’re losing, as the old saying goes. Biden tried to blame his “bad night” on Trump lying 28 times,” but Stephanopoulos nailed him on this fake talking point, pointing out that Biden himself sounded awful and confused before President Trump even said a single word." . . .

California’s Latest Effort To Ban Plastic Bags Also Doomed To Fail

  Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)

"The author of Assembly Bill 2236 probably said a little too much, admitting that her legislation was a battle in the California war on oil."

Ten years after Sacramento outlawed single-use plastic bags (with the help of a majority of voters two years later in a referendum), legislators have approved a ban on the multi-use bags that took their place, with each chamber passing a bill that, in identical language, prohibits “a reusable grocery bag sold by a store to a customer at the point of sale” from being “made from plastic film material.”

Stores would be allowed to provide customers who forget to bring their reusable bags – and those who refuse on principle to use them – with paper sacks. But they will have to be, beginning on Jan. 1, 2028, made “from a minimum of 50% postconsumer recycled materials.” The paper bags will have to cost at least 10 cents each.

Neither bill is law yet. But the ban will be in effect after the formalities of the legislative process are completed.

Sen. Catherine Blakespear, the Encinitas Democrat who authored Senate Bill 1053, said the state’s “original ban on plastic bags hasn’t worked out as planned, and sadly, the state’s plastic bag waste has increased dramatically since it went into effect.”

Maybe the volume “increased dramatically” because the thin single-use bags were replaced by heavier multi-use bags, which are at least four times thicker.

“The amount of plastic bag waste discarded per person (by weight) actually increased in the years following the law’s implementation to the highest level on record – proving the ban ineffective at reducing the total amount of plastic waste,” says a report compiled by multiple organizations, one of them the Naderite U.S. Public Interest Group.

Nevertheless, Blakespear said “we need to do better,” because “shockingly, some 18 billion pounds of plastic waste flows into the oceans every year from coastal regions alone. California must do its part to eliminate this scourge that is contaminating our environment.”

The media loses the game

 M.B. Mathews - American Thinker 

We are faced with the truth that the media, as it stands right now, is heavily biased to the Left. This isn't news, but it is a most painful, debilitating migraine before this election. Huge pockets of Americans watch only leftist news TV and they are getting shortchanged.  

"POTATUS (hat tip to BEEGE WELBORN of Hot Air) is suddenly persona non grata after his strabismus-inducing debate performance. Well, maybe not so suddenly. Everyone with a scintilla of firing neurons knew that Joe Biden was not all there. Excuses to the contrary fall on bored and jaded ears. The media made their Biden-bed and now that they are forced to lie in it, they pretend that we put the bedbugs in it. No, their own dirt attracted those bedbugs, so they have no excuse for blaming anyone else. They chose to be deaf and blind to Joe's obvious incapacities because they needed a progressive Democrat in the White House to be the rictus mask of Obama's team of hammer and sickle America-haters.

"What the media have done to America is beyond reprehensible. It sinks to evil. They deliberately hid POTATUS' frailties and his dementia. They deliberately ignored his inability to do the job. They deliberately gaslighted us by continuously lying about the border being closed and the economy doing well and EVs being environmental saviors, as though the environment needed actual saving. They deliberately lied about Trump's nonexistent crimes and the imaginary danger he posed to the American democratic process.

"Instead of blaming all the above on POTATUS Biden where it belonged, the media transferred blame to the one not-guilty party in this steaming, fetid oozefest, Donald Trump. The media never bothered to ask the right questions and they certainly never delivered the right answers or the truth about either Biden or Trump. Their irrational hatred for Trump and for conservatives in general prevented almost an entire industry from serving the American people by reporting the news, digging for news, and telling the whole truth instead of half-truths, when they bothered telling any truth at all." . . .

Were you there when he froze? - Silvio Canto, Jr.   "First, it was Russia Russia.  Then, it was the laptop and the 51.  Now it’s the debate.  Notice a pattern here?

"A few days ago, Carl Bernstein said that all of Joe Biden’s men, women and whatever other gender he’s got in his crew knew a lot more about President’s Biden’s condition than they let on.  In other words, Thursday night was not a debut performance.

"This is from Miranda Devine:

Carl Bernstein just let the cat out of the bag about the media conspiracy to hide Joe Biden’s long-running cognitive collapse from voters. . . . 

Islamists and leftists celebrate Independence Day in NYC by burning the American flag

 Andrea Widburg - American Thinker  "Even as young people across America are being prosecuted for daring to desecrate the “Pride” crosswalks proliferating in leftist cities, the Hamas/leftist crowd continues to revel in its constitutional right to free speech, which includes burning the American flag on Independence Day. During a New York protest, there were plenty of “Palestinian” flags, which stand for genocide and subjugation, but the only American flags were used as fire starters.

"The protest in New York’s Washington Square Park wasn’t large, but it was fervent. It also perfectly exemplified the coming together of Islamism and leftism in a toxic brew that, if allowed to grow unchecked, will destroy everything in its path:

A braying mob of around 100 anti-Israel protesters spent Independence Day burning American flags and chanting “Burn it down!” in Washington Square Park, part of a coordinated “Flood Manhattan for July 4th” demonstration.

At least one person was arrested, cops said, but they did not disclose the charges the alleged perpetrator was facing.

[snip]

Keffiyeh-wearing photographers brought their lenses in close to capture the flag desecration as chants of “Free free free Palestine” and “Burn it down” echoed throughout the park.

"The above report, while accurate, is too dry. It doesn’t capture the passion driving these anti-American, antisemitic protestors:" . . .

BREAKING: Police in St Petersburg, FL have arrested 18-year-old Christian Maier on charges of felony criminal mischief for doing donuts on the pride mural painted in middle of the road pic.twitter.com/KMBScxxv7v

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 1, 2024

 

Trump, Critics Unload on ABC's Biased 'Angry Man' Stephanopoulos Before Crucial Biden Interview

 Bob Hoge – RedState  "Former Bill Clinton aide and now ABC host/Democrat apologist George Stephanopoulos may wish he didn’t take on the assignment of interviewing Joe Biden in the president's desperate attempt to salvage his foundering campaign. Stephanopoulos’ own history has come back under the microscope—and it hasn’t been pretty. 

"GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump took aim at the newscaster on social media Thursday, calling him “one of the worst and most vile Broadcasters in the business” and an “angry man”: . . . Donald Trump Truth Social

"He brought up Brian Ross, who was forced to part ways with the network in 2018 for reporting fake "Russia Collusion" news:

The meanest and most vicious Interviewer out there is George Slopadopoulos of FAKE NEWS ABC, one of the worst and most vile Broadcasters in the business — In fact, the home of disgraced “reporter” Brian Ross whose reporting on the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax was so outlandish that ABC, after defending him at levels not seen before, was forced to put him, and their reputation, out to pasture.

. . ."George may regret taking on his assignment because as all eyes turn to him, the world is being reminded of what a truly partisan, dishonest hack he is. Whether his interview is enough to save Biden’s reelection campaign remains to be seen, but don’t count on Stephanopoulos to be an honorable seeker of the truth." . . .

Michelle: will she or won't she? No answers here.

Guilt ridden, America haters will poll higher for Michelle. TD

Michelle Obama's Team Shuts Down Presidential Rumors Again: 'She Will Not Be Running for President' | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft  "Despite being the top pick among potential Democrat presidential candidates, Michelle Obama has once again confirmed she will not be running for president

"The recent Reuters/Ipsos survey showed that if Joe Biden were to step aside, Michelle Obama would be the most likely candidate to defeat former President Donald Trump.

"The poll indicated that she would win over Trump with a 50 to 39 percent victory.

"However, the same could not be said for other potential Democrat contenders, all of whom Trump would best in a hypothetical race.

"Trump would outperform Vice President Kamala Harris (43 to 42 percent), California Gov. Gavin Newsom (42 to 39 percent), Michigan Gov. Gretchen Witmer (41 to 36 percent), Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (40 to 36 percent), and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (40 to 34 percent). The poll also suggested a tie between Biden and Trump, each securing 40 percent of the vote.

"Despite these favorable numbers for Obama, her director of communications, Crystal Carson, told Newsweek that the former first lady is not interested in running for president.

" 'As former First Lady Michelle Obama has expressed several times over the years, she will not be running for president,” Carson said.

"This statement aligns with an earlier declaration from her office to NBC News, which aimed to quell speculations.

“ 'Mrs. Obama supports President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ re-election campaign,” Carson said." . . .

Michelle Obama Hears the Calls and Sees the Polls. Will She Boot Biden From Presidential Race? – PJ Media  . . ."The speculation is not without merit according to a new poll. 

"Kamala Harris is a better-known quantity. She's held political office. She's one of the least respected and worst vice presidents America has ever seen. 

After slipping into the San Francisco District Attorney's Office under the, ah, tutelage of married Bay Area kingmaker Willie Brown, she won the race for California attorney general by highlighting her Indian background. She was awful. Eventually, when U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, herself not a MENSA member, announced her retirement, Harris jumped into the race and defeated a fellow Democrat on a ballot that featured recreational pot use. Harris sent people to prison for pot use during her stints as DA and attorney general.  She changed her position when she ran for president. 

"Harris is incapable of speaking extemporaneously. When she speaks, it's with a nasally tone that invariably settles into lecture mode." . . .

Woke New Yorkers whine about 4th of July saying America 'doesn't deserve a birthday party' - but newcomers have a different view

  Daily Mail Online

"Patriotism among liberals is extremely low, with recent polling from Gallup showing only 34 percent of Democrats claiming they are extremely proud to be American"

. . ."While it was mostly the young complaining about the state of the Union, a few older adults expressed similar sentiment. 

" 'I feel like America is going through difficulty right now, mainly because of the upcoming election,' said 85-year-old retiree Gino Musso.

"Steven Johnson Jr., 54, assistant Principal at elementary school in Charleston, North Carolina, and a combat veteran said he thought the world was 'on fire'. 

'It's almost watching our democracy unravel right before our eyes. It is very terrifying.'

"Despite many feeling unpatriotic this Fourth of July, others said they are proud to be Americans.

" 'I'm feeling patriotic, I'm actually feeling more patriotic than I expected,' Alonso Mayorga, 22, said. 'We need to focus on the core values and get back to those.' 

" 'I think America, one of the best things about it, there are lots of problems but everyone is free to speak their minds about them,' said Sahil Sen, 21.

"A Buddhist monk was also very positive about the U.S.

 " 'America is peaceful, and free for everybody,' he said. 

"According to a new ranking from WalletHub, Virginia - home of America's capital city Washington D.C. - is the most patriotic of all 50 states. " . . .

A cure for those with woke guilt would be to return Joe Biden and Gavin Newsom to the highest office available. TD

Joe Biden and Adderall

Joe Biden Took 'Adderall' Drug Before State Of The Union? Internet Abuzz US President Was 'High' Due To... (Times Now )   "President Joe Biden's energy during his final State of the Union address in the 2024 election shocked many. The 81-year-old leader spoke at great length for a straight 68 minutes without any major gaffes. The POTUS recently scored several self-goals by either forgetting or mixing up different things in his press conferences and speeches.

"The contrast seen in Biden's before and during State of the Union addresses sparked a row with many questioning on social media whether the US President took 'Adderall', a prescription medication used primarily to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. There is no credible report to suggest that the US President took such medications or, was he diagnosed with any of the disorders mentioned. However, users on social media including some prominent journalists suggested that Biden was 'high' during the SOTU.

" 'I heard a person on TV use the term "Cadaver in Chief" and I thought that was pretty accurate for the Adderall fueled rage which in no way, brought Americans together last night," a user wrote on X.

"Among the conservative well-known voices, Buzz Patterson, a columnist claimed that the President had a 'mental decline' and that he needed a cognitive test. "After last night’s angry, Adderall-fueled rant by Biden, it’s time to raise the question again. Why won’t he take a cognitive test. Trump took a cognitive test, why can’t Biden?" remarked Patterson." . . .

We go now to the leftist comfort channel, MSNBC for their anti-Trump/Fox take: Fact checking Trump's Biden performance enhancing drugs debate claim (msnbc.com) Watch for terms applied for the purpose of inoculating you to conservative opinion of those critical of Democrats by using terms such as: "controversial", "with no evidence", ". . ."otherwise normal individual like Joe Biden".

"Why claims about Biden using performance enhancing drugs make no medical sense

The idea that drugs would improve Biden's cognitive functioning or debate performance is simply not supported by scientific evidence."

"This week we’ve watched a parade of Fox News hosts and conservative lawmakers argue with no evidence that President Joe Biden will be administered some sort of performance enhancing drugs prior to Thursday’s debate. “We anticipate that for this first debate he will be on something,” claimed Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, an Iowa Republican. Controversial GOP Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas, who served as the official White House doctor in the Trump administration, said Biden should be drug tested. “I’m going to be demanding on behalf of many millions of concerned Americans right now that he submit to a drug test before and after this debate, specifically looking for performance-enhancing drugs,” Jackson claimed on Fox News." . . .

Jill Biden ‘power-hungry’ eyeing 'shadow presidency' in place of ‘infirm’ Joe, says Megyn Kelly (The Times of India)

You just might be a Democrat if… Part III

 Eric Utter - American Thinker

See “You just might be a Democrat if… (with apologies to Jeff Foxworthy)” and “You just might be a Democrat if … Part II”

Quoting: "If you think imprisoning your political opponents is the best way to “save a democracy,” you just may be a Democrat.

If you think that the sun isn’t a big factor in heating the earth, but your neighbor’s lawn mower is, you just may be a Democrat.

If you think only white people can be racist because of the color of their skin, you just may be a Democrat.

If you think invasive species are an existential threat, but unfettered illegal immigration is not, you just may be a Democrat.

If you think words can be violence, but some forms of violence should be protected as free speech, you just may be a Democrat.

If you think the Bill of Rights got it wrong, you just may be a Democrat.

If you think that concerned parents are domestic terrorists, but that Hamas is a force for good, you just may be a Democrat.

If you think that smoking cigarettes and consuming alcohol is bad, but that smoking pot and drinking beverages laced with THC is good, you just may be a Democrat.

If you think white supremacists are everywhere, but have never seen a racist person of color, you just may be a democrat.

If you have three forms of ID, but think that it would be too difficult for most black folks to obtain even one, you just might be a Democrat.

If you think there are more “genders” than stars in the sky, you just may be a Democrat." . . .

Ever so much more here, TD  Includes even a mention of the Babylon Bee | Fake News You Can Trust.

So, we also have a new Biden campaign slogan: Joe Biden: More sleep. Fewer hours.

 

Biden's Interview on Philadelphia Radio Was a Total Disaster - Matt Vespa

. . ."Top donors are reportedly asking for refunds, unhappy with the operation’s Baghdad Bob undertones regarding claiming how Biden is the healthiest he’s ever been while ignoring and dismissing concerns about the president’s mental state. The guardrails around the president were supposedly so extensive that our national media was powerless to report on anything relating to the president’s mental health substantially. We all know that’s a classic liberal media excuse—translation: we didn’t want to damage a Democratic president."

 They Lied to You- Josh Hammer  . . ."But after last Thursday's CNN presidential debate in Atlanta, in which President Joe Biden delivered a catastrophic performance for the ages, there is only one conclusion: The yearslong effort by Biden administration flunkies, Democratic Party poohbahs and pro-Regime media stenographers to forcefully deny Biden's obvious physical and mental decline will go down as the single greatest lie in American history.

"And what an assiduous effort it was. For years, Democrats and the corporate media lied through their teeth about the blatant decline of the president's physical and mental faculties." . . .

‘The best Biden ever’ - Washington Examiner  . . ."On his MSNBC program Wednesday, former Republican Rep. Joe Scarborough launched an impassioned and aggressive defense of President Joe Biden — specifically, of Biden’s mental fitness to serve a second term as president. Scarborough’s performance was an attempt to show that the best defense is a good offense: In Scarborough’s view, the 81-year-old Biden is not only not declining cognitively, but he’s absolutely the best he’s ever been. And to majorities of voters, both Democrats and Republicans, who believe the president is not up to a second term, Scarborough had a simple message: “F*** you.”

"Scarborough said he had “spent a couple of hours with Joe Biden, sitting, talking, going around the world as far as talking issues, talking the economy, talking inflation, talking.” After those discussions, Scarborough came to believe that Biden “might misplace a word here or there” but is in fact really sharp. “I undersold him when I said he was cogent,” Scarborough said. “He’s far beyond cogent. In fact, he’s better than he’s ever been intellectually, analytically. Because he’s been around for 50 years.” . . .

Kevin McCarthy Reveals Biden 'Offers You Cookies' in Oval Office (Michael Luciano)   . . ."“I worked with four different presidents,” he said. “That Oval Office is always usually humming. Things are moving and going around at all times. And Biden’s Oval Office, it is the quietest place. No one’s around. The only thing, there are cookies. He offers you cookies every time you’re in there. And he goes and gets them. I mean, it is a depressing moment.” The former speaker went on to repeat his previous claim that every time he met with Biden, he “got a different Biden each time.”

“ 'And that’s the challenge they have,” he continued. “If he survives this, he is still in the same place, and it’s more time in between now and the election that he could actually get worse.”...

Senilitygate and Mrs. Alito’s Flags - Ann Coulter

  Ann Coulter

. . ."No mention of presidents interning Japanese (FDR); expropriating gold from U.S. citizens (FDR); seizing the steel mills (Truman); using the CIA to spy on a rival’s political campaign, and the FBI to bug an opponent’s campaign plane (LBJ); bombing a foreign country on the eve of his scheduled impeachment (Clinton); or flinging open the border in direct violation of federal law (Obama, Biden)." A.C

  

"Can you imagine if The New York Times had covered the Biden White House as closely as it covered Justice Samuel Alito’s wife’s collection of novelty flags?

"The media’s playing Praetorian Guard for one party isn’t good for democracy, but oddly, it’s not even good for the Democrats. Biden’s open-mouthed, faraway stare at a nationally televised debate isn’t the first shock revelation to rock a Democratic candidate in the middle of a presidential campaign.

"Al Gore spent 20 years boasting about his service in Vietnam. “I took my turn regularly on the perimeter in these little firebases out in the boonies. Something would move, we’d fire first and ask questions later,” he told Vanity Fair, among other macho quotes. And then he decided to run for president, and we found out Gore had a personal bodyguard in Vietnam, the most dangerous weapon he carried was a typewriter, and he left after three months.

"John Kerry claimed to be a valiant, Purple Heart-deserving Vietnam veteran who spent Christmas 1968 in Cambodia “despite President Nixon’s assurances that there was no combat action in this neutral territory” — all dutifully reported in the press. Then he ran for president, and it was suddenly discovered that more than 280 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth called Kerry a liar, his purple heart was based on a self-inflicted wound that required the life-saving application of a Band-Aid, his boat was never in Cambodia, and Nixon wasn’t president in 1968.

"Right up until last Thursday, we’ve been assured by the entire media conglomerate that Joe Biden is the sharpest he’s ever been, “intellectually, analytically” — the words of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough just last month.

"Then 50 million people watching the first presidential debate found out the leader of the free world barely knows his shapes and colors. About halfway through the debate, the stenographer typing out the closed-captioning committed suicide.

"Typical Biden sentence: “We’re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the with the COVID, excuse me, with, um, dealing with everything we have to do with, uh, look, if. We finally beat Medicare.” . . .

Gettysburg and Vicksburg; victories on the fourth of July, 1863

The Civil War: Gettysburg

 

"Joe's entire admin has lied from day one. Forget his dumb gaffes, Joe is a habitual liar."

"Awful man. What he did to Robert Bork, Janice Rogers Brown, and Clarence Thomas was appalling. Guy's a total racist too".

"Every US student should have to watch this documentary. To know the Civil War is to know who we are as a nation and what it means to be American."

The Most Glorious Fourth: Vicksburg and Gettysburg, July 4th, 1863: Schultz, Duane P.

A new nation, not a century old, and greatly loved by Americans at that time. TD