In 2024, if you were suspecting someone was having a stroke, was the medical protocol in place at the time to immediately take them to a Waffle House?
Asking for a doctor.
USA Today: 'He's having a stroke': Jill Biden opens up about Joe's 2024 debate
MSN: Jill Biden took Joe to Waffle House after thinking he had stroke on stage
How It Started: CNN: Biden says he won’t pardon Hunter Biden or commute his sentence in first public remarks after guilty verdict
President Joe Biden on Thursday offered his first public remarks about his son Hunter’s conviction on federal gun charges earlier this week, telling reporters in Italy he is “proud” of him and accepts the jury’s verdict.
“I’m extremely proud of my son Hunter. He has overcome an addiction, he’s one of the brightest, most decent men I know,” Biden said during a news conference on the margins of the G7 summit.
“I am satisfied that I’m not going to do anything — I said I’d abide by the jury decision. I will do that. And I will not pardon him,” he added.
How It's Going: AP: Biden pardons his son Hunter despite previous pledges not to
President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family.
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In a statement released Sunday evening, Biden said, “I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.”
Like most Biden promises, that one didn't age well.
To be fair he likely cannot even remember making that promise 6 months ago, nor his past public statement that he accepts the jury's verdict.
That anyone thought he wouldn't pardon his son likely believed Biden's statements that the inflation act was about reducing inflation.
The pardon meshes well both with Joe bailing his son out on family grounds and the Democrats' general soft-on-crime outlook as long as the accussed's name is not Trump and has leftist politics.
On the upside, with pardon in hand, Hunter Biden can no longer refuse to testify regarding the Biden family crimes he committed and was involved in on Fifth Amendment grounds as he has immunity for them as the pardon covers any and all possible crime "he has or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024".
Hopefully, Republicans call him to testify accordingly.
So the sun sets on Joe Biden's candidacy in the race for 2024.
From "He's Fine, He Just Had a Bad Night" to being shown the door in less than 30 days. Even as late as Friday they were swearing he was still in the race and the nominee.
So did he fall, or was he pushed?
The Biden White House was rather like the Kremlin with Kremlinologists being needed to track which faction was in power and setting policy behind the figurehead that was Joe Biden. This will be even more interesting as the jockeying for his replacement becomes more intense.
Interestingly, he did not immediately come out and endorse Kamala Harris in his resignation announcement. Instead, that endorsement came later on Twitter. So probably a Kamala backer has control over the Twitter account for the moment. Or, alternatively she's being the sacrificial candidate (but with access to the money in the Biden-Harris campaign cookie jar) for what the Dems know will be a losing campaign in 2024.
It's going to be interesting to see who the Democrat party elite decides to run now that Joe has been shown the door. Be sure to have popcorn at the ready for the Democrat convention.
The fun question that also needs to be asked is: If Joe Biden is acknowledged to no longer be fit and cannot handle running for reelection due to his age and infirmities, why the heck is he still staying on as President?
When even Obama is starting to suggest Joe needs to go, you can tell the preference shift is underway and the party elite has gone from "Joe is just fine." to "How quick can he be pressured to step down?".
Democrats more and more are reading the tea leaves and the polls and realizing Joe is going to be a no-go.
So of course, in the middle of this preference shift, he conveniently comes down with Covid and instead of going to the White House (and the finest possible medical facilities close by), he goes home to the basement in Delaware.
Well, his retreating to the basement, instead of being out in public to campaign and to be seen in person, should cut down on public gaffes and public signs of ineptness for him to campaign from the basement as he did in the last election.
Democrats denied for years claims that Biden had cognitive difficulties.
They were agog and aghast when the special counsel noted he shouldn't be prosecuted as he's an elderly man with a poor memory. Instead they publicly all claimed he was just fine: Democrats flood the Sunday shows to insist Biden's mind is just fine.
Then after the debate, when it was abundantly clear that after the Democrats and media covering for him and making excuses for years, it couldn't be hidden any more from the public.
The Democrats went from being in lock-step and insisting that he's fine, to now a majority of Democrats wanting him to drop out.
Now it veers on a full on preference cascade for the Democrats to replace him with someone else: The Detroit News: Nearly two-thirds of Democrats want Biden to withdraw, new AP-NORC poll finds
The list of Democrat politicians calling for him to step aside keeps getting longer as well.
So how does Joe Biden get removed from being the Democrat nominee? As is oft then case in these situations, gradually, then suddenly.
George W. Bush is today younger, at 77 years of age, than both the current incumbent, and the contender for the oval office.
His term in office as President ended 15 years ago.
Make of that what you will.
CNN: Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m,
Thank goodness that nothing of import ever happens after 8 p.m. that might impact the running of this country.
Forget about the implications of the effort going on by Democrats now to pressure Biden to drop out of the race to save democracy after he has already been democratically selected as their candidate.
More importantly, is Biden even capable of acting as President right now?
The Detroit Free Press: President Biden blames overseas travel for disastrous debate: 'I nearly fell asleep on stage'
"I didn't have my best night," Biden told supporters. "I wasn't very smart. I decided to travel around the world a couple of times, going through I don't how many times zones.
"I didn't listen to my staff. And then I came back and I nearly fell asleep on stage," Biden said, prompting laughs from some of the donors. “It’s not an excuse but an explanation."
Except it is neither.
Biden spent 6 days at Camp David after his "travel around the world" doing nothing but resting up and preparing for his debate performance.
The leader of the free world can't handle a debate (where he very well may have even been slipped the questions in advance) and is blaming his performance on being too tired due to travel that took place before 6 days of rest and relaxation.
If he can't function appropriately due to being too tired after six days of rest and preparation, how the heck is he capable of handling day-to-day matters, not to mention the crises of the office?
The problem with that statement is that the now destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge has NEVER HAD RAIL LINES ON IT, much less a train running passenger service - ever.
The New York Post: Biden claims he commuted over collapsed Baltimore Key Bridge by train ‘many times’ – but it doesn’t have any rail lines
I'm sure this is fine that Biden is so cognitively sharp and mentally fit that he is claiming he did something that he could not possibly have done.
Damn, but Democrats do love their choo choo trains, even the ones that have never existed.
Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) Tweeted:
This is what happens when Joe Biden goes off the teleprompter. Clean up time @PressSec! If Trump had ever said this CNN and MSNBC would have gone insane. Will be interesting to see if they even cover this. https://t.co/TUrKxECTF2
https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1501332592934727688?s=20&t=ePYDbSMEdhr9H_cwCJAg2g
The Detroit Free Press: Joe Biden: I 'honest to God don't know who' VP pick will be
One would think he'd be moving along with this choice, as the pick would earn him some media attention when he's otherwise been nowhere to be found. But, so far he hasn't a clue who his advisors think will poll best as his running mate.
Tellingly, he actually declared that "no one has been vetted yet."
So after all this time and his many announcements about having a woman VP he hasn't gotten the task of vetting potential candidates going yet? Seriously?
An interesitng thing to say when news reportes are suggesting otherwise: Klobuchar reportedly being vetted to be Joe Biden’s running mate
Either he's lying on the lack of vetting, or he really is waiting for the winds to blow, and the polls and the various factions in the Democratic Party to come out with their choice of Vice President.
Democrats generally think the have a lock on the Black vote. The Dems expect and demand that they are entitled to having Blacks to get in line and vote D, and woe betide any Black person that dares leave the Democrat fold.
But they generally don't come right out and say that.
Joe Biden just let the mask slip and came right out and said it.
USA Today: Joe Biden, in testy interview, says 'you ain’t black’ if you're undecided over him vs. Trump
Charlamagne then urged Biden to visit when he came to New York and added, "It’s a long way until November. We've got more questions."That was when Biden retorted: "If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black."
It follows well the Democrats track record that anyone on their plantation can't really be that genuine person if they dare vote otherwise.
A woman is a "gender traitor" if she votes republican, Blacks are traitors if they vote Republican.
You need to earn every vote, you should not feel entitled to it, especially counting on it due to the voter's race or gender.
Fun to see Biden come out in public and say that entitlement belief out loud.
