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
Yep, this tweet, among the many, didn't age well:
The news hasn't picked up that in addition to Milley, Fauci, and the Jan 6 committee, Joe just preemptively pardoned a lot of his family members:
Executive Grant of Clemency
JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR.
President of the United States of America
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
BE IT KNOWN, THAT THIS DAY, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, PURSUANT TO MY POWERS UNDER ARTICLE II, SECTION 2, CLAUSE 1, OF THE
CONSTITUTION, HAVE GRANTED UNTO
JAMES B. BIDEN
SARA JONES BIDEN
VALERIE BIDEN OWENS
JOHN T. OWENS
FRANCIS W. BIDEN
A FULL AND UNCONDITIONAL PARDON FOR ANY NONVIOLENT OFFENSES against the United States which they may have committed or taken part in during the period from January I, 2014, through the date of this pardon.
Note that interesting January 1 2014 date. It is the same period as that extended to Hunter Biden. Yep, that includes the time Hunter was off enriching the family's pockets and doing tax fraud among other things, and likely the other family members were benefiting from that corruption nicely.
Fox News: Biden pardons Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, J6 committee members
The President's power to pardon is absolute. Presidential pardons are, of course, unreviewable and cannot be challenged.
Now, we've never had a situation where the president is less than compos in his mentis, and others are directing him as to the signing of pardons and even where to sign on the papers, but here we are.
MSN: Full List of Joe Biden's Last Minute Pardons—Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, More
The MSN/Newsweek's "full list" isn't actually the full list of those pardoned, we'll have to wait for that to actually come out. So far Cassidy Hutchinson whose hearsay testimony we discussed before on this blog, the one who made the salacious claim that Trump tried to grab the steering wheel before the Jan 6 Committee and admitted she lied before the committee is not listed so far. Considering one of the potential claims against Liz Cheney is that she suborned Cassidy Hutchinson;s perjury before the committee, this may be interesitng.
While all those listed so far have been pardoned, it does make for an interesitng result in that none of therm can now can refuse to testify before investigative committees now as they no longer need fear being self incriminated as they cannot be prosecuted for their testimony.
That could get interesting.
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.
....
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?
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 day before Biden announced he was blocking weapons going to Israel, he issued a waiver to allow weapons to be delivered to Lebanon - meaning they will go to Hizballah, the same organization that killed 241 US Marines and CIA station chief William Buckley, and to Qatar, a leading support of Hamas.
Washington Free Beacon: Day Before Biden Admin Announced It Would Withhold Weapons From Israel, It Issued Sanctions Waiver To Allow Arms Sales to Qatar and Lebanon
No you can't make this up.
This is the Biden administration deciding to align with Islamist terrorists and killers of Americans over an ally. We'll note that Hamas is still holding 6 American citizens hostage even now and Biden is bent on Hamas remaining as a force in being rather than letting the Israelis finish the job.
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.
I mean Biden is known to be a gaffe machine, indeed the Democrats excuse his regular misspeaking and nonsensical statements by claiming he's a gaffe machine on a regular basis. Who exactly thought that was a good excuse, exactly?
Biden really stepped in the latest one in his bid to shore up Islamic support for the Democrats in key states by, of course, throwing our ally Israel under the bus and cuddling up to Hamas supporters.
But this gaffe on the worlds stage, when he didn't realize he was still on a hot microphone is rather quite something:
abcnews: Biden 'meant what he said' in saying he’ll have 'come to Jesus meeting' with Netanyahu: VP Harris'
In an interview with ABC News Friday, Vice President Kamala Harris reacted for the first time to President Joe Biden's hot mic comment in which he's heard saying he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon have a "come to Jesus" conversation about the war in Gaza.
"He meant what he said," Harris told ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce. "Some of us grew up in communities where when a 'come to Jesus talk' is about having a serious talk, based on candor."
After delivering his high-stakes State of the Union address on Thursday, Biden was caught on a hot mic chatting with Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado. Bennet told Biden he needed to "keep pushing" to get humanitarian aid into Gaza, to which Biden responded: "I told Bibi, don't repeat this, you and I are going to have a 'come to Jesus' meeting."
"I'm on a hot mic here. Good. That was good," Biden then says after being warned by an aide.
Let's start off with the obvious: The telling to the Jewish leader of the Jewish state you're going to have a 'come to Jesus' meeting with him is rather a major faux pas.
In fact it is a rather offensive and moronic thing to say. Hardly appropriate language when dealing with allies, especially if you want them to do things clearly against their own interest.
I doubt he's said anything like that to any Muslim leaders.
Let's add that doubling down after being you;re told you just said something stupid on a hot mike is extra Biden.
Let's ask Biden to list all the times the US had provided humanitarian aid to a territory while they were at war with that territory and while attacks form an enemy continued form that territory and said enemy still held Americans hostage.
The answer, Biden doesn't know it, is never.
Let's further note that in this current operation, Israel continues to have a 2:1 or lower ratio of enemy civilians to enemy combatants killed in urban combat - easily beating out the US Military's current ratio of 5-7:1 when dealing with entrenched Islamic combatants in urban settings.
Still waiting for Biden to apply as much pressure to Hamas and Iran as he's trying to assert on Israel. I sure won't be holding my breath for him to do so as he throws an ally under the bus to court the terrorist appeasement vote.
So, of course, Biden is going to push for them, of course starting them out to first to be imposed on the wealthy.
The Detroit News: Biden: Ban deductions for firms paying executives more than $1 million
This would be on top of the already existing rule that bans the deduction for amounts over 1 Million. Or, maybe, Biden et al don't even know what the current law even is right now. Or, they decided to push for some class warfare knowing most people don't know about the current law either.
Look, if a company wishes to pay its execs over a million dollars, that's up to them. The company believes that those execs are providing more than their salaries back to the company as value. If they're wrong then the company's owners can fire them or revisit such salary decisions.
This may also cause top execs to go to other countries like in Europe where they can be compensated more. So, let's get a brain drain going 'cause that will sure help the economy. Not.
We will also note that some non-profits have also paid their top execs over $1 million as well, and since they don't pay taxes at all, one would think that would be more offensive.
On top of proposing to pass an already existing law, there's going to be even more class warfare being pushed:
Biden is going further in his calls to tax the wealthy, endorsing a new minimum tax proposal on corporations and a new tax on corporate jet travel.
Well, get ready for more unemployed jet pilots and aircraft companies if he punishes corporations for using corporate jets to get their people to places more efficiently.
Class warfare and damage to the economy the Democrat way - great for the progressive base, not so good for anyone else.
Democrats in Blue states are gallivanting around removing Trump from the ballot in Illinois, Colorado, and elsewhere on the specious grounds that he committed insurrection when he has never been charged nor convicted of such.
Thus is a rather dumb interpretation and application of the 14th Amendment for many reasons, and also shortsighted on the part of the Democrats in the Blue States involved short-sightedly thinking such would never happen to their candidate.
After all, following the same logic of the Blue States, Red States are free, if they so choose, to also take a novel application of 14th Amendment, Section 3 and disqualify Joe Biden from the ballot in their states.
After all, Section 3 states:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.President Joe Biden indeed has demonstrably provided aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States:
$6 billion worth of aid and comfort to Iran, and even before that insanity, he also removed sanctions from Iran. Iran, a country that is a sworn enemy of the United States, has committed acts of terrorism against Americans, and has directly and through surrogates attacked US military personnel. This is the same country that annually has demonstrations where they shout "Death to America" - and mean it.
Joe Biden had also removed the Houthis from the terrorism list, again providing aid and comfort to an enemy of the United States. These are the same Houthis whose slogan is:
As such, it wouldn't take much for Red States to decided turnabout is fair play and start removing Biden on the grounds he has violated the 14th Amendment.
This of course would be stupid.
I really can't recommend such a course of behavior, but since Democrats insist on playing stupid games, game theory dictates that turnabout is indeed fair play. Should the Supreme Court not decide that the removal of Trump from the ballot is incorrect, having the Red States take this action may be the only way to get them to knock it off.
Of course, this can have some bad unintended consequences, but the Blue States are already indulging in this bad behavior.
In short, should the Supreme Court not have the Blues knock this gamesmanship off, the Blue states should show some restraint and knock it off themselves before the Red states decide that two can play that game.
The pro-Hamas campaign to vote uncommited in the Michigan primary yesterday to try and push the Biden Administration to become even more pro-Hamas didn't amount to all that much, per the New York Times:
About 13 percent of Democratic voters cast ballots for “uncommitted” after activists suggested doing so to protest Biden’s policies. (By comparison, about 11 percent voted “uncommitted” when Barack Obama ran for re-election.)
A 2% increase compared to the amount that were uncommitted for Obama a President that was very popular among Democrats really doesn't amount to all that much. For all the sound and furry, that's a fizzle in terms of the Islamist vote flexing in Michigan.
Indeed, it does reveal that Tlaib & co, for all their caterwauling, yelling, and threats, the pro-Islamist vote isn't all that big of a factor, even in Michigan.
At least not yet.
Quite a number of ignorant people are complaining and falsely alleging Israel is inflicting "genocide" in Gaza based on the civilian casualties as a result of urban combat against Hamas.
Urban combat unfortunately by its very nature leads to civilian casualties because that's where civilians are. Even under the best of circumstances, civilians often become collateral casualties of an urban battle.
Remember that Hamas is a foe that not only refuses to provide shelters for its civilians that it governs, but actively hides behind them using civilians as human shields and commits acts of perfidy by fighting from hospitals, mosques, schools, and UNRWA buildings - and then complaining about the resultant civilian casualties.
The critics of Israel point to the Gaza Health Ministry's claim without even a hint of skepticism, that 28,000 Gazans have been killed - a number that includes combatants on the Hamas side as the GHM does not differentiate between combatants and civilians in their numbers - which is rather convenient for them. The world accepts this number without any skepticism.
This, by the way, is the same Gaza Health Ministry that claimed 500 people were killed when an Islamic Jihad rocket landed in a hospital parking lot and they tried to blame Israel for it, claiming the entire hospital had been destroyed. The actual casualty count was probably around 100. So you can likely divide the current estimate of 28,000 by 5 and you may get the actual casualty count.
Meanwhile, Israel has stated they have killed 10,000 Hamas fighters. Assuming we accept the GHM number of 28,000 total casualties that means there were 18,000 Gazan civilians dead in the war so far.
This gives a ratio of 1:1.8 terrorists to civilians killed in this war.
Israel has lost 422 service personnel in the war so far.
So let's do a comparison to another recent battle in an urban environment against a well entrenched terrorist group - The Battle of Mosul in 2016/2017.
Thew battle pitted US and allied forces, including the United Kingdom, Iraqi Army, and others on one side and ISIS and friends on the other, with similar actions by ISIS to that of Hamas of using civilians as human shields and using protected structures to fight in violation of the laws of war.
The casualty count in Mosul was:
Allied service personnel killed: 1,235.
ISIS terrorists killed: 7,577-10,859
Civilians Killed: 40,000 (using the Arab estimate which again are likely inflated to a similar proportion of the GHM's estimates, in this case it is potentially 4 times higher than the more reliable sources' reports of 9,000-11,000).
This gives a ratio of 1:5.2 terrorists to civilians killed on the low estimate of 7,577 ISIS terrorists killed or 1:3.8 terrorists to civilians killed on the higher end of 10,859 ISIS terrorists killed.
In short, even if we believe the inflated numbers coming out of the GHM, Israel is causing less than half the proportion of civilian casualties killed in urban combat than the lower of the two ratios, and doing a whole lot better with almost three times less the comparative ration of dead civilian casualties to dead terrorists than the higher ratio of civilians to terrorists killed in Mosul.
Israel is killing far fewer civilians for every terrorist killed than the US & Co did in Mosul, by a lot and no one accused the US of committing genocide in Mosul or being "over the top" in its actions.
It's not genocide, it's instead sadly the byproduct of urban combat against an enemy that instead of protecting civilians hides behind them and uses them to up the casualty count.
Credulous fools, including Biden, all should know better.
It looks like the Biden admin really wants the pro-Hamas vote in Michigan and elsewhere in America for November.
Reuters: US pushes for UN to support temporary Gaza ceasefire, oppose Rafah assault
The United States has proposed a rival draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and opposing a major ground offensive by its ally Israel in Rafah, according to the text seen by Reuters.
Great, this is what happens when you combine the Arabists in the State Department and the Biden Admin's need for progressive and Islamist votes in November: Some Arab American, Muslim leaders meet with Biden officials in Wayne Co. amid protests.
Arabs in Michigan are rather unhappy with Biden right now for not protecting Hamas.
So much so, that progressive squad member Rashida Tlaib (D-Dearborn Gaza) is now calling on Arabs in Michigan to not vote for Biden in the primary but instead vote uncommitted to show they're not happy that Biden is not doing their bidding to protect Hamas.
After all, Dearborn is indeed known as the jihad center of America, and with good reason.
The Detroit Free Press: Rep. Rashida Tlaib urges Michigan Democrats to vote 'uncommitted' in protest against Biden.
If Tlaib is heeded and the Arabs around here sit the November election out instead of voting Democrat, this could get interesting.
With the most recent report that Biden will not be charged for having classified documents for years in multiple locations on the grounds that he's not just a currently serving president but an old man with a declining cognitive function, the media is going ga ga.
Hanging out with my Dad and his companion who are both big MSNBC viewers, and no there's no point arguing with them - they take what MSNBC says as gospel and won't be swayed - it's like arguing with a pig and it is not worth the effort.
So I get to see MSNBC as well as that's all they will watch.
Right now the story is Biden is fine all the time.
Joy Reid jumped in that the report was mean and then carefully showed 1 Trump gaffe (saying Nikki Hailey instead of Nancy Pelosi) and noted they always have known Biden is a Gaffe machine (showing one very old gaffe and none of the more current ones) and he's absolutely fine. Because that's balance, right?
Of course, Reid and co doesn't show the multiple clips where Biden appears to have no idea where he is, and his many current mistakes such as calling the President of Egypt the President of Mexico, this week right aftert the report came out.
But don't worry, per MSNBC and pretty much every show on there that I've overheard the past day or so, this is nothing to worry about. Verily, it is nothing as they haven't talked about it all. They haven't mentioned the Mexico/Egypt misstep even once so far.
There's also lots of analysis trying to state the Colorado side of the ballot issue is correct (even though pretty much everyone including many democrat constitutional scholars think it is not a particularly good argument regarding sec 3 of the 14th Amendment and for many good reasons), including giving the attorney that argued it a prime interview.
If you watch MSNBC your your narrative is that Trump led an insurrection, is a fascist, promises to destroy "our democracy", and Biden is hale, hearty, and just fine and is doing a great job on the economy and everything else.
Verily, he is so hale and hearty and up for the job that he will be skipping an interview during the Superbowl.
Oh, and the current narrative is the execrable border
bill was great and how dare the Republicans be against it when they
claim to want border security? MSNBC never states what the Republican
objections to the bill are, just that Trump is behind defeating it and therefore it's an election year ploy and Republicans really don't want a secure border and Democrats do. Yes, really.
In short, if all you watch is MSNBC you're missing a heckuva lot.
It is however good to watch it to see what the other side is being told, and to see the many vast gaps there are in the narrative needed to sell it.
