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Category Archives: Joe Biden
Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House
This is the greatest book on the 2024 election so far. Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes write: In June 2023, one year before the debate and two months after he’d formally announced that he would seek reelection, Biden entered a … Continue reading
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Who were the first public figures to call out Joe Biden’s senility?
Grok says: Among the earliest public figures to raise concerns about Biden’s cognitive abilities were fellow Democratic presidential candidates during the 2019 primaries. Julian Castro, a former Housing and Urban Development Secretary, notably challenged Biden during a September 2019 debate, … Continue reading
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Did The Biden Administration Try To Murder Donald Trump Saturday Night?
The ineptitude of the Secret Service on Saturday was so grotesque that right now it only makes sense as deliberate assistance to the assassination of the presumptive Republican nominee. That’s the way my mind is working right now. I suspect … Continue reading
We Learned Everything We Needed to Know About Biden in 1988
Alexander Stille, a professor of international journalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, writes in The New Republic: Biden was preparing his first run for president in January 1988, his closest aides made an emergency trip to … Continue reading
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So how did the three books on the Biden administration deal with his decline?
Christian Lorentzen writes for the July 18, 2024 London Review of Books about the three books that have come out on the Biden administration: The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future by Franklin … Continue reading
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I Wish The News Media Had Given Joe Biden As Much Scrutiny As An NFL Coach
Imagine if the New York Times and company had covered Joe Biden’s mental acuity with as much scrutiny as the media gave former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry in his declining years? The Chicago Tribune published Nov. 6, 1988: The … Continue reading
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Joe Biden Press Conference (7-11-24)
01:00 Live coverage of Joe Biden’s press conference03:00 Joe Biden takes questions 54:40 Megan McCardle: How the media sleepwalked into Biden’s debate disaster, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/11/media-coverage-biden-conspiracy-failure/1:00:00 Rabbis, Converts & Jewish Law, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=88441:01:00 Can Converts Become Rabbis?, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=85771:07:00 Dissecting the trope: “This is … Continue reading
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We’re Hours Away From Joe Biden Dropping Out (7-10-24)
05:00 Biden digs in, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/biden-digging-in-presidential-race/678961/16:00 Why do the Democrats get stuck with white senile pols? https://www.stevesailer.net/p/why-was-it-the-democrats-who-got23:00 Trump was headed for a landslide prior to the debate, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/07/trump-campain-election-2024-susie-wiles-chris-lacivita/678806/37:40 Megyn Kelly: George Clooney Wants Biden Out, Nancy Pelosi Wavers, and Elites are … Continue reading
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Blacks vs Jews, Elites vs Grassroots in the Joe Biden Story (7-9-24)
01:00 Jews vs blacks on whether or not Joe Biden should step down03:20 Media pretend to be shocked by Joe Biden’s cognitive decline06:00 Liberals Were Blinded To Biden’s Senility By Their Own Speech Codes, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15612517:20 John Ellis says Joe Biden … Continue reading
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