Just in case you were unclear where the leadership of Amazon is on this issue...

On a whim I asked our house Alexa unit "Alexa, does Joe Biden have dementia?"

The unit just gave a failure tone (duh-dun) and didn't reply. Note that this is completely different from what she said to my next question:

"Alexa, is Joe Biden senile?" She said "I don't have an answer to that."

As a former IT guy, I would have expected the second answer for BOTH questions. But someone at Amazon has literally coded Alexa to NOT RESPOND to the dementia question.

I thought that was interesting. Not surprising, mind you. But interesting.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by PowerSurge:
I hope they stick with the guy.

Did you read the tweet? They don't have a choice.

Of course they have a choice. They can choose not to apply pressure on him.

This evening, more than one media source is reporting that Biden is heading to Camp David for the purpose of discussing with family his continuing with his campaign.

Family, and his ego, have a big influence on him, more than the Dem big wigs.

It would be best for him resign the presidency, and then let Kamala finish off his term, so she could, in theory, run for two more. But if he says he's not going to campaign anymore and will not accept the nomination, Kamala is fucked because she's tied in with him.

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Kamala is fucked because she's tied in with him.

Familiar territory, I'd guess.

They are doing all they can to keep him propped up...

At 6pm Eastern Standard time last night, the Editorial Board of the New York Times launched a journalistic SCUD missile at the Democrat’s presumptive nominee, eloquently headlined “To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Race.” It began with the hysterical, hand-wringing claim that Democracy will Die if Trump gets re-elected. Since no weapon is off the table in the mission to “save Democracy” (for future drag queens), the Times’ Editors did the unthinkable and previously unforgivable: they called Democrat Resident Joe Biden unqualified for office:
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If it weren’t for double standards, they’d have no standards, and so the editors also had it both ways. No matter what, they still ain’t voting for the Orange Man. “If the race comes down to a choice between Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden,” the Editors two-facedly gassed, “the sitting president would be this board’s unequivocal pick.” They darkly warned NYT readers, “That is how much of a danger Mr. Trump poses.” It’s even worse than the terrifying risk of carbon monoxide detectors running out of batteries in the middle of the night.

The Times’ vow to vote Biden but hopefully not Biden describes the sort of profound spiritual crisis now facing the Democrat party. It’s Democrats because they were the only folks surprised by what happened Thursday night. Compliantly gaslit by media, they had believed Biden was “at the top of his game” and “sharper than anybody,” capable of eating mint chip ice cream and performing complex quantum mechanical calculations at the same time. Now they aren’t even sure he can eat the ice cream by himself.

Democrat certainty in Biden’s mental qualifications was only possible through ceaseless cognitive dissonance. But not everyone bought the media’s “cheap fake” lies. If anything, after Thursday’s debate debacle, Republicans felt vindicated.

Amidst all yesterday’s hot takes, wild speculation, conspiracy theories, and a full spectrum of terrible opinions, one truth emerged: the denial phase is over. The Democrats can no longer pretend their octogenarian candidate is anything other than, as the Times put it, only a flickering shadow of a public servant.

In other words, yesterday, the country experienced a political earthquake of 9.0 on the Richter Scale, and the national conversation surged over the cliff of willing disbelief and headed straight down into Surreality Canyon.

To say the awful reality of Biden’s diminished capacity shattered Democrat world views too-narrowly skates over the even more profound implications. For just one example, everyone just found out, beyond any legitimate argument, that the White House and the entire media have been covering for Biden, lying in other words, about the single most important fact about the single most important decision facing the entire world: can Biden put on his pants one leg at a time like everyone else?

Beyond the confirmed disclosure of coordinated media dishonesty, there are a thousand thousand more implications, all exploding from the debate in slow motion like shards of shattered glass.

The debate over replacing Biden is a red herring. It is not at all clear that a Biden switcheroo is possible. He’s not like a blown fuse. Well. Maybe he is like a blown fuse, but not in the sense he can be just switched out with the spare from the bottom of the fuse panel. First of all, yesterday Biden doubled down, and said sorry, he’s not going anywhere. In other words, Biden and his handlers responded to calls for his resignation with an offended, “over Joe’s dead body:”

https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1806746426904379543



The Democrats also face some intractable legal quandaries. Biden has already been “democratically” elected as the party’s nominee in every state. Changing him out would, by definition, violate the will of the voters, not to mention fifty different state ballot-qualifying laws. Nor under federal campaign finance laws could the Biden campaign just stroke a check to transfer their financial war chest to a new campaign. So it’s no secret that any replacement candidate would instantly be mired in pesky Republican lawsuits.

Days before the debate, for instance, the UK Daily Mail ran a story headlined, “How conservatives could make it very hard for Democrats to replace Biden on the 2024 ballot if he has a disastrous debate or steps aside.”

Nor do Democrats have a clear replacement. The Democratic bench is thin. There are many possibilities, but no obvious front-runner. To replace Biden, they must endure a painfully accelerated period of compressed primary campaigning, focus group testing, and market research. The Democrats face a difficult, divided base: Should a new candidate support or oppose Israel? And don’t forget Biden loyalists, who will be racing around behind the scenes trying to sabotage and undermine the process at every step.

At his own rally yesterday, Trump said he doesn’t think they’ll replace Biden, because Biden out-polls all the possible alternatives. President Trump —who has better polling data than anyone except the Biden campaign— remarked, “It’s hard to believe, but crooked Joe Biden polls better than any of those people.”

If it doesn’t end the discussion, note that former President Obama —and thus his entire political apparatus— supports Joe. It was just a bad debate night:
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My opinion, worth no more than anyone else’s, is that the current public controversy over Biden’s nomination is just another narrative shell game. The debate about needs to happen to ease Democrat voters into Biden’s therapeutic hot tub. And that debate needs to happen quickly. The goal, as the Times Editors promised, is for Democrat voters to vote for Joe Biden anyway, purely to block Trump, even if the nation dissolves into a dementia-addled nightmare and World War III.

It’s the ultimate protest vote. All or nothing.

I remarked yesterday that the fallout includes harder questions soon emerging. It didn’t take long. Yesterday, historian and scholar Victor Davis Hanson asked whether Biden’s fragility will fuel our enemies to act quickly and take advantage:

Similarly, the New York Times ran an article originally headlined, “U.S. Allies Watch the Debate With Shaking Heads and a Question: What Now?” Same as the rest of us.

The article’s sub-headline noted, “Across Asia and Europe, the debate stoked concerns about American stability, both domestically and on crucial foreign policy issues like Washington’s commitment to alliances.” In other words, can our allies trust a president who’s likely to forget they even exist? What you really don’t want is being four months out and experts invoking “terminal decline:”

Famed independent journalist Seymour Hersh called up his many Democrat contacts, who seemed just as confused about what to do as everyone else. Hersh ended his Substack yesterday wondering: who is really running things at the White House? Since it’s obviously not Biden. And he ended by invoking the same 25th Amendment question I predicted yesterday:

Whatever happened to the 25th Amendment that authorizes the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet to declare the president incompetent? What is going on in the Biden White House?
https://seymourhersh.substack....-running-the-country

To wrap up this segment, electing a creaky 82-year-old president would be another historical breakthrough as well as an apt metaphor for “terminal decline.” Compare that awful possibility with previous presidential ages: Teddy Roosevelt, 42; John F. Kennedy, 43; Bill Clinton, 46; Ulysses S. Grant, 46; Barack Hussein Obama, 47; and George W. Bush, 54.

So.

As I said, we’re off the map and GPS is on the fritz. I’m not even going to try predicting what happens next.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com...ack&utm_medium=email

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Originally posted by braillediver:
"Team Biden" has spent a lot of money and time to finally get the Presidency. I don't think they're leaving without a fight.

Exhibit A:


I think the only way Joe's leaving early is feet first in a pine box.

It's funny, my wife and I were talking yesterday and she did not watch any of the debate, but has certainly heard about the aftermath, including Jill Biden's behavior. She jokingly remarked that Jill is one of those evil TV murder-mystery wives sticking by their corrupt husbands, and that she has a lot of keys to a lot of skeletons in closets, and wouldn't hesitate to use 'em. And that is something to think about; Jill Biden has been sitting next to Joe for all these briefings and meetings. And Joe likely told her in private a lot of bad shit that have gone on in the WH and in Joe's career, he doesn't impress me as a guy who would keep any of this a secret from his wife. She appears to be controlling, vindictive, and power-hungry. Maybe my wife has something there.

Oddball, I think you nailed it on all counts. Jill Biden is right in the middle of things and probably has more influence than the past six First Ladies put together.

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This evening, more than one media source is reporting that Biden is heading to Camp David for the purpose of discussing with family his continuing with his campaign.

Family, and his ego, have a big influence on him, more than the Dem big wigs.

It would be best for him resign the presidency, and then let Kamala finish off his term, so she could, in theory, run for two more. But if he says he's not going to campaign anymore and will not accept the nomination, Kamala is fucked because she's tied in with him.

President Biden hunkered down with family at Camp David Sunday to discuss the future of his re-election campaign following his disastrous debate performance, according to a new report.

People close to Biden, 81, believe only the president and first lady Jill Biden, will determine the future of his presidency, NBC News reported, citing several top Democrat sources.

“The decision-makers are two people — it’s the president and his wife,” one of the sources told the outlet. “Anyone who doesn’t understand how deeply personal and familial this decision will be isn’t knowledgeable about the situation.”

Another source added, “The only person who has ultimate influence with him is the first lady. If she decides there should be a change of course, there will be a change of course.”

Biden’s trip to the presidential retreat in Maryland — where he spent a week preparing for last Thursday’s debate — was planned in advance, White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said Saturday.

During the 90-minute trainwreck of a debate against former President Trump, Biden often appeared vacant or slack-jawed, and on several occasions froze mid-thought, misspoke or struggled to form coherent sentences.

The octogenarian president returned to Camp David with the first lady Saturday night, joining their children and grandchildren.

But a source told NBC News that the Camp David get-together wasn’t considered a formal family meeting.

“Any discussion about the campaign is expected to be informal or an afterthought,” the source told the outlet. “No one is sitting down for a formal or determinative discussion.”

The trip to Maryland will serve as a break for Biden, who spent the weekend at posh fundraisers in the Hamptons and at New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s mansion.

The planned Camp David stop comes after White House aides revealed Biden has difficulty functioning outside of a six-hour window, between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Biden is prone to absent-minded gaffes and fatigue outside of those hours or while traveling abroad, White House aides told Axios in a bizarre attempt to spin his disastrous debate performance.

Biden is scheduled to remain at Camp David until Tuesday.

https://nypost.com/2024/06/30/...aigns-future-report/

I just think this is the ultimate Biden Inc shakedown. Claim never surrender until the check has the right number of zeros then walk away with cush jobs for generations of your family and a loaded bank account. Jill is one sick bitch and she intends to see this one through. Not enough payout and Joe stays in. I really think that is all there is to it. Kamala will have to jump in for a little while and actually work for a few weeks with the clear understanding that she will be bought off and ushered to a fancy home in cali to never be seen again.

B-Rock and Big Mike are getting ready to pound the pavement for the new guy in a furious campaign assault. Trump better get his VP out now because it's gonna be a mad push to the end and he is going to need to get a surrogate out there with star power. This election is far from over.

Frankly, I think one of the best things we have going for us is the asshat pro palastine and pro trans movement, they are like cryptonite to the 30% of honest good people who vote democrat.

Keep pushing and giving what you can, these sneaky fucks are not stupid, they have a plan and it's up to us to stop it.

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Similarly, the New York Times ran an article originally headlined, “U.S. Allies Watch the Debate With Shaking Heads and a Question: What Now?” Same as the rest of us.

We just need to play the crazed dementia angle for 6 months. He's a wild card, he might bomb Beijing overnight and not remember it in the morning. Xi, do you really want to test someone who doesn't understand the ramifications of dropping a nuke?

What a glorious shit show.

Someone has all the dirt on Biden Inc. and their fortunes could turn as fast as Joes did during the debate.

Haha, just perfect if true.

https://x.com/AlexThomp/status/1807398266536956408



https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1807230395781390788

Here is Mark Levin’s ‘take’ on the debate, the current state of the msm, and Dr. Jill “Breakfast taco” Biden’s likely influence over FJB’s train-wreck of a regime.

Link is to yootoob and the video is ~16 mins.

I know that Mark is a ‘love’ him or ‘hate’ him news/media personality, but I thought this piece provided some interesting perspective on these current events.

But the bigger problem is this: If JoeB is too incapacitated now to run for a second term as President, then he is too incapacitated NOW to be the current President.

This is truly the “worry point” !!!!! So now what?

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But the bigger problem is this: If JoeB is too incapacitated now to run for a second term as President, then he is too incapacitated NOW to be the current President.

This is truly the “worry point” !!!!! So now what?

That obvious point failed to make it into my list of enormities. Totally true, totally obvious if you are paying attention. Thanks for the wake up, and by the way I feel like I'm not paying attention.

What we saw on Thursday confirmed what Special Counsel Hurr concluded in his report about Biden's memory and if you remember, that conclusion was blasted by all the Biden supporters as being incorrect, gratuitous and plainly political.

It was none of things and Hurr was right.

His supporters knew back then it was the truth and now, it's why the DOJ won't release the audio interview. The DOJ knew too.

Unless Joe vows to stay in, I don't see the Repubs pushing for the audio interview, but if there's a chorus inner circle supporters saying he's mentally sharp, then they'll renew renew their request.

People talking about Joe's mental acuity as if it's a new thing.

Just like talking about him not having a new though of his own being a new thing.

Meet the new boss...

https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1806750414164897901

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Haha, just perfect if true.

https://x.com/AlexThomp/status/1807398266536956408

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Of course!

I think they can do a lot of things with the cash.

https://theconversation.com/wh...eftover-money-130042

What they can't do (legally) is use it for personal stuff. But, given their skill and experience at laundering money, I'd say they're set for a few generations.