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She said a neurologist examined the president 3 times. The NYT (IIRC) said it was 9 times so which one is it?

Alex Berenson was first... then the NYT.

https://alexberenson.substack....a-parkinsons-disease

In fairness to the DEI hire, she stated Biden has been examined by neurologists three times at Walter Reed. Each time it was part of his annual physical.

The Berenson and NYT articles state the "Parkinson's specialist" visited the White House nine times, meeting with a the White House doctor once, and the head nurse of the White House Medical Center eight times. It does not state that any of these visits involved a doctor examining Biden.

Thus, both can be true statements.

The question that should be asked is why is a Parkinson's specialist visiting the White House nine times if the President does not have a neurological condition akin to Parkinson's?

Biden Family Enter Negotiation Stage – Letter to Congress Frames Baseline for Exit Price

The Biden family have entered the negotiation stage, as they face two simultaneous enemies aligned in common purpose.

Hunter Biden has been brought close into the fold, as the Intelligence Community obviously holds leverage over Dad’s disposition through the entry vector of his son.

As this aspect unfolds, the Biden syndicate goes to the mattresses. The threat metric against Hunter is why he is now part of the daily advisory group around the Office of the President.

Meanwhile, in a coded message, Joe Biden technically blamed the Obama network today when he called in to the MSNBC radio show and pointed fingers at the DNC elite.

Everyone knows the DNC is now under the full control of Team Obama. If Biden feels the “Democrat Elite” are targeting him, he understands Barack Obama is behind the approvals to unleash internecine attacks against his administration. Death by a thousand Obama cuts.

The Obama network operate inside and outside DC. Simultaneous to this assault against him, Biden is now also facing the Intelligence Community who have decided it’s time for Joe to go. Biden is now facing two enemies, the Obama network and the Intelligence Community (IC).

The IC threat became visible first with the opposition from SSCI Chairman Mark Warner, then with the story about Joe Biden’s doctor being financially connected to the outcomes of the Biden syndicate. The Biden family selling influence for affluence is a joint collaboration of a considerable tribe. Fifty years in the DC system creates a large rolodex of affluence and influence.

The story of the Biden doctor having a financial stake in the Biden family business only comes to the surface via the IC. That’s a direct shot across the bow that tells us the IC now considers Joe Biden’s disposition against their interests. The clock ticks faster.

With the clock ticking faster, we leave the “if” stage of the exit and come toward the “how and when” phase. This now transitions the entire process into a negotiation for the exit price.

Can the Biden syndicate get 10% in perpetuity, or will they have a more traditional DC exit price of books and foundations? Keep in mind, a speaking circuit is out of the question given the health status of the principal. As a result, Hunter, Jill and family will be negotiating for their collective interests. That’s what is happening right now.

It’s really not a matter of “if” – in truth it never was. They are now working through the “how and when.”

WASHINGTON DC – President Joe Biden is attempting to head off more intraparty calls for him to drop out of the race, sending a letter to Hill Democrats Monday morning that emphatically stated he would continue on as the party’s planned nominee.

“I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump,” he said in the letter to lawmakers. (more)



https://theconservativetreehou...t-price/#more-261919

DOCTOR Jill and Hunter is the Coach in this clip; Joe Biden is Reggie Ray. The democrats as a whole are in the blue jerseys.

“Our Finest Hour”: Democratic Insiders Support “Blitz Primary” After Blocking Primary Competition

https://jonathanturley.org/202...primary-competition/

A proposal is circulating in Washington to dump President Joe Biden and hold a “blitz primary” to choose a replacement. The proposal is the work of Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University law professor who worked in the Obama and Clinton administrations, and Ted Dintersmith, a venture capitalist and education philanthropist. The proposal is gaining support with party insiders and repeats the hyperbolic claim that this is essential to avoid a “democracy-ending defeat.” It is disappointing to see a law professor repeating this unfounded alarmist claim. Yet, the most glaring contradiction is found in the stated desire to give delegates a choice after the party worked to prevent any choice for voters in state primaries.

The authors promise an “uplifting” path in which candidates would pledge not to attack each other. They would then have a few weeks as named celebrities like Oprah and Taylor Swift would moderate discussions. Delegates would then use ranked voting before the August 19th convention.

The authors proclaim that “we can limp to shameful, avoidable democracy-ending defeat. Or Democrats can make this Our Finest Hour. While we hope for help from Lord Almighty, the Lord helps those who help themselves.”

One wrinkle is that Biden himself spent Sunday pledging again that he is not stepping aside. He also continued his penchant for bizarre statements like stating that “even when I was running for Senate, each time I ran – quite frankly, not a joke – Philadelphia, in particularly, got me across the line. No, I’m not joking. No, I mean it, seriously. Organizationally and in terms of fundraising, the whole deal.”

Either Biden was confessing to using Pennsylvania votes to win elections in Delaware or he was hopelessly confused. Seriously.

The “finest hour” for the party is coming a bit late given the concerted effort of the Democratic establishment to strip away opposing candidates from ballots and crush anyone offering an alternative to Biden. At the same time, both the press and pundits attacked those who raised the President’s infirmity, including calling unedited videos “cheap fakes.”

For the last year, Democratic secretaries of state were trying to remove Trump from 2024 ballots and Democratic leaders in Florida, North Carolina and other states were refusing to allow other candidates to run against Biden in their primaries. For those voters, the primary might have seemed like a “democracy ending” election.

At the same time, the Democratic establishment opposed any debate where Biden’s infirmities might have been observed when there was still time for voters to make another choice. They did so even though every poll showed the majority of Democratic voters thought Biden was too old and wanted an alternative choice. (Notably, I also favored a debate in the GOP primary. While Trump did not participate in any debate, he was widely available for media questions and pressers).

Now, after quashing opposing candidates when the public would have had a chance to make a state-by-state choice, insiders are calling for an “uplifting” blitz election by the party establishment and activists.

I am still curious how this will work. Donors gave money to the Biden-Harris ticket. That money would now have to be used for different candidates. Absent a formal acceptance to the alternative slate, it could raise tough questions under federal election laws. Likewise, the DNC is coming up on a number of states with drop-dead dates for ballot changes. Finally, there is the rather awkward problem of a President who is still very much alive and running.

As Biden objects over and over again that he will not step aside, Brooks and Dintersmith are already planning his political eulogy where Biden would be celebrated as a “modern-day George Washington.”

Once again, the Democratic Party seems to be channeling Monty Python in planning for a departure of a president who does not want to go.

But wait, there’s more!

Link to rvmnews.com -

Biden Is Going To Have A ‘Big Boy’ Press Conference Says KJP & John Kirby [VIDEOS]

Yes, both of those nit-wits used that term!

The clown is at full throttle and someone removed the steering wheel!

Another sighting of the Red-Pilled Tapper, once unknown in these parts.

https://x.com/TheKevinDalton/s.../1810459517081231460

Why is it that every time this administration gives full disclosure, total clarity, open transparency, comprehensive reporting it is full of omissions, half truths, questionable data or facts and some out right lies.

But if course the 'other guy' was much worse. So I guess that makes it alright?

Democrats to roll out fleet of ‘Dark Brandon’ buses to cruise around GOP convention

https://www.washingtontimes.co...dark-brandon-buses-/

Democrats are plowing ahead with plans to drive a fleet of 57 buses, which include vehicles wrapped with President Biden’s face as “Dark Brandon,” around the Republican National Convention next week in Milwaukee.

Democratic lawmakers in Washington are still wrestling with the prospect of Mr. Biden remaining at the top of their ticket in November as he steadfastly refuses to withdraw from the race.

Despite these troubles, the Democratic National Committee is proceeding with counter-programing for the GOP convention. The Democrats have seven new campaign bus wraps that will run on 57 buses around the city during the convention.

Democrats say they will remind voters that Mr. Biden “is fighting for them as Trump and extreme Republicans prepare to descend on the city — which Donald Trump described as ‘horrible,’” a reference to a comment Mr. Trump made at a GOP meeting with lawmakers in Washington.

Mr. Trump and other Republicans said the remark was taken out of context when it was leaked to reporters and that he “loved” Milwaukee.

DNC Communications Director Rosemary Boeglin said in a statement that there is just one candidate who will protect “democracy” and “protections for fundamental freedoms, health care, affordable prescription drugs, and good-paying jobs.”

“Ahead of the Republican National Convention, Democrats are making sure that Wisconsinites and all Americans understand that if Trump wins, America loses,” she said. “President Biden has Americans’ backs, and we’ll have his when we send him back to the Oval Office for four more years this November.”

The statement came just hours after the RNC released a Trump-inspired party platform that omits its previous embrace of a pro-life amendment to the Constitution and a federal abortion ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

The DNC said the platform language “was the most extreme, out-of-touch, and dangerous proposals in his MAGA platform that would let him fulfill his pledge to be a dictator on ‘day one.’”

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The DNC said the platform language “was the most extreme, out-of-touch, and dangerous proposals in his MAGA platform that would let him fulfill his pledge to be a dictator on ‘day one.’”

Do they even see the irony here? Do they think everyone doesn’t?

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57 buses, which include vehicles wrapped with President Biden’s face as “Dark Brandon,” around the Republican National Convention next week in Milwaukee.

No pics?

I just don't see how our boy can make it to the election. Their one real chance to get rid of him will be at the convention. With each passing day, it becomes more acceptable to call for Biden's withdrawal. What is going to be like six weeks from now?

If Droolin' Joe manages to survive the convention, he might be a BAMF after all.

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The Democrats have seven new campaign bus wraps that will run on 57 buses around the city during the convention.

Why 57 busses. One for each state?

I know this much. The minute it becomes clear that it will be impossible to get rid of Joe, the very second, the media will again do a complete 180 and go all in for him like none of this ever happened. They'll say he's gotten better. Rather than the cancer he promised to cure, he in fact cured Alzheimer's!

When that moment comes, if it comes, Trump will be target numero uno once again, and Biden will be their man.

Of course, the prospect of Biden surviving the onslaught the next few weeks is indeed becoming less and less likely everyday. Karine Jean-Identity-Hire was nearly in tears today. She probably hates that old bastard more than anyone at this point. How long will she hang on with more press conferences like today?

Biden’s letter to his fellow Dems is pretty telling in the last paragraph.

Nothing said about securing the border, getting inflation under control, making the world safer, for that matter marking our streets safer.

Just this drivel: The question of how to move forward has been well-aired for over a week now. And it’s time for it to end. We have one job. And that is to beat Donald Trump. We have 42 days to the Democratic Convention and 119 days to the general election. Any weakening of resolve or lack of clarity about the task ahead only helps Trump and hurts us. It is time to come together, move forward as a unified party, and defeat Donald Trump.

Their stated job is to beat Trump at any cost, everything goes by the wayside.

And Trump needs to point that out at every turn… exactly this. Make it all too clear that the Democrat goal is not healing the county’s woes, but beating an opponent. Hammer away at the fact that they have no intention of fixing anything.

We Were "Deceived & Gaslit For Years", All In The Name Of "Democracy"; Then "Poof", It Collapsed Overnight

Authored by Alastair Crooke,

The Editor at Large for the Wall Street Journal, Gerry Baker, says: ‘We’ve been “gaslit’ and deceived” – for years – “all in the name of ‘democracy’”. That deceit “collapsed” with the Presidential debate, Thursday’.

“Until the world saw the truth … [against] the ‘misinformation’ … the fiction of Mr. Biden’s competence … suggests they [the Democrats] evidently thought they could get away with promoting it. [Yet] by perpetuating that fiction they were also revealing their contempt for the voters and for democracy itself”.

Baker continues:

“Biden succeeded because he made toeing the party line his life’s work. Like all politicians whose egos dwarf their talents, he ascended the greasy pole by slavishly following his party wherever it led … Finally—in the ultimate act of partisan servility, he became Barack Obama’s vice president, the summit of achievement for those incapable, yet loyal: the apex position for the consummate ‘yes man’”.

“But then, just as he was ready to drift into a comfortable and well-deserved obscurity, his party needed a front man … They sought a loyal and reliable figurehead, a flag of convenience, under which they could sail the progressive vessel into the deepest reaches of American life — on a mission to advance statism, climate extremism and self-lacerating wokery. There was no more loyal and convenient vehicle than Joe”.

If so, then who actually has been ‘pulling America’s strings’ these past years?

“You [the Democratic machine] don’t get to deceive, dissemble and gaslight us for years about how this man was both brilliantly competent at the job and a healing force for national unity – and now tell us, when your deception is uncovered, that it’s ‘bedtime for Bonzo’ – thanks for your service, and let’s move on”, Baker warns.

“[Now] it is going horribly wrong. Much of his party has no use for him anymore … in a remarkably cynical act of bait-and-switch, [they are trying to] swap him out for someone more useful to their cause. Part of me thinks they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it. I find myself in the odd position of wanting to root for poor mumbling Joe … It’s tempting to say to the Democratic machine frantically mobilizing against him: You don’t get to do this. You don’t get to deceive, dissemble and gaslight us for years”.

Something significant has snapped within ‘the system’. It is always tempting to situate such events in ‘immediate time’, but even Baker seems to allude to a longer cycle of gaslighting and deception – one that only now has suddenly burst into open view.

Such events – though seemingly ephemeral and of the moment – can be portents to deeper structural contradictions moving.

When Baker writes of Biden being the latest ‘flag of convenience’ under which the ruling strata could sail the progressive vessel into the deepest reaches of American life – “on a mission to advance statism, climate extremism and self-lacerating wokery” – it seems probable that he is referring to the 1970s era of the Trilateral Commission and the Club of Rome.

The 1970s and 1980s were the point at which the long arc of traditional liberalism gave place to an avowedly illiberal, mechanical ‘control system’ (managerial technocracy) that today fraudulently poses as liberal democracy.

Emmanuel Todd, the French anthropological historian, examines the longer dynamics to events unfolding in the present: The prime agent of change leading to the Decline of the West (La Défaite de l’Occident), he argues, was the implosion of ‘Anglo’ Protestantism in the U.S. (and England), with its entailed habits of work, individualism and industry – a creed whose qualities were held then to reflect God’s grace through material success, and, above all, to confirm membership of the divine ‘Elect’.

Whereas traditional liberalism had its mores, the decline of traditional values triggered the slide towards managerial technocracy, and to nihilism. Religion lingers on in the West, though in a ‘zombie’ state, Todd avers. Such societies, he argues, flounder – absent some guiding metaphysical sphere that provides people with non-material sustenance.

However, the incoming doctrine that only a wealthy financial élite, tech experts, leaders of multinational corporations and banks possess the required foresight and technological understanding to manipulate a complex and increasingly controlled system changed politics completely.

Mores were gone – and so was empathy. Many experienced the disconnect and the disregard of cold technocracy.

So when a senior WSJ editor tells us that the ‘deception and ‘gaslighting’ collapsed with the CNN Biden-Trump debate, we should surely pay attention; He is saying the scales finally fell from peoples’ eyes.

What was being gaslighted was the fiction of democracy and also that of America declaring itself – in its own scripture – to be the trailblazer and pathfinder of humanity: America as the exceptional nation: the singular, the pure-of-heart, the baptizer, and redeemer of all peoples despised and downtrodden; the “last, best hope of earth”.

The reality was very different. Of course, states can ‘live a lie’ for a long period. The underlying problem – the point Todd makes so compellingly – is that you can be successful in deceiving and manipulating public perceptions, but only up to a point.

The reality was, it simply was not working.

The same is true of ‘Europe’.

The EU’s aspiration to become a global geo-political actor too, was contingent on gaslighting the public that France, Italy and Germany et al could continue to be real national entities – even as the EU scooped up all national decision-making prerogatives, by deceit. The mutiny at the recent European elections reflected this discontent.

Of course, Biden’s condition has been long known. So who then has been running affairs; making critical daily decisions about war, peace, the composition of the judiciary and the boundaries of state authority? The WSJ piece gives one answer: “Unelected advisers, party hacks, scheming family members and random hangers-on make the critical daily decisions” on these issues.

Maybe we have to reconcile to the fact that Biden is an angry, senile man who yells at his staff: “During meetings with aides who are putting together formal briefings, some senior officials have at times gone to great lengths to curate the information in an effort to avoid provoking a negative reaction”.

“It’s like, ‘You can’t include that, that will set him off’ or ‘Put that in, he likes that,’” said one senior administration official. “It’s very difficult and people are scared sh*tless of him.” The official added, “He doesn’t take advice from anyone other than those few top aides, and it becomes a perfect storm because he just gets more and more isolated from their efforts to control it”.

Seymour Hersh, the well-known investigative journalist reports:

“Biden’s drift into blankness has been ongoing for months, as he and his foreign policy aides have been urging a ceasefire that will not happen in Gaza whilst continuing to supply the weapons that make a ceasefire less likely. There’s a similar paradox in Ukraine, where Biden has been financing a war that cannot be won – yet refusing to participate in negotiations that could end the slaughter”.

“The reality behind all of this, as I’ve been told for months, is that Biden is simply ‘no longer there’ – in terms of understanding the contradictions of the policies he and his foreign policy advisers have been carrying out”.

On the one hand, Politico tells us: “Biden’s insular senior team are well acquainted with the longtime aides who continue to have the president’s ear: Mike Donilon, Steve Ricchetti and Bruce Reed, as well as Ted Kaufman and Klain on the outside”.

“It’s the same people — he has not changed those people for 40 years … The number of people who have access to the president has gotten smaller and smaller and smaller. They’ve been digging deeper into the bunker for months now.” And, the strategist said, “the more you get into the bunker, the less you listen to anyone”.

In Todd’s words then, decisions are made by a small ‘Washington village’.

Of course, Jake Sullivan and Blinken sit at the centre of what is called the ‘inter-agency’ view. This where policy mostly is discussed. It is not coherent – with its locus in the National Security Committee – but rather is spread through a matrix of interlocking ‘clusters’ that includes the Military Industrial Complex, Congressional leaders, Big Donors, Wall Street, the Treasury, the CIA, the FBI, a few cosmopolitan oligarchs and the princelings of the security-intelligence world.

All these ‘princes’ pretend to have a foreign policy view, and fight like cats to protect their fiefdom’s autonomy. Sometimes they channel their ‘take’ via the NSC, but if they can, they will ‘stovepipe’ it directly to one or other ‘key actor’ with the ear of one, or other, Washington ‘village’.

Nonetheless, at bottom, the 1992 Wolfowitz doctrine which underscored American supremacy at all costs, in a post-Soviet world – together with “stamping out rivals, wherever they may emerge” – still today remains the ‘current doctrine’ framing the ‘inter-agency’ baseline.

Dysfunction at the heart of a seemingly functioning organization may persist for years without any real public awareness or appreciation of the descent into dysfunctionality. But then suddenly – when a crisis hits, or Presidential debate misfires – ‘poof’ and we see clearly the collapse of the manipulation that has confined discourse to within the various Washington villages.

In this light, some of the structural contradictions that Todd noted as contributory factors to western decline become unexpectedly ‘illuminated’ by events: Baker highlighted one: The key Faustian bargain: the pretence of a liberal democracy operating in tandem with a ‘classic’ liberal economy versus the reality of an illiberal oligarchic leadership sitting atop a hyper-financialised corporate economy that has both sucked the life from the classic organic economy, and created toxic inequalities too.

The second agent of western decline is Todd’s observation that the implosion of the Soviet Union rendered the U.S. so cock-a-hoop that the latter triggered a paradoxical unleashing of global ‘Rules-Based Order’ expansion of empire versus the reality that the West was already being consumed from its roots upwards.

The third agent to decline lay, Todd argues, with America declaring itself to be the greatest military nation on earth – versus the reality of an America that has long rid itself of much of its manufacturing capacity (particularly the military capacity), yet elects to clash with a stabilized Russia, a great power returned, and with China which has instantiated itself as the world’s manufacturing Behemoth (including militarily).

These unresolved paradoxes became the agents of western decline, Todd maintained. He has a point.

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...-collapsed-overnight

"Not even in the same book". LOL

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1810689629324222908

When is it time to move on...