Joe Biden’s nightmarish debate performance Thursday has unquestionably thrown Democrats and their media allies into a tailspin, as evidenced for example by the Axios “report” on “the two Bidens,” where we were reliably informed that during the hours of 10-4 pm, Biden is “dependably engaged.”
It’s only outside of that time frame (the other 18 hours in the day) or when he is traveling internationally that “Biden is more likely to emerge and have verbal miscues and become fatigued,” or so we’ve been told.
In other words, if a world leader decides it’s time to launch an attack against the United States – if they start it before 10 am or after 4 pm we are screwed.
There were many on the left and in the media who couldn’t help but admit how painful Biden’s debate appearance was to watch, with some – including the NY Times editorial board – even calling for Biden to abandon his reelection campaign.
Others, however, emerged from the Democrat Struggle Session with some pretty hilarious excuses.
The first one we got, which was mid-debate, was that Biden supposedly had a cold:
It should be noted that this was not previously announced in the days leading up to the debate and that apparently Biden’s cold didn’t keep him from mixing and mingling at the Waffle House after the debate:
It also didn’t keep him from being able to read prepared remarks from a teleprompter during a speech he gave the next day in North Carolina, for which we got a lot of “dang, where was this guy last night?” type tweets from The Usual Suspects in the press:
Another excuse from the Biden team was that he had “over-prepared when what he really needed was rest”:
“He was over-prepared and relying on minutiae when all that mattered was vigor and energy,” one person in Biden’s orbit told Axios. “They prepared him for the wrong debate. He was over-prepared when what he needed was rest. It’s confounding.”
Disgraced former MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews told “Real Time” host Bill Maher that it was former President Donald Trump’s “theatrical ability” that tricked Biden into having a bad performance:
Perhaps the best one of all was the one floated on Twitter/X about how CNN had allegedly rigged the debate for Biden to fail:
I mean there was definitely something suspicious about those camera angles! Or so says “tape girl” Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who was a senior advisor to Melania Trump when she was First Lady:
NO ONE HAD TO SAY A WORD.CNN’s carefully considered FRAMING & LIGHTING design effectively conveyed the intended perceptions of fragility vs. dominance in visual composition.Biden was filmed in profile, looking pale as a ghost.Trump was filmed straight on, not looking his usual shade of tangerine, but more like marmalade.Biden is a man of honor, integrity, resilience, and resolve.A Trump is a Trump is a Trump.
I mean imagine thinking CNN, which has been ground zero for anti-Trump messaging since 2016, was trying to help Trump and not Biden.
One thing I wanted to point out for the record was that the “he has a cold” excuse has been trotted out before when Joe Biden has embarrassed himself in front of the world, as we saw when he skipped out on the G-20 leaders’ dinner in 2022:
Here’s more on what we were told at the time:
It is unclear why exactly Biden did not hit the gala, but according to the White House press pool, an administration official said, “The president just had spent a full day [of] meetings and needed to attend to a few items tonight.”
Horsecrap. It was after 4 pm during his overseas trip and he was fatigued and needed to go to bed. Why can’t these people just freakin’ be honest for once?
Because they’re fearful that the truth will come out, just like it did on Thursday night when Joe Biden proved to America that what his critics have been saying about him all along was true.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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