NY Mag: ‘The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden’
“He looked pretty good for 81, no? Really, folks!”
This is so ridiculous. They all knew. The media knew, Democrats knew, people at the White House knew.
Olivia Nuzzi of NY Mag:
The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden
The president’s mental decline was like a dark family secret for many elite supporters.
President Joe Biden walked before a row of flags and took his place at a lectern stamped with the presidential seal. A few feet in front of him, thin panes of teleprompter glass, programmed with prewritten remarks, were positioned to meet his stare as he spoke into a microphone that would carry his voice through a soundsystem. His White House press secretary looked on. So did several senior White House officials. Anxiety clung to the humid summer air. What the president was about to say might determine the future of his presidency and perhaps the Republic itself.
Yet this was not to be some grand pronouncement about war or peace or a shift in domestic policy. He was not delivering an official address or even a rally speech. He was not onstage in a stadium or auditorium or perched on a platform in a gilded government or hotel ballroom. He was not speaking to a crowd of thousands or even hundreds. There would be no video of his statement carried live to the world. There would be no photos. And there would be no published audio.
In a tent on the backyard patio of a private home in suburban New Jersey, the president was eye to eye with a small group of powerful Democrats and rich campaign donors, trying to reassure them that he was not about to drop dead or drop out of the presidential race.
The content of his speech would matter less than his perceived capacity to speak coherently at all, though much of what he would say would not be entirely decipherable. His words as always had a habit of sliding into a rhetorical pileup, an affliction that had worsened in the four years since he began running for president for the third time in 2020. He might begin a sentence loud and clear and then, midway through, sound as if he was trying to recite two or three lines all at once, his individual words and syllables dissolving into an incoherent gurgle.
Still, he was fine, he told the donors. Old, sure. But fine. He was here, wasn’t he? Things were actually going well by the numbers. The polls looked good. The money looked good. They were looking right at him. He looked pretty good for 81, no? Really, folks! And what choice did they have? As he liked to say, “As my father liked to say: Joey, don’t compare me to the almighty; compare me to the alternative.” In total, his remarks would last for exactly ten minutes — long enough to inspire confidence in his abilities, advisers hoped, but not so long that he was at increased risk of calling those abilities further into question.
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I’ve watched as several friends and relatives have gone through the aging process. Once they are clearly in the early stages of losing their mental capacity (as Biden is), the process always seems to accelerate. I expect Biden will continue to decline, and he will probably be worse by November.
At any rate, if he is re-elected, Biden will have to serve for four and a half years from now. I don’t think he can manage that long, and he will have to turn the job over to his VP Harris.
the msm has been very consistent in who it will attack and protect and their lefty overlords are thankful and vindictive towards them all at the same time
Making sure the msm knows what will happen to them if they dont get even nastier against allll things pro america:
The front of CNN Center in Atlanta was the scene of violent protests on Friday evening that resulted in damage to the front of the building and inside.
The protests had started as peaceful earlier in the afternoon when crowds gathered in the city’s famed Centennial Park. The protests were in response to the death of George Floyd, who was killed on May 25 in Minneapolis.
At around 6 p.m. ET, protesters began moving toward the front of the CNN Center, where police had gathered. Over the next few hours, the crowd swelled as SWAT was called in to help with crowd control.
^^^^from may 2020^^^^
but no doubt in the future also when needed by their own lefty wing gestapos to push the agenda even harder to the left
just a reminder of how deep the connections go to hurting america via the msm route:
Sellers is currently a political analyst on CNN.[2][3][4] He is also a paid lobbyist for the government of Liberia.[5]
We are going home, black folk are going home, brown folk are going home and drinking dirty water, going to poor schools, not having access to quality care and so this is bubbling over,” said CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers.
NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU?
In response to an incident between a teenager, Nicholas Sandmann, and Native American activist Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial, Sellers tweeted about the teen: “He is a deplorable. Some ppl can also be punched in the face.”[16] Sellers deleted the tweet, claiming his comment was “metaphoric” and “taken out of context” though he still claimed that the students “displayed xenophobic, racist behavior.
A confusing adjacency of content there. For a jubilant second, I thought Sellers was inviting all the black Democrats to “come home to Liberia.”
and no msm headlines ( yet) screaming of the dissension and mistrust and loyalty issues and drama queen soap opera within the dnc
like they did non stop with trump and the gop ;trump and melania etc
Our stunning, brave, independent investigative press!
Scooping each other with sensational coverage of a conspiracy the rest of us knew about years ago — a corruption every one of them branded us “conspiracy theorists” for discussing — because the cat is now so far out of the bag that there is not enough gas in the world to run those lights.