February 17, 2023

"President Biden remains 'a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute duties of the presidency,' his physician wrote..."

"... in a memo released hours after the president underwent a routine annual physical at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Thursday morning."

WaPo reports.

The physician — or the Washington Post — needs instruction in how to avoid triggering jokes about transgenderism. "President Biden remains 'a... male...."

Anyway. Great photo at the link of Biden jogging across the South Lawn as his aide, holding an open umbrella, lags behind. The healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male does not need an umbrella. 

That's your candidate, Democrats. There's no getting around it. And it seems that America will spend the next 6 years in the arms of the gerontocracy. Snuggle up!

117 comments:

Amadeus 48 said...

"And it seems that America will spend the next 6 years in the arms of the gerontocracy. Snuggle up."

I am too old for this, and I am younger than both Biden and Trump.

rehajm said...

Thank goodness our President is not in charge of anything…

Narayanan said...

Need nappy

Hold Viagra

Michael K said...

I assume no mental competency test was included in his physical.

rehajm said...

Speaking of buying the opinion of physicians, my PCP is normally a level headed fellow but he’s apoplectic over the fact we are no longer evaluating med students based on merit. It is extremely dangerous…

gahrie said...

They told us that Fetterman and Feinstein could serve as Senators too.

Guess what they all have in common?

gilbar said...

interestingly, the skipped the cognitive part of the exam

Yancey Ward said...

We are entering Francisco Franco territory.

madAsHell said...

Wow! Dementia ia contagious!!

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Biden v Trump... here we come.

Depressing.

madAsHell said...

Seriously, mental health issues are contagious.

No one wants to call their spouse, sister, daughter paranoid schizophrenic, but that's how it goes!!

TreeJoe said...

Let me start by observing that Biden is in better health and communicative capacity than I expected him to be ~18 months into his Presidency. His campaign made me think he was about to collapse mentally - and he's pretty much stayed steady state since then. Hasn't improved, hasn't declined.

There is so much pageantry in the Presidency, with very little accuracy. Physicians pretend and hide things. Staff hide things. Etc.

However, an 80+ year old chief executive is like electing Fetterman. It means that who you elect is not as important as the party you elect.

Kate said...

At 80 my dad was playing winter outdoor pingpong with my husband. By 84 his mobility and strength had dramatically changed. To say that someone 80 is fit to serve has a short shelf life.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

81 million voters couldn't be wrong. The president is fit as a fiddle. Unless you want to find yourselves at the wrong end of a grand jury subpoena, I suggest you end this discussion immediately. - The White House staff.

Wince said...

Biden clinging to power is good for Democrats?

AZ Bob said...

Who are you gonna believe: Me or your lying eyes and ears?

Jess said...

The king has no clothes. Even worse, there's nobody to point out the obvious.

Butkus51 said...

They put an ice cream truck just out of camera sight. They also have various kids around the ice cream truck just in case.

Big Mike said...

Is this going to be like Admiral Ross McIntire, the doctor who attended President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II and who pronounced Roosevelt health to be “perfectly OK” during the 1944 campaign, going on to say that There are absolutely no organic difficulties at all."

A few months after McIntire said that, of course, Roosevelt was dead, after which it gradually came out that he had been dealing with serious heart issues for many years, and was suffering from melanoma,

JAORE said...

Now list what it takes to be fit enough to be POTUS.

Is it JUST:
BP
A1c
Aerobic capacity
Resting heart rate

Or is a PRIMARY need related to cognitive...
Never mind.

hombre said...

No amount of criminality, physical or mental disability is sufficient to dislodge The Chosen of the Democrat Party elite.

It took Trump to do it in 2016, but as we have seen in 2020 and 2022, it won't happen again. And frankly we don't deserve for it to. We and our children have sold or surrendered our birthright to the Dems, their mediaswine, their other enablers and their cultural revolution. Our tiktoc grand children are not equipped to take it back.

Fortunately, Armageddon may be in the offing. If so, in the aftermath there will be very few Democrats. Unfortunately, there probably won't be a U.S. either.

wildswan said...

"Kate said...
At 80 my dad was playing winter outdoor pingpong with my husband. By 84 his mobility and strength had dramatically changed. To say that someone 80 is fit to serve has a short shelf life."

My opinion also. You can do a lot with diet, exercise, and plenty of rest but once you start to age the process goes on and Biden's verbal lapses show the process is going on. He's doing a Fetterman. His far left staff, including Anita Dunn, is doin the work, the media are covering up the fact and, nevertheless half the country knows the facts. The other half, the Dem-Dums, will be allowed to know in a few years.

wildswan said...

"Kate said...
At 80 my dad was playing winter outdoor pingpong with my husband. By 84 his mobility and strength had dramatically changed. To say that someone 80 is fit to serve has a short shelf life."

My opinion also. You can do a lot with diet, exercise, and plenty of rest but once you start to age the process goes on and Biden's verbal lapses show the process is going on. He's doing a Fetterman. His far left staff, including Anita Dunn, is doin the work, the media are covering up the fact and, nevertheless, half the country knows the fact right now. The other half, the Dem-Dums, will be allowed to know in a few years.

MB said...

Written like a man who wants to keep his job.

cassandra lite said...

'Vigorous" joins the long list of words, led by "liberal," that's now been rendered meaningless.

Static Ping said...

One day I was arguing with someone online about some subject or another, and the other person's argument became something along the lines of "to believe that, you have to believe that scientists would lie, and why would they?"

Yeah, I am retroactively declaring victory on that one. Our institutions are corrupted beyond belief, literally.

Enigma said...

What gerontocracy? We are led by the cabal of billionaires and back-room partisans. With Biden we have the most obvious puppet President in US history. Go back and watch Robert Redford's The Candidate (1972) regarding lefty attacks on stuffed-shirt politicians. "Never trust anyone over 30" they said back then.

The Democrats would have rejected Biden at 80 in the Reagan era as too old, rejected him in the Clinton era as out of touch, and in the Obama era as the fuddy-duddy who only made White people comfortable with a Black leader.

Biden has no real power, as he sold out to numerous corporations in Delaware, Ukraine, China, and CBC in back-room deals. So, he's not a leader, he follows whatever his handlers put on his teleprompter. Max Headroom in real life.

The left called Reagan and G.W. Bush stupid and stage-managed, but did the same 100x more obviously with Biden. Power corrupts, and Trump induced blind rage and a pyrrhic victory.

re Pete said...

Coming down the mountain, distributing the corn

joshbraid said...

Seeing the umbrella: Vote for Number 2!

Critter said...

They are still avoiding the mental health tests. Seems like an obvious admission.

The next election will break all records on votes as Republicans follow Democrats in collecting ballots for as many registered voters as they can, including the dead. Elections are no longer about popularity of candidates. They are about turning out the base and collecting ballets. We’ll see which party has the best vote collecting system.

MadisonMan said...

Do you notice that "President Biden remains 'a healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male who is fit to successfully execute duties of the presidency,' his physician wrote..." does not include the word "all" before "duties"?

gilbar said...

when my dad was 80, he was still hiking (including in Colorado at 10,000+ feet)
when 84, he was using a walker, and spending an day (like thanksgiving) with the family was exhausting
By the time he was 88, he was basically bedridden, and not very much there mentally.
Fortunately, the fate of the free world didn't rest in his hands.. So he was able to enjoy the last three years of his life.

WHAT IS WITH politicians refusing to retire? I Realize that their jobs are really jobs; but Don't they have somewhere they'd like to be? Those trouts WON'T catch themselves

paminwi said...

Seriously why do so many think Trump will be the candidate?
I believe we must constantly criticize those that supportTrump and tell them why he can’t win.

Gusty Winds said...

But does Biden have Tiger's Blood flowing through his veins like Charlie Sheen?

Trump's still got Tiger's Blood.

And Charlie Sheen would be a better President than Joe Biden.

Saint Croix said...

That's your candidate, Democrats. There's no getting around it. And it seems that America will spend the next 6 years in the arms of the gerontocracy. Snuggle up!

ha ha ha ha

Millennial girls are shivering as they think about hugging that old, old, old man.

Kiss the babies, Joe! You know you want to kiss the babies!

Saint Croix said...

And it seems that America will spend the next 6 years in the arms of the gerontocracy.

Since we're using the word "seems" to mean "it might happen"

Let me say that it seems like Marianne Williamson will be the Democrat nominee in 2024!

hombre said...

Arguing with committed Trump supporters is like arguing with a Democrat, if you can engage a Democrat. What you get is name-calling and nonsense.

More importantly, a Republican cannot win without them. If Trump would withdraw and relegate himself to Republican kingmaker, Republicans might overcome the cheating in 2024 and take back the WH and the Senate.

Unlikely.

SteveWe said...

Biden is a re-do of Woodrow Wilson, only worse.

walter said...

He can ride a bike!

FWBuff said...

@MadisonMan 11:27

I noticed the same omission! I don't think that was an oversight.

TreeJoe said...

People are bitterly clinging to Trump. Because he said the things they wanted to hear. It's much like people clinging to Obama for the things he said, even when his actions didn't back it.

Trump failed. He lost. He lost a critical election, he lost control of his nation to a bunch of authoritarians, he lost people because of his way of acting and speaking. He lost. Now he's acting stupid towards contenders. You only put him up for consideration if you have no other candidates.

By comparison you could have DeSantis or Haley.

robother said...

Or, as Don Lemon would put it, Biden's in his prime.

Saint Croix said...

I don't even bother with WaPo links anymore. Always paywalled and it's tissue paper anyway.

Washington Examiner is pretty good.

Did you know Kamala Harris became sorta-president in 2021?

Holy fuck! Alert the media! First female president! And she's a minority! Give her the Nobel Peace Prize! I'm so excited! Holy fuck! I'm going bold. Holy fuck fuck fuck. I'm going bold and ALL FUCKING CAPS!

First female president!

We did it, ladies!

Woo-hoo!

Fuck that fluid shit while we do a Feminist Wave.

First!

Female!

President!

At long last, we ladies have arrived (I went fluid for ten seconds, now I'm going back, sue me).

Back in 2021, Biden underwent a routine colonoscopy, in which he received anesthesia. As a result, the presidential powers were briefly transferred to Vice President Kamala Harris, marking the first time a woman wielded such authority.

That's close enough for government work!

Executive power!

She could have pushed the nuclear button and shit like that. Commander in chief! Girl boss! I'm calling it!

Feminism 1, Mankind 0

M Jordan said...

The Soviet leaders of the late 60's and 70's were all Biden-old. It would be a decade before the whole regime collapsed. Dems days are numbered.

hombre said...

"We’ll see which party has the best vote collecting system."

No contest. Democrats have too much experience.

Michael said...

There is only one Republican who can lose to Biden. Donald Trump. Any other candidate would crush him.

Humperdink said...

"I believe we must constantly criticize those that support Trump .. "

I was up and down on Trump. However, when these clowns raided his living quarters, that pushed me over edge. He needs to clear his name against these tyrants. And the only way to do it is to get reelected.* He is not stupid (although his mouth says otherwise). I am hopeful he will clean house this time.

*Think the Jan 6 political prisoners want him reelected? After all, no one is taking up their cause.

walter said...

Kissinger turns 100 in May. I don't know if he can ride a bike.
Fun to imagine it.

Michael said...

There is only one Republican who can lose to Biden. Donald Trump. Any other candidate would crush him.

Michael K said...

Blogger rehajm said...

Speaking of buying the opinion of physicians, my PCP is normally a level headed fellow but he’s apoplectic over the fact we are no longer evaluating med students based on merit. It is extremely dangerous…


This is a serious threat but I will avoid it as I am 85. With any luck, these "equity" physicians will not appear in practice until I am gone. One reservation is that my mother lived to 103 but, by the time these people reach the stage to do real harm, I hope to avoid them. I wonder when the drive for "diversity" among airline pilots will start to affect the safety of air travel?

traditionalguy said...

Fear not who votes for this retarded sock puppet. Fear who counts the votes in the swing states. mr Soros bought their elections and he owns them. The MAGA team may surprise them all again.

dbp said...

And it seems that America will spend the next 6 years in the arms of the gerontocracy.

The assumption is that Biden will run and win. Or that Trump, or some similarly old person will be Joe's challenger. I don't think either of these assumptions will hold-up.

Jaq said...

There is a very funny meme of Biden walking side by side with a Montgomery Burns walking.

"I believe we must constantly criticize those that supportTrump and tell them why he can’t win."

I believe we must constantly push back and tell the never Trumpers that they have been had, and that all of the other candidates are just a different flavor of Joe Biden. I would vote for Biden over Niki Haley, for example, same with Pompeo, same with Pence.

Dr Weevil said...

All the personal testimonies on the difference between 80 and 84 remind me of something I read many years ago. The subject was natural lifespan: how long people who take care of their health could expect to live with an excellent medical system. This guy (possibly Leon Kass?) argued that the 'natural life span', the age at which health starts to decline much faster than before, is not the traditional 70 (the Biblical "three score and ten") but ~83 (he may have said 82-84). That's when even the healthiest tend to turn unhealthy, and their chances of death in the next year rise considerably. He concluded that the human body seems to be designed to last ~83 years, and any healthy years after that are dumb luck, and we should be very grateful for them.

Which reminds me. The most famous sentence of Cicero's dialogue De Senectute ("On Old Age") is "There's no man so old and decrepit that he doesn't think he'll make it through one more year". An internet Classics mailing list discussed this some years back, and someone (me, I think) asked how old you are (in the developed world today) before your chances of making it through one more year drop below 50%. Of course, that's easy enough to calculate these days, if you know your way around government statistics. Someone did the work: it turns out to be surprisingly high: 104. Makes sense when you think about it. If your chances are (e.g.) 59% at 99, 57% at 100, 55% at 101, 53% at 102, 51% at 103, 49% at 104, then obviously the number of 104-year-olds will be far smaller than the number of 99-year-olds five years before, even while their year-to-year chances were >50%. The wonders of compound interest!

alfromchgo said...

As a male seven months younger that this miscreant I wouldd like to say:

"Have I got a bridge you must own."

gilbar said...

pam? Why CAN'T Trump win? More Importantly, why (how?) could ANY republican win?

Quaestor said...

Well, there goes Biden's most plausible impeachment escape.

Big Mike said...

And it seems that America will spend the next 6 years in the arms of the gerontocracy.

@Althouse, don’t bet your pension on that.

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Stoutcat said...

Blogger TreeJoe said...
Let me start by observing that Biden is in better health and communicative capacity than I expected him to be ~18 months into his Presidency. His campaign made me think he was about to collapse mentally - and he's pretty much stayed steady state since then. Hasn't improved, hasn't declined.

Nope, I see definite and unmistakable signs of ongoing decline. The White House staff just has better meds to cover it up with. Why do you think he goes to Delaware most weekends where there apparently is no guest log to track who visits him there?

wendybar said...

Don't believe your lying eyes.

CStanley said...

Baghdad Bob, MD.

BIII Zhang said...

This person is a MEDICAL DOCTOR. He is NOT a biologist.

He has no business declaring that Joe Biden is a "male."

wendybar said...

"I believe we must constantly criticize those that support Trump and tell them why he can’t win."

Keep criticizing us, and you will be calling Biden President for 4 more years. Why you want a corrupt government is beyond me.

Jaq said...

Why they have convinced you to hate Trump:

As president, Donald Trump lavished the rich with tax cuts and deregulation. Yet, contradictorily, he also threatened the structure of American global hegemony that does so much to keep the American one percent tremendously wealthy. In fact, Trump undertook the most momentous rollback of American military and diplomatic power since the current architecture of American informal empire first took form at the end of World War II.

Trump campaigned on an end to “nation building” and then, amazingly, set about actually winding down America’s “forever wars” by simply packing up and leaving. Nor did he start any new wars.
. https://thegrayzone.com/2023/02/15/trump-empire-they-hated-him/

Paul Ryan "lavished the Rich with tax cuts," but of course the majority of those cuts went to the middle class, but the "constant repetition" of this lie makes it take on the lustre of actual truth in the minds of those exposed to this repetition, and no curiosity about primary sources, and even this guy, who is trying to make a case for Trump is taken in by it without even realizing it. It's impossible for everybody to check primary sources on ever claim, and they have thousands of people pushing lies about Trump as their full time job.

What they did on to J K Rowling is relative in scale to what's been done to Trump as a Boy Scout Jamboree is to Operation Overlord.

Static Ping said...

As for the gerontocracy, there's nothing inherently wrong with having old leaders if they are capable. Trump, despite having a myriad of personality flaws, is genuinely energetic, charismatic, sharp, possesses useful leadership skills, and, when focused, is a good judge of character and situations. Biden did not have leadership skills when he started his political career 50 years ago, has repeated shown to be a poor judge of character and situations, thinks charisma involves lying about his biography such that I doubt he knows what is true anymore, and seems to think that his entire political career has been about enriching himself and his ego. Trump now is a better choice than Biden was 50 years ago, 40 years ago, 30 years ago, 20 years ago, 10 years ago, and now, especially since he is senile. Trump is also a better choice than Kamala Harris at any point during her lifetime, since she's an empty pant suit.

I suppose Biden is a better choice than Feinstein, but that's an extremely low bar.

EdwdLny said...

" WHAT IS IT with politicians who refuse to retire " Simple unrelenting and unmitigated greed, period. 125k a year politicians don't become multi millionaires by shrewd investing. They cheat ,because they can. Once they start they never want to stop.

wendybar said...

"Turbines are collapsing. Food processing plants are being destroyed. Egg farms are burning. Trains are derailing. Spy balloons are overhead, ubiquitous. Inflation and crime are rampant. Our Southern border…doesn’t exist. We’ve got a little war going on in Ukraine. Russia is threatening to use nuclear weapons. China is ready to attack Taiwan.

What does the Biden administration have to say about all of this?

This: “Nothing to see here! Everything’s good and getting better! If we can just keep Trump and his supporters out of office, all will be eternally well!”"



https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/02/wind_turbines_collapsinglike_faith_in_the_biden_administration.html

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Crook Biden + the mob FBI.

It's a foregone conclusion

TeaBagHag said...

This charge sticks; old Biden is old.
He will be much a better leader than whatever hateful and nihilistic GOP creature that crawls out of their primary swamp though.

rhhardin said...

Vigorous. It's not all hair-sniffing at the Biden household.

Rusty said...

wendybar said...
"I believe we must constantly criticize those that support Trump and tell them why he can’t win."

"Keep criticizing us, and you will be calling Biden President for 4 more years. Why you want a corrupt government is beyond me."
All public sector workers love the democrat status quo. There is less of a chance of a reformer actually making them work. As opposed to a Trumnp who calls their very existence in question.

narciso said...

The country is being dismantled murdered by a 1000 cuts

GRW3 said...

Who are you going to believe? Me, or you lying eyes?

lonejustice said...

DeSantis derangement syndrome -- coming to you directly from wendybar and the other always-Trumpers on this blog.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/desantis-derangement-hoax-no-george-soros-did-not-endorse-ron-desantis/

chuck said...

We are ruled by a bureaucracy, the president is just a photo to put on the wall. Journalists and artists reify the imaginary being who runs things, but that has little to do with what goes on.

Chick said...

Vigorously is the new Cognitively

Jim at said...

A healthy, vigorous, 80-year-old male who just happened to fall down three times climbing a flight of stairs.

traditionalguy said...

Trump did not lose. The 2020 ballots were mis-counted in the 6 swing states using mail in ballot counts . And NO COURTS accepted Trump’s standing in any of his legal cases challenging that obvious fraud. The Courts all feared the CIA/FBI/MSM power to destroy any brave Justices as a warning to all others.

Welcome to American Democracy post Presidential JFK’s 1963 threat to destroy the CIA. That youngster’s arrogant threat was easily handled by The Company’s army of wet workers in a cross-fire in Dallas. And that execution has been covered up by every Federal agency for the last 60 years. That’s power.

BUMBLE BEE said...

Fetterman / Feinstein in '24! What could go wrong?

BUMBLE BEE said...

Was it all the prosperity that got Trump in trouble.
Talk about puttin y'all back in chains!

Jaq said...

Pretty sure TeaBagHag is an agent provocateur working to get Republicans out to vote.

Gospace said...

I skimmed through the grayzone article referenced by tim in vermont. The author is another example of someone looking at Trump as a politician and not as a leader. OMG, Trump made decisions on troop deployments without properly consulting military leaders! Well, surprisingly, the President of the United States doesn’t have to consult them or do what they want. They have to do what he orders, and many of them are guilty of multiple violations of the UCMJ and should be hung by the neck until dead. Somebody named Vindman comes immediately to mind. Maybe more than one of them…

The USA, as a trading nation, needs to be the world’s policeman in one area- maintaining freedom of navigation throughout the oceans. Including vigorous anti-piracy efforts. It seems, historically, only one nation at a time can do that.

Land bases in developed countries? Let them take up their own defense burdens. Seems none of our NATO partners have enough artillery shells for an actual war. They’re dependent on us having them. They shouldn’t be.

Not a big fan of Ukraine. But the little kerfluffle going on there has revealed to many the Russian army isn’t an all powerful behemoth. Recall that our military leaders who Trump didn’t consult all said Ukraine would fall within weeks. It’s revealed that we really need more artillery shells. And we need to look carefully at new weapons. Seems quadcopters carrying bombs can be deadly accurate, even when cobbled together with off the shelf parts. This is actually something milbloggers and hobbyists had discussed before the war was started by the Russians. And ignored by military leaders.

Anyone who thinks Biden is capable of understanding anything going on militarily right now is deluded. I’d love to see a reporter ask him about Ukrainian drone use…

wendybar said...

lonejustice said...
DeSantis derangement syndrome -- coming to you directly from wendybar and the other always-Trumpers on this blog.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/desantis-derangement-hoax-no-george-soros-did-not-endorse-ron-desantis/

2/17/23, 3:51 PM

I didn't mention DeSantis at all. Not at all. Never mentioned Soros and his new love of DeSantis. How you can blame DeSantis Derangement syndrome on me is stupid. Look in the mirror. It is YOU who have the derangement. Grow up.

RMc said...

Go back and watch Robert Redford's The Candidate (1972) (...) "Never trust anyone over 30" they said back then.

I was only seven, so I guess I was all right.

Jaq said...

It’s amazing to me the number of people who think they own my fucking vote.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Lone Justice - the Ever-Trumpers - *Only Trump can save us - Bubble Gum Card Super Hero Trump sees all knows all!* - will not be denied. Any lie about DeSantis or any other threat to his Super-Hero Highness, King Trump - is fine and dandy.
They also deploy the left's weapon of "Guilt by association" quiet well. It's gross.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

Tea Bad Hag and much of the collective hivemind - prefer a crook and total destruction - to any opportunity to escape that garbage.

MadTownGuy said...

Static Ping said...

"One day I was arguing with someone online about some subject or another, and the other person's argument became something along the lines of "to believe that, you have to believe that scientists would lie, and why would they?"

For the money (i.e., funding).
For the notoriety.
But mostly, for the money.

MadTownGuy said...

hombre said...

["We’ll see which party has the best vote collecting system."]

"No contest. Democrats have too much experience."

Not only that, but they don't play by Marquis of Queensbury Rules. Count on the PTB in the RNC to insist on playing by them.

Mason G said...

What do you suppose the career prospects would be, of a physician who dared to identify Brandon as "Not Fit"?

You know it, I know it and everybody else knows it.

farmgirl said...

“DeSantis derangement syndrome -- coming to you directly from wendybar and the other always-Trumpers on this blog.”

Whoever is on their best foot. Why knock the crap out of the character of one to build a higher pedestal for the other, though. Geesh.

America 1st- remember?

DINKY DAU 45 said...

C'mon very weak. Not near as good as ole Dr. Ron Jackson (staff Alky) and the former heavyweight MAGA dude when touted as 239 lbs. and 6'3 who was really a minimum 285 and 6'2(then). The healthiest president in history who only eats McDonalds cheeseburgers and Coca Cola. Where did sleepy Joe get his Doc? Gotta to do much better JOEY grease it up some huh? Donny getting close to 2x Joey. Two Relics How many of the congress people going to vote for mental and physical testing after 75? Right, that's what I thought. C'mon man

Saint Croix said...

I hope some Democrats are shocked by harsher treatment in the media over the next couple of years. Might happen.

For instance...

CNN rebukes Don Lemon for anti-Republican sexism

Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...

Joe’s slightly more vigorous than a corpse, which is more than you can say for what remains of his cognitive abilities.

madAsHell said...

Great photo at the link of Biden jogging across the South Lawn as his aide, holding an open umbrella, lags behind.

He had to jog. He was wearing a blue suit. A brown suit would have allowed a more leisurely stroll.

Saint Croix said...

way too much Trump on this thread

he

is

retired


(technically I guess there's too much DeSantis on this thread too but that's not a thing)

Saint Croix said...

Maybe do a poll.

Should Althouse delete every post that mentions Donald Trump for the rest of 2023?

(Althouse votes NO 1000 times because she and Meade do not want to delete 1,000,000 posts over the next 10 months)

Meade said...

I’m afraid traditionalguy at 4:30 PM may be exactly right.

effinayright said...

tim in vermont said...
There is a very funny meme of Biden walking side by side with a Montgomery Burns walking.

"I believe we must constantly criticize those that supportTrump and tell them why he can’t win."

I believe we must constantly push back and tell the never Trumpers that they have been had, and that all of the other candidates are just a different flavor of Joe Biden. I would vote for Biden over Niki Haley, for example, same with Pompeo, same with Pence
************

anyone who would vote for a person with senile dementia over a person with normal intellectual faculties is himself showing clear signs of.....senile dementia.

p.s. still want to tell us Russian dead/wounded are a tenth of what's being reported? Then tell us why RUSSIA....AFTER..A....YEAR...HAS..NOT...WON.

Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...

Joe seems to slur his speech quite often whenever he’s off the prompter these days. Almost like he’s drunk. Is that a relatively new behavior for him? I know he has been frequently incoherent going back to at least 2020 but I haven’t noticed the slurred speech until the last few months.



Narayanan said...

Trump wins : does not need to be in WH = but sadly for y'all only during disasters

Hours After Trump Announces Upcoming Visit to East Palestine, FEMA Reverses Course and Will Support Ohio Community

Crazy World said...
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Crazy World said...

What Meade said at 8:46
Joe & the Ho must go

walter said...

Also, lawyers willing to volunteer time to Trump's case were hounded and blackballed when possible.

effinayright said...

It's official: Dr. Mengele pronounces Biden for office!!

takirks said...

Reality has a way of catching up with these sorts of things. Just like with Fetterman. Keep an eye out for the President wandering off and getting lost, more and more babbling, and the usual host of things you can no longer hide when someone is going over the edge into dementia.

Bruce Willis tried it for a couple of years, and then the walls came in on him. I suspect that Biden will go down the same path.

Article 25 is going to get exercised. Be prepared.

Jaq said...

“What’s being reported…”

Lol, it was “reported” that the Canadian truckers were Nazis.

wendybar said...

farmgirl said...
“DeSantis derangement syndrome -- coming to you directly from wendybar and the other always-Trumpers on this blog.”

Whoever is on their best foot. Why knock the crap out of the character of one to build a higher pedestal for the other, though. Geesh.

America 1st- remember?

2/17/23, 6:39 PM

EXACTLY Farmgirl. DeSantis hasn't even said he is going to run. Criticizing and attacking Trump supporters isn't going to make them want to vote for the party who is criticizing them and attacking them. THAT was my point. I hadn't even MENTIONED DeSantis. lonejustice is the one who brought up DeSantis and Soros. NOBODY even mentioned that on this thread.

boatbuilder said...

I had a vague memory of the doctor who pronounced Donald Trump to be mentally and physically fit was roundly denounced and harassed by the press. And Dinky Dau shows up like the lefty shill he is to confirm that yes, that did in fact happen.

And yet--Trump is still healthy and vigorous. Where does Dr. Jackson go to get his reputation back?

boatbuilder said...

"By comparison you could have DeSantis or Haley."

One of these things is not like the other.

(I sincerely hope--otherwise we really are doomed).

Lars Porsena said...

Got a note from his doctor just like Fetterman.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

Biden reacted so poorly to the press shouting questions at him yesterday, as he stood confused and angry that his preplanned question from NBC was not intelligible in the din, that he stomped out mumbling and called the NBC reporter from the Oval Office. It would be great if the DNC Media showed side-by-side clips of the complete animal chaos of the Trump era press corps and the handful of prescreened barking seals that annoyed the overwhelmed Peter Principal President we have.

wendybar said...

WHY the HELL are we paying for Ukrainian government pensions, when we don't take care of our own people???

"Biden announces that US tax dollars will go towards supporting Ukrainian social services, including paying for government pensions."

https://twitter.com/CatchUpNetwork/status/1626736290933919745?

Narayanan said...

Big Mike said...
And it seems that America will spend the next 6 years in the arms of the gerontocracy.

@Althouse, don’t bet your pension on that.
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since Professora contemplate relocate >>> add Ukraine to list to ensure pension!!!!

Robert Cook said...

"WHY the HELL are we paying for Ukrainian government pensions, when we don't take care of our own people???"

Anything to justify the (claimed) "lack of funds" to increase Social Security, Medicare, pay off student loans, and other funding for the needs of American citizens. When the only choice for domestic spending is Guns or Butter, our tax dollars will always go toward guns and never toward butter...even if we have to find/fabricate reasons to dispose of US taxpayer dollars in other nations. With our dollars allocated to other purposes elsewhere, they can convince themselves they can convince us that "we don't have the funds." Both parties adhere to this first principle.

Paul said...

"And it seems that America will spend the next 6 years in the arms of the gerontocracy. Snuggle up!"

Well Ann, you didn't vote at all... so you obviously accepted Biden as your President. Yes.. Snuggle up and reap what you sow.