I bailed early, preferring to interact with Grok. My prompts, exactly as I wrote them, presented in order and with zero Grok-written material:
1. Summarize this article: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/how-joe-biden-handed-the-presidency-to-donald-trump
2. I skimmed it and it seemed so Clooney-focused it put me off
3. I'd like a critical perspective on the piece that is skeptical of this interest in Clooney. I don't care to read a step by step story of what happened as Biden got excluded from the nomination he won in the primaries. I want much more skepticism about the way the Democratic Party allowed him to win the nomination in the first place and got itself into the seeming (or bullshit) jam it was in last summer
4. Did Democrats engineer a nomination for Harris that she couldn't have won in a fair primary or did Democrats accidentally wait too long to lose hope in Biden and find themselves in the position where they couldn't avoid giving it to Harris? And how did the mainstream media contribute to the problem?
5. Make a clear and concise list of why Tapper's going Clooney-centric exemplifies what's wrong with mainstream media politics and with the Democratic Party
I've spared you any material written by Grok, because I presume you don't want to read what was written without a human mind. But I think what Grok wrote is more useful than what's in The New Yorker.
In case you want to read how the machine reacted to my prompts, here's the link.
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If you go to the Grok link and read, you'll see that prompt #4 appears twice. That happened because I corrected a typo. Notice "did Democrats accidentally wait to long" and "did Democrats accidentally wait too long." The "to" for "too" misspelling didn't trip Grok up, but I correct typos (when I see them).
The Donks were sniffing their own farts and declaring the aroma Chanel No. 5, as usual. The sputtering rage from the Left is even more pronounced now, but outside of the fart sniffers, no one is listening. Once it's established that you are a liar, screaming that someone else is the liar is ineffective. But when your livelihood depends on deception, what is the choice?
Don't "wait to long" has meaning. Reminds me of The Beatles "don't be long"/"don't belong" (https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/song/blue-jay-way/)
Thanks for the Grok link -- well done.
I read the Grok responses (I generally find them interesting! And it's amazing how far AI has come, to state the obvious), and was reminded of the I, Robot story Liar!. (Hey, Mr. D, we're on some kind of wavelength,)
In that story, a robot is able to read minds, and learns to lie in order to spare human feelings, in compliance with the First Law of Robotics (robots may not harm humans or allow them to come to harm). Eventually, this robot is forced to confront the dilemma that both its lie and the truth cause harm to a human, and it "goes crazy" and more or less dies.
Evidently there's a First Law of Media (or maybe of Media Access) that works the same way, but I don't hold out a lot of hope that this forced confrontation will lead to media's institutionalization or death, much less therapeutic reform.
This is how modern college professors should require students to append their work. Specifically student questions and full AI answers. Maybe you can’t teach them to think, but you should be able to teach them to ask good questions
I noticed that as a signed-in X user, after reading your prompts and Grok's responses, I was offered the opportunity to "continue the conversation". I don't know if this would have led to Grok and I having a little further chat, or whether a new prompt I added (and Grok's response) would have shown up for anyone reading the existing material.
Is anyone going to ask why they hid his dementia during the 2020 campaign? That’s when the cover-up started.
A first-draft-of-history narrative is very dependent on its sources--who is willing to talk to the authors. The upside to talking is that you can get your version on the record. Clooney obviously spent hours with Tapper et al. Biden obviously not at all. What about Pelosi ? Schumer ? Grok needs to analyze whose perspectives drive the book.
"I've spared you any material written by Grok, because I presume you don't want to read what was written without a human mind. But I think what Grok wrote is more useful than what's in The New Yorker."
I notice you also spared us material written in The New Yorker. I assume for the same reason.
They got away with so much to that point one can’t blame them for their assumption they’d get away with the dementia front man again. When rational people are out vigorously defending your shit, staking and ruining their reputations as credible witnesses to history, I can’t help but believe they thought they had it made…
…this is here now as a salvage operation for Clooney’s credibility. ‘I was duped!’. How’s that going grok?
Babylon Bee spotted the trend
Wife Beginning To Suspect Husband's Thoughtful, Relevant Responses To Her Texts Might Be A.I. Generated
…maybe they’ll try to run clooney as their front man. Stranger things have happened…
Grok ‘em all. These pansy leftists whining about “muh democracy” when every action they take is an insult to the republic.
The opening scene to this movie is a courtroom where Hunter Biden’s plea deal is falling apart.
The bigger problem for the Donks is that they didn’t have another viable, electable candidate besides Biden. Still don’t.
…there’s plenty of important questions deliberately not asked-what year was it apparent?, who was creating the policy decisions? Who was calling the shots? Who was coordinating the strategies with the media? How much did current Congress leaches know? None of these will be asked. None…
The dems are willing to throw Clooney under the bus to save the reputations of their priestly class leadership.
I don't blame Joe Biden because when dementia was taking my mom, she insisted on staying in her house well passed the point where it made any sense.
Tapper hopes people are interested in Clooney enough to keep reading while he explains that corporate media still has value and that Democrats care about something other than power.
If Tapper is actually a journalist, he could look into who made presidential decisions, who controlled access to Biden and when 25th Amendment discussions should have started.
Getting a Democratic presidential candidate was a shit show, but we had a dementia president for an unknown length of time. Let's talk about that.
I read the Grok. Will we even need writers in the 2030’s?
@Leslie Graves
Even if *I* added an additional question, the new material would not show up for someone who clicked the link that is in the post. The link gives access to everything up to the place at the BOTTOM of the page where I got the link. I'd have to make a new link to give access, so anything you wrote would only show up for you, but you could MAKE your own link if you wanted to give other people access.
Sorry, but anybody who purchases Jakes book is an idiot. What' up?? Don't you get enough propaganda from watching him spew Progressive talking points nightly?? Jake knew all along. HE was LYING to you...and now wants you to spend your money to support his lies.
Grok has a thoughtful, relevant drone that picks it out as Grok. Probably originating from its cliche base.
---- I've spared you any material written by Grok, because I presume you don't want to read what was written without a human mind. But I think what Grok wrote is more useful than what's in The New Yorker.
They are exactly equal in that respect.
ELIZA + cliches.
The thing about Grok is that it's able to sustain attention in your "thing" where normal people tune out. Similar to why psychologist Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig writes that borderline pedophiles make good teachers. They don't tune out from what the kid is babbling on about.
Contrary to wife and non-newlywed husband.
Why did the DNC manipulate the nomination process so no body but Biden could get delegates? Simple Biden won in 2020 with the manipulation of the media and the election process. They thought it could be done again against Trump. The DNC really counted on the lawfare to destroy Trump. That was plan A .
Did Democrats engineer a nomination for Harris that she couldn't have won in a fair primary …?
Did Grant take Richmond?
@rhhardin, so someone else remembers ELIZA! Cool!
What AI can't do is literary effects, which is what husbands do with non-thoughtful non-relevant responses. A male reframing.
Grok answer was a lot more inciteful than the NY Post.
Speaking of big name actors, Biden is like Bruce Willis near the end. The Bidens want to make some money and given the nature of Biden's decline, it can't wait.
“Why did he and his advisers decide to conceal his condition from the public and campaign for reëlection?“
This is the question I want them to answer or admit. Also, who was acting President all that time? Why no sunlight on that question? There has to be a reckoning.
Tapper’s earnings from this book is blood money, since he was and still is complicit in the cover-up. He’s allowing people to remain anonymous, including himself. What did he know and when did he know it?
Looks like the fog machine is getting cranked even higher. Everybody has a story on 'Gosh, we was fooled !', trying to get the chumps to believe they weren't in on it, and in many cases, directing it. I notice that nobody is being singled out as being responsible for this mess, now isn't that interesting. The next step will be to take the sunken cost approach, wash your hands and walk away. Then we'll start hearing the 'Fresh Start !' stories, as they try to jam the book shut, in spite of all those squirming rats trying to get out. Unfortunately for them, we have lists: All those signed letters, by all those experts and former officials, that got published in the NYT.
My comment at 7:34 was made before I followed Althouse’s link and read Grok’s analysis. Grok has persuaded me — the Democrat establishment thought they and their allies in the media could drag Joe Biden across the finish line again, and his dismal performance at the debate showed them to late how wrong they were.
The Grok response is wonderful! Or should credit go to the Althouse prompts? I'd love to see what Grok would say in response to questions from defenders of the left.
It's mind-numbing how little those on the left who would allow everything under the sun to put Joe Biden back in office (open the borders, downplay his obvious mental and physical inabilities, tell us inflation is transitory when it obviously wasn't, downplay a massive rise in crime across the nation), then blame Joe months later when they've had time to figure out what went wrong. They've completely missed any lessons to be learned.
And they're writing books to prove it.
exhelodrvr1 said...
"Is anyone going to ask why they hid his dementia during the 2020 campaign? That’s when the cover-up started."
I suspect his decline was known to insiders before the 2020 campaign. That would have made him impeachment insurance for Barack Obama.
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“Don't overthink it. They knew about Biden, just as we knew about Biden, and a supermajority of Americans knew about Biden. They lied about it, because they didn't want Trump to win. That's the story, the rest is noise.”
Grok: "Pelosi, Obama, and others didn’t act until public pressure—amplified by figures like Clooney—made Biden’s candidacy untenable. But this suggests they knew about his decline all along and only moved when the optics became unsustainable."
I keep noting that Clooney et al were perfectly willing to let a diminished Biden run and govern UNTIL the voters saw what they saw in the debate.
"The piece could have skewered this cowardice:..."
Indeed, Grok, indeed.
You can't consider these matters without going back at least to 2016, with the Dem attempt to promote Trump in order to poison the Republican primaries.
Jake Tapper: Cashing in on His Own, Personal Idiocy
Stephen Green (aka VodkaPundit) was pithy:
Watching Jake Tapper cash in on his own professional malfeasance is probably the most Beltway thing ever.
I have read elsewhere in the media that the Biden administration's spin doctors were sizing old Joe up for a permanent wheelchair for the rest of his presidency as with FDR, but unlike Mr Roosevelt Biden was going to openly use it just like the governor of Texas uses his. If that's true, and it seems quite plausible, somebody knew Biden was not up to four more years as POTUS physically. So they knew.
Grok seems to talk a lot, but not many facts.
Its obvious the plan was to renominate biden despite his senility. After all, all Biden had to do was get through the debates. And later do a few speeches with a telepromter. The MSM was a propaganda arm of the DNC. And was covering up for him.
And since Biden was being renominated, why have primaries? That's whats so great about the D party from an elite perspective. You have leftwing losers who will vote for your party no matter what - and will accept any candidate the elite select.
BTW, you'll notice the fake Bernie Bros and so-called "Smart Democrats" said zero when the DNC cancelled the primaries. Who needs voting?
Once it became clear Biden was a sure loser, they could have held an open convention. But Democrat insiders decided it was better to nominate Kamala. After all, what would black Democrats think if the first black VP was passed over for a white guy? And there really wasn't anyone better than Kamala out there in the summer of 2024.
While some exceptions might be made for the nomination of an incumbent President (though that courtesy was not extended to Jimmy Carter) in my opinion the Democrats haven't run a clean primary for President since at least 1992 when Cuomo Senior did his MacBeth impression for too long to get started in the primaries (they would have greased the skids for him, too). The possible exception might be 2008.
Once Obama got some momentum there was no way the Dem PTB were going to cut off the first black to be a serious contender for the nomination regardless of the promises that had been made to Hillary. Virtually every non-incumbent primary since Carter surprised them with his win in 1976 (he made his splash in Iowa but actually came in second to "uncommitted") has featured rule changes and outright stage management to produce the 'right' nominee.
The answer to the question is obviously the second part of #4. The DNC-adjacent MSM dragged Obama over the line in 2012, got Trump nominated in 2016, and then dragged Biden's corpse into the winner's circle in 2020. They were sure they could 'hide the decline' again in 2024 until Biden shat the bed in the debate.
Joe was the Democratic choice, then their Choice. Now isn't that Karma-lic, a double-edged scalpel of weird therapy.
Personally, I don't think it mattered. Again, from an elite perspective that's whats so great about the D Party. Everyone in congress (or 99 percent) marchs in lockstep and toe the party line. Every Democrat Canidate and major Politician supports the same policy positions. They agree on 90 percent of everything, 90 percent of the time.
So, there's no reason to think Biden disagreed with anything being done in his name. Or if was 100 percent healthy things would've been diffrent. Nor would "Kamala" been different from Senile Biden. They're all peas in a pod.
Jake Tapper is just another Democrat FRAUD.
Tapper(D) is on camera shaming anyone who dare call out what we all witnessed for 4 dreadful years.
F Tapper(D) - another lying money grubber on the authoritarian left.
IRC, the Democrat Party elite was so upset over Obama winning the nomination from Queen Hillary, they rigged the 2016 primary by using "Super-delegates". Of course, it didn't matter because nobody cared to contest Hillary except the fake Bernie bros.
In 2020, they didn't even finish counting the iowa primary results. And once Biden won in South Carolina, everyone dropped out and declared him the winner. LOL. And the average democrat didn't care. They're followers and content to let the elite choose their leaders.
The insane left are merely moving thru the states of grief.
Almost the only way the Biden wheelchair story makes any sense, since Biden doesn't appear to be confined to one now, was for it to be a set-up for a 'sudden' resignation after his re-election.
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Literally how Russia collusion conspiracy theorist Jake Tapper “covered” Biden
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2020: Joe Biden has a stutter.
2021: Joe Biden has a stutter.
2022: Joe Biden has a stutter.
2023: Joe Biden has a stutter.
2024: Joe Biden has a stutter.
2025: Buy my book on the cover-up of Biden’s mental decline!
11:21 AM · May 13, 2025
"Watching @jaketapper cash in on his own professional malfeasance is probably the most Beltway thing ever." -Stephen Green
Recall when Democratic Tapper shamed Lara Trump (using a lie) about Biden's Stutter. Biden doesn't have a stutter.
Shame on Tapper. Just another lying democrat media fraud.
Seriously - how does that a-hole have a job?
he wants to sell books
"But I think what Grok wrote is more useful than what's in The New Yorker."
But what else can one expect from a publication obsessed with unnecessary umlauts?
Here's some free advice for Eustace Tilley, quench that craving by putting those dots over the consonants instead. That's how Rob Reiner doubled his money.
The book publisher is so freaked out by the outcry before the book’s release that they’ve released a reel of Tapper’s alleged investigative reporting clips, such as “a majority of voters don’t think the president should be running for re-election” utterances. Mark Halperin took the time to address each one of their examples with a longer clip of the examples used and the full context show just how soft, how weak Tapper was about all of it.
This book gaslighting about the gaslighting should be laughed off the market. Jake Tapper and his media colleagues have lost ALL credibility and they can only blame themselves.
Panic in teh Beltway!
"what Grok wrote is more useful" Correct. For example: "the article’s interest in Clooney smells like a convenient hook to sell a dramatic story, not a serious reckoning with the party’s complicity" Anything to avoid a "reckoning"--which of course would expose not just the Biden WH, but the Dem party, and the MSM as utterly fraudulent outfits, never to be trusted again.
"he wants to sell books"
No, Jake Tapper wants to sell his book, Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, written with Alex Thompson. (Let that sink in, a "professional journalist" using a ghostwriter.) Tapper has no interest in selling other books, particularly the works-in-progress about his history of shameless pandering and vicious mendacity.
>Ann Althouse said...
I've spared you any material written by Grok,<
Thank you.
This situation calls for epic drama, an opus in five acts and iambic pentameter roughly paralleling Marlowe's Faustus, except Jake Tapper trades his soul far more cheaply. Instead of Helen of Troy, he gets eternity with Rosie O'Donnell.
"4. Did Democrats engineer a nomination for Harris that she couldn't have won in a fair primary?"
Yes. This was the only way Harris could be a Presidential candidate. Had an emergency primary process been created, Harris would have probably lost to AOC and Mayor Pete.
"Shame on Tapper. Just another lying democrat media fraud.
Seriously - how does that a-hole have a job?"
Because being a lying democrat media fraud is his job.
It comes down to who, if anyone, controls the party and in what matters. If it came down to Clooney and Obama to get rid of Biden, was there really a deep plan at work to give Harris the nomination? Was anyone in the party really in love with Kamala Harris? If you had the power and a plan, you'd probably want to get Biden out of the race early and have primaries to see who the strongest candidate was. You'd get Biden out of the way early to give Harris or someone else a decent chance to win. But whoever was in charge couldn't dislodge Biden, so they hoped for the best from Joe but scheduled the debate with Trump earlier than usual so that they could get rid of Joe if he couldn't cut it.
9 Times Jake Tapper Dismissed Biden’s Decline, Claimed He’s ‘Sharp Mentally.’
9 captured on camera.
But buy his book!
As seen on Insty:
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"You know what book I want to read?
The one that reveals who was actually in charge of the executive branch while the walking vegetable named Joe Biden fucked off to Rehoboth."
Why would Alex Thompson want to have his reporting associated with clown Jake Tapper. Thompson did report on Biden’s light schedules, his shoes, etc. Why would he want to write a book with Biden booster Tapper? I really don’t understand that.
Lazarus makes some good points, but his assessment hinges on plans being logical. Sometimes they are, but often they are not, particularly when plans are created or managed by groups. A political plan is just a route map to a destination, a desired state of affairs. In following any map there are alternative routes, detours, side trips, as well as hazards, breakdowns, and an invisible scattering of the caltrops of fate.
I think we'll eventually discover that 2024 was a classic example of the destruction of the powerful by means of their own hubris. Joe Biden was always a syncretic stew of stupidity and arrogance. From the very beginning, without a vigilant army of handlers, coaches, speech writers, and compliant reporters Biden was doomed to destroy himself either by boasting of his prowess or by stealing a biography. He won in 2020 because Trump was grievously weakened by Russia-Russia-Russia calumnies and by the fortuitous intervention of the Red Chinese in the form of a bio-weapon attack on the West that allowed Biden to be physically hidden from the voters with the then-plausible rationale of quarantine. The deception was so easy the ad hoc Biden management committee were confident they could pull off the same con job one more time, Democratic voters being monumental rubes fully beneath the worst expectations of Alexis de Tocqueville. However, Joe's brain continued to decay.
At some point in 2022, Biden plunged into full-blown dementia. Fortunately for the Deep State, this wasn't an insurmountable development. The management committee chaired by Doctor Jill was already in full control of the Executive Branch apparatus. They owned the White House autopen. They owned the White House press corps like a spinster owns cats. And they owned Joe Biden -- a homunculus, a child-fondling golem fueled by chocolate ice cream and Gatorade. All they need to continue their covert coup d'etat was one more election campaign, and all that needed was a ambulatory Joe, which they believed could be provided by a cocktail of drugs, hormones, and powdered monkey glands injected by a quack. One way or another their witches brew collapsed on live television like a sitcom soufflé.
“ I've spared you any material written by Grok, because I presume you don't want to read what was written without a human mind.”
Why would you presume that? You obviously read a lot of it. And posting the prompts without the responses seems pointless.
If they will lie about this, something most people could recognize on their own without the help of "experts", nothing is off the table. Nothing. In fact, they continue to do it every day. Who was the "Maryland man"? An illegal alien with violent gang affiliations and domestic abuse violations. A Democrat Senator actually flew to a prison located in El Salvador to aid and abet him. If Democrats don't get red waved in the '26 mid-terms this country is doomed.
Good damn catch. Jake Tapper is hiding his own culpability behind George Clooney's leathered yet silky manhood. He's a human Remora fish, even moreso than most journalists.
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Jake Tapper Uncovers Startling Evidence That Biden’s Decline Was Covered Up By Jake Tapper https://buff.ly/D5KXC1I
Seems to me that if there’s a senile guy doing nothing in particular the usual way and a senile guy setting everything on fire, the fire guy is the one who should be the focus of media inquiry.
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