It's worth reading the whole article because there's many amazing quotes. But the best part comes at the end:
In the basement, I smiled and said hello. She (Jill Biden looked back at me with a confused, panicked expression. It was as if she had just received horrible news and was about to run out of the room and into some kind of a family emergency. “Uh, hi,” she said. Then she glanced over to her right. Oh …
I had not seen the president up close in some time. I had skipped this season’s holiday parties, and, preoccupied with covering Trump’s legal and political dramas, I hadn’t been showing up at his White House. Unlike Trump, he wasn’t very accessible to the press, anyway. Why bother? Biden had done few interviews. He wasn’t prone to interrupting his schedule with a surprise media circus in the Oval Office. He kept a tight circle of the same close advisers who had been advising him for more than 30 years, so unlike with his predecessor, you didn’t need to hang around in West Wing hallways to figure out who was speaking to him. It was all pretty locked down and predictable in terms of the reality you could access as a member of the press with a White House hard pass.
I followed the First Lady’s gaze and found the president. Now I understood her panicked expression.
Up close, the president does not look quite plausible. It’s not that he’s old. We all know what old looks like. Bernie Sanders is old. Mitch McConnell is old. Most of the ruling class is old. The president was something stranger, something not of this earth.
This was true even in 2020. His face had then an uncanny valley quality that injectable aficionados call “low trust” — if only by millimeters, his cosmetically altered proportions knocked his overall facial harmony into the realm of the improbable. His thin skin, long a figurative problem and now a literal one, was pulled tightly over cheeks that seemed to vary month to month in volume. Under artificial light and in the sunshine, he took on an unnatural gleam. He looked, well, inflated. His eyes were half-shut or open very wide. They appeared darker than they once had, his pupils dilated. He did not blink at regular intervals. The White House often did not engage when questioned about the president’s stare, which sometimes raised alarm on social media when documented in official videos produced by the White House. The administration was above conspiratorial chitchat that entertained seriously scenarios in which the president was suffering from a shocking decline most Americans were not seeing. If the president was being portrayed that way, it was by his political enemies on the right, who promoted through what the press office termed “cheap fakes” a caricature of an addled creature unfit to serve. They would not dignify those people, or people doing the bidding of those people, with a response.
For many inclined to support the president, this was good enough. They did not need to monitor the president’s public appearances, because under his leadership the country had returned to the kind of normal state in which members of a First World democratic society had the privilege to forget about the president for hours or days or even weeks at a time. Trump required constant observation. What did he just do? What would he do next? Oh God, what was he doing right at that moment? Biden could be trusted to perform the duties of his office out of sight. Many people were content to look away.
My heart stopped as I extended my hand to greet the president. I tried to make eye contact, but it was like his eyes, though open, were not on. His face had a waxy quality. He smiled. It was a sweet smile. It made me sad in a way I can’t fully convey. I always thought — and I wrote — that he was a decent man. If ambition was his only sin, and it seemed to be, he had committed no sin at all by the standards of most politicians I had covered. He took my hand in his, and I was startled by how it felt. Not cold but cool. The basement was so warm that people were sweating and complaining that they were sweating. This was a silly black-tie affair. I said “hello.” His sweet smile stayed frozen. He spoke very slowly and in a very soft voice. “And what’s your name?” he asked.
Exiting the room after the photo, the group of reporters — not instigated by me, I should note — made guesses about how dead he appeared to be, percentage wise. “Forty percent?” one of them asked.
“It was a bad night.” That’s the spin from the White House and its allies about Thursday’s debate. But when I watched the president amble stiffly across the stage, my first thought was: He doesn’t look so bad. For months, everything I had heard, plus some of what I had seen, led me to brace for something much more dire.
We're sooooooo fucked lmao
Their disclosures often followed innocent questions: Have you seen the president lately? How does he seem? Often, they would answer with only silence, their eyes widening cartoonishly, their heads shaking back and forth. Or with disapproving sounds. “Phhhhwwwaahhh.” “Uggghhhhhhhhh.” “Bbbwwhhheeuuw.” Or with a simple, “Not good! Not good!” Or with an accusatory question of their own: “Have you seen him?!”
Somehow I find this to be the funniest part of the article.
A dark secret that LITERALLY EVERYBODY ON THE LEFT KNEW ABOUT AND WAS SHOUTED DOWN OVER BY LIBERALS. Fuck I was saying he was sundowning in 2020
Liberals are very good at picking up the facts 5-20 years after whatever terrible thing has already happened and can't be avoided. It's one of their strongest powers
the owl of minerva flies only at night, or in this case, it flies weeks later.
This passage describes how he was in 2019-2020
A campaign trail is a grueling exercise for anybody of any age, from the youngest network embeds to the oldest would-be presidents, and back then, there were days when Biden appeared sharper than on others. I knew it was a good day when he saw me and winked. On such occasions, he joked and prayed and cried with voters. He stayed to take a photo with every supporter. He might even entertain a question or two from the press. He had color in his face. There was no question he was alive and present. On bad days, which were unpredictable but reliably occurred during a challenging news cycle, he was less animated. He stared off. He did not make eye contact. He would trip over his words, even if they were programmed in a teleprompter. On such occasions, he was hurried out of the venue quickly and ushered into a waiting SUV.
Did they think his condition would improve?
I feel like its more like the network of advisers around a late stage Hapsburg or Pharaoh, their power (and jobs) are predicated on the legal entity of Biden being President regardless of the actual state of Biden's form. They don't actually need him to do anything other than occupy that legal space
I think the aspect of this whole fuckery that gives me a deep existential grief, is the Palestinian Genocide. If it was just a “normal” year, or election; I wouldn’t care so much. But the man’s brain is Swiss cheese, and the deep state that swirling mass of bloodsucking bureaucrats continue to grease the wheels of America with blood and tears.
If Biden was cogent, and the directives were coming from him, and maybe there’s a period of lucite between 5am and 2pm where he is like “exterminate the shits”; but I believe it more likely that he mostly stares into space. They’ve learned to not ask him or bring him tough questions, he gets his mandated briefing with the answer already preselected for him. So the fact of the matter, is that at any point his staffers could pull the lever and force the brakes, and instead they’ve pulled all the way to genocide.
Goddamn America. God damn Joe Biden. Goddamn the government. The deepest rotting pit of hell, belongs to thee.
I think the aspect of this whole fuckery that gives me a deep existential grief, is the Palestinian Genocide. If it was just a “normal” year, or election; I wouldn’t care so much. But the man’s brain is Swiss cheese, and the deep state the swirling mass of bloodsucking bureaucrats continue to grease the wheels of America with blood and tears.
Okay but this is always how it's been. Like the only thing people are taking issue with is that Biden doesn't have the mental acuity to continue these genocide competently.
Like, they only care about the competence of the people committing the genocides. Trump is not considered competent enough to drive the death machine (America), and now it's looking like Joe isn't either.
I always thought — and I wrote — that he was a decent man. If ambition was his only sin, and it seemed to be, he had committed no sin at all by the standards of most politicians I had covered.
I guess evil don't recognize evil cause butcher biden is a lot of things, and a decent man free of sin ain't one of them.
"As I walked down the ancient hallways, guided by the increasingly loud wailing, or... was it all in my mind?, I started to sweat from the heat, but I still felt a chill. I had felt this before! It was the aura of DEATH seeping from the walls, the pocked carpet, the blinking lighting fixtures. Blinking... had they always been blinking? How long had I been walking this short hallway? My God... it should've been minutes, yet when I started, the paint on the walls had appeared fresh, in line with expectations of the home of a top world leader. I glanced a few feet from me and saw a portrait of a man with... a skull, stripped of human flesh. Blink. The President. Blink. The skull... smiling at me? Blink. I reached my clammy hand out to the nearest wall and to my shock it chipped, the paint fell right off, and my hand crumbled the wall into dust! I instinctively pulled back, but something had changed, the foundations were gone! The hallway, the White House itself, was slanted. I slid into and immediately broke through the wall which covered my face and my vision in white and then blackness. I could feel myself falling by the churning of my stomach. Falling, falling, falling forward and downward forever into the depths that lay below the White House... the previous wailing replaced by my own. The last image in my mind was the skull. The smiling President."
I want every article from now on to be written like a horror story around Joe Biden
You've actually inspired me now i wanna write joe biden lovecraft fiction
i'm also an okay artist i bet i could whip up a plastique joe biden with like eyes bubbling out of waxy sheen funerary skin
hmm i might do both
We’re talking about an entire complex network of political and business elites who have been granted access to power, influence and wealth by the Bidens, from the Delaware-based financial companies, to the Zionist lobbyists, to the military industrial complexes who benefited from Biden’s championing of the Iraq War.
Joe Biden is old and senile, but if he goes down the pillars that have been delicately supporting the entire structure of the elite network would be in jeopardy, not to mention internal strife and power vacuum within the Democratic Party.
It is too late for another primary now (which is when all this bargaining for political favors with the candidates took place), and there is no way to swap him out because people have already paid the campaign (through campaign fundraising) expecting favors in return of their investments, and they do not want to see all that go down in drain. Everyone’s in the same boat and do or die together.
Look at the shit they had to do to beat Bernie in 2020
Rather lose to Trump than to let Bernie win. Biden got lucky with Covid though.
Sounds like a problem gambler doubling down on a bad hand.
I'm okay with a little elder abuse, so long as the victim is someone who spent his adult life making life hell for the working class.
Don't forget he has the blood of millions of Iraqis and tens of thousands of Palestinians on his hands
His face had a waxy quality. He smiled. It was a sweet smile. It made me sad in a way I can’t fully convey.
This is just the normal human reaction to seeing someone physically and mentally incapable being pressured to perform. Even though I have no problem with trying and hanging every Nazi regardless of age, it’s just sad to see an old man who cannot even comprehend the weight of his actions or even remember what he did 3 minutes ago. At this age and capacity, you just make sure he has a decent remaining of life if he’s your nice grandpa, or quickly shoot him if he’s a fascist war criminal.
In some ways I think it's what makes working with dementia patients the easiest, as long as you don't know what kind of person they were beforehand, you just sorta see the disease more than them which makes it easier when they go off the rails and start screaming at you. What I wouldn't give to see Biden get worked up on the debate stage, walk over to Trump and start hitting him because all of a sudden he forgot where he was and this man is yelling at him, extra points if he grabs a finger and bends it backwards, a favorite of confused old ladies in the hospital.
there is nothing sad about this evil monster who has spent his life making people's lives worse finally being made to suffer. it's the only good thing about his presidency
Death to America
I don't genuinely feel bad for Genocide Joe but seeing that old man with dementia triggers my brain's empathy response since I've worked with lots of patients who had it and my own grandmother had it as well. But then he has so much blood on his hands and I despise him. It's a weird feeling. Honestly, it's such a horror show seeing them prop up this rotting corpse. It makes me nauseous.
My reasoning is that he's unable to consent to this. I have strong feelings on things done without consent, so I see this as a shithead who's brain is so liquified he can't actually even hold those shithead opinions anymore. He's a bad person, and in a just world he'd have been punished for his crimes, but right now I simply can't be sure he's even fully aware anymore. At some point he ceased to be the person he was and became a replica of himself. A thin fascade over a rotten interior, scheduled for demolition.
He's gone mentally and he's being paraded around by his "loved ones" in a horrifying attempt to hold onto power. His moments of lucidity must be terrifying beyond anything I've ever experienced and hopefully will ever experience. I just can't find joy in his family continuing to piss on his still (mostly)ambulatory corpse.
Quick edit: Though, I'm not saying no one else can or that people are bad to if they do. Feelings can be complex.
there's a Chapo episode from 2020 where Felix talks about this— Biden finally achieving the presidency but doomed to a hell of wandering around the White House still thinking he's Vice President. I'll see if I can find it, but if anyone else remembers it chime in.
They're describing the President like an eldritch being. Is that good? Are we winning?
His face had then an uncanny valley quality that injectable aficionados call “low trust” — if only by millimeters, his cosmetically altered proportions knocked his overall facial harmony into the realm of the improbable. His thin skin, long a figurative problem and now a literal one, was pulled tightly over cheeks that seemed to vary month to month in volume. Under artificial light and in the sunshine, he took on an unnatural gleam. He looked, well, inflated. His eyes were half-shut or open very wide. They appeared darker than they once had, his pupils dilated. He did not blink at regular intervals.
I always thought — and I wrote — that he was a decent man. If ambition was his only sin, and it seemed to be, he had committed no sin at all by the standards of most politicians I had covered.
ten thousand times How the absolute fuck could anyone say this?
For many inclined to support the president, this was good enough. They did not need to monitor the president’s public appearances, because under his leadership the country had returned to the kind of normal state in which members of a First World democratic society had the privilege to forget about the president for hours or days or even weeks at a time.
Brunch time is over
Why does this even need to be an article, why does it need to be investigated? Can people really not look at Biden talk for 30 seconds and deduce that he's donezo?
Some hilarious comments in there like "why aren't the REPUBLICANS pushing for him to drop out" as if they aren't thrilled at the idea of someone so easy to defeat being their enemy
Never interrupt your enemy when his brains are leaking out of his ears.
- Show
If they're not already on hexbear/lemmygrad, they should be. (Also, for those of you who like arguing with libs and don't take much mental damage from it, your comrades in the trenches appreciate it when you join in and back them up. Be that on
or even in the lemmyverse with an .ml account against .world... just sayin')
Emphasis mine.
Longtime friends of the Biden family, who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, were shocked to find that the president did not remember their names. At a White House event last year, a guest recalled, with horror, realizing that the president would not be able to stay for the reception because, it was clear, he would not be able to make it through the reception.
The guest wasn't sure they could vote for Biden, since the guest was now open to an idea that they had previously dismissed as right-wing propaganda: The president may not really be the acting president after all. Others told me the president was becoming increasingly hard to get ahold of, even as it related to official government business, the type of things any U.S. president would communicate about on a regular basis with high-level officials across the world.
Ronal Reagan hours, but Ronnie (or his puppeteers) would tell israel to stand down
This is why they have been propping up Hunter so much. Hunter’s the one to persuade Joe to stay in the race. Hunter’s been attending White House meetings with Joe.
The message is clear: “Even if the president’s cognitive ability has declined, Hunter will be there to make sure that all promises made by the Bidens will be fulfilled. Do not worry about the money you have spent on us, the Bidens always keep their words.”
The bourgeoisie are worried about Biden’s senility and would jeopardize the political favors they had spent a fortune on, and Hunter’s there to make sure that the words of the House of Biden will be kept no matter what.
