Fuck the media. This is why I am done watchng tv these days...

zero tolerance for bullshit here.

But at 80, he could still coherently answer detailed foreign policy questions, unlike the barely literate carnival barker and Putin's bitch, Trump!

their story.

That is why they have always been able to be hard on Democrats and not Republicans.

Remember, Sleepy Don attacked Biden constantly re Biden's fitness for the office, continues trying to attack Biden for BIG messes of Sleepy Don's own making.

We're not supposed to bring up who's REALLY asleep?

It’s about the media witnessing and telling the truth.

Joe appears alive -- vibrantly so, and slobby looks like a refuge from a crypt.

Whereas Sundowning (at midday) Dementia Donald quickly succumbed, quoting the immortal Jeff Tiedrich: “[to]the need to drift off to beddy-bye land and let rip some aromatic ass-music.”
When this pretend journalist reports on that as hysterically and breathlessly as he did on Biden’s supposed decline maybe then he would be worthy of an award for doing his damn job. 🤬

Watched a comedy sendup off the dinner on a streaming show of comedians.

Second best $20.26 I ever spent - (thanks to Guy Clark's "Doctor, Good Doctor" for that line.)

I laughed at her the most!

Won’t be buying books about Biden and his mental abilities.

shove his books right up his bum.

Whatever shortcomings there were in reporting on Biden's condition are absolutely dwarfed by the media's repeated blow-jobbing of the trump regime and its vicious, ongoing destruction of this nation. I'd tell Alex Thompson to be ashamed of himself, but it's painfully obvious that he lacks the capacity or decency to comply with such a well-deserved demand.

Disgusting, especially when we have a convicted felon and seditious, dangerous fool sitting in the White House.

Eff Alex Thompson, Axios, and Jake Tapper who is a co-author of the book Thompson is obviously pushing here.

Trump slumped in seat in La La land. He missed the story because it was a BS story.

Trump was giving rousing sermons and Biden was walking into walls.

News has nothing to do with it anymore. Trump is now the way for them to make money and get ahead. When that changes, they will go to the other side.

FU.

glorified for his recent anti-Democratic Party propaganda book now out, IMHO.

I want nothing to do with him from now on forward. Keith Olbermann is RIGHT on this one--even if he can be a bit reflexive at times.

He's proven his fealty.

covered tsf physical and mental decline as well as his assault on our democracy.

Fu$k the oligarch/billionaire media in all their forms.

Sounds like an award you didn't deserve just from your own comments.

Biden was not nearly as strong verbally as he was in 2020. He made way more gaffes and had more confusing moments than he did when he ran in 2020. His debate was probably the worst in the history of presidential debates and he just didn't seem to have the stamina anymore that he once had.

I don't think he lost it mentally but the optics of Biden were pretty bad. His gate was worse than in 2020, his voice was more hoarse and he was running a pretty low-key campaign before the debate shook things up and forced him out.

I don't think Biden's team helped alleviate the concerns about his age with their approach.

We could have had a primary. But, it was clear to me that unless he upheld the rule of law (convicting and imprisoning Lump) it was all in vain. Garland was damaged goods from the onset. More and more I think we’re being played.

1. Trump has always sounded unhinged. Even when he was a bit younger. Go listen to him rant and rave about Obama's birth certificate in 2009 and 2010 and he sounds as crazy as he does now.

2. Despite whatever decline he has, Trump is still full-access as president. He's held more press conferences and interviews in his first 100 days with the media than Biden did in all of 2024. That certainly has helped him deflect the decline issues, while Biden felt hidden from the media.

And the OP kinda confirms that as their only example to push back against the decline issue was the SOTU speech, which Biden read off a teleprompter in early 2024. There really isn't many moments outside that that prove he wasn't in decline.

I don't think Biden was mentally in decline but he certainly was physically way worse off as a candidate in 2024 than he was in 2020. Go watch Biden debate Trump in 2020 and compare both to their 2024 debate. Trump seems largely the same. Biden certainly does not.

It makes you wonder how he'd be in 2028.

Biden had a crack team and a more than competent vice president. He was not out to enrich himself and his cronies, he also wasn’t on a vengeance tour. Trumps speeches and responses to questions are gibberish. Oh I forgot sending people to foreign prisons , deporting children with cancer, arresting judges and demolishing the economy. Joe guided the ship of state for the American people and I am grateful for the no drama presidency .

Unfortunately, perception in US politics is half the equation and the perception of Biden was not good. His crack team didn't seem interested in alleviating the concerns people had about his age.

Regardless of the quality of his administration and how he handled the job, his inability to sell those accomplishments and understanding the optics of his age, and the concerns associated with it, is a big reason we're even dealing with Trump right now.

2024 was a disaster for Democrats and the country and it's largely a result of Americans not trusting Biden. The fact they opted to support Trump over Harris (and were supporting him over Biden when he was in the race) is proof positive how poorly things ended for the Biden team.

He practically destroyed the country the first time we did not need a part 2.
The media sane washed him just like the first time and we saw some were in the tank for him. He had an erratic billionaire bank rolling him and a healthy dose of racism. Joe Biden is not to blame for Americans amnesia . The people who voted for this clown own it. The republicans put the country in a ditch and the democrats pull it out , but this time might be end game. Americans need to vote for their country not who they like. You keep blaming Biden , put the blame on people who keep voting for MTG and Tommy Tuberville , they keep voting against everyone’s interests.

He was the underdog vs Trump in most polls going back to 2023 and he refused to either rework his message or step aside to allow for an actual primary. Instead, despite failing poll numbers and a narrative that was well-established that most voters thought he was too old, Biden decided to remain in the race and only dropped out after his disastrous debate performance.

Biden did not help Democrats. He could not properly articulate his accomplishments so that Americans could see what he did to make their lives better. He was unable to explain why inflation was as high as it was and what his plans were to fix it. Even in the debate, Biden failed at telling voters what his second term plans were.

Harris helped change the narrative but by that point, Democrats were so deep in a hole that Trump was once again a viable candidate.

Yes, Biden deserves some of the blame because his inability to understand the political environment and what was needed to win, led us to Trump.

Biden was immensely unpopular as a president and his team never really seemed interested in trying to fix that. They were convinced Trump being Trump was enough to win them the election, despite every poll saying otherwise.

And there are plenty of stories proving this - from the horse's mouth even.

The campaign openly admitted that they felt the polls would shift once Americans realized Trump would be the nominee because up until the primaries, most voters didn't think he would be the nominee. And when he locked up the nomination, the polls did not shift like Biden's team said they would.

Poll after poll showed Americans were concerned with Biden's mental faculties, more than they were with Trump's, and Biden's team still refused to address the issue. Instead, they opted to run a low-key campaign that was not media focused. They held few rallies, zero townhalls and mostly relied on scripted, fifteen minute speeches. It was a bad strategy because it didn't properly address the major vulnerabilities Biden was facing.

In the end, that type of hubris, Biden's belief he was the only one capable of beating Trump, absolutely led to Trump winning.

In the heartland and the south a pass. Who was the magic person that was going to stop people from believing in a film flam man. Stop excusing the the people who believed he was going to deport criminals and other nonsense. Joe Biden is not the problem, the shallowness of the American public is. They saw filth invade our capital is was not a dealbreaker. Stop looking for a savior, they only exist in comic books.

You've GOT to be kidding.

But I guess not.

...and compare them to Biden's and Trump's 2024 debate and you tell me Biden's decline isn't significantly more apparent.

And I understand the underlying circumstances that went on in the background of the debate. I am capable of analyzing and understanding the outcome.

with the only "tough" comments aimed at Biden and trump completely off limits. Huge capitulation and groveling for access done in the guise of "look how tough we are." I was going to start an OP on it, but I think I've reached my saturation point on the topic for a while.

Nobody ever talked about his decline.

For some time I have limited the number of news stories I read about candidates, but I did notice that The Washington Post's political reporters, for example, did participate in the sanewashing of Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign. To cite just two examples, reporters reported on his rambling tariff-focused response to a question on child care as though he had produced a plan, and they wrote paragraph after paragraph about his relationship with female voters without referencing the E. Jean Carroll case.

Now I want to see what Thompson did (or did not) do.

I think I remember him being called out for going easy on trump during the last election and after. But I'd like to know more.

eyeroll eyeroll eyeroll

What a para-cite to be writing about this unless it focuses on the current leader somehow.

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So instead of bashing Biden, the Media should be investigating why Felon TraitorTrump keeps behaving so weirdly.
But unfortunately, they have decided to remain quiet and refuse to report what our own eyes
can see day-to-day.
That's all the mumbling and incoherent Bullshit that keeps coming from the demented Felon’s lying snout. Not to mention, his insane tariffs policy and his erratic and eccentric behavior.

Just a reminder:
The felon’s papa died with dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Perhaps those are the
same mental diseases that Don the Con is
also suffering from.

Maybe even before the 2020 election (I don't recall for sure), and definitely all through his term. Making up fake excuses to criticize him be cause they didn't have anything real to go after him for.

It was a disgusting display.

Alex Thompson you jackass.

YOU are the reason you and your ilk have no confidence in the U.S. media. You did the same bullshit to Hillary, and you are doing it again with the sociopath's second term.

I hope no one wastes their time watch the "mutual admiration society", that they call the White House Correspondence Dinner.

Maybe they will get food poisoning.

no surprise this is coming from a jake tapper buddy.