On Tuesday, Joe Biden was in New Orleans to tout a grant given to Tulane University for cancer research. Biden, who has almost literally ruined every single thing he’s touched in the miserable three and a half years he’s been president, is claiming now that he’ll cure cancer before leaving office.
Maybe Biden should have spearheaded a Dementia Moonshot instead. Who knows? He might still be atop the Democrats’ ticket if that had paid off.
Biden’s speech gave some heft to the plotters inside his party who ran him off as their nominee last month. He didn’t just slur his words in New Orleans; he commenced to shouting after repeating a fake story about all the time he’s spent with Xi Jinping:
Biden (sundowning) repeats the fake story about Xi Jinping and the Tibetan plateau, then starts randomly screaming.
He is truly unwell — and Kamala covered it up. pic.twitter.com/z8HIEEOxOF
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 13, 2024
Of course, the worst of the New Orleans trip was how it ended. Biden and his entourage stopped in at world-famous Drago’s Restaurant in Metairie, the seafood place that for all practical purposes invented the chargrilled oyster, and he ate…
…a cheeseburger.
With that pearls-before-swine moment past, Biden would next make news Wednesday morning when a piece in Politico featured the president, or at least those sentient members of his inner circle willing to leak to the Democrat organ’s reporters, engaging in a Poor, Poor, Pitiful Me routine whining about how he was deposed from the party’s ticket:
President Joe Biden is frustrated that Barack Obama wouldn’t tell him to his face that he should leave the race. He’s angry with Nancy Pelosi and views her as ruthless for ushering him out the door. And he’s still miffed at the role Chuck Schumer played, too.
Biden has told his closest aides and associates that he is coming to terms with his decision to bow out of the presidential race last month, but still harbors some frustration toward the members of his own party he believes pushed him out, according to three people familiar with Biden’s thinking who are not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.
Oh, how terrible for him.
There is a certain glee some of us can take from the fact that Biden is now publicly grousing about being run off the ballot by the Cool Kids in his party. After all, it’s been three weeks plus since Kamala Harris’ ascension as the Democrats’ new savior, and it’s obvious that the legacy corporate media will now abandon any pretense of objectivity or credible journalism in order to cast her as anything but the incompetent empty skirt that she’s been her entire political career.
And along comes Biden to micturate on Harris’ press coronation, whether intentionally or out of a lack of discipline, and it’s fun to watch.
Let’s not forget that it was Biden’s endorsement of Harris that foreclosed the sham media primary that Obama and others among the Democrats’ Cool Kids had been publicly touting while plotting his removal. That was almost certainly done out of spite, and if Biden will continue publicly grousing about his removal, it might just generate the kind of discord that breaks up the fact-free honeymoon America is being subjected to.
Call that social justice if you will.
Be that as it may, Biden — or his disgruntled handlers who recognize there will be reduced or even absent places for them on Team Harris — wasn’t done complaining to Politico:
A senior White House official, also granted anonymity to describe private conversations, said Biden views Pelosi as “ruthless” and willing to set aside long-term relationships in order to keep her party in power — and, most importantly, to prevent Republican nominee Donald Trump from returning to the White House.
“That’s who she has always been,” the person added.
Pelosi and Biden have not spoken since he stepped away. And the president’s anger flashed to the surface during a televised interview that aired this weekend when he namechecked the former speaker as he explained why he quit the race.
“And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic,” Biden told CBS. “You’d be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say, why did so — and — and I thought it’d be a real distraction.”
And another delicious morsel:
Biden has long thought that Obama’s staff looked down upon him and the president’s aides still bristle when Obama allies like David Axelrod or the Pod Save America cast criticize the incumbent. Many people around Biden were rankled when, in 2016, Obama made clear he favored Hillary Clinton to succeed him and not his own vice president.
But it’s Pelosi who came in for the bulk of the grousing:
But Biden’s inner circle believes Pelosi was the decisive voice in pushing him out.
His allies thought that, after nearly two weeks of trying to reassure fellow Democrats, his candidacy was on track to be salvaged the morning of July 10. But that was when Pelosi made a now-infamous appearance on “Morning Joe,” repeatedly making clear that she did not support Biden continuing his candidacy. The president’s aides believe that opened the door for a host of other Democrats and donors to follow suit.
Moreover, Biden’s inner circle told him the day before he dropped out that if he persisted in the race they believed that Pelosi was going to take her misgivings public — including her belief that Trump would defeat him — which would have been deeply humiliating for a sitting president, two of the people said.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday said that Biden “respects” Pelosi and insisted that he has “no hard feelings.”
One guesses that Joe wasn’t impressed by Pelosi’s ridiculous suggestions that he be added to Mount Rushmore. Maybe he’s somewhat sentient after all.
The Politico piece won’t likely get much oxygen, as the rest of the media isn’t interested in talking about Biden’s problems. You can’t blame them, really, as Biden hasn’t exactly earned much sympathy for the damage he’s done.
But if the grousing and whining continues, and Dirty Joe carries on peeing on Kamala’s parade up and through the Democrats’ convention next week — he’s speaking on Monday night, rather than Wednesday or Thursday, and that speech is almost certainly going to be a low point no matter its content — then if nothing else, the public’s attention might well turn to Harris’ role not just in the coup that ruined Biden’s reelection bid but, more importantly, her role in gaslighting America about his mental competence over the past four years.
Either way, let it burn.
And at a seafood restaurant, don’t eat a cheeseburger. Don’t be like Dirty Joe. Have some class, for crying out loud.
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