I mean, too demented to be president in 2025. He's completely fine now, I'm sure they'll all decide.
But in six months -- boom, in January 2025, that's where he hits his neurological sell-by date.
As you know, Biden retreated, again, to a vacation spot, this time to talk about his future in the race with his family and his evil sexnurse.
I think that means the die has already been cast. You do not announce that you're considering withdrawing from an election race due to advancing dementia, and then come out later and say, "We talked about it, we looked into it, and we decided that Biden's dementia is not yet up to the 25th Amendment level, so we're staying in. Yay!"
While Democrats are talking anonymously about dumping Biden, most are publicly claiming He's Still Got It.
So far, the party's top leaders have offered public support for Biden, including in tweets posted by former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Senior congressional Democrats, including Reps. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and Nancy Pelosi of California, have privately expressed concerns about his viability, said two sources apprised of those discussions, even as they all publicly back the president.
One Democratic House member who believes Biden should drop out of the race -- but has yet to call for that publicly -- told NBC News that three colleagues expressed the same sentiment to him during votes on the House floor Friday.
House leaders have not wavered publicly, and their aides denied that they are expressing doubts behind closed doors.
"Speaker Pelosi has full confidence in President Biden and looks forward to attending his inauguration on January 20, 2025," Ian Krager, a spokesman for the former House speaker, said in a statement. "Any suggestion that she has engaged in a different course of action is simply not true."
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"Any reports alleging that the Congressman has expressed anything other than firm support of President Biden are completely untrue," Frias said.
At the same time, there is an understanding among top Democrats that Biden should be given space to determine next steps. They believe only the president, in consultation with his family, can decide whether to move forward or to end his campaign early -- and that he won't respond well to being pushed.
"The decision-makers are two people -- it's the president and his wife," one of the sources familiar with the discussions said, adding: "Anyone who doesn't understand how deeply personal and familial this decision will be isn't knowledgeable about the situation."
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Another person familiar with the dynamics said Biden will ultimately listen to only one adviser.
"The only person who has ultimate influence with him is the first lady," this person said. "If she decides there should be a change of course, there will be a change of course."
I think Biden will drop out. If we have one hope, it's his terrible, power-craving status-addict wife.
From the Vogue article that dropped today:
If you want to know what power feels like, try to get yourself driven around in a motorcade. Flashing police chaperone lights form a perimeter as you blaze down an empty highway, waiting cars backed up on entry ramps as you pass. It's as if the world is holding its breath. For you. Also, rules don't apply.At Nine Mile, an entourage of 30 or so are noisily hustling to follow a trim, blond woman in a pristine white suit as she strides nonchalantly past clanging, gurgling brewing vats, aiming for a back office. This is my first glimpse of first lady Dr. Jill Biden: Exiting the sealed chamber of power into the middle of America, a vision of calm amid utter cacophony.
YOU THINK I'M GIVING THAT UP, BUSTER?
I'LL PUT JOE IN A CRYOGENIC VAT ON LIFE SUPPORT IF I HAVE TO TO KEEP POWER!
Posted by: DOCTOR Jill Biden!
Democrats are talking about the need to be "gentle" in pushing Biden out of office, and making up a story for Pop-Pop that lets him escape his self-made predicament with dignity. Or at least as much dignity as any of the trailer-trash Delaware hillbilly Bidens have ever had. See Karen Townsend for the kind of story Democrats are preparing for Joey Fastfingers.
One Democrat who's pretty overt about her own desire to boot Biden from the ticket -- and replace him with herself -- is the Wicked Witch of the North, Gretchen Whitmer.
She's warning Democrats that there is no chance they will hold Michigan with Biden at the top of the ticket. Whitmer apparently called the White House to deny that she was seeking to replace Biden at the top of the ticket.
Though, Politico notes, she also said Biden will lose Michigan, and thus the whole election, if he stays on:
Even more revealing is how word of the call reached me: from someone close to a potential 2028 Whitmer rival for the Democratic presidential nomination. This person said Whitmer had phoned O'Malley Dillon with more of an unambiguous SOS: to relay that Michigan, in the wake of the debate, was no longer winnable for Biden.
Gee I wonder if there's any possible candidate that Gretchen Whitmer, governor of Michigan, thinks can win Michigan. Hmmmm. I'm sure she'll need a few days to go through the list of potential candidates.
Below, Tucker Carlson repeats what he heard -- and reported -- in 2019: That the Biden family did not want him to run, due to his already-pronounced dementia. His sister Valerie was the most upset by it.