Matt Margolis suggested that Biden's staff knew that Biden was declining rapidly, and so their gamble was to schedule the debate as soon as possible and give Biden a week off so that his dying brain could repair a little. They figured that Biden would be worse in July than in June, worse in August than in July, worse in September than in August, etc. So the "best Biden" was the current Biden, and every day they delayed a debate, Biden would be 1-2% more mentally degraded.

So there's that interesting theory, and then there's the older theory that Biden's inner circle wanted to pressure him to leave the race but they could not budge the stubborn vegetable, and figured that he would melt down in the debate so bad that even this brain-dead husk could see it for himself.

I'm not sure which theory is true. It's possible that both are. It could be that Biden's staff knew that he would get worse literally every single day, so current day Biden was as good as Biden was going to get, and also wanted the debate early so that if Biden melted down they would have time to attempt to push Anyone But Kamala into the nomination.

Either way, the memo advising Biden that YOU need to debate as soon as possible to put YOUR campaign in the best position to win has been leaked, and not even to Fake Jake Tapper.
With friends like these: In the ill-fated briefing document, dated April 15, 2024, Biden's senior advisers told him not to wait for the autumn dates proposed by the Commission on Presidential Debates -- the first of which, they noted, was scheduled after mail-in ballots would start going out -- but instead to arrange a head-to-head with Trump within a matter of weeks. The memo was obtained by journalists Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager and Isaac Arnsdorf, in the process of reporting their new book, "2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America," which is out tomorrow.

Read it and weep: "By holding the first debate in the spring, YOU will be able to reach the widest audience possible," Biden's top aides told him -- and by the way, every reference to Biden is written in attention-grabbing all-caps and bold -- "before we are deep in the summer months with the conventions, Olympics and family vacations taking precedence. In addition, the earlier YOU are able to debate the better, so that the American people can see YOU standing next to Trump and showing the strength of YOUR leadership, compared to Trump's weakness and chaos."

Biden was apparently so mentally degraded that he needed to have the word "YOU" written in all-caps bold to get his attention. Democrat memo more like Ace of Spades HTML protocol, am i rite

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And there's more: The book says support for an early debate was not unanimous among the president's aides, and that Some members of Biden world felt he should not go head-to-head with Trump at all. One unnamed donor called the White House in May, the book reports, "alarmed" by a recent appearance by the president at a Chicago fundraiser, and urged his team to "find an excuse" to get him out of the debates. This was rejected out of hand.

Of course. Biden thinks he's a real fighter and could whoop Trump behind the shack.

Among Biden's many fantastical vanities, his belief that he's some kind of tough-guy All-American pugilist turned out to be his most disastrous.

The whole memo is like this, with the bolded all-cap YOU and YOUR.

I just remembered -- we've seen photos of Biden's briefing notes written in this style. Stuff like: "YOU will walk out on stage when YOU are introduced by the host. YOU will walk ten paces to the podium, then YOU will take out YOUR speech cards and read from them."

MEMO TO BIDEN:

YOUR staff is deliberately sabotaging YOU.

YOU are a semi-ambulatory VEGETABLE. YOU could not debate a CHICKPEA. YOU are a shambling SWAMP HUSK from a 1950s HORROR MOVIE.

YOU are now more MONSTER than MAN.

YOUR brain is rotten and YOUR "memories" are mostly just childhood sports fantasies mixed with half-remembered parts of 70s and 80s action movies. No, YOU did not defeat THUNDERLIPS (The Ultimate Male) at a charity wrestling match. That was ROCKY III.

Please stop saying this. YOU are causing headaches for YOUR staff. We cannot keep fabricating new timelines in which YOU led the Dallas Cowboys to victory in SUPERBOWL VI.

YOU are being set-up to fail so that YOUR presidency can be stolen from YOU and given to Kamala Harris or the FAG WHO WEARS SPATS.

As Kamala Harris would say, YOU are NOT being Positioned for Success.