It's really Obama's cabinet, not Biden's, but you get the idea.
After Biden declared that talk of him withdrawing "must end," Jesse Watters, I believe, predicted that White House officials and cabinet members would begin leaking against Biden.
Well, his prediction was true. White House staffers have begun leaking to Regime Outlet CNN that all of Biden's cabinet meetings are "scripted," and also, he hasn't held a cabinet meeting in nine months.
My gloss: Not only is he too tired to do more than one thing a day, he'd also not want to have the cabinet officials talking to each other as a group. If they form a quorum too often, they could start talking about invoking the 25th Amendment.
At a star-studded fundraiser for President Joe Biden in Los Angeles last month, George Clooney wasn't the only one who came away concerned about the president.
Even before Biden made remarks that night, whispers of concern rippled through the audience at the Peacock Theater about the president who had just arrived from a long flight from Italy. Some of the biggest donors at the $30 million fundraising event, who had waited in line to take pictures with Biden, expressed unease at how the president looked and carried himself.
"He was less cogent than usual," said one attendee, who was surprised that during a smaller meeting with donors before the main event, Biden barely spoke. Instead, this person said, he left virtually all of the talking to former President Barack Obama, which struck some guests as unusual for a loquacious politician like Biden.
Obama is definitely ringleading this.
Biden's appearance in California struck attendees as starkly different from a fundraising gala he attended in March at Radio City Music Hall in New York, one Democrat guest told CNN, when Biden appeared on stage with Obama and former President Bill Clinton.
"There is a marked difference in the president from the spring to the summer," a senior Democrat told CNN. "He's just not the same."
Back in Washington, there have been clear signs throughout his term of Biden being increasingly stage-managed, with lists of talking points, names of questioners and drawings of where he should walk presented to him by aides. Ahead of closed-door Cabinet meetings that Biden attends, it is customary for Cabinet officials to submit questions and key talking points that they plan to present in front of Biden ahead of time to White House aides, two sources with direct knowledge told CNN.
I don't know if that last part is so terrible -- I'd want to be prepared to actually make a decision ahead of a meeting, too. (In theory: I'm extremely disorganized.)
But the overall picture is grim, and it suggests that Biden is just a vegetable programmed with scripts by his aides.
"The entire display is kind of an act," one of those sources told CNN. "They would come and say, 'Hey, the president is going to call on you about 25 minutes in, and ask this question. What are the bullet points you'll respond with?'"
The second source, who echoed that same description, said when Biden attends Cabinet meetings, they are "not free-wheeling, and pretty well-orchestrated." And the meetings themselves are infrequent, with one Cabinet secretary telling CNN they are uncertain of Biden's condition because they so rarely see him.
In fact, the last full Cabinet meeting took place on October 2, 2023.
Twitterer rSanti97 points out that Woodrow Wilson also kept his cabinet from meeting together in person, after his stroke left him incapacitated and his White House was run entirely by his wife and an army general.
Sources also said Cabinet meetings during the Obama years, which Biden attended as vice president, were not pre-scripted this way.
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In many of these conversations, sources blamed the president's inner circle of advisers and family for what they said has become a painstakingly choreographed daily operation designed to prevent him from being in unscripted settings for extended periods of time.
"There's this general sense of just, unbelievable holding your breath every time he does an event, every time he's with people," one top Democrat in close touch with Biden's inner circle of advisers told CNN. This person added that some of those advisers have privately acknowledged: "This is going to get worse."
Another admission that the Marxist Media had this story ages ago, but chose to suppress it to deceive the public yet again:
Even last year, concern around Biden's age was noticeable -- and hardly a secret -- among Democratic power circles.
All Democrats, including the Democrats in the Marxist Media, continue pretending this all just happened in the past year and all claim to be blindsided by this news. Check this out:
[W]hen Biden spoke at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at their annual gala last September, attendees took notice of his slurring of words and at times, appearing confused. Some started to wonder: Is this more than just his stutter?
The thought among attendees who spoke to CNN was brushed aside -- until the presidential debate.
"He's declined," one House Democratic lawmaker who attended the gala told CNN.
LOL, really? You don't say.
I remember when I and other conservatives noticed that "prematurely," before the Democrat-Marxist Party decided it was Approved News, and we were smeared as peddlers of "disinformation" and "cheap fakes."
Yes, Biden's schedule is kept light to allow him to recover from... working 2-3 hours per day.
Bursts of activity are often followed by planned downtime which is fiercely protected on the president's schedule.
The practice of planned downtime extends to overseas trips as well.
French officials involved in the planning of the June state visit said that the Biden team had requested two days of rest during the five-day trip. Those so-called "down days" allowed First Lady Jill Biden to travel back to Wilmington, Delaware, to hold forth in the courtroom during Hunter Biden's trial on gun charges, but they also afforded the president large swaths of time to rest and prepare for the varied engagements on D-Day and in Paris with President Emmanuel Macron.
Ah. The Fanfare for the First Lady made the trip -- but Biden just sat in his hotel room and recovered.
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When he arrived in Italy days later, one European diplomat mentioned that his exhaustion was apparent, as it had become in many recent encounters.
"At the G7, it was obvious that he was old. At one point, he wanted to sit and there was no chair," the diplomat said. "He was moving slowly. Stupid things, but they showed that he's an old person who need assistance. We all noticed it."
The Democrat-Marxist Party and its Media Auxilliaries are putting all their hopes on President Doctor Jill Biden, as well as Biden's sister Valerie.
Who, as Tucker Carlson reporter, objected emotionally to Biden running in 2020, knowing he had advancing dementia.
Jill Biden's campaign schedule has ramped up aggressively in recent weeks -- coinciding with the end of the spring semester at the community college where she teaches English. A reluctant politician, Jill Biden has emerged as one of her husband's top surrogates and fundraisers.
One Biden adviser, however, said that the first lady and the president's sister, Valerie Biden Owens, are the only figures in the president's orbit who could ultimately persuade him to exit the race, and only if they had hard data. "Jill and Valerie won't let him go down in flames," a Biden adviser said.
John Ekdahl is enjoying watching lifelong liberal hack Nate Silver get "red-pilled" by reality:
The smug liberal Nate Silver now says that while he's very sure he's still on the Good Guys' team, and that the Good Guys are better than the Bad Guys -- all of us, of course -- after this proof of Democrat/media lying, the gap between the "Good Guys" and "Bad Guys" isn't as large as he'd like it to be.