The New Yorker: How Joe Biden Handed Trump The Presidency

[JT-Money]

bytch nikka runs in like "IM THE PROUDEST KOON IN THE BUILDING".

fukkin hoe ass cornball ass bytch made want to be white ass fakkit hoe nikka. You nikkas are fukking clowns that need to bite a curve. fukkin hoe nikka

 

[Vandelay]

Subs

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

"Its totally the democrats fault. We didn't sane wash or refuse to fact check or ask follow up questions to Trump and his people. Yup. We didn't play any role in minimizing criticism of Israel either. And our owners didn't pressure us to kill stories that made Trump look bad or speak about the inequality that many were experiencing and compare the economic strategies of harris and trump"

I played myself by reading the article despite the fact that fukking clown Jake tapper was an author.

 

[beenz]

was never intended to be a two term president. they put him on the ticket cuz of name recognition and their short sightedness in NOT finding a viable candidate.

they knew this in 2020 when he was elected and had 4 years to find a viable successors to run against each other in the primaries and refused to do so.

 

[Jule]

Seeing Jake Tapper comment on this makes me laugh. Dude literally tried to gaslight the public about Biden's decline and decided to do a 180 once Trump won. Hilarity.

 

[AllHolosEve]

That Biden was a vegetable even prior to his debate debacle and should've stepped down. But shills claimed he was fine and there was nothing to see.

-A lot of people acknowledged this, it's not some shyt bothsides gets special credit for.

 

[JT-Money]

-A lot of people acknowledged this, it's not some shyt bothsides gets special credit for.

Only a handful of people on here called out Biden's obvious mental decline. Everyone else claimed the public would still vote for a corpse until it was too late.

 

[Mrhateeverything]

Ehhh.

Im more mad at joe for doing the " we need to heal , kumbaya bs with republicans."

assigning marrick garland to ag and him doing jack shyt about jan 6 and not going after trump and his crimes
.

Kamala could have won .she had hella momentum and her fundraising from small donors were doing big numbers , She lost steam towards the end when she started doing that liz cheney appeal to maga voters bs
. Even with all gerrymandering and voter suppression /Tossed votes she still barely lost .

Why do people act like it was reagan style beat down.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

People who made the conscious choice to vote for Trump, downplay him, or equivocate about his actions handed the presidency to Trump. I'm tired of these "autopsy" articles and books, especially from people in the media who spent years sanewashing him. People like Jake Tapper and networks like CNN loved platforming MAGA mouthpieces, and allowed them to just lie to the public with little-to-no meaningful pushback. They need to stop acting like their hands are clean.

 

[ORDER_66]

Bothsider's proven correct again.

yes indeed...

 

[DonB90]

 

[StackorStarve]

To just blame Biden is bullsh!t. Are Democrats not good at math? A couple weeks after the 2020 election Joe turned 78. Meaning before he took office in 2025 he would have been 82. Do Dems not realize it's a HIGHLY likely a human being of that age is going to experience mental decline? The average age a man reaches in this country is 76! It's questionable if he should have been running in 2020. Having him as the nominee in 2024 was the highest level of negligence.

Exactly, they want us to believe nobody outside of his handlers spoke to him and saw that he wasn’t all there mentally after all the clips we had seen of him looking lost leading up to the election. Nobody thought they should check. It’s all bullshyt.

 

[Sir Richard Spirit]

Obama didn’t know what to make of how his former running mate was acting. At one point, in a small group of a few dozen top donors, Biden began speaking—barely audibly—and trailed off incoherently. Obama had to jump in and preside. At other moments, during photos, Obama would hop in and finish sentences for him.
The former President decided that the fault lay with Biden’s busy schedule. The man was eighty-one, and he had gone from France, to Delaware, then Italy, and then to California in just ten days. The time zones were difficult enough, but this was a rough itinerary. Obama put it down to a bad scheduling decision by Biden and his staff.
How Biden handled his time was a consistent theme in Obama’s conversations with him; he was a bit protective of his former running mate. “Why are you doing ten hours of a photo line at the holiday party?” Obama would ask him.
But Obama would come to realize that scheduling was not the fundamental problem.
As Obama’s former chief speechwriter Jon Favreau and his wife, Emily, pulled up to the event, Favreau didn’t know which Joe Biden was going to show up that night. Favreau had reason to wonder. He’d had two personal meetings with Biden in the previous two years, and two wildly divergent experiences.
The first was on November 30, 2022, when he, Emily, their son Charlie, and Emily’s parents, Marnie and Tim Black, visited the White House. Favreau, now one of the hosts of the political podcast “Pod Save America,” first had to record an interview with Biden’s chief of staff, Ron Klain, and when he joined his family in his old office, he was delighted to find Biden there charming them all. Stunningly, Biden had recognized Marnie from an event in California several years before and said so as he regaled them with stories infused by his garrulous Irish pol demeanor. The President invited everyone up to the Oval Office, where he was as sharp as ever. To Emily’s dad, a federal judge, he offered a detailed recounting of the failed confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork. Favreau was a bit disturbed by Biden’s staff’s willingness to indulge his windbaggy nature in the middle of a Wednesday afternoon. They seemed a little too eager to let him waste time in the midst of a crisis: a major railway strike.
The second encounter came a year and a half later, on Friday night, April 26, 2024, the evening before the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. Favreau was among the “influencers” invited to visit with the President at the White House, as were two of his co-hosts, Dan Pfeiffer and Jon Lovett.
That night, to Favreau, Biden seemed to have aged fifty years in sixteen months. He was incoherent. His stories were meandering and confusing. Something about Iraq? What, exactly, was the point of this? He told one story twice. After the President left the group, Favreau asked a staffer about his demeanor. Oh, no big deal, the staffer said. The President must have just been tired. It was nighttime at the end of a long week.
Biden seemed O.K. the next night at the dinner, capably reading from a teleprompter and projecting as aged but present. But Lovett, Pfeiffer, Favreau, and Emily left the White House that weekend deeply disturbed. And now here they were at the biggest fund-raiser in the history of the Democratic Party. Yes, Biden would be helped by the presence of the younger, more charismatic Obama and Kimmel onstage with him. But they could only hide so much.
The Favreaus weren’t ponying up five hundred thousand dollars for the meet and greet at the Peacock Theatre; they would just sit in the audience and watch the show. And hope. And pray.
And then came the event: Jimmy Kimmel, fifty-six; Barack Obama, sixty-two; and Joe Biden, eighty-one, came onstage, all in dark suits, white shirts, no ties. Kimmel sat on the left, Biden in the middle, Obama on the right. The late-night comedian rattled off Biden’s accomplishments and quipped, “Not bad for ‘Sleepy Joe,’ ” reclaiming Trump’s nickname for the President.
Some attendees later expressed concern about how Biden seemed onstage. The event was just half an hour or so, and the questions were friendly. Many in the audience were surprised by the President’s apparent diminishment, his quiet and frail presentation, his inability to develop a strong, convincing sales pitch. Some of his answers were downright confusing.
When the event ended, the three men stood. Obama began to walk offstage, but Biden walked to the edge and, after waving and giving a thumbs up, stopped and stared blankly into the crowd. Obama turned back and grabbed Biden’s arm, then guided him backstage. He later explained that he just wanted to get the hell out of there, but he didn’t want to leave Biden alone up on the stage. Biden folks insisted that the President was just basking in the glow of a supportive audience, and they called clips of the moment “cheap fakes,” a term for video content that has been deceptively edited or taken out of context. But even some supporters present in the arena wondered what was going on.
He doesn’t look like he knows where he’s supposed to go, thought the New Hampshire Democratic congresswoman Annie Kuster, sitting in the audience with the California congresswoman Julia Brownley. They’d seen him in the photo line, and Kuster could tell it was a struggle for the President to engage. It reminded her of being with an aging grandparent, worryingly thinking, Oh, my gosh, what’s going to happen next?
In the audience, Emily Favreau couldn’t believe how awful Biden seemed. “I wanted to make everyone stay in this theatre and say, ‘No one is going anywhere until we have a plan, because this can’t be it,’ ” Emily, a longtime communications consultant, said. To her, it had been a complete disaster. And she hadn’t even seen what happened backstage.
Kuster had already reached the conclusion that there was no scenario in which Biden would be reëlected. She turned to Brownley. “We can’t go out there and campaign for ‘four more years,’ ” she said. “That’s just not tenable.”

 

[AllHolosEve]

Only a handful of people on here called out Biden's obvious mental decline. Everyone else claimed the public would still vote for a corpse until it was too late.

-I'm not saying there weren't people downplaying it. All I'm saying this wasn't just a bothsides talking point so bothsides didn't prove shyt. Plenty independents & even Dems said Joe should've only been one term, which was the original plan.

 

[parallax]

Bothsider's proven correct again.

Thos gif is ridiculous.