Opinion
By Dave Scott, 7-12-24
During the Friday, July 5 George Stephanopoulos interview on ABC News Joe Biden mumbled: “If Trump wins in November, I’ll feel as long as I gave it my all and did the goodest job I know I could do.”
This past Thursday evening, July 11, at the NATO press conference Biden displayed his “goodest” efforts by introducing Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky as Russian President Putin and his Vice President Kamala Harris as Trump.
He continuously lost his train of thought and repeated the phrase “…but anyway” at least 12 times, before segwaying to other incoherent comments.
One House Democrat said of Biden’s Zelensky gaffe: “This is the greatest introduction of all time …It would be like introducing Winston Churchill and saying ladies and gentlemen Hitler.”
In a raspy-voiced, whispering, rambling mess in front of the entire world this tragic American embarrassment displayed why he will never be reelected and shouldn’t be.
At the earlier Thursday, June 27 debate he ended one of his most incoherent mumbling episodes muttering that he “..beat Medicare”.
He attempted to explain his disastrous debate performance to Stephanopoulos saying: “I, uh, prepared what I usually would do, sitting down as I did, come back with foreign leaders or National Security Council for explicit detail. And I realized about partway through that, you know, I quoted The New York Times had me down 10 points before the debate, nine now or whatever the hell it is. The fact of the matter is that what I looked at is that he also lied 28 times. I couldn’t, I mean, the way the debate ran, not — my fault, no one else’s fault — no one else’s fault.”
Well, that certainly clears that up. Biden’s the kid in the sixth grade the other students felt sorry for when the teacher called on him to read his book report in front of the class.
At a recent political rally this week he said he would “beat Donald Trump again in 2020”, and that he was “the first black woman… to serve with a black president.”
Nothing he says makes any sense. Even when he uses a teleprompter he reads the “pause here” instructions for him in parentheses.
We can only imagine what the actual tapes of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with Biden must be like.
All we got from Biden’s Department of Injustice is an edited transcript and a statement saying that the President is an elderly man with a poor memory and therefore can’t be tried for stowing highly secret documents in his garage and elsewhere. They refuse to release the tapes of the interview. They would show that Biden is an empty vessel incapable of thinking on his own, that he’s on the edge of senility.
My long-time Tampa friend and American Spectator writer Larry Thornberry perfectly summed up Biden’s recent appearances and the media’s extensive coverup writing: “Reading the full transcript of last night’s (Friday, July 5) interview is a sobering experience. I don’t recommend it for the faint of heart.
“It was about what we had every right to expect from our Zombie-in Chief. But the shocker of Friday night has to be George Stannyfannyfopolis’s pretty fair impersonation of a journalist. He asked tough, relevant questions and was tenacious. But I won’t praise him too highly. He and his colleagues in the mainstream media, who now proclaim themselves to be shocked! Shocked! that Sleepy Joe has lost the plot, are waaay too late to the dance.
“Joe has been off with the fairies for the longest, and these guys and gals have been covering for him. For three years now, on the rare occasions they’ve been given the opportunity, they’ve been asking Joe questions at the level of toughness and relevance as: ‘What’s your favorite flavor of ice cream?’ or ‘If you were a flower, what kind would you be?’
“It’s so bloody obvious now that Joe has completed his life’s journey from goo-goo to gaga they can no longer run this scam. George, some of his media associates, and the odd Democrat (some of them very odd), are finally admitting that they’re believing their own eyes, They at last see that Joe belongs in a home for the bewildered, not at 1600. This in spite of what “Doctor” Jill says. (Pay no attention to that woman behind the curtain.)”
The only folks closest to this mess that deserve sympathy are Biden’s sign language translators who must be practicing their shrugs and puzzled expressions over his incomprehensible mumbo jumbo. And what about the foreign translators for Putin, Xi, or the madmen in charge of Iran and North Korea? How do they interpret his nonsensical gibberish to their psychopathic bosses?
This entire bizarre situation could easily be a pilot for black comedy films such as “Dr. Strangelove” or the Marx Brothers’ “Duck Soup.” Except it’s not funny. It’s dangerous. Biden is displaying that not only is he unfit for another four years but unfit for the next six months.
Biden is an example of why telemarketers target the elderly. He should be sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of an assistant living memory facility, sipping lemonade, and feeding the ducks, not stumbling around the Oval Office bumping into the furniture.
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You Read It Here First: Last week I listed the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease said they paralleled Biden’s movements and speech patterns. Apparently I was on to something.
Currently even the mainstream media, including the New York Times, are suggesting that’s what afflicts Biden.
A testy White House Press Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre was flustered during a recent chaotic White House press briefing as the bumbling diversity hire attempted to lie her way out of a report that a neurologist who specializes in Parkinson’s Disease had visited the White House eight times.
At his Thursday July 11 press conference Biden said that he passed three cognitive tests this year. Really? If that’s true then the doctors who administered them need cognitive tests.
CBS correspondent Ed O’Keefe and NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell had the inept black lesbian, Martinique immigrant DEI hire Jean-Pierre tied in more knots than her daily struggle with her hair curler and massive briefing book as she tried to lie her way out of the mess.
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Florida’s A Bastion Of Republicanism, thanks to successful, charismatic GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Democrats used to lead Republicans by roughly 250,000 voters in party registration when DeSantis was inaugurated in 2019. As of July of this year Republicans now outnumber Democrat voters by nearly one million, according to Florida’s Voice.
This means “Florida shifted over 1.2 million voters, or 8.81%, in the GOP’s favor in pure registration,” the local publisher noted.
The phrase “Free state of Florida” is now appearing on signs shown above, welcoming folks to the state. It was first mentioned in Governor Ron DeSantis’ second inaugural address in January 2023. It has become a signature for the Florida governor, who often mentions the phrase multiple times at his various news conferences and bill signings.
Does the phony, hypocritical Fernandina City Commission candidate Genece Minshew count herself as one of these new Republicans? Has she joined the county women’s Republican Club, “We the People” or any other local conservative group?
She’s a terrible candidate, possibly the worst the city has ever had on a ballot.
David Sturges should win in a landslide as the dishonest fraudster Minshew is exposed.
Don’t expect the pathetic News Leader or the now electronically crippled online Observer to mention Minshew’s deceitful switch to the GOP. It was only done to trick the city’s majority GOP voters into believing the former head of the city’s “pride” organization is one of them. She ain’t! Far from it.
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Is A Trump Landslide Coming? David Axelrod, former chief strategist, and senior advisor for Barack Obama said the recent Biden fiasco could result in a Trump landslide victory.
“He’s not winning this race,” said Axelrod, referring to Biden. “If you just look at the data and talk to people around the country, political people around the country, it’s more likely that he’ll lose by a landslide than win narrowly.”
Biden could go down in presidential election history alongside prior Democrat candidates Walter Mondale, George McGovern, and Jimmy Carter as one of the worst contenders to ever run for President and one of the biggest losers the past 50 years.
For example, Republican Richard Nixon won the 1972 election against George McGovern in a walk, winning the electoral college 520-17. He won every state but Massachusetts. McGovern didn’t even win his home state South Dakota.
The McGovern campaign was also notable for its struggle to find a suitable vice presidential candidate, tossing first choice, Missouri Senator Thomas Eagleton, overboard and eventually settling on little-known Ted Kennedy brother-in-law and diplomat, Sargent Shriver.
In 1980 Ronald Reagan cleaned incumbent Jimmy Carter’s clock winning 90.89 percent of the electoral college, 489-49 based on Carter’s dreadful performance over the previous four years.
In 1984 incumbent Republican Ronald Reagan scored a decisive re-election bid in every state except former Carter VP Walter Mondale’s native Minnesota. His winning total of 525 electoral votes remains the highest number of electoral votes ever received by a presidential candidate. Mondale managed just 13 electoral college votes.
This November Biden’s name will likely be added to this list of record-making Democrat losers.
Cackling klutz, Kamala Harris, is as much a drag on Biden’s candidacy as his incompetency and obvious cognitive issues. The more polished Flossie the Wonder Chicken would do better than Biden or his cackling VP Harris.
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Speaking Of Talent & Landslides: Amelia Island boasts many authors, business titans, high ranking government officials and other luminaries who make the island a permanent or second home.
One of the most esteemed newsmen, authors, pundits, and public speakers that reside here fulltime is Neal Freeman, a colleague and friend of the late William F. Buckly and former Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief of Buckley’s National Review magazine.
Neal is a witness and participant in presidential campaign history having worked with Buckley, John Dos Pasos, and other conservative giants to get Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater nominated as the GOP’s 1964 candidate against Lyndon Johnson, that ended in a crushing Goldwater defeat.
Neal relates the story of how Buckley and his National Review team pulled Goldwater across the line with a team that essentially ran the GOP campaign and convention that year. It’s a fascinating and insightful read by a gifted writer who not only witnessed the proceedings but was a key participant. Read local resident Neal’s fascinating eye-witness account at www.nationalreview.com/2024/07/that-week-in-san-francisco/
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A Tipping Tip: While having lunch with a few pals at South 14th Street’s Coastal Pizza recently a generous dining companion picked up the tab for the group. I noticed that he appeared to be writing a note to the server on the receipt. He showed it to me, and it said: “No taxes on tips. Vote Trump!” He left a more than generous cash tip that goes directly into the server’s pocket and not through management and the credit card company.
The American hospitality industry makes up a huge chunk of the population. Trump’s promise to not tax tips could generate a massive voter turnout for the GOP this November, leaving the “Give us a free lunch” Democrat crowd in the dust.
I add that message from now on whenever I pay by card, and then leave a cash tip.
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Red, White & Blue Burger: With the exception of Joe Biden’s Uncle Bosey, it’s been said that who you dine with is nearly as important as what you dine on.
One of the hungry Fat Men From Space landed at Fernandina’s 626 South 3rd Street’s American Legion Post 54 recently for a burger luncheon that’s is open to the public. He discovered that from 11:00 to 1:30 pm folks “can enjoy a great cheeseburger. But here’s the special sauce, you get to enjoy the company of some members of the Greatest Generation.”
The Fatman reports that for a mere $8 folks can enjoy a tasty half pounder and a side of sizzling hot French fries, did I mention it was only $8? Lettuce, slab of tomato, pickles, onions, or none at all. That’s Freedom, yes?
I promise if you keep your ears open, you’ll hear snippets of stories from men and women who kept us free in the last century. Shared recollections from long ago encounters, generally followed by a smallish laugh shared among aging heroes.
Why not throw a $20 down on the bar and just say “Thanks!” Before the final face wipe after a really good cheeseburger. Remember, citizens, these are only available on Wednesdays from 11 to 1:30 p.m. and cooked by a fellow named Russell.
Beer, wine, and mixed drinks are available as are iced tea and sodas. Domestic draft beers at just $2.50 might make for a long lunch break
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The views expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of Citizens Journal Florida.
