If Biden perished from Covid, that must mean the vaccines and boosters don't even protect against death. Which would not go over well with the shot cultists.
I don't even think Biden had Covid as he himself said, many times, that nobody could get Covid if they'd had these shots - and he's had 8 or 9 of them (allegedly).
I hope ya'll talk about Cheatle's testimony to Congress.
We have a Secret Service director with the name "Cheatle." And a would-be assassin with the name "Crooks." It's hard to Trump that.
You probably have OPD like I do - Obsessive Punning Disorder. There is no cure, you have to accept it and live with it as do your friends, family and co-workers, in fact anyone you come in contact with. :)
We also have a crack-head First Son recently convicted of illegal gun possession named Hunter. But when he's not galavanting with strippers/prostitutes or hunting for his next fix or carrying on an affair with his sister-in-law, he's apparently a talented artist. Maybe just as talented as Hitler and George W. Bush. His paintings and drawings command a higher price.
I'm old enough to remember Billy Carter, who liked his cold beer and shooting the shit with anybody that stopped by his barn (or was it his mechanic's shop?). I miss Billy and his mother Lilly too.
I still have a six pack of Billy Beer; it’s long been evaporated but I’m thinking of putting them in a time capsule, along with a Biden/Harris campaign sign.
I wonder how much a six-pack of Billy Beer cost in 1979? A four-pack of Miller Lite (Tall Boys) cost about $6 in 2024. You rarely see six packs any more. What's up with that?
Has anybody seen Fauci lately? If he’s in the American northeast they better double Biden’s SS coverage. On second thought that probably wouldn’t help.
All Fauci had was an internship, sometime in the 1960s, likely the last time he touched a patient that wasn’t an experimental subject (& I honestly don’t know what his patient’s mortality rate was).
The weird name coincidences are a lot more common than most people think.
My favorite example involves 2 twins who perpetrated a number of cons. One of the girls even posed as a teenage boy and enrolled in a Catholic middle school.
After a few, they actually enhance your risk of getting and being sick with COVID, it’s called negative efficacy (not Zero efficacy but negative, as in bigger numbers mean you are more likely to get it and be significantly ill.
Stanley Plotkin just published a paper in the NEJM stating that no vaccine has been proven safe & effective because once a vaccine is approved there is no follow up examination of any post approval adverse events that might occur. His solution was more funding for a list of vaccine organizations so they can "do the safety tests they've been lying about doing all along."
I kind of respect the fact he listened to people he could trust. I respect the fact that Kamala Harris grew up in a well established centuries old intellectual community where education is the investment to a better future. I like the fact that you can take public transit to Westmount High School and worry more about makeup than safety. I like critical thinking and leadership training. I lived in an American ghetto but I grew up where Kamala went to school.
It is Leonard Cohen whose face lights up Montreal at night. Leonard Cohen led the Country Band at Kamala's High School. My wife was born in Nashville but I danced to Leonard's Tennessee Waltz over 60 years ago.
I see a glimmer of hope in my Pandora's box. Montreal is run for people not profit. It is a great place in July and August and you can see where Kamala grew up. It does not look like Woodlawn even the poor parts of Montreal are filled with people and laughter.
Montreal is not Toronto. I love Toronto but the only American who ever ruled Montreal was Benjamin Bonhomme Richard Franklin in 1775 and he was a patriot and Samuel Johnson's nightmare scoundrel.
What you don’t know is what it cost the US taxpayers or the Soros crime family fortune for ‘Dr’ Jill to say yes to Pedo Joe’s departure. There is not an honest or kind bone in either of their bodies or souls.
Oh & there is not a trustworthy person in the upper levels of the Democrat party. Not going to vouch for the other side, so don’t bother.
Biden has been missing for over four days. That’s the longest any US President has vanished in history, at least according to Grok. Apparently, Biden’s Houdini act is only rivaled by Andrew Jackson who got lost while hunting in the woods for three days.
So where is Joe, or Jill? Why no public statement until later in the week? Feels like time is needed to concoct a credible or incredible story. I’m wearing a tin foil hat for now.
The question raised by the ascent of an obviously inept politician like Harris is, why?
The answer is, probably, that she is the choice of a technocratic elite with no real connection to the country.
In that sense, she resembles the sorts of "leaders" the US installs in other countries -- a puppet who will follow DC's orders even when they harm the very people the puppet claims to represent.
John: Correct. But mainly because she is fully controllable. They have real dirt on her (the Willie Brown blow jobs), and she checks the woke boxes: female and not particularly white. Ambitious and completely malleable.
They can only get their hands on the campaign funds if they run Harris. That, and the alternative is to openly have DNC insiders and corporate lobbyists handpick the candidate at the convention. For "democracy," of course. Harris is so unpopular that the optics are bad either way, but this way they get that sweet, sweet cash.
White House staff reportedly learned of Biden's announcement on X. Whoever wrote Biden's letter used plain paper, not official letterhead. So who decided Biden quit the race and who wrote produced the announcement?
Oh yeah. I have not seen such wide eyed manically grinning idiocy since I quit going to Grateful Dead concerts. I wonder what her present "substance of choice" might be...
Things are indeed weird . . . but please, Matt & everybody, try not to jump to the wildest conclusions. I came over here looking for sense and you're all acting like total conspiracy nuts. Take a breath, think a bit, consider Occam's Razor, then proceed. And remember that incompetence usually explains at least as much as malice.
Sheesh. If I wanted to read full crazy, I have a Twitter account. And I don't pay for that.
True, but I'm confident the exact opposite applies in those arenas where the most ferocious sociopaths claw their way to power, outside normal peoples' experiences. We need a name for that.
Boy, that's a fair point. On reflection, the simplest explanation probably isn't that far off from what Matt and Walter were saying. The party wants to pick its candidate without too much interference from the voting public -- and the public didn't really interfere. We couldn't. Joe Biden, on the other hand, caused them a lot of problems -- and maybe created some opportunities -- by declining rapidly AND not being willing to leave gracefully. All of us who've cared for elderly relatives can understand that part. I think there are all kinds of people trying to pull strings inside the DNC, but they're not all particularly bright, and events keep getting ahead of them. After all these are the people who put their thumbs on the scale for Hillary over Bernie. So, anyway, there's lots of scheming. But it's not going well. Different people got information about Biden's condition at different times, and made up their minds about what to do with that information at different rates. The man himself was up and down in his ability to function. But there came a point where the public's frustration with the candidate choices started to really leak into mainstream media and the party bubble. I mean, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers, and Josh Johnson were all yelling "The Emperor Has No Clothes" on TV and YouTube for a while before the debate caused all the news outlets to pile on. So people had to speed up their scheming and the cracks started really showing. If you think back to the 2016 and 2020 primaries, maybe all this was semi predictable? And now I sound as crazy as I was accusing everyone else of being? I still think this is mostly stupidity ladled all over a mix of normal political sleaze and (maybe) a few good intentions.
I really don't know. Everything's crazy. I'll also be genuinely grateful if I can vote for someone under 60 in November.
I think he's just sick and mad and wasn't reliable in front of a camera in the first place, so he or the people closest to him are keeping him out of sight until he can act presentable. Presumably at one of his houses. I doubt at a hospital.
And I don't think it's super nefarious. I'm half his age and covid makes me unfit for public viewing for more than a week. Combine covid with age and whatever neurodegenerative thing he seems to have going on -- plus his reasonable sense of having been betrayed by former allies -- and it's no wonder he's out of sight.
It's all sloppy and unorthodox. But I don't think he's in a coma or an ICU. That would have made the hand off simple.
Now did a bunch of party people seize the opportunity to brow beat him into quitting while he was sick? Yes. Will we ever know how forceful they were or how willing/unwilling he was? No.
I dunno guys. I've been hanging out on the NYT comments section for the past day or 2 trying to gauge the Democratic vibe. Not that it's a representative sample or anything. But a lot of them are rah rah Kamala, but there are an awful lot of pissed of Dems out there. Some pissed that they threw Joe under the bus after he won the primary, some pissed that they didn't get a real primary, some pissed that they didn't have full info before the primary and that the party lied to them (that's their own fault, the info was out there outside of their comfort zone). They're already pissed off enough that they've been jerked around, i suspect if they ditched Harris for another candidate, even Mrs. Obama, i'm not sure she'd be welcomed with the open arms they'd expect.
“Vote Blue, no matter who” Those folks live for their simpleton chants. Attend any liberal protest and you’ll see. They like being treated like kindergarteners.
It’s always good to read the other team’s Comments sections you get at least a little closer to “the truth”. And learn what they worry about etc.
This is of course an internal power play and not a difference of opinion regarding policy, Heaven Forfend. We may see some actual neurons firing all across the spectrum this fall.
What a season it’s been! And coming down to the wire…
I'm not sure I'd call them the other side. I'm an left Indy (Bernie circa '16 girl) who hates the Democrats and the Republicans. So i read different sites to see how different party voters think as i have no clue. I'm dirtbag left, i guess. I like the Racket mix of folks.
If Biden perished from Covid, that must mean the vaccines and boosters don't even protect against death. Which would not go over well with the shot cultists.
I don't even think Biden had Covid as he himself said, many times, that nobody could get Covid if they'd had these shots - and he's had 8 or 9 of them (allegedly).
I hope ya'll talk about Cheatle's testimony to Congress.
We have a Secret Service director with the name "Cheatle." And a would-be assassin with the name "Crooks." It's hard to Trump that.
You probably have OPD like I do - Obsessive Punning Disorder. There is no cure, you have to accept it and live with it as do your friends, family and co-workers, in fact anyone you come in contact with. :)
We also have a crack-head First Son recently convicted of illegal gun possession named Hunter. But when he's not galavanting with strippers/prostitutes or hunting for his next fix or carrying on an affair with his sister-in-law, he's apparently a talented artist. Maybe just as talented as Hitler and George W. Bush. His paintings and drawings command a higher price.
I'm old enough to remember Billy Carter, who liked his cold beer and shooting the shit with anybody that stopped by his barn (or was it his mechanic's shop?). I miss Billy and his mother Lilly too.
I still have a six pack of Billy Beer; it’s long been evaporated but I’m thinking of putting them in a time capsule, along with a Biden/Harris campaign sign.
Probably Four now equals Six.
I wonder how much a six-pack of Billy Beer cost in 1979? A four-pack of Miller Lite (Tall Boys) cost about $6 in 2024. You rarely see six packs any more. What's up with that?
$3.83 i for 6 pack of beer n 1982.
Bill as a beverage guy by trade, they'd rather sell you a large multipack any time than a measly 6-pack.
Betcha those cans were empty the day you bought them! I remember using mine at a gas station on New Year’s Day 1978!
Has anybody seen Fauci lately? If he’s in the American northeast they better double Biden’s SS coverage. On second thought that probably wouldn’t help.
I keep asking how much time did Dr. Fauci spend around Biden as his Covid czar? Fauci couldn't diagnose dementia or Parkinson's?
All Fauci had was an internship, sometime in the 1960s, likely the last time he touched a patient that wasn’t an experimental subject (& I honestly don’t know what his patient’s mortality rate was).
My mom lived next door to Billy Carter back in the 90s. He was more normal than he seemed back in 70s.
BillyBeer
I have no shame where puns are concerned.
And allegedly 6 doses of Paxlovid on top of the vax and boostahs.
You know one of the most-cited side effects of the shots is rapidly-accelerating dementia. I guess it's okay to post this. You can find it on VAERS.
Lol, I guess it’s ok to post this.
Relax, Bill, we’re not at pre-Elon Twitter. Mr Taibbi graciously allows adults to have conversations here.
One of my mottos is: "Post while you still can."
He's up to 10 doses today according to the White House doctor!
How many doses of Ivermectin and/or Hydroxychloroquine (If he even has COVID). Color my skeptical.....
Best last paragraph ever! Thanks!
The weird name coincidences are a lot more common than most people think.
My favorite example involves 2 twins who perpetrated a number of cons. One of the girls even posed as a teenage boy and enrolled in a Catholic middle school.
Their names were Becky Jo & Birdie Jo Hoaks.
Or how about Reality Winner for a name. That's another good story.
CREEP- Committee to Re Elect the President... Even in '72 I wondered who thought that was a wise choice?
A Blob specialty, BTW. They love funny names...
And acronyms like Biden’s Climate Protection Relief act …CPR 🤣
After a few, they actually enhance your risk of getting and being sick with COVID, it’s called negative efficacy (not Zero efficacy but negative, as in bigger numbers mean you are more likely to get it and be significantly ill.
Stanley Plotkin just published a paper in the NEJM stating that no vaccine has been proven safe & effective because once a vaccine is approved there is no follow up examination of any post approval adverse events that might occur. His solution was more funding for a list of vaccine organizations so they can "do the safety tests they've been lying about doing all along."
Joe Biden didn’t resign himself.
the new Epstein
As in Epstein didn’t suicide himself?
Good one!
I kind of respect the fact he listened to people he could trust. I respect the fact that Kamala Harris grew up in a well established centuries old intellectual community where education is the investment to a better future. I like the fact that you can take public transit to Westmount High School and worry more about makeup than safety. I like critical thinking and leadership training. I lived in an American ghetto but I grew up where Kamala went to school.
It is Leonard Cohen whose face lights up Montreal at night. Leonard Cohen led the Country Band at Kamala's High School. My wife was born in Nashville but I danced to Leonard's Tennessee Waltz over 60 years ago.
I see a glimmer of hope in my Pandora's box. Montreal is run for people not profit. It is a great place in July and August and you can see where Kamala grew up. It does not look like Woodlawn even the poor parts of Montreal are filled with people and laughter.
Montreal is not Toronto. I love Toronto but the only American who ever ruled Montreal was Benjamin Bonhomme Richard Franklin in 1775 and he was a patriot and Samuel Johnson's nightmare scoundrel.
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=scoundrel
Franklin was not a conservative!!!!!
John Adams was a conservative's conservative and contested Jefferson's eligibility because Jefferson believed in evolution.
None of that rubbed off on VP Ho: her morals are those of the ‘hood’: Ask Willie Brown’s ex wife.
What you don’t know is what it cost the US taxpayers or the Soros crime family fortune for ‘Dr’ Jill to say yes to Pedo Joe’s departure. There is not an honest or kind bone in either of their bodies or souls.
Oh & there is not a trustworthy person in the upper levels of the Democrat party. Not going to vouch for the other side, so don’t bother.
Biden has been missing for over four days. That’s the longest any US President has vanished in history, at least according to Grok. Apparently, Biden’s Houdini act is only rivaled by Andrew Jackson who got lost while hunting in the woods for three days.
So where is Joe, or Jill? Why no public statement until later in the week? Feels like time is needed to concoct a credible or incredible story. I’m wearing a tin foil hat for now.
I just want to say that, even as a person of retirement, I cannot keep up with this weeks news!
We truly live in the Funniest HaHa/Weird timeline.
Elon Musk is a tech genius: X users can now tweet from beyond the grave.
LOL
If you think this is your last emergency podcast, even of the next month, you must have just fallen out of the coconut tree!
The question raised by the ascent of an obviously inept politician like Harris is, why?
The answer is, probably, that she is the choice of a technocratic elite with no real connection to the country.
In that sense, she resembles the sorts of "leaders" the US installs in other countries -- a puppet who will follow DC's orders even when they harm the very people the puppet claims to represent.
Our "leaders" treat us like a conquered people.
John: Correct. But mainly because she is fully controllable. They have real dirt on her (the Willie Brown blow jobs), and she checks the woke boxes: female and not particularly white. Ambitious and completely malleable.
I tend to agree.
Most importantly, from the standpoint of her string pullers, she will enthusiastically carry out their plans for war with Russia.
They can only get their hands on the campaign funds if they run Harris. That, and the alternative is to openly have DNC insiders and corporate lobbyists handpick the candidate at the convention. For "democracy," of course. Harris is so unpopular that the optics are bad either way, but this way they get that sweet, sweet cash.
Neocolonialism is globalism.
Next Biden will start posting “help me” messages on Truth Social.
Would any of this have happened with Joe if Trump didn't turn his head at the last second?
Would the DNC & their voters actually give a shit about the holes in Joe's brain if Trump was now a big fat orange corpse?
Excellent question!
Schrödinger's Joe
Awesome.
AI is good enough now that he doesn’t need to be alive for new audio and videos of him doing alive stuff to be released.
White House staff reportedly learned of Biden's announcement on X. Whoever wrote Biden's letter used plain paper, not official letterhead. So who decided Biden quit the race and who wrote produced the announcement?
"AI Joe is the best version of Joe that i've ever seen! And F-You if you don't believe this!" - Joe Scarborough
Kamala always reminds me of a kindergarten teacher about 90 minutes into an acid trip.
Oh yeah. I have not seen such wide eyed manically grinning idiocy since I quit going to Grateful Dead concerts. I wonder what her present "substance of choice" might be...
Someone elsewhere referred to her as having "drunk auntie energy" which is entirely apt.
Things are indeed weird . . . but please, Matt & everybody, try not to jump to the wildest conclusions. I came over here looking for sense and you're all acting like total conspiracy nuts. Take a breath, think a bit, consider Occam's Razor, then proceed. And remember that incompetence usually explains at least as much as malice.
Sheesh. If I wanted to read full crazy, I have a Twitter account. And I don't pay for that.
Hanlon's Rasor
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
True, but I'm confident the exact opposite applies in those arenas where the most ferocious sociopaths claw their way to power, outside normal peoples' experiences. We need a name for that.
I think the problem is that no one can even figure out the simplest explanation. What do you think it is?
Boy, that's a fair point. On reflection, the simplest explanation probably isn't that far off from what Matt and Walter were saying. The party wants to pick its candidate without too much interference from the voting public -- and the public didn't really interfere. We couldn't. Joe Biden, on the other hand, caused them a lot of problems -- and maybe created some opportunities -- by declining rapidly AND not being willing to leave gracefully. All of us who've cared for elderly relatives can understand that part. I think there are all kinds of people trying to pull strings inside the DNC, but they're not all particularly bright, and events keep getting ahead of them. After all these are the people who put their thumbs on the scale for Hillary over Bernie. So, anyway, there's lots of scheming. But it's not going well. Different people got information about Biden's condition at different times, and made up their minds about what to do with that information at different rates. The man himself was up and down in his ability to function. But there came a point where the public's frustration with the candidate choices started to really leak into mainstream media and the party bubble. I mean, Jon Stewart, Seth Meyers, and Josh Johnson were all yelling "The Emperor Has No Clothes" on TV and YouTube for a while before the debate caused all the news outlets to pile on. So people had to speed up their scheming and the cracks started really showing. If you think back to the 2016 and 2020 primaries, maybe all this was semi predictable? And now I sound as crazy as I was accusing everyone else of being? I still think this is mostly stupidity ladled all over a mix of normal political sleaze and (maybe) a few good intentions.
I really don't know. Everything's crazy. I'll also be genuinely grateful if I can vote for someone under 60 in November.
Appreciate the response. I was actually wondering what your (simple?) explanation is for where Biden might be, and what happened to him.
I think he's just sick and mad and wasn't reliable in front of a camera in the first place, so he or the people closest to him are keeping him out of sight until he can act presentable. Presumably at one of his houses. I doubt at a hospital.
And I don't think it's super nefarious. I'm half his age and covid makes me unfit for public viewing for more than a week. Combine covid with age and whatever neurodegenerative thing he seems to have going on -- plus his reasonable sense of having been betrayed by former allies -- and it's no wonder he's out of sight.
It's all sloppy and unorthodox. But I don't think he's in a coma or an ICU. That would have made the hand off simple.
Now did a bunch of party people seize the opportunity to brow beat him into quitting while he was sick? Yes. Will we ever know how forceful they were or how willing/unwilling he was? No.
I'm with you, especially regarding the software outages, which Walter called a "data breach".
That may turn out to be true, but there's no evidence of it now.
I dunno guys. I've been hanging out on the NYT comments section for the past day or 2 trying to gauge the Democratic vibe. Not that it's a representative sample or anything. But a lot of them are rah rah Kamala, but there are an awful lot of pissed of Dems out there. Some pissed that they threw Joe under the bus after he won the primary, some pissed that they didn't get a real primary, some pissed that they didn't have full info before the primary and that the party lied to them (that's their own fault, the info was out there outside of their comfort zone). They're already pissed off enough that they've been jerked around, i suspect if they ditched Harris for another candidate, even Mrs. Obama, i'm not sure she'd be welcomed with the open arms they'd expect.
“Vote Blue, no matter who” Those folks live for their simpleton chants. Attend any liberal protest and you’ll see. They like being treated like kindergarteners.
It’s always good to read the other team’s Comments sections you get at least a little closer to “the truth”. And learn what they worry about etc.
This is of course an internal power play and not a difference of opinion regarding policy, Heaven Forfend. We may see some actual neurons firing all across the spectrum this fall.
What a season it’s been! And coming down to the wire…
I'm not sure I'd call them the other side. I'm an left Indy (Bernie circa '16 girl) who hates the Democrats and the Republicans. So i read different sites to see how different party voters think as i have no clue. I'm dirtbag left, i guess. I like the Racket mix of folks.
But yeah, we do live in interesting times.
They'll get in line, don't worry.