Those guys are merciless. This line--"In summary, it can certainly be said that of all the presidents throughout the history of the United States, Joe Biden was one of them."
05/30/25: And our humor parade now goes retrograde, to Spain & then back to Broadway, in a year unknown:
Franklin P. Adams was a newspaper columnist (1920s-30s).
His "column was also famed for its unpredictable puns. When a theatre caught fire in the Basque province of Spain ... patrons were smothered trying to crowd through the single door, Adams observed sagely, 'Don't put all your Basques in one exit.' "
--- "The Time of Laughter, A Sentimental Chronicle of The Twenties," Corey Ford [1902-1969]; Little, Brown & Co. (1967).
And, thankfully, Jennifer Granholm is no longer running the department of energy. The new secretary of that department, at an oversight hearing, answered questions put to him by Senator Kennedy. It turns out that in the last 76 days that Biden was in office, the days between Trump‘s victory and Biden‘s last day, the department of energy granted $96 billion in loans. luckily for us that is all being looked at rather closely now and the DOJ may be getting into the show. But, if anyone has any questions about the true worth of President Biden, well, it’s my guess that a lot of people were digging deep and taking advantage, and had their own reasons for enjoying the status quo.
When Sergeant Schultz said “I see nothing, I see nothing”, that was his story and he stuck with it. My advice to Jake Tapper would be if you’re going to tell the truth then, dammit, tell the truth. Pretending to tell the truth makes for an ugly picture.
Yes, they'll look into it, and that will be the last we'll hear of it. Unless by some miracle, some politician keeps pushing it. In that case, some activist prosecutor can be relied upon to drop all charges.
Oh, another one who doesn’t believe in miracles. I know what you mean. I gave up holding my breath a long time ago. But, deep within I still have hope.
05/30/25: "I, for one," said Kent Brockman, "can't wait until Google AI is put in charge of the nukes!"
Here's the question that I posed to GAI on May 30, 2025:
"Who was the president of Harvard prior to the current one?"
GAI's Answer:
"The Harvard University president prior to the current president, Claudine Gay, was Lawrence Bacow. He served as president from 2018 to 2023. Drew Gilpin Faust [see below] was the president before Bacow, from 2007 to 2018."
WRONG.
Claudine Gay is definitely, infamously, NOT the current president of Harvard.
HWGA: This time (ten minutes later), GAI got it right...
In response to this question asked on the same day (today) ---
Q: On what exact date was Claudine Gay demoted?
GAI A: "Claudine Gay resigned [was fired] as Harvard University President on January 2, 2024 [almost 17 months ago]. Her resignation came after her testimony at a Congressional hearing where she struggled to unequivocally state that calls for genocide on campus would violate the school's conduct policy, and amid allegations [that have been proven beyond a doubt] of plagiarism in her doctoral dissertation and other publications."
Like incest, this also runs in the "family":
Drew Gilpin Faust, mentioned by GAI above as a past Harvard president, was also exposed as a shameless fraud.
Fortunately for her, the consequences of her action --- other than the following --- came and went without so much as a "ping" on a $10 radar set:
(Start)
"The president of Harvard University... should be given an “F” for her review of a book about Abraham Lincoln in the New York Times.
The Times ran a correction to Drew Gilpin Faust’s review of “Founders’ Son” by Richard Brookhiser, and the author wrote a letter to the editor complaining about her “otherwise thoughtful review.”
Faust — the author of six history books and the first female president of Harvard — “referred incorrectly to the book’s treatment of the succession of Union generals who suffered mostly defeats on the Civil War battles of the Seven Days, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorville [SIC;],” the correction states.
“[The book] briefly discusses those generals; they are not ‘left unnamed.’ ”
Brookhiser wrote, “Faust asks, as if I had not considered the question, ‘what would Lincoln have thought about Sally Hemings?’ But I devote a chapter to Lincoln’s thoughts about Thomas Jefferson, including his relationship with Hemings.”
One Harvard alum, after parsing the correction and the letter, said, “It looks like she didn’t read the book. It’s a major embarrassment.” An unfair [?!] comparison was also made to fabulist Brian Williams [ex-NBC news anchor & infamous liar].
Faust did not get back to me [Richard Johnson] by deadline.
I don’t have a keffiya. But your sentiment infers a certain amount of joy in the obliteration of Palestinians. It has to be humiliating for Jews to witness the resilience of their victims. You would have thought a “chosen “ people would have “chosen “ to resist the evil of the Nazis. The wrath of god for this abomination is likely to be epic. Israel has lost favor with Germans. The people most guilt ridden about the treatment of Jews are now incapable of enabling them. Read the room. Repent. I’m truly afraid of the level of the world’s retribution. If you want to know how the United States will stand with you, ask Ukraine.
Resilience of their victims?? Everyone keeps telling the world it's a "genocide" and that they're all dead (or will starve within 48 hours). How are the dead resilient?
They have resisted since 1947. I’m pretty sure Zionism has been irreparably damaged. And I’m not even sure if it’s because the Jewish people in Israel are psychopaths, or did some cabal of Christian fundamentalist goad them into a lethal death cult. It feels like there is a force at work that can’t wait to wash its hands and seal their fate.
If the United States ever stops funding Israel, it may spark a much more lethal genocide. And if we go into a debt spiral the funding stops.
Multiple sources have attributed the writing of Original Sin to Alex Thompson. The publishers wanted a bigger name associated it with it so they reached out to Tapper to give it more 'credibility with potential customers.
Jake is merely a sponsor, and I'm surprised Matt didn't point that out.
Dang Gave, do you have inside info? Is the SS Chicago Presidential Center actually going to be completed before Illinois becomes insolvent? I love bantering with you.
No inside info but a modestly trained eye. Saw photos and read about Obama’s Hawaii mansion and now this Chicago thing (the timing is terrible for him). The man can’t seem to “build.” He doesn’t pay attention and possibly lacks the conceptual skills needed.
The minute or so that I watched of his Wake Forest speech was painfully nauseating. I saw a grotesque disfigurement of a man who has been irreparably altered by his own self-righteousness.
I'm not thrilled at all at the Trump admin's handling of free speech, in spite of the fact that I do think many of these college students are reprehensible. But for Pelley to grandstand like he did, as though the previous 4 years weren't as much of an affront to free speech as anything in recent memory, shows he either was ignorant or cheerleading for the censorship we saw under a different admin.
Alex, agreed. I detest the assault on free speech coming from the right and the left and Europe, etc, etc. Each has their reasons and claim to be saving everything from democracy to humanity, but the end result is the death of free speech. The ACLU in the past could be counted on to fight to the death anyone who assaulted free speech. I remember their fight for the right of Nazi demonstrators and rightly so. Not my quote, but true, "it's only free speech when they're saying something you don't want to hear". Now the assault is coming from everywhere, and there is little fight against it that I can see.
60 Minutes always had problems. Their editing was vast and subtle. Back in late '70s, they did a piece on the art heist at the Chicago Art Institute. They made my uncle, the current director look like a fool for not knowing the difference between a Monet and a Manet. They did not highlight the fact that this bow tie wearing skinny administrator agreed to wear a wire and meet the thief and get back the stolen paintings.
I remember a segment they did in the 80s on the nuclear power plant in Illinois. I was a lowly poly sci student, and my professor acquired an unedited copy from Illinois Power that they had insisted on being provided to them. He showed both versions in class. The edited version was astonishing in its twisting of truth and facts, sometimes using just parts of sentences to drive the narrative. It was skillfully edited and painted a picture that looked nothing like the truth.
They can't ignore or obfuscate anymore, so this is their way of acknowledging and getting past it in a way that minimizes damage to them and politically-viable Dems: a controlled detonation. If they really cared about getting to the truth they'd name more names, and look into things like how Biden got reporters' questions ahead of time. Bari Weiss asked about that last part and they slimed out of it by saying the reporter (Courtney Subramanian, now on the board of the WHCA for doubtlessly non-nefarious reasons) was "too honest."
The Party indeed - who is really pulling the strings is as obscure as it is in Orwell’s 1984. These are questions they don’t want answered. Who has power? What do they want to do with it? What are the factions? What are the conflicts of interest? Every molehill on the right that could answer this question gets dug up and blasted across the front pages, but on the left/globalist uniparty, it remains shrouded in perpetual mystery.
This is the question. Nancy ran the Reagan White House as Ron deteriorated and watched Hee Haw upstairs, but this cabal is more mysterious. What was the decision making process? Who were in cahoots with one another? This is the book we all crave, not just the obvious fact that Joe's illness was covered up.
Go watch Reagan’s last press conference. Speaking off a few note cards- no teleprompter, answering somewhat hostile questions (starting with Helen Thomas) extemporaneously, recalling events and crafting responses. He then did sit down interviews in the Oval Office just before departing. He comes across as fully aware and directly involved.
He wasn’t anywhere near as sharp as in 1980, and it was time to go, but there is no evidence he would have needed someone else to run things.
Reagan’s very last press conference in 1988 is not something Biden could have done on day 1 of his presidency, where Biden’s press questioners were hand selected, had to disclose their topics and Biden had the answers to the questions printed out in front of him and streaming across the teleprompter.
Sorry, Reagan's mental decline began after he was shot, and by 1986 or so was obvious to anyone who was watching closely, as I was. Reagan's deterioration was not as severe as Biden's but it was undeniable and covered up/ignored by certain media outlets in the same way that Biden's was.
He was 77yrs old (DOB 2-6-1911) so I am sure that his age was evident in some ways, he got tired or took a minute longer to speak,(remember Presidents speak for all of us so must choose words wisely)but dementia is a medical diagnosis. If you have cared for anyone who has had this disease, it is evident. You are welcome to your opinion of course, but I am not buying what you are selling. "Gloom Despair and Agony on me"! Maybe
You should start a new career by diagnosing Dementia by watching people on TV . Career or Grift? Something like that.
The SNOPES article addresses Alzheimer's, for which Reagan was diagnosed in 1994. But there are other causes of mental decline.
"A 1987 article in the New Republic posed the troubling question outright: "Is Reagan Senile?"
That was precisely what CBS News reporter Lesley Stahl was asking herself during a 1986 visit with a president she would later describe in her 2000 memoir, Reporting Live, as "shriveled" and verging on catatonic.
"Reagan didn't seem to know who I was," she wrote. "He gave me a distant look with those milky eyes and shook my hand weakly. Oh, my, he's gonzo, I thought." But a few minutes later, he snapped out of it and from that point on seemed perfectly fine. When asked, White House aides admitted to Stahl that they had witnessed similar episodes." - SNOPES "Did Ronald Reagan Have Alzheimer's Disease While in Office?"
I hope so too, BUT! I think we will get another book written by Comer similar to his book on " Biden Inc". The politicians gather facts for their own benefit, NO ONE IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE! Why don't they see America wants Accountability??
My brain keeps wandering back to the response from Raggedy Ann, the WH Press Secretary (or was it Peppermint Patty?) that “the Presidency is bigger than one man. It is an Administration run by a number of responsible professionals” or words to that effect… Were they telling us what they knew to be true?
I find it interesting that voters have so much apathy about this. I'd expect Joe normal to be quite interested in getting these questions answered, and I don't see much evidence of that. Maybe the only groups that brought important subjects before the public were the mainstream media, and they have a vested interest in keeping this in the background. Maybe voters only care about things if they're told to care about them??
I’m not sure the public is aware that Biden had cognitive impairment in 2020–it was obvious to me but I am a practicing physician. More telling is that members of the media saw it; did Democrats see it at the time? Is this noted in the book?
It’s so weird how the Democratic Party was willing to stack the deck in primaries, stage an internal coup to get rid of its own president, cover up said president’s mental incompetence and rule the country with an invisible cabal, collude with the media to cover up Biden family shady business, use intelligence agencies to frame an elected president for treason… but not in any way, shape or form stoop to cheating in the 2020 election, which was completely above board and featured dumps of hundreds of thousands of votes in the middle of the night after counting was stopped, as happens in every election as a matter of course. And such a party would certainly never be involved in plotting the assassination of a presidential candidate. We should totally believe that the illegal and treasonous things they haven’t yet admitted to are different from the ones they’ve been forced to admit to.
How about exaggerating Covid spread and keeping lockdowns to necessitate mail in voting and keep Joe Biden from openly campaigning in 2020. Could they/ would they?
There were times I felt like I was living in a communist country. In fact, with all the injunctions being filed against Trump, some justified, I’m still feeling it.
It does seem that there are many within the Democrat party who are addicted to power, and will do anything - anything - to get it and keep it. Like corrupt Boy Scout James Comey, they are convinced that they are the good guys, and therefore that justified everything.
Well the Democrats just happen to be the brand name the powerful found most useful. Was Romney really going to do anything more than favor slightly different factions and projects the deep state had going?
Yes yes yes DJ!!! I laugh at the still-deluded commenters on various substacks INSISTING there’s no evidence of cheating in 2020. Talk about mind control and believing the narrative. It’s astounding.
05/29/25: This is so prevalent, it will put the truth serum chemists out of business because now it is unimaginable that ANYONE is telling the truth (truth serum chemists: Report to work on Thursday morning. I'm lying).
I read a commenter elsewhere who recalled working with a former Senate aide who revealed that the Democrats stole 2.8 million votes in swing states in the Bush-Gore election—which the Republicans discovered. That was was why Gore conceded.
Party??? 5th Largest State geographically. 3 U.S. Rep. Districts. 2022 Primary with 2 of the 3 districts having "Republican" "candidates" "running" "unopposed"
2nd District "results" comprised of 15 sliced and diced counties, reporting 650 precincts 28,513 votes cast.
3rd District "results' comprised of 18 sliced and diced counties, reporting 747 precincts 28,577 votes cast.
All 3 U.S. Reps right now are Democrats.
Who is holding up the world The Turtle? Who is holding up The Turtle? It's Turtles all the way down.
These North-Korean-level propagandists lied to the public with genuine conspiratorial malice about one of the most consequential facts in American life at a time of great instability in the world. Meanwhile, a praetorian guard of scheming Svengalis sent us careening from one international and domestic disaster to another, working overtime to frame the shameful dotage of our babbling Lear as a right-wing conspiracy. Controlling Biden like a puppet allowed these people to do crazy things they would have never otherwise dared. All the power, none of the responsibility.
Even the tiny country of Togo knew that Joe had lost it. Everyone knew it. The arrogance that denying it would work suggests that spin doctors have infested the minds of everyone in D.C. and are making big money. "Just hold your mouth like this when you lie."
Yes! That's why I thought people should read it. It's a pulpy Sidney Sheldon novel dressed up as All the President's Men. The whole time I was reading it I was thinking, holy shit, Obama is the source, isn't he. He's the source. That's why he's treated so gently throughout the book. He feels dragged down by Biden -- and believes his legacy is now in trouble so it had to be Biden who took the fall. Man, it's like The Godfather.
Hi Sasha, I’m a fan & subscriber. Of course it’s Obama. The control freak who’s the only president to remain in DC after their term ended (except for Wilson & FDR for health reasons). Obama helped run Russiagate to help Clinton win, and when she lost, to sabotage Trump’s first term. He’s a gifted orator and a scheming nasty politician, responsible for the extreme division in America today. The divider in chief. IMO, he has no legacy. I’m delighted at how 2024 turned out for the Dems with Barack & Michelle begging for votes, humiliating themselves, Harris paying millions to Oprah and Beyoncé, the embarrassment of Harris being unable to speak off the cuff & pretending a person that unserious could be POTUS, just on and on. When we get to 2028, we will have reached 20 years post-Obama’s first term beginning and hopefully the stain and hangover from that period will pass. He is the architect of getting Americans to hate each other and THAT is his true legacy.
The source of America hating each other. Truer words could not be spoken. My heart aches how much we do. I’ve never felt so much anger. I really want to check out and disappear because it makes me ill. Families torn apart, hatred of others not like us. My husband and I feel a creepy obsession. And, we would disappear to some quiet farm, no TV, no social media except our children and grandchildren. We feel the need to fight. BUT I F**king hate it!
It is amazing he was still meeting world leaders on the other side of the planet during his last 2 months- the Yalta Conference 2 months before and meeting King Abdul Aziz on a US Navy ship in the Suez Canal 1 month before his passing.
Some say he wasn't all there while at Yalta and that he gave away Eastern Europe to Stalin.
But a month later, a month before his passing, it sounded like he did a good job dealing with King Abdul Aziz in establishing relations with Saudi Arabia, per a good book on the subject, "The House of Saud", by David Holden.
Not sure. Wilson was incapacitated by a stroke and FDR died. Truman famously got in his car with Bess and drove home to Missouri. The Clintons have continually kept their slimy paws in DC
My hypothesis is that Obama was groomed by more powerful permanent bureaucrats. Cough CIA cough The ones will security clearances and their hands on the money spigot that is the USG.
No question Obama was, and remains, the Real Manchurian/Kenyan Candidate, a charming, non-threatening black guy who was the perfect front for The System.
I remember reading in a book (Paul Street's "Obama and the Future of the Democratic Party? or Adolph Reed or Bruce Dixon?) that he was set up with a nice luxury condo on Lake Michigan. He commuted back there every night after a few hours giving speeches while the black women, as usual, did all the real community organizing. He was also a law lecturer, not a constitutional scholar. He published nothing scholarly. And there was a Boston Globe article about there his being used to help gentrify the near South Side of Chicago. I need to get Chat GPT to look that up.
They sure wrapped him up with a bow as a constitutional scholar. Always a narrative to push, never the truth. It’s like lying is the only skill Dems have left——with a compliant partisan media, they haven’t needed those skills bc all of the lies worked. Until now.
If by "Obama" you mean a shadowy cabal of funders, handlers, policy gurus, political consultants, NGOs, media consultants, and others, then you're right.
If by "Obama," you mean the callow, arrogant, semi-literate faker who gives great teleprompter readings, then you're way off base!
Obama is an empty suit. Chosen, groomed, fed, polished, pampered, fed teleprompter scripts, he's as fake as any actor.
Obama may still be the front and read things for the cabal that ran his administration, but Obama-the-man is not capable of any thought/strategy/leadership.
That, plus the message his handlers load into his teleprompter--"White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, heterosexual, male Americans suck!"
That's the PC-Prog payload that, after 70 years of gestation, popped into the sunlight in full bloom with Obama's coronation.
Besides the Obama puppet being a living example of the polar opposite of the hated Normal American, the message resonates with the media/Hollywood/academic demographic.
His legacy was demonstrating that if you play the race card, it can get you anywhere, even to the White House. Democrats haven't stopped playing the race card since.
I always look to the side shows for indications of the truth (we can never get to the real truth): Hur tapes leak - cancer response and Axelrod’s plea for “sensitivity to the illness” (Axelrod = Obama); myriad reports of Jill’s newly disclosed megalomania and shrew-like behavior = blame someone who does not have a legacy at risk (Obama); Rahm for President - can it be any more directly Obama?; WH staffers controlling the Auto Pen - certainly not one of the Obama administration retreads. No primaries, Joe’s the Guy - who else had the power to reinstall the Meat Puppet as nominee besides BO?KH wasn’t decided upon until after her call with BO - who at that point still had the power to prevent her, he just needed be sure he could control her before supporting her. Everything points to Obama. This is all the actions of a desperate person trying to cling to power that is eroding quickly. Heck, even Michelle has disappeared!
Cable News Network, CNN, Ted Turner's brain child has lost its way and credibility. The last strand of the co-ax cable has been severed. Rupert Murdoch's FOX News will also meet the same fate shortly upon his headstone. Before that it was TV and before that radio and now we are living in the Wild West of News Media with people like Sasha, Matt, and Walter, seeking refuge in calm waters and we have a leadership vacuum that will be filled by someone that is 10 steps ahead of us. "Your Trusted News Source" but who? Andrew Breitbart would have been the next in line if he hadn't 'suddenly' passed away. Matt Drudge sold his soul and maybe James O'Keefe would have had a shot but he was run out of his own company. I think an alliance of true 'Journalist' with the backing of Elon, oh wait, Matt burnt that bridge. Damn any other ideas? Thanks Matt Peace Out !!
while it was happening i kept guessing that the Biden Whitehouse was being run by second string obama staffers that were finally getting a chance at bat. you think there might be something to that??
One. Hundred. Percent. I read this book last week, and it was just annoying how it went so easy on aaaaaaaall the Dems willing to go along with an obvious charade. Also, the book is suspiciously silent on Jill Biden. As I noted in my goodreads review, there's a passage in there where the authors state Jill Biden just wanted to love her husband, and would support his running again if he wanted to. I still can't figure out if that was sincere or ironic. That woman is an absolute fucking ghoul.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with the millions of dollars coming in from eastern Europe and China via 20+ shell companies, which is pretty normal stuff.
Much as I hate to say it, Megyn Kelly and all the others who have him on their podcasts/radio/tv shows are just giving him commercial time to sell his book and make millions, admitting he "may have been complicit" all the way to the bank.
05/29/25: There's absolutely no penalty that Tapper will have to pay because the entire country already knows he's full of sh*t and utterly immune to experiencing shame for having lied about Biden's health when he was in office. And now for a hilarious comedy break: https://babylonbee.com/news/joe-biden-in-memoriam-do-not-post-until-biden-dies
yes I am watching it and its disgusting and not a single tough question. Oh we can’t ask any tough questions we can’t use our own eyes and bring up the reality that Biden was mentally incompetent to be President. Tapper was a part of the cover up and now he wants to get rich pedaling more lies.
She did ask (as few have) about Biden getting at least one reporter's question ahead of time, but let them weasel out of it by saying the reporter was just "too honest."
Yes, Megyn Kelly specifically held Tapper to account for his on-air accusation that Lara Trump was mocking Biden's stutter when she was actually raising concerns over Biden's mental acuity in OCTOBER 2020! Tapper privately apologized to Lara Trump a couple of weeks before book publication. For ideological journalists, it's not enough to disagree - rather, they must suggest someone is morally wrong.
Did the “Dean Phillips” chapter also make a little mention of the fact that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr—the lifelong Democrat son and nephew of martyred Democrat patron saints—ran hard for the Democrat nomination for six months until the DNC establishment essentially canceled the primaries to cut him off?
The Democrats essentially ran RFK Jr. out of the party, denying him Secret Service protection when he was on ballots in some states, kicking him off the ballot in others. It is hard to get a Kennedy to abandon the Democratic Party, but they achieved it.
What I have never understood is the despicable disloyalty of much of the Kennedy extended family. Seeing that wizened spider, Caroline Schlossberg, reading her vacuous statement of disavowal was disheartening. The Kennedy family used to have class. It was phony class, which didn't preclude cheerful rape and buying elections, but damn it, the illusion meant something to us.
Not only that, RFKJr was interviewed on (yes) Fox. He had to spend money on security because his requests were denied by (the Obama, er,) Biden administration.
This is a case of political suicide (in which Tapper participated) by the Dems dating back to 2020 when they decided to install the then impaired Biden as their candidate. It would have been hard to predict the depths of the Dem depravity, as the Politburo under Biden pursued far more repulsive 🤮 policies than could have been imagined. Think about DEI, open borders, boys playing girls’ sports (and sharing locker rooms!). Normal people in the Democratic Party were disgusted and many abandoned the party. This abandonment continues today.
It is entirely possible that this will destroy the Democratic Party, as its leadership has become more radical as a result of many normies leaving the party. Let’s just think of it as the Thelma and Louise Party, currently floating in the canyon air, unaware of the impending collision with the canyon floor below. KaBoom 💥
It actually goes back at least to 2016 when they sabotaged Bernie and installed Hillary as their candidate. They haven’t run a fair nominating process in quite some time.
Maybe once. Not since he sold out to Mme the Eternal Wannabe on prime time, and got a sweetheart book deals as payout.
Matt has in these pages called him "a politician with no balls," over his opposition to tariffs he once introduced legislation to institute.
Now he's just another whore for Big Pharma - witness his browbeating of RFK. Jr. over the possibility the latter might (gasp!) sue one of his sacred cows.
Well, perhaps true months ago…but I suspect discovering his donors from big pharma and now his private jet setting around the country, he may be losing ground.
As a Dem who has dealt with party politics, very small scale, I always thought it was Bernie convenient to glom onto the Dem Party for his Presidential quest. He doesn’t have wide-scale appeal, but the Party has a structure to turn out $ and votes.
That the party feared him so should have been the first sign —- Dems are lost.
I do not agree. Bernie is a dangerous man and should not even be in Congress. He is also an unrepentant crook with a fat USAID grant to do nothing… and so he has done nothing except cash the check. Every politician with such payoffs should be arrested for a felony, prosecuted, convicted, sentenced to prison and primaried out.
I was even willing to give them a chance, as an Independent, but just a few months in, Afghanistan happened, with the tragic lack of preparation, the insane fixed date, and Biden yelling at the reporter his team had chosen for an interview. After that, it was impossible to ignore that something was very wrong. What a silly book this is.
All of the points you make are accurate and valid. But IMV the reality is that the Democratic Party survives due to the fact that the news media, not just her in the US, but throughout the western world, is 100% behind the liberal ideology that is the core belief system of the Democratic Party. As Racket News has taught us so very well, with The Twitter Files reporting, and all of their excellent reporting on censorship in liberal democracies, their power depends entirely on information control. While it is encouraging that Trump won, despite his having to swim against the strong current of lawfare and negative media spin, and that viewership of MSM has been on a steady decline, and we now have some great alternatives here on substack and some podcasts, it is my experience in my daily interactions with others that the MSM narratives still have their desired effect. I am constantly hearing things, directly or indirectly from others that I know came from NPR, CNN, PBS, ABC etc. Propaganda has been around for so long and is so widespread for the simple reason that it is so extremely effective
You’re probably right about that, though I continue to hope that the trends of normals rejecting the left wing lunacy continues to grow. If that comes to pass, any remaining Dem party will be irrelevant on the national stage. 🤞🤞🤞
The Dems are dead. That's exactly what the Dems said about the GOP in 2008. These zombie ghouls aren't going anywhere.
If Trump can't sort out Congress, some clever Dem - and there are plenty is going to steal Trump's platform, grow a beard, and claim he's all about MAGA. Oh wait.
I don't know why you were on the edge of a nervous collapse, but please know, for what it's worth, that your writing (especially pieces like this) has helped many of us step back from our own edges. I had to read this out loud to my husband because he was wondering why I was laughing so hard.
I just tried to listen to Tim Poole on Bill Maher's Club Random. Maher kept filibustering, but when Matt Taibbi was mentioned, Tim had high praise for Matt's comic writing style. Matt would blush. I couldn't listen to the whole thing though.
Guilt. That’s why he was on the verge of nervous collapse. Because between insane clown president and now, he’s driven his own little clown car all over the road trying run over hypocrites. Now his car is out of gas, and his victims are rejoicing in fire bombing it. Because the actual insane clown is pandering to the most loyal, brainless subscriber base known to man. His conscience is in an epic battle with his generational wealth. My money is on the money.
I'd say it's more dealing with assholes like you, though ones that don't hide behind a picture of Christ (?). And Marie makes a good point. You actually pay to post this dreck. It's true. A fool and his money are easily parted.
“ When the debate is lost, insults become the loser’s tool “
Not sure how I’m hiding anymore than I would be if I had no photo.
I don’t think $50 is a large enough amount of money to preclude me from free speech in an area I feel strongly about. Especially if I think dangerous cult thinking is rampant. Like say, every where I look.
I’m grateful to matt for the opportunity to share my views on his work or to contradict his readers in this comment section.
Calling me a troll is a white flag. Every time it happens an angel gets laid.
Definition of a “troll”: “a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online post.”
You literally pay money to come here and harass people. To designate you a “troll” is not name-calling or an insult. It’s an accurate description of what you’re doing. You are the epitome of a troll, though one dumb enough to pay for the pleasure.
But I’m going to let other people deal with you because I have a full day. When you have something useful and in good faith to add to a conversation, let me know. You seem like a halfway intelligent troll. It would be interesting to see what you could write if you decided to redirect your efforts into something more healthy and meaningful. Maybe get some counseling and find out where this need for attention comes from, and then try again.
Definition of “asshole”: “a stupid, irritating, or contemptible person.” Much like “troll,” I think it’s a pretty fair description. If you’re “insulted,” may I suggest you stop being an asshole. I think that might go a long way to solving your problem.
Yes. And I intend to continue. And my racket subscription allows access to lots of content. But if it only costs $50 a year to mock a hypocrite in front of a 1000+ clapping seals, I feel a moral obligation to offer the same sarcastic, bombastic counter to the lost author. And it’s fun.
Really? You needed matt to codify your contempt for Jake and everything you hate about msm and the DNC, but if leighton woodhouse offers criticism of the oracle you find zero merit in such opinion. To be clear, Matt criticized tapper= stunning journalist. Woodhouse criticized Matt = drive by smear. Comments section continues to fit the profile of mUrica’s need for a team. The whole league sucks
Well, unless Matt is a lawmaker he didn’t “codify” anything. But, no, I am happy that Matt Taibbi read a book I had no intention of reading and did a review. I suspected what the book contained, but I actually would have been wrong, as I would have guessed what Matt first guessed. So I found the information enlightening. Matt wrote an entertaining review that made me laugh.
And in this moment, Matt’s not a “stunning journalist.” He’s a “stunning opinion writer” who took on figures with actual power who work for networks with viewerships in the millions and are trying to pretend that a demented old man “fooled” them rather than they ran interference for a party. That’s to most of us a much bigger “sin” than not jumping on a bandwagon of “we all must run to the defense of a multi-billion-dollar entity because Orange Man Bad even though it has an army of lawyers.”
Matt opined on a Tapper book that almost every meaningful online outlet has already ridiculed. And the premise of the book is in fact galling. Good for Matt.
But the timing? He had to take two weeks off to gather his mental health, because Woodhouse and others threw sand in his vag, but is now using his platform to mock a journalist, who frankly has been mocked relentlessly, without irony? I can think of at least one trolling asshole that finds that sort of on brand.
One thing about Tapper. He won’t take two weeks off for a mental health crisis.
BECAUSE HIS CONSCIENCE HAS BEEN SURGICALLY REMOVED.
The MSM should be treated like pustulating lepers until they do some very serious work to atone and at least pretend to have dignity and credibility. My personal list of some things that would have to happen for them to not be reviled as the lowest of liars and parasitic sycophants include:
Returning the Russiagate Pulitzers, which were circle-jerk awards for writing hysterical fan fiction about a fictional panic that was all lies;
Actually investigating Biden family corruption instead of pretending it's just another "Republicans Pounce!" political food fight: what did the Bidens do to get $20 million wired to various accounts? What was Joe's role? What did Hunter do to get that massive diamond from a Chinese oligarch? If this were a Republican President, there'd already be Oscars for the people exposing this;
And lastly and most important: Who was the actual President? Who ran the White House? How much of Biden's agenda was Biden cognizant of?
I know none of this will happen, but a man can dream. Until then if anyone sees any rep from any MSM org, make sure to fart in their general direction.
We need to find out who the actual President was and execute him (or her) after a military trial... usurpation of the role of Commander-in-Chief is a military offense and carries the death penalty. The Joint Chiefs should all be charged with and convicted of treason because it was their duty to arrest the usurper and order a general courtmartial for treason.
Simply start the investigation with all “I didn’t do that” moments … like day of trans visibility, etc. Either Biden was completely incompetent and unaware, or the autopen was running amuck from the get-go.
I remember as a young adult the Soviet gerontocracy: Brezhnev, Andropov and other over the hill alcoholics. I also remember Tass and Pravda, the last place to find truth.
Now as I am getting on in years, I see the US with its own gerontocracy and a home grown version of Soviet state media.
You are a conspiracy theorist. How could you think the entire Democrat apparatus as well as all corporate media could collude to lie to you, as if you were stupid, blind and high?
Sorry for the hokey analogy, but it sorta fits…If you recall, DJT had said there was no way he would debate JB thus casting the line to agitate and attract Joe by belittling him…something Joe could never let slide in his career. Joe took the bait. Now they are using the landed fish as chum to catch the others - I am sure with the intent to try to land the ever elusive Obamafish.
The human centipede of slop devours its own. It would be hilarious, except this circle jerk nearly destroyed our country. Who had access to the auto pen? Tapper is now whining that democrats hate his son because he’d white and wants to become a cop. He made his bed but won’t lie in it.
This book should be in the OED as the primo definition of gaslighting.
And here is a masterpiece of sardonic gas-lighting in return (hilarious!): https://babylonbee.com/news/joe-biden-in-memoriam-do-not-post-until-biden-dies
Those guys are merciless. This line--"In summary, it can certainly be said that of all the presidents throughout the history of the United States, Joe Biden was one of them."
Reminds me of a quip a writer made of Al Gore years ago, that he was, in a particular speech, "remarkably lifelike."
(Allegedly) 😂
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All hail “The Bee”
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Thank you for that!! I hadn’t seen it and I found it far more accurate than Trapper.
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Brilliant. Sadly, I expect the real obit in the WaPo to read like this.
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The bee always nails it!
05/30/25: Yes, they never get a "B" letter grade do they?
This bee JOE BIDEN memorium is fantastic
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05/30/25: And our humor parade now goes retrograde, to Spain & then back to Broadway, in a year unknown:
Franklin P. Adams was a newspaper columnist (1920s-30s).
His "column was also famed for its unpredictable puns. When a theatre caught fire in the Basque province of Spain ... patrons were smothered trying to crowd through the single door, Adams observed sagely, 'Don't put all your Basques in one exit.' "
--- "The Time of Laughter, A Sentimental Chronicle of The Twenties," Corey Ford [1902-1969]; Little, Brown & Co. (1967).
Dark humor is the best humor.
Wait, so, Biden is both a dotard, and an evil genius who convinced everyone in the Democratic party to reinstall him for a second term?
And, thankfully, Jennifer Granholm is no longer running the department of energy. The new secretary of that department, at an oversight hearing, answered questions put to him by Senator Kennedy. It turns out that in the last 76 days that Biden was in office, the days between Trump‘s victory and Biden‘s last day, the department of energy granted $96 billion in loans. luckily for us that is all being looked at rather closely now and the DOJ may be getting into the show. But, if anyone has any questions about the true worth of President Biden, well, it’s my guess that a lot of people were digging deep and taking advantage, and had their own reasons for enjoying the status quo.
When Sergeant Schultz said “I see nothing, I see nothing”, that was his story and he stuck with it. My advice to Jake Tapper would be if you’re going to tell the truth then, dammit, tell the truth. Pretending to tell the truth makes for an ugly picture.
05/30/25: The $96,000,000,000 in "loans" was an undisguised bank robbery.
Yes, they'll look into it, and that will be the last we'll hear of it. Unless by some miracle, some politician keeps pushing it. In that case, some activist prosecutor can be relied upon to drop all charges.
Oh, another one who doesn’t believe in miracles. I know what you mean. I gave up holding my breath a long time ago. But, deep within I still have hope.
Is anyone else conflating this observation with the busting of Professor Honesty by the brass at Righteous University Harvard Inc.?
05/30/25: "I, for one," said Kent Brockman, "can't wait until Google AI is put in charge of the nukes!"
Here's the question that I posed to GAI on May 30, 2025:
"Who was the president of Harvard prior to the current one?"
GAI's Answer:
"The Harvard University president prior to the current president, Claudine Gay, was Lawrence Bacow. He served as president from 2018 to 2023. Drew Gilpin Faust [see below] was the president before Bacow, from 2007 to 2018."
WRONG.
Claudine Gay is definitely, infamously, NOT the current president of Harvard.
HWGA: This time (ten minutes later), GAI got it right...
In response to this question asked on the same day (today) ---
Q: On what exact date was Claudine Gay demoted?
GAI A: "Claudine Gay resigned [was fired] as Harvard University President on January 2, 2024 [almost 17 months ago]. Her resignation came after her testimony at a Congressional hearing where she struggled to unequivocally state that calls for genocide on campus would violate the school's conduct policy, and amid allegations [that have been proven beyond a doubt] of plagiarism in her doctoral dissertation and other publications."
Like incest, this also runs in the "family":
Drew Gilpin Faust, mentioned by GAI above as a past Harvard president, was also exposed as a shameless fraud.
Fortunately for her, the consequences of her action --- other than the following --- came and went without so much as a "ping" on a $10 radar set:
(Start)
"The president of Harvard University... should be given an “F” for her review of a book about Abraham Lincoln in the New York Times.
The Times ran a correction to Drew Gilpin Faust’s review of “Founders’ Son” by Richard Brookhiser, and the author wrote a letter to the editor complaining about her “otherwise thoughtful review.”
Faust — the author of six history books and the first female president of Harvard — “referred incorrectly to the book’s treatment of the succession of Union generals who suffered mostly defeats on the Civil War battles of the Seven Days, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorville [SIC;],” the correction states.
“[The book] briefly discusses those generals; they are not ‘left unnamed.’ ”
Brookhiser wrote, “Faust asks, as if I had not considered the question, ‘what would Lincoln have thought about Sally Hemings?’ But I devote a chapter to Lincoln’s thoughts about Thomas Jefferson, including his relationship with Hemings.”
One Harvard alum, after parsing the correction and the letter, said, “It looks like she didn’t read the book. It’s a major embarrassment.” An unfair [?!] comparison was also made to fabulist Brian Williams [ex-NBC news anchor & infamous liar].
Faust did not get back to me [Richard Johnson] by deadline.
(End NY Post 02/24/15)
That's all folks. Keep stealing!
5th highest paid employee at Harvard @1M annual.
Yes, this is actually what they want us to believe. Hilarious.
No, Biden was a dotard puppet for the evil "geniuses" who left themselves with a worse dotard waiting in the wings.
These "geniuses" have run out of competent puppets.
Dotard at least.
When you're right (and you most often are) you're really right.
I hope Matt kept his receipt and claim the cost of the trash as a business expense.
Go easy on tapper. He’s probably in his “Insane Clown President” phase. He’ll be gobbling MAGA before you know it.
I'm wiping my ass with your keffiyeh, Chuck.
I don’t have a keffiya. But your sentiment infers a certain amount of joy in the obliteration of Palestinians. It has to be humiliating for Jews to witness the resilience of their victims. You would have thought a “chosen “ people would have “chosen “ to resist the evil of the Nazis. The wrath of god for this abomination is likely to be epic. Israel has lost favor with Germans. The people most guilt ridden about the treatment of Jews are now incapable of enabling them. Read the room. Repent. I’m truly afraid of the level of the world’s retribution. If you want to know how the United States will stand with you, ask Ukraine.
Resilience of their victims?? Everyone keeps telling the world it's a "genocide" and that they're all dead (or will starve within 48 hours). How are the dead resilient?
They have resisted since 1947. I’m pretty sure Zionism has been irreparably damaged. And I’m not even sure if it’s because the Jewish people in Israel are psychopaths, or did some cabal of Christian fundamentalist goad them into a lethal death cult. It feels like there is a force at work that can’t wait to wash its hands and seal their fate.
If the United States ever stops funding Israel, it may spark a much more lethal genocide. And if we go into a debt spiral the funding stops.
Its like aliens dropped you onto earth and you landed on your head.
But you are just average insane, all in all.
https://substack.com/@brunnowallace/note/c-121103636?r=ce20v&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Viscious!
Yes. It should be the textbook for a course in CYA
Also, this book should be the primo definition of grifting!
In situations like this, one need only ask oneself: Who is least useful to The Party going forward?
There you find the scapegoat.
Blaming Biden wasn’t so much Tapper’s choice as his assignment.
He is, as ever, serving The Party.
No doubt.
Tapper either received permission to write this book, or more likely, he was told to write this book.
Either way, Jake has no problem monetizing deceit. He's made a career of it.
Multiple sources have attributed the writing of Original Sin to Alex Thompson. The publishers wanted a bigger name associated it with it so they reached out to Tapper to give it more 'credibility with potential customers.
Jake is merely a sponsor, and I'm surprised Matt didn't point that out.
Tapper is the frontman for the tour. Thompson just sits there and looks like he’s pooped his pants.
Obama wrote it, perhaps. He has time now before the ribbon cutting of his South Side Chicago Presidential Center.
Or Bill Ayers who some speculated wrote Obama's books.
Yeah, I'm not convinced that Obama has the ability to write anything on his own.
Wonder if he writes Michelle’s books too?
No, that was William Gray. He wrote the Dick and Jane series.
Dang Gave, do you have inside info? Is the SS Chicago Presidential Center actually going to be completed before Illinois becomes insolvent? I love bantering with you.
No inside info but a modestly trained eye. Saw photos and read about Obama’s Hawaii mansion and now this Chicago thing (the timing is terrible for him). The man can’t seem to “build.” He doesn’t pay attention and possibly lacks the conceptual skills needed.
And meanwhile, Scott Pelley leads the troops at the “Danger to Democracy” front.
The minute or so that I watched of his Wake Forest speech was painfully nauseating. I saw a grotesque disfigurement of a man who has been irreparably altered by his own self-righteousness.
Nicely put!
He was correct that free speech is under attack, but the rest was hogwash.
I'm not thrilled at all at the Trump admin's handling of free speech, in spite of the fact that I do think many of these college students are reprehensible. But for Pelley to grandstand like he did, as though the previous 4 years weren't as much of an affront to free speech as anything in recent memory, shows he either was ignorant or cheerleading for the censorship we saw under a different admin.
Alex, agreed. I detest the assault on free speech coming from the right and the left and Europe, etc, etc. Each has their reasons and claim to be saving everything from democracy to humanity, but the end result is the death of free speech. The ACLU in the past could be counted on to fight to the death anyone who assaulted free speech. I remember their fight for the right of Nazi demonstrators and rightly so. Not my quote, but true, "it's only free speech when they're saying something you don't want to hear". Now the assault is coming from everywhere, and there is little fight against it that I can see.
Pelley and is ilk are at best, absolute douches, another sanctimonious theater majors with a midwit's IQ and a world class egos.
I like midwit IQs. I used "middlin'", but I like midwit better.
60minutes is dead... the reporters that made a difference are also dead.The crew they've got now are a waste of time and space.
60 Minutes always had problems. Their editing was vast and subtle. Back in late '70s, they did a piece on the art heist at the Chicago Art Institute. They made my uncle, the current director look like a fool for not knowing the difference between a Monet and a Manet. They did not highlight the fact that this bow tie wearing skinny administrator agreed to wear a wire and meet the thief and get back the stolen paintings.
I remember a segment they did in the 80s on the nuclear power plant in Illinois. I was a lowly poly sci student, and my professor acquired an unedited copy from Illinois Power that they had insisted on being provided to them. He showed both versions in class. The edited version was astonishing in its twisting of truth and facts, sometimes using just parts of sentences to drive the narrative. It was skillfully edited and painted a picture that looked nothing like the truth.
Did they really ever make a difference or were we just too naive back then?
I doubt he even wrote it. He put his name to something written by some Georgetown grad students funded by a USAID grant.
Agree with Matt that this may be a “P.R. offensive to get in front of some brave Democrat thinking about spilling… “
Bingo! This is just more democratic spin to delay and deflect and hope the country will move on.
They can't ignore or obfuscate anymore, so this is their way of acknowledging and getting past it in a way that minimizes damage to them and politically-viable Dems: a controlled detonation. If they really cared about getting to the truth they'd name more names, and look into things like how Biden got reporters' questions ahead of time. Bari Weiss asked about that last part and they slimed out of it by saying the reporter (Courtney Subramanian, now on the board of the WHCA for doubtlessly non-nefarious reasons) was "too honest."
The Party indeed - who is really pulling the strings is as obscure as it is in Orwell’s 1984. These are questions they don’t want answered. Who has power? What do they want to do with it? What are the factions? What are the conflicts of interest? Every molehill on the right that could answer this question gets dug up and blasted across the front pages, but on the left/globalist uniparty, it remains shrouded in perpetual mystery.
One notable mystery being “who actually ran the country during Biden’s tenure?”
This is the question. Nancy ran the Reagan White House as Ron deteriorated and watched Hee Haw upstairs, but this cabal is more mysterious. What was the decision making process? Who were in cahoots with one another? This is the book we all crave, not just the obvious fact that Joe's illness was covered up.
Go watch Reagan’s last press conference. Speaking off a few note cards- no teleprompter, answering somewhat hostile questions (starting with Helen Thomas) extemporaneously, recalling events and crafting responses. He then did sit down interviews in the Oval Office just before departing. He comes across as fully aware and directly involved.
Here is a link to that press conference.
https://youtu.be/t_puNc2MpCA
He wasn’t anywhere near as sharp as in 1980, and it was time to go, but there is no evidence he would have needed someone else to run things.
Reagan’s very last press conference in 1988 is not something Biden could have done on day 1 of his presidency, where Biden’s press questioners were hand selected, had to disclose their topics and Biden had the answers to the questions printed out in front of him and streaming across the teleprompter.
Covered up? More than half the voters knew Joe Biden was a mental celery stick. The other half pulled a homer Simpson and told their brain to shut up.
liked for "mental celery stick".
Fair enough. It was a failed attempted cover up.
Not sure if you were alive during Reagan's term but your contention of fact is not true. I was !
Even SNOPES labels it "unproven" . His true diagnosis by his doctors was given in 1994 years after he had left office.
Absolutely correct. The 1980s were my formative years (GenX).
Sorry, Reagan's mental decline began after he was shot, and by 1986 or so was obvious to anyone who was watching closely, as I was. Reagan's deterioration was not as severe as Biden's but it was undeniable and covered up/ignored by certain media outlets in the same way that Biden's was.
So you must be a better Doctor than the team from across our nation that was in charge of his care.
https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/ronald-reagan/physicians-explanation-ronald-reagans-alzheimers-diagnosis
Even Snopes says it could not verify. Or as it states,UNPROVEN
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ronald-reagan-alzheimers-disease/
He was 77yrs old (DOB 2-6-1911) so I am sure that his age was evident in some ways, he got tired or took a minute longer to speak,(remember Presidents speak for all of us so must choose words wisely)but dementia is a medical diagnosis. If you have cared for anyone who has had this disease, it is evident. You are welcome to your opinion of course, but I am not buying what you are selling. "Gloom Despair and Agony on me"! Maybe
You should start a new career by diagnosing Dementia by watching people on TV . Career or Grift? Something like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjECSv8KFN4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_puNc2MpCA
Correct.
The SNOPES article addresses Alzheimer's, for which Reagan was diagnosed in 1994. But there are other causes of mental decline.
"A 1987 article in the New Republic posed the troubling question outright: "Is Reagan Senile?"
That was precisely what CBS News reporter Lesley Stahl was asking herself during a 1986 visit with a president she would later describe in her 2000 memoir, Reporting Live, as "shriveled" and verging on catatonic.
"Reagan didn't seem to know who I was," she wrote. "He gave me a distant look with those milky eyes and shook my hand weakly. Oh, my, he's gonzo, I thought." But a few minutes later, he snapped out of it and from that point on seemed perfectly fine. When asked, White House aides admitted to Stahl that they had witnessed similar episodes." - SNOPES "Did Ronald Reagan Have Alzheimer's Disease While in Office?"
Is that the same Leslie Stahl that told Trump in 2020 that the Hunter Biden laptop could not be verified?
I think a better comparison would be Woodrow Wilson. After his stroke, his wife Edith basically took over. https://www.biography.com/political-figures/edith-wilson-first-president-biography-facts
I agree Jody. That is the relevant comparison.
Maybe Comer will shed some light on this but I’m not holding my breath.
I hope so too, BUT! I think we will get another book written by Comer similar to his book on " Biden Inc". The politicians gather facts for their own benefit, NO ONE IS HELD ACCOUNTABLE! Why don't they see America wants Accountability??
That is all of it in a nutshell.
If it was published, we wouldn’t believe it…
"Who actually ran the country during Biden's tenure?"
The Autopen- the 46th President of the United States of America.
Where will they locate The Autopen Presidential Library?
How will they depict the "Autopen" in Disney's Hall of Presidents? Will it speak or just write??
Will the Autopen go on a speaking and/or writing tour?
Does the autopen get Secret Service detail?
The Autopen has already come out in full support of Harris in 28.
Apparently they tried to do that, but the pen kept going for the mock constitution to scribble out the first amendment.
America was run by .....Artificial Malevolence.
Ink well and quill...Autopen...when we have finally advanced through the help of AI it will be an Endorser.
Who controlled the auto pen?
That is the ultimate question by far!
My brain keeps wandering back to the response from Raggedy Ann, the WH Press Secretary (or was it Peppermint Patty?) that “the Presidency is bigger than one man. It is an Administration run by a number of responsible professionals” or words to that effect… Were they telling us what they knew to be true?
I vaguely recall voting for a secret, though entirely competent and patriotic, cabal. I feel it’s an expression of true democracy.
At least in the old Soviet Union we at least knew the names of those clowns.
I would stick with Raggedy Ann. That was my best laugh of the day.
Yes - this question is the bottom line. But this, too, will get revealed as the lid is coming off of everything hidden.
I find it interesting that voters have so much apathy about this. I'd expect Joe normal to be quite interested in getting these questions answered, and I don't see much evidence of that. Maybe the only groups that brought important subjects before the public were the mainstream media, and they have a vested interest in keeping this in the background. Maybe voters only care about things if they're told to care about them??
I’m not sure the public is aware that Biden had cognitive impairment in 2020–it was obvious to me but I am a practicing physician. More telling is that members of the media saw it; did Democrats see it at the time? Is this noted in the book?
Great comment.
It's all totally Soviet.
Imagine Tapper's face when his publisher told him he had to do Meagan Kelly.
Now that was worth the price of admission.
I agree and you gotta wonder who enlisted him to write it.
Leviticus 16: 20-22
Excellent point.
And absolving himself of any responsibility along the way.
Boy, right on point
It’s so weird how the Democratic Party was willing to stack the deck in primaries, stage an internal coup to get rid of its own president, cover up said president’s mental incompetence and rule the country with an invisible cabal, collude with the media to cover up Biden family shady business, use intelligence agencies to frame an elected president for treason… but not in any way, shape or form stoop to cheating in the 2020 election, which was completely above board and featured dumps of hundreds of thousands of votes in the middle of the night after counting was stopped, as happens in every election as a matter of course. And such a party would certainly never be involved in plotting the assassination of a presidential candidate. We should totally believe that the illegal and treasonous things they haven’t yet admitted to are different from the ones they’ve been forced to admit to.
How about exaggerating Covid spread and keeping lockdowns to necessitate mail in voting and keep Joe Biden from openly campaigning in 2020. Could they/ would they?
There were times I felt like I was living in a communist country. In fact, with all the injunctions being filed against Trump, some justified, I’m still feeling it.
Of course! The cause, the Cause!
RETAIN POWER At ALL COSTS. The DEMS are truly Despicable. It will be decades before anyone can or should take this Party seriously
It does seem that there are many within the Democrat party who are addicted to power, and will do anything - anything - to get it and keep it. Like corrupt Boy Scout James Comey, they are convinced that they are the good guys, and therefore that justified everything.
Well the Democrats just happen to be the brand name the powerful found most useful. Was Romney really going to do anything more than favor slightly different factions and projects the deep state had going?
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Yes yes yes DJ!!! I laugh at the still-deluded commenters on various substacks INSISTING there’s no evidence of cheating in 2020. Talk about mind control and believing the narrative. It’s astounding.
Excellent re-cap of the circumstantial case for fraud in 2020.
no way he got 81 million. there's just no way.
Bravo!
05/29/25: This is so prevalent, it will put the truth serum chemists out of business because now it is unimaginable that ANYONE is telling the truth (truth serum chemists: Report to work on Thursday morning. I'm lying).
You nailed it perfectly.
They felt it necessary to grant preemptive pardons (?) to everyone on the January 6th committee.
Excellent. I wish I had the memory to recite this upon command.
I read a commenter elsewhere who recalled working with a former Senate aide who revealed that the Democrats stole 2.8 million votes in swing states in the Bush-Gore election—which the Republicans discovered. That was was why Gore conceded.
Party??? 5th Largest State geographically. 3 U.S. Rep. Districts. 2022 Primary with 2 of the 3 districts having "Republican" "candidates" "running" "unopposed"
2nd District "results" comprised of 15 sliced and diced counties, reporting 650 precincts 28,513 votes cast.
3rd District "results' comprised of 18 sliced and diced counties, reporting 747 precincts 28,577 votes cast.
All 3 U.S. Reps right now are Democrats.
Who is holding up the world The Turtle? Who is holding up The Turtle? It's Turtles all the way down.
These North-Korean-level propagandists lied to the public with genuine conspiratorial malice about one of the most consequential facts in American life at a time of great instability in the world. Meanwhile, a praetorian guard of scheming Svengalis sent us careening from one international and domestic disaster to another, working overtime to frame the shameful dotage of our babbling Lear as a right-wing conspiracy. Controlling Biden like a puppet allowed these people to do crazy things they would have never otherwise dared. All the power, none of the responsibility.
Remember the outrage when Xi referred to Biden as a dotard? Pretty clearly our geopolitical antagonists knew the geezer was demented.
Even the tiny country of Togo knew that Joe had lost it. Everyone knew it. The arrogance that denying it would work suggests that spin doctors have infested the minds of everyone in D.C. and are making big money. "Just hold your mouth like this when you lie."
All the power, none of the responsibility is the motto of the permanent bureaucracy, or deep state
Yes! That's why I thought people should read it. It's a pulpy Sidney Sheldon novel dressed up as All the President's Men. The whole time I was reading it I was thinking, holy shit, Obama is the source, isn't he. He's the source. That's why he's treated so gently throughout the book. He feels dragged down by Biden -- and believes his legacy is now in trouble so it had to be Biden who took the fall. Man, it's like The Godfather.
Hi Sasha, I’m a fan & subscriber. Of course it’s Obama. The control freak who’s the only president to remain in DC after their term ended (except for Wilson & FDR for health reasons). Obama helped run Russiagate to help Clinton win, and when she lost, to sabotage Trump’s first term. He’s a gifted orator and a scheming nasty politician, responsible for the extreme division in America today. The divider in chief. IMO, he has no legacy. I’m delighted at how 2024 turned out for the Dems with Barack & Michelle begging for votes, humiliating themselves, Harris paying millions to Oprah and Beyoncé, the embarrassment of Harris being unable to speak off the cuff & pretending a person that unserious could be POTUS, just on and on. When we get to 2028, we will have reached 20 years post-Obama’s first term beginning and hopefully the stain and hangover from that period will pass. He is the architect of getting Americans to hate each other and THAT is his true legacy.
The source of America hating each other. Truer words could not be spoken. My heart aches how much we do. I’ve never felt so much anger. I really want to check out and disappear because it makes me ill. Families torn apart, hatred of others not like us. My husband and I feel a creepy obsession. And, we would disappear to some quiet farm, no TV, no social media except our children and grandchildren. We feel the need to fight. BUT I F**king hate it!
I gotta have my sports, but even that has started to suck as well. When is Normie Night at the ballpark anyway?
Try Sumo.
Every tournament is normal. No PC-Prog kneeling, no queer patches. Just men doing their best.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/tv/sumo/
100% Agree!
Obama and a supporting cast of thousands.
FDR was terminated before his fourth term ended naturally
It is amazing he was still meeting world leaders on the other side of the planet during his last 2 months- the Yalta Conference 2 months before and meeting King Abdul Aziz on a US Navy ship in the Suez Canal 1 month before his passing.
At a time of totalitarians it was a terrible example to not relinquish power.
Some say he wasn't all there while at Yalta and that he gave away Eastern Europe to Stalin.
But a month later, a month before his passing, it sounded like he did a good job dealing with King Abdul Aziz in establishing relations with Saudi Arabia, per a good book on the subject, "The House of Saud", by David Holden.
You're right Jack, who am I thinking of??
Not sure. Wilson was incapacitated by a stroke and FDR died. Truman famously got in his car with Bess and drove home to Missouri. The Clintons have continually kept their slimy paws in DC
My hypothesis is that Obama was groomed by more powerful permanent bureaucrats. Cough CIA cough The ones will security clearances and their hands on the money spigot that is the USG.
No question Obama was, and remains, the Real Manchurian/Kenyan Candidate, a charming, non-threatening black guy who was the perfect front for The System.
Certainly Pritzker and the Chicago Dem machine were part of his selection. And I agree, definitely the CIA had to be heavily involved.
I remember reading in a book (Paul Street's "Obama and the Future of the Democratic Party? or Adolph Reed or Bruce Dixon?) that he was set up with a nice luxury condo on Lake Michigan. He commuted back there every night after a few hours giving speeches while the black women, as usual, did all the real community organizing. He was also a law lecturer, not a constitutional scholar. He published nothing scholarly. And there was a Boston Globe article about there his being used to help gentrify the near South Side of Chicago. I need to get Chat GPT to look that up.
They sure wrapped him up with a bow as a constitutional scholar. Always a narrative to push, never the truth. It’s like lying is the only skill Dems have left——with a compliant partisan media, they haven’t needed those skills bc all of the lies worked. Until now.
"Of course it’s Obama."
If by "Obama" you mean a shadowy cabal of funders, handlers, policy gurus, political consultants, NGOs, media consultants, and others, then you're right.
If by "Obama," you mean the callow, arrogant, semi-literate faker who gives great teleprompter readings, then you're way off base!
Obama is an empty suit. Chosen, groomed, fed, polished, pampered, fed teleprompter scripts, he's as fake as any actor.
Obama may still be the front and read things for the cabal that ran his administration, but Obama-the-man is not capable of any thought/strategy/leadership.
Love this Kent! I wonder if that’s why all of the actors and singers and performers flock to him, they feel simpatico?
That, plus the message his handlers load into his teleprompter--"White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, heterosexual, male Americans suck!"
That's the PC-Prog payload that, after 70 years of gestation, popped into the sunlight in full bloom with Obama's coronation.
Besides the Obama puppet being a living example of the polar opposite of the hated Normal American, the message resonates with the media/Hollywood/academic demographic.
To paraphrase Don Corleone, “It was Obama all along.”
Execute the damned son of a bitch.
Don't you get in trouble for saying shit like that even when they're retired?
Guess he's gonna find out...
IN MINECRAFT! In Minecraft my friend.
Remind me again what Obama’s “legacy” was?
His legacy was demonstrating that if you play the race card, it can get you anywhere, even to the White House. Democrats haven't stopped playing the race card since.
White guilt is the gift that keeps on giving, for the Dems
His legacy is men in women's bathroom. "We just wanna pee!!!!"
Yeah, "JFK put a man on the moon... Obama put a man in the woman's restroom."
that's good!!!!! :) :) :) :) God damn I love Taibbi's readers. :) :) :)
Getting Jake Tapper to re-write history.
Who approached you, was it Tattaglia or Barzini?
"Leave the gun, bring the cannoli." Finally, I got to comment.
I always look to the side shows for indications of the truth (we can never get to the real truth): Hur tapes leak - cancer response and Axelrod’s plea for “sensitivity to the illness” (Axelrod = Obama); myriad reports of Jill’s newly disclosed megalomania and shrew-like behavior = blame someone who does not have a legacy at risk (Obama); Rahm for President - can it be any more directly Obama?; WH staffers controlling the Auto Pen - certainly not one of the Obama administration retreads. No primaries, Joe’s the Guy - who else had the power to reinstall the Meat Puppet as nominee besides BO?KH wasn’t decided upon until after her call with BO - who at that point still had the power to prevent her, he just needed be sure he could control her before supporting her. Everything points to Obama. This is all the actions of a desperate person trying to cling to power that is eroding quickly. Heck, even Michelle has disappeared!
Since his campaigning days, Obama has enjoyed journalistic anilingus nonstop.
Ew, but true
The wording was as delicate as the subject matter allowed for, I hope.
desperate times call for desperate measures. :)
Cable News Network, CNN, Ted Turner's brain child has lost its way and credibility. The last strand of the co-ax cable has been severed. Rupert Murdoch's FOX News will also meet the same fate shortly upon his headstone. Before that it was TV and before that radio and now we are living in the Wild West of News Media with people like Sasha, Matt, and Walter, seeking refuge in calm waters and we have a leadership vacuum that will be filled by someone that is 10 steps ahead of us. "Your Trusted News Source" but who? Andrew Breitbart would have been the next in line if he hadn't 'suddenly' passed away. Matt Drudge sold his soul and maybe James O'Keefe would have had a shot but he was run out of his own company. I think an alliance of true 'Journalist' with the backing of Elon, oh wait, Matt burnt that bridge. Damn any other ideas? Thanks Matt Peace Out !!
Drudge is whale poop
while it was happening i kept guessing that the Biden Whitehouse was being run by second string obama staffers that were finally getting a chance at bat. you think there might be something to that??
Well he is right about that isn't he- his "legacy" is toast.
One. Hundred. Percent. I read this book last week, and it was just annoying how it went so easy on aaaaaaaall the Dems willing to go along with an obvious charade. Also, the book is suspiciously silent on Jill Biden. As I noted in my goodreads review, there's a passage in there where the authors state Jill Biden just wanted to love her husband, and would support his running again if he wanted to. I still can't figure out if that was sincere or ironic. That woman is an absolute fucking ghoul.
It's crazy. During the Obama years the old media served as a propaganda distributor, but ever since the 2016 election they become producers.
Elder abuse is often disguised as what is best for the patient.
05/29/25: Oh. Now I understand why they listed my age as "73" in high school...
It’s DOCTOR Biden! PUH-leez!
😂
Yes, but Vogue just loved putting her on the cover!
🤮😂
I'm sure it had nothing to do with the millions of dollars coming in from eastern Europe and China via 20+ shell companies, which is pretty normal stuff.
Megyn Kelly interviewed Tapper and literally skinned him alive, You have to see it. Tapper is a liar without any morals.
These assholes care only about their bank accounts and not about the country. It’s sickening.
Much as I hate to say it, Megyn Kelly and all the others who have him on their podcasts/radio/tv shows are just giving him commercial time to sell his book and make millions, admitting he "may have been complicit" all the way to the bank.
05/29/25: There's absolutely no penalty that Tapper will have to pay because the entire country already knows he's full of sh*t and utterly immune to experiencing shame for having lied about Biden's health when he was in office. And now for a hilarious comedy break: https://babylonbee.com/news/joe-biden-in-memoriam-do-not-post-until-biden-dies
It was most enjoyable
And Bari Weiss just dropped her interview and it's softballs all the way.
Bari is a big time fraud...
yes I am watching it and its disgusting and not a single tough question. Oh we can’t ask any tough questions we can’t use our own eyes and bring up the reality that Biden was mentally incompetent to be President. Tapper was a part of the cover up and now he wants to get rich pedaling more lies.
She did ask (as few have) about Biden getting at least one reporter's question ahead of time, but let them weasel out of it by saying the reporter was just "too honest."
Yes, Megyn Kelly specifically held Tapper to account for his on-air accusation that Lara Trump was mocking Biden's stutter when she was actually raising concerns over Biden's mental acuity in OCTOBER 2020! Tapper privately apologized to Lara Trump a couple of weeks before book publication. For ideological journalists, it's not enough to disagree - rather, they must suggest someone is morally wrong.
05/29/25: Do you have a link? I had it saved for viewing and then Mr Dolt hit the wrong "x" button and goodbye it went.
Did the “Dean Phillips” chapter also make a little mention of the fact that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr—the lifelong Democrat son and nephew of martyred Democrat patron saints—ran hard for the Democrat nomination for six months until the DNC establishment essentially canceled the primaries to cut him off?
Mentioned once in passing.
Well, it must not have been important then.
The Democrats essentially ran RFK Jr. out of the party, denying him Secret Service protection when he was on ballots in some states, kicking him off the ballot in others. It is hard to get a Kennedy to abandon the Democratic Party, but they achieved it.
What I have never understood is the despicable disloyalty of much of the Kennedy extended family. Seeing that wizened spider, Caroline Schlossberg, reading her vacuous statement of disavowal was disheartening. The Kennedy family used to have class. It was phony class, which didn't preclude cheerful rape and buying elections, but damn it, the illusion meant something to us.
We're not the UK. We don't need or want royalty.
Not as many Kennedys were against Bobby as legacy media would have us believe: https://thekennedybeacon.substack.com/p/kennedy-family-does-support-rfk-jr-276
That really astonished me. And I do think what you say about having class, phony or otherwise, is an interesting point.
We care so much about democracy that in order to defend it we'll remove incorrect choices from the ballot.
Anything on Mark Elias (I refuse to buy the book and no one else I know will either).
Good question
Nothing to see here…move along.
Not only that, RFKJr was interviewed on (yes) Fox. He had to spend money on security because his requests were denied by (the Obama, er,) Biden administration.
This is a case of political suicide (in which Tapper participated) by the Dems dating back to 2020 when they decided to install the then impaired Biden as their candidate. It would have been hard to predict the depths of the Dem depravity, as the Politburo under Biden pursued far more repulsive 🤮 policies than could have been imagined. Think about DEI, open borders, boys playing girls’ sports (and sharing locker rooms!). Normal people in the Democratic Party were disgusted and many abandoned the party. This abandonment continues today.
It is entirely possible that this will destroy the Democratic Party, as its leadership has become more radical as a result of many normies leaving the party. Let’s just think of it as the Thelma and Louise Party, currently floating in the canyon air, unaware of the impending collision with the canyon floor below. KaBoom 💥
It actually goes back at least to 2016 when they sabotaged Bernie and installed Hillary as their candidate. They haven’t run a fair nominating process in quite some time.
They cheated Bernie Sanders. They cheated Tulsi Gabbard. They cheated RFK Jr. The Democratic Party isn't very democratic these days.
Bernie is not a Democrat. He should not even have been eligible for the Democratic nomination.
Yeah. Too honest to be a REAL Democrat or Republican. I guess that is why he is consistently named as America's most popular politician.
Maybe once. Not since he sold out to Mme the Eternal Wannabe on prime time, and got a sweetheart book deals as payout.
Matt has in these pages called him "a politician with no balls," over his opposition to tariffs he once introduced legislation to institute.
Now he's just another whore for Big Pharma - witness his browbeating of RFK. Jr. over the possibility the latter might (gasp!) sue one of his sacred cows.
Yeah, Bernie is a Big Pharma ho... "Medicare for all" = a whole bunch of new customers for Big Pharma...
Most popular does not mean most liked.
LOL. Not to you. Well readers and Matt, Try Googling "Most Liked US politician." Some probably won't like the results.
...as you travel into the weeds and down a very deep rabbit hole to avoid reality.
Well, perhaps true months ago…but I suspect discovering his donors from big pharma and now his private jet setting around the country, he may be losing ground.
Make that "most here" rather than "some."
As a Dem who has dealt with party politics, very small scale, I always thought it was Bernie convenient to glom onto the Dem Party for his Presidential quest. He doesn’t have wide-scale appeal, but the Party has a structure to turn out $ and votes.
That the party feared him so should have been the first sign —- Dems are lost.
I do not agree. Bernie is a dangerous man and should not even be in Congress. He is also an unrepentant crook with a fat USAID grant to do nothing… and so he has done nothing except cash the check. Every politician with such payoffs should be arrested for a felony, prosecuted, convicted, sentenced to prison and primaried out.
Ha! Bernie has been a “public servant” via his voters for how many decades? Then he was presidential material? Cha-ching.
Was sabotage an honorable, honest answer?
That deal was cut in 2008 - post Hillary Obama bloodbath. H supports O for two terms and gets the 2016 nomination.
Hillary stole the California primary
I was even willing to give them a chance, as an Independent, but just a few months in, Afghanistan happened, with the tragic lack of preparation, the insane fixed date, and Biden yelling at the reporter his team had chosen for an interview. After that, it was impossible to ignore that something was very wrong. What a silly book this is.
Don't forget the dem attacks on free speech and journalists, as Matt can attest.
The Democrat Party will never be destroyed as long as there is mail-in and drop box balloting.
That's the bottom line. Under the current "rules," the Dems will be able to "win" elections at about the same rate that they always have.
All of the points you make are accurate and valid. But IMV the reality is that the Democratic Party survives due to the fact that the news media, not just her in the US, but throughout the western world, is 100% behind the liberal ideology that is the core belief system of the Democratic Party. As Racket News has taught us so very well, with The Twitter Files reporting, and all of their excellent reporting on censorship in liberal democracies, their power depends entirely on information control. While it is encouraging that Trump won, despite his having to swim against the strong current of lawfare and negative media spin, and that viewership of MSM has been on a steady decline, and we now have some great alternatives here on substack and some podcasts, it is my experience in my daily interactions with others that the MSM narratives still have their desired effect. I am constantly hearing things, directly or indirectly from others that I know came from NPR, CNN, PBS, ABC etc. Propaganda has been around for so long and is so widespread for the simple reason that it is so extremely effective
You’re probably right about that, though I continue to hope that the trends of normals rejecting the left wing lunacy continues to grow. If that comes to pass, any remaining Dem party will be irrelevant on the national stage. 🤞🤞🤞
The Dems are dead. That's exactly what the Dems said about the GOP in 2008. These zombie ghouls aren't going anywhere.
If Trump can't sort out Congress, some clever Dem - and there are plenty is going to steal Trump's platform, grow a beard, and claim he's all about MAGA. Oh wait.
From your keyboard to God's ear!
You’re right. I’ve actually spoken to all 6 of the “normal people “ in Democratic Party. They concur, but two weren’t sure…
LOL!!
More LOL: https://babylonbee.com/news/joe-biden-in-memoriam-do-not-post-until-biden-dies
Thanks! In these ridiculous times "satire" is the closest approximation to reality, and "non fiction" may be assumed to be false.
!!!
If only...
I don't know why you were on the edge of a nervous collapse, but please know, for what it's worth, that your writing (especially pieces like this) has helped many of us step back from our own edges. I had to read this out loud to my husband because he was wondering why I was laughing so hard.
He did it so we don’t have to. The literary equivalent of jumping on a live grenade.
Seriously! I was never REALLY going to read that POS book, but now- thanks to Matt- I REALLY don't have to...
But here’s the real question: When will it be made into a Netflix series? And who plays Biden? I’m betting Kevin Spacey in his comeback role.
I agree with Lillia, Matt. If you need some time off, take it. We’ll still be here.
There are a lot of us there with you Matt.
Matt's wit in his writing is simply a cut above the rest. It's why I'm a paying subscriber too.
It is. He actually has style.
I just tried to listen to Tim Poole on Bill Maher's Club Random. Maher kept filibustering, but when Matt Taibbi was mentioned, Tim had high praise for Matt's comic writing style. Matt would blush. I couldn't listen to the whole thing though.
Agreed. Thanks Matt.
Guilt. That’s why he was on the verge of nervous collapse. Because between insane clown president and now, he’s driven his own little clown car all over the road trying run over hypocrites. Now his car is out of gas, and his victims are rejoicing in fire bombing it. Because the actual insane clown is pandering to the most loyal, brainless subscriber base known to man. His conscience is in an epic battle with his generational wealth. My money is on the money.
I'd say it's more dealing with assholes like you, though ones that don't hide behind a picture of Christ (?). And Marie makes a good point. You actually pay to post this dreck. It's true. A fool and his money are easily parted.
“ When the debate is lost, insults become the loser’s tool “
Not sure how I’m hiding anymore than I would be if I had no photo.
I don’t think $50 is a large enough amount of money to preclude me from free speech in an area I feel strongly about. Especially if I think dangerous cult thinking is rampant. Like say, every where I look.
I’m grateful to matt for the opportunity to share my views on his work or to contradict his readers in this comment section.
Calling me a troll is a white flag. Every time it happens an angel gets laid.
😘 Go get your shine box
Definition of a “troll”: “a person who makes a deliberately offensive or provocative online post.”
You literally pay money to come here and harass people. To designate you a “troll” is not name-calling or an insult. It’s an accurate description of what you’re doing. You are the epitome of a troll, though one dumb enough to pay for the pleasure.
But I’m going to let other people deal with you because I have a full day. When you have something useful and in good faith to add to a conversation, let me know. You seem like a halfway intelligent troll. It would be interesting to see what you could write if you decided to redirect your efforts into something more healthy and meaningful. Maybe get some counseling and find out where this need for attention comes from, and then try again.
One more thing,
Is matt trolling Jake tapper for money and is that more noble, somehow?
I’m almost sure “asshole” was an insult. But your powers of obfuscation are compromised by the printed word. Everyone sees that.
Enjoy your day.
Definition of “asshole”: “a stupid, irritating, or contemptible person.” Much like “troll,” I think it’s a pretty fair description. If you’re “insulted,” may I suggest you stop being an asshole. I think that might go a long way to solving your problem.
I cracked up at, "Go get your shine box." Except, you know what happened to the character who said that. Ma, I need to borrow your butcher knife.
Don’t you pay to read and post here?
He's a troll, a dumb one because most people troll for free, but he's a troll.
Yes. And I intend to continue. And my racket subscription allows access to lots of content. But if it only costs $50 a year to mock a hypocrite in front of a 1000+ clapping seals, I feel a moral obligation to offer the same sarcastic, bombastic counter to the lost author. And it’s fun.
Chuck - That you have a "moral obligation" about anything is belied by an unremitting corrosive cynicism in everything you have ever written.
Really? You needed matt to codify your contempt for Jake and everything you hate about msm and the DNC, but if leighton woodhouse offers criticism of the oracle you find zero merit in such opinion. To be clear, Matt criticized tapper= stunning journalist. Woodhouse criticized Matt = drive by smear. Comments section continues to fit the profile of mUrica’s need for a team. The whole league sucks
Well, unless Matt is a lawmaker he didn’t “codify” anything. But, no, I am happy that Matt Taibbi read a book I had no intention of reading and did a review. I suspected what the book contained, but I actually would have been wrong, as I would have guessed what Matt first guessed. So I found the information enlightening. Matt wrote an entertaining review that made me laugh.
And in this moment, Matt’s not a “stunning journalist.” He’s a “stunning opinion writer” who took on figures with actual power who work for networks with viewerships in the millions and are trying to pretend that a demented old man “fooled” them rather than they ran interference for a party. That’s to most of us a much bigger “sin” than not jumping on a bandwagon of “we all must run to the defense of a multi-billion-dollar entity because Orange Man Bad even though it has an army of lawyers.”
Matt opined on a Tapper book that almost every meaningful online outlet has already ridiculed. And the premise of the book is in fact galling. Good for Matt.
But the timing? He had to take two weeks off to gather his mental health, because Woodhouse and others threw sand in his vag, but is now using his platform to mock a journalist, who frankly has been mocked relentlessly, without irony? I can think of at least one trolling asshole that finds that sort of on brand.
One thing about Tapper. He won’t take two weeks off for a mental health crisis.
BECAUSE HIS CONSCIENCE HAS BEEN SURGICALLY REMOVED.
Getting the picture sweetie?
You suck
Because… you can not refute my facts? Except to say that I suck. You have made my point. Thanks
You still suck
Thank you. You made me laugh.
Well, I’m good for something, I guess
The MSM should be treated like pustulating lepers until they do some very serious work to atone and at least pretend to have dignity and credibility. My personal list of some things that would have to happen for them to not be reviled as the lowest of liars and parasitic sycophants include:
Returning the Russiagate Pulitzers, which were circle-jerk awards for writing hysterical fan fiction about a fictional panic that was all lies;
Actually investigating Biden family corruption instead of pretending it's just another "Republicans Pounce!" political food fight: what did the Bidens do to get $20 million wired to various accounts? What was Joe's role? What did Hunter do to get that massive diamond from a Chinese oligarch? If this were a Republican President, there'd already be Oscars for the people exposing this;
And lastly and most important: Who was the actual President? Who ran the White House? How much of Biden's agenda was Biden cognizant of?
I know none of this will happen, but a man can dream. Until then if anyone sees any rep from any MSM org, make sure to fart in their general direction.
Damn, I enjoy your writing style. Lol…
Thanks!
We need to find out who the actual President was and execute him (or her) after a military trial... usurpation of the role of Commander-in-Chief is a military offense and carries the death penalty. The Joint Chiefs should all be charged with and convicted of treason because it was their duty to arrest the usurper and order a general courtmartial for treason.
Well, I think that would’ve been called a resurrection and we all know what happens then.
Bedwetting wipers of other people’s bottoms…..
Even Dr. Pimple popper would be repulsed.
That’s a great starter list. But the people who can’t answer your questions aren’t going to talk if they don’t have to.
is like expecting the Mafia to return all their stolen loot. actually, the Mafia has more integrity than does our journalist class.
"pustulating lepers" ;-)
Simply start the investigation with all “I didn’t do that” moments … like day of trans visibility, etc. Either Biden was completely incompetent and unaware, or the autopen was running amuck from the get-go.
I remember as a young adult the Soviet gerontocracy: Brezhnev, Andropov and other over the hill alcoholics. I also remember Tass and Pravda, the last place to find truth.
Now as I am getting on in years, I see the US with its own gerontocracy and a home grown version of Soviet state media.
Very sad......
I think of that too all the time. The similarities are uncanny.
This is why we read Racket News, not for the Sirota shit.
Why exactly was there a debate in June. Before the conventions? Me thinks it was a setup.
You are a conspiracy theorist. How could you think the entire Democrat apparatus as well as all corporate media could collude to lie to you, as if you were stupid, blind and high?
Why, they would never, Never, I say, do that
Great comment but a harrumph at the end would be chef's 💋
Get off my lawn
This was the first time a debate occurred before the conventions. The reason for this has not been answered.
I would be shocked to find this out. shocked i tell you
That was a question Megyn Kelly should’ve asked Tapper.
Sorry for the hokey analogy, but it sorta fits…If you recall, DJT had said there was no way he would debate JB thus casting the line to agitate and attract Joe by belittling him…something Joe could never let slide in his career. Joe took the bait. Now they are using the landed fish as chum to catch the others - I am sure with the intent to try to land the ever elusive Obamafish.
Had to be…
The human centipede of slop devours its own. It would be hilarious, except this circle jerk nearly destroyed our country. Who had access to the auto pen? Tapper is now whining that democrats hate his son because he’d white and wants to become a cop. He made his bed but won’t lie in it.
Someone should write a 500-page book entitled "What Tapper And Thompson Left Out." (Though I'm not entirely sure 500 pages would be enough.)
And don’t forget all those journalists that fell over with laughter when Trump first ran in 2016 saying you can bank on it. He’ll never win.
Matt, Walter, and Stephen L. Miller (not the Trump advisor) could do it justice.