“Today Joe said at a South Carolina campaign appearance, “I’m looking forward to appointing the first African-American woman to the United States Senate.” Unlike many of Joe’s brain farts, I have no idea what he wanted to say. Do you? Senators aren’t appointed any more, and Joe knows that, having been elected as one himself. He also knows that the first African American woman was elected to the Senate 27 years ago, that being Carol Mosely Braun. What could he possibly been trying to say?…he’s a shambling, babbling public service announcement for the tragedy of dementia, and has no more business in high elected office in his current state than a badly trained lemur. There is no point in making a big deal over every gaffe and non sequitur now. If you have a senile grandfather living in your guest room, do you come to dinner every night regaling the family with the bonkers things he said that day?…My conclusion? Joe Biden is hopelessly, pathetically incapable of being President or running for President, and what he says or doesn’t say now adds nothing to that assessment….”
Again, that was in February 2020, four years before Joe’s “stroke.” Then in April of that same year, I wrote again about Joe’s obvious cognitive issues when he said, in an interview, “We cannot let this, we’ve never allowed any crisis from the Civil War straight through to the pandemic of 17, all the way around, 16, we have never, never let our democracy takes second fiddle, way they, we can both have a democracy and … correct the public health.” Is that notably more coherent than the immortal, “Making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the … with the COVID, excuse me, with um, dealing with everything we have to with, uh …Look, if we finally beat Medicare …”? I wrote,
“Thus the issue now is whether the Democratic Party, the mainstream news media, the Biden family, and even the members of the public who are determined to vote for whomever or whatever is the candidate opposing President Trump in November will acknowledge that Biden’s latest deterioration moves him out of the “periodic brain cramp” category and into “get a bed ready at the home” territory…Is this really something the public doesn’t have a right to know? Isn’t democracy at risk of “dying in darkness” if a babbling basket case is elected President of the United States?”
Well, democracy was at risk, and the Democratic party, with full complicity of First Lady Jill Biden, put the fate of our nation in the hands of unelected back room hacks exploiting a puppet President with a melting brain. The party used their alleged journalists to assist in the cover-up, in a scandal as corrosive as Watergate: a President who wasn’t President? A conspiracy to not only elect a mentally unfit leader, but four years of manipulation and lies to hide his condition from the public?
4. Now Jill is teasing out a new dishonest narrative to sell a book. How scrimy, tawdry, and ugly. Tell us when you really realized Joe was losing IQ points, Jill. The damage is done: come clean! But she won’t, because she’s the Worst First Lady Ever, and an Ethics Villain.
Ethics Alarms 
Having him run again was elder abuse, pure and simple. They hoped, I’m sure, to get him and Kamala back in office, and a few months in, have him resign. The democrats want to claim the first female POTUS that they can taste it, and will do anything to get it.
It was announced right after they left the White House that Joe has Stage IV prostate cancer, as I’m sure you’re aware. That doesn’t come up overnight; his PSA values must have been high for quite some time. They risked his life to get him over the finish line for a second term. I’m no Biden fan, but, boy it makes me angry! Jill and Hunter are a pair…
Maybe, I think they ideally wanted him to go two more years before resigning, in the hopes of getting a full ten years out of Kamala (we dodged that bullet, thankfully). However, having him resign in a few months was probably their fallback position if he just couldn’t keep going or they couldn’t cover it up anymore.
The fact is that Jill was a Wallis Simpson type pretty much from the get-go. She left her first husband to grab the coattails (and something else) of Biden’s because he could take her places, just like Wallis thought it was great that Edward VIII could open the best suites in the finest hotels, get airplanes stopped, and trains held. She spent years and years demanding unearned respect until she could strut to the White House in that coat that probably cost more than most of us spend on clothes in two or three years. She was on top of the world, she was going to stay there as long as she was allowed to, and woe to anyone else that got in her way, including her declining husband.
Unfortunately for her, she couldn’t disguise what happened on that stage where her husband made a fool of himself, she couldn’t buck the big donors, who said they were going to pull their support unless her husband left the ticket, and she couldn’t buck the party leadership who agreed. Now she’s trying to sell us on the dutiful, supportive wife bit?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Jill Biden represents everything that’s bad about the wives of powerful men, and maybe about women generally. I’m not saying women are evil, or even that the spouses of the powerful are evil. History is full of the Elizabeths of Hungary, the Marie Curies, the Clara Bartons, the Sandra Day O’Connors, the Margaret Thatchers. However, there’s something particularly distasteful about women who attach themselves to powerful or rich men simply so they can become powerful or rich themselves without really earning it. That goes double for those who gloss over real issues with these men like Hilary Clinton or Silda Spitzer, or who frankly ignore their husbands like Wallis Simpson, who complained about how hard it is to live a great love story while sleeping with the Nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop or, arguably, Jill here, who had started to treat her husband like nothing more than a meal ticket. Those who marry old rich men in the hopes they will die like Anna Nicole are in a separate category. It makes a mockery out of what marriage is supposed to be all about.
Teresa Hinez Kerry and Nancy Reagan deserve special mention for desecrating their deceased husband’s legacy. Both actively went out and used the fortune that they gained through marriage to shit on their husband’s life.
Nancy Reagan? After Ronald Reagan left the White House she lived with her husband in California until he passed away of Alzheimer’s disease in 2004; she was her husband’s primary caregiver. I do not see any untoward behavior from Nancy Reagan after the passing of her husband Ronal Reagan.
I enjoy tweaking with the Trump deranged. I like telling them “You better hope your fantasies of Trump dying happen before January 20th, 2027. If Trump makes it past that line, Vance gets to run twice more. He’ll be a shoe in as a sitting president. Then you get 10 years of JD Vance.”
To be fair, Jill Biden’s first husband is accused of killing deceased late wife.
I don’t know the facts because they haven’t come out yet, but it’s possible she saw something in him that made her want to leave. Joe was then in the vicinity and she didn’t get too upset at marrying a Senator.
I really enjoy the youtube channel “Soft White Underbelly” It is a channel where the vlogger does long form interviews of people at the “bottom” of society and those that interact with them. Prostitutes, child abuse victims, drug addicts, etc… along with social workers, nurses, doctors, police officers and so on that deal with that segment of society.
This weekend the channel dropped an interview with Hunter Biden. I’m shocked Hunter is on it, you’d think he’d want his issues to be buried, not revealed. No plans on watching it, as he is vile and I’m sure the level of revisionism is off the charts.
“They hoped, I’m sure, to get him and Kamala back in office, and a few months in, have him resign.”
That’s what I felt from the beginning. I figured six months to a year in office and he would resign. This would accomplish:
I still think that was the plan until they realize how incompetent Vice-President Harris really was and had to scale back her responsibilities. As our host has pointed out before, this Democratic Party could not walk back its commitment to DEI and replace her with another candidate to run instead of Biden so they painted themselves into a corner and had to run Biden.
“As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death.”
And then you do nothing, being his wife and a doctor? Stroke victims need immediate assistance to prevent irreversible damage.
There are lively debates among historians regarding who was the best First Lady (I view it as a dead heat between Abigail Adams and Eleanor Roosevelt)….
I would love to see a ranking; I suspect that Dolley Madison should also be high on the list. I can almost picture her running out of a burning White House with George Washington’s picture in her hands.
She insisted on being called Dr., but she was a doctor of education, not medicine. Nonetheless, if she really thought he was having a stroke she should have taken action.
Dr. Biden would have been less valuable to the President in a medical emergency than Dr. Seuss.
Ok, well, maybe she would have been of AS MUCH value as Dr. Seuss…but not more.
Here’s the most recent version that I could find quickly. It’s a historian’s poll. I don’t think much of it. Jackie and Hillary are near the top; I’d put both in the bottom third. Ranking Mrs. Pierce in the bottom is just cruel: the woman had a breakdown after seeing her son crushed to death before her eyes. Florence Harding can’t be blamed for Harding letting himself be maneuvered into the Presidency…and besides, he was completely healthy and no one has shown that she had any influence over him at all. And, because historians are among the most left-leaning partisan of academics, there is an obvious pro-Democrat bias.
What a difficult thing to rank First Ladies. What are the parameters there since expectations for these women have changed so much over the past 200-plus years.? It’s patently unfair to judge the hostesses of the 19th century in comparison to the activists of the 20th and 21st. Jane Pierce shouldn’t be ranked at all out of consideration for her trauma. How should we rank Letitia Tyler, Caroline Harrison and Ellen Wilson who were sickly and died when their husbands were in office? Or poor Ida McKinley?
I agree: there are only about 15 who should be ranked at all.
Vice Presidents would probably be different to rank as well, as for most of American history his main task was waiting in the wings until something happened with the President. JD Vance happens to be a very active Vice President. OK who is worse: Kamala Harris or Aaron Burr?
Burr, in his official position, was by all accounts about as competent a VP as someone could be. The fact that he was indicted for murder was not related to his VP duties, and, of course, in a Scrabble match he’d defeat Kamala about 480 to 12. So I think Kamala gets the nod. A case could be made that we have had only 11 “modern VPs,” —-Nixon, Johnson, Agnew, Mondale, Bush I, Gore, Cheney, Biden, Pence, Harris and Vance.
You sent me to the dictionary (Google, actually) with SCRIMY
Great word & appropriately applied…I can hardly wait to play it in SCRABBLE…
PWS
Both of my parents used “scrimy” frequently. You’re right: it doesn’t turn up often. This story made it light up in my head, and it had been so long since I used it I had to look it up myself. If EA were Ann Althouse’s blog, I would have then written 300 words about the word itself.
Blimey! I’ve never seen “scrimy” before in my life!
The Edith Wilson comparison is apt I think..: concealing incapacity is bad, but actively enabling a candidacy while knowing better is a whole different level of culpability
“She treated him like a second-grader” post-debate . . . My thought when I heard the reports of her immediate post-debate remarks to her husband was that Mrs. Biden was treating the hubby as if he were a kindergartener. Barely tolerable (if annoying) from a caregiver to a nursing home patient, but so “puppet mistress” when addressing someone who’s theoretically in charge of the country.
“Michelle Obama was and is loathsome, but she didn’t do much substantive damage while she was in the White House.”
Perhaps you don’t view it as substantive, but she single handedly ruined school lunches by her health campaign. My children despise her. It’s fascinating, really. She declared there would be no more salt and pepper, whole grains only and while these “healthy options” seem non-consequential, it also made everything prepackaged, instant, tasteless, and gross. Worse, they’re not even healthy. While she didn’t do much politically dictating the food options for public school is absolutely consequential for an entire generation of children.
The school lunch issue is a minor issue in my opinion. Maybe I am biased, but when I went to school the school did not provide lunches except for a glass of milk; we all brought our lunch from home, lovely prepared by our mothers. Brown-bagging is a lot healthier than going out to lunch each day.
What is more serious is Michele Obama’s statement after her husband became President: “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.”
And now she is skipping all official functions due to …. marriage problems?
I have become increasingly convinced that Michelle was a “beard.” I assume eventually there will be a sensational history book about it.
Should a hyper liberal or may I say an ape shit woke women like Michelle Obama not be supportive of her husband if that is the case?
I’ve never seen two more unhappy children than the Obama girls.
What an questionable person.
I remember you posting something she had written in academia, and it was incoherent nonsense. These doctoral degrees in educational leadership and such are pure garbage and part of why academia is such a joke. Jill Biden epitomizes the dysfunction in education today. She has shown what kind of person she is, an education and power grifter.
I can understanding saving face and making public statements that aren’t fully in line with reality to protect the privacy and dignity of those you care about,, but she is the one who is bringing this back into light by writing a book about it and then LYING in the book and in interviews. It’s one thing to lie to save others dignity and then go into a quiet private life and it’s another to go out and do it for personal gain.
The situation is also a bit different when the person you are lying about was supposed to be the commander and chief of the most powerful nation on earth. If he is cognitively compromised, he had to go, however painful that was for everyone. The presidency is not a country club.
If Joe Biden was my dad, I don’t think I would have the stomach to go on TV and say he was unfit for the presidency, but I damn sure wouldn’t write a book lying about how I never saw him diminished in any way until just one random event.
America is a land where you can be a mediocre, forgettable drifter who games the reduced standards in academia, marries into politics, and capitalizes on the fame you didn’t earn by lying and manipulating everyone around you.
As I mentioned yesterday, she is evil and stupid. Also vile, heinous, rotten to the core.