“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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.