Breaking news everywhere: BIDEN IS AN ELDERLY MAN WITH POOR MEMORY

[dalton99a]

Fuck Merrick Garland

Fuck that piece of shit Trump cultist Robert Hur

[TwilightZone]

1. In a week, voters won't care. Most of them don't even care now.

Does it feed into the right-wing narrative? Sure, but why should we care? They were already exaggerating well beyond anything that's being reported here, and this isn't going to sway anyone who understands that no one is perfect and that everyone has moments.

We spend way too much time obsessing about what the right-wing thinks and about how they might interpret events. The truth is that it doesn't matter. They're going to find something to exaggerate or make up regardless of current events.

[Elessar Zappa]

2. Agree.

This won’t sway anyone either way.

[W_HAMILTON]

5. Are you serious?

I will guarantee you will hear about it many more times between now and the election because Donald Dipshit will constantly bring it up every time any news related to his similar case occurs, which means every news network will report on it and have pundits from "both sides" on discussing the matter.

Have you not watched politics recently?

This bullshit report was crafted specifically to be used politically against Biden and in Trump's favor (not only in its attacks on Biden but for the bullshit reasons they list for why they didn't charge Biden, which you can guarantee Trump and his team will point to as to why they should also never have been charged, e.g., the point about Biden having just left office and not fully understanding of the rules regarding classified documents, etc.).

[Xavier Breath]

9. +1

[TwilightZone]

11. He was going to harp on the issue anyway.

It's been one of his pet topics since day one. Let's not pretend this changes anything in that regard. It's always been an issue exaggerated by the right and this report is going to change the minds of basically no one.

We're completely overreacting to this, though that's nothing new.

[W_HAMILTON]

54. Except now he can legally point to a similar person in a similar situation exonerated by the exact same DOJ.

If you don't think that's significant, YOU are the one that is UNDERREACTING here.

Believe me, this report by a Trumper was intentionally crafted this way.

[DemocraticPatriot]

47. I think they've beaten that horse to death already, long ago...

The story with more current weight is how Trump's mental state is declining, in ways that far eclipse any Biden gaffs or 'lack of memory'....


All those dozens of times that Trump & company have declared "I don't remember".... also refute any concern about President Joe.

[W_HAMILTON]

55. Not legally, they haven't.

We're not even just talking politically, in which case if you've watched any of the news at all today, you can see how everyone is reporting this EXONERATION of Biden as a negative.

Just think of the implications legally. If you don't think the reasons that this MAGA Special Counsel laid out for exonerating Biden will be copy and pasted directly into Trump's legal briefs and brought up repeatedly during his actual case, I don't know what to tell you. Maybe be a little more cynical and less idealistic (naive even). I have no doubt that it was intentionally crafted this way to be used in this exact way.

[betsuni]

50. Agree. Drip drip drip just like "But her emails" -- doubt, untrustworthy, must be hiding something,

both sides are same anyway, hiding health problems (memory loss, senility) and whatever else discourages voting for Democrats. Add in the "Genocide Joe" crap and it's "lesser of two evils" by November. Worst case scenario. At least Russian troll farms and Wikileaks hacking splashed all over news front pages isn't happening this time.

[orangecrush]

58. That is exactly what the Russian trolls are saying

On every overseas news outlet.

Ie if his memory isn't bad, let him be charged.

And not one friendly voice in that press conference.

The fix is in, from the USSC to the oligarchs that own the networks.

[doc03]

82. +1

[Chakaconcarne]

87. we're certainly not helping it die by having a 100 threads here on DU.

[Cha]

8. Yeah, the SOTU should Dispel

that and make Robet Magat Slime Hur Look like the Stupid he is.

[Kath2]

17. Right on as usual, Cha!

Hope all is well with you!

[Cha]

19. Hey Aloha, Kath..

Mahalo.. I'm doing okay, you?

[Kath2]

21. Aloha back at ya.

Doing well. Getting ready for the craziness of the 2024 election. Voting Blue, for sure. Loving life and advocating for peace and human rights. The usual. I still remember how you showed me how to post an image a long time ago. So wonderful that we are still here!

[Cha]

24. lol I remember that too!

Yes it’s Great that so many of us are still here Fighting to Save Our Democracy!!

🕊️🕯️💙🌊🌈🏝️

[Kath2]

29. That was so cool when I was was new to DU!

You were my mentor. Love it. And, yes, we will save democracy.

[FloridaBlues]

26. I have to agree there's many important things to take place before

Election. At least it didn’t come out 8 days before election like Hillary from ass wipe coney

[Ocelot II]

3. It will be forgotten in a week. Don't give it oxygen.

[Irish_Dem]

4. What are the clinical credentials that enable them to make mental status evaluations?

[Frasier Balzov]

76. I think it was more an assessment of how a theoretical trial would go.

Yes we could charge him after he leaves office, but what shape will he be in then if he is at this stage of decline today?

[Irish_Dem]

79. The are not qualified to make comments about memory or mental status.

They also state there was no crime committed so why talk about a future trial?

[Demsrule86]

6. The WH came out swinging. The report will like be altered.

[LeftInTX]

36. Can it?

[lpbk2713]

7. I am confident President Joe will never do my country any harm.

And that's good enough for me.

I can't say that about the orange shitbird.

[CousinIT]

10. A progressive voter I know cited that as a reason he won't vote for Biden

That was the purpose of putting it in there.

[PatSeg]

12. Seriously?

That is really disturbing. Who does he/she think will be president if Biden doesn't win?

[shrike3]

85. Some progressives are in dreamland.

I was at a meeting with some of them last night. "They seem to think they'll be able to go right on their merry way "no matter who wins."

[PatSeg]

88. Definitely living in Fantasy Land

It is nice to have dreams, but in order to make those dreams reality, one needs to understand how the system works. Biden knows how the system works and his many decades of experience make him very effective.

[TwilightZone]

14. Then they were never going to vote for Biden.

I love when "progressives" claim that some minor event caused them to change their votes. They were never going to vote for him in the first place.

Idiots like that are how we ended up with Trump in 2016. Hope they enjoyed getting screwed directly for four years and indirectly for decades.

[PatSeg]

89. I totally agree

They are the type of people who would vote for Ralph Nader or Jill Stein, because the party's candidate is too mainstream. It is nice to make a statement now and then, but not to waste one's vote on it and end up with a Donald Trump.

[LeftInTX]

13. I was really pissed...He couldn't remember when he was VP?

Boy Trump is gonna have a field day with this!!!!

[underpants]

15. Yes he is.

[CousinIT]

23. That's what it was put there for; a gift for Trump. n/t

[LeftInTX]

32. Yep! What an a__. Prosecutor my a__. He's a political hack

[Polybius]

44. Wait what?

I'm stuck at work and I missed it. On my break now.

[W_HAMILTON]

60. You are doing their bidding by peddling this bullshit narrative.

The quotes were cherry-picked and highly edited into short snippets of a few words that were used to paint Biden in the worse light by a MAGA Special Counsel. They take Biden speaking out loud his train of thoughts and use that as if he is forgetting everything. Has someone ever asked you about something and you said something along the lines of, "when did that happen? I think it was around the time that I left that one job, so about 2013, right?" Well imagine if someone then tried to imply that you forgot when you left a job because of that rather than simply chalking it up to you talking a timeline out loud, trying to remember a date based off of another event. It's disingenuous shit expected from a MAGA Special Counsel, but to hear fellow Democrats buy into this nonsense is disheartening to say the least.

I mean, do you really think Biden forgot when his son, Beau, died? Because that is also what this MAGA Special Counsel is claiming.

[LeftInTX]

61. I'm just repeating what Lester Holt said. Complain to him, not me. I don't have a mouthpiece.

Trump is gonna be running "senile" commercials left and right.

Is it against the law to repeat what I heard on the NBC Nightly News? So I'm doing NBC's bidding?

I'm sorry NBC is the one with the mouthpiece. They are doing Trump's bidding, not me.

___________________

You must think I'm an influential person or something because I heard something on TV.

[W_HAMILTON]

64. I would hope that Democrats, especially those on this site, would know better.

And I didn't hear Lester Holt say it -- I heard you say it, which is why I corrected you.

[LeftInTX]

67. Watch the NBC Nightly News.

&ab_channel=NBCNews

[W_HAMILTON]

69. I don't have to, because I read the report.

I don't care what other people have said. I can read the report and draw my own conclusions from the selectively edited quotes, overall forced narrative it is trying to push, and simple common sense.

Once again, I ask: do you believe Biden forgot his son's death? Answer.

[LeftInTX]

71. I don't believe he forgot his son's death. The report is political BS.

[LeftInTX]

62. Read what NBC News says. Read what a Democratic House member said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/-nightmare-special-counsels-assessment-bidens-mental-fitness-triggers-rcna137975

I don't write the news....... People don't read what I write, but how many millions of people read this???
Don't blame me. I didn't write this. This is DU. More people read NBC News than DU.

[W_HAMILTON]

65. I am blaming you because you are amplifying the false narrative, even after having been corrected.

[W_HAMILTON]

68. All I am asking you to do is stop spreading misinformation/disinformation about our Democratic president.

Is that too much to ask?

[LeftInTX]

70. Pick on someone else please. Everyone on DU is talking about it. Quit harassing me!!!!

Stop harassing me!!!!

[W_HAMILTON]

72. Yes, we are all talking about how much bullshit it is.

Only a few -- yourself included -- seem to actually be buying into it rather than pointing out how ridiculous it is.

[betsuni]

63. I never remember anything. Names, dates, when things happen.

Today I said to my husband, "Did you put the thing back in the place?" when he asked me to draw a bath for him. He'd removed the cover and cleaned the drain mesh. Everything's like that. Biden is perfectly fine.

[IA8IT]

16. BIDEN IS AN UNINDICTED ELDERLY MAN WITH POOR MEMORY UNLIKE 37 FELONIES ELDERLY POOR MEMORY TRUMP

[Kath2]

18. Exactly.

Fuck trump. Fuck republicans. And fuck the racist, sexist gospel they preach.

[edbermac]

20. Joe did a lot better than Ronnie Raygun regarding Iran-Contra

There were attempts to protect the president by shredding documents and building a false narrative in which the National Security Council had gone rogue. The OIC looked at charging Reagan but, by the end, didn’t have enough evidence. Reagan was deposed in 1990, saying “I don’t recall” or “I can’t remember” 88 times.

https://millercenter.org/issues-policy/foreign-policy/iran-contra-affair

[bdamomma]

22. This

is so sick, leave Joe alone, beat up on that orange POS, he deserves it. Mudslinging, I hate it.

[bigtree]

25. that's not true

...it's on DU more than it's on the news.

Somehow people think it's some sort of political genius to take the negative stuff republican motherfuckers put out and not only spread it among their own blogs, but anguish over it like it's so unbearable and indefensible as to make desperate conservative hacks look like giants instead of windmills.

I don't get how people think this is a smart or strong posture against these predictable, petty attacks, as if they're unassailable and can't be easily countered.

This strident republican demagogue's exoneration of Biden carries more political weight in this election than would the findings of any SC whose affinity or consideration for Democrats would be endlessly questioned.

Here, we have a perfect, unassailable exoneration from a right winger and some folks are acting like we lost something. Unfuckingbelievable.

You've posted the demeaning stuff in a headline in all-caps and it will appear in the Google search leading with that pessimism, and you're complaining about the salacious attack's dissemination.

SMDH.

[LeftInTX]

33. It was on NBC Nightly News. Loud and clear from the other room!

Hubby watches the news. I'm in another room. I catch the main points. This was blaring. I was shocked.

Expected to hear about Trump and the SC and heard this instead.

[dalton99a]

35. +1. And the first words out of David Muir's mouth on ABC World News Tonight

[Sugarcoated]

49. It shouldn't be posted with a title like it's fact, though

[LeftInTX]

51. That was what I heard loudly from Lester Holt

[Sugarcoated]

56. I understand

I'm just sayin, it shouldn't be the headline of a thread as if it's true.

[betsuni]

53. It was horrible. WILLFULLY! SERIOUS! Serious risks to national security! Lengthy reporting of

thousand year old geezer Biden's SERIOUS memory lapses. Lester Holt's stern face and SERIOUS voice. If that's all someone saw about it ...

[JohnSJ]

27. We have been fucking swift boated, and the only remedy is to push back on

that bullshit republican special counsel unqualified assessment

Make no mistake about it, this is as serious as what was done to Hillary, the swift boating of Kerry, and the rev Wright against Obama.

The only one who survived that was Obama because he pushed back

That special counsel need to be called out as a political lackey, making assessments beyond his pay grade.

[LeftInTX]

34. Obama had the right to push back because that was a political hack

I don't know if Biden can ethically push back against a prosecutor, except to counter with facts.

[JohnSJ]

39. Sure he can push back. The special prosecutor isn't qualified to judge his mental capacity.

[dalton99a]

38. +1. Nobody remembers John Kerry's military service. All they remember - or choose to remember - is that he was a liar.

It is the same playbook

[JohnSJ]

40. Correct

[Raven123]

28. Time to send the Biden re-election committee a few bucks

[budkin]

30. Agreed. FUCK GARLAND

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Just an absolute POS.

[Sugarcoated]

31. Thats a misleading title

You should edit it, or just delete it

[LeftInTX]

37. It's true. That was the first thing on the news this evening. I was totally shocked.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

41. The White House is pushing back

The White House is calling out this idiot special counsel for his stupid claims

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

42. +1

[LeftInTX]

45. Good!

[struggle4progress]

43. Does he confuse Haley and Pelosi?

[W_HAMILTON]

73. Does he confuse Israel and Iran?

Oh no, that was Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson this weekend on Meet the Press.

[mysteryowl]

46. I'm with you. This is a partician outrage! vs a document by an attorney

Puke!!

[EndlessWire]

48. Suspicious timing

as usual. Maybe they were worried about how the Supreme Court argument would go, and wanted something to diffuse the news.

It is not a crime to be forgetful. It is not a crime to be older. It IS a crime to: you know, all of that stuff Donny "Two Scoops" did. I feel infinitely safer with a leader who has strong morals, years of experience, happily married with a dog and a cat. Our country is: not being laughed at, not going broke, not being invaded, not in danger of having war visit us any more than usual, all things that Donny is claiming currently. Of course, this is old schtick from 2015.

We have a good leader, a good back up leader, and a cadre of dedicated Congress people any one of which can out govern any Repub on any day. We are solid. All they have is Captain Chaos. Anyone who votes for tRump is a FOOL.

Well, it's nice that the SP who wrote the report decided that Joe has done nothing to indict. The SP can't take that back. They couldn't find anything to impeach him on, and they still don't have anything! Hah hah, the joke's on them. I'll take Joe Biden any day of the week over the Orange Turd.

"Dictator for a day?" If he gets in, we will have no country. It's not like MAGA haven't been warned. And, when they get old and forget a birthday, or where they put the car keys, they can decide how important it is compared to a guy handling multiple war responses all over the planet, while battling the various problems created for him by the GOP.

Joe's a winner. tRump is not.

[orangecrush]

57. Worldwide.

Pulled the same shit they pulled on Hillary.

[Sky Jewels]

59. I've noticed that all the Garland apologists

have stopped defending him.

We told you so.

[dalton99a]

83. +1. How can you defend a blatant political hit job?

The hit man:

[NorseSaxonCelt]

74. Trump is also an elderly man at nearly 78..

With a poor memory..And he has signs of dementia.

[canetoad]

75. OK, so say he IS an elderly man with memory problems

He's 80-odd. WTF does anyone expect.

But Joe Biden is an honest, humble man, who knows his limitations and his time. Right now Joe Biden is the anti-trump. The US needs him to be this, no matter how old he is.

The dark brandon meme was a joke. Let it go. Joe is an old man with a wealth of experience and knowledge. A heartload of pain, empathy and understanding, and a genuine love of people.

Joe can defeat Trump. Let him be Joe, old, a bit forgetful, but that same honest battler you've known for years. He's still there.

[NorseSaxonCelt]

77. Trump is also a forgetful old man..

So Trump has no advantage...It is The team behind Trump that will be dangerous, Biden has a good team that is the big difference.

[DFW]

78. And don't forget to add what a brilliant businesman Trump is

After all, he has declared bankruptcy less often than leap years came in the twentieth century!

[Mike Nelson]

80. I predict...

... Robert Hur has a promising future in his Republican party.

[Scrivener7]

81. Biden's too nice a guy to do this, but if it were me I'd dig up some dirt on Hur. You know it's there!

And I'd plaster that EVERYWHERE.

And I'd enjoy doing it.

[shrike3]

84. Fit the "Biden is too old" narrative beautifully. Perfect for the press.

[Chakaconcarne]

86. Nothing we can do about this but complain....

Therefore, our best option IMO is to quiet the chatter about it and let it die, otherwise we're just perpetuating it and give the other side fodder.