Donald Trump was inaugurated yesterday, in case you didn't know. Now that neither Joe Biden or Kamala Harris will inhabit the White House, there is no longer a need to protect them. So it appears that now the truth can be told.
For the better part of four years anyone who questioned Joe Biden's ability to do the job required of a President of the United States was dismissed. We were ageists, he was sharp as a tack, Donald Trump is worse, and in the words of Joe Scarborough he was the "best Joe Biden ever!" Then on Thursday, June 27, 2024, we were vindicated. (I am right, I swear I'm right, Swear I knew it all along*)
On that stage was a man who was barely able to string 3 coherent words together. "We finally beat Medicare!" I still don't know what that means. In front of the whole country, the whole world, the leader of the free world was exposed as a "well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory." And an inability to contain one complete thought in his head.
But up to that point, every video of him stumbling over simple phrases, mixing up the names of world leaders, calling on dead people to stand up and be recognized, was billed as "misinformation" or "cheap fakes." Oh how the media tried to tell us not to believe our lying eyes.
Before you could blink, media figures were demanding he step aside, and less than a month later they got their wish. Joe Biden withdrew and he endorsed Kamala Harris. I could write a whole blog post in and of itself on the trainwreck that was Kamala Harris and a "New Way Forward". But that's not what this is about. This is about the fact that once Joe Biden exited and even more so, once Kamala lost, the media (outside of X, the conservative and independent blogs, and the Wall Street Journal) started to let slip stories and details about Joe's years in the White House.
For the record, I was fond, from the very beginning of Joe's tenure, of Ben Shapiro's nickname "Potatus." Many of us knew, and were not afraid of saying it nor inclined to pretend otherwise simply because Orange Man Bad, that he was not all there. He was certainly more there when he was elected than say, two years later, when many of us questioned whether he was actually the President. And for record, many of us do not believe he is a well-meaning elderly man, but more a power-tripping corrupt narcissist. But by 2022, he was just a sad little king of a sad little hill. And he was not calling the shots. No, this isn't my opinion. Multiple stories, including in the New York Times, have confirmed that aides around Mr. Biden were keeping him as insulated as possible. From the press, from his donors, from his cabinet members, from members of Congress, even Democrat members. Who was making the decisions, because it wasn't that man on the stage in June of 2024. That man couldn't make a decision. Whose finger was on the nuclear button?
Truth is, we are lucky that our enemies didn't do more to take advantage of the situation that became clear that sultry summer night. We are very lucky. And that was the moment it should have stopped being just about an election, and someone in the government should have seriously considered the 25th amendment. That we would spend the next seven months with a President who was barely aware is a crime. Actually, the crime is that we were lied to, for years, about his mental state. But it's even more criminal that when it was apparent, everyone thought it was just fine for him to continue being brain dead and the President at the same time.
The problem with our country? No one ever pays a price for being wrong. For at least 2 years, a cabal of unelected bureaucrats were acting as the President of the United States. We don't know who they were, we don't know which decisions they made, we know nothing. They will never be held accountable. That's what's wrong. No one ever pays for being wrong.
Now Donald Trump is President. He earned my vote in Butler, Pennsylvania when someone tried to kill him. We still hear about Lee Harvey Oswald, but no one talks about the guy who came within inches of killing the former President and leading Presidential Candidate. Someone else tried a month later. And I'm thinking someone might try again. And I hate to say it, but I leaned toward the guy everyone is trying to make dead, because there's a reason. (And it's not that he's Hitler... that is just getting way too old.)
But even with Mr. Trump in the White House, still, no one will pay for the coverup of a non compos mentis President. Now the Truth can be told, except now, it's too little too late.
*Dashboard Confessional - Vindicated
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