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Howard's avatar

What wonderful "good fortune." One jauntily surviving a magic bullet while the other is felled by a virus.

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Hmm, I wonder if it will be announced that Biden's doctors have belatedly diagnosed the (im)patient with the dreaded "long COVID". Of course, if they persist in keeping him propped up on the Oval Office Throne, "long COVID" would be a public-relations liability.

Biden's resolve may be cracking because Team Biden's post-debate would-be damage control is... well, I want to say "backfiring" or "not getting traction", but now these sound like assassination-attempt and elderly infirmity double-entendre.

It's just my guess, but it seems as if Biden's most influential handlers-- possibly Dr. Jill and Hunter, gack!-- hoped that showcasing Biden with a string of interviews would rehabilitate him.

Alex Christoforou suspects that this rehabilitation isn't so much to "prove" that Biden is still mentally fit (if not "sharp"), but actually to perversely desensitize the public to Biden's marked and conspicuous cognitive and communicative lapses. Alex may have a point; after a while, Biden's lapses are not novel or startling, but pathetically routine.

Long or short, it's also possible that Biden has finally seen the handwriting on the White House wall, and this "COVID" interlude is the precursor or first step to an off-ramp: Biden reluctantly yielding to the ravages of illness.

Since I resolutely repudiate the Megadeath Virus of Doom Scamdemic narrative, which led me to likewise repudiate the myth of illness-causing viruses, I savor the irony of The Ghost of Joe Biden (Barely) Present being appropriately laid low by a Phantom Menace. 😎 👻 🦠

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