History will show that Biden was one of the most effective presidents in the past 150 years, second only to FDR. He should have stuck to his promise to be a one term president however, and maybe we wouldn't be in our current disaster of a presidency. However the current book tour by the two ghouls picking the bones of the Biden presidency is disgusting. Their publisher should cancel the book and the tour and they should go back under a rock where they belong.
Agree 100% with what you’ve written — Biden’s presidency was like a “decency balm” when the country needed it most. Following the combined trump and Covid disasters, Biden steadied the country and led it with grace. He should have never run again, recognizing it was time for new, younger leadership, and Democrats should have had a wide open primary. Regardless, history will look back on the Biden presidency with respect and admiration. As for tapper et al, history’s judgement of them will be excoriating.
I still think Joe was an excellent and effective president, all the way through January 20, 2025. I used to like Jake Tapper, but no more, and I sure won’t be reading his book. What I saw in that admittedly awful debate in 2024, which so many cite as a dottering old senile man embarrassing himself, was instead a man battling a beastly upper respiratory infection who couldn’t get out from under his long-standing stutter. During his presidency, Biden gathered an outstanding and talented cabinet around him with smart and effective agency directors who clearly were empowered to do their jobs. He was an executive, not a do-it-all dictator like that moron in office now. I have always admired him, from the time he was the youngest person in the Senate, and I remember worrying about him when he had surgery for that cerebral aneurysm. After 50+ years of public service, he deserves much better than what he’s received from the loudmouths of this country. My hope is that the quiet majority appreciate and care for him. And I miss having him in the Oval Office every damned day. Margaret, thank you for your post. As soon as I finish my comment, I’m heading over to read your linked article.
Too bad you weren't around for Jimmy Carter-the best of mine, Biden's record pales. He's been on the wrong side of history too many times, Vietnam, Police expansion, and I remember his role in hearings for the Thomas confirmation. Yes, he was a much needed antidote as a correction to DJT's first term, and still bears much responsibility for what we are confronted with today.
Yes! If I remember correctly, in his book It's Ok to be Angry about Capitalism, Bernie Sanders called out Tapper for asking a question that was essentially a Republican talking point. The book seems like much of the same.
He surrounds himself with sane, sober experts and patriots whose goal is to help all Americans.
Trump clearly has debilitating dementia, is a hardcore narcissist and cons people into thinking that destruction is salvation. His only goals are to stay out of prison and to plunder the United States treasury.
He is old and angry and cannot speak his native language coherently.
He surrounds himself with venal, Dunning-Kruger clowns who know only how to swagger and threaten.
Only one of these men will go down as the worst president in history.
Only one of these men is a criminal who is intent on destroying democracy in our once-great country.
Let us not be distracted by those who pretend otherwise.
👍💯 Although I agree with your 1st line "Biden has brains, a heart, and courage", his superpower was your 2nd point - I was always impressed by the people he CHOSE to surround himself with who comported with your 1st point 👏. Conversely, apart from is own appalling lack of any of Biden's strengths, Drumpf has even LESS "patriots" of any kind in his 2nd admin than even the 1st 🤬
How they delegate matters greatly. Biden delegated for good; Trump delegates for evil.
When Biden struggled, the people around him made sure the delegation machine he established kept ticking away, for the benefit of the people, as it was programmed to do, via the moral framework he was raised into, re servant leadership and how you treat "the least of mine."
When Trump dodders, the delegation machine he established keeps ticking away, allowing fascists to autopen his signature onto edicts dismantling the Constitution, via the morally corrosive framework of demonizing "compassion," "empathy," and "democracy," and glorifying their own indulgence in every vice, while Trump says "I don't know about that -- I didn't sign it -- other people deal with that," and then golfs on the backs of taxpayers and "the least of mine."
Biden delegated in order to empower the people; Trump delegates in order to prey upon the people. Even when their old age incapacitates them, their machines of good or evil keep on ticking.
I don’t want to read anything about Biden when the current occupant of the WH publicly said a few weeks ago, “Elon fixed the computers and we won in PA.” Are any reporters working on that story?
I don’t want to read anything about Biden when FEMA and NOAA have been gutted and we’re heading into hurricane season. 2 nights ago a tornado ripped through KY and people died in their beds because no alarms were sounded. Are reporters digging into that?
I don’t want to read anything about Biden, or his son Hunter, when no one has any idea how much money, or which deals, Jared Kushner and 47’s offspring have made and continue to make off daddy-o’s corruption. Which reporters have been assigned to cover this?
The obsession with 2nd guessing the previous administration’s “errors” runs perilously close to “but her emails.” We need to focus our attention on what actually matters, not the media’s manufactured outrage.
I now believe that Biden should have announced he would not be running early enough for a primary. I think he was a good, maybe great, president with an excellent staff. He resurrected normalcy quickly after the pandemic, and he worked wonders to change course after Trump I. Just the fact that the egomaniac writers are comfortable trashing his presidency now says a lot about how normal a president he was.
Biden was an effective president. He got things done for all of us, no matter where we live. I think he should have gotten out of the race in January (I recall he said he would consult family over the Christmas holidays). He could have announced this in January and step out like Mandela did after his first and only term in South Africa. Leaving the race in January would have allowed a large field to compete. More importantly, he would have strengthened his legacy. He did so much for the US internationally, domestically, and did so in a non-partisan way. Trump has gotten a pass from the press and the courts. Straight up corruption is not reported as such - even the way in which his sons (including Barron) have enriched themselves with different business deals. History will show that Biden had a powerful and positive impact on our lives - that is if MAGA does not keep winning and rewrite history
Hmmmmm . . . all this --coulda woulda, shoulda talk-- is utterly unproductive. We need to get busy with the the present moment. We need to be talking about what we need to do NOW. The past is the past and can be dissected later, but right now we need to get busy dealing with the troubles and problems we are facing. Leave the past to the historians!
We're doing it again! We're taking the bait. Biden beat the snot out of the Felon and all we had to do was continue to support him no matter what. That felon had court dates, convictions, rape charges and fraud working against him and his team never left him. He demonstrated obvious immaturity, incompetence, and a diminishing cognitive capacity. He was even falling asleep daily in court and his team of voters never left his side. Never asked this question like what was asked in this article. Biden did what he did and we should have supported him no matter what. This is why the Democrats lost. They always let the boneheads on the other side frame the argument and frame the questions that we ask of ourselves knowing full well that among the Democratic ranks are naysayers, dissenters, and objectors that are just itching to steer the conversation toward disrespecting Biden under the disingenuous guise of making an honest critique. This is NOT an honest critique-these comments read more like another inside hit job and I'm saying enough of this crap. I don't care if Biden changed his mind and decided to run for a second term. I stood by him no matter what. Even through the debate. Even through walking slowly to or out of the airplane. I stood and continue to stand by him because I knew and know even more so now that the alternative is far far worse. This team loves snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and just because victory is not absolutely assured panic sets in-& there's no greater evidence of that like when people start asking for a stupid primary as if KAMALA HARRIS wasn't the unquestionable next successor-so even the mere mention of a primary is defeatist by default. This is embarrassing & disgusting.
👍💯 My most used pushback to all the critiques of Biden & then Harris is "the lesser of 2 evils is much better than the alternative" - for those who didn't vote, voted 3rd party, or decided Drumpf would be "better for the economy" 🤔🤷
The reason why I don't agree with that is because it implies both sides-ing. It implies one bird two wings. I'd rather reserve all of the evil attributions to their side. Joe Biden is not evil But MAGA and Trumpism are.
When the time and space for news are limited, it's immoral to squander that time and space on looking back to the second half of Biden's presidency. The danger we're living under right now is acute with government services being slashed and the Trump/Musk presidency intent on destroying our civil rights. Tapper and Thompson have every right to publish their tell-all about Biden's presidency, but does every news organization have to jump on the bandwagon to help publicize it? It's like no one in the media learned anything since 2016.
When Biden accepted the nomination I cried tears of relief, thinking that sanity had been restored and he would be a caretaker president allowing a younger generation to take over after a one-term presidency. That should have happened. I think he was unable to do the performative side of governing and that should have been enough in this era to make him step aside. I was impressed with his substantive performance - my only concern was his ability to win.
But on the Trump side and sane washing, I also find that much more dangerous and jarring. I remember watching the 2016 Republican convention, astonished at the pure insanity and idiocy of it. I was reading along with the NYT live chat and they were taking it all seriously, acting as if this were a normal event and discussing the political futures of the Trump kids, who were all off the wall batshit crazy. WTF? The whole thing was a sick parody and the Times presented it as perfectly normal. That disconnect continues today.
We have a 5 alarm Constitutional fire with Trump & the press wants to focus on *Biden*?
Does nothing to change my mind that a lot of the problem with the press today is that they are lazy.
One of the things Tapper’s book reveals (unintentially), is that the press missed Biden's decline. Rather than fix that mistake & report on (the much more obvious, despite how little he appears before cameras) Trump’s decline, they take the lazy way out & focus on Biden.
One can’t even say that the press’s coverage is both sides, because they are only covering one side. & the less important (Biden isn’t in office & they can yeet that stupid Biden & 2028 coverage they’ve started into the sun given his cancer diagnosis) side at that.
⁉️ I live overseas & to my eye there was CONSTANT waffle about "Biden's decline" - which personally I found over-cooked. As I pointed out everytime, Biden was a" traditional" President & only made decisions & pushed for budgets & legislation & foreign policy etc that were workshopped & consulted on by many others - he never got up in the middle of the night & "lie- social" about ANYTHING, let alone new policy that no-one else in govt was consulted about. Perhaps he was even slower to speak than just his life-long stutter used to cause, but he wasn't 24/7 gaga & making policy on the fly 🤷
Joe Biden should have declined to run for a second term – and should have done so in the third year of his presidency. That would have unleashed the prospects of younger candidate and possibly doomed the malignant rise of Trump 2.0.
That said, I think Joe Biden was a highly effective president in the most challenging of times. He was honest and straightforward. He saved countless lives with his pandemic response and launched the largest (and needed) infrastructure plan in our history. Yes, he made mistakes, especially by not reining in Israel's horrific response in Gaza. On the whole, he will be remembered as an excellent president.
Thank you for the link to the Knight Foundation series. I have bookmarked it.
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.” - H.L. Mencken
Here we go again. While i understand the desire to determine Biden’s mental acuity, in doing so, we neglect the 300 pound narcissist that currently is in the WH. The media should be attending to all those gaffs with the same scrutiny as they did with Biden. Here when he talks about magnets not working when wet, we get a shrug. He is not capable of making a complete sentence, so who is running the country?
Ms. Sullivan—I appreciate the criticism of the press for resuscitating stories about Biden while continuing to ignore the psychoses and crimes of our demented tyrant, but I couldn’t help but chuckle at the phrase “center for journalistic ethics”. I think “ethics” are precisely the problem with prestige press like the NYT and WaPo, or, rather, a perverse ethic of empyrean objectivity that enjoins them never to call a spade a spade or a bribe a bribe. Of course, that ethic is dictated by the economics of ownership.
Biden was the most effective president I have experienced in my lifetime. He had real challenges covid, inflation, and a government ruined by deficits that transferred wealth from the middle class to the wealthy. He saved lives, built the best economy in the world, built infrastructure and began rebuilding unions and the middle class. I directly blame corporate media for the rise of a criminal to the presidency and their continued support of republican lying. I will never subscribe or watch them again.
This book is self indulged blather written in a time of unadulterated journalistic cowardice. I call bullshit on every aspect of this book from motivation, content to final intent.
How to finish the following sentence that labels both authors (who’s names remain unspoken in this post since they are easily forgotten and unimportant):
Biden is a good man and did a good job, for which some day he will get proper credit. But he is not a charismatic speaker, which is a detriment in a national leader. So his opinion ratings were low enough in 2024 to really raise the question of why in god's name our Democratic leaders were backing his re-election??
Second, what role did Jill Biden play? Go along with what he wished, or actively encourage him? Did anyone try to persuade her to discourage him?
Third, it's a shame that those around Biden had little faith in Pelosi or Obama--an apt example of a lack of perception that should rule out any more involvement in Democratic Party leadership.
Fourth, the party should regroup publicly and forcefully. And listen to it's proven winners.
I believe it was in May 2023. That’s when Biden’s Commerce Secretary announced regulation and possible break up of the big techs. That’s when Andreesen Horowitz flipped to MAGA. Meta and Google know their algorithms work. They can sell anything.
There’s a post this weekend about COGNITIVE CAPTURE. With Enough repetition and gambling like dopamine rewards, reality schisms appear. Once captured, they can sell you whatever they want.
History will show that Biden was one of the most effective presidents in the past 150 years, second only to FDR. He should have stuck to his promise to be a one term president however, and maybe we wouldn't be in our current disaster of a presidency. However the current book tour by the two ghouls picking the bones of the Biden presidency is disgusting. Their publisher should cancel the book and the tour and they should go back under a rock where they belong.
Agree 100% with what you’ve written — Biden’s presidency was like a “decency balm” when the country needed it most. Following the combined trump and Covid disasters, Biden steadied the country and led it with grace. He should have never run again, recognizing it was time for new, younger leadership, and Democrats should have had a wide open primary. Regardless, history will look back on the Biden presidency with respect and admiration. As for tapper et al, history’s judgement of them will be excoriating.
Just one quibble: history is unlikely to recall Tapper's book.
I agree with you 100 percent. I
will not watch or listen to anything Tapper has to say nor will I buy the book.
I still think Joe was an excellent and effective president, all the way through January 20, 2025. I used to like Jake Tapper, but no more, and I sure won’t be reading his book. What I saw in that admittedly awful debate in 2024, which so many cite as a dottering old senile man embarrassing himself, was instead a man battling a beastly upper respiratory infection who couldn’t get out from under his long-standing stutter. During his presidency, Biden gathered an outstanding and talented cabinet around him with smart and effective agency directors who clearly were empowered to do their jobs. He was an executive, not a do-it-all dictator like that moron in office now. I have always admired him, from the time he was the youngest person in the Senate, and I remember worrying about him when he had surgery for that cerebral aneurysm. After 50+ years of public service, he deserves much better than what he’s received from the loudmouths of this country. My hope is that the quiet majority appreciate and care for him. And I miss having him in the Oval Office every damned day. Margaret, thank you for your post. As soon as I finish my comment, I’m heading over to read your linked article.
Exactly.
Biden was the greatest president of my lifetime. Trump is the senile one. I wrote a poem inspired by Scranton Joe's brave defense of democracy: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/joe-biden-democracy-defender-poem
Too bad you weren't around for Jimmy Carter-the best of mine, Biden's record pales. He's been on the wrong side of history too many times, Vietnam, Police expansion, and I remember his role in hearings for the Thomas confirmation. Yes, he was a much needed antidote as a correction to DJT's first term, and still bears much responsibility for what we are confronted with today.
Yes! If I remember correctly, in his book It's Ok to be Angry about Capitalism, Bernie Sanders called out Tapper for asking a question that was essentially a Republican talking point. The book seems like much of the same.
Totally agree
Thank you for your final few sentences. Graciously direct. Biden did an Excellent Job with his first term
Biden has brains, a heart, and courage.
He's also old and has a stutter.
He surrounds himself with sane, sober experts and patriots whose goal is to help all Americans.
Trump clearly has debilitating dementia, is a hardcore narcissist and cons people into thinking that destruction is salvation. His only goals are to stay out of prison and to plunder the United States treasury.
He is old and angry and cannot speak his native language coherently.
He surrounds himself with venal, Dunning-Kruger clowns who know only how to swagger and threaten.
Only one of these men will go down as the worst president in history.
Only one of these men is a criminal who is intent on destroying democracy in our once-great country.
Let us not be distracted by those who pretend otherwise.
Well stated. Couldn’t agree more.
👍💯 Although I agree with your 1st line "Biden has brains, a heart, and courage", his superpower was your 2nd point - I was always impressed by the people he CHOSE to surround himself with who comported with your 1st point 👏. Conversely, apart from is own appalling lack of any of Biden's strengths, Drumpf has even LESS "patriots" of any kind in his 2nd admin than even the 1st 🤬
How they delegate matters greatly. Biden delegated for good; Trump delegates for evil.
When Biden struggled, the people around him made sure the delegation machine he established kept ticking away, for the benefit of the people, as it was programmed to do, via the moral framework he was raised into, re servant leadership and how you treat "the least of mine."
When Trump dodders, the delegation machine he established keeps ticking away, allowing fascists to autopen his signature onto edicts dismantling the Constitution, via the morally corrosive framework of demonizing "compassion," "empathy," and "democracy," and glorifying their own indulgence in every vice, while Trump says "I don't know about that -- I didn't sign it -- other people deal with that," and then golfs on the backs of taxpayers and "the least of mine."
Biden delegated in order to empower the people; Trump delegates in order to prey upon the people. Even when their old age incapacitates them, their machines of good or evil keep on ticking.
I don’t want to read anything about Biden when the current occupant of the WH publicly said a few weeks ago, “Elon fixed the computers and we won in PA.” Are any reporters working on that story?
I don’t want to read anything about Biden when FEMA and NOAA have been gutted and we’re heading into hurricane season. 2 nights ago a tornado ripped through KY and people died in their beds because no alarms were sounded. Are reporters digging into that?
I don’t want to read anything about Biden, or his son Hunter, when no one has any idea how much money, or which deals, Jared Kushner and 47’s offspring have made and continue to make off daddy-o’s corruption. Which reporters have been assigned to cover this?
The obsession with 2nd guessing the previous administration’s “errors” runs perilously close to “but her emails.” We need to focus our attention on what actually matters, not the media’s manufactured outrage.
Thank you!
Agree
+1M
Well said, by God! WELL said.
Appreciate this.
I now believe that Biden should have announced he would not be running early enough for a primary. I think he was a good, maybe great, president with an excellent staff. He resurrected normalcy quickly after the pandemic, and he worked wonders to change course after Trump I. Just the fact that the egomaniac writers are comfortable trashing his presidency now says a lot about how normal a president he was.
Biden was an effective president. He got things done for all of us, no matter where we live. I think he should have gotten out of the race in January (I recall he said he would consult family over the Christmas holidays). He could have announced this in January and step out like Mandela did after his first and only term in South Africa. Leaving the race in January would have allowed a large field to compete. More importantly, he would have strengthened his legacy. He did so much for the US internationally, domestically, and did so in a non-partisan way. Trump has gotten a pass from the press and the courts. Straight up corruption is not reported as such - even the way in which his sons (including Barron) have enriched themselves with different business deals. History will show that Biden had a powerful and positive impact on our lives - that is if MAGA does not keep winning and rewrite history
Hmmmmm . . . all this --coulda woulda, shoulda talk-- is utterly unproductive. We need to get busy with the the present moment. We need to be talking about what we need to do NOW. The past is the past and can be dissected later, but right now we need to get busy dealing with the troubles and problems we are facing. Leave the past to the historians!
We're doing it again! We're taking the bait. Biden beat the snot out of the Felon and all we had to do was continue to support him no matter what. That felon had court dates, convictions, rape charges and fraud working against him and his team never left him. He demonstrated obvious immaturity, incompetence, and a diminishing cognitive capacity. He was even falling asleep daily in court and his team of voters never left his side. Never asked this question like what was asked in this article. Biden did what he did and we should have supported him no matter what. This is why the Democrats lost. They always let the boneheads on the other side frame the argument and frame the questions that we ask of ourselves knowing full well that among the Democratic ranks are naysayers, dissenters, and objectors that are just itching to steer the conversation toward disrespecting Biden under the disingenuous guise of making an honest critique. This is NOT an honest critique-these comments read more like another inside hit job and I'm saying enough of this crap. I don't care if Biden changed his mind and decided to run for a second term. I stood by him no matter what. Even through the debate. Even through walking slowly to or out of the airplane. I stood and continue to stand by him because I knew and know even more so now that the alternative is far far worse. This team loves snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and just because victory is not absolutely assured panic sets in-& there's no greater evidence of that like when people start asking for a stupid primary as if KAMALA HARRIS wasn't the unquestionable next successor-so even the mere mention of a primary is defeatist by default. This is embarrassing & disgusting.
👍💯 My most used pushback to all the critiques of Biden & then Harris is "the lesser of 2 evils is much better than the alternative" - for those who didn't vote, voted 3rd party, or decided Drumpf would be "better for the economy" 🤔🤷
The reason why I don't agree with that is because it implies both sides-ing. It implies one bird two wings. I'd rather reserve all of the evil attributions to their side. Joe Biden is not evil But MAGA and Trumpism are.
He showed that he is a psychopath
When the time and space for news are limited, it's immoral to squander that time and space on looking back to the second half of Biden's presidency. The danger we're living under right now is acute with government services being slashed and the Trump/Musk presidency intent on destroying our civil rights. Tapper and Thompson have every right to publish their tell-all about Biden's presidency, but does every news organization have to jump on the bandwagon to help publicize it? It's like no one in the media learned anything since 2016.
When Biden accepted the nomination I cried tears of relief, thinking that sanity had been restored and he would be a caretaker president allowing a younger generation to take over after a one-term presidency. That should have happened. I think he was unable to do the performative side of governing and that should have been enough in this era to make him step aside. I was impressed with his substantive performance - my only concern was his ability to win.
But on the Trump side and sane washing, I also find that much more dangerous and jarring. I remember watching the 2016 Republican convention, astonished at the pure insanity and idiocy of it. I was reading along with the NYT live chat and they were taking it all seriously, acting as if this were a normal event and discussing the political futures of the Trump kids, who were all off the wall batshit crazy. WTF? The whole thing was a sick parody and the Times presented it as perfectly normal. That disconnect continues today.
We have a 5 alarm Constitutional fire with Trump & the press wants to focus on *Biden*?
Does nothing to change my mind that a lot of the problem with the press today is that they are lazy.
One of the things Tapper’s book reveals (unintentially), is that the press missed Biden's decline. Rather than fix that mistake & report on (the much more obvious, despite how little he appears before cameras) Trump’s decline, they take the lazy way out & focus on Biden.
One can’t even say that the press’s coverage is both sides, because they are only covering one side. & the less important (Biden isn’t in office & they can yeet that stupid Biden & 2028 coverage they’ve started into the sun given his cancer diagnosis) side at that.
⁉️ I live overseas & to my eye there was CONSTANT waffle about "Biden's decline" - which personally I found over-cooked. As I pointed out everytime, Biden was a" traditional" President & only made decisions & pushed for budgets & legislation & foreign policy etc that were workshopped & consulted on by many others - he never got up in the middle of the night & "lie- social" about ANYTHING, let alone new policy that no-one else in govt was consulted about. Perhaps he was even slower to speak than just his life-long stutter used to cause, but he wasn't 24/7 gaga & making policy on the fly 🤷
Joe Biden should have declined to run for a second term – and should have done so in the third year of his presidency. That would have unleashed the prospects of younger candidate and possibly doomed the malignant rise of Trump 2.0.
That said, I think Joe Biden was a highly effective president in the most challenging of times. He was honest and straightforward. He saved countless lives with his pandemic response and launched the largest (and needed) infrastructure plan in our history. Yes, he made mistakes, especially by not reining in Israel's horrific response in Gaza. On the whole, he will be remembered as an excellent president.
Thank you for the link to the Knight Foundation series. I have bookmarked it.
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.” - H.L. Mencken
Yes!
Thank you for bringing in H.L.!
Here we go again. While i understand the desire to determine Biden’s mental acuity, in doing so, we neglect the 300 pound narcissist that currently is in the WH. The media should be attending to all those gaffs with the same scrutiny as they did with Biden. Here when he talks about magnets not working when wet, we get a shrug. He is not capable of making a complete sentence, so who is running the country?
Ms. Sullivan—I appreciate the criticism of the press for resuscitating stories about Biden while continuing to ignore the psychoses and crimes of our demented tyrant, but I couldn’t help but chuckle at the phrase “center for journalistic ethics”. I think “ethics” are precisely the problem with prestige press like the NYT and WaPo, or, rather, a perverse ethic of empyrean objectivity that enjoins them never to call a spade a spade or a bribe a bribe. Of course, that ethic is dictated by the economics of ownership.
Biden was the most effective president I have experienced in my lifetime. He had real challenges covid, inflation, and a government ruined by deficits that transferred wealth from the middle class to the wealthy. He saved lives, built the best economy in the world, built infrastructure and began rebuilding unions and the middle class. I directly blame corporate media for the rise of a criminal to the presidency and their continued support of republican lying. I will never subscribe or watch them again.
This book is self indulged blather written in a time of unadulterated journalistic cowardice. I call bullshit on every aspect of this book from motivation, content to final intent.
How to finish the following sentence that labels both authors (who’s names remain unspoken in this post since they are easily forgotten and unimportant):
Let the eat…………………….
Biden is a good man and did a good job, for which some day he will get proper credit. But he is not a charismatic speaker, which is a detriment in a national leader. So his opinion ratings were low enough in 2024 to really raise the question of why in god's name our Democratic leaders were backing his re-election??
Second, what role did Jill Biden play? Go along with what he wished, or actively encourage him? Did anyone try to persuade her to discourage him?
Third, it's a shame that those around Biden had little faith in Pelosi or Obama--an apt example of a lack of perception that should rule out any more involvement in Democratic Party leadership.
Fourth, the party should regroup publicly and forcefully. And listen to it's proven winners.
I believe it was in May 2023. That’s when Biden’s Commerce Secretary announced regulation and possible break up of the big techs. That’s when Andreesen Horowitz flipped to MAGA. Meta and Google know their algorithms work. They can sell anything.
There’s a post this weekend about COGNITIVE CAPTURE. With Enough repetition and gambling like dopamine rewards, reality schisms appear. Once captured, they can sell you whatever they want.
I wrote ITS, not "it's"!!!