Jay Weber Show transcript 10-16-23
You probably saw that Joe Biden fell-up- the steps again, at an event in Philadelphia.
First-there was the -now-barely-noticeable- quick step that he does...when he’s trying to show how spry and vigorous, he is.
He started doing this-post covid-once we won office and there was early suggestion that he’s too old for this job.
He started to do a little ‘half jog’ at times. And he’d only do it a few steps- as if to prove how spry he still is.
Well-that was three years ago-and three years later and at the age of 81- Biden cannot even pull that off, anymore. But as he walked to the stage...which was up about six steps total...
In his approach to the stage-he did an almost imperceptible jog. He tried to do that ‘spry jog’ thing that barely registered as a ‘special movement’...to prove how vigorous he still is.
It did the opposite-
And then- two steps up a six or seven step flight of stairs, he stumbled again, and almost fell on all-fours. Luckily, he had one hand on a railing, but in trying to recover, he stumbled again.
It was the ‘double stumble’ of the sort that you’ve seen repeatedly...when he was still trying to get up the long staircase to get onto Air Force One.
It wasn’t quite as bad as those were, but it was another ‘double stumble’ at a time in which his staff is said to be doing everything it can to make sure that he doesn’t fall in public, again.
The best part of the video, though, might be the small group of union workers who even bothered to show up to see him...
They clapped-at the stumble. They saw Biden take that first digger and decided to applaud: I guess? To show support for him?
It didn’t seem mean spirited. It seemed like supportive applause-as if they were egging him on-to get up the steps: you can do it Joe...or …we don’t care if you can’t stay on your feet-we still support you...
But...the net effect is that our expectations for this man- who is the president of the United States- has now fallen so low that we just hope he can make it up half a flight of stairs.
Good grief.
This is the sort of applause you get for a Special Olympian who barely finished the race-
Sort of- pity applause-
But this guy is the president of the United States.
And then he went on to hack thru the speech, of course. Got lost in it a few times. As he did the next night-
On Saturday night, after a speech to some group, Jill Biden had to come on stage and rescue him. Tell him-it’s time to go now-and -we go off this way....
This is getting bad, folks.
I was at a family reunion of about 50 people on Saturday-and several of them asked me: Biden’s not really going to run again, is he? Isn’t this just all pretend?
I wonder what percentage of the American people actually think Biden is going to be the nominee by next summer-and how many think this is just a political hoax; that the decision has already been made-this man cannot run- but they won’t tell the country because-
A) Biden becomes even more of a lame duck or-
B) they want to do their best to clear the way for a Kammy run.
To me? It still looks as if they fully intend to run Joe Biden. I haven’t seen any genuine signal that he and Jill have already decided he’s ‘done’, and just haven’t told us, yet. It looks like it’ll be up to other forces within the party to get these two out of the white house, now that they’ve achieved their 40 year dream.
It turns out that October 27th -just ten days from now- we hit the first real deadline when it comes to the democrat primaries.
October 27th is the filing deadline for the New Hampshire primary. And this is sort of up in the air, because Biden’s team and the DNC are trying to take away New Hampshire’s ‘first primary’ status and give it to South Carolina, instead-
But the states set their own rules and deadlines-and so-
It looks as if we are about ten days away from the deadline that says: if you want to be on the New Hampshire democrat primary ballot-you’ve got to get your stuff in.
Aside from the claim that this is the most talented democrat bench of governors ever, I agree with the sentiments of this columnist. I’ve been saying for some time now- maybe- Donald trump can beat Joe Biden-
And it looks more like he could over the last few weeks-
But any fresh face: anyone like Newman or Pritzker, or maybe even shiny face- is going to look like a ‘breath of fresh air’ and a break from the ‘terrible status quo’ of the last 8 years- where the option has either been Trump or Biden. Trump or Biden. Two very unpopular and increasingly erratic old men.
My worry now is that the democrats wise up between now and next fall and realize that ‘anyone but Biden or Kammy’ on their side probably beats trump... And they make a switch.
Which raises the question: where’s Kammy?
Folks-for over a week- the possibility of a wider middle eastern war-or maybe even a world war- looms- after Hamas’ butchery in Israel...
And Kamala Harris has been nowhere to be found.
And I know that-you-didn’t even notice.
None of us on the right really did, nor cared, where Kamala Harris was last week.
But I tell yah-by the end of the week-this was a question that was being asked more regularly on the left-
On her own side of the aisle?
Where? Is Kamala Harris?
Hamas invaded Israel and slaughtered over a thousand innocent civilians, including beheading babies and executing or kidnapping the elderly...and it took nearly three days for Joe Biden to respond forcefully-
And really? Kamala Harris hasn’t been seen in public since. At least not as the face of the regime.
Why?
Could it be that she’s an absolute embarrassment any time foreign affairs are part of the equation?
Remember her contribution to the Ukrainian war effort. Her genius was reflected in this direct quote:
That was Kamala Harris’ take on the Ukraine war-and it was so insipid that people didn’t know if she was insulting our intelligence by talking to us like a 4-year-old? Or whether that was her level of understanding of the conflict.
Having watched her walk-completely unprepared-into situation after situation- i am certain that that elementary school explanation of the Ukraine war reflected her level of knowledge on the matter. As in-that’s all she knew about Ukraine.
The woman’s just another idiot who managed to get a law degree and fooled a lot of people-and slept with one or two of them- to get where she is today.
And so, of course they are going to hide her away, at this time of global tension.
But- given that-for some reason-Kamala Harris has at least a small group of supporters in dc and on the east coast- mostly because of her skin color (let’s be honest)-
Because she does have some small gaggle of supporters-they were angry last week when- yet again, Kamala Harris was MIA.
Last Sunday- three days after the Hamas butchery-the NY Times magazine ran a piece: in search of Kamala Harris.
Apparently, the times editors were wondering where the incomparable Kamala Harris was at a time in which we needed to show leadership.
The white house wasn’t trotting out ole Joe.
Noticeably, they also weren’t trotting out Kamala Harris.
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