This is how irretrievably lost @politico.com and its hiveminders like Holly Otterbein and Adam Wren are This isn't a groundswell they're addressing. It's a PR campaign to sell a book by scumbags @jaketapper.bsky.social and Alex Thompson - ThreadSky

olbermann.bsky.social • 4 days ago

This is how irretrievably lost @politico.com and its hiveminders like Holly Otterbein and Adam Wren are

This isn't a groundswell they're addressing. It's a PR campaign to sell a book by scumbags @jaketapper.bsky.social
and Alex Thompson

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sadworld.bsky.social•3 days ago

2028? @politico.com

I question your mental acuity with that nonsense. No wonder people largely do not trust Republican owned " news"

fourgoya.bsky.social•4 days ago

The weird part is that we literally threw Biden overboard before the last election. 🤷. Am I missing something?

tenej-jen.bsky.social•4 days ago

That “we” is carrying a heavy load. There were many of us who supported him until the bitter end — yes, I’m bitter. He was knifed in the back and sandbagged by racist and misogynist aspiring kingmakers. Yes, he stammers. Yes, he is old. He is also the only one who beat Trump.

fourgoya.bsky.social•4 days ago

Fair enough. I would just disagree with the “kingmakers” part and say that many serious people had many serious discussions about the matter and ultimately a move was made, the rest just seems like Monday morning quarterbacking.

tenej-jen.bsky.social•4 days ago

I say that as someone who actively supported Kamala in 2019 and looked forward to voting for her in 2028. She damn near pulled off a 90-day miracle against a never-ending campaign of 8 years. The ultimate result of those moves speaks for itself.

asm1thee.bsky.social•2 days ago

IMO, Biden coulda won IF he'd postponed the debate till after he'd gotten over his cold/jet lag. But the debate allowed the media to poison the well against him. By that point he woulda done worse than Kamala.

She DID nearly pull off a MIRACLE! She's MORE than earned the chance to run again!

tenej-jen.bsky.social•2 days ago

Key legacy media started going after him hard in April. By the end of May, I was cancelling subscriptions. They got what their owners wanted, and I will not forget that.

It’s her choice whether to run again — and I would choose her again in a heartbeat, without hesitation. 💛

gardenia-38.bsky.social•4 days ago

And the time that he stood firmly in not kowtowing to corporations, that he doesn’t work for corporations but he does work for the people of the United States?

gardenia-38.bsky.social•4 days ago

Like when President Biden told Clooney that there would not be “ special circumstances aka treatment “ to prevent the sanctions against Russia being unilaterally implemented? Because imo the sacrifices of the people and their families to defend against Russian aggression war criminals have precedent

historynerd62.bsky.social•4 days ago

Litmus test? How about a breath test for all the Politico staff? I bet it smells like Trump's Depends.

corgilover129.bsky.social•4 days ago

More important to pimp a book, that no one gonna buy or read. Were the readers on the left, we moved on. Beg the right to read this crap.
Biden told Ukraine that Russia was coming, when and released top secret info to protect them. Old brain , made a smart decision. Who is running Trump?

mbski15.bsky.social•4 days ago

🎯!!!

mistermeyer.bsky.social•4 days ago

What editor worth their salt would ok an article that argues that where a politician stood on Joe Biden's wherewithal in 2024 will be a deciding factor in the presidential nomination in 2028? It's beyond ludicrous.

democracyin2025.bsky.social•4 days ago

"This is the candidate best positioned to stop Hitler in the mid-30's."

"Okay, but what's their position on some irrelevant person who was last President four years ago and is no longer active in politics?"

Are you fucking kidding me?!?!?!

lizthelawless.bsky.social•4 days ago

The idiocy confused the heck out of me!

c-s-smith.bsky.social•4 days ago

Well that's what you and I and any intelligent person reading that type of Post online no matter where it was, would think. How are you going to tie 28 candidates to some assertion by a dude trying to sell a book talking about a claimed cover up by democrats of Biden's "decline"?

evryv0t3.bsky.social•4 days ago

Click bait. That is all it is.

tarheels4eva.bsky.social•3 days ago

All the corruption n bs happening now n they focusing on Biden...shameful

renbear67.bsky.social•4 days ago

What. The. Hell? The sheer stupidity and IRRELEVANCE of the whole thing, it boggles my mind

dullcomp.bsky.social•4 days ago

The irrelevance of it is insane. It’s like they’re trying to hang on albatross on the Dem’s neck to help Trump.

zerocrossing.bsky.social•2 days ago

Or, it's a helpful reminder that we f'd up in a gigantic way. I know it doesn't feel good to revisit that debacle, but Biden screwed us in multiple ways:

Ignored the boarder when he knew Trump would use it.

Ignored US Law and funded war crimes.

Ignored his failing health and mental acuity.

joelcorn.bsky.social•4 days ago

Politico has been a shit rag for years...

rlmiskimens.bsky.social•4 days ago

My God! Do they not see the current nightmare in the White House??? JFC! I’ve not seen one ounce of reporting on Trump’s obvious mental decline! This is malpractice on the part of so-called journalists!

eldenring88.bsky.social•4 days ago

I voted for Kamala. I would have voted for Biden. Hell, I would have voted for a goddamned water bear if it meant keeping orange shit bag out! Politico can kick rocks bare foot!

heartlesscreatures.bsky.social•3 days ago

My argument all along was a vote for Trump was a vote for Miller and Kash.

darrell40.bsky.social•4 days ago

Instead of talking about Trump unhinged is right now. Both @politico.com and @jaketapper.bsky.social still believe Biden is still president.

romeo-n-taffy.bsky.social•4 days ago

😡 However sick Biden was in his last days in office.....he never tried to perpetrate evil, or wish harm to Americans or succor to our enemies. He wasn't a TRAITOR, he was an old man.

romeo-n-taffy.bsky.social•4 days ago

😡 SHAME on them!! They should be fighting for our country, not self-aggrandizing.

jonathanmlewis.bsky.social•4 days ago

The first real litmus test of 2028? Will we get to vote in 2028?

belgianmom4.bsky.social•4 days ago

Or 2026?

jnavas.com•3 days ago

When you can't rebut the message, attack the messenger. 🙄

panman72.bsky.social•4 days ago

I will take Biden back anytime over what's there now , mentally Biden was and is far ahead of trump

bsorohan.bsky.social•4 days ago

I would have thought that the most savvy guys in the room at Politico would have understood that Joe Biden will not be running for President in 2028. Maybe they missed too many civics classes in high school.

This kind of hot-take drivel is why nobody respects political journalism any more.

auntiem1.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yup. Pure horse puckey.

twilightstarflower.bsky.social•3 days ago

He happily stepped aside when his "mental acuity" was called into question.

Everyone should stop focusing on him. He's not in office. He's not running for 2028.

The kids are covered in chocolate and crumbs, holding an empty cookie jar. Why are we entertaining where they're pointing?

Focus.

revmagdalen.bsky.social•4 days ago

They're not scumbags, just good reporters. If we start twisting the truth to make Dems look better, then we'd be just as bad as MAGA. Biden fans never show any gratitude at all for the fact that this MAJOR story, a WH cover-up of a serious issue, wasn't exposed during the campaign.

fatman64.bsky.social•4 days ago

Great. Let’s rehash something we already knew, that has no direct impact today (other than the results). We should be focused on the limited mental acuity of Trump, and his daily destruction - now - of our democracy!

thetallsister.bsky.social•4 days ago

86 Jake tapper

democracyin2025.bsky.social•4 days ago

It is fucking insane.

Jake Tapper -- imagine your ancestors from 80 or 90 years ago looking at you. You have a huge audience. Would those ancestors be proud of you in this moment? What you're doing now is what you would've done then.

gjzielinski.bsky.social•4 days ago

There is zero discussion of Joe Biden on the ground. Like NONE. My hypothesis is that there are more @Politico writers who have been to Coachella then know someone who relies on Medicaid or food stamps.

someguyinaden.bsky.social•4 days ago

The real shame is that they add real fighting voices like Pritzker into a picture about Biden, ignoring the real issue, which is a run amok fascist state.

None of the fighters among the Dems are focused on Biden right now. And rightly so. They're busy fighting Nazis.

jgrunder.bsky.social•3 days ago

Funny how Reagan was a complete vegetable in the last years of his presidency... but the Republicans hid this fact from the public for political purposes... 🤨

eviloverlordactual.bsky.social•4 days ago

Is Biden running in 2028? Nothing but noise.

mrchrishain.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s worse than nothing. It’s the first in what will be a growing effort by journalists who didn’t do enough to stand up to Trump during the 2024 campaign to whitewash their negligent complicity in his election by hurling blame at Biden and other Democrats.

tenej-jen.bsky.social•4 days ago

They’ve been trash for a long, long time.

number1hurtsfan.bsky.social•4 days ago

They literally made him step down. This is so crazy.

gaileygirl.bsky.social•3 days ago

How do these nobodies convince themselves that theirs is THE book?

meerkatmama.bsky.social•4 days ago

Biden ain't running in '28. What does his mental acuity have to do with anything?!?

smknjohnny17.bsky.social•4 days ago

i would rather have a real caring competent man of character; like President Biden; then a low life traitor loser grifter hitler SCUMBAG; like trump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cxmcha.bsky.social•4 days ago

This man headed up the best economy this country ever saw there was nothing wrong with him then there is nothing wrong with him now shut the fuck up

c-s-smith.bsky.social•4 days ago

That's what I've been saying to people. I literally think Biden would have beat Trump this last time had he immediately jumped down people's shit for suggesting he's not ready just because he had one bad debate! You should have told everybody fuck you I'm running because we can't have trump!

cxmcha.bsky.social•4 days ago

I agree 💯 bc I’m old enough myself to know the difference. Complaint about his age by progressive who need their nose wipe. The peolosi of the dnc need to coddle because they are afraid of young Dems leaving. Well they caused us to loose. Go ahead attack me I dare you

zizouille.bsky.social•4 days ago

Agreed. Biden did some great things in his presidency and destroying all that, especially now is BS.

burnnotice.bsky.social•4 days ago

Am I to believe this is relevant? Have we run out of more pressing topics?
Chicken shit journalism

bjkeefe.bsky.social•4 days ago

If you're going to post something for the purpose of criticizing it, you should post a link to it, and not just a screenshot of the headline. Especially if you're going to cherry-pick from the article, too.

bjkeefe.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/biden-mental-acuity-2028-democrats-debate-00352436

thefartingdoctor.bsky.social•4 days ago

What the vast majority of Americans, including Jake Tapper fail to realize is the difference between normal aging and dementia. Biden exhibited signs of aging whereas Trump exhibited signs of dementia. People don’t know the difference but psychologists do!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPo1Z54syJE&list=PLR585i0a0Ql30mDoIyCrDDg65PEcMJMj1&index=46&t=10s

themysticwolf.bsky.social•4 days ago

It certainly seems that we can place POlitico in the bin with WAPO, NYT and ALL the rest of MSM. Chasing $$$ while sewing BS.

cassiesmom.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump’s mental acuity is the issue at hand. Biden is old news.

friendo-101.bsky.social•4 days ago

Inadvertent hatchet job.

newyorkroz.bsky.social•4 days ago

I looked at the date. Jesus take the wheel.

shafawn.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/shafawn.bsky.social/post/3lpbzdm6swk2p

shafawn.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/shafawn.bsky.social/post/3lpbzumcbwc2p

musk-family-ftms.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is the both parties are the same shit being sold by the corporate owned media as well as creating a far higher standard for Democrats to live up to as opposed to MAGA elected fascists. This is how we got felon Trump!!!!

isenkeep1.bsky.social•3 days ago

ICE Fascists kidnapping and trafficking people under the orders of the Orange Orifice.

Fuck these people. They're grifters the same as the Cheeto Fuhrer-creating fake outrage to make a buck.

oldandsharp.bsky.social•4 days ago

WHY? Why are we concerned about his, so called, mental acuity. Bring up the past, let's SERIOUSLY look at REAGANS SENILITY when his wife was running the country. Fair is fair!! She "talked" for him more than once. Fed him his answers more than once. Where was your concern then????

archroadkill.bsky.social•4 days ago

The political media really, reaaaally misses Biden. When Dems are in power they can do what they do best: trying to find some bad news and tag them with it. It gets clicks, they think they are "holding them accountable" and the Dems then even try to suck up to them to improve coverage.

gardenia-38.bsky.social•3 days ago

Found this on my memory feed on another platform today.

https://youtu.be/z9ID9v4JRB8?feature=shared

gardenia-38.bsky.social•3 days ago

https://omny.fm/shows/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/cnn-inadvertently-admits-it-packed-trump-audience

gardenia-38.bsky.social•4 days ago

False defense for conspiring to have a planted audience chosen by the then candidate, DJT for a “ Town Hall “, the something was up in the debate where DJT lies and is desultory in action and President Biden is apparently what seemed to be a Russian boobytrap.
Allegedly.

gardenia-38.bsky.social•4 days ago

saw this on another post. I read it and one of the “ foundation’s” use of leverage in communications was/is funding “ books “ and escalating sales numbers to assert public support. Idk if this allegedly happened or if it’s relevant .

https://demodirge.substack.com/p/i-did-not-...

lifeinthatwp.bsky.social•4 days ago

lol @politico.com . GOP/RU agitprop

kixy1.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s not the book. They want to make sure MAGA stays in power. Question everything. Follow the money.

orbcynthus1.bsky.social•4 days ago

No, we aren't. Our litmus is saving the country. Please guck off about Biden.

karmaisawoman.bsky.social•4 days ago

Or are they worried Kamala or Pete are running in 2028 so they can link Biden’s mental status in his term and trying to say these 2 hid it from everyone and they can’t be trusted. It’s the kind of crap MAGA feeds on!

n3rdopolis.bsky.social•4 days ago

Looking at that title, and all I can think of is how can @nytpitchbot.bsky.social top that?

claudiamw.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's almost as if they're taking orders from someone who works for a guy whose own mental state is in pretty bad shape: "Get people talking about Biden's condition so they won't focus on Trump's." 🤔

Case in point: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lp7yfaoxcj2w 🤨

wildforager.bsky.social•4 days ago

OMG, it has not one bit of relevance today. They missed their moment by about a year.

clj5.bsky.social•4 days ago

#Tapper’s book is out of step & a distraction from the current
#ConstitutionalCrisis
that must occupy our full attention.

c-s-smith.bsky.social•4 days ago

How w. any '28 candidate of the D's be questioned or pressured or any innuendo used against them, that they were part of the big Biden dementia cover up? It's so far-fetched it's fucking laughable! Who writes shit like that? Any candidate would just laugh, tell them to go fuck off!
Next question!

auntiemamelives.bsky.social•4 days ago

And this is not the litmus test voters care about. We're watching to see who is fighting, who relies on old ways, and who is full of shit. I want to hear a plan, not political speak. I want a list of priorities, minimum. And I want to see them speak up and challenge these idiots.

woodlock0.bsky.social•4 days ago

say something stupid and their pray will charge after them, make them a target, worthy of right-wing sympathizer, as they claim; "I am being treated unfairly"

continentaldivide.bsky.social•4 days ago

Damn and I'd hoped to focus on William Howard Taft's obesity.

furylisbon.bsky.social•4 days ago

This at the time got no press....no Republican now is reminded of this history...Dems should bring this up every time they want to make Bidens mental decline a scandal...

roguenana.bsky.social•4 days ago

Let THEM focus on this. We need to keep looking and moving forward. This BS is a distraction that isn't worth a second of our time.

sirpres.bsky.social•4 days ago

When we get on the other side of this and have our "Nuremberg Trials", it should include the news media.

fictionalsounds.bsky.social•4 days ago

#nuremberg each and every one who has put themselves and the trump agenda before the country. trump. vance. noem. graham. bondi. rubio. cruz.

#nuremberg them.

sirpres.bsky.social•4 days ago

The entire Republican party, some Democrats, and, like I said, the news media need to be held accountable, too. They bucked to power way too early.

mrchrishain.bsky.social•4 days ago

@politico.com has been morally rotten from the beginning… However, many legacy media scammers will happily pick up Tapper’s crusade because like him they are desperate to draw attention away from their irresponsible complicity in the election of Trump by blaming Biden and his circle.

c-s-smith.bsky.social•4 days ago

He doesn't want to get Jim "Acosta'ed" by the CNN executives who started hacking people out two plus years ago. He's just doing what he's told keeping his job reading the script, the script of questions for these guests like this idiot border czar CNN keeps asking for on air.

mrchrishain.bsky.social•4 days ago

No. He wrote an entire book.

c-s-smith.bsky.social•4 days ago

Books make money. Even if they ARE crap opinions and innuendo. It's '25 man, just wait a year or two. The minutiae & mud is going to fly far worse than it is even now. Meanwhile Bondi sells $1m of trump Co. stock JUST before #trumpliberationday announced!
Yet here we're talking about #Biden!? Wtf?!

ptempleton.bsky.social•3 days ago

Absolutely!!

hsticka.bsky.social•4 days ago

Idgaf about Biden now. He's old. He was too old when he took the nom, and DNC let him have it because it was his turn or something. This is why we need Hogg to call out how they won't remove our own Old Guard due to treating it like a tenured career and not a service to the people they get to do.

satellitekisses.bsky.social•4 days ago

The only decisive factor about “Biden’s Mental” anything are the snakes within the party +leadership who made that bs up + refused to support Harris cuz they’re misogynists+ bad faith negotiators betting against themselves to do work for techboys + m/billionaires so they can too be “rich” +own women

otownkim.bsky.social•3 days ago

Fuck them all!!!!!

lorettashumate.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Democratic Party needs a LOT of reforms. Undermining real reform with their suggested self-immolation is so stupid and unfortunately not uncommon.

human4progress.bsky.social•4 days ago

anything to take the focus off the orange furor's many inane deeds and statements...are they bored or corrupt?

cacarroll.bsky.social•3 days ago

Blocked them. No regrets.

olbermann.bsky.social•4 days ago

Lead quote is from a 1-term Dem ex-congressman I had literally never heard of until this crap.

I'll never support Trump over anybody but I also won't waste my time defending unprofessional pretend journalists like these clowns

whi66.bsky.social•4 days ago

Dems just sit back living in la la land’s

fredajaspers.bsky.social•4 days ago

People write books. Meh. However, there is a legitimate question to ask about how Dems and DNC move on. Personally, when Joe Biden said he was going to be transitional, I thought 'Great move', when he chose Kamala as VP, I thought 'Even greater move'....

fredajaspers.bsky.social•4 days ago

... I chose to ignore the fervent right-wing media onslaught about Joe Biden's feebleness, especially after he delivered a slam-dunk SOTU speech & tricked GOP members into denying they would slash Social Security, Obamacare. & got nation-wide infrastructure improving, passed Chips Act ...

fredajaspers.bsky.social•4 days ago

... while Donald got convicted of 34 felony convictions, monumental fraud, got away with espionage and then by way of this SCOTUS got given immunity for inciting an insurrection on his own government ...

fredajaspers.bsky.social•4 days ago

... How Donald got re-elected is a reflection on American society. Inflation yes, shopping more expensive, yes. Sarah Longwell is an absolute gem in this: democracy not so much, the fact Donald is an insurrectionist and convicted felon: not so much...

fredajaspers.bsky.social•4 days ago

...I now know why they like this guy: inept and inarticulate. This is what America voted for. It reflects whoever voted for him in two words. Fuck academia, fuck science, fuck health, fuck progress.

woodlock0.bsky.social•4 days ago

They think themselves a Matador or something.

phillipse16.bsky.social•4 days ago

@olbermann.bsky.social then why even comment on it or draw attention to the article?

sionxxii.bsky.social•4 days ago

cacarroll.bsky.social•4 days ago

Joe Cunningham lost to Nancy Mace.

“GovTrack reports that during his two years in the U.S. House, Cunningham joined bipartisan bills the second most often and had the fifth least left-leaning voting record compared to other house Democrats.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cunningham_(American_politician)

skjtn.bsky.social•4 days ago

I read an article on those new Trumper voters in 2024. A black single mother in Philly voted for Trump, and it had nothing to do with Biden’s mental acuity. This should have been a shoo in - a 37yr single black mom who had always voted Democrat, chose not to vote for the black Democrat woman.

skjtn.bsky.social•4 days ago

Democrats forgot they needed an actual plan. In the words of Bill Clinton, “it’s the economy, Stupid!”. It’s always going to be the economy!

bobv9834.bsky.social•4 days ago

Politico is a joke. I feel dirty even when all I read is the title.

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