One crucial thing to understand about the book & tour (about Biden's age) from Alex Thompson & @jaketapper.bsky.social is that angry liberals yelling at them for wallowing in this bullshit while fascism takes over the country ... is *built in*. It's part of the business model. They want & expect it.
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"old Biden was so old," it's
--> "insulated Democrats did not listen."
In that respect the book should be celebrated on BlueSky
Instead it's almost the same malady that affects the NYT here - people yelling at the headline behind a paywall?
That's what I'm doing.
“The house is on fire and you want to bring up old shit.”
Amen
The MSM want talking heads, not journalists.
I saw him 2 days later and he was fine.
This is just Murc’s Law: only Democrats have agency, and they must always strive to “reclaim their credibility with the American people.”
Biden was someone with a stutter ageing. He was not ga-ga. He certainly didn’t threaten 🇺🇸 security.
I'm an American. I feel betrayed by this country.
Biden is old, but Trump's firehose of mendacity with no fact checking was something else.
It felt like Tapper was cheering on January 6th.
It was a bad showing but it wasn't some smoking gun that Biden was mentally gone. Biden was always a bad speaker, but election season is hyperbole season.
Seems like he was pretty okay.
“On both sides”
How to be a fascist collaborator in three easy steps.
Or anyway that's what the RNC does with these things from their side, and I wouldn't be surprised if some super donor bought a few pallets. Or maybe Trump Org buying a bunch to keep it on the bestseller list long as possible.
So Biden was too old & shouldn’t have run again. Right. There were a lot of factors at play, the dread of another Trump run largely. But I just don’t have energy to dwell on it.
“Anything that I do that makes liberals angry makes me look like the straight shooter”
“Haters gonna hate” rings true, especially for those in/around politics, but at some point reasonable feedback must be recognized and incorporated into one’s world view.
Thompson, Tapper & everyone making this case need to be called out on it.
When they cite *actual* cognitive impairment (not fatigue, not slower movement, not emotional responses to emotional questions), let’s hear it.
A gift Biden’s first wife, daughter, and later his son Beau did not receive.
And a body with the mobility that makes life easier also is not a given.
SILENCE, is the most perfect expression of scorn
Ignore Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson.
Mute them
It’s not like the people on the right are going to buy a book written by him.
So they wrote a book about it.
Back then he recognized it. Now he actively promotes it. I'm not angry. I'm disgusted. Our entire media has been captured by money since then.
The last President is long gone.
The GOP knows Trump is unfit but elevates and protects him.
The media's response to this is to pillory the Democrats for having had an unfit leader, while refusing to investigate or speculate on Trump's unfitness.
Americans will eventually realize how sour their lives have become under this type of conservative rule that celebrates the pain & suffering of anyone who isn’t a rich sell out. Sadly, it will be too late.
I had already decided not to vote for Biden in 2028.
Tapper's book doesn't deserve any attention.