Exactly how bad is Biden's mental condition?

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Sending a message, every day

Sending a message, every day

Ol’ Joe is off to his Delaware home again, meaning he’ll have spent exactly four of the past fifteen days away from the capital while Afghanistan has collapsed around him. (Some of) the public understands that wherever Joe goes so goes the presidency and all its communication capability, but all of them understand symbolism, and surely Joe’s handlers do, too, so what gives?

The symbolism of the Oval office is huge, and the media wet its collective panties when Joe moved into it and redid it completely, ridding it of all Trump touches. These “reporters” carefully noted the changes and explained the significance and meaning of each. So again, what gives?

The symbolism — signal, if you will — of the president behind the Resolute Desk, in full crisis mode, is completely different from a telephoto shot of a closed door in Maryland behind which, Americans are assured, the Commander in Chief is engaged in a Zoom meeting. Biden’s advisors must have advised against this and urged him to stay put in his office, even if all he did there was play with his Legos. Yet he keeps wandering back home. Does he understand the significance and simply doesn’t care, defying public opinion and his subordinates’ “suggestions”, or is he truly incapable of staying in the public eye without alerting the world that the president is hopelessly senile? Are his handlers hiding him because they have no choice?

What gives?

Once a penal colony, always a penal colony

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on guard

We, on the other hand, were founded as a free republic, which doesn’t mean we’ll necessarily remain one.

G’day, mate — are you my new master?

Australians are now being yelled at by politicians for watching sunsets.

As Not the Bee points out,

Australia's own health authority has admitted that not a single case of Covid transmission has been recorded outside from casual interactions (nor has it been observed anywhere in the world, according to the NYT).

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In addition, less than 100 Aussies have died of the Rona since October of last year. [And 970, total, since the panic first struck; population of Australia, 23 million — FWIW] For this "pandemic," they are being locked down like animals in cages.

Meanwhile, one Aussie freedom lover was just handed 8 months in prisonfor organizing an "unauthorized protest."




Well, that didn't take long

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Remember when all the right-thinking people hailed Biden’s election? Joe does, but no one else, and his handlers haven’t broken the news to the old man.

November 2020: Europe hails Biden Cabinet as a chance to 'restore' trans-Atlantic ties

November 2020, Politico: Biden’s Europe challenge: Repair tattered transatlantic ties

POLITICO — The weighty insurgency signaled by the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency in 2016 had reverberations around the world, perhaps nowhere more so than among America’s European allies.

Over the next four years, Euro-Atlantic relations deteriorated to an unprecedented level as the U.S. president embraced Brexit, abandoned the Paris climate accords and damned the European Union as a “foe.” Europeans watched in dismay as Trump detonated the Iran deal, belittled NATO allies, paralyzed the World Trade Organization and abandoned the World Health Organization in the midst of a global pandemic.

Meanwhile, an assorted assembly of Trumpian fifth columnists comprising dubious diplomats, conspiracy-seeking minions and unctuous acolytes spread the gospel of discontent in Europe with evangelical fervor.

Against this background, it is easy to appreciate why the prospect of a Joe Biden presidency has been greeted with such a sense of relief among European leaders. A U.S. administration not hell-bent on undermining and destroying the fabric of global multilateralism offers a respite, a pause for mutually respectful reflection and engagement.

That was then, this is now:

It’s 9:00 AM. Who do you want to answer the phone in the White House? Probably Major Biden.

Biden Ignored Boris Johnsons' Frantic Calls for 36 Hours as Bungled Bugout Was Unfolding

And here’s a roundup of Joe’s friends’ reaction to events of this week:

European leaders dismayed by Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan. There’s plenty at the link.

Sacrifice must be made, and Joe’s the man to do it

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“Look”, Greenwich native and White House spokesman Jennifer Psaki told FWIW, “the man needs his rest after his horrendous day today: reading a teleprompter is no easy task for an old man, and actually taking questions from four reporters? Phew!

“And he likes to swim nude”, she continued, “which he isn’t allowed to do at the White House. Even the president of the United States sometimes must stand naked.”

And in Riverside ...

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18 Armstrong Lane has sold (January contract) for $1.775 million, on an asking price of $2.3. I don’t know how it possibly escaped my notice all these many years, but this house was, I think, the first on the street, built and lived in by the Armstrongs since 1949. They built the house; did they also name the street? Probably. D’uh.

Very, very nice people, and a good yard of 0.67 acre. The listing claims a “possible subdivision”, but I hope I hope the new owners will build new, if they must, but leave the land as it is; large lots are increasingly rare in Riverside, and will continue to command a premium.

And the neighborhood is the better for them.

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