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Posted on 05/20/2026 5:44:43 PM PDT by simpson96
Just before writing this piece, I saw Gary Oldman in a London production of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. For those unfamiliar, the play revolves around an old man listening to a series of tapes recorded by himself when he was younger, musing pompously on his hopes and dreams for the future. In his present, desiccated state, he can only scoff at his middle-aged self, before being overcome by the pathetic realization that it is all up for him and that he is doomed to a miserable, unhappy future.
It is hard to think of ten people who will want to read the book, let alone ten million
I suspect that much the same has been going on in Joe Biden’s household of late. If, of course he still knows what day of the week it is, or what his name is. It has transpired that, in preparation for the creation of his uneagerly awaited memoir, Biden read his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer various documents and notebooks that might have been useful for its writing.
Unfortunately, Biden was unable to distinguish between the kind of long-winded nonsense that a former president is contractually obliged to include in his autobiography and matters of national security. Wait, I tell a lie: the recordings, which the Department of Justice now wants to see released, allegedly include Sleepy Joe brightly telling Zwonitzer sensitive information as if it was the daily news. And at one point cheerily declaring “I just found all the classified stuff downstairs.”
Biden, or at least those who are responsible for managing him these days, is fighting to stop these recordings – 70 hours’ worth! – and their transcripts from being released into the public domain. Namely to Congress and the Heritage Foundation, which is leading the fight for their release. In a statement, Biden’s magnificently named spokesperson TJ Ducklo said that Biden had cooperated with Special Counsel Robert Hur and had agreed to allow him access to these audiotapes “on the condition that they would not be made public”. Ducklo went on to say “the DoJ themselves have said these tapes serve no public interest.”
Others disagree. Mike Howell of Heritage has said, “These tapes will further prove the massive lie regarding Biden’s fitness for office and the fact Biden revealed classified information.” Given that the former president stated in 2024, “I did not share classified information. Guarantee you, I did not”, there is going to be considerable embarrassment on one side over the next few months. If I were a betting man, I would suggest that a gaffe-prone politician who seemed increasingly incapable of managing anything, let alone his country, is going to be the one at fault. But we shall see soon enough.
It is unclear as to why the memoir is even being written. Most readers got their Biden fill from his 2017 title Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship and Purpose, which revolves around his pre-presidential life. Yet the domestic coffers need filling. Dr Jill’s memoir entitled View from the East Wing will be published early next month. Biden supposedly signed a $10 million deal with Little Brown for the next installment in his adventures. It is hard to think of ten people who will want to read the book, let alone ten million, but publishing is an exercise in hope rather than sober judgement.
Beckett’s Krapp, reflecting on his own short-lived and unsuccessful writing career, sighs “Seventeen copies sold, of which eleven at trade price to free circulating libraries beyond the seas. Getting known.” Biden is, of course, well known, if not beloved, by every American. Yet this latest humiliation will reinforce a sense, gleefully whipped up by his predecessor and successor as president, that he was increasingly not up to the job. And that his stubbornness to admit this has brought lasting calumny on his party. Should these embarrassing tapes make it into the public domain, this shame will only deepen and continue to contaminate the Democratic body politic even further.
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Memoir?? Blank book. What does he remember. Beau died in the war. He beat Trump in the debate? He cured cancer?
Beautiful.
Buy this book and find out how to get rich off politics.
To me Biden will always be ‘The Hyphen’. The guy in between 45-47. The man whose coup would have destroyed America if not for two Democrat Senators refusing to make that coup permanent.
I’m surprised Biden is still alive. Proof conclusive that evil is allowed to live a long time on this Earth. What happens to evil in the afterlife does not fix the harm done to billions on this Earth.
Yes, it will be a nice edition to my library right next to my book “Reasons to Vote Democrat”.
That assumes that anyone will ever read it to him. I doubt he could follow the comic book version.
Will it be written in crayon?
Leftists get astonishing amounts of money as an advance, and within two weeks (after being pumped up by the likes of the New York Times) the book can be found on the rack at the Dollar Store.
It is simply a way to curry favor with and support their own.
Oscar Levant already wrote Memoirs of an Amnesiac.
Ol’ suspicious moi wonders whether those (one suspects) as being responsible for directing his alleged “presidency” might handle that “memoir” thing as well.
Biden is an integrity-free criminal. He should be arrested and after conviction forced to do hard labor.
Every single Biden escapes accountability.
Find me one that had a real job.
Memoirs Of An Auto-Pen.
Zoe Kestan, oh wait I thought it said boob job
I have never been bored enough to read another syllable about Joe Stupid. I would sooner read the label on the back of a bottle of pool chemicals and I don’t have a pool.
I thought the cannibals ate Joe.
” I saw Gary Oldman in a London production of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape.”
This might be just a garnish to start the article, but that would be a great production to see.
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