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What Happened to 'Sharp As a Tack'? WSJ Explains How White House Functions With 'Diminished' Biden
https://twitchy.com ^ | amy curtis

Posted on 12/21/2024 5:51:46 PM PST by bitt

We're a month away from the ignominious end of the Joe Biden administration. After four years of scandal, economic hardship, and international strife, we're not sad to see him go.

But as Inauguration Day approaches, it appears the media have decided certain things that were 'disinformation' and 'deep fakes' just a few months ago are actually news stories they can talk about now.

Like Biden's declining mental acuity.

https://x.com/WSJ/status/1869763274805477662?

More from The Wall Street Journal:

To adapt the White House around the needs of a diminished leader, they told visitors to keep meetings focused. Interactions with senior Democratic lawmakers and some cabinet members—including powerful secretaries such as Defense’s Lloyd Austin and Treasury’s Janet Yellen—were infrequent or grew less frequent. Some legislative leaders had a hard time getting the president’s ear at key moments, including ahead of the U.S.’s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan.

Senior advisers were often put into roles that some administration officials and lawmakers thought Biden should occupy, with people such as National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, senior counselor Steve Ricchetti and National Economic Council head Lael Brainard and her predecessor frequently in the position of being go-betweens for the president.

Press aides who compiled packages of news clips for Biden were told by senior staff to exclude negative stories about the president. The president wasn’t talking to his own pollsters as surveys showed him trailing in the 2024 race.

Read the whole thing; it's absolutely damning.

https://x.com/WSJ/status/1869763276206473429

They lied.

And the media helped them lie.

...more


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; whitehouse; wsj
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1 posted on 12/21/2024 5:51:46 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 12/21/2024 5:52:07 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt

They never said which end of the tack.


3 posted on 12/21/2024 5:54:17 PM PST by pfflier
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To: bitt

That simile is “no longer operative,” as Ron Ziegler would once have said.


4 posted on 12/21/2024 5:55:03 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: bitt

How do they function? They use Jill and whoever to do their left wing bidding.

It’s obvious.


5 posted on 12/21/2024 5:55:16 PM PST by Beowulf9 (c)
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To: bitt

The Wall Street Journal lied to Americans for over four years about Biden’s mental capacity. They deserve to go out of business. I’ll never trust their reporting again.


6 posted on 12/21/2024 5:55:32 PM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: bitt

Joe Biden was never “sharp as a tack”. Even in his prime, he was “dull as dishwater”.


7 posted on 12/21/2024 6:05:08 PM PST by fhayek
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To: bitt

8 posted on 12/21/2024 6:12:15 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: fhayek

Someone here came up with something like “sharp as a bowling ball.”


9 posted on 12/21/2024 6:16:43 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: fhayek

That is correct and five years ago Biden was a dullard who had developed dementia.

The Democrats knowingly stole an election, installed a dementia-addled halfwit as POTUS and aggressively attempted to gaslight the American people into believing the election was fine and Biden was great.

Harsh consequences are in order.


10 posted on 12/21/2024 6:19:28 PM PST by TigersEye (30 more days of Potato policy)
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To: bitt

Watch as they all admit he was diminished to try to save face for 26 or 28.


11 posted on 12/21/2024 6:21:31 PM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: bitt

The people who voted for Flatlinejoe in 2020 need to be interrogated as to why they did so. Claiming they didn’t know he was in cognitive decline (or freefall) is a voter’s admission of being a liar, an idiot, or a traitor to the United States of America.


12 posted on 12/21/2024 6:23:34 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: bitt

“They lied.

And the media helped them lie.”

They all lied and covered for Joe.


13 posted on 12/21/2024 6:43:45 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: wildcard_redneck
The WSJ is a globalist mouth piece for the Free Traitors™ that infest the USA. The are all in on the continued deindustrialization of the USA. Trump was/is an existential threat to that paradigm.

The only way that that makes any sense is that the WSJ has been "captured" ( $$$$ ) by the CCP to continue the globalist propaganda.

14 posted on 12/21/2024 6:48:49 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: wally_bert
"sharp as a bowling ball"

© Warner Bros. Cartoons.

15 posted on 12/21/2024 6:50:35 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: bitt

There’s a simple rule one can follow

If the MSM is repeating some political narrative in unison - its guaranteed to be a lie.

In fact, its the worst, most dangerous and egregious lie there is


16 posted on 12/21/2024 6:52:10 PM PST by PGR88
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To: bitt

later


17 posted on 12/21/2024 7:17:06 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: bitt

The press died on that hill - the hill protecting Biden’s mental problems from citizens. Bad choice.

And yeah, they knew.

Just like those of us out here who caught glimpse knew. Except we tried to sound the alarm and the press lied and lied and lied and died. Biden studied for the debate for days - no tip off? Come on... the WSJ knew too.


18 posted on 12/21/2024 7:20:03 PM PST by GOPJ (https://files.catbox.moe/rwi6a2.jpeg //files.catbox.moe/14hch9.jpg <img src="[image url]">)
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To: bitt

Biden is and has been the VOTUS.
VEGETABLE OF THE UNITED STATES.


19 posted on 12/21/2024 7:26:42 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: bitt

What is ironic by not covering Biden’s mental deterioration they kept him in office. They knew but said nothing. If they did cover it, Joe would have been removed from office 3 years ago. This would have created a democrat open primary and a far better candidate would have been selected, than the laughing idiot Kamala.

“Thank you main stream media.” I never said those words in the past.


20 posted on 12/21/2024 7:35:32 PM PST by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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