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Singer-actress Bette Midler, star of Disney’s Hocus Pocus 2, suggested that President Joe Biden arrest Republican members of Congress and allow the FBI to use deadly force in order regain Democrat House majority. “Now that Joe has total immunity, many are urging him to be GOP ruthless. Here’s a suggestion for implementing his new powers,” Midler wrote in a Friday X post, sharing a screenshot from an opinion piece published by The New Republic.

President Biden indicated in an interview with ABC News Friday that he would be at peace if he lost to former President Trump "as long as I gave it my all." Why it matters: Biden is under growing pressure to step aside as the Democratic nominee in the wake of his disastrous debate performance last week, especially given the stakes of a potential Trump second term. Many Democrats believe Biden has been an excellent president — but that his refusal to give up power at his advantaged age could risk throwing the country into turmoil after November's election. His interview...

President Joe Biden’s first televised interview since last week’s debate meltdown did little to stop the bleeding. Members of Congress and top Democratic operatives told POLITICO shortly after Biden’s sit down with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos aired that the president was more energetic and forceful than he was on stage during last week’s showdown with Donald Trump — but it likely won’t be enough to tame the panic. And many were shocked by the president’s blatant denial about his standing in the race, and his repeated dismissal of his party’s widespread concerns. It’s an approach some Democrats described as “dangerous.”...

A bronzed Joe Biden made a bizarre claim about inventing a computer chip during his make-or-break interview Friday. Biden, 81, would repeatedly respond to questions in a raspy, weary voice, often losing track mid-sentence and at times ignoring questions in an attempt to make occasionally outlandish claims about his record. The president at one point told George Stephanopoulos that 'we used to have 40 percent of computer chips. We invented the chip, the little chip, the computer chip. It's in everything from cell phone to weapons.' The president repeatedly rejected taking an independent medical evaluation that would show voters he...

"Did you ever watch the debate afterwards?" BIDEN: "I don't think I did." "Did you know how badly it was going?" BIDEN: *incoherent rambling* "It seemed like you were having trouble from the first question in..." BIDEN: "Well I just had a bad night."

Carl Bernstein of Watergate fame recently told CNN viewers that people close to President Biden — people “who loved him, have supported him, and among them are some people who would raise a lot of money for him” — say his disastrous debate performance wasn’t a “one-off.” There have been, according to insiders, “15, 20 occasions in the last year and a half when the president has appeared somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed.” Yeah, we know. All of us saw the horror show in a bunch of videos you hacks kept telling us was...

Big-money Hollywood donors are reportedly enraged at movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg for the “agewashing” of President Joe Biden. Katzenberg, who was named a campaign co-chair due to his prolific fundraising abilities, is being accused by his entertainment industry peers of misleading them by downplaying Biden’s age-related decline and failing to sound the alarm in time to allow the Democrats to pick a suitable replacement, The Ankler reported. “Everyone in town is furious with him. Furious,” a top Hollywood observer told The Ankler when asked about donors’ views about Katzenberg, who has long insisted that the president is “fine” even though...

Watch the handler in the striped shirt help senile Joe keep from getting lost. (I wonder if he was the guy in the bunny suit?)

Who got to Joe Scarborough? Last Friday, the very next day after Biden's debate debacle, Scarborough strongly suggested that Biden needed to quit, pronto. Scarborough analogized that just like Goldwater went to Nixon during Watergate and told him it was "over," Democrats now need to say the same thing to Biden. Scarborough has now drastically changed his tune. On today's Morning Joe, he stressed that Democrats shouldn't rush into a decision: "it's only July 5th!", he repeatedly exclaimed. So, who got to Joe Scarborough? And what leverage did they use on him? A likely possibility: Scarborough has been bragging about...

Former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove said Friday on Fox News Channel’s “America Reports” that President Joe Biden’s campaign was “bleeding out” and will end soon. Rove said, “This has been decided. We made this decision a year ago. If you look at the polls a year ago there were deep doubts he should run again because people already looked at him and said he is not up to the job. Poll after poll after poll said he lacks the cognitive skill and mental stamina to be effective as president, doesn’t have what it takes.”

On Friday, while at a campaign stop in Wisconsin, Joe Biden defiantly announced that he is "staying in the race" ahead of his crucial prime-time interview with George Stephanopolous, which is set to air Friday night. The interview could be a critical moment for his campaign following his disastrous presidential debate performance last week that has led to many in the mainstream media and even some Democrats urging him to drop out of the race. Speaking in Madison, Wis., Biden addressed the debate but merely conceded it wasn't his "best performance." He did, however, acknowledge the speculation regarding the future...

Jill Biden @FLOTUS Prepping for the G7.1:10 PM · Jun 9, 2021

The polls are in: President Joe Biden’s debate face-plant has put him in his worst electoral shape of the 2024 election. More voters now than ever say they have an unfavorable opinion of the president, think he’s too old for the job and want someone else leading the Democratic ticket this fall. No incumbent president has had an approval rating this low at this stage of the election since George H.W. Bush more than three decades ago — and, other than Biden’s 2024 opponent, former President Donald Trump, no incumbent has trailed this far behind in the horse race polling...

MSNBC’s Joy Reid flipped out again following the fallout from Joe Biden’s catastrophic debate performance. In another unhinged video posted to TikTok, Reid declared that even if Biden is “in a coma,” she will be voting for him to “keep Hitler out of the White House.”

Why did anyone think Joe Biden was ready for a 90-minute presidential debate? One reason is that a small handful of journalists, with left-leaning sympathies but very credible records, have interviewed him and those close to him in the White House and returned with reports that while he’s definitely older, he’s still pretty sharp and in charge. Two of the most prominent are Biden biographers Evan Osnos and Franklin Foer. I spoke to them Sunday as they reconciled their own portrayals with the faltering 81-year-old they saw on national television. In his deeply-reported recent New Yorker article, Osnos detailed Biden...

President Biden told a black radio station in an interview released Thursday that he understood their struggle for representation — because he didn’t think Catholics could be president before John F. Kennedy was elected more than six decades ago. Biden, 81, told Pennsylvania radio host Andrea Lawful-Sanders that he knew what his nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court meant to “a young girl who is in school and having trouble.” “I looked at John Kennedy and said, ‘Well, he — John — he got elected. Why can’t I get elected?'” the president said. “People need things to...

The president’s mental decline was like a dark family secret for many elite supporters..

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden's fitness to serve a second term in office has been a top story since his halting performance in last week's debate against Donald Trump, where the president at times appeared unable to complete or articulate some thoughts in the pressure of the moment. To some press critics who are now reading these stories, there's another question: What took you so long? “It is simply astounding for the entire country, including its most seasoned reporters, to be as shocked as everyone was by the ugly and painful reality of Biden's debate performance,” Jill Abramson,...

The Dump Biden movement has regained momentum inside the Democratic Party. We cannot yet say for sure that it will succeed. Team Biden is still digging in to keep their man in contention. But the ground is slipping from under the President's feet. It could soon be an unstoppable landslide. By this time next week, the Democrats could be looking for a new presidential candidate. Or still ripping themselves apart over whether they should be. I spoke to two senior Democrats today, one an experienced election strategist, the other on Joe Biden's staff when he was vice president. Both were...

Biden tells a Philadelphia radio station that he's "proud" to be "the first black woman to serve with a black president"