June 6, 2024

The Fogeys Fight Back

The Fogeys Fight Back

It's an explosive battle of the septuagenarians as Biden and Trump trade shocking blows in the race for the White House! We'll take you through all the cringe-worthy highlights.
First, disturbing accounts emerge of Grandpa Joe practically zoning out...


It's an explosive battle of the septuagenarians as Biden and Trump trade shocking blows in the race for the White House! We'll take you through all the cringe-worthy highlights.
First, disturbing accounts emerge of Grandpa Joe practically zoning out during crucial meetings on Ukraine aid and energy policy. Sources claim a barely-there, blink-and-you-missed-it POTUS who needed triple espresso shots just to mumble "more javelins".
Then it's on to the dueling dementia as Kevin McCarthy details Biden's wild PM/AM lucidity swings during the debt ceiling psycho-bidergy. One minute a lively negotiator, the next a drooling Jell-O cups pitchman! The White House shrugs it off as just some 9D chess brain work.
Not to be outdone, Trump's 2016 rants about indicting Hillary for a "crisis" and "government halting" get thrown back in his now felonious face. The sheer obliviousness required to become the very situation he once fear-mongered over is simply *chef's kiss*.
But chin up, Don! Those new swing state polls showing Biden inching ahead in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania should totally revive your campaign trail pep! Or...maybe give your MAGA base anxiety over losing its fabled "Blue Wall" stranglehold?
It's a true clash of the Crypt Keeper titans - fromDeliriumDonald to SlurryJoe, no ageist insult will be spared! Drool rags at the ready, this one's gonna get gnarrrrrly! Forget the largest promissory lead, it may come down to whoever can simply stay conscious the longest.
So settle in for all the golden giggles as we gleefully mock the dueling den-tures of our archetypal American candidates. 'Cause Lord knows, if we don't get some sick yucks out of their escalating decrepitude, we'd probably just have to cry into our prune juices!

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Calaroga Shark media from Washington, DC, where there's a Trump quote for everything.

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This is ballot today. The journal
suggests Uncle Joe as starting to slip,

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and Trump forgets he didn't think indicted
people should run. Oops, let's

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hit this. Uh oh. The
Wall Street Journal published a scary article.

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It looks like Grandpa Joe has been
showing some serious signs of vintage bidenisms during

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his latest round of meetings on Capitol
Hill. Can you just picture the scene

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as the President addressed congressional leaders to
discuss Ukraine aid. Sources say Sleepy Joe

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was practically in rem cycle mode,
speaking so softly people struggle to hear him

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zoning out with his eyes closed for
extended espresso nap periods. At one point

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they probably had to triple Cortado Espresso
shot him just to get him to blink

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twice. For Yes, I approved
forty seven billion dollars in javelins for Kiev,

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although, knowing Biden's legendary avoidance of
caffeine after seven pm, he was

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more likely sip in a lukewarm ovaltine. The real kicker, though, his

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one on one brain freeze with Speaker
Johnson, where Biden tried passing off a

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major energy policy as just a study, according to reports, as if Grandpa

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hadn't already greenlit jeopardizing those projects and
then plumb forgot. You can practically hear

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Johnson's inner monologue, mister President,
with all due respect, are you even

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reading your own eos anymore? Or
just doing mad libs with the fine print?

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Then we've got last year's debt sealing
psychobider g where, according to Kevin

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McCarthy, the Leader of the Free
World was a veritable chia pet, alternating

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between lively banter one day and total
mumbling incoherence the next, an inconsistent jerrying

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tour. If you will, oh
man, I can see it now.

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One minute Biden's rambling semi coherently about
Armageddon options, followed by an aid gently

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guiding him off stage as he trails
off about getting everyone some jello cups and

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Werther's originals the roller coaster no one
asked for. Of course, the White

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House staffers are gobsmacked this could ever
be perceived as cognitive impairment. He's just

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thinking reality hard, you guys,
that furrowed brow and drool puddling. Just

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the nine dimensional chess calculations of a
stable genius. Let's face it, though,

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between struggling to stay awake forgetting his
own policies and those wild lucidity swings,

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it's starting to look like we may
need to get President Grandpa a life

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alert implant before Cornpop really pops off, assuming he can still remember who corn

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Pop is by then. Wow.
Talk about an absolutely stunning reversal from Donald

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Trump on the idea of criminally accused
candidates running for president. His twenty sixteen

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rhetoric railing against Hillary Clinton is aging
poorly to put it mildly. Back then,

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Trump was positively apoplectic at the very
notion that Clinton could potentially face indictment

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yet still pursue the White House.
He painted this hypothetical as an existential threat,

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an unprecedented constitutional crisis that would grind
government to a halt. The sheer

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melodrama of Trump's warnings is pretty rich
in hindsight, pausing for dramatic effect to

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rasp folks, folks, folks,
she shouldn't be allowed to run. Okay,

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as if Clinton merely being investigated was
grounds to disqualify her from participating in

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democracy, you can almost picture present
day Trump having to choke back those sitting

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president under felony indictment lines at his
own rallies. The lack of self awareness

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required to spew that kind of fire
and brimstone only to become that very situation

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must be staggering. Of course,
his campaign is trying to brush it all

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off as no big deal, just
Trump being wrongfully persecuted in a big witch

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hunt double standard, as if facing
actual criminal conviction amid multiple other indictments is

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at all comparable to Clinton's email probe. In any case, it's a stark

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reminder that Trump is always been a
bump on a log passenger to his own

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stated principles. As long as it
benefits impersonally in the moment, anything goes.

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Ethics, consistency, and democratic norms
be damned. It seems the tides

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may be turning a bit in some
crucial battleground states. According to these new

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polls from Florida Atlantic University and Main
Street Research, Biden is showing slight leads

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over Trump in Wisconsin, Michigan,
and Pennsylvania, three states that could ultimately

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decide the twenty twenty four election.
I wonder what changed now? The margins

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are still pretty razor thin. We're
talking Biden advantages of just three seven points

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in each of those swing states when
third party candidates are factored in. But

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in an electoral college fight where every
last vote matters, those narrow leads could

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prove immensely significant. If they hold, it's a potential warning sign for Team

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Trump that they may be losing their
grip on the blue wall states that famously

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flipped red in twenty sixteen before flipping
back in twenty twenty. Having to seriously

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sweat places like Wisconsin and Michigan again
is not an ideal scenario for the former

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president. That said, We're still
half a year out from election day,

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which is just an eternity in modern
American politics. As that UK professor notes,

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the landscape could shift radically based on
any number of volatile factors, the

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Hunter Biden case, Trump's eventual sentencing, random October surprises, you name it.

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Biden's team certainly can't get too confident
writing these small swing state polling bumps

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when national trackers still show a virtual
dead heat, Nor can Trump supporters take

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too much solace in hypotheticals about the
race remaining highly volatile. Portions of today's

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program were made with the help of
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