Jimmy Kimmel canceled taping rather than interview Jake Tapper

Good for Kimmel

So brave of Jake to go after an octogenarian who stepped down and is currently battling aggressive cancer.

Trump is now attacking Biden and his wife Jill.

That's enough pile-on. Go fuck yourself Jake.

Kimmel's a mensch.

Jake Crapper sucks

Bad look for Kimmel, who will just come off as a pussy and in cahoots with the Biden administration.

Ohhh, r5, do you need attention? Is that what you need?

Good for Jimmy! We need more people with his kind of courage.

I love Kimmel. I have always loved him but now I love him as much as my children...if I had any.

R6 - yeah, R5 likes to shit post and criticize. That's all he does in his comments.

R5 which he is

Jake Tapper has crossed into being the story instead of reporting it. Which means he’s trash (see Gayle King).

Also, that smug, perpetually-smells-a-fart face is so hard to look at.

Sorry. I don't believe Kimmel cancelled a show (and put the entire staff out of pay) over Jake Tapper. He could have just had another guest on or confronted Tapper over his shitty book.

Jake Tapper has been MAGA for a long time.

I stopped watching FOX-Lite, CNN, because of commentators such as Tapper. He’s stiff, smug, boring, yaps with an attitude, and is no friend of Democrats.

CNN has regressed even more with their fake “both sides” bullshit.

If it is true, I'm glad Jimmy Kimmel did it. Kimmel can afford to pay the entire staff for the day's pay (which he will do).

Tapper is doing a hatchet job on Biden. Where is his book on all the corruption of Trump and his administration?

R13 - I wouldn't say he's MAGA - he's just a conceited know-it-all, both-sides, I know the REAL story - type of guy.

He needs to be taken down a few pegs. His ego and his smarmy look is off-putting - always has been. I have no idea how this guy got so far.

Tapper in his revenge mode is something to behold. He wants to fuck up those libs who cancelled him, and then some.

I recall several+ years back, Tapper interviewed Kellyanne Conway. She threw him off his schtick. She can distort, make false claims, dominate the dialogue, interrupt, and divert better than he can. They seemed made for each other.

Jake Tapper sucks donkey dicks. No one needs his stupid book,

Suddenly MAGAts like Jerk Tapper now that he wrote a hit piece book on Joe Biden? But guess what, they won't BUY it Jake. And neither will the rest of us.

In other words, he wrote a book for people who don't read.

Is Jake Tapper MAGA?!!!

Hey Jimmy, Biden isn’t running again. You can relax. I had no idea Kimmel was such an idiot. Please quit your night job and work for the DNC or better yet, please don’t.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE SHIT IN MY MOUTH???!!!!!

Donald Trump makes my hole twitch!!!

Yes criticizing Kimmel is a crime against humanity.

^ hyperbolizes like an 11 year old girl

Kimmel should have continued with the interview and confronted Tapper about withholding the information about Biden so he could later cash in on a book.

Tapper was scheduled. In stead Kimmel released a comedy video of himself pretending to broadcast conspiracy theories from his basement. It was kind of funny. He ditched Tapper. Now Tapper seems to be "friends" with Stephen Colbert and he was on his show a short while ago. I was disappointed to find that out. But I agree Tapper is insufferable. He is a snide smug POS know it all. He preens on TV acting like is is the Journalist Supreme because he pisses off everyone in the interests of integrity. But he himself wouldn't recognize integrity if it bit him in his fat ass. The sound of his nasal whining voice is like nails on a chalkboard.

Is anything in his book false?

No one has challenged the veracity or substance. The reporting is quite solid, whether you like Tapper personally or not. Or his co-author.

It is a book needed to be written.

How nice, r31.

The country is in absolute crisis - yes it is a tale that needs to be told - but for heaven’s sake - this is NOT the right time! Trump is like the monster in the horror movie that they keep shooting and nothing takes him down. This book will just continue to empower maga.

Exactly, r34. The *only* people gaining from this are Jake Tapper and the Magats. This isn't one written for the history books. It's coming out now purely for distraction and to benefit Tapper's bank account.

That’s a very odd non-reply. If you have substantive objections or contrary information to share, tell us.

R5 - Sure, Yuri...I mean Jan.

A critical self-examination by the party is one worthwhile result. Another is the press not letting it happen again.

R35 when should it have come out? Should it never have come out?

The people who “gain” are people interested in the truth (if the book is in fact truthful.)

That was stupid. He should have interviewed Tapper and given him a list of all of Trump's outrages and crimes and ask when Tapper will bother to report on those. And keep it on that topic.

I can see why he wouldn't want to give Tapper any free publicity, though. But how hard would it have to make Tapper look like the Trumper he is???

I’d feel better about the future of the Democratic Party if people were complaining about the book because it contained falsehoods,

[quote]The people who “gain” are people interested in the truth (if the book is in fact truthful.)

And if it isn't, r42?

r39, fine, what are you going to do with that information now? Protest? Write an angry letter? Continue to bitch and moan on DL? Let the historians deal with it. The rational among us prefer to direct our energies in fighting the *real* enemy in front of us. Whatever diminishment of Joe's faculties there were, his accomplishments in his term were historic. You can rehash it all you want, but at this point it's just being used as a distraction.

This is no different from Civil War reenactors still trying to strategize a way to win a battle long lost.

It’s over. Move on.

That sound is thoughtful analysis speeding past your head.

R43 so far no one is complaining that the book is not accurate or contains falsehoods except for Jill. . It’s not a good look for democrats to be seen as the ones trying to hide the truth from the American people.

The American people have a right to know.

Maybe we should be angry this book for not published 18 months earlier. If it had maybe biden drops out much earlier and trump would not be president today..

What is the book a distraction from? How horrible Trump? Yes, Americans are not sufficiently informed as to how bad Trump is. if only the media keep them more informed about the bad stuff he does, they’d wake up and vote blue! Or maybe Democrats are disconnected from many voters and are disliked as much as Trump. Could that be it??.

[quote]It’s not a good look for democrats to be seen as the ones trying to hide the truth from the American people.

God forbid we should have *that*, r46.

Hint: Attempt more subterfuge in your trolling.

A lot of people are saying it’s lies. It’s all anonymous sources. And whatever is in the book isn’t something the CURRENT president hasn’t done and worse.

And the main reason Democrats are disliked as much as Trump is because they are so weak and timid.

Look at Cory Booker. Voted for forward Jared Kushner's criminal father as Ambassador to France.

True or not true - Who gives a flying fuck??? And why did he sit on this BEARKING news for a year? So he could sell books, not so he could be a journalist. He's now got all of Maga world demanding an investigation into crooked Joe.

Joe had an entourage of people who guarded his privacy?!!! Who they tried to shield from the public???!! Knock me over with a feather, I betcha no other President has ever done this before. Fuck him and the MAGA he rode in on

R48 not trolling at all. If this book had been done earlier then Joe does not run a second time and maybe the Dems have a real primary and they win.

The truth coming out is not the problem it should have come out much earlier. Maybe Trump would not be president today.

Biden was not served well

R51 the authors (there are two) didn’t sit on it for a year. The primary sources came out of the woodwork full force after the election. And there lies the rub—it’s the nature of our system. The hope is that we remember, lest we are condemned to repeat.

Did you object to Michael Wolff or Bob Woodward (and Bernstein) sitting on their books? And so on?

R53 yes yes yes.

This book is full of lies and our current president is the one they are covering up his drug abuse, and his cognitive decline. That’s the REAL story.

Peace be with you…you seem to need it.

They’re not lies—

Lies..and who gives a fat fuck when the current president is far worse cognitively.

Team Kimmel

The posters on this thread defending Tapper and his cohort are unwittingly part of the propaganda machine that's been trashing Biden for almost 3 years. This is not about history. This is about opportunism. And the complete, total lack of balanced reporting about Trump is so transparently obvious it is sickening to me how many people fall for this crap. Donald Trump has been an incoherent mess who watches TV when he finally comes down tohis office after noon most days. The photo ops with his executive orders are a complete scam. His lack of basic knowledge and his encouraging violence and perpetuating division and hatred, violating the Constitution, etc. and the have done NOTHING about it. Without the media's collusion Trump could have never become President.

R59 BINGO BINGO BINGO BINGO

The media has fallen.

Going on and on about Trump really doesn’t support your argument that one couldn’t possibly criticize Biden for…anything. We are not in this situation because two guys wrote a book which, by all accounts, is a truthful post-mortem on 2024. Blaming the messenger in post after post is not a good look on you.

Forget Tapper, Kimmel may interview Lindsey Graham instead about her book.

Fine, r52, continue posting your ifs, might haves, should haves and maybes. Again, the rational among us are dealing with the now.

^ which does not negate the value of the information in the book. Two things can be correct at the same time. How can you rationally deal with “the now”without examining “the then.”

R61, who says it's truthful? People have already claimed that things in the book are lies

Jake Tapper loves racist, homophobic Megyn Kelly

Want to comment on r65's post, r64?

This book would be important or even relevant if Biden had run. He dropped out of the fucking race so who gives a shit?

Why did Kimmel book him in the first place?

the story has completely shifted ... Tappers book seems dead in the water

The public now is going to want to know results and timeline of all the cancer tests Biden had.....

and if they weren't given, why the hell not?

It was before they made the cancer announcement, r69.

Jimmy Kimmel is dead to me. I blame him for part of the reason Trump won. Kimmel "normalized" all the Trump behavior by constant monologue jokes and humor.

Oh look... he's thinking of raising tarrifs by 145% - can you believe it?.... the last time I saw that... fuck you Jimmy Kimmel

[quote]He dropped out of the fucking race so who gives a shit?

Well, he was President for 4 years.

Every President gets a slew of books about their Presidency after their term ends.

Why shouldn't Biden?

Biden will get many books written about his Presidency. Unfortunately, the way he left will be a major part of the story. I’d be even more interested to see the books written about Jill.

Here are books about Trump's first term.

Funny some here think Biden should be immune.

Trump is the current cognitively impaired mentally deranged president. Biden dropped out so who gives a fuck if he was declining at the end of his term. The American people still voted for an adjudicated rapist 35 time convicted felon pussy grabbing career criminal pathological lying con artist. he’s actually the president right now. That should be the story right now. Not what the last president did. We have a president who is so mentally impaired. He can’t string together two words that makes sense. And you want us to be concerned about the former president? I don’t fucking think so.

It would matter if we actually had a normal president right now. We don’t so it doesn’t.

“The American people still voted for an adjudicated rapist 35 time convicted felon pussy grabbing career criminal pathological lying con artist.”

Thanks, in a significant part, to the events described in the book.

R72, you're thinking of Jimmy Fallon. Kimmel has been straight up vicious to Trump and I loved every minute of it

R78 no ma’am. No ma’am. The American voters are racist, misogynistic and homophobic. That has nothing to do with Joe Biden. This is all on this stupid dumb fuck American voters. And no one else.

The American voters were given a perfectly fine alternative to a psychopath and they chose white male over colored lady. End of story. Nothing else matters.

R80 Your post makes no sense. Bye now.

[quote]The American voters are racist, misogynistic

Great! Then let's choose a black woman as our Presidential candidate!

Announcement of Jake's imminent publication got Dems worried, so they announced the prostate scare to distract us and have pity of Joe. The public isn't stupid. Prostate or not, we should know what's in the book.

Who farted?

R11, Gayle King may be gone from CBS. Reports today say she's in contract negotiations and may not survive.

[quote] Gayle King may be gone from CBS.

Baby, you’re a fiiiiiiirework! 🧨

Fart. 💨

So much fart.

Tapper stinks.

Good job Jimmy.

[Quote] I’d be even more interested to see the books written about Jill.

You mean Lady Macbeth

R84

Why? Why “should” we know what’s in the book? It’s over. Biden is dying. Let it go.

Yeah, R92… let’s continue the coverup. That’s smart…

The problem is one of the most scandal free administrations of all time has perhaps a “cover-up” about Biden supposed decline instead of just being normal old age and it’s treated as a tea pot dome type scandal. It’s treated more seriously than the actual cognitive decline and mental derangement of our current president. That’s where we have the issue. If we had a normal president in office right now go for it write all the tell alls you want, but to pretend this is some huge scandal is preposterous.

If it had been treated seriously then, Crump wouldn’t be president now.

R94 is right.

I guess everyone has forgotten that GQP patron saint Ronnie Reagan spent his entire second term fully in the throes of Alzheimer’s.

[quote]The problem is one of the most scandal free administrations of all time has perhaps a “cover-up” about Biden supposed decline instead of just being normal old age and it’s treated as a tea pot dome type scandal.

Supposed decline?

And: "perhaps a "cover-up""?

With the word cover-up in quotations?

Try harder R94.

R95 Bullshit. STFU. this is fully on the American voter. It’s not our fault that we nominated the best candidate and the voters chose a complete psychopath rather than a lady of color. We saw this with Hillary as well. Are you pissed that we tried? I’m sorry I don’t give a fuck. The voters are the ones to blame only only only.

R98 Yeah. He was an older guy. He was more frail. But we saw his convention speech. We saw his state of the union speech and he was sharp and on it. All of this is just a concerted effort to rewrite history to put blame where it doesn’t belong.

You and your "ifs", r95.

You can type the same phrasing over and over, but it won’t become any more thoughtful than before.

R100 So sharp as a tack...so totally "on it".......yet booted out of running again. Gee...I wonder why?

R103 because he couldn’t give the stump speeches in the way that the American voter just has to have because they have to be enthralled in order to vote for someone.

R102 pot kettle black

[quote]because he couldn’t give the stump speeches in the way that the American voter just has to have because they have to be enthralled in order to vote for someone.

Oh... so that's why they chose Kamala...

Worse than Watergate. Such a serious scandal.

Good

I hope our nation can survive the scandal of an old man becoming frail, dropping out, and getting terminal cancer. It’d be a horrific if a cognitively impaired president were elected.

Sounds to me as if Tapper is only trying to expose Biden's lies and duplicity. He's throwing light, not shade. JK= knee jerk reaction from third rate intellect...

R109 Ahahahahahahahahahahahah🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Oh you were joking r109? Nvm

R112 No one cares. Keep trying. It won’t work.

Remember the insurrection? No?

Biden is old!

Da Nile is a river in Egypt. You, the deniers, are in caught in the shallows of willful ignorance of our own party’s missteps. What a strange thread.

R115 Oh stuff it up your gaping ass you dumbfuck. Republicans have gone completely bat shit crazy authoritarian fascist but it’s Democrats that have a problem. Yeah OK.

Keep it up, while they pass their one big beautiful bill of shit right under your nose. It didn’t have to be.

R117 That’s on the voters, bitch. You act like they’re innocent. They voted exactly what they wanted. Congrats!

[bold] JIMMY KIMMEL setting the record straight on Tues Episode [/bold]....His adult daughter had a baby last night. So he wanted to be there....

How bold, r119!

Yeah, right, blame Jill, blame Joe, blame his staff, blame the voters, blah, blah, blah. All this finger pointing and yet somehow you fail to fully appreciate, or you have ignored, or you are too obtuse to understand the willful, deliberate collusion of the corporate media in aiding and abetting the election of Trump. Constant talk of a "possible recession" that never materialized, and the strongest economy in the world in spite of a manageable inflation that was hyped relentlessly by the media who read from GOP talking points unedited. The complete lack of anything resembling balanced coverage and the free pass Trump always gets helped to instill fear and division in voters, low information voters

I'm pissed off at Joe. But not just because Joe dropped out so late. Joe got some pretty important stuff wrong. When Obama was POTUS he showcased Joe. He made sure Joe was present, engaged and highly visible as an active working partner. Joe traveled all over the country, got photo ops, and was out here selling the President's policies and programs. Obama had the grace and generosity to do that. But neither Joe nor his staff promoted Kamala. For nearly two years she was nearly invisible. And here again, the media did us no favors. When she was covered she was subject to derision by the Media. Only after Joe dropped out did we discover how vital she was and how she traveled extensively and was engaged when it came to foreign policy, and foreign leaders. Her value was never fully credited. Not by the Bidens, their staff or the Media. On twitter, I saw her t raveling to college campuses and other gatherings and the turnout was very impressive. But it was never covered by the corporate media.

The other thing that pisses me off, and I will never get over is the complete lack of urgency in addressing a fucking insurrection. January 6th 2021 was a shameful, terrible day. Neither Joe Biden nor his AG, Merrick Garland seemed to feel it was urgent to prosecute or to act. We had 147 members of Congress who refused to accept the election results...after the insurrection. We had Trump traveling all over the place insisting for three damned years that the election was stolen. It was shameful. And it rests on the doorstep of Joe Biden. Congress would have acted. He could have called for a special prosecutor and a commission to handle hearings, arrests and prosecutions of EVERYONE involved. Instead he acted like it never happened. But in this book, Jake Tapper is simply trumpeting the GOP's strategy and talking points. The intrinsic historic value of anything in this book is pretty damned thin. Tapper is a whore. He stopped being a journalist years ago.

Thank you, r121.

So, Kimmel is part of the cover up. And Democrats wonder why they're not trusted.

Yes Tapper is a whore for money/fame and glad we agree.

Dancing for dollars on Biden grave even before cancer diagnoses and benefiting Trump. Will probably relocate to Fox.

Isn’t it the usual practice that if someone like Jake Tapper who is a news anchor / commentator who has a fixed news show - shouldn’t he have taken a leave of absence if he wanted to promote this book? George Stephanopolis is a writer - in a million years the network would not have allowed him to be on GMA and hawk an anti Biden ( or anti Trump book ) while he was still an anchor. Writing about LBJ, Watergate, the history of the FBI, the Cuban Missle Crises ok. But the people who Tapper is writing about are past and future guests of his show and our political future. By referring to it as a coverup he is casting a shadow of doubt over the democrats that we need to fight against Trump. Look at all of these spineless republican assholes voting on the middle of the night tonight covering for and lying for Trump. Jake Tapper’s smug and casual attack on the Biden administration a mere 100 days after it is over makes me sick.

It’s bad enough that we lost 0-3. Stress inducing. We don’t need to rehash that significant loss by knowing why we lost.

[quote]Funny some here think Biden should be immune.

R75 Democrats are hypocrites.

They don't want balanced reporting, just for the news to always say good things about Democrats and bad things about Republicans.

They used to get away with it when the liberal legacy media (TV, film, radio, newspapers, magazines) was relevant and influential.

But nowadays social media has thrown them for a loop, because they can't control the narrative anymore and it bugs the fuck out of them.

Also, social media is proving Democrats to be un-American and anti-USA and very emotionally unstable!

The future looks grim for the party and liberalism in general.

Kimmel has always gone hard on Trump and in return Trump cancelled research into the heart problems that Jimmy's son was born with. Seriously

R128 Oh STFU you unhinged lunatic. Projection much? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Kimmel should have him on and flip the script grilling him about his thoughts on Dump’s mental capacity.

I smell fart 💨.

[quote] Also, social media is proving Democrats to be un-American and anti-USA and very emotionally unstable!

Hi Mr. President! 👋

Kimmel is a weak cunt afraid to rip Tapper on TV. Kimmel could have stepped up instead he took a seat and was silent and nowhere to be seen.

I'm halfway through the book. I didn't pay for it.

Not surprisingly the writing is clunky and repetitious. I admit to enjoying the gossip.

Basically the book argues that Biden's health issues were apparent and concerning through his entire first term but his inner circle refused any discussion of the subject. His closest aids were more like family members and circled the wagons when it came to suggestions that Biden's constant stepping on rakes, poor stamina, poor memory, incoherent speeches indicated he was in bad shape.. Four of Biden's closest advisors were the only people Biden listened to. People in his administration said they were basically running the country. Obama said he thought Biden's long term advisors were not politically astute.

The book goes on and on in this forensic vein, how Dems like Nancy Pelosi were shielded from Biden's decline and since his record so far was strong there was little reason to dump him. And the point was made that Washington has a history of protecting incapacitated senators and even Presidents.. (Was Kennedy really high on drugs during the Bay of Pigs crisis?)

Whether any of these disclosures, assuming they're an accurate picture of Biden's term are 'lessons' for the Dems, not sure what hose wold be. Don't pick an old guy next time? This is not the first book on the subject btw and they all say the same thing. Biden was surrounded buy enablers who kept his secrets. We get it.

not sure what *those would* be

It's BS. And who cares now. They want to tarnish his vast legacy. We saw his great SOTU speeches. He went off script many times and was great. He often tried to grasp easier words to say due to his stutter. He was a GREAT president.

[quote]But we saw his convention speech. We saw his state of the union speech and he was sharp and on it.

R100 yes, old Joe could read the fuck out of a teleprompter. And that’s about the extent of it, as anyone with eyeballs could tell.

The “poor Joe Biden” fans on this thread are all exactly the same “Mighty Joe Biden” fans on all the pre-2024 election threads.

Reagan had Alzheimer's when he was President. Woodrow Wilson was rendered unconscious from a massive stroke, for months. Tapper's faux outrage pisses me off. It's not only Joe Biden's fault we have Trump for President. Tapper and the Media deserve more responsibility than they're willing to accept. Tapper would rather distract us than face that truth. And R126 is right. But I have a feeling Tapper may be on his way out after this. Backlash is coming for him. Right now he's groveling for his corporate masters who supported Trump.

I hope Tapper looses so many viewers that the network eventually cancels his show. See how long he can live on his putrid book royalties. Sorry bastard.

You seem so invested in distraction, r138.

Well it seems Kimmel had to cancel his live taping because his daughter had a baby which he generously shared with a video of himself and all his family at the hospital and a hilarious call with his Aunt Chippy to give her the news.

Donald Trump COULDN'T OPEN SIMPLE BOX After Bragging About "Acing Cognitive Test!!!"

Weren't Jake Tapper and Dana Gash the moderators of that awful debate? As I recall they sat there like bumps on a log and had no push back at all on Trump's lies.

[quote]Fuck him

I have sufficient.

R142 which means this entire thread is useless. But we knew that part already.

John Stewart nails it....

Ireland's President is in his 80's and he can hardly walk without assistance.

That book is being pushed like 24 7 on CNN with every anchor asking any random guest what they think about Biden's deception. My guess is that the Maga overlords at CNN told everyone to push it hard. They don't care about pushback, they want those sweet Maga ratings

I don't get CNN. I thought MAGA hated it because their orange cult leader told them CNN was the devil. Those people will never watch that channel.

Hope springs eternal, r150.

[Quote] Ireland's President is in his 80's and he can hardly walk without assistance.

R148 It's not about physical strength. We're not asking a leader or president to enter the Olympics. It's about cognitive ability and Biden was confused, unable to complete a thought, his memory was shot and his mind wandered.

R152 No, BS lies.

[quote] Biden was confused, unable to complete a thought, his memory was shot and his mind wandered.

Right, and Trump is not.

R149 someone at CNN is definitely getting paid for this. The thing is, I don't see how any of it matters at this point and it just makes MAGA look even more foolish.

R153 R154 was Biden's cognitive decline so bad that the left was able to take advantage of that. In this disturbing clip he looks like your old uncle wandering around as everyone else pays him no mind. This was the leader of the free world.

Yes, r156, let's discuss this instead of a certain big, beautiful bill.

You aren't fooling anybody.

r156...

I have the cunt R156 blocked for good reason.

[quote] Biden was confused, unable to complete a thought, his memory was shot and his mind wandered.

The operative word is "was". I don't understand what people think they're gaining by ranting about Pres. Biden's faults were when he was POTUS. Nothing they do or say is going to change a thing. People who concentrate on the past are fools.

R158 OH, look over there! Let's ignore Joe's clear cognitive decline It was just a cold or jet lag. All the denial is the reason why Trump won. During the debate between Biden and Trump it became clear that Biden was losing it. If the Dems had addressed the obvious earlier, they might have been able to beat Trump, but they waited too long

You’re no George Santayana…

…more like Constanza

For R160^

Who gives a shit? We know Biden is old and was not as sharp as he used to be. The difference between Trump (who has cognitive issues too) is that the government was stable and run well.

Now we're subject to the whims of an addled nutcase criminal seeking revenge. I'll take a slowed down Joe Biden any day over what's going on now.

Exactly R162 I was just going to say that people can learn from their past mistakes as some Dems apparently have not. they're still in denial

R160 Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

r161 is the reason the word trifle was invented.

[quote][R160] Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Like Hitler, r165?

[quote][R158] OH, look over there! Let's ignore Joe's clear cognitive decline

r161 = OH, look over there! Let's ignore Trump's clear cognitive decline

Is that the best you can do R168 that hardly proves Biden was 'sharp as a tack'

[quote] Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

So you’re expecting another octogenarian with dementia to occupy the White House in the near future?

Yeah. I don’t see that happening again.

This is just a really high profile example of punching down. And with the cancer diagnosis it just looks tacky and tasteless.

The hypocrisy though is very interesting. The cover-up of Reagan’s Alzheimer’s is looked at as trying to preserve his dignity and legacy. With Biden, they’ve attached all kinds of sinister motivations to it.

Oh well. Democrats are wimps. Water is wet.

Some of the posters here are so far up Biden's ass that it's amazing that they didn't discover his cancer

[quote]So you’re expecting another octogenarian with dementia to occupy the White House in the near future? Yeah. I don’t see that happening again.

It will happen again on June 14, 2026.

[Quote] This is just a really high profile example of punching down. And with the cancer diagnosis it just looks tacky and tasteless.

R170 It's about the gaslighting and the White House and the media's attempts to cover it up. Isn't that what the book that's the topic of this thread is about?

[quote] Some of the posters here are so far up Biden's ass that it's amazing that they didn't discover his cancer.

It’s not about being up his ass. It’s about moving on. People moved on from the insurrection pretty quickly.

Meanwhile, a shady Middle Eastern country just donated the next Air Force One. No problems there, right? Let’s focus on a half dead man who’s a shell of what he used to be and no longer has any relevance instead.

Biden is and was senile. Next.

R172 = Jeanne Dixon.

172 gets it. Both parties are responsible for their predicaments. A pox on both their houses.

[Quote] I have the cunt R156 blocked for good reason.

stunning and brave 🙈🙉🙊

Maybe this is a wake up call for us to start paying attention to our current president's cognitive decline, rambling speeches and slurred words.

Kimmel was right about cancelling Tapper's appearance. With Biden having failing health issues it's just in bad taste to promote someone with a book tarnishing his rep. Tapper's already proved himself to be an asshole and Kimmel has every right to cancel his appearance. Let CNN have him.

There are too many assholes now emboldened by Trump's rhetoric at this point. America is a failing country.

I'm thinking both things can be true, and Kimmel was on the fence. My speculation:

He had a pit in his stomach about having to go thru with the Tapper interview. His daughter going into labor gave him the perfect, acceptable excuse to get out of it. He took it as fate.

I'm fine with the decision. He can always reschedule Tapper, and choose to go after Tapper's decision to write the book if he wants to. The ratings will be even higher.

Point to a post of mine where I said Joe was sharp as a tack, r169.

R180 Agreed. And their path was made easier by failures on the other side.

[quote][R170] It's about the gaslighting and the White House and the media's attempts to cover it up.

Would you like to hold Congressional hearings on it right now, r173? That would be a delightful diversion, wouldn't it?

[quote]And their path was made easier by failures on the other side.

LoL, r183. Keep trolling.

[Quote] LoL, [R183]. Keep trolling.

and you do likewise trollina

My only takeaway from this is that anyone of Biden's inner circle should not be hired by any campaign in the future. However, since I have no control over that, then the only other lesson is don't vote for fossils. Okie dokie? Lets move on,

R182 that's what people like Joe Scarborough were saying about Joe in 2024. Do try and keep up.

Rita Panahi slams Democrats who said Joe Biden was ‘as sharp as a tack’

R184 (and/or many posters here) don’t seem to hold the Biden team or the party accountable for anything that went wrong in the election—is that fair to say? If not, in your view, then what responsibility do they, or should they have, in that regard?

Rita Papussyface

[quote][R184] (and/or many posters here) don’t seem to hold the Biden team or the party accountable for anything that went wrong in the election—is that fair to say?

No, 189, it isn't. Who here is saying that the Biden team has no accountability? You seem to be ignorant of the *much* more pressing issues facing us. How does taking out valuable time right now to parse blame have priority? Stop trifling.

Thanks for actually proving the point—you don’t want to engage in a substantive discussion. Got it now.

LoL, r192, whatever.

This is a clear case of diversion. Dotard is failing. The economy is faltering. He's clearly mentally unhinged. He's in decline. He has a horribly incompetent team around him.

Anyone blaming Democrats or promoting this absurd story is clearly trying to divert attention from Dotard and his ongoing disastrous presidency.

Trump rambles incoherently as stunned crowd looks on

And they're so blatant as to be absurd about it, r194.

Trump FURIOUS at being asked ACTUAL QUESTIONS

Anyone blaming Democrats or promoting this absurd story is clearly trying to divert attention from Dotard and his ongoing disastrous presidency.

That’s what you see every day you wake up? Have you seen an ophthalmologist? He might help with clouded vision.

perspective *

;)

Question: has anyone on this thread actually *read* Jake’s book?

R194 sounds a bit like a bizzaro universe version of the tin hat crowd—it’s as lil very strange.

I'm sorry Miss but I have problems of my own

So all the comments are about a non event. He didn’t refuse to appear with Tapper. Great because that made absolutely no sense.

The amount of whataboutism on this thread is hilarious.

Jake’s book is only about ONE aspect of the Biden’s presidency — the obvious cover-up of Biden’s mental and physical collapse. If the media had been honest and transparent about his condition much earlier, we probably wouldn’t be in the position we’re in right now. And in regards to Biden’s stage 5 horrible cancer, which was announced right before the release of this book, there are only two possible scenarios. One: that somehow, incredibly, this aggressive cancer went totally unnoticed by the health care providers for the President of the United States for the past few years. Or two: They knew about it and chose to hide it from the public. Which one is more believable at this point? You don’t suddenly get cancer that bad in a matter of 200 days. Could White House doctors be so incompetent to not catch that?

It’s not a discussion separate from our democracy —it’s a discussion very much essential to democracy. If you are stuck in the now, and unwilling to fully consider how we got here and how best to get out of it, then you’re not exactly part of any solution.

R204 that’s not the case—there’s already been much medical reporting that this could be something than either of your two options. You don’t sound much more serious than the people you want to criticize.

other than*

R201 You are not a serious person and we know your agenda.

[quote]If the media had been honest and transparent about his condition much earlier, we probably wouldn’t be in the position we’re in right now.

r204 = Cassandra

[quote]You don’t suddenly get cancer that bad in a matter of 200 days. Could White House doctors be so incompetent to not catch that?

Are you unaware, even though it's been posted several times, of the frequency of PSA tests in old men?

OPs post needed “for reasons well-known to her”

If only the media had reported on Joe's age???? Are you fucking kidding me? That's all they talked about for the last 4 years.

When you assert that the man was mentally incompetent or "failing" and say that his staff engaged in a cover up to hide his mental and physical failings, you are actually putting him and his entire Presidency on trial. You are casting doubt and undermining any good work or anything he said. And that is what this is about. Fuck Tapper and anyone else who chooses to distract us with this while Trump is burning down our Democracy. And the Media who colluded with Trump are getting a free pass. His "big beautiful" legislative package is basically Project 2025 written into law. He is tearing down everything brick by brick.

R211 Exactly. His every move was scrutinized beyond belief. Every stutter was Code Red. They flipped out when he fell off his bike, but didn’t marvel that an 80+ year old man rode a bike regularly.

R212 Nailed it. Beautifully said.

On the VP front, they attacked Kamala for laughing while JD is allowed to be a shapeshifter.

[quote] If the media had been honest and transparent about his condition much earlier, we probably wouldn’t be in the position we’re in right now.

I call bullshit.

If Biden had announced his intention to run for only one term, and the Democrats had a convention, the nominee would have been…Kamala Harris. She would have been regarded as next in line, and black women would have abandoned the party If she wasn’t the candidate. No white candidate would have dared run against her. She wouldn’t have been rushed to put a campaign together, true, but she would have been the same lackluster candidate. Frankly, if she had had more time it might have been worse.

[quote] Question: has anyone on this thread actually *read* Jake’s book?

I’ve just started it. Proust he ain’t.

I'm an eldergay. Time is currency to me. I won't waste mine reading that shit. I can't stand Tapper, never could, and the fact that CNN is pushing this book so hard 24/7 makes my contrarian self determined NOT to read it. I'm surprised every employee hasn't been given their own copy bought by Discovery for everyone. Also very interesting to me that all the corporate media, on every single network, is piling on Biden, and lauding Tapper. That should give one pause, n' est pas? They sure are enjoying this, all the media in unison, sticking together. Who knew.

Wait, Jake Tapper has a book out? Why isn't he publicizing it?!

[quoter]If you are stuck in the now, and unwilling to fully consider how we got here and how best to get out of it, then you’re not exactly part of any solution.

LoL, r205, we *know* how we got here - it was a combination of things. How will having an autopsy of Joe's term right now "get us out of" MAGA destroying our Democracy? Please be specific.

[quote]How will having an autopsy of Joe's term right now "get us out of" MAGA destroying our Democracy? Please be specific.

Have you seen the results of polling about the Democratic party's approval ? All polling shows them with a huge credibility problem. Yet you want the cover-up to continue? How will that help the Democrats? If what Tapper has written is true, it would be best to own it unafraid.

[quote]Have you seen the results of polling about the Democratic party's approval ? All polling shows them with a huge credibility problem. Yet you want the cover-up to continue? How will that help the Democrats? If what Tapper has written is true, it would be best to own it unafraid

LoL, r219, that would *really* help them with their "credibility problem". Are you retarded?

^ r220

LOL R221 is so stupid he wants the Dems to deny everything. Let's cancel Jake Tapper!

[quote]LOL R221 is so stupid he wants the Dems to deny everything. Let's cancel Jake Tapper!

Where did I post that, drama queen @ r223?

It's disheartening to see how easily the public is manipulated by the corporate media and the powers that set their agenda. This is a non story story in the scheme of things. There is absolutely no proof Joe shit on the floor at any time. He did G7 and he did the NATO stuff and he met with Zelenskyy. Of course he had lapses. He is old. But believe me he was not the only POTUS who's had lapses. He's definitely not the only POTUS who's staff has "shielded him. Remember. The Media has demonstrated they're very selective in who t hey decide to trash. I have no problem with an examination of the competencies of our leaders. But let's do a real examination. Let's include Trump. Let's count the many times the Media turned a blind eye to the Bushes. Or Reagan. Does anyone here remember Silverado Savings and Loan..... There's a lot of reasons we are in this fix. And right now we can't afford to be lazy and careless in our thinking. It would be so easy to over simplify.

in summary R225

[Quote] Let's include Trump.

…which has happened and is ongoing. The difference being that is many defects have not and will not make any difference to his base or the party. Therein lies the rub.

[quote]The difference being that is many defects have not and will not make any difference to his base or the party.

The difference, r227, is that he's the *current* President and therefore makes Joe Biden history. They aren't going to vote for *any* Democrat.

That is gobbledygook

More projection, r229?

R225 Well said. The media is on a rampage like I have never seen in their quest to go after Biden with everything they have. It’s really shocking. It’s shocking because of our current president.

I don’t care what the Democratic Party’s polling is right now. It’s going to change. We all know what the agenda is some of the posters here. And it’s not the well-being of the Democratic Party.

The corporate media is an absolute threat to our country right now.

The corporate media is an absolute threat to our country right now.

-that’s MY line. Donald J. Trump

Thank you FCI. You carry a lot of weight with me when it comes to politics. Some of our posters may not know your background.

Do tell

Greg Olear wrote a great substack nailing Tapper.