Opinion: Three recent books about the 2024 presidential campaign highlight former President Biden's deterioration — and together paint a powerful picture of a presidency in dangerous denial, writes author James Kirchick.
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Wondering if there is a push about Reagan’s enablers?
may 20, 2025, 1:17 pm • 0 0 • view
The new "but her Emails".
may 20, 2025, 12:29 pm • 24 1 • view
Joe Biden's political career is over....
may 20, 2025, 12:47 pm • 1 0 • view
You let the party and your country down Joe by arrogantly deciding to run again.
may 20, 2025, 12:34 pm • 1 0 • view
But why does the current president think there are 9 stages of cancer? Or that Revolutionary war troops took over the airports? What about right now?!
may 20, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Again, politico...fuck off
may 20, 2025, 12:32 pm • 11 0 • view
Get off the bad opinion read of this decade. Biden isn't president anymore.
may 20, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
The most dangerous denial is Trump. A living lunatic with a nuclear launcher.
may 20, 2025, 12:38 pm • 1 0 • view
I've heard there's a President right now who started a trade war because he doesn't understand how the fuck a tarriff works, and who's ruining his own voters' lives, but go off.
may 20, 2025, 1:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Opinion: Politico's CEO Mathias Döpfner exhorted top executives to pray for Trump's re-election, here's why we shouldn't take anything seriously published by their ghoulish correspondents in dangerous denial: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
may 20, 2025, 1:00 pm • 1 0 • view
😒
may 20, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Trump is literally sundowning in office and you want to report on this crap
may 20, 2025, 12:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Who fucking cares?
may 20, 2025, 12:30 pm • 9 0 • view
This is a job for future historians. You are not meeting the moment.
may 20, 2025, 1:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Unfollowing Politico. Trump’s admin is destroying our country while Trump himself babbles incoherently and THIS is what you are talking about?!
may 20, 2025, 12:38 pm • 6 1 • view
Yeah keep focusing on this and not on the serious mental decline of the current president 🤦
may 20, 2025, 12:30 pm • 11 0 • view
Who gives a shit? What does this have to do with the senile fascist in office? Brave journalism. Hard hitting stories enabling the Trump regime. Do better.
may 20, 2025, 1:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Our current president is in an unprecedented state of cognitive decline and audibly shits his pants but we are talking about Biden again?
may 20, 2025, 12:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Our current president, trump, is in daily denial of his senility and this puts us all in a very dangerous position. Trump's dictatorial tendencies are shining through with the help of yes-men like Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio and Mike Johnson to name a few. The budget will show the hatred!
may 20, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
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may 20, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm so sick of the Biden bashing all legacy & more news is doing. It is absolutely pathetic when we are literally in an authoritarian coup. 47 acts mentally incapable ALL DAY LONG, EVERY FKG DAY & you are silent.
may 20, 2025, 12:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Nothing about Trump who should be in prison? Leave Biden alone.
may 20, 2025, 12:29 pm • 21 1 • view
If we are worried about the Deterioration of a President, I would be more focused on the current, than the former
may 20, 2025, 12:32 pm • 17 1 • view
hey Politico: how about focusing on the imminent destruction of our democracy and the people responsible for what’s happening RIGHT NOW 🤦♀️
may 20, 2025, 1:02 pm • 1 0 • view
STFU with this look back. The clearest and most eminent danger is here NOW
may 20, 2025, 12:30 pm • 7 0 • view
Who cares?!He's a good and decent man who helped our country at the right time. I'm sick of ghouls who want to profit by demeaning a great man who gave his all to his country!These 'writers' never shouldered the responsibilities Biden had, they would have smeared FDR in his wheelchair!
may 20, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Biden brought America back. Knowing when to step aside is hard when you're still great at the job. His passion was for us, not power. He deserves thanks. This drivel ignores the real story: Trump’s corruption, Republican complicity, and the urgent need for unflinching journalism. This ain't it.
may 20, 2025, 1:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Let's focus on the current guy in power who's mental decline is far worse.
may 20, 2025, 12:34 pm • 2 0 • view
You give Regan a pass and jump on Biden. Why? Biden is not the reason we have a demented psychopath in office now. The American people are. We collectively voted for a criminal. Write a book about that.
may 20, 2025, 12:42 pm • 3 0 • view
I don’t care! 8647
may 20, 2025, 12:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Perhaps it would be more appropriate to talk about what’s happening in the current presidency?
may 20, 2025, 1:01 pm • 1 0 • view
This is why I quit reading your articles or watching any of your talking heads on corporate media. Always capitulating to old news, while a convicted felon racist rapist is president. You’ve sold your souls.
may 20, 2025, 12:40 pm • 10 1 • view
The thing about aggressive cancer is that it’s aggressive. It moves fast. It does not take years to progress.
may 20, 2025, 1:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Would you rather have had Trump those years, when Covid was still raging and would've killed millions more?! I don't see any point at all to this sort of analysis. It takes focus away from finding a way to minimize and reverse the damage being caused by the current president who clearly is demented.
may 20, 2025, 12:34 pm • 1 0 • view
reported like a true Trumpian. FOCUS ON THE BULLSHIT HAPPENING IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
may 20, 2025, 12:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Is continually posting this garbage the way you get back into the WH press briefing?
may 20, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
It was about his pride and overconfidence. Power blinds from reality very easy.
may 20, 2025, 12:31 pm • 0 0 • view
"(One feels slightly more respect for Jill learning that she has since expressed private regret for this performance.)" Quite the opposite. It's no better than a Rep. who privately opposes Trump, or a child's insincere regret that their trick didn't work. The shameful legacy of the Bidens is Trump.
may 20, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ll take a declining Biden over a known con man and criminal as president any day.
may 20, 2025, 12:38 pm • 8 0 • view
So many good critiques of these rapscallion books already in your replies, I concur with them. Get the F off the Biden beat down and cover the far more dangerous WH occupant.
may 20, 2025, 12:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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may 20, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Damn, I guess that I won't be voting for Joe Biden in 2028.
may 20, 2025, 1:07 pm • 0 0 • view
The corporate media cowards were complicit in Fascist Felon's election twice. They know where their bread is buttered. He's great for clicks, likes, & viewership for them. Also, many are just afraid of him & his MAGA mob. Just ask the kneeling bitches at ABC, CBS, Washington Post, LA Times, etc.
may 20, 2025, 12:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I would 1000% rather have a decent man Joe Biden, who's surrounded by qualified smart people, be 'Weekend at Bernies' around for 4 more years than a lawless grifting fascist felon wrecking all of our democratic & constitutional norms.
may 20, 2025, 12:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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may 20, 2025, 12:36 pm • 10 1 • view
‘The Press Has Sanewashed Trump’s Dementia and Mental Illness’: Dr. John Gartner The psychologist and founder of Duty to Warn says the aging Trump has dementia and is severely mentally ill. mindsitenews.org/2025/04/01/s...
may 20, 2025, 12:35 pm • 11 3 • view
The corporate media has been gaslighting us for a long time, while they ignored the severe mental decline & existential threat to democracy from the convicted felon-rapist-sex abuser-bank fraudster-insurrectionist-dictator wannabe who's surrounded by similar criminals & liars.
may 20, 2025, 12:34 pm • 2 0 • view
Hard to take a book about alleged deterioration of Biden, an elderly stutterer, written by "journalists" who sane washed Trump and continue to frame him as a normal politician and not the court adjudicated rapist/felon/fraud/ authoritarian/lawbreaking POTUS he is.
may 20, 2025, 12:35 pm • 11 0 • view
💯💯💯
may 20, 2025, 12:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Enough.
may 20, 2025, 12:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Let me say it plain AGAIN, I would rather a senile Pres. Biden,than a felon hunting people that disagree with him, ALL DAY LONG!!!
may 20, 2025, 12:33 pm • 2 0 • view
Opinions are indeed like assholes! Thanks for confirming!
may 20, 2025, 12:32 pm • 3 0 • view
That opinion should have been written and should be written about the current occupant in the White House...he says things like: "An old-fashioned term that we use – groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it.” 😱
may 20, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh fuck off
may 20, 2025, 12:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Definitely the presidency ypu should be focusing on right now. Maybe put out some articles about Grover Cleveland and his bunions next...
may 20, 2025, 1:22 pm • 1 0 • view
How about media having a serious national conversation about this man’s mental health - 3.5 years to go. We are f’d:
may 20, 2025, 1:15 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t get it. Trump acts endlessly corrupt and insane on a daily basis and you give him this propaganda now?! Why don’t we discuss how Nancy Reagan may have run the government for a while because of Reagan’s dementia. There aren’t enough clandestine GOP hearings to keep you busy? Thanks.
may 20, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Now do a story on the 🍊💩 miracle ear.
may 20, 2025, 12:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Piss off
may 20, 2025, 1:22 pm • 0 0 • view
may 20, 2025, 12:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Why the fuck does this matter right now? We will eventually need to reform the government to enshrine norms into law. Let’s have a very important discussion about THIS THEN.
may 20, 2025, 12:34 pm • 2 0 • view
JUST STOP!
may 20, 2025, 12:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Reagan demonstrated that we can survive a president with full-fledged Alzheimer’s. But only if they’re surrounded by competent people who are not actively colluding to destroy the country.
may 20, 2025, 12:33 pm • 5 1 • view
...and we lost because of it. The lesson is not hard to figure out... don't support 80 year olds running for President again. Done-Next...! Is this our way of coping with the horror we are in right now? This continuous autopsy of Joe Biden accomplishes nothing to get us out of this nightmare.
may 20, 2025, 12:41 pm • 1 0 • view
But what is happening in the White House right now?
may 20, 2025, 12:28 pm • 37 0 • view
Yeah why the hell do they think we want them paying attention to this s***? What the f*** is the current president doing @$$holes?! They need to knock off the damn distraction techniques already, it ain't working.
may 20, 2025, 12:32 pm • 23 2 • view
Trump is burning America to the ground, and this is what you insist on talking about. Dumb books. You're useless.
may 20, 2025, 12:32 pm • 8 0 • view
WTF is the point of all this relitigation of Biden? Nothing other than feeding the Trump cult. Fuck all the way off.
may 21, 2025, 12:44 am • 1 0 • view
Unfrickin real! The current POTUS is robbing the country blind, committing treason and breaking the law and the media is helping him focus on narratives about the former guy. How about calling out the demented Felon and let Biden retire in peace?
may 20, 2025, 4:15 pm • 6 5 • view
Seriously? Biden was one of the most prodigious presidents we’ve had in a generation. If that’s how he works sick, we were lucky to have him. Lay off. We have fascists to fight.
may 20, 2025, 12:30 pm • 20 1 • view
So Trump didn't win the Election, Biden and Family well and truly LOST IT, THREW IT AWAY.
may 20, 2025, 12:51 pm • 0 0 • view
This news publication seems to be in dangerous denial of what’s actually happening today, instead reporting on things that previously happened that have no bearing on what’s actually happening.
may 20, 2025, 12:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Yet with all this horrible mental decline the economy was booming, inflation was coming down, unemployment was low, we weren’t in a trade war with every nation on the planet, people weren’t being abducted off the street and renditioned to foreign torture prisons…but those eggs.
may 20, 2025, 12:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Is Biden seriously the most scandalous president to be writing about right now? For fuck's sake, lol.
may 20, 2025, 12:34 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t give a fuck. We have a convicted moron in place of a president. Wake the fuck up!
may 20, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Even if President Biden was in a coma he would be more competent than these GOP bozo's in Congress & his cabinet.
may 20, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Biden old! 🙄 No fucking shit Sherlock. Did he get us into any new decades long wars? Did he improve the economy? Reduce UE/ inflation? Increase wages? Actually give us tangible returns on taxes we pay (IRA, Infrastructure)? Reduce child hunger? Lead on environmental issues? Common sense gun laws?
may 20, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Disturbing piece.....the current President is WORSE PRESIDENT EVER...WHY WONT YOU SAY SO? He's killing us by taking our money. He's taking our healthcare. He's taking clean water. HES KILLING US.
may 20, 2025, 12:41 pm • 8 2 • view
SMH. Why publish this shite?
may 20, 2025, 12:29 pm • 17 1 • view
Oh yeah I guess we should impeach him.....oh wait we have a fucking bigger lunatic in the WH destroying democracy by 1000 cuts! But please tell is more about biden. Even though he's out retired and fighting cancer.
may 20, 2025, 12:30 pm • 17 1 • view
ENOUGH! STOP. PAY ATTENTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT
may 20, 2025, 12:43 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m thinking his pardons are going bye-bye.
may 20, 2025, 12:36 pm • 0 0 • view
The author Mr Kirchick, is wading into the waters of false equivalency along with his maga brethren. How’s the water Mr Kirchick?
may 20, 2025, 12:36 pm • 1 0 • view