Breaking news: Joe Biden might be senile, sources allege 👉 Updatem News

Covering up the Biden cover-up.
Journalist gets remedial course in human decency.
Why Hunter Biden threatened Jake Tapper at the Super Bowl.
Ousted DNC vice chair David Hogg reaps what he sows.

It’s Friday, May 16, 2025

It was a bad week for Democrats, who are already gearing up for a 2028 primary season that promises to be an even bigger shitshow than the last one. That’s a really high bar, even for Democrats, but we’re confident they can deliver the goods. The 2020 primary was so insane it rendered a widely heralded candidate, Kamala Harris, unelectable in the general election due to the ridiculous left-wing policies she embraced (on camera) to placate party activists. Even a competent candidate would have struggled to defend her enthusiastic support for taxpayer-funded sex-change operations for incarcerated illegal immigration.

Egg prices are falling, or as CNN bitterly acknowledged: “Trump’s egg price fiction has suddenly become reality.” Inflation dropped to its slowest pace since 2021. Nancy Pelosi’s incredible financial luck may soon dry up after Trump endorsed a stock trading ban for members of Congress. Meanwhile, Democrats and their media allies scrambled to defend themselves this week after the first excerpts dropped from Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. We found out Biden would likely have been confined to a wheelchair during his second term if he’d managed to win reelection, and learned that he didn’t recognize George Clooney at the now-infamous Hollywood fundraiser days before the CNN debate. If he wasn’t president of the United States and running for reelection at the age of 81, it would be one of the funniest things Biden has ever done.

Original Spin: None of these revelations are particularly surprising. By February 2024, almost 90 percent of Americans could see that Biden was too old and cognitively impaired to serve another term. Like, no shit he was. While previewing his book on CNN this week, Tapper explained how sources told him that Biden would often “mumble incoherently” in meetings at the White House, which is “something the public only got glimpses of.” Seriously? Only glimpses? The Washington Free Beacon has at least two hours of footage dating back to 2022 of Biden mumbling incoherently and wandering off stage on a weekly basis. Tapper has sought to absolve almost everyone outside of the president’s inner circle for enabling the cover-up of Biden’s decline. The White House was “lying” to everyone, he said. Who could’ve known? Not Tapper, apparently. The CNN host described Biden as mentally “sharp” in September 2023 and seemed confident the president would pass a mental acuity test.

There’s a lot of blame to go around: What’s happening now is the guilty parties are working to minimize the blast radius of culpability. Journalists are eager to blame Democratic leaders and the White House aides whose lies they believed and repeated. As Mark Halperin said this week, they’d rather not admit the truth that many of them “allowed themselves to believe the ridiculous spin on TV and in public, and privately they allowed themselves to be browbeat” by Biden aides who threatened to cut off access if they didn’t fall in line. Democratic leaders are just as eager to blame Biden and his inner circle for hiding the truth about his decline (that was obvious to everyone else). Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) said multiple times this week that Democrats are “looking forward,” while refusing to discuss his past comments defending Biden as “in command and impressive” and denouncing reports of his decline as “right-wing propaganda.” Chuck Todd, one of the journalists insisting the cover-up of Biden’s decline was “not a media scandal,” slammed Schumer’s response: “Go home. You’re part of the problem.”

Fact check: This was a media scandal, and Chuck Schumer was part of the problem, as the following excerpt from Original Sin makes clear. Biden’s incoherent mumbling reminded Schumer of his mother “who had Parkinson’s,” but he was mostly concerned about “optics” and “electability.”

Clean up on aisle decline: Tapper hired Risa Heller, a crisis communications expert, to teach him how to be “nicer” to colleagues and critics during the book rollout. Heller has advised many notable clients including Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes, Zoom masturbator Jeffrey Toobin, and convicted pervert Anthony Weiner during his (first) dick-pic scandal. Before that, she worked as Chuck Schumer’s communications director. Heller’s remedial training in human decency could explain why Tapper has gone out of his way to praise Annie Linskey and Siobhan Hughes, the Wall Street Journal reporters who were universally denounced by Democrats for writing about Biden’s decline in early June 2024, weeks before the debate. “The journalism you did was vital, and the smear campaign by Democrats against you two is disgraceful,” he said this week.

It would be accurate to describe most journalists as Democrats, but we’re pretty sure that’s not what Tapper meant. Politicians weren’t the only ones who freaked out after Linskey and Hughes exposed the truth. Oliver Darcy, Tapper’s former colleague at CNN, slammed the Journal for “playing into a GOP-propelled narrative that the 81-year-old president lacks the fitness to hold the nation’s highest office.” He asserted (without evidence) that “Democratic leadership has demonstrated a much stronger relationship with the truth in recent years than their Republican counterparts,” and included a fiery statement from Andrew Bates, the former White House spokesman who defended Biden’s mental fitness to the bitter end. Darcy, a proud cat owner, seemed to imply that the Journal should apologize to the American people. Another CNN “media expert,” Brian Stelter, aka Mr. Potato Socks, worried that Biden could lose the election if the Journal and other media outlets kept obsessing over his age.

Bottom line: Just admit it, filthy journos. You hate Donald Trump and want Democrats to win. It’s not your special secret. We already know. There is just no other explanation for your simpering credulity and relentless snide attack on Biden’s critics you accused of peddling “misinformation” for suggesting the president was a senile buffoon who had no business running for office.

Crackhead connection: Former CNN reporter Dylan Byers relayed an amusing story about an interaction between Jake Tapper and Hunter Biden at the Super Bowl in 2018. They ran into each other at a pregame party for “notable” Philadelphia Eagles fans. Tapper said hello to former vice president Joe Biden before greeting Hunter, who proceeded to “put his arm around Tapper’s shoulders and told him that, if the two men were not in a public setting, ‘I would knock you out.'” Hunter, who was presumably in the midst of one of his many crack binges, apparently believed that Tapper had reported on the (true) allegations of his rampant drug use and even more rampant adultery. “With hands raised,” Byers reports, “Tapper sought to assure Hunter that he had done no such reporting.”

Analysis: What a pussy.

Looking forward: The Democratic Party is in trouble if Ben Rhodes, the failed novelist and Iran apologist who represented the Obama administration at Fidel Castro’s funeral, has become the voice of reason. “Democrats need to understand that being able to say [Biden should not have run again] is not just about the past—it’s about having any credibility with voters in the future,” Rhodes said this week in response to similar comments from Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.), a possible contender in the 2028 primary. Khanna praised Biden as “completely mentally sharp” in 2024.

Other Democrats who are definitely running in 2028 are content to embrace the Schumer method of changing the subject to avoid explaining why they defended Biden so passionately in 2024. We won’t let them forget.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D., Ill.) in 2024: “He is on the ball. The man knows more than most of us have forgotten.”

Pritzker in 2025: “Look all this stuff about his health or, you know, commentary that people are making in books, uh, frankly, that’s very backward looking.”

Sen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) in 2024: “Joe Biden is incredibly competent, and he’s incredibly effective.”

Murphy in 2025: “Obviously, in retrospect, we should have done something different.”

Pete Buttigieg in 2024: “The president, the boss that I work for, is a focused and disciplined leader.”

Buttigieg in 2025: “Right now with the benefit of hindsight, I think most people would agree [Biden shouldn’t have run]. We’re also not in a position to wallow in hindsight.”

We won’t let them forget.

Another reason the 2028 primary will be so amusing is watching all these Democrats try to distance themselves from the insane policies popping up in states controlled by Democrats. Ro Khanna, the California congressman, criticized the Palo Alto school district this week for scrapping honors biology class in the name of racial and gender equity. Good luck defending white supremacy on the debate state, congressman!

Floppin’ Hogg: On the topic of reaping what one sows, the Democratic National Committee is in disarray after voting to void the election of David Hogg as vice chair. Not because Hogg, 25, is an obnoxious lib who regularly spews nonsense about how “the gun violence prevention movement [was] started centuries ago by almost entirely black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non binary people that never got on the news or in most history books,” but because of a “procedural error” in the voting process that violated the party’s rules on “gender parity.”

Hogg wasn’t pleased with the result, which reflects the remarkable evolution of his stated views on gender and racial equity. “We have enough straight white men in power,” he wrote in a 2022 social media post explaining why he would never run for office. “It’d be nice to see some people who actually look like our country and not privilege.” Earlier this month, just days before Democrats voted to remove a straight white man (himself) from power, Hogg revised his position. “Frankly, I don’t even know if it makes sense for us to have the gender balance rule anymore in this day and age because I want to focus on whoever’s just best at the job,” he told Bill Maher.

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