I ask because both before and after the infamous debate, President Biden has been working like mad getting things done. As usual.
No fuss. No ego tripping. Just getting things done.
Including addressing the NATO Summit and receiving a standing ovation. World leaders know full well just who has been fighting for democracy abroad and at home, which is why Putin, Trump, and MAGA hate him and play games with our election.
As even the gone the way of the New York Post, NYT, noted, President Biden made two back-to-back round trips to Europe in June. D Day’s 80th Anniversary was celebrated in France on June 6th. President Biden honored the fallen and met with World Leaders, including Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, from June 5th to June 9th. Of course, there were those doing their best to post altered footage of President Biden designed to make him look confused and feeble. You all are aware of the ongoing efforts to manipulate us, right?
D-Day ceremony video cut to give impression Biden tried to sit without a chair | Fact check
President and Dr. Biden returned home to Delaware in order to be with their son Hunter following his conviction, while the President continued to deal with dangerous rulings by the Supreme Court, and the situation in Gaza.
Then it was back to Europe on June 12th for the G7 Summit in Apulia, Italy, from June 13-15. That was followed by two US campaign trips, and a weeklong debate prep at Camp David.
None of that includes the work we don’t hear about — the daily meetings with staff, cabinet members, and foreign dignitaries. The work responding to the needs of various states hit by natural disasters. The work necessary to handle an obstructive House and Senate GOP, and zealot Supreme Court Majority.
I’m exhausted just thinking about it all. And that doesn’t include jet lag and a cold.
So how would you have fared with all that?
When was the 45 minutes everything caught up with you and you functioned below your usual standards?
I know I’ve had a couple bad years, exhausted from a child’s years long health issue, the work necessary to face a destructive childhood, the loss of loved ones, and a husband that could not cope.
I call such times “soul exhaustion.” Some of you are unfortunately familiar with the concept. Like Joe, we picked ourselves up and carried on. Unlike those who keep on whining about 45 minutes, we went back to work.
The list of what Joe has accomplished since the debate is impressive. Not that you’ll hear or read about it on MSM. Except for Lawrence O’Donnell and a few others, media is fixated on 45 minutes out of weeks and months of hard work.
They focus on 45 minutes instead of the executive skill set, knowledge, and hard work that Joe has used to save democracy here and abroad, pull us out of a pandemic, and create the world’s leading economy.
Think about that for a moment.
Then think about all the forces at play tearing our President and Democrats apart. Think about how MSM was working for weeks before the debate to set Joe up for failure. And they have never stopped.
Think about how President Biden has been working with medical experts and Congress to create the National Plan to Prevent Parkinsons, the first of its kind.
On July 2, President Biden signed the National Plan to End Parkinson’s Act into law. This is the first-ever federal legislation dedicated to ending Parkinson’s disease (PD).
Top five ways this monumental bill can make an impact:
- Dramatically increase federal research funding
- Develop more effective pathways for treatments and cures
- Improve early diagnosis
- Spark new and improved models for patient care
- Address health disparities in diagnosis, treatment and clinical trial participation
“The Parkinson’s Foundation is excited for what comes next,” said John Lehr, Parkinson’s Foundation President and CEO. “We look forward to having input in designing exactly how this bill will mobilize meaningful change for the one million Americans living with this disease.”
The Parkinson’s Foundation would like to thank all the PD advocates, volunteers and people who wrote to their senators and representatives to make this bill to become law. We also thank President Biden and members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives for helping us make PD history.
The research into the treatments and cures for Parkinsons could lead to better treatments of diseases related to Parkinsons, including dementia with Lewy bodies, multiple system atrophy, and progressive supranuclear palsy. Millions are affected by these diseases, including their loved ones. My brilliant and brave cousin died from dementia Lewy bodies. Robin Williams killed himself rather than allow the disease to destroy him and hurt his family.
How did MSM and too many others, including here, respond?
Parkinson Experts have been visiting the White House! Biden must have Parkinsons!!
No. He does not. Nor does he exhibit any symptom of mental decline. Perhaps some people should ask themselves why they want there to be so badly. For those still not up on the facts about stutters, stutters have nothing to do with mental acuity. Too many are beating up on one of the best public servants we’ve ever had because he has a stutter, was tired, and had a cold.
Joe is in better health than many, as verified by the specialists who examine him every year.
In a statement released by the White House, O’Connor said Biden sees a team of specialist doctors as part of his annual medical check-up and Cannard was the neurological specialist who examined the president “for each of his annual physicals.”
O’Connor said the results of these checkups have been made public each time he released details about the president’s physical and added Biden “has not seen a neurologist outside of his annual physical.”
The president’s physician said Cannard has been the Neurology Consultant to the White House Medical Unit since 2012.
The statement said Cannard has held “regular Neurology Clinics” at the White House Medical Clinic for the “thousands of active-duty members assigned in support of White House operations”—many of whom “experience neurological issues” stemming from their service.
According to O’Connor, Canard has been seeing patients at the White House for a dozen years and he was chosen “not because he is a movement disorder specialist, but because he is a highly trained and highly regarded neurologist…across the Military Health System.”
Crucial Quote
The president’s physician said the results of Biden’s annual physical were detailed in his letter from February, which said: “An extremely detailed neurologic exam was again reassuring in that there were no findings which would be consistent with any cerebellar or other central neurological disorder, such as stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's or ascending lateral sclerosis, nor are there any signs of cervical myelopathy…He exhibits no tremor, either at rest or with activity.”
When our knee jerk reactions make MAGA look measured it’s time to step back and assess what we are doing.
Joe was tired and had a cold debate night. That did not keep him from showing up. That did not keep him from speaking the truth in the face of a Gish Gallop of lies from the Orange Traitor. Those who read the debate transcript think he did fine. So why are so many invested in those 45 minutes?
Then think about why too many have allowed themselves to be manipulated into a fruitless panic. Think about all the good work Joe has done since the debate and why that is being ignored, the goal posts constantly moved.
Hysteria is never a look of strength. It’s the look of weakness.
We need to be better than that. Stronger than that.
We deserve better. The country deserves better.
Our democracy deserves better than to be destroyed over 45 minutes and agents determined to tear us down.
It has always been up to us. This is our time, our time to screw our courage to the sticking point.
Suit up. We have work to do.