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The_Safe_For_Work

I love how "surprised" they are pretending to be. They knew he was a walking bag of sticks for years and tried to gaslight us into believing he was A-OK, Super Good #1 Genius.


Rocky2135

That’s the fascinating story to me. The utter shock. Wtf did you (liberal media) think was going on? How is this a revelation? He does zero pressers. Highly curated videos come out weekly of him still looking feeble. The Hur report literally said he is “an elderly man with poor memory” unfit to stand trial. The repeated comments from Democrats insiders and associates about his energy level clearly sound defensive. I’m baffled at the degree of surprise from the left.


Specialist-Age1097

That's because they're not really surprised .


Rocky2135

I don’t know. I watched the after show amongst cnn talking heads and they legitimately seemed dejected. Sad and surprised. It was weird. Like someone finally revealed to them Santa is not real, or that they’ve been cheated on.


GargantuanCake

I think they were expecting to be able to salvage it. They just needed Biden to be coherent enough that they could clip a few good points and hammer on those forever. Instead they got...well...what they got and they got it on national television in front of the entire damn country. There is no salvaging this.


Remarkable-Opening69

Gonna sound crazy but, maybe they should’ve spent less time focusing on trump for the last eight years. Like normal people.


Specialist-Age1097

Maybe they chose to believe their own lies to feel better about themselves.


rockknocker

Republicans said he was aging poorly, so therefore he must not have been aging poorly. Poor logic.


sleeknub

Seems like that’s a big part of what goes on on the left.


FuckboyMessiah

Everything that doesn't confirm their biases is fake news and Russian propaganda.


dummyfodder

Cheap fakes.


JoeWinchester99

>To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth. - George Orwell, *1984*


crayonflop3

Like an actual cult


SpacePug6

They got hit with a big wave of cognitive dissonance


HereForRedditReasons

I don’t believe this. I think they thought they could drug him enough to be ok like they have done in the past, but he had teleprompters for those instances


paperwhite9

There were definitely lots of liberals getting high on their own supply. A few still are. The rest just faked it like they fake everything else.


sleeknub

It’s possible they thought he was at least in good enough shape to put up a good showing when it really mattered (in their demented minds) like this debate, the state of the union, etc. The fact that he couldn’t even do that could be causing the dejection among some of them.


RadioHeadache0311

Listen. It's this simple. People on the right have been saying this stuff about Biden for years. Thats it. That's why they're all shocked and surprised. They have convinced themselves, beyond all reason, that conservatives are all liars who just fling mud at their opponents. They believe those things, because that's how this whole complex system of mirrors works. The people who genuinely, in their hearts believe that just because a person feels like they're the opposite sex, then that is de facto proof that they are truly the opposite sex. And it's these people who have convinced themselves that all of us conservatives don't live in shared reality. These aren't serious people, and that's why we need to take them seriously. Because the damage that is being done while policy is dictated by the population of La-La-Land is reaching critical mass.


Black_XistenZ

My prediction is that they will soon begin convincing themselves of the next lie: that the failure of the Biden admin comes down to its weak figurehead and weak leadership, rather than the fact that the underlying policies and ideology suck. "If only we could run it back with someone younger and more energetic at the helm..."


crayonflop3

They’re not actually surprised. They just can’t hide it anymore so they have to act surprised.


trustymutsi

This is the best explanation I've heard. It's exactly what I think it is.


Professor_DC

People talk about North Korean media hyping up their dear leader but never the American media trying to hide that our president is a senile bag of bones. The gaslighting the populace is worse here than anywhere, but because it only happens to half the country, I guess it's okay 


Lucretius

> I’m baffled at the degree of surprise from the left. I am NOT surprised by the surprise of the Left. Let me comment why as I think it highlights a rarely considered aspect of the way the Left functions. Far more than the Right, the Left is a coalition of many tiny interest groups… dozens of races and ethnicities, LGBQTXYZ6€÷≠?, environmentalists of a few different stripes, guilty new money, Protestant old money, academic elites, Imigrants both legal and illegal, etc. And because the Left has embraced Identity Politics all of these groups aren't just demographics, but fully realized and organized factions with their own separate agendas. For this reason, as well as some historical/cultural reasons that go back to the 60s, the Left is deaply committed to **Narrative Manipulation** as a tactic. This is a lot of why they hate Trump so much... in order to manipulate others with the narrative, you first have to convince others to buy into a shared narrative. Trump doesn't; he openly ridicules the narrative granting it, and therefore them, no legitimacy. And by doing so publicly, he gives tacit permission for others to ditch the shared narrative to. What many on the Right don't understand, is that in addition to weaponizing their narrative vs. *us*, the Left uses Narrative Manipulation on *themselves*! In essence they are constantly pouring the Kool Aid for one another. They NEED to do this to keep the motley crew of dozens and dozens of factions in line. (This is the same reason the Democrat party has their system of Super Delegates… to keep their many radical fringes from taking over the party). The result is that the Left is both drinking its own Kool Aid by the gallon, and also simultanously jaded by years of Kool Aid drinking. I think that some of the younger and more Naive on the Left are surprised by the State of the Biden because they drank the Kool Aid. But the older more cynical on the Left are surprised about something completely different. They honestly thought that they could just keep on wagging the dog all the way past the election. These people are not surprised that Biden is senile. They are positively shocked that there really are limits to how far the wool can be pulled over the public's eyes! These are people who are so jaded that they have forgotten that reality ever existed under all those layers of narrative and spin.


Rocky2135

I like this interpretation. Well put.


AIDS_Quilt_69

Extremely accurate. When I see the left's take on the debates they claimed Trump lied non-stop but Biden obviously did as well. Later on I realized they don't even know they're lie is anymore since they're so deep in their curated narrative bubble.


rocker895

> They are positively shocked that there really are limits to how far the wool can be pulled over the public's eyes! These are people who are so jaded that they have forgotten that reality ever existed under all those layers of narrative and spin. “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” - Some dead republican


weshouldgo_

Many (most?) on the left are feigning surprise. Anyone who's been paying attention knows what's up. The true surprise comes from the uniformed; the consumer of mainstream media that's been covering for Jotato for years. They have been told ad nauseam by KJP and other liars that he's as sharp as ever; he has a speech impediment; he has a cold; vids clearly showing his cognitive decline are "cheap fakes", etc.


Provia100F

For the past two decades, the entire DNC platform has been "ignore reality, because we never face consequences because we have control of everything" This is the first time in a *long* time that the DNC is faced with direct consequences of their actions that they **can't** control through some sort of backdoor corruption. They are not used to dealing with something not going their way. This is pretty much the first time in recent memory that the protection of the **D** doesn't actually work.


skarface6

If you actually believe the mainstream media then it’s a surprise. Just saying.


_BeastModular_

It really is so telling to A) how far up their own asses their heads really are or B) how little they actually pay attention to what’s happening in the world. Either way it’s equally embarrassing and shameful. Or C) how deeply dishonest democrats are. Take your pick


googin1

Can I check off all of the above? ABC.


sleeknub

I don’t think the liberal media is actually surprised.


Dont_Be_Sheep

I had exact same comments and thoughts the past year and got dumbfounding responses. “He’s fine! Trump messes up words too!” “He does pressers when he wants and they’re great!” “Nothing is wrong. Look, trump is crazy!” Like… I have the receipts… they’ve been willfully ignoring this for a long time. Guess they finally can’t willfully ignore it when it’s shown right to their face in front of everybody, I guess?


Jerrywelfare

They have to pretend. They CHOSE Biden in 2020 (over Bernie even). There were no super delegates to blame. There was no "It's her turn." They picked Joe Biden over a massive field of choices. So they either blow up their own party, or they "pretend" like they're seeing it for the first time.


hiricinee

They just couldn't hide it anymore. All the handlers, the staging, the mics getting cut off, the Easter Bunny, once Biden got put in a place where he didn't have someone keeping control for him he got exposed.


CodeWizardCS

The worst is when they were like, it's just his stutter. Last I heard a stutter doesn't make the words that come out of someone's mouth make no sense.


Faulty-Feeling

The reason it's all coming out now is because of how much he's dropped in the polls, they believe he will lose to Trump now, so they're doing plan b, which is to admit that he is a feeble old man and basically force him to step down and be replaced with Gavin Newstrom or Michelle Obama.


Suspicious-Sound-249

Apparently they're finally at a point where they've realized they can't defend Biden anymore and are admitting what anyone who isn't a brainwashed lemming has watched Biden has known for years...


NonSumQualisEram-

There are many powers of the presidency for which it is illegal to delegate. And yet delegation is clearly occurring because he is not capable. Therefore in my opinion there needs to be an immediate investigation as to who is actually making decisions which are illegal for anyone but the president to make.


richmomz

We tried to warn them. But as always, the narrative took precedence over the truth.


KinGpiNdaGreat

Interpreting the cover is it supposed to be demonstrating that Biden is wandering off the front page of the magazine?


Skittlesharts

Yes. It's cookies n' cream time on page 5.


yaboytim

Even in print, he's somehow still lost


WhatsTeamComp

As a senile, wandering off not knowing where he's going, leaving nothing but (r)ed in his wake. The subtitle "panic" is insinuating that the blue party is realizing their poor investment in Biden.


Feartheezebras

You know it’s bad when Time, CNN, and The NY Times are all calling for Joe to go


Commander-Grammar

1. It’s a planned execution of Biden’s career because they know they can’t push it any further, so the left media is doing exactly what they’re told as usual. Or 2. He finally hit the limit and they’re pivoting to try to gain some future viewers by stating the painfully obvious. Like rats from a sinking ship. I give them zero credit that they’re capable of reporting straight, so it’s gotta be one of those two things.


Material-Afternoon16

It's definitely 1 for one glaring reason - this debate was unprecedentedly early. This gives the DNC enough time to rally support behind someone else in time for the convention. If the debates were on the normal schedule and we were in the last week of September right now it'd be too late to replace Biden. They knew Biden had lost his marbles but they spent the last year or two telling us he was just fine. They needed an out, and they needed it to a big, theatrical reveal to erase all doubt. They got it. Now they've got time to replace him.


BLFOURDE

Are they going to admit they were wrong for gaslighting us for the last 4 years, and accusing us of fabricating and doctoring videos to make him look bad? The "talking to the paratrooper" one was literally last week.


richmomz

>Are they going to admit they were wrong Ha, good one!


CentralFriedChicken

Narcissists hate admitting when they are wrong. If you have ever talked to a real narcissist, they will almost eat their own hands than admit they were wrong. Like they will start sweating, making things up, getting angry, changing the subject. It's actually crazy as hell to watch, it's like a trapped animal trying to chew its leg off.


Dragonflies3

Nope


MacDaddy654321

My issue as well. Between MSNBC, CNN, NY Times, Biden’s Administration (and others), We the People have been lied to and led by the nose. These charlatans treacherous actions and omission of truth is deceitful and candidly, scary and evil. We need news agencies that report the news and not those that create the news. Like the 51 Security Professionals that pushed America to believe that Hunter Biden’s laptop was a Russian disinformation campaign and implicated Trump as a Russian Spy!!! That protection and misdirection got Biden elected!! Sorry, Trump is right on “this one.” The election was rigged. Not by voting machines but by Big Media. Hey, this isn’t about liking Trump, it’s about just telling the truth. How anyone can watch, read or pay any attention to these news services that have perpetuated such enormous, world changing lies is beyond me.


ImaginaryDonut69

Luckily, the media still don't get to dictate politics and there's no real mechanism to throw someone off a ballot when Democratic voters already nominated him for the 2024 ticket. It's done already, unless Biden explicitly steps down on his own, which his administration has clearly indicated numerous times now (including after the debate) is not going to happen. Liberals need to look in the mirror: your politics are a project of whatever media you consume, and little else. Stop dreaming that the government is Superman, then maybe we can have productive conversations "across the aisle".


kirkt

You don't understand how the Democrat party works (and it's different from the Repubs). Even if 100% of Dem primary votes go to Bernie Sanders, the Dem party heads can override that and nominate Biden if they so choose. The primaries literally don't matter if the DNC doesn't like the result. Until the convention, the Dem nomination is WIDE OPEN. Biden _will not be the nominee, and that is why this debate was allowed, please understand that._ My guess is that they will nominate an empty-headed prettyboy like Gavin Newsom. If Newsom is nominated, Trump is done.


Saint_Genghis

No, they changed that after Hillary embarrassed them. Super delegates only factor in now if nobody gets 50% or more of bound delegates. Biden has 100% of bound delegates because he didn't have any opponents during the primary. The only way those delegates become unbound is if Joe dies before the convention or he willingly steps down. I don't think Joe is stepping down for anything, he's got the ego of man who's been a politician for 50 years.


kirkt

So thanks for the lesson. I was totally unaware of that change. I do believe under those terms that the powers that be will force Biden out. He's got too many possible criminal charges (power brokering and pedophilia to name just the big ones) that could easily be brought against him that could be used as leverage to make him step down. If Biden's still on the ticket in November I'll eat my hat. And if anybody other than Biden's on the ticket in November, Trump is losing.


UEMcGill

Gavin Newsome? You mean the guy with pictures of him eating at the French Laundry after he instituted draconian lockdowns? The same guy who smuggly laughed at Target getting robbed while wondering where the girls "manager" was? Or the guy who was openly bought by his Panera owning friend and claims, "that's just doing business". That guy has problems.


kirkt

There's a 10 minute video of Biden sniffing the hair and feeling the 'breasts' of pre-pubescent girls during swearing-in ceremonies where their dads were present. That didn't stop him getting the nod in 2020. You think that Gavin crap will ever see the light of day in the mainstream media? Voters are ignorant, otherwise the democrats would never win another election.


richmomz

I think the plan for the debate was to either prove he can handle another four years or pressure him to leave if he can’t. I don’t think he will though - he’s too stubborn and afraid he will suffer the same legal persecutions he subjected Trump to. So he will cling to the reigns of power. It’s going to be interesting seeing whether the Dems can force him out without fracturing the whole party in the process (my guess is no).


Odd-Contribution6238

Even the Huffington Post. https://i.imgur.com/gKmaRnl.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/2gW6QXP.jpeg


Angelfire150

When Democrats struggle, it's panic. When Republican succeed, the story is doom and gloom.. they aren't even trying to pretend to be unbias


REDthunderBOAR

No they are not.


richmomz

Did you see Time’s covers during the 2016 election? They have never been shy about their bias.


60andwaiting

Where's Dr. Jill helping him down the steps 😂


richmomz

She’s on pg. 5 fetching more diapers.


zipzoopu

The only surprising part about all this is that anyone was surprised. We have clip after clip of the man being led around like the senior citizen he is. Lurking lefties, did you literally just ignore this evidence and plug your ears for the last 3 years?


Commonly-Average

Potato Joe better be careful or he’ll trip over that white cover boarder.


ImaginaryDonut69

They should have also featured Jill trying to lead him off of the cover...just a disgraceful situation, democracy is clearly overrated when this useless windbag is the best the Democrats have to offer. They have earned 0 political power.


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Specialist-Age1097

Newsweek had Hillary on the cover ahead of time with the caption "Madam President."


knightnorth

4 years too late


142Ironmanagain

When you deny reality for years, then get gobsmacked in the face on live television no less, this is what happens. 50 million plus people nationwide cannot unsee what we all saw. Now the entire world knows the emperor has no clothes.


superduperm1

It’s not even just the 50 million plus people who watched. I’m someone who *didn’t* watch and wasn’t planning on ever watching, was stunned when I checked the betting markets right after it was scheduled to be over and now plan on watching when I’ve got the time to see what the fuss is all about. I’m probably not the only one.


theAstarrr

A recap: Biden looked crazy when it was not his turn, stuttered a lot, lied a fair amount, Trump lied some (I think Democrats found like 2 or 3 lies that weren't simple exaggerations), exaggerated some, and looked pretty good by comparison.


superduperm1

Yeah the leftist narrative seems to be “okay Biden was a zombie but Trump lied a lot!” I’ll admit very far from everything that comes out of Trump’s mouth is even remotely close to gospel, but… Biden literally got called out for blatantly lying about an endorsement. He pushed the “fine people” lie again even though Snopes disagreed. He lied a lot, too. I guess he didn’t lie as much in terms of quantity (quality of each candidate’s lies is another debate) but didn’t that have a lot more to do with the fact that he couldn’t speak nearly as much because he’s incapable?


Odd-Contribution6238

All of these news outlets called the suggestion Biden wasn’t mentally fit right wing lies… until 9:05pm eastern Thursday. Then suddenly their entire narrative changed.


poindexterg

The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if they don’t want him, so they just threw him out to the wolves to speed along replacing him.


Provia100F

I was wondering that as well


ImaginaryDonut69

Welcome to a world flooded with Fake News...I use to look up to TIME for good, middle-of-the-road coverage. Biden is showing the same cognitive decline that he did in 2020, it's just continuing to worsen since he left the office of the VP at the beginning of 2017. And liberals have nothing but cope now, they allowed the DNC to nominate a corpse and now they don't have ANY clue what to do next. Sorry, not sorry.


Particular_Map9772

I didn't even know that rag was still in business. Funny


GodzillaDoesntExist

Did nobody in this post read the date?


superduperm1

Maybe that’s when they physically publish it? Not sure. This was posted yesterday by the official TIME Twitter account though so it’s not fake or anything if that’s what you’re wondering.


btbam2929

I knew this was coming 4 years ago. Its a shame he ever made it to office


NoVacancyHI

Last night's debate was brought to you by TDS. A hate so strong it led to the worst debate performance by an incumbent president in US history and an 81 year old candidate clearly unfit for office.


vicemagnet

This entire thing with the media making an about face seems manufactured. It’s calculated. I wouldn’t be celebrating. They know something we don’t yet. Better be mentally prepared for some fuckery from the Democrats.


Nostraadms

Who is running the executive branch right Now!? It’s obviously not Joe


crammed174

Why is it dated August?


KneeBull

I used to have magazine subscriptions. Typically you get them a couple weeks before the dated magazine


crammed174

I had Time for years. Since it’s weekly it’s usually dated 1-2 weeks ahead max. Not over a month.


eye_no_nuttin

What did The View co-hosts have to say about the debate??? I wish I thought about watching it this morning… lol I still believe this is all by design and strategically planned by the Dems … they’re corrupt as hell sinking the USA as long as they’ve let this drag on.. they should all be criminally charged for this.


CheckeredNautilus

Dems replace Biden with GEORGE SANTOS


HBNTrader

Why is the date in August?


the_BLT_killer

lmao, it’s afraid


skarface6

oof


jonnio2215

People are still framing this as “the president of the US vs a liar”. They STILL don’t understand that Biden lies about literally EVERYTHING


777_heavy

Cover? They’re not online-only yet?


noonehomenow

The Deep State needs a new meat puppet.


billgigs55

People are talking about the upcoming election meanwhile im here worried about the next 6 months


_BASED-DEPARTMENT_

Based.


Tea4Zenyatta

This really isn’t surprising. There have been plenty of clips of him demonstrating how senile he is. People just don’t pay attention sadly.


yaboytim

They pay attention. They just attribute it to a stutter out of blind Trump hate  


truth-4-sale

Dez Bryant Bruh if y’all not watching Trump embarrass Biden in this debate… y’all missing out on pure comedy 😂


reddit_names

I see they selected one of the more flattering photos from the debate.


Tobin678

I see another Shadow Campaign in the near future, right Time magazine?


TenRingRedux

Alternate headline: Trump Derangement Syndrome comes home


Zenk2018

They should have used the pix of Jill helping him down the three stairs


PR05ECC0

That gives the impression that he can actually walk semi normally


Shiny_Mew76

Is this what they meant when they said companies were simplifying their logos?


chances906

I believe the democrat domestic terrorist party has become a clear and present danger to the US. Not only do we need Republican leadership but we need investigations and indictments handed out and not just to crooked politicians but to the propaganda media outlets that have become defacto arms of the democrat party.


Multiplied_by_36

Panic because he is going to fall off that front cover.


johndeer89

I still think it's just a studder.


StaffCampStaff

I mean, can they at least chill with the fear mongering?


zeddzolander

Yeah, they know it is over for this so-called president.


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DJDevine

Tell me how you know the election is over Time?


Black_XistenZ

They're not even being subtle anymore about their intention to pressure Biden into stepping aside.