Er ... shouldn't this question have been asked by the Protection Racket Media in 2023 rather than 2025? In this instance, the old saw Better late than never clearly does not apply.

Joe Biden sat down with USA Today's Susan Page, who asked the question that reporters should have asked at about the time that the Easter Bunny ordered Biden off a rope line in April 2022. Democrats should have asked it before they began cooking the rules of their primary to prevent Biden from facing a competitive challenge. And Biden's family should have asked and answered it long before either point in time.

Biden's answer to Page should humiliate all of the above, including Biden himself:

PAGE: Do you believe you could have won in November?

BIDEN: It's presumptuous to say that, but I think yes, based on the polling that...

PAGE: Do you think you would've had the vigor to serve another four years in office?

BIDEN: I don't know. That's why I thought when I first announced, talking to Barack about it, I said I thought I was the person. I had no intention of running after Beau died – for real, not a joke. And then when Trump was running again for reelection, I really thought I had the best chance of beating him. But I also wasn't looking to be president when I was 85 years old, 86 years old. And so I did talk about passing the baton. But I don't know. Who the hell knows? So far, so good. But who knows what I'm going to be when I'm 86 years old?

Well, shouldn't that have been a consideration before entering the primaries? In fact, shouldn't the fact that Biden's staff had to conduct a three-ring circus to make sure the boss wasn't sundowning in the middle of meetings have made that an urgent question to answer? Bob Woodward reported (after the June 27 debate fiasco) that Democrats had begun raising questions about his competency as early as the spring of 2023:

At a Chevy Chase fundraiser in June 2023, Bill Reichblum tells Woodward of Biden: “He never completed a sentence….He told the same story three times in exactly the same way and it meandered so much…Frankly, my impression was there were times…it was as though we didn’t exist.… pic.twitter.com/Vav7clSMGQ

— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) October 23, 2024

The Wall Street Journal then followed up from Democrat sources that claimed the concerns actually began a few months after Biden took office. It was so bad that the Democrats in Congress never did get another meeting with Biden on 'his' legislative agenda, emphasis mine:

President Biden had just finished trying to persuade a group of congressional Democrats to pass a $1 trillion infrastructure bill when Nancy Pelosi, then the House speaker, took the microphone.

In 30 minutes of remarks on Capitol Hill, Biden had spoken disjointedly and failed to make a concrete ask of lawmakers, according to Democrats in the room. After he left, a visibly frustrated Pelosi told the group she would articulate what Biden had been trying to say, one lawmaker said. 

“It was the first time I remember people pretty jarred by what they had seen,” recalled Rep. Dean Phillips (D., Minn.), who would go on to mount an unsuccessful primary challenge against the president. 

That was October 2021. That month was the last time Biden met with the House Democratic caucus on the Hill regarding legislation.

So contra Biden's claim today, he is not at the "so far so good" stage. Biden is at the "far gone" stage, and has been arguably for most of his presidency. The White House knew it and covered up his cognitive decline, and so did Democrats in Congress, with Dean Phillips being the only notable exception. He's so far gone, in fact, that Biden has lost sense of time:

PAGE: Yeah. Speaking of pardons, every parent can understand why you would want to protect your son. Do you have any concerns that your pardon of Hunter sets a precedent for future presidents? One that might be open to abuse?

BIDEN: I hope not, because I meant what I said when I was asked whether I was going to pardon my son. But then I found out two factors. Number one, that he had paid all his taxes. He paid them late. He was fighting a drug problem. And he beat it. He's been square and sober for almost six years now. This was back in ’80, I mean excuse me, in 2000 and... What year was it? Anyway, long time ago.

Let the record stipulate that the current year is in fact 2025, and "almost six years ago" would be in a range from 2018-2019. Not 2000. Not 1980. Hunter's indictments covers acts committed between 2014 and 2018, as Biden should know -- if Biden actually issued the pardon Hunter received. It specifies that the pardon covers a period from 2014 to December 1, 2024, the date Biden -- or someone -- issued the pardon. 

Does Biden know what year it actually is? 

"Who the hell knows" is a good question to ask in this scandal. Who the hell knew that Biden has slipped into senility, and when did they know it? Why did those who knew deceive the public about Biden's cognitive decline, and who benefited from the cover-up? And most importantly, who the hell knows who's been actually making the decisions in Biden's presidency?

Those are questions that must be asked, to which we can add another: Why isn't the establishment media demanding answers to them, rather than fluffing a largely incapacitated old man?

Addendum: This again demonstrates what we have long argued. The crisis in mainstream media isn't just coming -- it has arrived. Their protection racket on behalf of Democrats and corruptocrats has transformed establishment news orgs into the propaganda arm of the Left, and they work hard to intimidate advertisers and pressure Big Tech into choking off access to competing points of view. We hope we can gather as many allies as possible to keep all of these issues in the public square – and indeed to preserve the public square at all.

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