Friday's Final Word

Everybody's closing tabbies for the weekend ... 

Biden is yelling again 🤣

Why does Jill keep on dragging this man into the public spotlight? It's elder abuse! pic.twitter.com/NYTeoEgwMM

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) May 30, 2025

Ed: The entire Biden family should be ashamed of itself. At the very least. This man has no business speaking in public, let alone attempting to make some sort of post-presidential career out of it. 

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Former President Joe Biden on Friday couldn’t quite finish reciting the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence. ...

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal, endowed by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, life, liberty, pursuit of ha — we made it!” he shouted. “That’s who we are! That’s what makes America the most unique nation in the world. Literally, not figuratively.”

Ed: This is elder abuse, but as the article points out, Biden has a history of trying to recite this passage and failing. Five years ago, his attempt in Texas created a meme of its own: “We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by you know, you know the thing.”

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🚨WTF: Joe Biden just took a harmless question from a reporter and SEETHED at her spitefully.

She looks EXTREMELY uncomfortable.

Is this the kind Joe Biden the media told us about?

"Sir, why was it important to come?"

*Biden leans in*

"Because I'm LOYAL! I do it EVERY DAMN… pic.twitter.com/xnaXkdWnuo

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 30, 2025

Ed: This is not normal behavior, not even for the historically chippy Biden. The reporter looks extremely uncomfortable because Biden is acting strangely. 

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“My friends, Memorial Day is about something profound. Our politics have become so divided and so bitter — all the years I’ve been doing this, and never thought we’d get to this point, but we are,” said the former president, without pinning any of the blame on himself.

“Our troops don’t wear a uniform that says ‘I’m a Democrat’ or ‘I’m a Republican.’ It says I’m an American, I’m an American. That’s who I am. I’m serious about this. I’m not joking. And folks, our politics has become, as I said, so divided.”

Ed: Joe Biden is a large part of the reason why, too. Whether it's telling black voters that Mitt Romney would "put y'all back in chains," or "you ain't black" if you don't vote for Biden, all the way through to calling 77 million Americans "garbage" for supporting Trump, Biden has dedicated his life to divisive demagoguery. Don't let the elder abuse fool you on this point either; this is exactly who Joe Biden has always been, even before the cognitive decline. 

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NOW: Former President Biden gives first speech since cancer diagnosis—and it completely fell apart.

It was a disaster.

Biden shouted at the audience, mumbled through scripted lines, and fell into repeated coughing fits during remarks at Veterans Memorial Park in Delaware.… pic.twitter.com/4DZWrwVlAd

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) May 30, 2025

Ed: Let's hope this will be the last one, too.

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President Trump attacked the powerful conservative legal activist Leonard Leo late Thursday, calling the former Federalist Society leader who once advised the president on Supreme Court picks a "bad person" who "probably hates America."

Mr. Trump lashed out at Leo a day after a panel of judges — including a Trump appointee — called most of his tariffs illegal. The ruling, which was paused by an appellate court, put Mr. Trump at odds with some conservative lawyers: Two of the three judges who decided the case were appointed by Republicans, and the decision came in response to a lawsuit that cited right-leaning legal theories.

Ed: Leo offered a gracious statement thanking Trump for his work on judicial nominees. I'm not sure why Trump's griping about Leo here; the Federalist Society proved itself to be a great partner in one of Trump's towering achievements of his first term. If anything, he should cast his eye toward his own team, who may have overpromised what the courts could possibly deliver. 

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Volkswagen wants to make more big investments in the United States, CEO Oliver Blume said in an interview with a German newspaper, adding that tariff talks with the US government were ‘fair’ and ‘constructive’ https://t.co/02S1bW6NWf pic.twitter.com/rmzyiv8Gao

— Reuters (@Reuters) May 30, 2025

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Bevan is right that liberals gave Tapper an obscene amount of coverage, but Megyn Kelly wasn’t the only conservative who filled Tapper’s sails with promotional wind. Conservatives on various websites and social media spent a solid week dissecting, investigating, and insulting Tapper, who had the gall to announce that Biden was known to be cognitively impaired after Tapper himself hid that fact from the public for over four years.

This conservative obsession with Tapper, however, points to a larger problem in conservative media: It still parasitically lives on its larger, liberal host. Megyn Kelly, the Daily Wire, National Review and the various websites all exist to engage with the latest leftist trigger: waiting, as it were, to scream about the latest woke outrage.

Ed: There's some truth to this, but it's not the whole story. We often engage on real policy as well, and over the last few years have had to do real combat with the media industry and its corrupt, fascist linkage to the Democrat establishment and its censorship regime. The damage done in this financial war to kill off criticism of both the elite and their propaganda ministries in the Protection Racket Media has been difficult for many platforms to survive. 

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.@POTUS thanks @elonmusk: "He stepped forward to put his very great talents into the service of our nation and we appreciate it. Elon has worked tirelessly helping lead the most sweeping and consequential government reform program in generations." pic.twitter.com/LhdG8ekaqj

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) May 30, 2025

Ed: Elon Musk really does deserve the gratitude of this nation for his hard work. And despite he and Trump ending up at loggerheads over the reconciliation bill, Trump is acting with impressive graciousness as Musk leaves to go back to his businesses. 

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The release of the new data and report from Catalist has underscored the extent of Hispanic defection from the Democrats over the last two presidential cycles. We’ve seen massive drops in Democratic support from pretty much every subgroup of Hispanics, albeit with some variation: working-class Hispanics more than the college-educated, women (interestingly) more than men, younger Hispanics more than older ones, and urban residents more than those in the suburbs. But all the defections have been substantial—at least 22 margin points and usually much more between 2016 and 2024.

The Catalist data are confined to standard demographic subgroups so can’t tell us about variation among Hispanics by factors such as ideology. But the Blue Rose Research data, released just prior to the Catalist data, can and the results are astonishing. According to their data, Democratic support dropped by a gobsmacking 46 points among Hispanic moderates, from +62 to +16, between 2016 and 2024. As David Shor has pointed out, Hispanic moderates’ political behavior is now quite close to that of white moderates.

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