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Tuesday’s Final Word – HotAir

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Tuesday's Final Word – HotAir

Hustling the tabs closed ….





Ed: Halperin puts Biden’s cognitive decline in 2017, and he calls the books coming out now “absurd.” Definitely worth a listen. 

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First, if you’re afraid of the president’s staff interacting with him, for fear that they will leak that the president has declined so much he can’t perform his duties, then he should not be president. It’s as if everyone around Biden feared his mental decline’s effect on the election, without any fear for his mental decline’s consequences for the country! …

Hey, remember Stephen L. Miller’s repeated observations about how often Biden videos featured jump cuts, suggesting that Biden could rarely read two sentences off a teleprompter without error in one take?

Ed: Gee, I remember when the Protection Racket Media told me that it was just a childhood stutter making its return. Or was that “cheap fakes”? Misinformation? The same reporters enjoying the Now It Can Be Told literary genre had SO MANY explanations. 

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Ed: Regime media unmasked … while wearing a mask. Outdoors. *sigh*

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Tapper and Thompson note that, before the fundraiser, Clooney and Biden had last met in 2022 at the Kennedy Center Honors, where the President called the actor “Amal Clooney’s husband” and thanked him for his activism. By contrast, in 2024, Biden was reportedly unaware of with whom he was speaking until prompted that it was George Clooney.





Tapper and Thompson write: “Clooney was shaken to his core. The president hadn’t recognized him, a man he had known for years. Clooney had expressed concern about Biden’s health before – a White House aide had told him a few months before that they were working on getting the president to take longer steps when he walked – but obviously the problem went far beyond his gait. This was much graver.”

Ed: And yet Clooney said nothing until the debate exposed Biden’s senility. He’s every bit as pusillanimous as those reporters who now purport to be blowing the lid off of the Biden cover-up. But at least reporting wasn’t Clooney’s day job. 

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If anything, their similarities should’ve bonded them together. Biden, who just pretended to be the actual president, pretended to recognize a person who’s known entirely for pretending to be other people.

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The conventional behavior by party leaders is disheartening to registered Democrats, independents, and others eager to build power against MAGA forces. In effect, the same party hierarchy that a year ago was offering profuse assurances about Biden’s viability as a candidate for reelection is now telling us that the party is in the process of mounting an effective challenge to the Trump autocracy.





When the DNC sent out a May 10 e-mail signed by Kamala Harris with the subject line “I am asking you to stay involved,” the only requested involvement was to send money to the DNC. Harris’s message said that “the work we started with my campaign is carried on by the DNC”—which, she asserted, is working to “implement lessons learned.” But there’s scant evidence that those at the top of the Democratic Party have learned crucial lessons.

Ed: That indictment comes from The Nation, a hard-left commentary site. They’re not all that keen on the Now It Can Be Told genre, nor on how its sources still insist on remaining anonymous. 

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Mr. Jentleson, according to a report in New York magazine, was once “proud” of his boss for seeking professional help. He later became so “alarmed” by Mr. Fetterman’s behavior that he quit his job. According to the 1,600-word email Mr. Jentleson sent to Mr. Fetterman’s doctor, the senator was suffering from “conspiratorial thinking” and “megalomania” while experiencing “high highs and low lows.” In “long, rambling, repetitive and self-centered monologues,” Mr. Fetterman was “lying in ways that are painfully, awkwardly obvious to everyone in the room.” Mr. Jentleson also said the senator was “preoccupied” with Twitter and driving “recklessly.”





Some of these symptoms sound like the job description of a U.S. senator. Revealingly, in a story that cites a bevy of ex-staffers (all anonymously) expressing their alarm about the mental state of their former boss, writer Ben Terris reserves his own judgment until the end. “I didn’t find any indication that the stroke had left him cognitively impaired,” he writes. So what is this 7,000-word work of breathless journalism really about?

Mr. Fetterman does indeed suffer from a debilitating illness: sudden onset political moderation.

Ed: The attacks on Fetterman follow assurances from the same sources two years ago that Fetterman’s stroke was no impediment at all. Any suggestion to the contrary was “ableist,” remember? 

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Moving to address the overcriminalization of federal regulations, the order flatly declares, “It is the policy of the United States that…criminal enforcement of criminal regulatory offenses is disfavored,” while adding, “Agencies promulgating regulations potentially subject to criminal enforcement should explicitly describe the conduct subject to criminal enforcement, the authorizing statutes, and the mens rea standard applicable to those offenses.”





Mens rea is a guilty mind. Imposing a mens rea standard on federal prosecutions for regulatory offenses means that the government will be expected to stop prosecuting people who didn’t know they were doing something illegal, or people whose guilty mind — their knowledge that they were doing something illegal, and meant to — can’t be proved. It makes federal prosecution harder, less likely, and probably less common.

Ed: This is a look at a Trump EO signed last week to address overcriminalization and lawfare by federal agencies. It didn’t get much attention at the time, but perhaps it deserved more.  

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Ed: Actually, they lifted the suspensions on all of the Black Sox players as well as Jackson, using Manfred’s logic that lifetime suspension means it should end with the death of the player/coach. Buck Weaver probably should never have been on the list in the first place, having never taken or gambled a dime on the 1919 World Series. In all, 16 people had their suspensions lifted. Weaver won’t get into the Hall of Fame (his stats don’t justify it), but we’ll see whether Rose and Jackson do — or Eddie Cicotte, for that matter. 





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