There was a brief moment in time when the media had some tough questions for Joe Biden and his administration. It lasted about three weeks.

After the June 27th debate, the veil had been ripped away, shredded in front of everyone’s eyes, and burned to ashes. The “cheap fakes” argument was null and void. Joe Biden was seen as Robert Hur had described him – an elderly man with a poor memory. After telling conservatives for years that old Joe was “sharp as a tack,” it turned out that the emperor was buck naked and pantsed them all. The media wanted answers. They didn’t get many. And then the whispers began, and the pressure campaign began. The polls started coming in. Biden was going to lose, and the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) began to panic.

The old man had to go, but they had to make it look like it was HIS idea.

After sending out a letter that was definitely a group project done at the last minute, Joe Biden sat down in the Oval Office to give his funeral address. Wait, his resignation speech. No, wait, I guess this is his retirement speech? It is definitely the end of his political career, and despite what his press secretary thinks, it is the official signal that he is a lame duck headed for the beaches of Delaware to wait quietly for the end. No one watching this speech believes that this is a healthy and vigorous man with the energy of a thirty-year-old. At this point, there are probably even odds that Joe Biden makes it to January 20, 2025 and can still walk upright.

But never mind. The media is back in LOVE with Joe Biden, and are piling the accolades on him for his dropout speech.

If you cannot appreciate the dignity, the grace, the selflessness, the patriotism of that speech – akin to Washington's farewell – but instead feel compelled to denigrate him, nitpick or return to petty partisan politics I pity you. You're denying yourself the majesty, the…

— Jen "Denial Dooms Democracy " Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) July 25, 2024

And the lovefest was gag-inducing.

In his address tonight, President Biden echoed the rhetoric of one of his heroes, the late President Kennedy, CBS News' @costareports observes. Some Biden advisers say Biden’s presidency is defined by both his ambition on policy and his belief that democracy is being threatened… pic.twitter.com/77dqbcXh8o

— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 25, 2024

Meanwhile, Washington DC was vandalized on a huge scale, the American people no longer have a president who cares about that, and the media doesn’t care and claim Republicans are “pouncing” when they notice. They want to praise old Joe to the skies for a mumbled speech (that Jon Meacham LIED THROUGH HIS TEETH about writing) and then declare “ice cream for everyone!”

No, seriously. THEY SERVED ICE CREAM. The Biden family (whose grift is about to come to an end – Hunter is gonna have to get a real job to pay child support) was all sitting in the room when it happened, and then it really was an ice cream party.

Biden was surrounded by his loved ones and those who helped make his political career as he spoke from the Oval Office. They applauded when he finished his 11-minute speech but they also wiped away tears.

First lady Jill Biden, his wife of 47 years, was the first by his side after he finished. She joined him at the Resolute Desk followed by son Hunter, who gave his dad a hug. Hunter’s daughter Finnegan and the Bidens’ daughter Ashley also hugged the president with Finnegan wiping away tears as she turned away from her grandfather.

Ashley’s husband Howard Krein was also present as were other Biden grandchildren including Naomi Biden Neal and her husband Peter Neal, young Hunter Biden (the late Beau Biden’s son) and Maisy Biden.

Staff in the room included Mike Donilon, Biden’s longtime aide who has been there since the start of his political career; press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and Biden’s deputy chief of staff Annie Tomasini.

‘This has been the honor of a lifetime,’ the president told them.

Then the crew joined other staff out in the Rose Garden, where ice cream – the president’s favorite treat – was being served.

‘Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher’ – one of Biden’s campaign songs – was playing.

The White House Press has been unburdened by what has been for the past 3 weeks. https://t.co/SY9wnVuzRs

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 25, 2024

And the media uncritically runs with the “ICE CREAM FOR EVERYONE!” instead of addressing the elephant in the room – namely, that Joe Biden gave ZERO explanation for why he was dropping out of the presidential race, except that HE WAS LOSING. There was no doctor’s note, no medical explanation for what is rapidly becoming a dangerous situation, just a tacit acknowledgement that the pressure campaign resulted in a palace coup d’état. Remember, Joe Biden really said that his accomplishments are so great that he deserves a second term, so… he’s going to quit the race because no one else agrees with him.

Biden has literally become the corpse at his own funeral, who is now hearing the praise that the dead usually receive after they expire. But because he’s still slightly alive, at least he can be bribed off with ice cream after being forced into retirement by Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. Current events have already relegated Joe Biden to history, and he has become a nonentity in his own administration. Except that he will still be president for another six months, and our enemies know that. We live in dangerous times.

Featured image: original Victory Girls art by Darleen Click