In the last two days, there were two posts about the Fanfare for the First Lady. Victory Girls’ own Carol wrote about it in “Jill Biden Surprised By Reporter Asking Her Questions” on July 9 and on July 10, Victoria Taft wrote “Hail to the Chick: Dirty Jill Is at it Again”. In her mind, DOCTOR Jill has earned a fanfare and you are going to have to pry her aged claws away from it.

Why be surprised about a Fanfare for the woman who sits at the President’s desk on Air Force One to study for the G7.

DR. Jill Biden is prepping for the G7. What’s IN that binder, Jill? And, if she’s doing any speechwriting, will her efforts at least read better than her college dissertation titled “Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students’.” pic.twitter.com/M9fJE4wfru

— .@SerendipityDizl (@SerendipityDizl) June 10, 2021

And, the same woman posts it on X (Twitter).

Regarding Joe Biden’s fitness to serve and who is going to tell him to get out, Slate.com thinks “It’s not up to Jill”.

“The only person who has ultimate influence with him is the first lady,” an unnamed source close to the president told NBC News. “If she decides there should be a change of course, there will be a change of course.” The New York Times likewise reported on unnamed donors who “wondered about whom in the Biden fold they could contact to reach Jill Biden, the first lady, who in turn could persuade her husband not to run.” Axios went almost gloves-off in declaring that only the “Biden oligarchy” could decide Biden’s fate. According to the outlet, “Dr. Jill Biden; his younger sister, Valerie Biden; and 85-year-old Ted Kaufman, the president’s longtime friend and constant adviser—plus a small band of White House advisers—are the only Biden deciders.”

One of the few narratives to emerge in the aftermath of Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance late last week is that whatever happens next will happen only with the blessing of the president’s wife. If Biden is to bow out of the race, it will happen only because of her intervention; if he keeps on, it will be in part because of her unflagging encouragement.

“The only person who has ultimate influence with him is the first lady,” an unnamed source close to the president told NBC News. “If she decides there should be a change of course, there will be a change of course.” The New York Times likewise reported on unnamed donors who “wondered about whom in the Biden fold they could contact to reach Jill Biden, the first lady, who in turn could persuade her husband not to run.” Axios went almost gloves-off in declaring that only the “Biden oligarchy” could decide Biden’s fate. According to the outlet, “Dr. Jill Biden; his younger sister, Valerie Biden; and 85-year-old Ted Kaufman, the president’s longtime friend and constant adviser—plus a small band of White House advisers—are the only Biden deciders.”

It wasn’t just traditional news media. Right-wing content farms quickly started churning out takes about how “Lady Mac-Biden” was “desperately clinging to power.” The National Review referred to Jill Biden as “the Decider.”

Some of this can be written off as sexism. There’s been a lot of wife-blaming going around this election cycle, on both sides of the aisle.

The author of this post, Alexander Sammon is both woke and incredibly naive. Sexism and wife-blaming. Welcome to the real world, boy, baby boy. Sometimes spouse-blaming might be entirely appropriate given the power-dynamic in any couple. Regardless of sex or gender or any of that falderal.

Jill has always wanted to be seen as equal to Joe Biden. There was a dead giveaway in her Wilmington, North Carolina speech this week. From the Washington Examiner:

“For all the talk out there about this race, Joe has made it clear that he’s all in. That’s the decision he’s made. And just as he has always supported my career, I am all in too. I know you are too or you wouldn’t be here today,” the first lady said onstage in Wilmington, North Carolina. “I want you to remember what it felt like on the morning after the 2016 election when we fell short. Remember that feeling, how you woke up and you said to yourself, ‘Oh my God, what just happened?’ We can’t let that happen again. I don’t want to wake up with that feeling.”

Did you see it? “…Joe has made it clear that he’s all in. That’s the decision he’s made. And just as he has always supported my career…” Doctor Jill has always seen her “career” at the same level as Joe’s. JuCo teacher and Senator/Vice-President/Oval Office Resident are all the same. Sorry, teaching is important, but be real. Remember that Marine Corps “Fanfare for the First Lady”?

Doctor Jill doesn’t like feeling like second-class citizen, especially now that they have made the White House. From the Los Angeles Times in February of 2009 when she was the Second Lady:

But Biden is thought to be the first second lady to hold a paying job while her husband is in office.

“I think she is unique,” said Joel Goldstein, a professor at St. Louis University School of Law and an expert on the vice presidency. Other second ladies — Cheney, Quayle, Tipper Gore and Joan Mondale — wrote, lectured or did important volunteer work.

“But I think Dr. Biden is the first . . . to basically continue in the regular workforce,” said Goldstein, who has a DPhil (the English term for doctor of philosophy) from Oxford and a JD (juris doctor) from Harvard. He seemed mildly amused upon hearing that Biden liked to be called “Dr.”

“It’s a funny topic,” Goldstein said. “Occasionally someone will call me ‘doctor,’ and when that happens my wife makes fun of me a little bit. But nobody thought it was pretentious to call Henry Kissinger ‘Dr. Kissinger.’ ”

Joe Biden, on the campaign trail, explained that his wife’s desire for the highest degree was in response to what she perceived as her second-class status on their mail.

“She said, ‘I was so sick of the mail coming to Sen. and Mrs. Biden. I wanted to get mail addressed to Dr. and Sen. Biden.’ That’s the real reason she got her doctorate,” he said.

And in Jill’s mind, THEY get elected:

“I told Joe when we got elected.” And, that was just before Obama’s second term.

When the Obama’s left the White House they were beloved. They got book deals and Netflix rained money on the Obamas. Jill is not seeing those kinds of offers from anyone. Her future will not be a fanfare and Netflix money. Her future will be waiting for the shift change and the night nurse to come on duty in Delaware.

DOCTOR Jill has earned Vogue covers, book deals and Netflix money, damn it.

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