Sometimes I read about Joe Biden and feel a tingle near my left ankle. At first, I think it might be feelings of sympathy, but then I remember that I have tibial nerve damage from sitting on my foot and Joe is a reprehensible lizard for whom no one should feel sorry. That’s what happened last night when I saw the video of Dementia Joe eating ice cream with late night host, Seth Meyers, and discussing negotiations for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. No matter how pudding headed Joe gets, he is first and foremost a political animal and the 2024 Presidential Race is on.

Joe Biden cannot sit down for an interview with a real newsperson, so few left, there are not enough meds to get him through. Yesterday, he was flown to New York City to do an interview with Meyers and, apparently, promised ice cream after if he was a good boy.

A couple things are weighing on Joe, other than getting back to the White House in time for Ovaltine and Matlock. His firewall state, Michigan, is acting up. The whole state. The Dems imported a lot of Muslims there to vote Democrat and Rashida Tlaib is urging them to vote “uncommitted” in the State’s Primary, February 27 (today). Biden’s United Nations Ambassador, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, vetoed an Algerian backed ceasefire last week. Oops. Got to get those Dems back in line.

While Biden was in NYC today taping, a Progressive group protested outside the 30 Rockefeller Plaza, according to the uber-Progressive Common Dreams:

The historic wave of Jewish-led protests against U.S. complicity in Isreal’s genocidal war on Gaza continued Monday as members of the group Jewish Voice for Peace were arrested for occupying NBC headquarters in New York City in a bid to disrupt the taping of President Joe Biden’s appearance on a popular late-night TV show.

JVP activists wearing shirts reading “Not In Our Name” unfurled banners and chanted slogans inside 30 Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, where Biden was taping an interview with the eponymous host of the “Late Night Show With Seth Meyers.”

“Biden, Biden, you can’t hide, you are funding genocide,” the protesters chanted. Banners implored the president to “Stop Arming Genocide” and push for a “Lasting Cease-Fire” in Gaza, where more than 100,000 Palestinians have been killed or wounded and around 90% of the population has been forcibly displaced since the October 7 attacks on Israel.

Since NYC has become an unholy shithole, no one is going to see or read about the protests. But, the news readers will also show clips of Joe with Seth to show how cool they are. So, Joe and Seth went for their ice cream cones and let the press get close enough for questions. This is all so obviously planned. From Peter Baker at the New York Times:

Speaking with reporters during a stop in New York, Mr. Biden offered the most hopeful assessment of the hostage talks by any major figure in many days, suggesting that the war might be close to reaching a major turning point.

“I hope by the end of the weekend,” he said when asked by reporters when he expected a cease-fire to begin. “My national security adviser tells me that we’re close. We’re close. We’re not done yet. My hope is by next Monday, we’ll have a cease-fire.”

The president’s comments, delivered spontaneously in response to questions during a visit to an ice cream shop after taping a segment on Seth Meyers’s late-night talk show, came amid an active period of talks in the region. Israel’s war cabinet over the weekend approved the broad terms of a deal that would involve a six-week truce for the release of about 40 hostages, and an Israeli delegation planned to meet in Qatar with intermediaries from the United States, Egypt and Qatar.

As bad as it sounds, the ice cream shop/ceasefire video is, gah, worse:

Okay, before you watch this next bit, I NEED to warn you that the nasty old man puts his arms on the glass and leans over it. I just see germs flying everywhere.

Biden gets ice cream with Seth Meyers .
Ceasefire: “My national security adviser tells me that we’re close, we’re close, it’s not done yet. And my hope is that by next Monday."
Border: "I've been planning to go Thursday. What I didn't know is my good friend apparently is going" pic.twitter.com/Lwde3FB6yk

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) February 26, 2024

His “good friend” is Donald Trump and Trump announced his trip first, Butthead.

The terms of this deal sound awful to me. The Palestinian people back, and are complicit with, Hamas. From the Jerusalem Post:

On Monday night, Al-Jazeera reported that, during recent talks in Paris, Israel said it was prepared to release 400 Palestinian prisoners, including some convicted on severe charges, in return for the release of 40 Israeli women and elderly men being held in Gaza.

According to the report, Israel also would allow a gradual return of civilians to northern Gaza, except young men, and would allow a larger flow of humanitarian aid and the entry of temporary shelters and heavy machinery. Israel also offered to reposition Israeli forces outside of populated areas and stop aerial reconnaissance for eight hours a day as part of a potential hostage deal.

One more thing, Ramadan begins March 10. Having a ceasefire in place by then would be seen as another win for Hamas and Biden.

Can you believe that? My negotiations would be: “Give us our hostages back and we’ll let you live. Hold the ice cream.”

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