Okay, so they're shuffling Old Cracked Joe off to Camp David for a week long "cram session" before what is being billed as his make-it-or-break-it debate confrontation with Trump on June 27th.
We have been told to "expect surprises" from Dementia Joe, who was last seen struggling with the very difficult task of getting into the back seat of an SUV:
Crooked Joe Biden—who is hardly ambulatory at this point—had a really hard time getting into the SUV 😬 pic.twitter.com/KjoUFFeJow
If you think about that for more than ten seconds, the utter weirdness of the statement should become obvious. The implication is that Biden will do something that both his supporters and opponents will find physically surprising, that is, something other than the Old Slow Joe Shuffle he's displayed so often over the past couple of years - and please ignore the implicit admission that Joe's physical performance has indeed been less than optimal for some time now.
Instead, he's going to come out of his 7-day Camp Conversion therapy session a-prancin' and a-dancin' and...what? Challenge Trump to arm-wrestle him? A push-up contest? Dance an Irish jig, maybe? Whatever it is, it's going to have to be something that is both noticeable, and done without the help of a screen of aides standing around him to obscure any inconvenient lapses.
You think the real Grampa Gropey is up to pulling off a 90 minute session of that? I don't. But then, I don't think the real Grampa Gropey is going to be on stage come debate night.
Instead, I foresee a combination of two strong possibilities. First, a body double, an actor with Biden's physical body type, who has been trained to impersonate him vocally, and, second, do this while wearing an extremely good mask that, even up close, would be indistinguishable from a real human head and face.
Is such a thing even possible?
Well, they don't talk about it, but it is well known that just about every significant world personage has one or more body doubles capable of standing in for the principle where certain circumstances make it both needful and possible. In general, none of these doubles are able to fool up close people who know the principle well. It's pretty much a dead certainty that the current occupant of the all-the-world's-a-stage "Oval Office," has at least one, perhaps more of them.
If so, their ears don't seem to match:
Both Politifact and Snopes (subsidiaries of the Democrat Media Complex) have taken cracks at debunking this - my favorite is Politico's claim that the difference is caused by aging, which ignores the fact that dangling (detached) earlobes don't grow shorter and tighter (attached) with age, as with these pictures, but precisely the opposite. At any rate...
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In the 1990s, she met President George H.W. Bush in the Oval Office disguised as a Latina woman with black curly hair to describe the extraordinary results her team achieved to evade Russia’s KGB.
Bush glanced at her, searching for a briefcase that carried her disguise. Then, she told him she was wearing it.
When she took off her disguise and revealed her actual face—blue eyes, fair skin, and short, dark blonde hair—Bush and his advisers seemed perplexed.
G.H.W.B. left office at the end of 1992, so, if the CIA had that level of disguise technology 32 years ago, how much do you think it might have been improved since?
So here's your debate conspiracy theory for 2024: Joe's body double, (sometimes claimed to be this guy), spends a week at Camp David with the Prexy, brushing up on his mannerisms while his new CIA-delivered mask gets tweaked to perfection, before stepping out onto the stage to give us some unexpected surprises, especially of the all-important physical variety.
The people around former President Trump believe he set debate expectations “too low” for President Biden four years ago, New York Times political correspondent Maggie Haberman said late Thursday.
“There is an awareness in Trump’s world that they have lowered the expectations pretty solidly for Biden there,” Haberman said on CNN’s “The Source” with anchor Katilan Collins, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
“I don’t know that a week out from the debate is enough time to try to recast that, but Trump did not help himself in 2020 when he was constantly interrupting Biden. He knows that; he has said that to people,” Haberman added. “Trump and his folks are aware that they set the expectations too low for Biden, and Biden beat them.”
At any rate, six more days until we open that surprise package. Start popping that corn now - unless joltin' Joe has already beaten the holy crap out of all the available CornPop.
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