In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

There are too many unanswered questions about Joe Biden's presidential peregrinations: we saw yesterday, for instance, that Barack Obama prevailed on Joe not to run in 2016. Some sources claim that Obama had a private deal with Hillary that she would get the nomination that year, while yesterday's version was that Obama simply thought Joe wasn't up to it, especially after Beau's death. Certainly both could be true, and as information about Joe's true health after 2015 gradually leaks out, it seems entirely possible that Obama knew things we didn't. He was the president , after all. We also know that after the June 2024 debate, Nancy Pelosi was able to force Joe to withdraw from the race. The reason must certainly be not that she or anyone else at that level was at all surprised by Joe's performance, but instead that the charade could no longer be maintained. This is just another way of saying that senior Democrats were forced to acknowledge what they...

🚨 #BREAKING : The Biden team says the last time Joe Biden received a PSA test for prostate cancer was 2014 Absolute BULLSHT, and even CNN is calling it out! "He was President of the United States and didn't get tested? I find this very surprising." SUBPOENA BIDEN'S DOCTOR! pic.twitter.com/ImrPm7Wj1t — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 20, 2025 All I can say to that is good luck. The real meat here that goes to the story arc is at the top of the tweet, "The Biden team says the last time Joe Biden received a PSA test for prostate cancer was 2014." Let's recall that for days, oncologists nad urologists have been saying on the news that the PSA test is "the gold standard in prostate cancer screening". On Megyn Kelly's podcast , urologist Dr David Samadi said "it is either medical malpractice or a lie that the former president did not know he had cancer". But let's look at the timeline. We know, especially from various reference...

Over less than a week, we've had the release of the Hur tapes, the runup to the Jake Tapper book launch on the coverup of Joe's decline, the reemergence of James Comey, and the astonishing news of Joe Biden's Stage IV prostate cancer. Somehow all these strike me as being tied together, although I'm not completely sure how. Let's start with Comey, who was a key figure in the 2016 election and the first few months of Trump's first term. How did he figure in those events? The original agreement between Clinton and Obama going back to 2008 was for Obama to take the nomination, the presidency and then eventually support Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid. Obama would appoint Clinton to Secretary of State, Hillary would then use her office to build wealth for herself and her family, and then HRC would exit the Dept of State to begin her presidential run. . . . The FBI [i e, James Comey] was aware of the plan for transition from Obama to Clinton, hence their...

Over the course of a weekend, we've moved from the Hur tapes to a remarkably hinky cancer diagnosis for Joe Biden: Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer, according to a statement from his personal office Sunday, and it has spread to his bones. “Last week, President Joe Biden was seen for a new finding of a prostate nodule after experiencing increasing urinary symptoms. On Friday, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, characterized by a Gleason score of 9 (Grade Group 5) with metastasis to the bone,” the statement said. Now, I'm just an old guy who in my own interest has acquired a general layman's knowledge of geriatric medical conditions. Prostate cancer, as I understand this, is the most common for men. I've been told it's actually slow to develop, so as soon as I heard this, I coudn't understand how a US president, who has a full-time physician right in the White House, could have prostate cancer meta...

In yesterday's post, I advanced the thesis that AI doesn't make people smart, and it doesn't make up for people not being smart, either. After I posted that, I heard that Jake Tapper's publisher (or Tapper himself) had felt the need to hire a crisis management team in the runup to the release of the book by him and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up and His Disastrous Choice , this coming Tuesday. If Penguin Random House had fired Tapper and replaced him with an AI bot, they couldn't have made a worse decision. According to PR Week , Tapper, who co-authored the book with Thompson, confirmed to outlets that Risa Heller, founder and CEO of Heller Co., was hired to offer advice as the authors plan to roll out the book “as smart as possible,” per reports. It is set for release on May 20. . . . Some commenters in President Donald Trump's party were critical of Tapper and Thompson, saying Tapper a...

I've ventured into AI now and then here, mostly with a certain amount of skepticism. Late last year, I asked, " If AI Is So Great, Why Do I Get So Much Spanish- And Chinese-Language Spam? " Theoretically, AI should have been able to identify what languages I speak and direct ads in those languages to my e-mail, YouTube, and Facebook feeds, while avoiding the unnecessary waste of sending me ads in languages I don't speak. I post frequently on Facebook in German and have several German and Austrian Facebook friends. So far, I haven't received a single German-language ad, but I get lots in Chinese and Spanish, neither of which I speak. The basic problem is that AI doesn't make people smart, and it doesn't make up for people not being smart, either. I think there's a misunderstanding of AI in the public imagination, and so far, It appears that remarks from our new Holy Father reflect this. Via the National Review : Leo XIV views the current ...

. @Charles__Marino , a former Secret Service agent and national security expert, tells me James Comey is "gonna have a very, very, very long night." From his experience in the USSS, Marino predicts the Washington field offices for the USSS and the FBI have already been… — Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) May 16, 2025 It wasn't until I got up this morning that I began to realize Comey's 8647 Instagram post hadn't just gone viral, it had metastasized. As both a true crime fan and a follower of the various lawfare cases against Trump, I have sort of a sketchy idea of what can happen if you get the feds on your case. James Comey, as a former FBI Director, should have had a much clearer idea -- but if he did, he apparently never thought it would apply to him. Farther down in the tweet embedded above, Susan Crabtree quotes more from the former Secret Service agent Charles Marino: "Look, here's the deal, they're sending agents out, and they're go...