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#1 - Joe Biden's Upper Wears Off, Leading to an Absolutely Disastrous Appearance in PA — by Bonchie

The only thing I can figure is that Biden's handlers got cocky after his moderately coherent (but still hamfisted and mistake-filled) speech the night before. That was a mistake because whatever his supporters claim he "proved" during the State of the Union about his mental acuity, that was all reversed during this appearance. I'm sure he'll manage to one-up himself soon enough, but man was it a testament to just how far gone Biden is.

#2 - HOT TAKES: The Picture That Says Everything About Why the Biden Team Is in Such Chaos — by Nick Arama 

The first point so many made was how the folks on the right looked just like everyone imagined the Biden HQs rapid response team would look -- like a bunch of NYU theater kids, as one person on X put it.  

That explains so much about why we are in the mess we are now.  The picture appears to be them checking out the State of the Union and/or its aftermath. What was hilarious was while the talking points on the left are that Biden hit a "home run," none of them look happy at all with what is going on. Kapp also clearly has no idea what that picture looks like. It looks like the picture of the Hillary people who cried in 2016, some on X observed. This is the adults back in charge? 

#3 - Biden Crashes After SOTU: Struggle to Read Teleprompter Is Concerning and Jill's Face Is Something Else  — by Nick Arama 

He not only seemed unable to read the words, but then once that threw him, he had a problem with tenses, saying, "We have to start off by vaccinating America," when he should have said past tense. It was clear that he was talking about the past, but he still got the tenses messed up. 

But even that was untrue, as we can recall. Biden didn't do anything — he inherited the vaccine. It was former President Donald Trump who declared a public emergency while the Democrats were accusing him of racism. All Biden did was be a fascist about things like kicking people out of the military if they refused the vaccine. 

Meanwhile, check out Jill's face as she stands there. She looks like she'd like to dig a hole to get out of there, but this is on her — she's the one who allegedly pushed him to run because of her hatred of Trump.

#4 - Hu Knows: Swalwell Bundler Fang Fang Breaks Cover, Reveals FBI Offered Her $1 Million — by Neil W. McCabe 

The Chinese operative, who was Rep. Eric Swalwell's (D-CA) personal companion and staffer, broke cover in an X-post of her sitting with a Global Times reporter nearly 10 years after her abrupt exit from the United States—shortly after the FBI warned Swalwell she was a foreign agent.

“I had lunch with this lady today. Her name is Fang Fang, and U.S. media called her a ‘suspected Chinese spy,’ wrote Hu XiJin, along with the operative who became an omnipresent force in San Francisco Bay Democratic politics—with significant dalliances in the Midwest.

Hu wrote that Fang Fang, who presented herself in the U.S. as "Christine Fang," was the victim of the American media and that federal national security personnel unsuccessfully recruited her.

#5 - 'Class Act': Mike Rowe Lauded Over Smooth Handling of CNN Reporter's 'Gotcha' Games — by Sister Toldjah 

What I liked most about the interview besides Rowe not taking the bait was how he didn't accept the premise of everything that was asked, like on the "qualifications for president/VP" question. 

You'd probably find stupid stuff that anybody has said. But what really qualifies a man or woman to run for president or vice president, I think you got to be 35. I think you need to have been born in this country. After that, I don't know about qualifications. I guess we could talk experience and judgment and temperament and all of those other things and everybody gets to weigh and measure everybody and put it all under a microscope and decide.

He also said he wasn't going to judge Aaron Rodgers because he had no idea what Rodgers allegedly did and did not say.