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MIButterfly

(3,454 posts)
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 05:20 PM 23 hrs ago

I wish they'd leave President Biden alone

I just read online that Lindy Li, a former Democratic fundraiser, who switched parties due to the "cover up of Biden's cognitive decline" by Democratic insiders is writing a book called Unburdened all about it. Why can't people stop rehashing this same old bullshit? I am sick and tired of hearing about it when DJT's actual cognitive decline is on display day after day and day. How about writing about that, authors, pundits and so-called journalists?

They repeatedly run articles about President Biden having been "abandoned" and looking "bewildered" at the opening of President Obama's Presidential Center last week. No matter how innocent the reason may be for him looking around (maybe looking for someone or even just taking a last look around before he leaves), they always use that to make him look like a senile, befuddled pitiful old man. How about they repeatedly show DJT acting bewildered and looking like he doesn't know where the hell he is when he's sitting in the Oval Office? Or nodding off every time he sits down? Or when he refers to some unknown person as his daughter? Or when he claims a foreign leader begged for a picture with him? Or any of the thousand times he's looked like a senile, befuddled pitiful old man?

President Biden, on his worst day, is still a million times better and sharper than DJT is on ANY day! He's a private citizen now. I say leave him the hell alone. Stop picking on him. Let the man live out his retirement in peace. He deserves at least that much.

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I wish they'd leave President Biden alone (Original Post) MIButterfly 23 hrs ago OP
when people have books to peddle they will use any strategy necessary to them to find an audience nt msongs 23 hrs ago #1
Oh yeah PatSeg 23 hrs ago #8
That was my first reaction BeneteauBum 22 hrs ago #17
THANK YOU!!! MustLoveBeagles 23 hrs ago #2
I agree, MIButterfly Alice Kramden 23 hrs ago #3
Not the first past Dem President popsdenver 4 hrs ago #61
Well said. PittBlue 23 hrs ago #4
Sounds like Li is trying to rationalize an irrational decision Raven123 23 hrs ago #5
MAGAs will buy the book. MAGA politicians will wnylib 20 hrs ago #39
Yes. Raven123 19 hrs ago #44
True, but the Epstein cover-up is worse than being old. wnylib 19 hrs ago #45
Oh, yes. Another reason the Biden basing won't work Raven123 19 hrs ago #47
Most MAGAs don't read, especially not a book. llmart 3 hrs ago #62
Sounds like she's trying to cash in peppertree 11 hrs ago #57
Lindy Li embraced her inner bigotry and now proudly dons her MAGA hat Quiet Em 23 hrs ago #6
Yeah, if this is her next act Pinback 21 hrs ago #28
what a horrible choice she made. She's a snake and I can't imagine her having a political career as anything other LymphocyteLover 20 hrs ago #37
id also wish theyd leave prez obama alone too also. AllaN01Bear 23 hrs ago #7
It should be noted... GiqueCee 23 hrs ago #9
I agree with you. 3catwoman3 5 hrs ago #59
I recall the eerie silence... GiqueCee 5 hrs ago #60
They are trying to distract from the moron squatting In the White House. If LoisB 23 hrs ago #10
They won't. Trump's real boss, Rupert Murdoch, thinks the government is his personal property now. Initech 23 hrs ago #11
Biden had a remarkable four years in the White House PatSeg 23 hrs ago #12
He had able help from Nancy Pelosi FakeNoose 23 hrs ago #15
He put together an extraordinary cabinet PatSeg 21 hrs ago #26
So true ... and thank goodness he did such a great job FakeNoose 19 hrs ago #48
Yes and hopefully Trump PatSeg 19 hrs ago #50
the Biden expression I remember NJCher 23 hrs ago #13
They are just jumping on the grifter train with KPN 23 hrs ago #14
From the printer to the pulper! BidenRocks 22 hrs ago #16
Quietly one of the greats IbogaProject 22 hrs ago #18
I guess caring for the US and her people is a big no no............... Lovie777 22 hrs ago #19
I didn't see him fall asleep at Obama's Library Opening. Zackzzzz 22 hrs ago #20
Biden was/is a man that has faced traumas not many have lived through. He faced them and continuned on with life dave99 22 hrs ago #21
She's pandering to the maga maggots ExtraGriz 22 hrs ago #22
They're fascist who love fascism. I wish they'd drop the pretenses and admit it. paleotn 22 hrs ago #23
JoeB can handle the criticism. NoMoreRepugs 22 hrs ago #24
Yeah, but I can't! MIButterfly 22 hrs ago #25
Agree totally. NoMoreRepugs 21 hrs ago #35
He shouldn't have to Bayard 18 hrs ago #53
Thank you. I couldn't agree more. Joinfortmill 21 hrs ago #27
Yeah, that'd be nice. But I ain't got time to worry about that shit. Iggo 21 hrs ago #29
He has a stage 4 cancer. LisaL 21 hrs ago #34
The tool that runs Political Wire does this too DarthDem 21 hrs ago #30
Me too. He was the best president of my lifetime. 50 Shades Of Blue 21 hrs ago #31
On fox business news Li told them "I've been a conservative all my life". Probably though the lostincalifornia 21 hrs ago #32
I met her once, while she was pretending to be a Dem. RandomNumbers 20 hrs ago #38
Please let us know if and when this book gets to Amazon so I can leave a review. NBachers 21 hrs ago #33
Why would you want to read it? MichMan 21 hrs ago #36
NBachers never said anything about reading dave99 19 hrs ago #49
I'm just so sick of all the pearl clutching Seasider 20 hrs ago #40
Not to mention JFK with his debilitating back problems MIButterfly 20 hrs ago #42
Hunter Biden talked about the absurdity of thinking anything this big could be covered up crimycarny 3 hrs ago #63
i don't even click on articles about Biden's so called weaknesses BlueWaveNeverEnd 20 hrs ago #41
Yeah, I should know better, but the headline made me curious MIButterfly 20 hrs ago #43
This is from the Wikipedia article about her DavidDvorkin 19 hrs ago #46
Her book would be more aptly named "Unpurchased" Bristlecone 19 hrs ago #51
GOOD one! calimary 14 hrs ago #55
Here, Here! duckworth969 18 hrs ago #52
K&R red dog 1 17 hrs ago #54
I remember her. This says Everything Cha 13 hrs ago #56
I was just thinking the same thing Lulu KC 6 hrs ago #58

msongs

(74,489 posts)
1. when people have books to peddle they will use any strategy necessary to them to find an audience nt
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 05:23 PM
23 hrs ago

PatSeg

(53,988 posts)
8. Oh yeah
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 05:57 PM
23 hrs ago

This one stinks of major opportunism to me. Sounds like someone wanted to make a quick buck. She even switched parties? She might want to consider a career outside of politics.

Alice Kramden

(2,987 posts)
3. I agree, MIButterfly
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 05:30 PM
23 hrs ago

It's all baseless, malicious criticism against President Biden - unsupportable and unfair

popsdenver

(2,781 posts)
61. Not the first past Dem President
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 12:42 PM
4 hrs ago

they are STILL throwing trash at........Obama, Clinton, Carter........

AND the 95+% Republican owned/operated mass media is helping immensely ............

PittBlue

(4,873 posts)
4. Well said.
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 05:35 PM
23 hrs ago

That wonderful man dedicated his life to this country. He suffered so much loss in his life and continued on. It is disgraceful how he has been treated by the media and others.

Raven123

(8,029 posts)
5. Sounds like Li is trying to rationalize an irrational decision
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 05:37 PM
23 hrs ago

And in true Trumpian style, make money from it. Let’s see how that works out.

wnylib

(26,792 posts)
39. MAGAs will buy the book. MAGA politicians will
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 08:25 PM
20 hrs ago

use it to try to discredit the entire Dem party.

This will be a nasty election season. We can turn the tables on Rs over this. Just bring up Reagan and Trump. And ask why THEY are covering up Trump's pedophile behavior with Epstein.

For every mention of Biden, bring up Epstein



Raven123

(8,029 posts)
44. Yes.
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:25 PM
19 hrs ago

Although I think the Biden line is being beaten by Trump’s own health issues.

Raven123

(8,029 posts)
47. Oh, yes. Another reason the Biden basing won't work
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:48 PM
19 hrs ago

But you are correct. We need to make sure of it. Those Epstein files need to be released.

peppertree

(23,575 posts)
57. Sounds like she's trying to cash in
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 06:07 AM
11 hrs ago

And it's no secret that selling out to the fascist right is a quick and easy way to do just that.

Quiet Em

(3,213 posts)
6. Lindy Li embraced her inner bigotry and now proudly dons her MAGA hat
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 05:47 PM
23 hrs ago

Thank goodness she is no longer strategizing or fundraising for Democrats.

She, and others like her, is the autopsy.

LymphocyteLover

(10,381 posts)
37. what a horrible choice she made. She's a snake and I can't imagine her having a political career as anything other
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 08:20 PM
20 hrs ago

than a soulless grifter.

GiqueCee

(5,041 posts)
9. It should be noted...
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 06:00 PM
23 hrs ago

... that Joe Biden corrected many of Trump's worst mistakes in ONE term as president. And I, too, despise the frauds posing as journalists for failing to do even a third-grader's level of research into WHY Biden stumbled in that fateful debate: Severe jet lag, and a lack of sleep, compounded by recovering from an exhausting whirlwind round-the-world trip, and running a fever with a really bad cold. I firmly believe that he was sandbagged by the very people that were supposed to protect and support him.

GiqueCee

(5,041 posts)
60. I recall the eerie silence...
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 11:46 AM
5 hrs ago

... in defense of Dr. Howard Dean when he rallied his troops with that perfectly innocent battle cry; his supposed "I have a scream" speech. I met and spoke with Dr. Dean when he was governor of Vermont, where I live. He did not deserve the right-wing vitriol at the time, and he SURE as hell didn't deserve to be sandbagged by the people that should have had his back.

LoisB

(13,740 posts)
10. They are trying to distract from the moron squatting In the White House. If
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 06:01 PM
23 hrs ago

President Biden had dementia, he would still be a better President than IT.

Initech

(109,595 posts)
11. They won't. Trump's real boss, Rupert Murdoch, thinks the government is his personal property now.
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 06:04 PM
23 hrs ago

We have got to kick Fox News out of our government.

PatSeg

(53,988 posts)
12. Biden had a remarkable four years in the White House
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 06:06 PM
23 hrs ago

He pushed through incredible legislation with small majorities in the house and senate for two years. He certainly left the country far better than it was when he assumed office, but all we hear are cruel jabs about his age and health.

I am so disgusted with these people, including the mainstream media. This is why "we can't have nice things" as they say. If this is how we treat our good and decent leaders, maybe we don't deserve better.

FakeNoose

(42,961 posts)
15. He had able help from Nancy Pelosi
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 06:14 PM
23 hrs ago

... and others. But yes, Biden's 4 years were remarkable.

PatSeg

(53,988 posts)
26. He put together an extraordinary cabinet
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 07:17 PM
21 hrs ago

of highly qualified people, plus he was an experienced and knowledgeable man who asked endless questions. It was all so very impressive and he deserves a lot of credit for what he accomplished.

FakeNoose

(42,961 posts)
48. So true ... and thank goodness he did such a great job
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:51 PM
19 hrs ago

We may actually get through this clusterf*k ... thanks to Joe Biden's excellence and thoroughness.


PatSeg

(53,988 posts)
50. Yes and hopefully Trump
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:57 PM
19 hrs ago

won't undo everything Joe has done. He certainly has been trying.

NJCher

(43,793 posts)
13. the Biden expression I remember
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 06:07 PM
23 hrs ago

was at trump's swearing in, when Biden looked at him like he'd just handed a fragile wine glass to a caged gorilla.

He knew what a disaster trump would be.

KPN

(17,582 posts)
14. They are just jumping on the grifter train with
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 06:14 PM
23 hrs ago

a laser focus on personal gain without regard to the cost to societal health. Greedy bastards, that’s why.

IbogaProject

(6,177 posts)
18. Quietly one of the greats
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 06:30 PM
22 hrs ago

He got more done in two spending packages than FDR, Eisenhower and LBJ in less than one year.

Lovie777

(24,422 posts)
19. I guess caring for the US and her people is a big no no...............
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 06:31 PM
22 hrs ago

from the republican party, namely shithole.

dave99

(510 posts)
21. Biden was/is a man that has faced traumas not many have lived through. He faced them and continuned on with life
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 06:52 PM
22 hrs ago

He is someone to look up to BUT our cynical press can't stand people (We The People) like he was/is.

The best to him and his family.

paleotn

(23,053 posts)
23. They're fascist who love fascism. I wish they'd drop the pretenses and admit it.
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 07:00 PM
22 hrs ago

By the way, fuck them. Fuck 'em with a cactus sideways. I hope they catch fire so I can refrain from pissing on them.

MIButterfly

(3,454 posts)
25. Yeah, but I can't!
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 07:07 PM
22 hrs ago

I think it's despicable and a horrible way to treat a decent, honorable man who has spent his entire life in service to our country.

Iggo

(50,124 posts)
29. Yeah, that'd be nice. But I ain't got time to worry about that shit.
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 07:25 PM
21 hrs ago

Biden’s a big boy with a whole team of big boys and girls working for him.

He’ll be fine.

Us, not so much.

DarthDem

(5,471 posts)
30. The tool that runs Political Wire does this too
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 07:30 PM
21 hrs ago

Constant stories about everything and anything negative about Biden. Silly.

lostincalifornia

(5,653 posts)
32. On fox business news Li told them "I've been a conservative all my life". Probably though the
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 07:34 PM
21 hrs ago

most revealing statement of her nonsense was when she told fox that the "Democratic Party was a cult".

If she had left the party and became an independent that would be one thing, but this jackass became a republican.

The Democratic party IS NO CULT. If anything, it is an extremely open tent, something that the REAL CULT, the republican party would NEVER accept.

She belongs with the degenerates, pedophilias, insurrectionists, and anti-Democracy goons that the republican party is today.

The disgrace is that our MSM has mostly prostituted themselves to push this kind of garbage.

As for Li, good riddance, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

RandomNumbers

(19,302 posts)
38. I met her once, while she was pretending to be a Dem.
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 08:23 PM
20 hrs ago

My thoughts then: "empty suit who wants to get in office to get some of that campaign funding gravy train".

Turns out the suit wasn't empty after all - it was full of shit.

Seasider

(213 posts)
40. I'm just so sick of all the pearl clutching
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 08:55 PM
20 hrs ago

As if that was the first time in history an administration actively tried to mask the frailties of the President. I mean I’m old enough to remember the last couple of years of the Reagan administration.

I think if Biden’s age issues were so bad, we would’ve seen it manifested in other areas like we do with the current administration. And every senior cabinet member who worked with him closely insist he was well enough to do the job.

MIButterfly

(3,454 posts)
42. Not to mention JFK with his debilitating back problems
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:02 PM
20 hrs ago

that were "treated" by injections from "Dr. Feelgood" on a regular basis, the same quack who shot up Eddie Fisher and many other famous celebrities with amphetamines. We never knew about any of that until decades after JFK died.

crimycarny

(2,115 posts)
63. Hunter Biden talked about the absurdity of thinking anything this big could be covered up
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 02:11 PM
3 hrs ago

In an interview Hunter Biden did, I think with Andrew Callaghan of Channel 5, he mentioned the absurdity of thinking anything in the DC machinery can be covered up like some of the claims people like Jake Tapper and Lindy Li are trying to say. Hunter Biden said “My dad got old in front of our eyes, he lost a step physically, but he wasn’t cognitively diminished.” That’s what I’ve always believed, and seeing Joe Biden speak in subsequent events doesn’t show a man in the throes of dementia. If Joe Biden was truly as “incapacitated” during his term, as the Jake’s and Lindy Ali’s claim, he would be barely functioning by now. During his book tour, Jake Tapper claimed that Joe Biden would be in a nursing home by now.

MIButterfly

(3,454 posts)
43. Yeah, I should know better, but the headline made me curious
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:10 PM
20 hrs ago

Next time I'll try to be discerning! I'm sure it will help to not raise my blood pressure.

DavidDvorkin

(20,755 posts)
46. This is from the Wikipedia article about her
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 09:42 PM
19 hrs ago
Following the 2024 United States presidential election, Li transitioned from being a supporter to being a critic of the Democratic Party. Li described the campaign of former Vice President Kamala Harris as a "$1 billion disaster," saying that Democratic donors were misled by the campaign to believe "that this is an eminently winnable race".[50] In an interview on America's Newsroom, Li intensified her criticism, saying "I lost tens of thousands of followers because I dared to tell the truth. Because in a cult, you can't tell the truth," and ridiculed the notion of Harris running for Governor of California in 2026.

In January 2025, Li told Fox Business "I've been a conservative all my life".[51][52] In an interview on Fox News, Li made clear she would no longer be supporting the Democratic Party stating that "leaving the Democratic Party or even questioning the Democratic Party is like leaving a cult. It's terrifying. I don't want to be a part of this craziness anymore." Li also expressed support for Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense.[53][54][55] Li announced she was raising money for Trump and Republicans, despite her previously sharp criticism of Trump.[56]

Bristlecone

(11,243 posts)
51. Her book would be more aptly named "Unpurchased"
Mon Jun 22, 2026, 10:13 PM
19 hrs ago

Last edited Mon Jun 22, 2026, 11:00 PM - Edit history (1)

‘Cause nobody is gonna buy it.

Maybe take a queue from Jake Tapper’s book failure.

Cha

(321,502 posts)
56. I remember her. This says Everything
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 03:40 AM
13 hrs ago

about fucked up Lindy Li and nothing about Pres Biden.

Anyone who would switch to the Nazi PEDO party and write a book to whine about the Dem Party is a liar.

I imagine Hunter Biden will have brilliantly interesting words to say about the grifter who went to the Homicidal Rapist Maniac. Theft of Billions from the People

Mahalo for writing about this, MIButterfly ☮️💙🌻🕯️🕊️

Lulu KC

(8,918 posts)
58. I was just thinking the same thing
Tue Jun 23, 2026, 10:31 AM
6 hrs ago

Those who criticize him are losing my respect and interest. Find another topic, people!

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