When I watched last Thursday’s presidential “debate,” it was obvious to me that Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden exhibited a tenuous grip on reality.  He looked lost, he  rambled, he frequently descended into word salad, and several times, he made statements that were, at best, non sequiturs, and at worst, simply preposterous.

It can’t say that I was surprised.  On the rare occasions when Biden appears in public, he often mutters, stutters, and makes little sense.  So sure, as I watched, I concluded that Biden wasn’t doing well, in a “debate” that he had asked for, and under the rules that he had set.

What did surprise me however, was the reaction of the lap dog media that’s been propping up Biden throughout his presidency.  When the show ended, I began to hear disturbing reports that all was not well in Democrat land.  This caused me to do something I almost never do.  I put on CNN to hear the post-debate analysis of its all-leftist panel of Democrat apologists.

I expected to hear what we normally get from that crowd; a dutiful positive review of Biden, accompanied by a scathing denunciation of all things Trump.  That’s not what we got.

The CNN rogues gallery of leftists was in a panic.  They said Biden was “hoarse and sometimes unintelligible.”  Van Jones, after professing his love for Joe Biden, said, “That was painful,” and that Democrats “need to find a different way forward.”  Chris Wallace opined that Biden is not capable of doing any better than he did.  One of the panelists offered the opinion that subjecting Biden to the ordeal was elder abuse, asking, “What if that was your father up there?”  He had a point.  If this was a fight they would have stopped it.  Il Duce Obama veteran David Axelrod said, “There is a sense of shock.”

On the even more radical MSNBC, the outlook was no rosier.  Joy Reid reported getting texts complaining that Biden appeared feeble and weak.  She added that Democrats were “approaching panic.”  Nicolle Wallace said “there have to be conversations” about replacing Biden, adding that the convention rules were “being circulated.”  Obama campaign manager David Plouffe announced that, “It’s kind of a DEFCON 1 moment.”

I was struck by the Axelrod take on the event.  There was a sense of shock?  It put me in mind of the scene in Casablanca, where, as the police chief is being handed his gambling winnings, he tells Rick, “I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.”

Honestly, what did these people think?  How many times on these pages have I said that Joe Biden lies, and the media swears that whatever he said is true?  The media panelists were shocked to see the condition of Joe Biden?  I hardly think so.  They have permitted his handlers to hide him from the public for the last 3-plus years.  And they have dealt with his rare, and embarrassing, public appearances by simply ignoring them, or by parroting the White House lie of the day.  If there was any shock among the lapdogs, it was the inescapable fact that the jig is up, and they can’t continue to lie and be believed by the Democrat rank and file.

The panicked texts that they were getting weren’t from fellow “journalists.”  They were coming from friends who are loyal Democrat voters who are finally realizing that everything they’ve been told about Joe Biden has been a tissue of lies.  Keep in mind that the perhaps 25% of voters who will vote Democrat no matter who or what is on the ticket, accept the leftist spin no matter how improbable or downright preposterous it may be.

When a liberal commentator standing in front of a burning building told them that a leftist riot was “mostly peaceful'” they believed it.  When they were told that Hunter’s laptop isn’t really Hunter’s, but is instead a Russian intelligence operation they believed it.  So when White House spokes-liars and their media assistants hid Biden from the public, and then swore that he was “sharp as a tack,” on top of every issue, and that the video evidence of Biden’s decrepitude was a MAGA “deep fake” operation, they believed that crap too.

These are the people who rely on whatever they’re told by the media.  The media obliged by feeding them lies that they wanted to believe.  These fools got high off their own stash.  It’s good that they’re finally shocked,  because on Thursday, they were forced to confront the truth.  Joe Biden is a physical wreck with mental deficits so acute that he shouldn’t be in charge of an ice cream shop, much less the United States of America.

The sad fact of the matter is that the Left isn’t shocked that Joe Biden has dementia, can barely move, and that his weaknesses make him a threat to national security.  They’re perfectly willing to reelect him, knowing that he can’t do the job, because they expect whoever has been running the country to continue to do their Progressive bidding.

Apparently Joe Biden is the only one who didn’t know that he’s in the White House only because he was a useful idiot who would do the bidding of Democrats who needed to find someone to beat Donald Trump.  But Old Joe, although still an idiot, isn’t useful anymore.  They’re not shocked that he’s incompetent.  They’re shocked that he might not win.  The New York Times editorial board therefore has decreed that it’s time for Joe to go.  They’re prepared to select a different empty shell to pretend to be president.

The possibility that Democrats could lose their power is what’s causing all the shock.  They want someone new, but who?  As New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin has written, “The Trump haters will rally around a dead racoon if they think it will win the White House.”  If that’s the case, they should stick with Biden.

For Joe’s part, he says he’s not going anywhere.  Amidst the hue and cry to replace Old Joe at the convention, so far, both Bill Clinton and Il Duce Obama have expressed support for Biden’s continued candidacy.  That means one of two things.  They either have concluded that making a change at the convention can’t be accomplished without making matters worse, or they already know that they’re going to take Joe out, and are just putting him at ease.  I predicted that that long ago.

As for Donald Trump, he did enough to beat a near-dead opponent.  He followed the rules, and countered the Democrat argument that he’s a raving Nazi.  And he had a couple of devastating comebacks to Biden’s gibberish, like, “I don’t know what he just said, and I don’t think he knows either.”  That said, Trump had the perfect opportunity to explain why his policies will make America better, but he spent too much time beating an already dead horse.

All in all, this was a far cry from most debates, that end with the judgment that, “Neither candidate moved the needle.”  Stay tuned for what should be a fascinating next four months. Here’s hoping that the Democrat convention in Chicago is a replay of 1968.