After Biden’s abysmal debate performance on Thursday, much of the media world reluctantly admitted that the 46th president looks like a lost toddler.
And Vogue literally couldn’t stop printing: The fashion bible-turned-Democratic Party PR machine has already released its July issue, with cover model Jill Biden wearing a cream-colored silk Ralph Lauren dress that retails for $4,990.
The magazine hit the Internet with a resounding bang on Monday morning.
It was anachronistic. It was vulgar. But the photoshoot and interview, which took place a few months ago, would have been terrible even without the debate disaster.
Jill had the nerve to tell me, “We don’t need any more chaos,” coming from a woman who is one of the country’s top chaos agents, encouraging her clearly fragile husband and telling him, and us, that he should keep running the country.
In this sycophantic piece, she is portrayed as a tireless, everyday woman out there, the eyes and ears of the president (well, someone’s got to be at this point).
“I know food prices are going up,” she said, adding that she buys her own groceries in Wilmington, Del., where she still teaches at a community college in Virginia.. She is a “practical Dr B” who assigns her students papers rather than books “because books are expensive.”
She gathers the information and gives it to Joe.
“I tell him what I’m seeing and hearing, and he gets it, and that’s where the magic happens,” she says.
But making her husband do chores to make her look competent is not appealing to Jill.
“You did a great job, Joe,” Jill told him after the debate, as if she were talking to a child just starting to potty train. “You answered all the questions.”
Biden’s 2024 campaign wouldn’t be complete without a healthy dose of the old fear-mongering Democratic mantra: “Democracy is at risk.” Jill told Vogue:Before you deploy a variant:
“Every campaign is unique, but this one has a different urgency. We know what’s at stake,” she said. “Joe is asking the American people to come together to draw a line under all this evil.”
Unfortunately, the Vogue reporter never mentioned Biden’s advanced age, or how those multiple trips around the sun have clearly taken a physical and mental toll on a sitting president prone to tumbling, freezing and muttering.
At the last minute, the magazine added an online editor’s note addressing last Thursday’s debate disaster.
“[The Biden family] “I’m not going to let these 90 minutes define my four years as president. We’re going to keep fighting,” Gilles said with the confidence of Apollo Creed heading into round two against Ivan Drago.
But we’re not talking about the last four years. That’s history. Next 4. At 81 and frail, Joe’s best days are behind us. We know it. The Bidens know it.
But the president’s family (reportedly led by his wife and drug-addicted son Hunter) are operating under the assumption that they deserve a second term, that we live in Biden’s United States, not America.
Jill added that her husband “will always do what’s best for the country” — short of stepping down, of course.
Most families would accept the keys after seeing their loved one sprint down the fast lane to a town of dementia, but the Bidens enlisted the help of world-class photographers and the tough hand of Anna Wintour, not to mention George Clooney to lead the fundraising effort.
They arrogantly operate in a bygone era when glamour motivated voters, relying on showbiz and fashion to make the fantasies they desire a reality.
In the end, it’s all about maintaining control of power and shamelessly using the elderly to do so.
In the opening paragraph of the Vogue profile, the author inadvertently describes the Biden family as intoxicated with influence.
“If you want to know what power feels like, try driving in a motorcade,” the article said, describing the motorcade “running red lights and speeding around curves, barely capturing the feel of ordinary Americana: a no-man’s land of apartment complexes, big-box stores, churches, office blocks and semi-industrial areas.”
Vogue magazine gushes, “It’s like the world is holding its breath — for you. And the rules don’t apply.”
That may not be the case for a while, but time is certainly invincible. Biden hasn’t broken his leg or had knee surgery. His mental faculties are deteriorating right before our eyes.
Sadly, Biden will be remembered not as a vibrant, eloquent man with a gift for chatter, but as a symbol of old age and dementia.
Confused, reeling, declining.
But the Bidens have priorities, and Dr. Jill now has another Vogue cover to hang on her wall — her third — to hopefully comfort her as she watches President Trump’s acceptance speech.
