For this election cycle, I’ll be releasing special editions of Many Such Takes where we dive into more specific election-related dramas on Twitter, while keeping mostly apolitical (or at least, not election-related) stuff to the regular Many Such Takes segment.
Today, we’re going to talk about how some folks on the Right think that Biden is dead, which is a surprisingly unexciting controversy given that he’s no longer running for president. What are they gonna do if it turns out to be true? Force Democrats to run a dead guy as the candidate? Who knows.
Starting around July 22, right-wing personality Laura Loomer has been posting that she has inside “sources” who are constantly leaking that Biden is on his death bed:
Perhaps the best part of all this is that Laura Loomer began feuding with Charlie “Caillou with hair ass lookin’ ass” Kirk about whose secret sources were being used to leak this information, which was almost certainly not true anyway:
Lauren Boebert picked it up later that day to demand “proof of life” from Joe Biden:
Other conservative and right wing figures got in on the action. It was starting to feel a bit like the Kate Middleton drama of early 2024, except angrier, less concerned, and no mentions of “soft launching Lady Cholmondeley:”
Sorry, I just have to say: would?
This one is genuinely funny, the right can (regrettably) meme:
Ultimately, Biden did make a few “public” appearances, and I put that in scare quotes because people are debating whether these are live or pre-recorded appearances, or whether these were Biden at all.
Later on July 22, Kamala Harris spoke publicly and Joe Biden “called” in. However, she said “Joe, I know you’re still on the rec—on the call?” which prompted those on the right to think that perhaps Biden’s voice was pre-recorded, not calling in. His statement was short-lived and Biden-y, finishing with “I love you, kid.” So who’s to say if it was really him??
Just in case you thought that was the looniest it got, things got a whole lot weirder. Let’s just say this cartoon I made years ago predicted this:
That’s right, folks. We exited “possibly dead and pre-recorded” to “a body double wearing a rubber Biden mask.” No, that is not an exaggeration:
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