So, where does Ronny Jackson go to get his reputation back?

Jackson, you’ll recall, is the current Republican congressman and former White House physician to Donald Trump and Barack Obama who has, for years, steadfastly requested that Joe Biden take a cognitive exam. Those requests were routinely ignored by the White House or rebuffed by Leftmedia journos as “unfounded.”

After one such request in early 2022, Biden spokesman Andrew Bates blasted him. “I honestly don’t care about Ronny Jackson’s ‘look at me’ routine. But if y'all get any mail from Nick Riviera,” said Bates, referring to the quack doctor on “The Simpsons,” “please don’t be a stranger.”

So from now on, the first and last words out of the Biden apologists’ filthy sewers ought to be: With apologies to Dr. Ronny Jackson.

We say all this amid a groundswell of panic about Biden’s cognitive state — a groundswell that now includes Hollywood dreamboat George Clooney, who yesterday penned a New York Times op-ed telling Joe that it’s time to go. Which is odd, because only three weeks ago, Clooney was putting the arm on his fellow glitterati and raising more than $30 million for the Big Guy’s reelection campaign. Wrote a cloying Clooney:

I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals. In the last four years, he’s won many of the battles he’s faced. But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe ‘big F-ing deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate.

We’ve no doubt Clooney does love Joe Biden — in much the same way Kristi Noem loved that family dog. But where was he three weeks ago? Or three years ago?

As Fox News funnyman Greg Gutfeld quipped, too soon, “I haven’t seen an actor take out a president like that since John Wilkes Booth.”

Speaking of late-nighters, not-so-funnyman Stephen Colbert, long a Biden sycophant, has finally come around. Now he’s poking fun at Biden’s brain and the tightness of his own sphincter.

Porcine pamphleteer Michael Moore also joined the fray, taking to his podcast to call the Biden reelection effort “the cruelest form of elder abuse he’s ever been forced to watch.”

So tell us, Mike: Why is it so cruel only now, but it wasn’t a month ago, or a year ago, or four years ago? Why is it that you’re only now noticing what’s been painfully apparent to sentient beings for years?

This lightning-fast defenestration of Biden was quickly picked up by others. “My friend George Clooney,” said filmmaker Rob Reiner, “has clearly expressed what many of us have been saying. We love and respect Joe Biden. We acknowledge all he has done for our country. But Democracy is facing an existential threat. We need someone younger to fight back. Joe Biden must step aside.”

Earlier, Reiner had said, “It’s time to stop f***ing around. If the Convicted Felon wins, we lose our Democracy. Joe Biden has effectively served US with honor [sic], decency [sic], and dignity [sic]. It’s time for Joe Biden to step down.”

There, too, was Nancy Pelosi, a heretofore indefatigable Biden supporter. On MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” yesterday, she said, in her own semi-coherent way, “It’s up to the president to decide if he is going to run. Uh, we’re all encouraging him, uh, to, to make that decision, uh, because time is running short. Uh, the, uh, I think the overwhelming support of the, of the caucus — it’s not for me to say; I’m not the head of the caucus anymore — but, uh … he’s beloved. He is respected. And people want him to make that decision.”

What decision might that be, Nancy? Maybe she didn’t hear that Scranton Joe had already made that very decision earlier this week. “I want you to know,” he said in a statement, “that despite all the speculation in the press and elsewhere, I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump.”

One minute, she’s four-square behind the Big Guy, and the next minute, she’s shivving him. If we didn’t know better, we’d swear she’s getting her coordinated marching orders from Barack Obama, just like Clooney. And sure enough, Barry knew all about it.

All this raises an important question, though: If the glitterati and their Democrat fellow travelers are so thoroughly convinced that Biden isn’t cognitively capable of serving another four years, then what on earth makes them think he’s fit to serve another four minutes?

Indeed, if Joe Biden has to go, then he has to go right now. Not in six months. Not with the myriad threats facing our troubled nation. And according to our constitutional system of succession, Vice President Kamala Harris is next in line.

But notice how Clooney says, later on in his missive, “Let’s hear from Wes Moore and Kamala Harris and Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom and Andy Beshear and J.B. Pritzker and others.”

Say what? Notice, too, how he cleverly lists the Maryland governor first, before Harris, as if she’s just one among a handful of possible successors.

And here I thought Donald Trump was the “existential threat” to “democracy.”

Yes, yes, Kamala Harris is a diversity hire, she’s even less popular than her boss, she’s guilty of incitement to riot, she failed to secure our southern border, and she keeps repeating this creepy mantra about being unburdened. But, hey, that’s democracy. And as Georgie Boy himself put it, “Democracy is messy.”

It’s messy, alright. The long knives are out for Joe Biden. And as OutKick’s Clay Travis notes, “None of this Democrat panic is actually about Biden’s health, it’s about him losing.”

POSTSCRIPT: This is the same Chicago-style Democrat Party that Barack Obama ushered in nearly 16 years ago. This is how they behave. But more important, and not to be lost amid all this intrigue: These are the same Democrat policies Obama endorses — whether it’s decrepit Joe Biden at the helm or some younger, smoother, more cognitively capable candidate.

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Updated will a cautionary postscript and a bit more about Barack Obama’s not-so-secret string-pulling.