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President Biden’s Dementia Is a Catastrophe
In the 2020 Democrat Party primary, the top three candidates ended up being Joe Biden (19 million votes), Bernie Sanders (10 million votes), and Elizabeth Warren (3 million votes). Ok, so imagine that Sanders or Warren had won, instead of Biden. What would they have done differently as President? Nothing. They would have spent enormous amounts of money that we don’t have. They would have withdrawn from Afghanistan (Perhaps more gracefully. Although perhaps not.). They would have opened the Mexican border. They would have spent all their time on issues like climate change, transsexuals, hate the rich, and so on. All these are just mainstream Democrat Party policies now. They would have done the same things as Mr. Biden has done.
And they would have gotten the same results. Our economy would be imploding, the world would be less safe, crime would be skyrocketing, inflation would be growing, and so on. Everything would be going pretty much as it is now. And Americans would be blaming the Democrat policies that caused all this, and they would be very much looking forward to upcoming elections to fix these problems by changing our leadership from Democrat to Republican.
But unfortunately for America and the rest of the world, Mr. Biden appears to be suffering from dementia. So now, rather than blaming our problems on the Democrat policies that caused them, people are blaming Mr. Biden’s apparent medical condition. Which, again, is completely irrelevant. We got these destructive policies because we elected Democrats, not because Mr. Biden got sick.
Mr. Biden’s dementia is a catastrophe. It’s providing cover for the Democrats, by distracting everyone from the real cause of our problems: Democrat policies. It may even allow Democrats to replace Mr. Biden with an even more radical leftist, out of compassion for an old, sick man.
So rather than moving right, we could move even further left, even after the damage the left has done. All because Mr. Biden appears ill.
The Democrat policies that are destroying our nation and endangering the world are very bad. But Mr. Biden’s dementia makes this much, much worse.
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Like She I was the caregiver for someone who was suffering from dementia. In my case it was my dad. My job was to try and protect him from a world that he could no longer understand and to keep him in his own home. I see many things in Joe Biden that I saw in my dad.
I have nothing but contempt for those around Joe Biden that use him to push a narrative, or for political gain. He has been stripped of any dignity that might have been left for him as he nears the end of his days.
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We know Biden won’t be the Democrat candidate in 2024. They may find a real person as it shouldn’t be any of those talked about, but in the medium term how much does it matter? Leaving Biden in charge for three more years gives the Chinese what they need. The EU isn’t controlled by them but all of Africa is and in South America, a marxist just stole the strongest most free market economy down there, Colombia. Brazil remains not controlled by the left, meaning China, but it won’t last much longer unless the US steps forward, which won’t happen. That leaves us alone by the end of next year and we have a senile old fool who they own because they enriched him and his kid so he won’t do more than make noises. Biden has to go. She’s a fool and a leftist, but as far as we know not owned by China. The old lady who is just a crook, isn’t either, but for some reason some folks still pretend Biden is competent, coherent and in charge and the rest of us figure Biden will be the candidate and can be beaten. He is owned by China. He won’t be the candidate. They’ll have to come up with someone real, not owned by China unless they wrap it all up in the next election. We can’t sit around for three years letting China do what it will do.
We need to be asking our progressive friends and relatives why they want to get rid of Biden when he’s assured them almost everything they want in their agenda?
https://amgreatness.com/2022/07/20/the-left-should-be-happy-with-biden/
FWIW, there was a report a few months ago that Slow Joe’s advisors warned him about his withdrawal plans, but as usual, he was dumb enough think he was the smartest person in the room and ignored them.
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communismsocialismprogressivismhas never been tried. The Kool Aid imbibers do not need a specific excuse to account for failure. Amnesia and denial is a feature not a bug. Think of the Krugman theory that the key to economic growth is more federal debt. If you get no growth and inflation instead, then the theory is not wrong–you just failed to spend enough. It is immune to empirical results.If Biden brings about an electoral cratering that not even another half-billions dollars worth of “turnout” from Zuckbucks can fix, they will turn on him as part of the narrative that real _______ has never really been tried. But that narrative will be spewed regardless.
My concern is that it won’t make any difference. Biden, Harris, Pelosi, whatever, by then the deed will be done. The country we knew will be no more.
Note: my use of “whatever” rather than “whomever” was not a grammatical error.
Biden has been a huge disappointment, other than Ukraine. It hit home for me how close his policies have been to Sanders and Warren; it is as if he is so weakened that he goes along with his liberal staff, and his liberal grandchildren, and his liberal teacher-wife.
The Senate has long been the world’s most expensive long-term care program. See Strom Thurmond towards the end and Dianne Feinstein now.
Why is he a disappointment? He’s doing what he promised. It’s what you voted for. It’s what you donated money to. He’s delivering on his promises. The country is being destroyed, as you wanted.
We have a problem. I can sum it up by the example of a friend. She is smarter than most, passed the test to get accepted to MENSA. Still, she believes that Biden is a victim of forces beyond his control. She can’t or won’t make the connection between Slow Joe’s policies and the current mess, and that is not because of a lack of intelligence. I don’t get it.
No Biden promised to be more of a moderate Democrat.
I voted to defeat Trump who has proven himself to be an existential threat to the Republic itself, let alone the Republican Party.
I did. I did my best to mobilize Republican Voters Against Trump who want our party back.
Other than Montana Governor Steve Bullock, Biden presented himself as the most moderate of the Democrats. But he turned hard left after being elected. If only Trump hadn’t screwed up the two Georgia Senate races, where, yes, I gave money to both Republicans.
No. I do not want my country to be destroyed. How can you say such a terrible thing? I think that you don’t want your country destroyed either.
I disagree with this. Joe Biden will speak out against the rich if his handlers tell him to, but he doesn’t really begrudge people making money. I believe that Elizabeth Warren has a deep, abiding, passionate hatred for capitalism. If you think the economy couldn’t be worse, it could be. Biden wants to increase taxes on the successful, but I think Elizabeth Warren would turn us into Venezuela if she had the ability.
You did what you thought was right. OK, we’ve all been wrong about something, but as long as you spout that nonsense the gap between us cannot be bridged.
I urge you to watch just a little bit of the January 6th Committee Hearings. Trump assembled the mob, whipped them up, and for 187 minutes refused to go to the podium to stop the attack on the capitol other than to send out two meager tweets. That was a close run thing. If Pence had been killed, would President Pro Tem Charles Grassley (R-IA) had the same vigor to stop the Trump attempted coup? I think not. To not lift a finger for 187 minutes, other than to watch Fox News in the Dining Room, Trump committed perhaps the greatest dereliction of duty imaginable.
People better informed than I am or you are have tried to tell you multiple times why that committee is illegitimate. Yet you refuse to engage with them and repeat the nonsense above again and again. I learned all I need to know when I heard Cheney say that the point was to make certain that Trump never again got close to the White House. I [redacted] on them all.
Jim Geraghty, who doesn’t have a kind word for Trump, was pointing out that the Democrat Party had moved so far left that Biden being a moderate Democrat still meant a far Left agenda.
This is such horsedung.
It equaled the destruction of the country.
Because you voted for Biden. How he has governed was foretold. Biden promised to undo all the great work of Trump. I don’t want the country destroyed so I voted for Trump, the most effective president for good since Reagan.
It was foretold. “Gas prices five, six, seven dollars a gallon.” The Germans should have listened to him too.
Here’s a horrifying thought to start the weekend: if you knew that the next president was going to be a Democrat (and I think 2020 has shown us there is nothing the party won’t do to ensure that outcome), who would you choose between Biden, Harris, Susan Rice, Mayor Pete, Gavin Newsome, and. . . wait for it. . . Hillary Clinton.
It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when Felony Clinton seems like the most moderate choice. She might even use the successful Bill Clinton/Dick Morris method of triangulation on the issues, where the aforementioned are all committed lefties (or puppets thereof).
Joe Biden was never a moderate. He’s always been an opportunist. He was sold as moderate to the LIVs and the NTers, who lap up mainstream media lies like dogs in the desert. What he did to Clarence Thomas — high tech lynching — is possibly the most despicable public display by any politician I can think of. That, alone, is cause for atonement by any “Reagan Republican” who chose to vote for him. Then we can talk about the barely latent racism of the man, the corruption, the anti-Americanism of his party, the wicked destructiveness to human lives of Democrat policies, etc.
” Biden promised to be more of a moderate Democrat. “
And:
” Other than Montana Governor Steve Bullock, Biden presented himself as the most moderate of the Democrats. But he turned hard left after being elected.
Sucker. Biden has been a despicable Democrat his whole life. Every sentient voter knew what he was. You let your hatred cloud your judgement.
” I voted to defeat Trump who has proven himself to be an existential threat to the Republic itself, let alone the Republican Party.”
You voted to defeat Trump and your tool to do so was Biden. Denying your tactic to be rid of Trump was to elect Biden is dishonest or cowardly. Trump was an “existential threat”? No, he wasn’t.
” I did my best to mobilize Republican Voters Against Trump who want our party back. “
News flash. You aren’t getting “your” party back. People who foisted this Marxist party on us and pushed us past the tipping point are pariahs. Liz Cheney is done. Kitzinger is done. NT pundits are done.
” If only Trump hadn’t screwed up the two Georgia Senate races, “
Georgia Republicans screwed up Georgia. Too many of their voters are losers, the touchy feely weak link that hurts our party.
” No. I do not want my country to be destroyed. “
Look around and admire your handwork. I have even seen you gushing admiration for this J6 commie show trial.
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If he makes it to 2024, Biden will have been humiliated enough. I expect he’ll fill his depends in public any day now. Then, we can send him off to the home. Next in line to show how little they have upstairs is Harris, then Newsom. Those two will provide some bitter laughter, but Rice and Clinton are malicious and dangerous. Mayor Pete will spend a lot of time on family leave as he attempts another adoption. We are so screwed.
I think Geraghty is right on this. Biden was always a centrist Democrat. Because he’s an opportunist, he stayed in the middle of the party, but as it drifted and then leaped left Joe moved left too. He did start out prolife before the party kicked them all out for example.
They’re all malicious and dangerous.
Then he wasn’t really pro-life, was he? That’s my point. Whichever way the wind blows Biden.
I think Newsom is just a not-too-bright petty and entitled twit. Not in Clinton’s or Rice’s league.
That’s the nifty thing about being a leftist. Destruction is easy and relatively effortless. See Obama, Barack.
It’s building and improving something that takes effort and competence.
That’s it, right there.
Discussions about ideology would be missing the point.
This is not the way to say it. You are saying it as if there was a real chance that he would be Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The models in your head for thinking about this stuff are terrible.
They all have a collectivist urge to row the boat for Democrats and the left. They have to think a certain way or they don’t exist. They have to come up with more government pushing everything around or they don’t exist. They have to act like it works. Just as stupid as the Soviets.
That is definitely her rhetoric.
Bull’s-eye.
attn: Gary