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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 They would have withdrawn from Afghanistan (Perhaps more gracefully.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.
Published in General
I have taken that oath three times, when I raised my hand to enlist, when I was commissioned after completing OTS, and when I was awarded a regular officer commission. I have administered the oath many times to people under my command who were reenlisting. I take it seriously and patriotically. I prefer those who take the oath to those who tear down statues or hate the country.
Yep. He’s always been a small, mean, little man whose rather limited brainpower is dedicated only to self-promotion and aggrandizement, at the expense of all others and all else.
When it came time, and served his political purpose, to portray the man–whose truck was hit by the first Mrs. Biden’s car when she ran a stop sign–as a drunk driver, a horrific accident that killed Mrs. Biden and their daughter and put Hunter and Beau in the hospital, Joe Biden said:
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Even Snopes, on a page titled “Did Joe Biden Lie About a Drunken Driver’s Killing His Wife,” can’t quite wriggle past these two rather damning instances. They can’t bring themselves to declare the answer to the question, “true,” so they equivocate, and declare it a “mixture.” Snope’s rationale is as follows (emphasis mine):
Still, on the basis of that rationale, Snopes effectively acquits Biden of lying about the matter, and then points out that he hasn’t raised it for the past 13 years (as of 2020, when the Snopes article was written), and that he did eventually apologize to the other driver’s daughter somewhere in the same timeframe after she raised the matter, and that “Biden now ‘fully accepts the Dunn family’s word that these rumors were false.'” [Earth to Joe: What about accepting the evidence of the case at the time?]
What a pile of rabbit gówno. You don’t repeatedly say–“my wife and and infant daughter were killed by a drunk driver and I [heroically–which is the implication] never pursued it”–unless you have actual proof, or even a reasonable facsimile thereof, or unless doing so serves your agenda. And there’s no proof here, and not even a reasonable facsimile, unless you count the completely unsupported allegations, both in fact and in law, that some people “thought” that Mr. Dunn might have been drinking. Snopes concludes with a set of self-serving (from the Biden standpoint) comments from a “grief expert,”
as follows:
I’ve been that bereaved person, many more times that I cared to be. My late husband lived through the “bereaved parent challenge” twice. And I’ve “[retold] the horror” now and then, sometimes even here. Nothing–absolutely nothing–makes it more “palatable.” Yet, somehow, to this point, I–and every other member of my family–have resisted all forces–internal or external–suggesting that we should tweak facts or shift blame as a means to better “understanding” the story or the “challenges” that go with it. Part of that may be because of the standard response of everyone in my family to the “grief experts” who pester us after the fact; a response which is always something along the lines of: “Please stop contacting me every six months [or other interval] to remind me that my [son] [son] [stepson] [stepson] [mother-in-law] [husband’s ex-wife] [mother] [brother] [brother] [best friend] [etc] is dead. I am trying to find a way to move on with my life and you are not helping. Please go away.”
One would think that a “grief expert” worth his salt would work with the bereaved party to redress harmful and illegitimate attempts to “shift blame” or “tweak facts” on the path to helping the grieving accept reality and to help them get on with things. I’ve not–generally–found that to be the case with such people in my own life, and since “wallowing” isn’t my jam, a pox on them all.
Here’s the thing, Snopes. Joe Biden lied about the circumstances surrounding the deaths of his wife and daughter, and unhesitatingly trashed the reputation of the other person involved because he thought it would advantage his political prospects to do so. Because he’s a despicable cad. That’s just one instance, but it’s an utterly incontrovertible and unavoidable one. There are more.
Let’s contrast that with Donald Trump’s comments after Charlottesville. Those comments weren’t made (as were those of Joe Biden defaming Mr. Dunn WRT his wife and daughter’s deaths) twenty-nine and thirty-five years after the event. They were contemporaneous (24-72 hours later) and off-the cuff at news conferences the following week. Here are a few outtakes from the linked Time article:
Oh, but you say–He called Neo-Nazis (or maybe it was White Supremacists) “fine people.” Whadabboudat?” You must be talking about his remarks on August 15, 72 hours later:
Few here have had more word privilege for longer, and have written more, about how they wished that Donald Trump would, on occasion, button his often rather poorly-expressed or inartful lip, than I. And yet I cannot see how anyone with any sense, any reason, or any humanity, can look at these two men and draw invidious comparisons that accrue to Trump’s detriment.
Call a pox on them both–I’m sorta with you.
Commend everything both of them do–I’m shaking my head.
Endorse Biden all-round, and condemn Trump no matter what–Sorry, you need glasses of a prescription strength, or perhaps just a glass of something of a prescription strength, that I can’t provide.
Criticize Biden, but still insist that Trump is much, much worse–You’ve lost me.
Acknowledge that–eight times out of ten–five times out of seven–four times out of five–you may have been wrong when you unthinkingly sucked up to some anti-Trump screed in the hopes that it would be the soap to wash the stain of your obsession out of your hair–Sorry. No.
Next time, try thinking first.
More to come.
Biden is a liar, and so are the mopes at Snopes.
I think Bongino is referring primarily to those in elected offices.
I prefer “cognitively impaired” because that’s absolutely all we can know about it. For some reason–And it could be stress and sleep deprivation over consequences, and possible future consequences, of the story of Hunter’s laptop not staying buried–Joe Biden has been driving impaired since before he was even in office. It’s gotten much worse.