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  They would have withdrawn from Afghanistan (Perhaps more gracefully.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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  1. Red Herring Coolidge
    Red Herring
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    Al Sparks (View Comment):

    Gary Robbins (View Comment):
    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.

    I agree with the facts as you just present them, but not your conclusions. Starting with Grassley. He was the chairman of the judiciary committee during the Kavanaugh hearings, and he handled those quite well, despite sounding frail then as he does now.

    But another fail-safe was and is the Supreme Court. There’s nothing in the constitution that mandates the Congress count the electoral college ballots. That’s all set out by statute. The Congress does not have the authority to overturn the electoral college.

    Another fail-safe is the military. The oath that commissioned officers take is slightly different than the one enlisted personnel take. It’s this:

    I ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God. (Title 5 U.S. Code 3331, an individual, except the President, elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed services)

    Civilians officeholders of the federal government take the same oath.

    So the allegiance is to the constitution and not the president. If Trump had attempted to stay in office beyond his legal term of office, the military would simply not allowed it, especially with Supreme Court backing.

    Even with the enlisted oath, where enlisted members swear to obey the president and officers appointed over them, if someone is no longer president, then the obligation to obey is moot.

    The danger of a coup as a result of J6 was negligible and the MSNBC crowd, including their followers in Congress have been hyperbolic in promoting it.

    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. 

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  2. She Member
    She
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    Dr. Bastiat (View Comment):

    Mr. Biden has never had any beliefs. He’s a pragmatist – he does what makes sense for him at the time. Whatever that is. And I mean whatever that is.

    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:

    A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly — and I never pursued it — drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly and killed my daughter instantly and hospitalized my two sons.

    and

    Let me tell you a little story,” Mr. Biden told the crowd at the University of Iowa. “I got elected when I was 29 [She-ditors Note: Crimenutely.  I’d not long ago graduated from high school], and I got elected November the 7th. And on Dec. 18 of that year, my wife and three kids were Christmas shopping for a Christmas tree. A tractor-trailer, a guy who allegedly — and I never pursued it — drank his lunch instead of eating his lunch, broadsided my family and killed my wife instantly, and killed my daughter instantly, and hospitalized my two sons, with what were thought to be at the time permanent, fundamental injuries.

    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):

    What’s True
    Biden has at least twice publicly stated or suggested that the driver of the truck that struck his wife’s vehicle, killing her and the couple’s daughter, had been drinking, even though the driver was not charged with drunken driving (or any other infraction suggesting fault on his part).

    What’s False
    No definitive evidence exists to prove or rule out whether the other driver had been drinking, and belief that drinking had contributed to the crash was reportedly prevalent among the local community and not something Biden simply made up on his own. [She’s Note:  If there’s no definitive evidence, either at the scene, at the police station, during, or following, that the drive of the truck was inebriated, what bearing does such absent evidence have to do WRT letting Joe and his defamatory claims off the hook? How is this “false” in terms of the question posed?  Just sayen.]

    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:

    [maybe Biden was engaging in] a retelling of the horror. It’s something people sometimes do, tweaking facts, shifting blame, if nothing else to make the grief more “palatable.”

    It’s a common challenge bereaved parents in particular struggle with after a sudden, violent death. I think the fact that he has this way of sometimes understanding the story is really an expression of the challenge for any person to go forward in their lives.

    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:

    We must love each other, show affection for each other and unite together in condemnation of hatred, bigotry and violence. We must rediscover the bonds of love and loyalty that bring us together as Americans.

    Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs including the KKK, neo Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.

    Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America. Two days ago, a young American woman, Heather Heyer, was tragically killed. Her death fills us with grief and we send her family our thoughts, our prayers and our love. We also mourn the two Virginia state troopers who died in service to their community, their commonwealth and their country.

    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:

    Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down, of to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.

    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.

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  3. Percival Thatcher
    Percival
    @Percival

    Biden is a liar, and so are the mopes at Snopes.

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  4. The Cynthonian Inactive
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    Dr. Bastiat (View Comment):

    Django (View Comment):
    One of Bongino’s favorite lines is “There are many Republicans who are secretly Democrats, but there are no Democrats who are secretly Republicans.”

    I disagree. Many of my friends who vote Democrat have belief systems that align more closely with the Republican party. Especially blacks, but others as well.

    I think Bongino is referring primarily to those in elected offices.

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  5. Ansonia Member
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    Hoyacon (View Comment):

    I agree that this is catastrophic, and the post gives me a chance to ask a serious question. Is there a “technical,” medical definition of dementia, and, if so, how would we measure it against Biden based on his public appearances (and without access to medical records)?

    My preference is the term “cognitively impaired,” which fits better with my layman’s sense of him and which is provable to the naked eye.

    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.

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