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Is Joe Biden Insane?
I don’t just mean an ordinary, obsessive-compulsive kind of thing. I mean detached from reality completely. He is scary.
Am I making too much of this one strange incident?
Just because he misspeaks on a regular basis, it isn’t the end of the world.
Gaffe: Joe Biden Claims He was Vice President in 1976
Former Vice President Joe Biden inaccurately stated on Thursday that the Obama-Biden administration was in office in 1976.
Biden, who has shown an inability to recollect dates and places to the chagrin of even his staunches allies, made the claim while discussing immigration during a stop on his “No Malarkey” bus tour of Iowa.
In particular, the 77-year-old Biden tried to create a contrast between President Donald Trump’s record on immigration and that of the Obama-Biden administration. To do so, the former vice president invoked the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which granted legal protections to nearly 800,000 illegal migrants brought to the U.S. as children, and other signature Obama-era policies.
“There’s the Dreamers program, there’s also a program that said we’re not going to separate families, we’re going to allow families to stay together while they go through the process, and the court said you can’t,” Biden said, before adding, “We did that in 1976.”
Really, really scary.
Published in General
Biden’s obvious dementia is what I referred to in other posts as “frontal lobe syndrome”, which is not the same thing as insanity. It’s a correlate of age, not everyone gets it, Biden clearly has it, and it doesn’t get better. He’s gonna be an Alzheimer’s cripple by 2024, I’d bet $100 on that today.
HERE’S THE SCENARIO THAT SCARES ME.
Conniving Dems nominate this senile fool in 2020. He makes an ass of himself on the trail, Trump beats him like a drum in the first debate. Biden suffers an obvious breakdown and is replaced, at the last moment, by Hillary or Elizabeth or whomever, who cruises to victory on the sympathy and ladies’ vote. It worked for the Dems in NJ when Frank Toricelli was exposed as too obviously corrupt to be re-elected and was replaced by another former NJ senator. The SCOTUS supported the move despite it occurring after a candidate deadline.
The question there would be could they get the U.S. Supreme Court, or 50 state Supreme Courts, to authorize a ballot change that late in the game? If not, they’d probably be stuck running whoever Biden picked as his VP as their top-of-the-ballot person, where they would promise to nominate X as their vice-president if they’re elected.
Except that:
Thus, it appears nothing could stop them.
Does Biden’s breakdown come before or after the ballot printing deadlines? If it’s after, that’s a problem.
If it’s strategic and intentional he’s sane and right to do it. Joe makes a lot of gaffes. By the end of this process, no gaffe, no awkward topic, no awkward public touching moments by Joe will faze anyone. We will have seen it all. On the other hand, if this is really it, I don’t see how he could have a path to victory.
It’s also a reflection of how little he takes this race seriously at this point. He knows the other Democrat candidates are no competition. He can talk about his hairy legs and people stand there and applaud!