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Something vastly more important is at stake. When America’s president, whose job it is to keep America safe, and when necessary, keep many of her (pronoun alert) allies safe around the world, it should be a given that the president himself (or herself or theyself) is not a national security threat.
In a national security crisis on the homeland or an attack on an ally somewhere in the world, the Commander-in-Chief must make quick and hopefully coherent decisions based on a body of knowledge of foreign policy or military or domestic intelligence. He/she/they/zir…(I’m getting exhausted) must also be able to quickly comprehend and weigh the benefits or flaws of sometimes contradictory advice given by advisers and experts on how to deal with the crisis. Events can occur at any time of the day or night. Even after the Commander-in-Chief’s beddy-bye-time.
Joe Biden, who when he was vice-president, sitting in the White House Situation Room, counseled against Seal Team Six taking out Osama bin Laden when they had already been deployed to Pakistan while all the other cabinet members and advisors recommended that Obama take out Osama. Biden was characterized by former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as being wrong on virtually every foreign policy decision that had to be made in the last 40 years. The horrific American military withdrawal from Afghanistan that Joe Biden, in his profound wisdom, wanted to coincide with the Islamist celebration of the September 11th attack on America is a prime example of his blithering idiocy, and as Trump rightly pointed out during Thursday’s debate, clearly emboldened Putin to move Russian troops into Ukraine in his thus far unsuccessful attempt at total annexation.
What Biden demonstrated during the presidential debate Thursday evening - well after his normal beddy-bye-time - is that despite a week-long preparation at Camp David, where CNN’s Erin Burnett may have revealed that he and his debate prep team were given the debate questions in advance, that the Commander-in-Chief had very noticeable cognitive impairment and several times meandered in his mind or found it difficult to formulate a coherent response; in one case, after noticeably struggling with his thoughts, proudly claimed that “Look, we finally beat Medicare.” Was Joe’s cognitive decline evident even before he was proclaimed president? If only alarm bells had rung out back in 2020…hmmm…
Those living in Taiwan and the Philippines, who happened to catch Thursday’s presidential debate, may be having very restless nights. One can only hope that China’s President Xi, the PLA and Chinese Naval commanders are even more incompetent than our own woke/DEI-adhering military brass and America’s Commander-in-Chief. But if provocative moves are made and America’s naval commanders and other military personnel in the Pacific theater aren’t busy getting LGBTQ+ rainbow-painted fingernails, pray that they receive coherent instructions from someone other than Joe Biden or Dr. Jill or even Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who may or may not be able to be located.
Whether the dishonest Democrat Party and their media minions settle on a mechanism to remove Joe Biden as their presidential nominee or not (even if they have to strap Jill Biden into a Hannibal Lecter restraining device to do so) is less critical to the fate of the republic than whether Joe Biden should continue to be Commander-in-Chief until the inauguration of the new president. The other clear and present danger, of course, is that allowing Kamala Harris to become interim-POTUS, doesn’t resolve this national security threat and may, in fact, only compound it. Such is our current national security conundrum and Joe Biden’s insurance policy to prevent his removal from office.
In the meantime, several Middle Eastern and ISIS terrorists are somewhere at large in the United States, tens of thousands of military-aged and potential Chinese saboteurs have poured over the southern border near San Diego and CCP-funded and -controlled corporate entities have purchased vast acres of land near American military bases - just little tidbits of information that were conveniently left out by the moderators of Thursday’s debate including any mention of the millions of dollars from Chinese Communist Party-controlled companies that have poured into the numerous bank accounts of the Biden family.
There, I feel better now. Sleep well.
PS – I compiled this video four years ago before Joe was elected
…and what’s old is new again.
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You are very unfortunately correct. The way things are right now. Either Joe Biden or Kamala Harris will be our POTUS for Six more months. We have a bigger problem than Houston!
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Brian! Long time no see!
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Nothing says "Defenders of Democracy" more than handful of insiders removing the popularly elected nominee of the party. As Tucker Carlson recently said, "you keep using that word 'Democracy'. I do not think it means what you think it means."
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There's no question that Joe Biden is mentally unfit for office, whatever one thinks of his opinions. This has been obvious to most of us for a while. The media aside, what bugs me is how suddenly so many of my Biden supporting friends seem to have just waken up to the fact.
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