I know. I understand. I get it. Joe Biden had a cold. Joe Biden suffered from jet lag from a trip he had completed 12 days prior to the debate. Joe Biden was tired from the week he spent with 16 advisors prepping for the debate. Biden “stumbled”. He got off to a “slow start”. He needs more naps and shorter days. Incumbent Presidents often have a difficult first debate. All of those are excuses and not explanations about why Joe Biden, an 80 year old man, shuffled onto the stage and for an hour was barely coherent in content and presence. In short, we witnessed a President of the United States who is mentally and physically compromised.
Nevertheless, the media and the democrat party and worst of all his wife, Jill, continue to pretend that despite what we saw Joe Biden is not really in decline.
There is no middle ground here. That Joe Biden looked and acted like the neurologically compromised 80 year old man that he is was not a surprise. We have watched the decline of Joe Biden since almost the day he was sworn in. But in my mind the one moment that showed me that Joe Biden and the nation were about to be visited by their worst nightmare; a mentally comprised President of the United States on a global stage, was captured in one fleeting moment. It was that split second that we saw a man who once walked with purpose and confidence pointing at the podium with a drooping left eye and a look on his face as if he was saying to himself: ‘Yes. That’s it. That is where I was told to go.’
From his first answer to the question of why there is 20% inflation in food bills to the epic moment when President Trump responding to President Biden’s comment on immigration offered this observation: “I really don't know what he said, I don't think he knows what he said either.”
The “debate” left no doubt that Joe Biden is medically compromised and unfit to serve.
However, the majority of the Democrat Party seems to have a different view; one devoid of concern for the health of their leader and the Nation. We are now witness to a party that has no empathy, no sympathy, no concern for its leader or the people whom they would govern. Their only concern is this: How do we retain power? As pointed out by Johnathan Turley there is no better example of this than the comments of Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY). Following the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report of his interview of Joe Biden about his mishandling of classified materials in which Hur described Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” Goldman offered this:
“I was in Israel on Oct. 7, as you know, and President Biden was nice enough to call me. And I can tell you, this was the day before that interview, I can tell you he was sharper than anyone I’ve spoken to about a very complex geopolitical urgent issue with the Hamas terrorist attack. And it indicated to me that he had spoken to all of the relevant leaders in all of these different countries.”
We now know with certainty that Hur was being kind and that Goldman would have us believe that despite all prior evidence to the contrary, Joe Biden was just fine. As Johnathan Turley points out Goldman’s comment stakes out a new position for the democrat party:
“So, let’s not just focus on Joe Biden here. Let’s focus on the people around him, the administration, the policies, and most importantly, the appreciation and protection for the rule of law and our democracy that Donald Trump, every single day, has vowed to take down.”
In other words the hard left leaning democrat party is just fine with having the Nation, the Republic, being run by an unknown body of elite party hacks no different than the Soviet era politburo with a mentally and physically impaired, figurehead in the Oval Office and where Donald Trump is the real enemy of "our democracy”and not their penchant for shredding the Constitution.
There is so much more that is being said by so many more democrats and their media toadies all of which is intended to pretend that the debate was a fluke and that Joe Biden is perfectly fine. And it is all creating a mountain range of evidence that the democrat party and media couldn’t care less about Joe Biden’s obvious impairment of functional capacity; more to the point neither does his wife. To be fair there are those within the Party who are calling for Biden’s removal from office using the 25th Amendment, or that he be replaced at the convention or that he voluntary resign. But it is not out of concern for Biden’s health.
I am profoundly saddened to watch the abuse of a man in rapid decline being used and manipulated by Party, donors, media, family, and particularly his wife for the sole purpose of remaining in power.
Union, Kentucky
6 July 2024
Intellectually I understand, yet I still don't get it. What causes a person to be so dedicated to their herd mentality that they will ignore obvious facts in favor of believing what their 'influencers' tell them?
Psychologists have demonstrated that many people will believe what the crowd believes, even when it is plainly obvious that the crowd is factually incorrect. The need to 'belong' is that strong, in some people.
We laugh at 'flat-earthers'. There is no evidence, no proof that they won't refute in order to maintain their foolish belief that the earth is flat. I wonder how many flat-earthers are progressives...
“I wonder how many flat-earthers are progressives...…”
Id be willing to bet that the overlap is significant.