At Least Biden Won't Remember What Happened This Week
"Listen to him"
Well, it isn’t every week you get to watch a presidential administration collapse into a million pieces, and along with it the entire media apparatus that was propping it up.
The facade has been shattered. Everyone can see there was nothing behind it. And all the hacks who lied to us for years are now clambering over each other to find new lies.
So much crazy stuff has happened this week that I can’t keep up with it all, and I’m not even 81 years young yet.
Biden’s “big boy press conference” Thursday night was anything but. Characteristically late by an hour, and reading from a list of preapproved reporters to call on, Biden’s performance only reminded the world that he has lost whatever meager mental faculties he once had. Intermittently babbling, coughing, screaming, and staring blankly, ol’ Joe looked twice his biological age and sounded even worse.
Let’s start with the big gaffes. As you’ve probably seen, Biden referred to his own vice president as “Trump,” and the president of Ukraine as “Putin”:
Later he tried to explain what happened, which was even more baffling:
I’ll do my best to transcribe this gibberish:
“And the moo, the Putin piece, I was talking about Putin, and I said, ‘And now,’ at the very end, I said, ‘Here,’ I mean ‘Putin,’ I said, ‘Uh, no, I’m sorry, Zelenskyy.’ [DISCONCERTINGLY LONG PAUSE] And then I added five other names. Look, guys. The idea, anybody suggests that, that… we haven’t had an incredibly successful conference. How many times did you hear in that conference, I don’t, it sounds too self-serving, but other leaders, heads of state, in thanking me, saying, ‘The reason we’re together is because of Biden. Because Biden did the following.’ Look, folks. This is, uh… Well. Anyway.”
Well anyway indeed. Actually, that would be a great campaign slogan:
BIDEN 2024: WELL ANYWAY
Now, if you’re an older person or you know one, this behavior may be familiar. Sometimes a person’s mental filing system gets mixed up as he ages. All the information is still up there in the ol’ noggin, but things get misfiled. Jumbled. Mostly nouns. People, places, things. He knows what he wants to say, but he picks up the wrong name and attaches it to the wrong thing. It happens.
This can be understandable and even endearing in a loved one. It’s not very reassuring to a world that’s waiting to see how many marbles the president of the United States has left.
At another point, Joe just started screaming: