We’ve all seen those commercials for Visiting Angels, the senior care company that sends professionals to the houses of elderly Americans to check on them and help out however they may need it. If 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue isn’t already the address of one of their clients, it needs to be. The guy who lives there is sinking into the stage of dementia where he can no longer live alone and his family will soon have to have the awkward conversation every family dreads about taking away the car keys. The only difference is this senile person is the President of the United States and in desperate need of someone in his inner-orbit who cares enough about him to admit the truth and bring to an end the elder abuse we’re all witnessing on a regular basis.
Joe Biden is gone. That’s not to say he doesn’t have moments of lucidity; it just means they’re fewer and farther between.
When someone is suffers from dementia or any other brain disorder associated with senility, the things that happened last week are the first to go, while what happened long ago they still recall. At least for a while. The further into deterioration they sink, the harder it is to remember what just happened when they’re having an episode. The more frequent the episodes, the worse it all becomes until it’s all gone.
Biden’s mind is getting further down this pathway.
The President has always been a fabulist, which is a polite way of pointing out that someone lies an awful lot. Mostly about his own life, Biden has a career’s worth of lies all designed to make him look important. He’s lied about participating in the Civil Rights Movement to black audiences, when the truth is he could not have cared less about it, admitting he’d never even bothered to show up to a single march. He claimed to have been arrested in South Africa, in Soweto, trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison, when in reality he was directed by police to exit the airport through a separate set of doors because of apartheid (apparently he didn’t object to this segregation) and never explained why he’d fly to a city fully a 15 hour drive away from Mandela’s prison when Cape Town, where he was held, has an international airport.
Those lies at least make political sense – when you spend a good chunk of your career pandering to black voters and you sat on your hands as the Civil Rights Movement marched all around you, I’d imagine you’d be tempted to fudge the numbers.
This was all before the idea of fact checking and the Internet existed to put the video of Biden admitting he didn’t bother involving himself in the struggle (against Democrats, by the way) that defined his generation.
To cover up for Biden, the Washington Post referred to these repeated lies in a piece entitled, “Joe Biden’s shifting recollection on his civil rights activities.” Calling it “shifting” is a work of amazingly generous fiction, but when you don’t want to be ostracized from your colleagues, a little prostituting yourself goes a long way on the left.
But we aren’t dealing with a man fudging the numbers in his business’s books, we’re talking about the President of the United States thinking a man who died in 1996, after having left office in 1995, was still President of France. Worse, he claims to have talked with him when Biden assumed office in 2021.
You could forgive getting the President of France wrong if he’d caught it, but he didn’t catch it. He repeated it. The only thing François Mitterrand has in common with the current President of France, Emmanuel Macron, is their last names both start with M.
There was another François, oddly enough, in between then and now, but his last name is Hollande and he left office in 2017. Biden skipped back 5 Presidents of France to land on Mitterrand, back to when Joe was a Senator and likely had very little interaction with any foreign leaders directly.
Hollande was at least alive when Joe was Vice President, so they likely met a few times. But the real problem is Biden didn’t catch himself. Everyone forgets a name now and then, or calls someone the wrong one. But normal people catch it and correct it. Joe does not.
Lists of examples of Joe’s forgetting basic things like places and names is common. He often times drifts off in the middle of statements, seemingly forgetting who or what he was talking about. Again, just this week, Biden couldn’t remember the name “Hamas” when asked about the war between Israel and the terrorist group. A reporter had to dutifully bail him out.
He does still have moments where he’s there, but they’re very limited, which explains why his handlers in the White House limit his exposure to the press to prepared remarks where he can read a teleprompter and shuffle out of camera frame, slowly like he’s walking on ice, unsure of where he’s going and terrified of falling.
Things have gotten so bad for the President that the “good” moments from the medicine they pump him full of when he absolutely must appear in public have become so unpredictable that they couldn’t risk a Super Bowl halftime interview. Imagine, in the midst of a reelection campaign where you’re hemorrhaging longstanding Democratic Party constituencies faster than anyone thought possible, that you pass up a free 15 minutes in front of the largest television audience of the year because you aren’t confident Joe Biden can limp his way through the softball interview that CBS News would give him. It’s like watching someone dive to the ground to avoid being hit by a pitch in T-ball.
Were he not such a horrible, corrupt person it would be sad. As it stands, it’s hilarious watching the scramble to prop up the second least popular politician in the country because the only person less popular is his Vice President, who Democrats would have to nominate if he dropped out, thanks to identity politics and “equity.” Imagine the uproar among activists if Democrats skipped over a black (and, when it suits her need to pander to certain audiences, Asian) woman for another straight, rich, white guy in California Governor Gavin Newsom. That’s where their hearts are.
And while Newsom lies with the ease of a used car salesman looking to score in the bar at the airport Hilton on a business trip, they can’t ditch Kamala Harris after decades of conditioning their base to think such a practical move could only be motivated by racism. I do so love it when a snake starts eating its own tail, don’t you?
While watching them deal with this drama is fun, the consequences are real. While no one would launch nuclear weapons should Joe wake up screaming about attacking Canada, he can go off script and do real damage to international relations or cause a panic in the economy. Shame on Democrats for proving what we suspected all along – that they hate us so much they’d happily damage the country in pursuit of power.
The President needs someone in his life more interested in his wellbeing than they are their own power or prestige. Anyone. Family member, staffer, anyone. That there isn’t anyone seems a testament not only to how awful he is, but how awful they all are. In a way, they deserve each other. In no way do we all deserve any of them.
Does anyone know if Visiting Angels can be given as a gift against the will of those with the responsibility to actually care for someone?
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.