On June 16, President Joe Biden ended a big gun-control speech in Connecticut with the words, “God save the queen, man.” Why did the president express adoration for the departed Brit monarch? Was he confused about royal succession? Who knows.
When asked about the incident, White House aides offered nonsensical and conflicting answers — because they have absolutely no idea, and neither does the president. It’s likely that the octogenarian spontaneously used a cool-sounding phrase, much like when your elderly neighbor tells you to “keep on truckin'” for no apparent reason. It happens.
Yet, Axios writer Alex Thompson points out that Biden “has an arsenal of wacky phrases.” And the president’s “quirky aphorisms,” he contends, “are sometimes weaponized by Republicans to insinuate the 80-year-old president is in mental decline.”
There is no need for insinuation. Biden’s mental acuity, never impressive, has considerably deteriorated. Sure, he also tends to botch “old-timey” sayings like, “lots of luck in your senior year,” which he says is a gibe from his Corn Pop days. But most reporters who pretend perceptions of Biden’s decline are due to his propensity for homespun maxims or previously unknown stuttering problems almost surely wouldn’t find him fit enough to babysit their kids.
Every week, the president of the United States says something completely bonkers, and everyone goes on with their day. We’re not talking about his propensity to lie about politics or his blustery lifelong fabulism. We’re talking about his inability to articulate simple ideas without notes — and often with notes. There are rarely any fact-checks of these statements. How can there be? They don’t even make sense as lies. There is no handwringing about the role of competency in our democracy. There is no discussion about the 25th Amendment.
Just listen to any one of his speeches. “Put a pistol on a brace, it turns into a gun — makes it more — you can have a higher-caliber weapon, higher-caliber bullet coming out of that gun,” the president explained before wishing Her Majesty his best. This was also complete gibberish. There is so much gibberish.
Only a couple of days before his “God save the queen” comment, Biden informed a crowd gathered for a League of Conservation Voters endorsement that “we” have “plans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean,” which must have really impressed everyone in attendance. “We have plans to build in Angola one of the largest solar plants in the world,” Biden went on. “I can go on, but I’m not. I’m going off-script. I’m going to get in trouble.”
A few days before the railroad comment, Biden couldn’t remember Winston Churchill’s name when speaking to the prime minister of the U.K. Listen, I’m not great with names myself, and I’m sure as an 80-year-old I’d have trouble recalling world leaders … but I’m confident I wouldn’t think myself competent enough to be the most powerful man in the world. Nor should Biden.
That same week, when asked why a Ukrainian FBI informant referred to Biden as the “Big Guy,” the president lashed out for being posed “dumb questions.” He does this often in frustration. When the president isn’t flubbing canned lines to the rare tough question, he yells things like, “c’mon, man!” A few years ago, this kind of rhetoric was considered democracy-shattering. Now, it’s quirky and folksy.
The week before he couldn’t remember Churchill’s name, the president also tripped and fell on stage after a commencement speech at the Air Force Academy. Biden’s surrogates pointed out that there had been a sandbag right there, as if no one, whether young or old, could possibly be expected to walk over a small bag without falling to the floor.
You might recall that after the former president gingerly navigated a ramp after giving a speech at West Point in 2020, The New York Times’ headline the next day was: “Trump’s Halting Walk Down Ramp Raises New Health Questions.” The president, the Times went on, “also appeared to have trouble raising a glass of water to his mouth during a speech at West Point a day before he turned 74, the oldest a president has been in his first term.” The sitting president is now six years older than Trump was at the time — he would be a decade older should he finish a second term.
Of course, everyone ages differently — Sen. John Fetterman, only 53, can barely put together a thought while some septuagenarian is out there writing his literary opus right now. Nor is there anything wrong with or especially unique about being a scatterbrained and tired 80-year-old. In this case, maybe Americans who elected a scatterbrained and tired 80-year-old deserve to be governed by him — good and hard, as H.L. Mencken might say. But please stop pretending Biden is OK. He’s not.
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David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books – the most recent, “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.” His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter @davidharsanyi.
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“maybe Americans who elected a scatterbrained and tired 80-year-old deserve to be governed by him “
We the U.S.A. are not governed by a scatterbrained and tired 80-year-old, corrupt, puppet president Joe Biden.
We are dictated to by the unelected treasonous, destructive, unethical, immoral, lying, woke Democrat Party elite.
This Treasonous, dishonest, destructive, Socialist Democrat Party’s objective is to deliberately lie, cheat and steal. To disregard the U.S. Constitution and our laws, in order to take total control of the American people by their restricting U.S. citizens their constitutional rights and freedoms, including freedom of speech. Stopping oil production, increase Spending, Taxes and the inflation cost of everything and bring American commerce and economy to its knees and to promote Socialism, enforced by their political DOJ and their FBI and IRS gestapo.
Then access power and retain it by any means available –
No matter the costs to the people, the government or the nation.
This treasonous, hateful, destructive, immoral, socialist Democrat Party, their RINOs and their corrupt, demented puppet president has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
Democrat President, Joe Biden, ” Somewhere A Village is missing their Idiot..”
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As the Gopusa article said, President Joe Biden isn’t ( OK,) nor is America, under his Socialist/ Communist, Administration.
“Lord, Give us the Gift to see ourselves as others see us.”
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Please let democrat president, Joe Biden see himself as others see him, to paraphrase this quote.!
americas youth and women snowflakes voted for this career grifter politician to be leader of the free world and bye the way the free world is shrinking by the minute joe biden is president.
i will go to my grave believing the fraud and cheating demoncrats with help from the doj and election commision made sure trump would lose.
BUT KNOW THIS IF A DEMOCRAT WINS THE WHITE HOUSE IN 24 THE UNITED STATES ARE DONE AND I MEAN STICK A FORK IN HER DONE!
THE NATION IS TO FULL OF GOD HATERS WHO LOOK TO THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AS THERE GOD AND SUPPORT FOR THERE PERVERTED LIFESTYLES.
god bless america again.
And you can bet their voter fraud machine will endeavor to MAKE THAT vision come true.
When Joe Biden was Vice President under Barack H. Obama, Barack said this about Joe Biden, ” Never Underestimate Joe Biidens ability to-Fucz things up,” to paraphrase Barack H. Obama.
As democrat-SOCIALIST,PRESIDENT,Joe Biden would say,” GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.”
this clown belongs in the lock down ward of a nursing home , not the White House………….
According to FOx Nzews Today 61% of Americans are living , Pay-Check to Pay -Check democrat President, Joe Biden thinks thats OK,but the working middle class doesn’t agree.!
Correction to previous post, it should read, ” According to FOX NEWS, 61% of working middle class Americans are living pay-check to Pay-Check-democrat President, Joe Biden thinks thats OK, but they don’t agree with Joe Biden.!