The recent Biden debacles

Not a diagnosis, no opinions by anyone; just the symptoms for all to grasp

Unscripted moments, in chronological order:

CNN:

ABC:

MSNBC:

His two live radio interviews were scripted. Before airtime, the hosts had to pick 4 out of 8 questions written by Biden’s staff. The game was very rigged.

Disclaimer: This does not mean he has a poor record or is not loved.

1. He mumbles a lot and often doesn’t seem to notice. He’s hard to hear.

2. He seems unaware of how worried he makes us when he says that if he loses, at least, he’s done the best he could, which is the most important (no, it isn’t), but he can’t lose. Or: “I’m fine. It’s just my brain.”

3. When confronted, he lets loose a nervous laugh that sounds childish. Nancy Pelosi, when she speaks, giggles a lot too but Biden never did.

4. He can’t remember the simple numbers and seems to make wild guesses, often adding “or whatever number.”

5. He used to stammer which means that he had a hard time saying certain words at certain times. But now he slurs, skips, and substitutes words. Some words are as if from a drunk person, some are omitted, and some are replaced by wrong words, like have for be. About the disastrous debate, he said: ‘I made a mistake.’ Did he mean: ‘I messed up’? He said goodest. Did he mean best? “I’ll beat him again in 2020″—2024 perhaps? Sometimes, he says a couple of vague words, beating around the bush as AI does (to hide that it doesn’t get it) to conceal he can’t find a word. Is he aware of this?

6. He says the same thing over and over as if he thinks we are senile.

7. His vocabulary seems diminished, using the same words over and over.

8. Being defensive is one thing, but he seems unaware of how anti-scientific and illogical he sounds when he rejects proper testing. Like a suspect who refuses an alcohol test saying: How can you ever suspect me? Very sus.

9. He confuses having done well as president and being and speaking well still. He sounds like a student who comes home with a bad report card and says: Look, it is bad, but I’ve had many that were good, and you all love me, and root for me so the next one will be good again, and you can ignore this.

10. His occasional anger breaks his monotony, but it’s too loud. Compare his indignation when Trump said ‘some very fine people—on both sides,’ and he declared to run against him. He didn’t scream like that.

11. He talks in big strokes without nuances. When famous Democratic lawmakers and donors want him to step down he says: I don’t care about big names. Maybe he should say: ‘I care about argument, not authority.’

12. He is stiff and moving so slowly, others need to get him unfrozen.

The white House Press Secretary lies repeatedly Biden saw a neurologist every time he had his yearly physical examination. But in the report of his physical, it only says his personal physician consulted a neurologist!

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Let’s follow up with some comic relief (more comic than relief, really):

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Parkinson’s

I promised you I wouldn’t bring diagnoses. So, I lied. Sue me.

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A great part of his 8-year presidency, Ronald Reagan had serious dementia, but he was a great actor and speaker. He read answers from cheat (‘index’) cards, and Nancy was the president out of sight. He would tell stories of when he was young that actually covered roles he played on the big screen.

Joe Biden, on the other hand, has serious Parkinson’s but mentally is mostly lucid. But he walks and talks like a moron, which he isn’t, mentally, but he still looks it. He has now committed to argue Trump’s every lie in the next debate, but it won’t work. Trump will run circles around him. Not because Trump is mentally so quick anymore, but physically, he’s faster than Biden.

I know I’m not so young anymore, but I’m not going anywhere.

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