Biden’s Cognitive Decline Is A National Security Threat – Invoke The 25th Amendment NOW
Can you imagine an emergency situation where immediate military decisions that only a president can make need to be made in seconds or minutes, and the military having to go to diminished Joe for a decision?
Democrats are in complete panic over Joe Biden’s performance in last night’s debate. This was no mere bad debate, many candidates have had bad debates and recovered.
This debate displayed Biden’s severely declined cognitive ability for all the world to see for an hour and a half. The media cannot claim the live video feed from CNN was a manipulated “cheap fake” – the smear campaign used against those of us who have been pointing out the obvious for over a year, but particularly recently with Biden visibly freezing and zoning out in public appearances:
- FREEZE! Mainstream Media Insists You Not Believe Your Eyes (June 18, 2024)
- Biden Freeze Videos: Democrats Fear the Public Will Believe Their Own Eyes, Not Media Lies (June 21, 2024)
Democrats are focused on whether a mentally diminished Biden can win the election againt Trump, and who would be a better candidate. Democrats are caught between a rock (a diminished Biden) and a hard place (the even more unpopular and non-serious replacement Kamala Harris, who Democrats would be loath to replace because she checks identity group boxes).
Democrats need to put aside whether Biden is up to the task of being a successful nominee. No honest person who watched last night’s debate can think that Biden mentally is up to the job of being President.
If I’m China, I’m taking off the shelf the war plans to invade Taiwan. If I’m Iran, I’m breaking out towards a nuclear weapon. If I’m Putin, I’m doubling down on Ukraine and possibly other former Soviet satellites. Can you imagine an emergency situation where immediate military decisions that only a president can make need to be made in seconds or minutes, and the military having to go to diminished Joe for a decision?
This is serious stuff. This is no joke. Biden’s cognitive decline is a national security threat of the highest order.
From a purely political perspective, Republicans probably are better off with Biden staying in the race. There is a weird convergence of interests between Team Biden and Team Trump in keeping Joe in the race, for different reasons. It’s time to put America first. This situation of a cognitively diminished president cannot continue.
There is a solution, the 25th Amendment:
Section 4.
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office. [Emphasis added]
The 25th Amendment was brought up when Trump was president in bad faith, not because he was unable to discharge the powers and duties of the office, but because Democrats did not want him to discharge those powers and duties.
This is different. Democrats know it’s different.
We can make analogies to not letting grandpa drive anymore even though he insists on it. We can’t let grandpa make that decision, and risk him driving the country into an accident.
Only Democrats can act, and they should before it’s too late.
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I have to agree, enthusiastically. Whatever the political fallout might be of removing Biden from the race, the immediate danger could not be more obvious. There’s also the matter of ‘consent of the governed.’ It’s clear Joe Biden isn’t running anything, which immediately invites the question: Then who is? That’s a question free societies should never be asking themselves.
If its not Joe making the decisions…who is…and under what law are they allowed to act AS the President?
I think Obama is effectively in charge of the permanent governing bureaucracy and has been since he left office. With respect to power that the president can really only wield – like EOs, big foreign policy decisions, etc – the actual answer may be even more obvious and closer to home: Jill. “Dr.” Jill is the president and has been for much of Biden’s tenure.
It’s clear Joe Biden isn’t running anything, which immediately invites the question: Then who is? That’s a question free societies should never be asking themselves.
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agreed–but here we are–don’t see the dems/progs going for the 25th scenario as they would be FORCED to deal with harris–rather, come up with some lame explanation / excuse for fjb’s poor condition / performance and simply replace him on the ticket–solves multiple problems without having to deal with harris’ upredictability and, should she be elevated to the presidency, believe that all bets would be off
It is now very obvious that our named president has not been making decisions for the executive branch. It is also clear that he hasn’t been sentient based on prior media exposure for some time.
Given that premise, who was making those decisions for the president of our country and do they have any immunity for the adverse consequences of those decisions?
On those same lines, can the cabinet members who are required to decide then alert the legislature failed to do so, are they now liable for not doing their duty to the Country, and all of the adverse consequences that follow from their inaction?
Sure, via impeachment proceedings. In theory the HoR and Senate could demand the 25th amendment be used then impose a political consequence of impeachment for failing to do so. Could supplement that by refusing to confirm any/all nominees. They could refuse to fund the Presidential budget request in whole or in part. All political consequences.
They have no duty to act, so they can’t be liable for not acting. The 25th merely gives them the option.
If anyone other Biden is running the country, that person or persons have executed a coup, and are almost certainly acting in violation of a bevy of federal laws. The Constitution gives all executive authority to the president (and POTUS delegates it to agency heads so they can make similar delegations down the chain of command). Unless there’s been a delegation (from the POTUS) of executive authority to whoever is running the country, their exercise of the executive authority is unlawful.
“Unless there’s been a delegation (from the POTUS) of executive authority to whoever is running the country, their exercise of the executive authority is unlawful.”
Meh. Of course there is. He’s already proven he’ll sign whatever they put in front of him.
A last will and testament starts with “being of sound mind…”, wouldn’t a document delegating the authority of the sitting president also require such affirmation and be witnessed by, (one hopes), an unbiased person who can testify to such?
I fully agree that the 25th amendment should be used to remove him. And that the Republicans ought sit back and let the DemoncTATs do all the heavy lifting.
Here’s the thing. The 25th amendment removal needs to be initiated by the VP. Not Congress. The VP. With the concurrence of the cabinet. In effect, 25th amendment removal of a sitting POTUS is a palace coup. Especially if the President doesn’t want to go. Then we have a few days to a week of utter confusion of who’ in charge. Why?
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
Biden, or his closest handlers, cold submit that letter within minutes…
Yes, unless they can talk Biden off the ledge likely with an offer of a very soft-landing for Hunter and the rest of his family, things are going to get very ugly as the convention approaches. Their timelines might be additionally accelerated with their peculiar ballot-access problem in Ohio as it relates to their VERY late convention this year.
It doesn’t specify that the move must be initiated by the VP, only that the VP and others must work in concert.
Also, Section 4 seems to provide a two-step process, neither of which actually removes POTUS from office. Both merely install the VP as acting POTUS. In the first step, the POTUS is declared unable/unfit to perform his duties. This allows the VP to assume POTUS’ duties, while acting as president. This step remains in effect only and until the (actual) POTUS then declares himself fit for duty again. At that point, the VP and others can act to suspend him from office permanently(?). (Does it end there? Is part 2 permanent, or can the cycle start again? It is unclear if this go-around becomes permanent, or if the POTUS can again declare himself fit. One thing is clear, the VP remains the acting POTUS, meaning the actual POTUS is suspended, not removed from office. To keep the door open to a return of the duly-elected POTUS?)
Part One:
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Part Two:
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Plus she won’t. She knows they’ll kill her dog. And maybe a spare stepkid.
At the moment the Biden oval office insurance policy couldn’t be more relative.
Harris scares me even more.
Damn the Democrats for doing this to us.
Relevant – Not relative. Sorry, no coffee yet.
“Biden’s Cognitive Decline is a National Security Threat”
Yes, but that’s not news. The news is that Trump exposed it on national tv with whole world watching.
In his very limited public events the dementia was evident. I would imagine the professionals employed by our allies and by our enemies understood the situation a long time ago. Trump did us a favor again by finally shining a light on Biden’s health. But it ain’t pretty.
Everyone already knew 10% China Joe has been missing in action for years. What Trump did was make it so fucking glaringly obvious that the lying democrat media can no longer lie and cover up for Democrats.
What I really want to know is who is actually making the hard calls in the background that should be made by the President and under what authority are they able to be making those hard decisions AS the fucking President?
Agree completely.
This is not a surprise. Democrats knew about the severity of Biden’s decline for years and backed him in the primaries when they knew he was incapable. What else are they hiding? What other surprises have they for us?
Did Biden have even one non-scripted press conference since he became president? I don’t remember one.
No. Biden either read from note cards or from the teleprompter. He hasn’t been able to speak unaided for years.
Waiting for Pelosi (or any dem) to demand that Biden have his access to the nuclear codes revoked. You know, like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmJlbJ65T10
We can never trust the media on anything again. We already knew this but last night was the nail in the MSN coffin. How many people bragged about Biden’s mental powers and stamina?
But getting rid of Biden now would be the ultimate election tampering. Who would replace him, Newsom? I think any other Democrat might have a good chance at beating Trump. If they replace Biden, Trump would have to hammer whoever saying it’s the same bad policies. Only the sleazy salesman has changed.
Narcotics can only get you so far. Pre-debate, the tottering, ornery, dim-witted, mendacious, avaricious and corrupt crime boss-dotard, Biden, was pumped with more stimulants than all Luftwaffe pilots had consumed during operations in WWII, and, the shots and pills still couldn’t conceal the reprobate’s glaring physical and cognitive decline, infirmities and dotage.
Biden didn’t poop in his pants while on stage/camera, so, for him, the debate was a huge win.
Exercising total bowel control for 75 minutes, while under intense public scrutiny, is no small feat.
The problem was lack of preparation. If Biden had had 30 days of debate preparation and cramming he would’ve done better.
I imagine Exlax was the most important prep for the debate.
Gallons of it. Metamucil and Swiss Kriss laxatives played a big role, too. Louis Armstrong swore by Swiss Kriss.
Before you debate the Donald, one’s bowels must be voided, in their entirety.
Hark. Hark! Be it friend or enema?
The stuff they use to prep for colonoscopies works very well, in less than a day. And then you have all your energy, such as it may be, because none of it is going to digesting food.
Your sarcasm doesn’t go unappreciated! 🙂
Joe achieved his own personal goal for the debate.
We don’t know that for certain.
They probably made sure of that with a rubber butt plug.
Don’t forget that Biden had five days, let me repeat that, five days of preparation and coaching at Camp David before the debate. Biden knew what all the questions would be. He was told to memorize the answers. But when it came right down to it he just couldn’t perform. Biden couldn’t give a coherent answer. He couldn’t help but mumble. Biden was a complete disaster. But I guess that’s what happens when you aren’t allowed to read the answers to the questions off of a notecard and are forced to stay awake and semi -coherent for a whole hour and one-half.
“We finally beat Medicare.”
Honestly, best LMFAO line of the century so far.
I really believe that had the Biden team been given the questions a week before the debate and the answers were on cards or a teleprompter, Old Joe still couldn’t have pulled it off.
Do not accuse me of agewism, I’m 80 years old!
Anyone the Dems would run instead would be worse… the mind reels!…. So image the guaranteed catastrophe and collapse of the US under Gavin Newsome verses the maybe bad things that might happen in the next few months under Biden. Nothing Biden wants is going anywhere at this point because no Dem is going to support anything that is supposedly coming from Biden or whoever is actually running that shiteshow. It’s run away time. As for the international stage… they have ALL already known for years so in that regard nothing has changed.
Okay, Prof. J., I think you may be overstating Biden’s poor debate performance. Look at the most important metrics: Biden’s pronoun usage was 100% spot-on all night, and he didn’t wander off stage one, single time.
He’s ready for . . . FOUR MORE YEARS!!
BUUUUT did you see Mrs Abuser helping him down off the stage to shake hands with the debate moderators???
That was just plain sad. The man is not just a doddering old fool. He may be dying.
And don’t tell me they didn’t know this until last night.
I’m not at all sad to hear that.
In a world where there are never any consequences for Democrats, it’s righteous to know there is one they can’t avoid.
And therefore, what?
He certainly doesn’t have 4 more years in him. I doubt he has 4 months.
That’s Dr. Abuser and don’t you forget it, thank you very much. 😁
He needs her to point out the genuine people among the giant rabbits.
Do you think, once she pulls the 25th, Harris will leave office willingly? I don’t and they will have an even bigger disaster on their hands.
Yup… they pull that lever…. It’s Harris as President and then as the nominee…,they will have no way around that. Even if they buy her off and I’m guessing she would be willing for the right price…. The optics and talking points would cause another bloodbath within the Dem party and their leftist loons
Imagine if she became president. Would there be another presidential debate? I asked this not in some leering snide fashion. I really wonder if there would be, and how badly Trump would chopper to pieces.
Chop her ..
Get to the choppa!
So then, chopped word salad.
Nope, still no more appetizing.
Caesar salad:
https://sadanduseless.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/caesar-salad-recipe1.jpg
She would be President but not necessarily the nominee. That is a whole different thing.
Democrats wouldn’t have the balls to surrender the edge incumbency gives them, regardless how small. Even if they did, they’d have no choice but to nominate another black woman or they’d be DEI heretics. And that horks both Newsom and Whitmer.
Stacey Abrams for President of the Galaxy, I guess.
Or maybe Cori Bush.
Or… I know! Omar!
Harris will be “Agnewed” before Joe is forced to retire.
I disagree. So they can somehow steal a win again? Biden hasn’t had a working head for almost four years. When I heard this demented clown was actually going to run again I was stunned.
Look at what Dems pulled the first time to put this fraud on the ticket. And let’s not forget the pure cynicism of putting Harris, a bona fide moron, on as Veep. These Dems are dark and they are all nihilists.
Biden hasn’t been running anything for years. We’re still here. I’m also mighty suspicious at how EACH AND EVERY STATE organ is on the same page. Joe’s gotta go! He’s clearly lost his marbles.
Until a few days ago, these same organs were telling me I was crazy if I pointed out that Joe didn’t know where he was or how to walk.
Nah. Leave him in. The organs now want him gone. That alone tells you we want him to stay in. I also admit to being curious how many Americans will still vote for him. My bet is if the election were held tomorrow Biden will still get over 45 million votes. That tells you something about the electorate and maybe about “democracy.’
Leave the clown were he is. Let it play out. No fair buyer’s remorse for these scalawag America-hating Dems. IOW, they dug their own grave. At least let them fall in it. Sidebar: consider how many DC insiders and our allies knew Biden was like this. If we on the outside could see this, what about people actually talking to him or standing next to him when he “farts.”? One might call it a conspiracy. And isn’t it some kind of felony to conceal something like that. I mean, NOW the 25th Amendment matters. What about three years ago?
“Biden hasn’t been running anything for years.”
Exactly. There is no way he’s been making any of the decisions attributed to him. He’s just a meat puppet.
I am not sure who’s running things, but I am 100% sure who’s not.
True Dat!
“My bet is if the election were held tomorrow Biden will still get over 45 million votes. That tells you something about the electorate and maybe about “democracy.’”
It’s official:
A full third of the American electorate are clinically brain dead.
“Joe isn’t one of the most effective presidents of our lives in spite of his age, but because of it.” – Jill Biden
I urge all leftists to support JoeBama as the democrat presidential candidate.
That is all.
Right, specifically because he stays out of the way of the Cabal of Seven who actually run the country.
Professor, your comments remind me of the fact that Hitler’s staff were afraid of waking Hitler up on D-Day.
As a result of this fear, Germany lost precious time that gave the allies a real edge.
The Chinese, Iranians, Norka, Russians and all know this also…..
It actually didn’t make a difference. Hitler remained convinced for too long after the invasion that it was a feint, and that the real invasion would take place at the Pas-de-Calais (because his military genius informed him that was the only logical place for an invasion). Although an immediate order for the re-deployment of units may have saved the day for the Germans, that order wouldn’t have come in a timely fashion even if Hitler had been promptly awakened to hear the news.
Who could have guessed that installing a brain dead frontman as president might be a bad idea? Well, Democrats didn’t care and still don’t because a brain dead frontman has been perfect for completing Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America into one huge Democrat-run slave plantation. Now, judging by leftists squeals of fear and rage, they are trying to figure out how to replace Biden with a smoother, more telegenic dictator wannabe. But the end game to destroy American liberty is still the same. Ideologically, Democrats have always been slavers.
Biden may be a national security risk, but he can’t be removed because Kamala would assume power, and she’s a greater threat in her own right.
Republicans also have no reason to remove him from office. His incompetency gives voters reason to vote the other guy.
And Republican efforts to remove Biden from office can be spun as them politicking. Thus they can claim given the ‘short’ time he’ll remain in office before the election, that they’re leaving it up to the will of the voters rather than following Democrat efforts to subvert democracy by weaponising the 25th against a president they simply don’t like.
The Republicans would be wise to listen to Monsieur Bonaparte.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Yep! At this point the Democratic Party absolutely deserves Joe as their nominee. Dont let them off the hook by putting someone else in to run in his place!
They wanted him…they get to keep him!
It’s not enough to prove that he has been old, incompetent, and destructive in the past, for standing the Court requires you must prove he will be old, incompetent, and destructive in the future.
Agreed his condition is a national security threat. But I’m not sure last night changed things that much. Putin, the mullahs and China have had Biden’s number for years now. The only reason China hasn’t invaded Taiwan yet is they want slow Joe to be re-elected as this benefits them in many ways. The one thing last night might change is to move quickly. China might figure if they move now, Taiwan will be a fait accompli by the time Trump takes office.
It’s being run by a committee, is all, instead of Biden. The policies are idiotic but that’s just Democrats.
I was going to argue that it is being run by an UNELECTED committee, but then I realized that’s really no different than Biden anyway.
This is a hasty analysis. Biden is a spavined, venal, old huckster who has obviously agreed to serve as a makeweight for the sole and base purposes of enjoying the prestige and perquisites of the office, The cabal running the show can respond to contingencies, according to its lights, without interference from the old stager. Our foreign adversaries are fully aware of this.
On the other hand, Harris is a wild card. She is an improbable, ignorant, cynical, lazy careerist. She is young enough and self-willed enough to ignore good advice and act on her disordered impulses by pressing the authority of her office.
No thank you, professor. Let this dithering, old buffoon complete his term, while we keep our fingers crossed.
I think the key word in your analysis is “lazy.” Harris has been delegated three or four special “czar” powers by Biden, and she has done fuck-all with any of them.
She was put in charge of the border (a really clever CYA by Biden, much more clever than his subsequent failure to throw her under the bus for his own deliberate policies). Since she was put in charge of “gun violence,” the Court has struck down every administration anti-gun initiative, including one from the Trump adminstration. He game her some equally forgettable diplomatic task that she punted.
As President, Kamala would do a couple of totally meaningless things to virtue signal (e.g., declare August Trans Pride Month, as cold months don’t favor naked parading), but she will be totally unwilling and unable to do any of the hard work of… well, really anything… so the cabal will still have free rein where it really counts.
Expect a few loggerheads when top Swampies like Kerry and Nuland recoil at her decree that all government travel must henceforth be conducted on all-electric airplanes, but nothing serious.
If they’re going to replace Biden, perhaps WAJ’s idea is to get ahead of it and make it Kamala. But I’m not sure anyone is worse. Michelle Obama? Who could be worse than Kamala?
I am not really concerned about homeland security. It’s very hard to attack us here by military means, and Dems are enabling the non-military means.
Most Dems are worse on Israel.
So I disagree, don’t save the Dems from themselves here. Let them do this all on their own. No 25A.
The question is “Who is better than Kamala, and how can we finagle that person into the VP seat before suspending Joe from his office?” (I hesitate to say “from the presidency” as he is merely a figurehead anyway and hasn’t really been exercising the office’s authority.)
Your point that the Dems have totally done this to themselves is spot on!
No matter how much it would benefit them, very few Republicans would have supported this goat rodeo.
Ever since the Ds nominated John Edwards for VP, it becàme apparent to me that power not responsible governance was the only thing about which they cared. This reaches its apex with Obama, was halted by President Trump in 2016 but reared it’s ugly head again in 2020 with the preposterous ticket of Biden-Harris, neither of whom is remotely suited for the Presidency.
My reaction to last night is that we are unquestionably in 25th Amendment land. If that were to happen, Kamala would replace Joe on the ticket. Frankly, I just don’t know what is worse. The Manchurian President we have now or the cackling hyena that is Harris.
The world is laughing at us.
Biden will lose by more of a margin than their cheating can make up. Kamala will get more of the black and woman vote and would be worse on every issue. Kamala might get fewer “white working class” votes but they were going to Trump anyway. I’d rather have a partially functional Biden than Harris in full force, and Harris is more of a threat to win if she’s the incumbent.
Nursing Home Joe is no more dangerous today than he was before the debate.
The loud calls to remove him only after Biden exposed himself in no uncertain terms are hardly justified, except that Dem propaganda units fear that the news might leak out to otherwise braindead, headline consuming D voters.
The debate enables the Dems to unify around the difficult but doable task of replacing Biden before the convention. They can reach out to every delegate and put on all kinds of pressure. Dems are good at lefty teamwork, and now that will happen.
What was Trump’s team thinking in having the debate before the convention?
You play the hand you are dealt, which is why Trump basically accepted all the slanted debate terms he was offered. Had he turned the offer down, he would have been a convicted, sentenced and possibly imprisoned criminal later and Joe’s disability might have been more apparent. Biden might have then refused altogether to debate the felon. IMO Trump is much better off this way.
“lefty teamwork”
AKA “enforcing groupthink.”
There should be a FTC investigation into the selling of a Presidential candidate that was totally defective.
Joe Biden has been intellectually diminished for over 45 years. Now he has dementia. His family and party are committing elder abuse. Our country has been in grave danger.
IMO mental issues have likely prevailed for 35 years, ever since he had two brain surgeries in 1988 for aneurysms, one of which had burst. His current situation may also be related. Google: aneurysm surgery related dementia.
Rapid-onset dementia is also a known potential side effect of the Covid vaccines.
I say we keep Biden in … because I want to see him fulfill his promise of building a choo choo train from California to India. I remember that clip!!! Does the lamestream media remember?
Idiot. It’s obvious it would cost a LOT less to build it from Florida!
Following a great circle route? I’ll have to check that out.
Sacramento to Mumbai is a slightly shorter route than Tallahassee to Mumbai. (The route to Kokata is is considerably shorter from Sacramento.) But of course, the train would have to be a C47 (a “Skytrain”).
I’m frazzled this week because last week I traveled with a family member who is well into their December. Not only is their body declining, but mind as well. Every day a little more is gone. Everyday another name can’t be recalled. The mini strokes are taking their tool. Perishable food that should go into the fridge ends up in the cupboard. Although they are diligent at exercising, more and more strength is gone. Hot weather becomes a probable killer along with 3 stairs going from house to garage.
It is painful for the person in decline and even more painful for those in support positions. For Biden, this is elder abuse. For the country it is disastrous.
I bet Putin and Jinping have already seen the debate and were laughing their asses off! Branco’s cartoon of the debate is spot on!
Sorry, I disagree. Biden has been a figurehead for the radical left for the last 4 years, and our enemies knew how bad he was years before last night. He’s always been a loser leftist Democrat, so why would they do something to make things bad when they have the people they want in control of the US Government already?
VP Harris becoming president would only make things worse. The real crisis comes after Trump is elected and during his inauguration, when the left will come close to starting a civil war and Trump begins the process of fixing what Biden and his puppetmasters have destroyed.
Democrat brownshirt rioters need to meet the civilian militia once and for all. Please, President Trump, pull that rusty lever.
The difference is that now the Dems have to put on a public display of (feigned) concern for the country. Before last night they were pretending no problem existed, now the problem is common public knowledge. The charade is necessary to protect the party.
Biden’s cognitive decline is important, but we should remain focused on the fact that his POLICIES – promoted by the Democrats-socialist-Marxist Left – are that actual cause of the damage to the country since he took office.
Biden has merely been the tool by which the Left has put its destructive policies to work.
The problem is, he didn’t have his contact lenses with the answers being fed to him. His eyes appeared their normal blue this time, not black like in the 2020 debates where Biden knew all the facts and figures immediately and knew what to say.
Now, why he didn’t have access to that tech. 4 years later, I don’t know. Perhaps Donald is scripted to win in 2024.
Hopefully, glaucoma.
Did his handlers determine that a dose of juice big enough to sustain him for 90 minutes might also kill him/cause him to stroke, and they therefore decided to forego the juice? Or did they intentionally not dose him to hang him out to dry? (Much of the Dem panic being by those not in on the program, but those in charge carefully managing the events towards Joe’s replacement.)
That much juice would have def gone right through!
One wonders why the billionaire donors who run the Democrat party stood by so long when it was so obvious that Joe was “gone”. It was reported that a vigorous post debate ad campaign featuring FJB is scheduled and paid for, probably with slick Hollywood production. Do the Dems pull it and eat the loss or play it and look like idiots?
Are the billionaires going to cut their losses and let their political puppets suffer through this debacle and save their money for 2028?
Just watching to see if it comes out will give you an indication of how serious they are about pulling him at the convention.
They will quickly replace the ads with generic anti-Trump spots to run in their places. Weak sauce, but they probably can’t get their money back now (although they may try if it’s at all possible), so they will make lemonade.
One thing has been little discussed – the down-ballot impact of this. It will not be zero. Even if Trump wins, he would be hamstrung if the Dems win the House. IMO improving the chances of having control of all three branches is very important.
At the moment is still looks like the GOP will have a small majority in the House. I doubt the GOP can do better than 50-50 in the Senate though
Thank you for posting the 25th amendment. I read it carefully, probably for the first time. It appears that the VP and a majority of cabinet officers have to get the ball rolling to invoke the 25th amendment. Then it goes to Congress. Making it sound like a coup has to occur. I think someone would have to convince Joe to step down then do it officially.
Yes. The point of 25A is that POTUS either steps down or is in a coma, and so Congress would obviously be in total agreement. It’s not to enable a hostile takeover, which is why it needs more consensus than an impeachment.
Madam President
for a few months before the next Prez takes over
I’m not sure what the protocol is for the situation. A careful reading of the amendment says she will become “acting president,” and the actual POTUS isn’t removed, but rather suspended, from office. So would it be appropriate to call a VP “president” when the POTUS hasn’t been removed from office? (As opposed to actual removal via impeachment.)
not really
he is par for the lefty course
in denial
and vacant when it comes to being a pro american
More importantly, he’s a traitor (in a variety of different ways) who needs to be impeached and then criminally prosecuted.
Biden on the stump, now. He keeps saying “We’re going to restore Roe v Wade as the law of the land.”. That’s completely retarded. Roe was never a “law”. It could NOT be a law – which is what Roe said – that the alleged “right to kill fetuses” is in the COnstitution (and therefore, cannot be legislated one way or another) and it is also what the overturning of Roe said – that there is no “right to kill fetuses” in the Constitution and it is not within the purview of Congress or the federal government.
So, this idiocy of “restoring Roe” could only be done with a new SCOTUS decision repealing the repeal of Roe … but that isn’t “law”, no matter how you slice it.
The Dems seem not to have received SCOTUS’ memo. The memo said abortion isn’t a federal issue. Some Rs have the same problem, saying they’re going to pass pro-life legislation in Congress.
No, it didn’t. All Dobbs said was that there was no right to abortion in the constitution. That put the issue in the hands of the elected branches, both federal and state. There is nothing in Dobbs to rule out federal legislation, in either direction.
Congress can “restore Roe” by passing it as a statute.
“If I’m China, I’m taking off the shelf the war plans to invade Taiwan. If I’m Iran, I’m breaking out towards a nuclear weapon. If I’m Putin, I’m doubling down on Ukraine and possibly other former Soviet satellites.”
It’s worse than that. Replacing Joe with Kamala wouldn’t provide a much improved situation, so the world’s bad actors (among whom I do not include Putin, but will include him within the scope of this comment for practical purposes) would still have an opportunity they can leverage.
“The media cannot claim the live video feed from CNN was a manipulated “cheap fake”
Still, I demand that the press ask Karinge Gom-Jabbar this precise question, solely for its vast entertainment value.
Biden needs to check in to the memory care unit.
You might think so. But he hasn’t ever been running anything anyway. He’s likely never had real access to the nuclear football. He wouldn’t be answering that 3am call. Heck, he wouldn’t be answering the 11am or 1pm call. The cabal behind him (and possibly Jill) is running the country and has been for 3 1/2 years.
The activation code for Joe’s nuclear football is P-L-A-Y-S-K-O-O-L. They even wrote it on the football so he couldn’t forget it.
There is no way they can 25th him out now. The Cabinet and the Democrats would have way to much explaining to do. They’ve known that Biden was mentally incompetent for at least 2 years, and probably as far back as the 2020 campaign.
This could open them up to a plethora of problems up to and including criminal charges.
To believe this one would have to believe that Joe is actually making decisions now. I argue that he is not, and hasn’t for quite a while. The government is not being run by him or Jill. A shadow government is running things, led by people unknown and unaccountable. Who knows how much of Biden’s ridiculous deficits has ended up in their pockets, by means both superficially legitimate, and straight up embezzlement?
The office is run by committee.
Therefore decisive decisions cannot be made instantly.
There has to be a Commander in Chief