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Joe Biden Obviously Has Dementia and Should Withdraw

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You Democrats ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

You spent the last four years criticizing President Donald Trump in no small part for his mental state, and rightly so. The Founding Fathers included an impeachment provision in the Constitution in large part as a contingency to remove a president exactly like him, whose temperament and personality and mental state are incompatible with the requirements of the highest elected office in the land.

Trump is not merely a jerk. Psychologists have been so alarmed that they have violated a core ethical principle of their profession by attempting to diagnose him at a remove. Narcissistic personality disorder is their universal conclusion, and it fits like a glove. Among the characteristics of NPD is a lack of empathy — not something one wants or needs in a leader.

Now Democrats are conspiring to gaslight the American people by engineering the election of a man clearly suffering from dementia, former Vice President Joe Biden.

This is no time to be “polite.” We are talking about the presidency. As always, we need a frank, intelligent discussion and debate about the issues and the candidates. It is perfectly fair to talk about Bernie Sanders’ heart attack as well as Joe Biden’s and Donald Trump’s mental acuity.

Contrary to current ridiculous Democratic talking points, it is not ageist to point this out. One out of seven Americans over the age of 70 suffers from dementia. (Biden is 77.) If it’s ageist to talk about dementia among the elderly, it’s ageist to talk about immaturity among the young.

It is neither necessary to scientifically determine whether the former vice president has dementia. On the other hand, you don’t need an astronomer to know that the sun rises in the east. If you have encountered dementia, you know Joe Biden has it.

There is so much blame to go around for this BS that I can’t figure out what order to put it in. I’ll go chronologically.

There are the Democratic Party bosses who, terrified at the prospect that Sanders might win the nomination, recruited Biden out of a comfortable retirement.

There is Biden himself. His family should have known better than to allow a campaign by the guy who inspired the headline “Biden Allies Float Scaling Back Events to Limit Gaffes.” Not that gaffes are the issue. Or stuttering. Or being old. Many Americans are as old or older than Joe Biden; they stutter, and they’re mentally competent. Biden is not.

ORDER IT NOW

None of the media seem interested in the truth about Biden. Democratic media allies like CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post are running interference for the Democratic establishment and Biden by failing to ask any questions about the candidate’s mental fitness. Right-wing outlets like Fox News are gleefully trumpeting Biden’s mental decline, but they would say that even if it weren’t true. The fourth state has abdicated its duty to follow the truth wherever it leads.

And finally, there are the voters. As a citizen, you have no business casting a vote thoughtlessly or less than fully informed. Deliberately casting a vote for someone clearly suffering from dementia, or turning a blind eye to it, or being simply unaware of Biden’s mental state, is inexcusable.

No one who has been close to someone deteriorating from that disease could fail to see the same signs in Joe Biden.

In online discussions, Biden apologists sometimes say that a senile Biden is better than an evil Trump. Is this really where we are? Congratulations, Democrats, you literally picked the worst of the bunch.

This is not about politics. No doubt, Joe Biden’s voting record is monstrous. He opposed school busing, sold out Anita Hill, voted to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, supported NAFTA and bragged about the extrajudicial assassination of Osama bin Laden. And, yes, Hunter Biden’s job in Ukraine is classic corruption. But that’s not the point here.

Even if his politics were closer to mine — quadrupling the minimum wage; nationalizing major industries; banning all wars of aggression; free health care and college — I would be writing this same column. It doesn’t matter how crappy Donald Trump is. It’s anti-American and unpatriotic to vote for someone suffering from dementia for a position with exclusive control over nuclear launch codes.

What about Donald Trump? If Joe Biden is the nominee and people don’t vote for him — which I think will be the case anyway — Trump will win a second term. Isn’t it imperative to stop that by any means necessary?

As I wrote recently, odds are that Trump, like most previous presidents, won’t get much done during his second term. There is always a moral alternative to picking between two terrible options. Vote for another party. Write someone in. Don’t vote.

It’s not too late for the Democrats. Joe Biden doesn’t have to be the nominee.

He can and should withdraw.

 
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  1. anon[131] • Disclaimer says:

    Don’t forget the single most despicable thing Biden did to the American people: the bankruptcy “reform” of 2005. After banks were done stuffing consumers like foie gras geese with debt, Biden changed the rules on them to trap them. Banks baited the debt hook with everything they had and Biden yanked the rod and set the hook. For that alone he should be elected to the pinnacle of il Duce’s career

    • Agree: Digital Samizdat
    • Replies: @Sushipal
  2. While I agree that the minimum wage should be increased, quadrupling it would lead to massive losses of jobs and unemployment with little to no safety net.

    The elections are a farce anyway and just a PR event for the sheeple.

    • Replies: @PetrOldSack
  3. MBlanc46 says:

    Speaking of jerks….

  4. Hibernian says:

    “Psychologists have been so alarmed that they have violated a core ethical principle of their profession by attempting to diagnose him at a remove. ”

    Leftist shrinks do this constantly. They wouldn’t know an ethical principle if it hit them in the head.

    • Agree: another fred
    • Replies: @Curmudgeon
  5. TG says:

    Ah, I hear you. But I think you are missing the point.

    A president is not someone who has to do single combat with Putin, or beat a grandmaster at chess, or answer the phone at 3 AM and make world-changing decisions. No. A president is simply the figurehead for a team. Sure, Biden is demented. So what? He could be freeze dried and nailed to the wall. “Team Biden” will do whatever Team Biden’s wealthy patrons want done, period, that’s a given. Team Biden has decades of credibility at selling out the general public for money, and that will continue even after Biden the person is a drooling husk hooked up to a life support system. Which is why the rich love Team Biden so much.

    Trump – jackass that he is – took the rich a lot of effort to subdue and corrupt and wear down. Team Biden will do whatever the rich want straight out of the gate.

    Joe Biden. Corruption you can believe in.

    • Thanks: PetrOldSack
    • LOL: Digital Samizdat
  6. Biff says:

    I can’t think of a better suit than Biden to represent America and what it has become… A demented, feeble fuk, drooling his way to the breakfast buffet, after a good morning bombing raid in Causemoorastan.

    Murika! Yea!

    Give people tamper happy voting machines and I’ll give you the phoniest democracy on the planet.

    • Replies: @Digital Samizdat
  7. As I wrote recently, odds are that Trump, like most previous presidents, won’t get much done during his second term. There is always a moral alternative to picking between two terrible options. Vote for another party. Write someone in. Don’t vote.

    The article has no false premises. Still not deep enough. The whole of our elites, the whole of our political class are a mix of incompetence and narcicism/psychopathy. The issue is generational.

    Financial capitalism is a scam, it favors oligarchy, generational nepotism, and we see the result. The system has matured, the upwards mobility became a downwards steam-walzing, and a shift for the “elites” to global hard assets and comforts to evade the risk of aggression and environmental issues including Covid-19. With all things written on our dear Corona-virus issues here (Sailer has the better article), none address the binary attitudes of the elites to it. How they self-isolate, test their environment, apply discretion to their families and themselves.

    Not voting, in itself would be the only sensible statement, one step closer to further civil disobedience needed. The decay won´t stop without disruption. Then …our guess, hard to cliometry this, but understanding the impact of what not-voting could mean is not even a one single percent of the US surplus population understanding. A null talk about, a no narration of the middle-class media scribes including all “alternos”.

    Something outside any logic has the better chances to uproot the dominant ruling class. Getting rid of the garbage and stench, the ridicule in the face of the rest of the world …will be an accident. As a sidenote, glad that R-o-nU-n-z is now participating in spreading the concept of ineptitude and greed over the board of our elites, be it quite a shift, being of quite recently, and maybe a little late to the game over all.

    • Replies: @another anon
  8. Trump is not merely a jerk. Psychologists have been so alarmed that they have violated a core ethical principle of their profession by attempting to diagnose him at a remove. Narcissistic personality disorder is their universal conclusion, and it fits like a glove. Among the characteristics of NPD is a lack of empathy — not something one wants or needs in a leader.

    I could definitely go along with the idea that Trump is a narcissist–but then again, how many people with serious self-esteem problems would ever consider running for president in the first place? What I can’t quite swallow is this idea that he lacks empathy. Or is it that liberals merely confuse empathy with pity? Because the two are not exactly the same, though there is always the potential for overlap.

    The standard definition of ’empathy’ is the ability to intuit what others are feeling. It doesn’t necessarily imply that you agree with them or feel it, too. That would be sympathy. It also doesn’t necessarily mean that you allow other people’s feelings to govern your own emotional state; that’s where pity can arise.

    Now, Trump clearly doesn’t suffer from an excess of pity, so that’s what liberals probably hold against him. Of course, it is very doubtful that most great rulers throughout history (although I’m not suggesting that Trump is that) actually did suffer from an excess of pity, which, in large doses, would probably make it impossible to rule at all. In excess amounts, pity would cause psychological paralysis in the ruler, making it impossible for him to do anything that might hurt anybody’s tender little feelings, even if it were necessary to save the rest of the nation entrusted to his care. If too little pity makes for a sociopathic ruler, then too much makes for incapable one.

    But empathy is different, and Trump has it in scads. Empathy is precisely what enabled him alone to correctly read the mood of the electorate back in 2016. But empathy is not useful only for crowds; it is also a great gift in face-to-face business and politics, where you can’t actually trust anything anyone says, and instead have to read their emotions through body language, etc., just like a poker player. Again, I think we’ll all agree that Trump has that ability.

    Right-wing outlets like Fox News are gleefully trumpeting Biden’s mental decline, but they would say that even if it weren’t true.

    No they wouldn’t. Fox would simply pick whatever weakness was available and hammer away at it. They wouldn’t destroy their credibility with their target audience by blatantly making stuff up out of thin air. Notice, for example, that back in 2016 they never attacked Hellary for being senile, because she clearly wasn’t. Now, when she started collapsing in public they did question her physical health, but that was totally reasonable, fair game. Liberals are just loath to admit that occasionally, Fox reports what’s being suppressed but by the Democrat media. (And please don’t take me for a defender of Fox News, or the Murdoch media generally; they, too, are a gate-keeping enterprise through and through, just like the liberal media. But gate-keeping is always more effective when you have at least some credibility with your target demographic, and that’s why what the Democrat media are doing right now is so incredibly risky.)

    • Agree: Dutch Boy, Joseph Doaks
    • Replies: @Dutch Boy
  9. @NoseytheDuke

    We a-r-e the surplus population. Including me and you. Your comment is anchored to a believe in any kind of book-keeping that has been dished out over the last decades. Were you comatoze somehow these years? The variable of your argument is a mud pool. Do not sink.

  10. JImbobla says:

    He has been picked To be the nominee either because he will lose, which will keep the Democrats (at least their chicken-littles) in Congress happy, or because whomever his running mate will be will actually get to “rule”. Either way, a win/win for the blue team.

  11. Hibernian says:
    @TG

    True to a point, but remember Woodrow Wilson, his doctor, and Mrs. Wilson.

  12. “As a citizen, you have no business casting a vote thoughtlessly or less than fully informed.”

    Yet the Democrats float proposals from time to time advocating compulsory voting and/or lowering the voting age to 16. I say raise it back to 21, and leave it voluntary, not mandatory.

    Biden himself I don’t fear; his impulses are not far outside the mainstream of American politics…as practiced in the 1980s. The field was cleared for him this time around by somebody or some group of somebodies he will be in debt to. And let’s not forget the base of his party has been taken over by the howling mob. They don’t just want to be in power again, they want to implement a truly nutty agenda and settle old scores. They’ve been nursing a grudge for the last 4 years and the temptation to get even is going to be too strong for them to resist.

    One last point. My late father’s internist told me once that nearly everyone over the age of 65 has dementia, albeit very mild. I’m 62, and I can see already that I’m not as quick witted as I used to be. The trade off is that with age and maturity come better judgment.

    • Agree: Dutch Boy
    • Replies: @Dutch Boy
  13. Dutch Boy says:
    @Digital Samizdat

    I tend to agree with John Derbyshire’s criticism of Trump: he is lazy, prone to agree with the last person he talked to and prone to nurse petty grudges (e.g., against Jeff Sessions). He managed to get elected by seizing on the national question but then his weaknesses threw him into the morass of the Republican side of The Swamp and there he remains.

  14. Dutch Boy says:
    @Sgt. Joe Friday

    I am 70 and am well aware that I am less sharp then I was even 10 years ago (but still light years ahead of Biden, who has declined precipitously even since 2016). I believe that the typical man reaches a point of diminishing mental returns sometime in his 60s (when mental decline outweighs maturity and judgement). Our septuagenarian candidates are a further sign of our national decline.

  15. bubbles says:

    All those people who broke protocol and diagnosed Trump mentally unfit for office, doctor or not, seemed entirely partisan. I can diagnose you as a amoral idiot from here, but that doesn’t necessarily mean its true or I don’t have an agenda.
    As for free college and nationalizing industries, don’t you know somebody is gonna get rich either way. Should it be the few individuals who took a financial chance and got lucky or the relatives of the socialists in charge. Check the net worth of Castro at the time of his death or who the richest person in Venezuela happens to be. Who had all the dachas in soviet Russia- it sure wasn’t the proletariat.
    Free college will make a degree even more useless in many cases than it already has become. I don’t want to pay for anyones education except my children; certainly not your children.
    For all Trump’s faults, he is holding the line against the total breakdown of what is left of our freedom. Without supremes that will adhere to the constitution as written, liberal judges will continue their long tradition of changing law to what they think it should be right this instant. Which, of course, means more top down, command and control government. Nationalization? No thanks.

    • Replies: @Wally
  16. anon[146] • Disclaimer says:

    Neurologist here. I agree Biden has early dementia. The video of his word-finding difficulties with ‘we hold these truths to be self-evident . . . you know . . . you know . . . the thing’ shows a few absolutely classic clinical features, let alone the many other videos of 2019 and 2020 speeches, let alone comparison with his good public-speaking skills just a few years ago.

    I believe the proscription against diagnosis at a distance did not stop several Dem psychologists from attaching various labels to Trump, which raises the obvious issue that it tends to be political opponents who indulge in this.

    I’m sure it’s not a fully scientific survey, but the Washington Times found some useful numbers in 2018: nearly 60% of university faculty are registered to one or the other major party, and Dems outnumber GOP about 10:1.

    I recall from earlier studies that humanities profs are essentially ALL Dem, and only in engineering departments are there significant GOP, and even then it’s not a majority. So let’s be conservative and suppose that professors who are dementia specialists lie between sociologists and engineers: say of the 60% who are registered voters, 83% (5:1) are registered Democrats, or 50% of the total in the field.

    Lately, Sanders supporters have received the main flack for pushing #BidenDementia. Is it possible there are a lot of progressive Dems in our professorial group? Unlikely, given their incomes and social position, but let’s say it’s 20%. We’re now down to 40% of the academic medical professionals in dementia studies who have no axe to grind in diagnosing Joe Biden, indeed in my opinion have a moral duty to do so. How many physicians does that amount to?

    I found it surprisingly difficult to get a handle on this, as I’m not a dementia specialist myself, I don’t know their organizations, and they are spread out between three specialties; neurology (behavioral neurology) and geriatrics and psychiatry (psychogeriatrics). But I do know from personal experience that a ball-park estimate of the average number of clinical professors of medicine at each of the 143 American medical schools who specialize in dementia would be at least five; one or two less at small schools, but double or triple that at some larger ones. So we have at least 700 academic physicians in the country who specialize in dementia, and if so, about 280 would be moderate, registered Democrats who could not be accused of ulterior political motives in calling attention to Biden’s cognitive state.

    Very importantly, in dementia the tools exist to diagnose Biden at a distance. They may be imperfect, but they have been used in research already, because pre-morbid data has always been hugely important in dementia studies. Any group with data relating to their young adult intellectual abilities, such as soldiers and nuns, has long been extremely valuable. Because Biden is a public figure with many, many recording of his speeches available, there is opportunity to examine changes in his language over time, eg vocabulary simplification, pace of speech, hesitation, tangentiality, circumlocution and other well-known neurolinguistic features of dementia (especially, of Alzheimer’s disease).

    The 280-odd individuals I have estimated exist who would be ideal to address this issue have a profound moral duty to group together and do so. A political catastrophe lies ahead if they do not. But I won’t hold my breath waiting for it to happen, especially not now that, as moderate Democrats, they sense near-certain victory for Biden in the wake of the 100% certain global recession that will officially begin in a month or two.

    Mr. Rall, if you think the host of this site or specialized parties like Mr. Sailer or Mr. Thompson have any capacity to draw mainstream attention to this issue, feel free to notify them of this comment.

    • Replies: @PetrOldSack
  17. @PetrOldSack

    Not voting, in itself would be the only sensible statement, one step closer to further civil disobedience needed.

    ??? About half of eligible voters already do not register, do not vote, do not care about the whole circus.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_States_presidential_elections

    • Replies: @A123
  18. A123 says:
    @another anon

    About half of eligible voters already do not register,

    And, millions of non-citizens are registered. The problem is so bad in some locations that registrations exceed 100% of eligible voters. (1)

    The Election Integrity Project California provides a list of 11 California counties that have more registered voters than voting-age citizens.

    In addition, Los Angeles County officials informed the project that “the number of registered voters now stands at a number that is a whopping 144% of the total number of resident citizens of voting age.”

    The problem could be easily fixed by requiring an ID that indicates citizenship. The DNC will create a Constitutional Crisis if they falsely claim an election victory based on illegal ballots cast by non-citizens.

    PEACE 😇
    _______

    (1) https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-05/california-has-11-counties-more-registered-voters-voting-age-citizens

    • Agree: RadicalCenter
  19. @TG

    In case of individual combat with Putin, that would probably be left to Jill Biden anyway.

    • LOL: Hibernian
    • Replies: @TG
  20. Wally says:
    @bubbles

    said:
    “For all Trump’s faults, he is holding the line against the total breakdown of what is left of our freedom. Without supremes that will adhere to the constitution as written, liberal judges will continue their long tradition of changing law to what they think it should be right this instant. Which, of course, means more top down, command and control government. Nationalization? No thanks.”

    – You are absolutely correct. Trump is a million times better than the totalitarian neo-Marxist alternatives. No contest.

    – Communist author Ted Rall said:
    “What about Donald Trump? If Joe Biden is the nominee and people don’t vote for him — which I think will be the case anyway — Trump will win a second term. Isn’t it imperative to stop that by any means necessary?”

    – Assassination advocate & dim leftist hack Ted Rall really hates this:
    Trump Declares “National Day for the Victims of Communism.”
    https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/11/07/national-day-victims-communism
    and:
    Appeals Court: Trump Can Withhold Funding from Sanctuary Cities: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/26/appeals-court-trump-can-withhold-funding-from-sanctuary-cities/
    Trump heads into 2020 with ‘historic’ judicial appointments : https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-heads-into-2020-with-historic-judicial-appointments
    Eerie Prescience of Donald Trump: https://www.unz.com/ishamir/eerie-prescience-of-donald-trump/
    President Trump Eliminates 860 Obama-Era Federal Regulations: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/21/great-again-trump-eliminates-860-obama-era-federal-regulations/
    NASA Data Proves Trump Right to Exit Paris Climate Accord: https://www.prisonplanet.com/nasa-data-proves-trump-right-to-exit-paris-climate-accord.html

    • Replies: @Curmudgeon
  21. @anon

    …The 280-odd individuals I have estimated exist who would be ideal to address this issue(assessing Biden for dementia) have a profound moral duty to group together and do so….

    What do you make of comment #5 (/ TG says), excerpt:

    Sure, Biden is demented. So what? He could be freeze dried and nailed to the wall. “Team Biden” will do whatever Team Biden’s wealthy patrons want done,

    which makes additional sense.

    The issue goes deeper, the focus on Biden is an out of focus. Politicians and administrators when elected, including @Department of Justice must be analyzed across the board, not only on cognitive issues, but health and energy levels. The “old” ones remain in place and trade places mostly because they are without surprises, are bought and sold over and over, need no indication of how to dance, come with their “luggage” (staff) and hold themselves strings to others of their class.

    A main issue, as much to be held against Sanders, Pelosi, complete yourself.

  22. Realist says:

    Joe Biden Obviously Has Dementia and Should Withdraw

    What does that say about the Democrats that support Biden or the other losers that were running for the nomination?

  23. You mistakenly identify Biden’s dementia as a bug … it is a feature. America would only be a 25th Amendment away from the real President TDPTB actually want.

  24. @Hibernian

    My brother had mental health issues, as did a cousin. My friend’s mother and sister had/has mental health issues. After close to 60 years observation, my friend and I agree: a psychiatrist never cured anyone.
    Anyone who has watched the War Channel once or twice understands that psychiatrists have been making shit up about 1930s Germany, for 80 years.
    Whether Freud’s alleged “We are bringing them the plague” comment is true or a joke, is irrelevant. As Henry Ford noted about “The Protocols”, it doesn’t matter if they are a forgery, it fits what is happening today.

  25. @Wally

    “Trump is a million times better than the totalitarian neo-Marxist alternatives. No contest.”

    What the “neo-Marxist alternatives” turns on, is defining the commune. On closer examination, I think you will find the neo-Marxists are the same as the old Marxists. It’s the same tribe/commune running the show, irrespective of the political front being put up. The only thing that has evolved over the years, is the degree of control over the politicians.
    Trump has done little to reclaim control from the commune. The “neo-Marxist alternatives” are a sideshow to ensure his re-election. As much as I detest Omar and Tlaib, they are the only ones willing to call out the Zionist control of Congress, and for that, they should be congratulated.

  26. Precious says:

    Trump is not merely a jerk. Psychologists have been so alarmed that they have violated a core ethical principle of their profession by attempting to diagnose him at a remove. Narcissistic personality disorder is their universal conclusion, and it fits like a glove. Among the characteristics of NPD is a lack of empathy — not something one wants or needs in a leader.

    There are two falsehoods in the above statements. First, there is no universal conclusion in diagnosing Trump, and second, the diagnosis of NPD does not fit Trump like a glove. This is because not all psychologists are willing to lie about NPD and Trump. The reason diagnosing Trump with NPD is a lie is because narcissism is not enough to qualify for narcissistic personality disorder. To qualify for narcissistic personality disorder, an individual’s selfish, un-empathetic preening MUST be accompanied by significant distress or impairment. Trump doesn’t have that problem, he just causes severe distress and impairment in Trump haters.

    There are the Democratic Party bosses who, terrified at the prospect that Sanders might win the nomination, recruited Biden out of a comfortable retirement.

    This is obviously not true when we look at what Biden did in Ukraine and the chronological order of events that happened. Biden was the point man in the Democrats stealing about $5 billion in US aid to Ukraine during the Obama administration. The money was divided up among corrupt Ukraine families and American Democratic party families. Some of that money was used to pay Hunter Biden’s salary.

    The chronological order of events is that Zelensky unexpectedly won the Ukraine election. Trump called Zelensky to congratulate him. Within hours, Joe Biden announces that he is running for President. Then, Hunter Biden steps down from a company board. Joe Biden wasn’t recruited, he was desperate, and so is his family. That is why he is running and grinding away at his remaining health instead of doing what he should be doing, resting at home surrounded by family so he can slow his mental decline. Zelensky was willing to let Trump dig up all the dirt on Biden’s crimes in Ukraine, and Biden decided that only running for President might give him a chance by claiming Trump’s future prosecution is politically motivated.

    As I wrote recently, odds are that Trump, like most previous presidents, won’t get much done during his second term.

    Trump is not like most previous presidents. If he does win, he will continue to build the momentum that is already steamrolling with his successes in USMCA, the wall, and prosecutions of Obama administration officials. He is setting up the Democrats to be crushed at the national level. Notice that in his first two years he didn’t seem to get much of anything done, but he was laying the groundwork, starting with his appointment of federal judges, to slowly clear the way of political opposition.

  27. Piglet says:

    There could be a method to this madness.

    Not long ago Biden said he was going to pick a woman as his running mate. (I wonder if, in his present mental state, he even remembers?) Imagine if that turned out to be the No. 1 Shrew, the Hildabeast.

    A lot of people would overlook Biden’s dementia in order to give Shrillary another shot at power. Once in office (assuming a victory on election day), it wouldn’t take too long for Biden to be judged unfit for office due to cognitive decline and then the Hildabeast would move into the Oval Office, just as she wanted to do four years ago. Her supporters would cheer wildly.

    And if Biden didn’t step down, then he could suffer an unfortunate case of Arkancide that would sideline him for good and the Hildabeast would still get what she wanted.

    If this all comes to pass, remember that you heard it here first!

    Yeah, yeah, I know… “Conspiracy theory!” This is what’s otherwise known as “team work,” but in this case you weren’t included on the memo.

    Another one: “That sort of thing doesn’t happen in America!” Where the stakes are high and the potential benefits are higher? Of course they do. We don’t live in a society full of political Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. As the main character says at the end of the film Sicario, “This is the land of the wolves now.”

  28. aandrews says:

    I think Biden is simply a cutout. If he actually wins the election, he’ll resign for health reasons soon after and pass the torch to his VP, Hillary Clinton.

  29. I felt like this article should be featured on CNN or something similar.
    Using what is obviously weaponized and biased psychiatrists as an example or proof of any ones mental health is insanity in and of itself.
    Especially since these so called experts have never sat down with the man in a private 1 on 1 session, and instead are simply judging him by his tv/public personality. This is dead on scary and really no different then the soviet tactics during the worst of its time.

  30. TG says:
    @Three of Swords

    Hah! Good one. Yes. Although I still think that Hillary Clinton is a lot scarier. Not physically strong, mind you, but vicious and cunning and utterly without mercy. I’d hate to think of someone like her lying in wait for me in ambush… If only she was on our side…

    But my point is that the Hollywood trope of the president as some sort of god-like wonder-worker is bunk. Personnel is policy. Lincoln, FDR, and Eisenhower, knew how to delegate, and their talent was not so much their own individual strength as choosing the right people to advance their agenda. Trump seems to have lost that, he’s allowed the elites to drive out his populist allies and fill his administration with people that hate him and his agenda… and duh, the Trump administration has become Clinton redux.

    And Biden’s people are pure-blooded neoliberal sell-out scum, count on it.

    • Replies: @A123
  31. A123 says:
    @TG

    Trump seems to have lost that, he’s allowed the elites to drive out his populist allies and fill his administration with people that hate him and his agenda… and duh, the Trump administration has become Clinton redux.

    Trump is a President not a King. To keep Senate confirmations going he has had some awful personnel choice forced on him. He also made a terrible mistake when he picked Senator “Recusal” Sessions as AG.

    He is moving out forced and poor choices as quickly as possible. For example, Mick “Open Borders” Mulvaney was recently let go. (1)

    Given the amount of Deep State resistance from Obama holdovers, Trump’s successes have been good, though not great. Replacing 2 or 3 ultra-left Supreme Court Justices will be a 2nd Term accomplishment that lasts for decades.

    PEACE 😇
    _______

    (1) https://www.thedailybeast.com/president-trump-names-rep-mark-meadows-as-chief-of-staff

  32. Cassandra says:
    @TG

    Oh for gods sake, trump is the biggest tool of the superrich. Biden’s team has to answer to the hard left. Trumps team is the superrich. Adelson, kushner, singer, Icahn, all of AIPAC.

    You can’t be this clueless. We can’t afford more trump. Anything but trump.

  33. Joe Biden’s voting record is monstrous. He opposed school busing…

    As did almost everyone who was faced with putting his child on a bus to a faraway school. Busing is the ultimate top-down issue.

    sold out Anita Hill…

    Who herself sold out Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, and Juanita Broaddrick.

    That Mz Hill didn’t accuse Mr Thomas of rape when every Democrat in Congress would have believed her is the most suspicious thing about her accusations. Somehow this horny black beast could control himself.

    voted to invade Afghanistan and Iraq…

    When you make heroes of those who voted to invade France, twice, this is what you reap.

    quadrupling the minimum wage

    How much does Rall make? Is he self-employed?

    How about sextupling the minimum wage for immigrants? Octupling it? “Can’t find anyone to pay you $120/hr? Sorry, José, but you’ll have to go home.”

    nationalizing major industries…

    Because “Wouldn’t you rather have a Yugo?”

    Let’s start small– with cartooning. Rall can report to Trump. That’s what “nationalization” means.

    banning all wars of aggression…

    How about banning all wars? We could simply have answered Pearl Harbor, then stayed home and munched popcorn during the newsreels. Read about the Ludlow Amendment, and Gen Butler’s threat to FDR.

    I don’t recall anyone on the right reminiscing about a “good war”.

    free health care and college…

    Why not free food and transport, as well? Why not free everything? Note that university education is much more strictly rationed in places where it’s “free”. And which class gets the extra education?

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  34. Hibernian says:
    @Reg Cæsar

    Mr. Rall is famous for his, “I don’t know nothing about birthing babies caricature of Condoleezza Rice.

    • Replies: @Hibernian
  35. Hibernian says:
    @Hibernian

    Sorry, that was a guy by the name of Jeff Danzinger. Mr. Rall just called her a house servant, except he didn’t use the word “servant.”

  36. CARSRUS says: • Website

    As a neurologist, I can assure you Ex VP Biden is UNFIT TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
    I would need to examine him one to one to give a direct diagnosis, however he has many of the
    Signs of onset Dementia. The People of America need demand that the democrat party agree
    To have Mr. Biden examined by a renowned neurologist and psychiatrist, and divulge publicly their findings !

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