A new report published by MSN has revealed what the vast majority of us with more than one fully functioning brain cell have known for the last three-and-a-half years: President Joe Biden is losing his marbles.
In other news, water has been determined to be wet.
While we know this, what makes this report so important is that a major, very liberal, news source is finally coming to terms with the truth that our current commander-in-chief is having issues with cognitive decline and no amount of spinning from the administration can cover it up. This means that leftists in culture also cannot avoid acknowledging this fact. To do so is to look intellectually challenged, to put it nicely.
According to the report:
WASHINGTON—When President Biden met with congressional leaders in the West Wing in January to negotiate a Ukraine funding deal, he spoke so softly at times that some participants struggled to hear him, according to five people familiar with the meeting. He read from notes to make obvious points, paused for extended periods and sometimes closed his eyes for so long that some in the room wondered whether he had tuned out.
In a February one-on-one chat in the Oval Office with House Speaker Mike Johnson, the president said a recent policy change by his administration that jeopardizes some big energy projects was just a study, according to six people told at the time about what Johnson said had happened. Johnson worried the president’s memory had slipped about the details of his own policy.
Last year, when Biden was negotiating with House Republicans to lift the debt ceiling, his demeanor and command of the details seemed to shift from one day to the next, according to then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and two others familiar with the talks. On some days, he had loose and spontaneous exchanges with Republicans, and on others he mumbled and appeared to rely on notes.
“I used to meet with him when he was vice president. I’d go to his house,” McCarthy stated during an interview. “He’s not the same person.”
Biden is the oldest person in the history of our country to occupy the Oval Office. Ever since he’s taken over the presidency — and well before then if you look back at his campaign in 2019 for the 2020 election — his cognitive abilities and age have been a source of debate, especially after he decided to run for a second term. Voters on both sides of the spectrum have expressed doubts and concerns about his fitness for the job and whether or not he can actually discharge the duties required of someone in that position.
Of course, his administration is still trying to convince us all that he’s actually very sharp and vigorous, but you’d have to be both blind and brain dead to buy that narrative. All the most recent video footage of him shows the president shuffling around slowly with a perpetually confused look on his face. He’s fallen on practically every kind of surface known to man at this point, including multiply tumbles down the steps of Air Force One.
Some who have worked with him, however, including Democrats and some who have known him back to his time as vice president, described a president who appears slower now, someone who has both good moments and bad ones.
For much of his career, Biden enjoyed a reputation on Capitol Hill for being a master negotiator of legislative deals, known for his detailed knowledge of issues and insights into the other side’s motivations and needs—and for hitting his stride when the pressure was on. Over the past year, though, with Republicans in control of the House, that reputation has diminished.
White House officials dismissed many of the accounts from those who have met with the president or been briefed on those meetings as motivated by partisan politics.
“Congressional Republicans, foreign leaders and nonpartisan national-security experts have made clear in their own words that President Biden is a savvy and effective leader who has a deep record of legislative accomplishment,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates explained. “Now, in 2024, House Republicans are making false claims as a political tactic that flatly contradict previous statements made by themselves and their colleagues.”
The president has had so many slip-ups it’s difficult to keep track of them all. One example comes from a meeting Biden participated in concerning Ukraine, where he attempted to make a case for providing aid for the country to help with its current battles with Russia.
Bates denied that Biden had any gaffes during the meeting.
“Some who attended the meetings attributed off-key moments to his speech impediment and his tendency to be long-winded. Those who expressed concern about Biden said the behavior they saw suggested an unevenness, not the caricature of an addled leader that some of his political opponents draw. The White House said the president’s doctors have found him fit to serve, and that his recent annual physical showed no need for a cognitive test,” the report went on to reveal.
It then added, “On May 20, during a Rose Garden event celebrating Jewish American Heritage month, Biden said one of the U.S. hostages held in Gaza was a guest at the White House event, before correcting himself. One day earlier, at a campaign event in Detroit, he indicated that he was vice president during the Covid-19 pandemic, which started three years after he left that office. It was one of numerous flubs in the single speech that prompted the White House to make corrections to the official transcript.”
Back in January, President Biden got confused, again, and mixed up the names of two of his Hispanic cabinet secretaries, Alejandro Mayorkas and Xavier Becerra. Then, during a fundraiser the following month in New York, he recalled having a recent conversation with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The only problem with that is Kohl passed away back in 2017. He pulled a similar flub in 2021 when he said had spoken with former French President Francois Mitterrand. Which is impossible because he died in 1996.
Does any of this sound like the kind of thing a man with all of his marbles would say?
Nope.
And that’s why you should probably not cast a ballot for Biden in November, among many other reasons.