Guest Post by Alex Berenson
I know some of you think yesterday’s devastating report is part of a canny Democratic plot to make him step down before the 2024 election. I don’t. I think he’s in trouble. And so are the Democrats.
We’ve all seen it. Maybe with a parent. Or grandparent. Even a spouse, for the unluckiest of us.
The slips are minor at first. The name of a friend forgotten, a birthday missed. An unsteady step. Then the problems become bigger and harder to miss. Memory gaps turn into sinkholes, missed steps into falls.
Eventually, the painful reality must be faced: Alzheimer’s, dementia, senility. By whatever name, the affliction is the wastage of time, progressive and devastating.
But if we – the onlookers, the outsiders – can hardly accept the slow erasure of memory and self, freedom and personhood, how difficult must it be for the sufferer?
Especially if that sufferer has spent his life in a race to become the world’s most powerful person – and has finally reached his goal. Only to have a federal prosecutor label him, in words that will haunt him and the country for as long as he is president, a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
The harder Joe Biden and his allies deny Robert Hur’s words, the harder they stick.
I’m not a doctor (though I am sometimes accused to pretending to be one). I wouldn’t presume to diagnose Biden. But I know this. We all know this. He is not well. He is 81, and not a young 81, whatever that means. In 2022, he fell off a bike; do you remember more casual Biden bike rides since? I don’t. Try to imagine him skiing. Or golfing.
Try to imagine him walking more than a few hundred feet.
Biden wanders as often as he walks. He shakes hands with the air. His voice is reedy and slow. He has trouble finding words. On Sunday, he reminisced about a meeting he’d had recently with Francois Mitterrand, the French president. Mitterrand has been dead since 1996.
Yesterday, I posted a picture of Biden from the summer of 2010. He looms over Michael Bloomberg. Like him or not, he looks vigorous.
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That man is gone.
I posted on X this morning that even when he’s mad, Biden now seems to be auditioning for one of those “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” ads. Maybe it was an unnecessarily cruel joke.
Then again, his minions forced Twitter to ban me and made me the butt of worldwide scorn by claiming I discouraged people from taking safe and effective vaccines for my own profit.
A few days later, he tried to strip 100 million American adults of the right to choose whether to be dosed with mRNA, and warned the unjabbed, “Our patience is wearing thin.”
So maybe it wasn’t.
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The oldest person I’ve known was Gisa Dollinger, who escaped Austria in December 1938, just before the Nazis closed the borders to Jews forever. She was born in 1902, and already over 100 when we met. She lived down the hall in my East Village apartment building. (Rent stabilization is occasionally charming.)
She was going deaf but had all her faculties. She held on to them until she died in 2014, at the ripe age of 111. I went over to her apartment a couple of times a year to say hello and give her my novels (which, I swear, she read using a magnifying glass).
And she always said the same thing about getting old: Age is no bargain. Better to be alive, for sure, but to lose a little bit more of yourself every day was no fun. Especially since she couldn’t knew each piece was gone for good, once it vanished.
But Gisa Dollinger held on to her mind; she could see what was happening to her, even if she didn’t like it. She knew the bargain she’d made.
Does Joe Biden? Much less that he is making it not only for himself but 330 million Americans.
Some of you believe the special counsel’s report is part of a Democratic plot to force Biden out before the election, so the Democrats can nominate a stronger candidate in his place.
I don’t think so. Maybe Biden will have to go. But the Democratic Party would rather he didn’t. Perhaps replacing him would have been viable a year ago. But the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, and the Democrats did much better than either side expected in the midterms. Whatever pressure Biden faced to make way evaporated.
As a result, the Democrats do not have an obvious heir lined up.
Kamala Harris has the strongest institutional claim to the job, but she is barely able to function as vice-president. Yet if the Democrats dump a black woman who should be next in line, they will face enormous howls from their base. (Especially if they replace her with Gavin Newsom, the whitest man alive.)
If Biden goes, the knife fight that follows will be vicious – both among the people looking to replace him and with between the party’s progressive and moderate wings.
His team presumably figured that they could hide him, just as they’d hidden him in 2020. And that the election would turn into a referendum on Donald Trump, just as the 2020 election had been.
But even before the special counsel’s report, the cracks in that strategy were showing. Biden could barely appear in public without making an obvious gaffe.
Now Hur’s report has torn that plan to shreds.
Diminished faculties in advancing age. Unable to remember when his son died, or when he served as vice-president.
Biden can’t hide anymore. If he wants a second term, he will have to prove to his country and the world that those devastating words are not true and that he is fit to serve.
If in fact he is.
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Since when is “I don’t remember” a legal defense? Especially when they admit there was ample proof of criminal acts.
Apparently some animals ARE more equal than others.
Hiliary has used that response for decades and it has always been accepted, but she is special to them.
She also used to call for MAGA:
Everybody KNOWS Biden is as “special” as they come.
Been ridin the short bus his whole life.
For the kids.
Citing Bidens “cooperation” as a reason not to prosecute (as opposed to Trump’s “noncooperation”) is also wrong. Cooperation is a factor in mitigation when people are being sentenced. Cooperating doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be prosecuted.
If only Whitey Bulger had managed a few more years on the lam he’d be a free man instead of having his eyes gouged out while in federal custody.
“well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
he is not well meaning – he is an evil sock puppet of obama and other communist destroyers.
I caught that as well. How does one determine if someone is well meaning?
It helps if you examine them under a gaslight.
6 upvotes, Scru! Sometimes you hit a bullseye😉
Funny.
“well meaning” is Hur’s attempt to avoid a fatal “accident”.
I agree that he’s not well meaning. Since “elderly with a poor memory” was the shiv, maybe throwing in “well meaning” was like how Southern women say “bless your heart” to mean “fuck off and die you piece of shit”.
Anyone over the age of 60 with a family has an obligation to keep a close eye on their cognitive state and do everything possible to maintain it in top form for as long as possible.
Telling the truth is one of the most important parts of that training. Someone who fabricates every aspect of their existence has a difficult time when they are in top form, when they begin to age the contradictions between reality and fantasy not only blur, they accelerate the decline. This is the part that has doomed Biden because so much of his life has been political exigencies rather than philosophical discourses. He always angles towards the useful fiction in the moment rather than the long term truths of the eternal.
Can you imagine making up stories about the death of your own child because it serves a political end?
It’s a moral lesson more than a political story.
Joey is living proof of the old saying “repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”, at least in his mind.
This disgusting vile and evil sack of shyte has always been this way.
What dementia, old age and mental decline does is remove the filters and the character is shown for what it always has been.
Even that is inaccurate. Everyone’s brain is unique and this disease seems to have no rhyme or reason in how it attacks those brains. So you can never be certain who it is you’re going meet when you go to visit.
That’s some hard shit to diagnose for treatment. You’re basically left with treating symptoms and ignoring the roots causes because they simply don’t know either. It’s obvious when you hop in the trenches with them (medicos).
I agree in that everyone is unique and diseases can effect people differently. But with diseases like oldentimers, dementia, there is an overall pattern. From experience and what I’ve witnessed and lived with, its more so the filters are removed and you see the real person. I’m not a doctor and I don’t trust them either.
Wifes pappy died last July, 99, and was hallucinating on top of not knowing where, when or who we were. He’d have episodes where he’d start yelling that we were trying to kill him. And everything was about money, getting as much as he can and everyone trying to steal it. The most bizarre things came out of him which later when we were talking about it, the wife would say its always been there, just not up front.
Now we are dealing with her mom, at 100. Didn’t recognize anyone yesterday. And again, issues that have always been there, restrained, are now cropping up amplified. Its a daily adventure.
Imo, evil asswipes like cho bi dum get zero sympathies. The fact that these lowlifes will USE each other like toilet paper speaks volumes. I cannot think of people more vile than these people and hope they get good measure pressed down and overflowing on the judgements they so deserve. rant off
2 brain surgeries had to have made his even worse. He has always been a mean bully and the dementia/alzheimer attacking what is left of his brain amplifies the anger/meanness.
Just wait for him to get on meds.
People know when they are dealing with a severe mental decline and you can bet Biden knows it now or he at least knew it at one time.
My mom had Alzheimer’s. When my brother and I decided the parents needed to move from Florida to his area or mine so we could help them, we went there to help them pack. I found a notebook in my mom’s dresser drawer. There was one page where the only thing on that page were the words “Alzheimer’s Disease”.
She knew. And she knew before she lost the ability to understand what was going wrong. Every time I forget a name or a word, it freaks me out. Not that I didn’t always have that problem it just seems more glaring, now. 😳
I’m having the same symptoms myself- a word here or there I cannot instantly put in place and it is disconcerting, but that’s the downside of living long enough. First thing I do every morning is the Wordle puzzle. Before coffee, just to fire up the hard drive and see if I can work my way around a word puzzle. Very helpful.
If you have and hour to spare or listen while doing chores:
What was really interesting are the things he found we can to to help keep dementia at bay. Just learning something new, for instance, is one thing. Your Wordle is probably like that.
Those of us who don’t deny our new shortcomings likely are better off than those who try to hide theirs.
Extremely well said Mr Farmer .
“Can you imagine making up stories about the death of your own child because it serves a political end? ”
Bullshit. Not even Biden would intentionally stoop that low. It’s an obvious consequence of his dementia.
Then he’s had it for years.
Shit, this is easy. They will “Fetterman” him, finding a “vigorous” stand in and putting him up as the real thing. It will be an amazing “recovery”, just like “Fetterman”.
Never gonna happen. It would cause FAR more trouble than it would solve.
Can you imagine the riots that would ensue if they announced they have a cure for dementia and are willfully withholding it?
Nancy Lieder knows if he’s already a double. Ask her.
@SWR Yes, I consider that also accomplishes another 300 days of treasury looting and border insurgency under an unaccountable Resident. Revelation 13:3 One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. — One of its heads seemed to have received a death blow, but the the mortal wound was healed.
So… leverage the legitimate popularity of Tucker’s interview with Mr. Putin as setting the bar for what competent statesmanship looks like. Then have hollyweird guild edit together a punchy, tight video, with AI generative expressions of intelligence, and saturate MSM with Relatable Regular Guy Joe, plastic smile beaming, pupils dilated into a void, and talking folksy smack about putting MAGA-Putin back under the Our Democracy party thumb.
Bot army sez, “See, proof nothing was wrong with Biden, you intolerant haters,” while Dear Leader keeps a low profile on vacation in the situation room, mumbling in a corner. That monolith block of woke faithful Democrats will drop their sheepish doubts and fully commit, giving plausibly deniability to yet another 2024 election month of fraud.
But 40% will know it is more deep swamp bullshit to conjure another 81+ million votes. Our impotent disgust and the opposition’s slave-like acquiescence is what counts for max lulz to an NWO shadow circus. It is their natural manure.
They always assassinate the ones with serious health issues. It’s like they convince the sick politicians that using their death for politics is a worthwhile use of one’s life.
They will stage it either in a theater, or on a movie studio tour.
or maybe the door will blow off Marine 1.
Fake hair, fake teeth, fake leadership- It will all be ok!
A Dementia Patient Is President Because It Doesn’t Matter Who The President Is
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/a-dementia-patient-is-president-because
It IS a teachable moment.
As is usually the case, plastic surgery made him look worse.
Yes, he is rather withered.
A Cuomo brother talking about anything is immediately recognized as lies, fucking lies, and Communist Democrat policy.
To summarize, it’s fine and dandy if THEY blow the fuckin’ country up, but the likes of you and I had better not even THINK IT.
I hope they try to prove Biden’s vigor by having him do more bike rides.
The writer is as stupid as half of the American public.
I thought so too but I see where you got six downvotes . He ( Alex Berenson )throws in too many “allowed for’s ” , like how well the dems did in the midterms (well yeah Alex because they fuckin rigged it , like they did the 2020 general !!!( Alex )Don’t play pollyannish with me ,I cant take anything but straight unvarnished fucking truth any more and I think its important that we never let these kind of false premises go un challenged . Tired of the bullshit , and that means all of it .We gotta get real here .
I’m so with you.
Pedo Brandon has always been a low IQ, worthless skin bag, a leach upon the American taxpayer, a traitor and willing pawn in an attempt to destroy this nation while enriching himself and his family…I can only find it in my heart to wish him a quick and merciful end…but no forgiveness.
People with Alzheimer’s don’t get quick merciful ends and he does not deserve one, either. They will have to eliminate him to get rid of him. He’s going to hang on till the bitter end, one way or the other.
Hunter’s China Auction: “How much do you bid for Joe Biden? Do I hear 10%? 10%? Anyone?”
When his daddy augers himself into the Earth, Hunter will become the most frightened boy in the world.
Selecting Kamala Harris for V.P was always going to be a problem, because the V.P. is the presumptive heir. If by some chance Trump gets knocked out of the race, the odds improve that Biden will win. The focus then shifts to Kamala. Does anyone really think she presidential material? The smart move would be to replace her as the V.P. candidate now, take the heat, and put someone in that people would feel better about succeeding Joe, who is likely to die in office if he wins.
Kamaltoe’s purpose as VP was solely to make it more difficult to remove ” Whitey Vulgar” er I mean Pedo Peter er I mean Joetard from power , If he’s the rock , she makes up the hard place of which between the two we are stuck . For me I always have to do one thing at a time anyway really so . first remove Joetard , then remove Kamaltoe , it matters not whether its difficult or not it only matters that that is the path neccassary to get from where we are to where we want to go .
Don’t forget the mulatto in chief and its ‘wife’… the only structural political power in the communist pantheon of the American left… as directed by Valerie The Persian…
Barack will replace his puppet Biden with his next puppet, his “wife”. All the better to humiliate the hated White people. She will win the rigged “election”.
She doesn’t want the job.
“She” isn’t man enough.
“The oldest person I’ve known was Gisa Dollinger, who escaped Austria in December 1938, just before the Nazis closed the borders to Jews forever.” Looool a little holograph sous-entendu. Had me go to wikipedia. Heres what I found
Berenson was born in New York, and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey.[14] He is Jewish.[15] After attending the Horace Mann School, he graduated from Yale University in 1994 with bachelor’s degrees in history and economics.[16]
Do what you will with that information. Remember to put the((())) when you read a jew berenson ex jew-york time (((alex))) article
(Especially if they replace her with Gavin Newsom, the whitest man alive.) Shit. He doesnt have the highest opinion of white men, now, does he, that (((berenson))) guy?