January 1, 2025

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Why Do We Accept Government by an Invalid?

It is still New Year’s Day, and I must wring a last few hours of repose out of it before plunging once again into the maelstrom tomorrow. I am here only to ask why we as Americans have become so cavalier about the fact that our president is simply unavailable for response outside of press releases and official tweets during times of potential crisis like these, until such point where Biden stumbles out to peer into a teleprompter — his fogged eyes squinted into mere dashes — and slurs a half-articulated “update” speech. Was anyone reassured by that speech? Did it alleviate anyone’s unease that the sitting president of the United States is a half-functional, quasi-vegetative person at this point?

I am also here to ask why we as Americans have become so cavalier about the fact that tolerating a president who is permanently mentally incapacitated invites crises like these. Nineteen days yet remain until the animate shell of Joe Biden formally departs from the presidency. Pray for peace and hold your breath until then.

Biden’s eyes are holding on to that teleprompter screen for dear life. That moment at 1:49 where he pretends to check his notebook and shuffle his papers and then utters “there you go” may have been a pause to allow the prompter operator to get to the next line, or reboot the script:

And it goes without saying at this late date that after reading the prompter, Biden’s husk quickly exited the room without taking any questions

 

Posted at 8:35 pm by Ed Driscoll