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Old Joe Biden was supposed to attend the gala dinner at the G-20 summit in Bali Tuesday evening. All the coolest world leaders were there, and the alleged president was supposed to be a central figure of the proceedings. Instead, he retired to his hotel room, without explanation. Why does this matter? Because not too very long ago, Old Joe brushed aside concerns about his advanced age and even more rapidly advancing dementia by telling us to watch him and see what a spry old dawg he really is. Well, we’re seeing it now.
Back in September, media sycophant Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes asked Biden: “Some people ask whether you are fit for the job. And when you hear that, I wonder what you think.” Biden responded: “Watch me.” Then he added in his inimitable semi-coherent fashion: “And it ma—, honest to God, that’s all I think. Watch me. If you think I don’t have the energy level or the mental acuity, then — then, you know, that’s one thing. It’s another thing, you just watch and — and, you know, keep my schedule. Do what I’m doing.”
Biden even claimed that his energy level impressed younger leaders: “I — I think that, you know — I don’t — when I sit down with our NATO allies and keep ’em together, I don’t have ’em saying, ‘Wait a minute, w— how — how old are you? What are you — what say?’ You know, I mean, it’s a matter of, you know, that old expression: The proof of the pudding’s in the eating. I mean, I — I — I respect the fact that people would say, you know, ‘You’re old.’ And — but I think it relates to h— how much energy you have, and whether or not the job you’re doing is one consistent with what any person of any age would be able to do.”
This “watch me” business became something of a Biden talking point. In October, he said in his inimitable fumbling fashion:
Watch me. You know, am I slowing up? Am I — don’t have the same pace? Or, you know, uh, and that old joke, you know, uh, um, everybody talks about the, you know, the new seventies fifties and all that stuff, you know, I’ve, you know, could be – I — I’m a great respecter of faith. I could get a disease tomorrow, I could, you know, drop dead tomorrow. But I, you know, in terms of my energy level, in terms of how much I’m able to do, I think people should look and say, ‘Is he, c –, does he still have the same passion for what he’s doing?’ And if they think I do and I can do it, then that’s fine. If they don’t, then they should vote against me. Not against me, they should encourage me not to go. But that’s not how I feel.”
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wpm says
What difference would it make if Biden was at the dinner meeting or not. His mind is always out to lunch and his handlers have to do less damage control as he naps in his room while the non-senile elite make decisions on how to run the world.
Keith O says
His handlers can only give him so many injections in any one day to keep him going.
Whatever it is they are hitting dementia Joe with to make him look semi alert must be taking a hell of a toll on his body and mind.
It can’t effect his soul, because he never had one.
tim gallagher says
Yeah, I doubt that it matters all that much because I’m pretty sure that, by now, all the leaders of the countries of the world have met Biden (and also seen and probably laughed at the video clips of his dementia in action) and they know that he is suffering quite severely from dementia and so they would realise that he probably does need to have a nap or try to get his act together in some way. They would excuse the poor old bugger and, even if he was there, he would not really be there mentally anyway. It is a pathetic situation really.
ConnSCG says
This man is a disgrace, always has been. It will take a lot of effort to repair the United States of America’s reputation after he’s out of the White House.
joanofark06 says
So true!!