Biden: "What Dementia?"

  Half the debate stage just changed their minds from what they said a week ago. Bloomberg, Kobluchar, & Buttigieg are all now celebrating the solid leadership of a man whom their own campaigns were scoffing at, just days ago.

Alexandra Petri has a funny sarcastic column in the Washington Post:
 “I just remembered Joe Biden is fine.” She writes:
"Please don’t show me any footage of Joe Biden saying or doing things. Or of me saying or doing things about Joe Biden, pointing out what I erroneously thought were major and obvious flaws in his candidacy. I forgot: They were not."

Kyle Smith, of National Review, said this:

  Biden has been trying to achieve the presidency since 1988. Even in his best days, he was not a strong candidate. And he’s much weaker today. Are Democrats just going to pretend that Biden didn’t look the other way while family members leveraged their connections to him to go into places like Ukraine and collect large paychecks?

• That Biden offers a coherent vision of where to take the country other than hokey nostalgia and bromides?
• That he wouldn’t be, on the day he takes office, older than any chief executive has ever been on the last day of his presidency?
• That his unscripted speech isn’t rambling, nonsensical, and bizarre?
• That he isn’t already showing signs of incipient dementia, ten months before his term would even begin?
• That he doesn’t make Grandpa Simpson look like a sage?

Dr. Jill Biden, Joe's wife; is playing multiple roles as secret service, medical first responder, & on-stage speech prompter. all the while she acts the role of adoring spouse. Last night a radical Vegan activist stormed the stage where the Bidens were performing. It became Jill Biden's job, to repel the attack while her dumbfounded husband stood by, looking dazed & confused.

  This sets up an immediate scenario where the 25 Amendment is possible evoked even before an inauguration.  Section 4 of the constitutional text deals with a scenario where the president must be forcibly removed from office by his own executive branch principals. 

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  Suppose Biden gets elected in early November and further deteriorates over the early winter? There is no constitutional directive for what the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court should do on January 20th? And even if the Chief Justice refuses to administer the oath, any federal court judge can administer that oath. In fact, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in by his own father (a shopkeeper & notary public), after hearing the news that Warren Harding had passed away in office.

25th Amendment
US Constitution

Presidential Succession

Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.

Vice Presidential Vacancy

Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

Presidential Declaration

Section 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.

Declaration By Vice President and Principal Officers

Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.

Understanding Mental Impairment

  People suffering some mental impairments will also have the added complication of anosognosia. It impairs their brain from having the cognitive ability to self-diagnose.

  Therapists tell us that folks who are further impaired by anosognosia have an honest confusion and are not willingly deceiving themselves or others.

​  The same cannot be said for individuals with Cognitive Dissonance. When a fanatic or desperate follower wants something to be true, they may construct a reality in their own mind.  They have no excuse in any diagnosed serious mental illness.