When Republicans are in office, everybody in the MSM is a neuroscientist, psychologist, and oracle capable of and required to opine on the mental fitness of the president and to predict exactly the disastrous consequences of their decisions.

When a Democrat is in office, no matter how obvious a Democrat's corruption or disability, it takes a (Left-leaning) "expert" to tell you that what you see before your eyes is false. 

In that spirit, Americans are being gaslit once again on Joe Biden's obvious lawbreaking, double-dealing, influence peddling, and most importantly his manifest inability to perform his duties as president. 

that was a very strange article. the author attempted to minimize Biden's cognitive decline with a "some people have better memories than others; this is not a problem" argument.

— Erica Sandberg 舊金山的神奇女俠 (@EricaJSandberg) February 12, 2024

We can argue about whether Joe Biden should be prosecuted or removed from office for his corruption and crimes--I am on record saying that the whole "classified documents" scandal for both Biden and Trump, given what we know, is much ado about nothing that should be prosecuted. If Biden gave the documents to China, he should be charged with espionage, but that a former VP or president has classified documents in their possession is as surprising as the sun rising in the East. 

But the matter of Biden's mental capacity? His inability to think or speak coherently--or even to remain awake while meeting with foreign leaders--is both obvious and worrying. 

Yet, we are told we are not experts, so we can't arrive at this conclusion. 

Special Counsel Robert K. Hur’s report, in which he declined to prosecute President Biden for his handling of classified documents, also included a much-debated assessment of Mr. Biden’s cognitive abilities.

“Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview with him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

As an expert on memory, I can assure you that everyone forgets. In fact, most of the details of our lives — the people we meet, the things we do and the places we go — will inevitably be reduced to memories that capture only a small fraction of those experiences.

It is normal to be more forgetful as you get older. Broadly speaking, memory functions begin to decline in our 30s and continue to fade into old age. However, age in and of itself doesn’t indicate the presence of memory deficits that would affect an individual’s ability to perform in a demanding leadership role. And an apparent memory lapse may or may not be consequential depending on the reasons it occurred.

To be clear, the article in The New York Times by a neuroscientist proclaiming this Truth is not nonsense; it is just utterly irrelevant for a few reasons. 

You needn't tell anybody who is old enough to vote that forgetting is a part of life, and anybody who has attained my ripe old age of nearly 60 knows it very well indeed. In fact, a major part of Dr. Charan Ranganath's opinion piece rests on the distinction between "forgetting" and "Forgetting"--the inability to recall some word, fact, date, or similar "memory" item on-demand vs. having no recollection at all of an event or person. 

I am intimately familiar with both "forgetting" and "Forgetting," as are most people. Some of us, more than others, have minds that simply don't store certain things well and never have. I, for instance, forget names, dates and even events far more than many others. I have a friend who could tell you what happened on a random Tuesday 27 years ago. 

Our IQs are nearly identical. Our minds just work differently. 

The thing is...none of us has to be intimately aware of any of these distinctions when judging whether Joe Biden, who was never smart, has lost a step or 90. He is clearly on the path to dementia and a good bit along it. It doesn't take a neuroscientist to see this because we have all experienced being around people with dementia, and Biden shows all the same signs as them. 

BREAKING: Mayorkas says President Biden is so mentally strong that the most difficult part about having a meeting with him is “preparing for it,” because, “He is sharp, intensely probing, and detail oriented, and focused. WATCH pic.twitter.com/SV9PfdkeqQ

— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) February 11, 2024

No doubt the early stages of dementia require an expert to detect, or for that matter, some diseases mimic permanent dementia until they are treated--diabetics or older people with UTIs can appear to behave in a manner consistent with dementia. 

But let's face facts: Joe Biden no longer has the mental sharpness to be president, and it doesn't take a neuroscientist to see it. 80% of the country, including many Democrats, can see it. No amount of "expertise" will convince people otherwise because the truth is manifest. Denying it is like denying a person has hemorrhagic fever as they bleed out before you. 

Nothing to see here. Move along. 

BREAKING: Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu (@MitchLandrieu) claims Pres. Biden is so mentally fit that to brief him on an issue, "you better have your big boy pants on." Anything less is "a bucket of BS so deep your boots will get stuck in." WATCH pic.twitter.com/gJXKdOgdKI

— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) February 11, 2024

In any case, whether Biden is fit to be president is not strictly neurological. We don't go to experts to determine whether a person has the energy, intelligence, or judgment to be president. Ordinary people get to make that decision because a president is supposed to be their proxy. 

Ordinary people look at Biden and recoil. He shakes hands with invisible people. He must be led around. Stairs are his nemesis. 

It doesn't take an expert to see that.