Every week, the president of the United States says something completely bonkers, and everyone goes on with their day. We’re not talking about his propensity to lie about politics or his blustery lifelong fabulism (his “folksiness,” The New York Times recently explained, “can veer into a personal folklore” with “the factual edges shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences.”) We’re talking about his inability to articulate simple ideas without notes — and often with notes. There are rarely any fact-checks of these statements. How can there be? They don’t even make sense as lies. There is no handwringing about the role of competency in our democracy. There is no discussion about the 25th Amendment.
Just listen to any speech. “Put a pistol on a brace, it turns into a gun — makes it more — you can have a higher-caliber weapon, higher-caliber bullet coming out of that gun,” the president explained, for example, before wishing Her Majesty his best. This was also complete gibberish. There is so much gibberish.
[Malarkey, David — it’s malarkey. And as David says, Biden’s been dishing fabulist malarkey for decades. He got caught red-handed plagiarizing Neil Kinnock’s speeches and family history in 1987 and has spent his life lying about pretty much everything else. He’s a political hustler, no more and probably quite a bit less, and one with serious cognitive issues. And yet the media treats Biden as though he’s the naked emperor they must prop up because democracy dies in darkness, or something. — Ed]
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