Is President Joe Biden “an elderly man struggling to maintain his faculties?”
That’s one of the unkinder — or at least blunter — takeaways social media had after Wednesday night’s CNN presidential town hall in the Cincinnati area where Biden pushed vaccination, his spending plans, gun control and the impression this definitely wasn’t the guy who should be leading the free world.
Two clips in particular seemed to sum up the general atmosphere of the night. In the first, Biden struggled when asked about when vaccines would be available for children under 12.
“And the question is whether or not we should be in a position where you are — why can’t the experts say we know that this virus is, in fact — is, is, is going to be — or, excuse me — we, we, we know why all the drugs approved are not temporarily approved, but permanently approved,” Biden said.
“That’s underway, too. I expect that to occur quickly.”
WATCH: Joe Biden struggles to keep his thoughts straight when talking about vaccines. pic.twitter.com/32J4Iv3N1S
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 22, 2021
In another, Biden began by talking about vaccine hesitancy and ended up babbling about men on the moon and “whether those aliens are here or not.”
Joe Biden rambles: "Whether or not there's a man on the moon" pic.twitter.com/ljNkOXn91N
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 22, 2021
For context, before the clip, Biden was addressing who you go to when you want the answer to a nagging question: “Or, you know — or, or, or, or, or the mom and dad, or, or, or, or the neighbor or when you go to church or when you’re — now, I, I, I, I really mean it. There are trusted interlocutors,” Biden said.
“Think of the people, if, if your kid wanted to find out whether or not there were — there’s a man on the moon or whatever, you know, something, or, you know, whether those aliens are here or not, you know, who are the people they talk to beyond the kids who love talking about it?”
Sure, yeah, whatever.
It wasn’t an hour full of that, which was a shame. As a person who genuinely enjoys auto racing, I’ve never known what it’s like to watch NASCAR for the crashes. Thanks to Joe Biden town halls, I can now roughly grok the experience — a whole lot of tedium punctuated by a few glorious outbursts of smoke-shrouded screeching and crunching of metal.
There’s a downside to entertaining yourself thusly, however. In NASCAR, depending on what happens, someone could get hurt. In the town halls, no matter what happens, Biden’s still the leader of the free world when it’s over.
That sobering thought led conservative pundit Todd Starnes to note that Biden seemed to be “an elderly man struggling to maintain his faculties.”
https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/1418014498313670658
“Are we all just going to ignore what we saw on CNN tonight – an elderly man struggling to maintain his faculties on national television?” Starnes tweeted.
Tom Elliott, impresario of video clip provider Grabien, managed to go viral with this two-word caption to Biden’s first rambling answer: “Crushing it.”
Crushing it pic.twitter.com/DI21CUSp7k
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 22, 2021
Political strategist Caleb Hull’s take: “This guy is our president and can’t even complete a sentence.”
This guy is our president and can’t even complete a sentence pic.twitter.com/msvnm1fWxp
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) July 22, 2021
Podcaster Dave Rubin: “How was Don Lemon’s follow up question not, ‘Joe, are you OK?’”
How was Don Lemon’s follow up question not, “Joe, are you OK?” https://t.co/Aa2olCx9Lt
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) July 22, 2021
GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York: “Is this for real? And the media will continue to fawn and look the other way.”
Is this for real? 🤔
And the media will continue to fawn and look the other way. https://t.co/lPY89qzCFd
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) July 22, 2021
Liberals might be tempted to rationalize Wednesday night’s performance away thusly:
It’s cool to make fun of a guy who stutters
— 𝕛𝕚𝕞𝕞𝕪𝕠 (@jimmyotx) July 22, 2021
He had a severe battle with stuttering as a child and worked very hard to overcome it. It still shows on occasion, but ask any expert. It has nothing to do with intellect or capability…and certainly integrity and honor and sincerity and a good heart AND MIND!
— Susan Jalech (@ForeverBlueSue) July 22, 2021
Sorry, no. This had nothing to do with Joe Biden’s stuttering. Yes, Biden has a stutter, and that’s not what anyone is making fun of. He’s had it for the entirety of his public life. What we’re seeing now wasn’t Joe Biden in 1971, 1991 or 2011, however.
Sure, he would say dumb things then, and wholly unrelated to his stutter at that. (Tell me, was stuttering responsible for the time he told an Indian-American man “you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent” back in 2006? Does stuttering make you prone to stereotyping? Where’s the link to a speech impediment there, keyboard warriors?)
At least you knew he was saying something, though, and the frequency was rare enough you could just shrug it off.
Those gaffes happen more frequently now — and it’s not just gaffes like Dunkin’ Donuts-level stereotyping, although that still happens.
Now we can’t even tell what he’s saying. I’m not sure Don Lemon knew, and I’m certain our president didn’t. He sounded like — well, “an elderly man struggling to maintain his faculties.” Todd Starnes had it right.
Thanks to the presidential limo, at least we don’t have to worry about him driving his car, but now we have to concern ourselves with the fact he’s driving the country. If you like watching NASCAR for the crashes, I suppose, you’re in for a real treat.
Shame he’s going to be putting the stars and stripes into the retaining wall quite a bit for the next few years.
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This is a man that supposedly had more votes than anyone in history for president, but he had as many people at this town hall meeting as he did at his presidental rallies !
There was 40 people at his town hall get together.
Get lost lying hussy!
Did they stay awake?
I haven’t taken an aspirin in years….I’m taking 4 now…
Jill should be ashamed of herself allowing this Elder Abuse, it’s obvious Joe has the attention spam of child. After 3 Brain Aneurysm’s Biden should be at home living his Life. Instead he is being used as a figure head for the Democrats Power Grab, And Kameltoe is lurking in the shadows just waiting for good ol Joe to finally fail so she can step in and take over, Not that she will do any better Cackling her way around the White House, We need to take take back Our Government before these Insane Democrats Destroy everything Good about Our Great Country!!
That’ dispicable narssist Jill Biden has absoutely no shame! She says she is willing to pay any price to be First Lady! She is a dispicable dirtbag!
DA!!!!
Joe Biden has an MR/DD condition. It’s mental retardation/discognitive dementia. This means by his discogntive dementia he is developing more of a retardation of his acuity and ability to think and make clear minded decisions. That is why those in Congress and other places use him as a puppet by design to cause the third wave of the Pandemic. It is done by open border policies to infect the American public again. Also forced mask mandates and forced vaccinations are tools of reverse psychology to make more resistance to dealing correctly with the virus. On top of that the CDC (Centers for Doubt and Confusion) are playing into the Administration’s mix of lack of/and misinformation to the public. Joe Biden himself is incapable of knowing of what is going on around him because he is not able to be cognitively rational and aware. His condition is progressively getting worse over time.https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8921630dadb4e0ffbeacc6174208d7776a68b3fd7c448f7256e611e7e6583fbc.png