The other day, Joe Biden ended a big gun-control speech in Connecticut with the words<\/a>, \u201cGod save the queen, man.\u201d Why did the president express adoration for the departed Brit monarch? Was he confused about royal succession? Is he a Sex Pistols fan<\/a>? Who knows.<\/p>\n

When asked about the incident, White House aides offered nonsensical and conflicting answers \u2014 because they have absolutely no idea, and neither does the president. It\u2019s likely that the octogenarian spontaneously used a cool-sounding phrase, much like when your elderly neighbor tells you to \u201ckeep on truckin\u2019\u201d or whatever, for no apparent reason.\u00a0It happens.<\/p>\n

Yet, Axios writer Alex Thompson points out<\/a> that Biden \u201chas an arsenal of wacky phrases.\u201d And the president\u2019s \u201cquirky aphorisms,\u201d he contends, \u201care sometimes weaponized by Republicans to insinuate the 80-year-old president is in mental decline.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is no need for insinuation. Biden\u2019s mental acuity, never impressive, has considerably deteriorated. Sure, he also<\/em> tends to botch \u201cold-timey\u201d sayings like, \u201clots of luck in your senior year,\u201d which he says is a gibe from his Corn Pop days<\/a>. But most reporters who pretend perceptions of Biden\u2019s decline are due to his propensity for homespun maxims or previously unknown stuttering problems almost surely wouldn\u2019t find him fit enough to babysit their kids.<\/p>\n

Every week, the president of the United States says something completely bonkers, and everyone goes on with their day. We\u2019re not talking about his propensity to lie about politics or his blustery lifelong fabulism (his \u201cfolksiness,\u201d The New York Times recently explained<\/a>, \u201ccan veer into a personal folklore\u201d with \u201cthe factual edges shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences.\u201d) We\u2019re talking about his inability to articulate simple ideas without notes \u2014 and often with notes. There are rarely any fact-checks of these statements. How can there be? They don\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

Just listen to any speech. \u201cPut a pistol on a brace, it turns into a gun \u2014 makes it more \u2014 you can have a higher-caliber weapon, higher-caliber bullet coming out of that gun,\u201d the president explained<\/a>, for example, before wishing Her Majesty his best. This was also complete gibberish. There is so much gibberish.<\/p>\n

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And only a couple of days before his \u201cGod save the queen\u201d comment, Biden informed<\/a> a crowd gathered for a League\u00a0of Conservation Voters endorsement that \u201cwe\u201d have \u201cplans to build a railroad from the Pacific all the way across the Indian Ocean,\u201d which must have really impressed everyone in attendance. \u201cWe have plans to build in Angola one of the largest solar plants in the world,\u201d Biden went on. \u201cI can go on, but I\u2019m not. I\u2019m going off-script. I\u2019m going to get in trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, though a century ago, railroad projects were impressive, today they are about as useful as a solar plant in Angola. Still, it would be helpful if the president could occasionally express what we\u2019re wasting money on these days in words that make sense.<\/p>\n
A few days before the railroad comment, Biden couldn\u2019t remember<\/a> Winston Churchill\u2019s name when speaking to the prime minister of Britain. Listen, I\u2019m not great with names myself, and I\u2019m sure as an 80-year-old I\u2019d have trouble recalling world leaders \u2026 but I\u2019m confident I wouldn\u2019t think myself competent enough to be the most powerful man in the world. Nor should Biden.<\/p>\n
That same week, when asked why a Ukrainian FBI informant referred to Biden as the \u201cBig Guy,\u201d the president lashed out for being posed \u201cdumb questions.\u201d He does this often in frustration. When the president isn\u2019t flubbing canned lines to the rare tough question, he yells things like \u201c c\u2019mon, man<\/a>!\u201d A few years ago, this kind of rhetoric was considered democracy-shattering. Now, it\u2019s an adorable folksiness. <\/p>\n
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The week before he couldn\u2019t remember Churchill\u2019s name, the president also tripped and fell<\/a> on stage after a commencement speech at the Air Force Academy. Biden\u2019s surrogates pointed out that there had been a sandbag right there<\/em>, as if no one, whether young or old, could possibly be expected to walk over a small bag without falling to the floor. <\/p>\n
Though you might recall that after the former president gingerly navigated a ramp after giving a speech at West Point in 2020, The New York Times\u2019 headline<\/a> the next day was: \u201cTrump\u2019s Halting Walk Down Ramp Raises New Health Questions.\u201d The president, the Times went on, \u201calso appeared to have trouble raising a glass of water to his mouth during a speech at West Point a day before he turned 74, the oldest a president has been in his first term.\u201d The sitting president is now six years older than Trump was at the time \u2014 he would be a decade older should he finish a second term. <\/p>\n
Of course, everyone ages differently \u2014 John Fetterman, only 53, can barely put together a thought while some septuagenarian is out there writing his literary opus right now. Nor is there anything wrong with or especially unique about being a scatterbrained and tired 80-year-old. In this case, maybe Americans who elected a scatterbrained and tired 80-year-old deserve to be governed by him \u2014 good and hard, as Menken might say<\/a>. But please stop pretending Biden is OK. He\u2019s not.<\/p>\n
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