Occam's Razor And Biden's "Great Negro"

Back in August, I posted on my theory of President Biden's mental condition, based on a speech he gave at the time. A more recent speech, the Veterans' Day ceremony where he made his "great Negro at the time" gaffe, just confirms my thinking. He isn't suffering from dementia, he's just drunk all the time. It seems to me that this fits the available evidence without multiplying the entity of requiring a medical diagnosis.

A clip with the full context of his remarks about Satchel Paige is in the link above. The first thing to note about it is, as I noted last August, the slow and careful delivery to avoid slurring throughout. But when he gets to the "great Negro" part, he still can't follow the teleprompter. At about 0:37, he says, "the great Negro at the time" and immediately corrects himself, "pitcher in the Negro league", but in making that quick correction, he starts to slur. But at that point, he catches himself and returns to his slow and careful delivery. This confirms my view from a source I linked back in August on drunken speech:

The researchers also found a decrease in the subjects’ speaking rate as they become more intoxicated. There seems a specific point at which this slowing of speech occurs: men slow down the most at a blood alchohol level between 0.04 and 0.08; for women, this occurs between 0.08 and 0.12.

Finally, the researchers found that the most striking impact of alchohol on speech was an increase in ‘nonfluencies.’ That is, people stammer, stutter, and trip on their words a whole heck of a lot more when they’ve had a few too many. Just how much does this intensify? The researchers found that in the severely intoxicated, the rate of these ‘speech errors’ nearly triples.

. . . Something that isn’t mentioned in the study is what I find to be the most salient feature of ‘drunken speech:’ hypercorrection. Drunk people, aware of their intoxicated state, often overcompensate by overenunciating evvvveerrry ccconnnsonnantttt and vowel. Perhaps this relates to the higher rate of stuttering and stammering: when you put such pressure on yourself to pronounce everything perfectly, you’re bound to trip up!

This hypercorrection immediately followed by a deliberate resumption of a slower pace is exactly what we saw in the "great Negro" gaffe.

How does this relate to the big guy's overall performance as president? Well, he's drunk all the time. I think this is reflected in his limited public schedule and his need to retreat frequently from the White House environment, where his personal life is more visible to domestic staff and the secret service.

I think an additional factor is that his conscience is bothering him about a range of issues -- the baksheesh, kickbacks, and corruption that flow to him via Hunter and his other family; the way his kids turned out; no doubt other issues in his personal life; and likely more. Rather than address any of this directly, he tries to bypass it by surrounding himself with hard leftists who serve as his handlers and, like other wealthy people with troubled consciences, he endorses leftist policies that he would never remotely apply to himself.

What's hard to avoid is that this current facade is turning out to be incredibly flimsy, and I'm not sure he's confident he can maintain it. Thus his intimates are starting to float the trial balloon that he may not run in 2024.