Jacked-Up Joe

Lately, I've been looking at Greg Gutfeld as one of the more insightful commentators. Here was his take on the Wall Street Journal's headline yesterday about Joe showing signs of slipping (at 0:30):

The Wall Street Journal revealed that Joe Biden may be suffering cognitive decline. Talk about breaking news. Nice work there, Wall Street Journal! I wonder what stocks your financial section will be recommending. Perhaps those little-known startups like Apple and Micsrosoft?

Tucker Carlson is even closer to the point. He brings up the backlash against former White House physician Ronny Jackson, who was publicly reprimanded by Barack Obama when he posted on Twitter during the 2020 campaign that Biden should undergo a cognitive test when he said in a speech, "My name is Joe Biden, and I'm a Democratic cndidate for the United States Senate." Tucker went on to say that Jackson was given

the uniform command of the people who run the Democratic Party throughout the 2020 campaign: Do not notice what Joe Biden is actually like. If you see him on television, turn away, because you might conclude he is fundamentally, physically, cogntively unfit for office. But you can't say that, and if you do, Barack Obama will scold you personally. . . . Well, fast forward a few years. Joe Biden is now the president, and his mental decline is now impossible to deny, and therefore it's no longer off limits. Barack Obama isn't going out and defending Joe's competence any more.

Everybody watching, everyone in the media, that would include Barack Obama's former advisors, is now in agreement that Joe Biden is senile and cannot govern the United States. . . . The problem with Joe Biden is he's cognitively unable to serve. But take three steps back, that's not Joe Biden's fault, it's not his fault he has dementia, no, the fact that Joe Biden is president is an indictment of the media and the Democratic Party.

Because they have known, contra what they're telling you now, Joe Biden's decline, his full-blown senility, has been obvious for more than three years. We noticed it, we're not doctors, by the way, we had no special animus toward Joe Biden at all, but we watched it, and we said this out loud for the first time, we checked today, on May 14, 2019.

Back in February, I posted on the UK constitutional crisis in the fall of 1936, when there were increasing rumors that Edward VIII planned to marry his lover, Wallis Simpson, although she was twice divorced, which at the time was against the doctrine of the Church of England, of which the king was titular head. The press had kept this completely under wraps until a Church of England bishop was thought to have referred to it in an address to his diocesan conference when he mentioned the king's need for divine grace. This was taken as "permission" for the press to cover the subject, and Edward abdicated a week after it reached the papers.

It's hard not to think something like this is happening here. We've had episode after episode over the past four years, they're becoming more obvious,more frequent, and harder to ignore. In France during his D-Day visit:

Joe Biden highlights in Normandy on the 80th anniversary of D-Day:

- Sits in an invisible chair
- Forgets where his seat is
- Talks about how many Russians died in Ukraine
- Gets pulled away by Docta Jill as Macron greets D-Day veterans. pic.twitter.com/sWFsYpt1o5

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 6, 2024

Dr Steven Lomazow, a New Jersey neurologist who is also a trustee of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York, has written two books on the quiet constitutional crisis of Roosevelt's health, FDR's Deadly Secret and FDR Unmasked. Although he's very pro-Roosevelt, he details how the White House, abetted by the press, covered up FDR's actual medical condition, especially during his third and very brief fourth terms.

Although it was more or less recognized that FDR had had polio, which paralyzed his legs, the press by general agreement never photographed him in a wheelchair, mostly depicting him standing under carefully staged conditions. But this was just the start. Photos from the 1930s show a dark lesion over his left eyebrow, which Dr Lomazow credibily attributes to a malignant melanoma that by 1940 had metastasized into both his brain and digestive tract.

It appears that in the late 1930s, FDR was also diagnosed with prostate cancer, which by the time it was discovered in a secret Boston hospital visit was deemed inoperable. Beyond that, the president smoked two packs of unfiltered Camels a day, which led to incredibly high blood pressure, as well as congestive heart failure. His cardiopulmonary condition was so bad that when he flew, his doctors demanded that the plane fly no higher than 8,000 feet, even though the cabins were pressurized.

The result was that by the middle of his third term, Roosevelt's actual working day went from noon to about 4:00 PM, with a 90-minute afternoon nap. He was only 63 when he died in 1945, so he had these restrictions even in his late 50s. Cabinet members like Harold Ickes complained privately that Roosevelt's working day was too short to get any meaningful work accomplished, while others observed that FDR would ramble and repeat himself in discussions.

Lomazow thinks that despite all this, there were no credible substitutes for Roosevelt as a wartime leader, although by the 1944 campaign, it was generally understood that FDR would have to pick a more credible vice president than Henry Wallace, while Truman resisted selection because he was fully aware of Roosevelt's condition and was reluctant to be thrown into the role. But this was kept from the public. Nevertheleess, it was a de facto constitutional crisis that under the circumstances could only be resolved by Roosevelt's death, which insiders fully understood to be imminent in any case.

It's hard to avoid thinking we're heading for an equivalent crisis before the next election, but the additional complication is Vice President Harris. I think this is a major reason the big-donor lizard people are shifting toward Trump -- Biden is bad enough, but it's less and less likely he can last another four years, and we'd get Harris sooner than anyone expects. Trump is looking better by the day, even to the lizard people.