That's Not A Bug -- It's A Feature!
One of the frequentlly cited illustrations of Joe's cognitive decline is this story from Speaker Mike Johnson : An addled Biden insisted to the Louisiana lawmaker that he never issued the order to freeze new liquid natural gas export permits — even though he signed off on it less than a month earlier. Johnson told the Free Press’ Bari Weiss he didn’t believe Biden was lying, but was left to believe the then-81-year-old leader “genuinely didn’t know what he had signed.” The troubling encounter happened in the Oval Office in early 2024, when the two met to discuss the latest aid package for Ukraine. Afterwards, Johnson asked Biden why he had inked an executive order pausing new permits for American liquid natural gas export to European allies — a crucial issue for his constituents in the Bayou State, which in 2023, handled 61% of the nation’s LNG exports, according to the US Energy Information Administration. “Why would you do that? Cause you understand we just talked a...