Joe Biden, nominal president of these United States and would-be spiritualist, is at it again.
Biden seems to be living a variation – or imagining he is doing so — of the 1999 cinematic thriller “The Sixth Sense,” in which the Haley Joel Osment character very famously confides to the Bruce Willis character “I see dead people.” Osment’s character also talks with the deceased.
And so it is that Biden flits about recounting supposed recent interactions and conversations with long-dead leaders from other countries. Sometimes, just to add a little bit of spice, Biden jumbles up which of those dead people with whom he speaks represent which countries.
Ha, ha, ha. That’s just old Joe! Harmless and doddering.
Now, spiritualism and the White House are nothing new. From Mary Todd Lincoln trying to communicate with a deceased child via mediums, to Nancy Reagan’s fascination with astrologers, to Hillary Clinton ostensibly channeling Eleanor Roosevelt for guidance, attempting to interact with the deceased has something of a track record in Washington, D.C.
The difference – a notable one – is that while Clinton, Reagan and Lincoln presumably knew they are attempting to reach out to the dead, Biden seems to believe these interactions are with the still living.
This is a significant distinction, I would suggest.
But the delusion and confusion of the aptly nicknamed Clueless Joe Biden appears to have little downside and substantial benefit.
Consider that the man is purported to have won the presidency while in a veritable witness protection program, garnering a record number of votes in the process.
When Biden did venture forth to offer some ridiculous statement such as he was running for Senate, not president, it didn’t harm his vote totals one bit. Perhaps this is a credit to those doing the counting, but I digress.
Just today, Biden’s lack of mental faculties has been invoked by a special prosecutor to explain why no charges will be forthcoming for Biden illegally possessing classified information.
You might recall a full-on SWAT raid of Donald Trump’s estate and no fewer than 37 felony charges filed against Trump for – wait for it – illegally possessing classified information.
The difference seems to be mental state, as in Biden is too cognitively impaired to be aware he was breaking the law. He is not too cognitively impaired, though, to serve as president.
Perhaps Trump should begin shaking hands with imaginary people, needing to be escorted off stages, freezing in mid-sentence during addresses, and being unable to recall any significant details of anything without the use of note cards and teleprompters.
I can’t wait to hear the Biden apologists try to explain away this latest bit of selective law enforcement. But, make no mistake, they will make some feeble attempt which, considering Biden’s mental state, is fitting.
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