Lamestream media admits Biden's cognitive decline

We’ve had the spectacle of the first Trump-Biden ‘debate’ and the verdict is in. The US lamestream media finally admits that Biden isn’t up to the job. He’s an 81-year-old “elderly man with a poor memory” who appears to be suffering from dementia.

These post-debate assessments from pundits from the paper of record, the New York Times, say it all:

“Joe Biden is a good man and a good president. He must bow out of the race.” Thomas Friedman

“The best president of my adult life needs to withdraw.” Paul Krugman

“Is Biden too old? America got its answer.” Michelle Cottle, Ross Douthat, Ezra Klein

“Biden cannot go on like this.” Frank Bruni

“President Biden, I’ve seen enough.” Nicholas Kristof

“His very presence on the stage felt like a form of elder abuse.” Brett Stephens

“He seemed like he was auditioning for the glue factory.” Matt Labash

“The one true thing Trump said, ‘We’re living in hell.’” Michelle Goldberg

Other corporate media outlets seem to concur. But this shouldn’t come as any surprise. Biden’s cognitive deficiencies have been apparent from the start of his presidency and have only worsened. At the recent G7 meeting in Italy, a senior diplomat said that Biden is “the worst he’s ever been.” A majority of Americans think he’s too old - but they also think that of 78-year-old Trump.  

A White House official told news organisations after the debate that Biden has a cold as if that would excuse his performance.

The liberal media which has spent years denying Biden’s decline has flipped 180 degrees after an estimated 80 million Americans could see it for themselves. Now the democrats are in a panic.

But what options do they have at this late stage? Would they elevate Kamala Harris, of whom 55% of Americans disapprove? But can they risk parachuting someone in over the first black female Vice President?

Compared with Biden, Trump was confident and blustering. He repeatedly attacked Biden for allowing 1.7 million immigrants to enter the US illegally (and another 6 million to enter with minimal security checks) and for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on two foreign wars in Ukraine and the Middle East with no end in sight.

The sad fact is that Americans are presented with a choice between two unpopular candidates, an octogenarian and a near-octogenarian, neither of whom can articulate let alone deliver solutions to the many serious problems confronting the country. And even if they could, I doubt they’d be allowed to try given the enormous power and influence of the special interest lobbies who really run the country and to whom all elected officials are beholden.

That’s why America’s decline will continue.