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To be honest I do not know if the president is suffering from any form of age-related dementia; that man has always possessed a quite limited intellect and what people are interpreting as signs of dementia may simply be the effect of surrounding the man with nothing but lickspittles, yes men, and sycophants.
That said, I believe that it is obvious that either due to age or the shielding of his very fragile ego, Donny is not well and not capable, nor has he ever been, of properly exercising the terrible office of President of the United States. He has always been a vainglorious buffoon incapable of admitting error or fault and resistant to correction or even able to tolerate the slightest contradiction. He combines the very worst traits for a person in any leadership position, ignorance, unwillingness to acknowledge his ignorance, an unmitigated temper, and utterly lacking the capacity to see anything at anytime in terms other than how it affects him or beyond his own selfish wants and gluttony.
If we possessed a functioning political system Donny would be removed by his own party. While I have no love at all for the Vance, a political weathervane changing his positions apparently on the same schedule with which he changes his appearance, his characters flaws are far less dangerous to the nation and our systems than Donny’s. Invoking the 25th amendment and replacing the narcissistic and decompensating Donny with Vance would be an act of patriotism not treason but this version of the Republican party, having cultivated hate and anger as their base, cannot enflame that anger against itself, trapping the rest of us with their shortsighted choices of the 1990s.
Of course, blame for our current situation here in 2026 does not fall solely on Donny, his bootlickers, and the spineless GOP, it is also a burden carried by the arrogance of Biden and his team that refused to see the facts as they laid so plainly before them.
It was clear in 2022 that the electorate, and not just the Democratic Party, had no appetite for an aged president and that the economic strain and tribulations of the global pandemic had wreaked enough turmoil that re-election for Biden would be at best challenging. However, his close advisers did not bring this news to then-President Biden, spinning fairy tales to themselves and to their boss that re-election was indeed achievable. Perhaps another man might have seen past the bluster and happy-talk to the unrest and unhappiness in the electorate, but while anyone who advances to the office of President of the United States possesses a larger-than-normal amount of self-importance Biden’s ego has always been his greatest character flaw; these unrealistic projections played directly into it. I recall a moment in Biden’s flamed-out run for the office in the distant time of 1988 when he was confronted by a voter at some event and angrily challenged the man to compare IQs with him. It is a moment that stayed with me over the years and in almost every other election I would vote for someone other than Biden only the unique, and not obviously true, dangers of another Trump term, compelled me to mark him as my selection in 2020. Had he stuck to his implied promise in that election and not run for a second term our current multiple crises could have been avoided.
That said the ultimate blame and responsibility still lies with Donny himself. He is one that laid illegal tariffs, choking our supply chain and enhancing what had been shrinking inflation, it was he that unleashed violent masked officers of the state to terrorize and kill, it was he that looted the treasury and invited bribes from domestic and foreign sources, it was he that demolished and degraded our national malls and monuments, and it was he that hurled the US into an unprovoked and ill-conceived war that has no end in sight.
Remember, if you find all of this unacceptable, the graft, the corruption, the illegal actions, the economic damage, and the foreign wars, according to the GOP it is you who is deranged and not the people who witness this and proclaim that it is all ‘fine.’
