“Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up.” This comment, reportedly made by Barack Obama, could now come to mind. Less than a year and a half into Joe Biden’s presidency, after all, conflict and civilization-ending nuclear war with Russia have become a chilling possibility. Despite this, Biden has done nothing but exacerbate tensions with his words. Over just the course of three days recently, in fact, the president went off-script and indicated that 1) the U.S. might use chemical weapons (i.e., against Russia) if Moscow employs them; 2) American troops were heading for Ukraine; and 3) the administration seeks to oust Vladimir Putin from power.
All three comments were later repudiated by the administration — while Biden essentially claimed they were never made — but some damage had been done. Add to this that Biden also has called Putin a “pure thug,” a “murderous dictator,” and a “war criminal,” and a question arises:
Is this the best way to deal with a volatile situation and a man with 6,000 nuclear weapons at his fingertips?
Tucker Carlson has his answer. Warning that Biden can no longer regulate his emotions and thus poses an existential danger to our country, the Fox News host said Monday that if there was “ever a time to invoke the 25th Amendment, it is now.” This amendment, of course, allows for the removal of a president unfit to discharge his duties.
Carlson introduced the topic by pointing out that Biden had always been known as a charming, engaging, personable character. (It should be mentioned, however, that even when younger he would often react aggressively when challenged by the less powerful.) Yet in recent times, “the most authentic feature of Joe Biden’s public performances has been his anger,” stated the commentator. “It seems to come over him in waves.”
After showing video-clip examples of such, Carlson said it’s clear why this is happening: Displays of anger and a decreasing ability to regulate emotion often accompany senility — and Biden has long exhibited signs of dementia.
This oft-seen phenomenon of aging is ever and always sad and tragic, noted Carlson, yet in this case it takes on yet another dimension. As he explained:
Biden is the president of the United States, and this is the single most volatile moment in the recent history of our country. Biden is leading the U.S. toward war and so it’s fair to assess the effect on the rest of us of his mental and emotional conditions, not simply about age; Biden is 79. Biden is clearly unable to speak with precision and when you’re president of the United States and the world hangs on your every word, when your words constitute American policy, when you can change American policy, particularly America’s foreign policy, simply by saying so, it is essential that you speak the words you intend to speak, that you not get carried away because you’re mad and say something you don’t mean that might threaten the long-term interests of this country, threaten the families and the children of the rest of us and our future, but he is.
Carlson later played clips of Biden’s off-script, off-kilter remarks. First, when asked last Thursday if Russia’s using chemical weapons in Ukraine would trigger a NATO military response, Biden stated, “It would trigger a response in kind; whether or not you’re asking whether NATO would cross, we’d make that decision at the time.”
Of course, “in kind” means in the same or a similar way; Biden may not now know this (if he ever did), given his diminished state. But the statement was later walked back by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, whose remarks reflected the U.S. policy of never deploying chemical weapons.
Biden’s next bumble occurred when, after flying to Poland Friday, he addressed American troops and indicated they’d be entering Ukraine. “[Y]ou’re going to see when you’re there,” he said, “and some of you have been there, you’re going to see, you’re going to see women, young people stand in the middle in front of a damned tank saying, ‘I’m not leaving. I’m holding my ground.’”
This, too, was walked back, with the White House later saying, “The president has been clear we are not sending U.S. troops to Ukraine, and there is no change in that position.” Of course, the point is that Biden’s above remarks make this anything but clear.
But then Biden muddied the waters yet again on Saturday. While inveighing against Putin, the president stated, “Brutality will never grind down the road to be free. For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.”
This prompted, you guessed it, another walk-back. “The President’s point was that Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region,” a White House official told Fox News shortly after Biden’s remarks. “He was not discussing Putin’s power in Russia, or regime change.”
The kicker is that Biden later called relation of his words’ literal meaning a misinterpretation (video below).
Regime Change in Russia? How About Regime Change in America?
Yet Biden’s later claims about his words’ intended meaning are so greatly divorced from their literal meaning that senility is the only charitable explanation (unless one believes he’s purposely trying to spark WWIII). It’s a perfect example of that Biden ability Obama warned about: to royally foul things up.
And thus did Carlson say that “too much is at stake.” “If there was ever a time … in U.S. history … to invoke the 25th Amendment, it is now,” he continued. “As Joe Biden himself put it, ‘For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power’ — for all of our sakes” (video below).
But the problem, many will point out, is that dispatching Biden leaves us with Kamala Harris who, though not senile, may as well be. Were she eliminated, we’d be stuck with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who’s older than Biden and has also exhibited signs of neurological dysfunction.
It’s another example of how elections — stolen ones perhaps especially — have consequences. It’s ironic, too, that Trump Derangement Syndrome and warnings of the last president’s alleged mental unfitness have helped visit upon us a truly mentally unfit president.
Yet onus also belongs on those controlling Biden, as the latter is no doubt very much a puppet. Sending this senile man overseas to manage the Ukraine crisis is like throwing gasoline on a fire and indicts his handlers’ judgment. As French president Emmanuel Macron warned Sunday, now is the time for diplomacy and de-escalation — not playing Dr. Strangelove with a 6,000-nuke-strong nation.
