Dementia On Display?

Why does Joe Biden falsely try to associate with every tragedy personally? There's only one explanation. So many made-up stories lead to one conclusion.

President Joe Biden and I have little in common but one thing: We both frequently traveled by Amtrak (or Acela) between Wilmington, Delaware's train station—named after him—and Washington's Union Station. For me, about 20 years; for Biden, close to a half-century.

On occasion, when the trains broke down or faced interminable delays, we probably drove. Over more than twenty years, I’ve probably driven hundreds of times between Philadelphia and New Jersey to Washington (rarely these days).

The Francis Scott Key Bridge, as it was

I can name each bridge and the corresponding river I drove across, each serving as a marker. Crossing the Susquehanna River Bridge, either Amtrak or I-95, meant I was halfway to my destination.

While most of my train and auto travels took me through Baltimore’s twin tunnels, which snake beneath the Patapsco River past Baltimore's behemoth port and a few neighborhoods, I occasionally would divert via car south along the city’s I-695 Beltway and over the Francis Scott Key Bridge, named after the author of our national anthem, the “Star Bangled Banner” was inspired by a naval battle between Americans and the British during the War of 1812 near Baltimore’s Fort McHenry (worth a visit).

Yes, that one, where a massive Singapore-flagged cargo ship loaded with goods, lost power and slammed into it at 1:30 a.m. yesterday. Six people are dead, which, while tragic, is something of a minor miracle. It’s a big, well-traveled bridge, and overnight construction crews were on it. Fortunately, reports are that emergency responders closed off the bridge just before the barge hit, but they could not extract all of the bridge repair crews.

One person you might think would know every inch of those highways and Amtrak rails would be Joe Robinette Biden Jr., who for about 36 years commuted almost daily between Wilmington’s 100-year-old station, designed by Frank Furness, and Washington, DC.

The train never comes close to the Francis Scott Key Bridge. No train tracks have been on or near the bridge since its construction in 1977, during Joe Biden’s first term in the Senate. Never has been. It is the third longest continuous-truss bridge in the world, spanning more than 10 miles (the bridge itself is 1.6 miles long).

Yet President Biden, in remarks about the bridge collapse, said he’d been over many times by car or by train. He has confused this large bridge with one of the other much shorter ones. He conquered the Susquehanna, Bush, or Gunpower Rivers between Baltimore and Wilmington.

Even after 50 years of going to and from Wilmington by car, train, and airplane (Wilmington had an airport that could accommodate Air Force 2 when he was Vice President. The Secret Service didn’t like his taking the train during his Vice Presidency), Biden doesn’t remember the routes and landmarks.

According to the Mayo Clinic, here are the cognitive signs of dementia.

How many of these have been displayed by Joe Biden in recent months, if not years?

This is also not the first time that Biden has falsely associated tragedies with events in his own life, including the death of his son, Beau, Delaware’s former Attorney General. Beau, also a National Guard Judge Advocate (lawyer), served in Iraq and tragically died of brain cancer a few years after his return. Biden has falsely claimed that he died from the Iraq War, later claiming his son’s exposure to the “burn pits” set afire by Saddam Hussein’s troops from the war more than 34 years ago.

False story after false story after false story.

I don’t attribute these to malice. I attribute them to a failing memory and worse.

One last point about the Francis Scott Key Bridge, named after a white male from the past. Do you think they’ll keep the name? I don’t. Which names do you think they will choose (one or two of these are nice ideas, but I’d much rather honor the author of our national anthem)?

In fairness, a Frederick Douglass bridge already spans the Anacostia River in Washington, DC. No need for a second one. And I’d rather honor Harriett Tubman, a hero of the Civil War-era “Underground Railroad,” by replacing Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with her.

Some may think I’m being unfair. Joe Biden has long been associated with gaffes. One last poll. While none of us are doctors (maybe you are), do you think Joe Biden demonstrates most, if not all, of the signs of cognitive and psychological dementia?

Joe Biden has long had trouble with the truth, from his infamous plagiarism scandal during his failed 1988 Presidential campaign to falsely representing his intelligence, law school, and collegiate careers.

Then, there was the recent interview with special counsel Robert Hur, who declined to recommend prosecution. “Elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur referred to Biden. Read the transcript yourself, complete with the President of the United States making car noises about his Corvette. “Investigators found "Biden's memory was significantly limited" during interviews last year with the special counsel and in a recorded conversation with a ghostwriter in 2017,” wrote Ingrid Jacques for USA Today.

Jacques added, “And the special counsel says the president’s memory was “worse” in 2023 than during the interview in 2017.” ask the tough questions and demand Joe Biden submit to a psychological exam. That he refuses is more than telling.

He has no business being the President of the United States now, much less the next four years.