If ever there was a good time to invoke the 25th Amendment, it would be right now.
For a long time now, we’ve witnessed the incredibly fast degradation of President Joe Biden’s cognitive faculties. Tons of on-air gaffes, falling on flat ground, wandering around like a lost puppy, blank stares, and of course the now infamous debate performance from last summer. All of this added together was enough to get Biden booted as the Democratic Party nominee. It also got him out of facing charges for being in possession of classified documents.
So why oh why, if he is not competent to stand trial or be a presidential candidate is he still the commander-in-chief? Surely he’s not cognitively capable of discharging the duties of the office if he can barely remember his name, right?
And it seems, somehow, Biden has gotten even worse, a fact evidenced by his disastrous update about the New Orleans terrorist attack that took place on the first day of 2025.
“In the first hours of Jan. 1, a suspected Islamic State group-affiliated terrorist ran a rented pickup truck into the crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 15 and putting over 30 in the hospital, according to Reuters. The suspect, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was 42 years old. He was a U.S.-born American citizen who lived in Texas and had served in the military. He was killed after he allegedly exchanged gunfire with police,” C. Douglas Golden of The Western Journal writes.
At first, the FBI said the man wasn’t a terrorist. They said he was just in position of terrorist-like devices in the truck he was driving. Which is probably the dumbest statement I’ve ever heard. If you have “terrorist-like” devices, it might be because, like, you’re a terrorist.
Anyway, the initial statement from the bureau said, “This is not a terrorist event. What it is right now is improvised explosive devices that was found.”
The FBI in New Orleans’ initial statement:
“This is not a terrorist event. What it is right now is improvised explosive devices that was found.”
Why on earth is the FBI using Orwellian language on what is an obvious terrorist attack.
pic.twitter.com/rRM7Orm2PU— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 1, 2025
By the time the early afternoon came around, the FBI was singing a brand new song.
FBI Statement on the Attack in New Orleans https://t.co/Wt2I0kj9fV
The FBI has set up a digital tip line, and we ask anyone with information or video of the incident to submit them to https://t.co/LLKUGwHYhY or call 1-800-CALL-FBI.
— FBI (@FBI) January 1, 2025
“An ISIS flag was located in the vehicle, and the FBI is working to determine the subject’s potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations,” a release from the FBI’s National Press Office went on to say.
“Weapons and a potential IED were located in the subject’s vehicle. Other potential IEDs were also located in the French Quarter. The FBI’s special agent bomb technicians are working with our law enforcement partners to determine if any of these devices are viable, and they will work to render those devices safe,” the statement continued.
In addition, Alethea Duncan, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s New Orleans field office, said they “do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible,” according to USA Today, adding that the bureau is focusing on “a range of suspects.” So, what did Joe Biden do Wednesday night? What presidents usually do in moments like these: Go on TV and make a statement. Biden spoke from Camp David and might as well have shuffled in with a bathrobe and slippers, so slurring and borderline coherent were his remarks.
Nothing was said that America did not know when the remarks were given, especially since the details he provided from the FBI were included in the press office media release hours earlier. There were the pro forma statements that “our hearts are with the people of New Orleans after the despicable attack that occurred in the early morning hours” and that “our nation grieves with you.”
“We’re going to stand with you as you mourn and as you heal in the weeks to come,” Biden commented, before thanking “our brave first responders and law enforcement personnel who stopped the attacker in his tracks before he could kill or injured [sic] even more people.”
The president issued additional thank yous to the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department before going on to add that he had “directed my team to make sure every resource is made available to federal, state, and local law enforcement to compete the investigation in New Orleans quickly and to make sure there’s no remaining threat to the American people.”
“May God protect our troops and we’ll keep you fully, contemporaneously informed,” Biden finished up, before saying thank you and walking off. While the scripted comments were, as usual, poorly delivered, what’s really sad is the echoing sound that can be heard as he made his way to the door.
He also didn’t answer whether or not he had spoken with President-elect Donald Trump about the attack.
“What purpose did this serve? Did we really need a proof of life video for the president at this very moment? And, if so, was this really what they hoped we would see — four minutes of a man struggling to get through telling us all we knew about the attack and that his heart was with the people there?” Golden asks in his report.
He then writes, “If there was to be a point to this all, it would be for some kind of question-and-answer from the media. Instead, he shuffles away stiffly as the questions are yelled to him. Look, nobody functions under the assumption that this guy is ‘sharp as a tack’ anymore, or that he’s so well-prepared that his staff is intimidated by his adamantine intellect during meetings. Heck, we know he barely even has meetings, and that it’s been that way for some time.”
Golden points out that the only bad thing about invoking the 25th Amendment is that Vice President Kamala Harris would take over for Biden and that’s a horrendous thought. However, it’s only a couple of weeks until Trump takes over and it would be much better to have someone who is at least cognitively capable of handling the duties of the office as president instead of Biden who can’t remember his own shoe size.
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