File this under "you've got to be kidding me."

[dutch508]

Star Member Diamond_Dog (22,496 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216343442

File this under "you've got to be kidding me."

WKBN) – Close to three dozen Republican members of Congress are calling for President Joe Biden to have his cognitive state tested.

A letter addressed to President Biden says the members of Congress who signed are worried about the president’s “cognitive and mental abilities.”

It states, “While you underwent your annual physical exam on November 19, 2021, you either did not have a cognitive test or those results were withheld from the public.”

(snip)

Alzheimer’s disease is listed as one of the concerns in the letter. The letter references to a January 24, 2022 cabinet meeting at which time the president was heard calling a news reporter a “stupid son of a b****.” The Congress members believe this to be a sign of mood changes, which can be a sign of Alzheimer’s disease.

(snip)

“All Presidents should follow the example set by former President Trump to document and demonstrate sound mental abilities,” the letter states.

https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/congress-members-call-for-bidens-mental-state-to-be-tested/

***** Yeah … Their shining example of “sound mental abilities” eats paper, can’t operate an umbrella, and has a vocabulary of about 20 words.

 

forgotmylogin (6,966 posts)

42. Biden is a former stutterer, so I'm sure there are times where he pauses to get thoughts together.

Have you not watched a Biden speech? He gets lost reading off the teleprompter

Star Member olegramps (8,168 posts)

55. Just when you think the Republicans can't sink lower, they hit new lows.

I have lived over 83 years. I lived through the McCarthy debacle and then the Nixon era. Rather than reforming each subsequent Republican administration has not failed to uphold their disgusting reputation for outright evilness. It is a party of people that are without a soul or conscience. They care less who they hurt or even destroy. It is all justified by the ends justifying the means regardless of how contemptable they have to be. They feed off of the hatred that they carefully nuture without regard for the damage that it brings forth.

They must be totally discredited before they bring the nation to total ruination.

Star Member brer cat (17,462 posts)

2. After four years supporting a moron with the mental abilities of a slug, now they question Biden's cognitive abilities?? Joe, please don't follow any example set by tfg.

getagrip_already (8,332 posts)

22. They don't want to face him in 2024......

Between the power of incumbency and a good record, they would just be crahing on rocks running against him. They know that.

They would love to run against harris. It will let their inner hitlers run free.

And an open primary in '24 would set us back onto a lower field.

They want him gone if they can, destroyed if possible, or damaged however possible.

These aren't people. They are a mob.

dlilafae (11 posts)

9. The GOP is rocked backed on it's heels...

... and attempting to put Joe on the defensive. They started this narrative, so let them gather their own proof and evidence to prove or disprove their theory.

Let's face it, this is going nowhere, it's a distraction, plain and simple. It was crafted by a paper eating crook, three years Biden's junior.

A snip for context ~ The lynchpin of Trump’s strategy in both debates against Biden was to expose his supposed senility. In the first debate, he badgered and taunted his opponent in an effort to make him stammer and melt down. When that backfired on Trump, his strategists calculated they could produce the same effect by backing off. Their reasoning was that Trump’s constant interruptions rescued Biden from his own incoherence. If they allowed him to speak, he would disintegrate on his own.

It didn’t happen. Biden gave perfectly cogent responses to every question put to him, controlled his stammer, and displayed a far stronger command of facts and figures than his opponent. (To be sure, knowing more about politics than a man whose understanding comes almost entirely from Fox News is an extremely low bar.)

Propaganda works through repetition. Trump invested almost the entire campaign driving a singular theme against Biden. Now the results of that work have just sunk below the surface without a trace.

[link:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/final-2020-debate-trump-calling-biden-senile-dementia-sleepy-joe.html|


End snip ~

Diamond_Dog you whittled it down to it's finest point: The pot calling the skillet ...

 

Star Member Botany (62,618 posts)

16. This is right out of the Russian/Fox News playbook: Blame Biden for same kind of cognitive decline..

... that was obvious in TFG. And Russian agents are no doubt are feeding the meme "that Biden is in
mental decline" to Fox, certain GOP congress critters, and social media right now. Joe B. is doing a
great job and on top of his game but "they" see lying as part of their everyday M.O..

BTW this is a must read from Slate:

Trump is doing Russian/Vlad's work with attacks on Biden and his son, Hunter, were part of this operation


A New Report Adds Evidence That Trump Was a Russian Asset
He helped Putin manipulate the U.S. election in 2020, as he did in 2016.

As to Russia, the report leaves no doubt: In 2020, as in 2016, “President Putin authorized, and a range of Russian government organizations conducted, influence operations” to help Trump and hurt his Democratic opponent. For example, “Shortly after the 2018 midterm elections, Russian intelligence cyber actors attempted to hack organizations primarily affiliated with the Democratic Party.” Then, in late 2019, Russia’s military intelligence service, the GRU, “conducted a phishing campaign against subsidiaries of Burisma holdings, likely in an attempt to gather information related to President Biden’s family.” Throughout the 2020 election, agents “connected to the Russian Federal Security Service,” FSB, planted negative stories about Biden. Internet operatives working for the Kremlin, including the troll farm that had boosted Trump in 2016, continued to promote “Trump and his commentary, including repeating his political messaging.”

Attacks on Biden and his son, Hunter, were part of this operation. Through “US officials and prominent US individuals, some of whom were close to former President Trump and his administration,” the report says Russia’s intelligence services “repeatedly spread unsubstantiated or misleading claims about President Biden and his family’s alleged wrongdoing related to Ukraine.” In this way, Trump’s circle “laundered” the Russian-planted stories, which were then recirculated—and promoted by Russia’s online proxies—as American news.


https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/03/trump-russian-asset-election-intelligence-community-report.html

Farmer-Rick (5,710 posts)

26. When, exactly did TFG ever demonstrate

Sound mental abilities?

When he was cheating on his taxes and his wife? When he married a Slovanian sex worker because no one else want to sleep with him?

When he was eating classified documents? When he was flushing classified documents down the toilet? When he stole classified documents from the White House?

When he made fun of a disabled people? When he ridiculed American Indians, Jews, black people and women who wouldn't sleep with him? When he called Nazis fine people?

When Putin whipped him like a school boy and sent him home with is tail between his legs? When he told doctors to use lights and bleach to cure COVID? When he said COVID was a hoax? When he left the hospital fully contagious with COVID and spread it throughout the white house staff?

Funny how I can't think of any times he showed sound mental abilities.

 

Star Member GoCubsGo (28,238 posts)

50. Yep.

Hannity regularly starts his show with a tirade about Biden and his alleged "deterioration." He and the other dregs of humanity on that network love calling Biden "President Sippy Cup." Never mind that Trump can't drink a glass of water without having to use two hands. They also frequently play doctored videos in order to portray Biden and weak, frail and mentally-impaired. It's definitely pandering to the viewers of this garbage network, although I'm sure these assholes got such notions from watching Fox's filth themselves.

 

[DLR Pyro]

Consider it payback for the 4 years of insisting President Trump be removed from office in accordance with the 25th amendment 

[67 Rover]

Brandon actually thinks dogs will cure cancer.  Yea he's mentally gone.

[DUmpDiver]

Anybody who says "lying dog-faced pony soldier" needs some mental health assessment.

[ADsOutburst]

Biden was asked why a plurality of Americans consider him mentally unfit to be president.

He could have blamed it on Fox. He could have dismissed it as Russian propaganda. Hell, he could have admitted that he sometimes stammers, blanks out, and sputter nonsense in his speeches, and that this could belie his actual mental state.

What did he do?

He said "I have no idea".

Let that sink in.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Star Member GoCubsGo (28,238 posts)

50. Yep.

Hannity regularly starts his show with a tirade about Biden and his alleged "deterioration." He and the other dregs of humanity on that network love calling Biden "President Sippy Cup." Never mind that Trump can't drink a glass of water without having to use two hands. They also frequently play doctored videos in order to portray Biden and weak, frail and mentally-impaired. It's definitely pandering to the viewers of this garbage network, although I'm sure these assholes got such notions from watching Fox's filth themselves.

For a website that despises Fox News, they sure know a hell of a lot about their programming and what hosts say than I do.

[DUmpDiver]

For a website that despises Fox News, they sure know a hell of a lot about their programming and what hosts say than I do.

FNC averages 1.5M viewers daily. Probably half of them are lefties looking for reasons to be triggered.

[Drafe Hoblin]

Biden reminds me of a game-show contestant.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LL8hDxk_X8