I have been pointing out here for at least four or five years that Orange Julius, never intelligent, always ignorant, never capable of a thought for anything but himself, was mentally deteriorating. I got a lot of idiotic comments to the effect that the APA doesn't allow public armchair diagnoses. Fortunately I'm a) not a member and b) not presuming to say exactly what the diagnosis is. It looks more like a form of frontotemporal dementia than Alzheimer's disease, but it could be both.
The scandal is that the corporate media conspired to cover up this fact, while simultaneously relentlessly hounding Joe Biden about what appears to be essentially normal cognitive aging. But it's becoming impossible for the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN and other plutocrat-owned media to keep up the charade. Jeff Tiedrich compiles the straight dope on this:
imagine you’re a campaign manager. you send your candidate out
to do a softball town hall, where he’ll answer easy questions gently
lobbed at him by adoring cultists — but instead of smacking those
softball questions out of the park, he decides instead to “make it into a music,” confusing the shit out of his audience for 39 excruciating minutes, as he wobbles unsteadily like an animatronic dildo.
then your guy appears in front of a room full of women who are angry about the loss of their reproductive rights, and brags about being the hombré who ended Roe.
and then he gets up in front of skeptical Latino voters, and tells a guy who is speaking through an interpreter that people who need interpreters are destroying America.
your
worst nightmare is coming true, right before your very eyes. you had
hoped to keep evidence of your candidate’s rapidly-increasing dementia
under wraps — but now it’s advanced to the point where it can no longer
be hidden. for fuck’s sake, even the normally-compliant lapdog press is pointing it out.
He chickened out of a 60 minutes interview, then he refused the offer from CNN of a town hall and left the stage to Kamala Harris to pummel him in prime time -- twice. He even canceled an appearance at an NRA convention. That's how bad it's gotten. All he does any more are the 90 Minute Hates where his brain dead cultists cheer for his gibberish -- but even they can't take it any more and they're leaving early, if they're allowed to escape.
I offer for your delectation and delight his explanation of what he's going to do about grocery prices (in which he urges everyone to vote on January 5):
So, you know, it’s such a great question in the sense that people
don’t think of grocery. You know, it sounds like not such an important
word when you talk about homes and everything else, right? But more
people tell me about grocery bills, where the price of bacon, the price
of lettuce, the price of tomatoes, they tell me. And we’re going to do a
lot of things.
You know, our farmers aren’t being treated
properly. And we had a deal with China, and it was a great deal — I
never mentioned it because once covid came in, I said, that was a bridge
too far because I had a great relationship with President Xi [Jinping].
And he’s a fierce man and he’s a man that likes China and I understand
that. But we had a deal and he was perfect on that deal, $50 billion he
was going to buy. We were doing numbers like you wouldn’t believe, for
the farmer. But the farmers are very badly hurt. The farmers in this
country, we’re going to get them straightened out. We’re going to get
your prices down.
But you asked another question about safety and
also about Black population jobs and Hispanic population in particular
those two. So when millions of people pour into our country, they’re
having a devastating effect on Black families and Hispanic families more
than any others. I think it’s going to spread to a lot of other places.
I
think it’s going to spread to unions. I think unions are going to have a
big problem because, you know, employers are just not going to pay the
price. They’re going to—and it’s going to be—it’s a very bad thing
that’s happening.
So they’re coming in. Many are coming in from
jails and prisons and mental institutions, insane asylums. That’s like,
you know, step above, right? Insane asylum. And whenever I go, Hannibal
Lecter, you know what I’m talking about. They always go—the fake news.
That’s a lot of fake news back there, too.
They always mention—you
know, it’s a way of demeaning, they say, ‘Hannibal Lecter, why would he
mention?’ Well, you know why, because he was a sick puppy, and we have
sick puppies coming into our country. I figured that’s a lot—that’s
better than wasting a lot of words. You just say, ‘Hannibal Lecter. We
don’t want him.’ But. But they always sort of say, ‘Why would he say
that?’ I do it for a lot of reasons.
But I do it because we are
allowing some very bad people into our country. And they’re coming as
terrorists. You know, you saw the other day, last month they had the
record number of terrorists. I had a month — and I love Border Patrol.
Did you see they gave me a full endorsement two days ago? Border Patrol.
The
Border Patrol. And they’re great. And, you know, they want to do their
job. They don’t want to let these people come in. They look at them.
They can tell. They can look at somebody, say good, bad. They say what’s
coming into our country now, it’s having a huge negative impact on
Black families and on Hispanic families and ultimately on everybody.
And
we’re going to close that border so tight. It’s going to be closed. And
I said the two things I’m going to do, first, we’re going to close that
border—and people are going to come in. You want people to come in. We
need people to come in. People are going to come into our country
legally.
You know, it’s so unfair. You have people that are
waiting on a system, in a line and they’ve been waiting in this line.
You know how long? For years, 10 years, 12 years and they study and they
take tests. And then people come. I actually say, ‘Why don’t you just
go and just come on across?’ I tell people that it’s terrible, right? I
said, ‘Go out. You’re incredible.’ They say, ‘What can I do to speed up
the process?’ I say, ‘You know what, go to the southern border. I’ll see
you on the other side.’ It’s so unfair.
But we’re going to have
them come in legally. You have to see what they have to do. They take
tests on, you know, who was the first one here? What date was this? What
does 1776 mean? All this stuff.
And these other people are coming
in and they’re affecting the school systems and they’re affecting the
hospital system. I mean, if you take a look at what’s going on in
Springfield, Ohio, a town of 50,000 people, they’ve just added 32,000
people. Illegal immigrants. And we’re not going to put up with it.
And
we’re going to take care of your costs are going to come down, and
you’re not going to have a problem with — because the biggest problem,
and I’m hearing it from Black people and to a lesser extent right now,
but it’ll be the same, Hispanic people.
And I’ll tell you what,
our poll numbers have gone through the roof. With Black and Hispanic,
have gone through the roof. And I like that. I like that. I like that.
So we’re going to take care of it. You will be — I’ll tell you, if
everything works out, if everybody gets out and votes on January 5th.Or before.
You
know, it used to be, you’d have a date. Today, you can vote two months
before, probably three months after. They don’t know what the hell
they’re doing. But we’re going to straighten it all out. We’re going to
straighten that out. We’re going to straighten our election process out,
too. That’s going to be important, also.
So thank you very much, darling. We’re going to get it straight.
But keep in mind that a vote for Ronald T. Dump is a vote for J.D. Vance.