AGE & THE PRESIDENCY: WHEN IS OLD TOO OLD?

Why Does Biden Yell So Much?

In May 2019, when I was writing for Medium, I made the following prediction: 

“Should Uncle Joe win, he will not be running for re-election.  Long before the 2024 election his staff will probably be keeping him out of the public eye to hide his deteriorating mental capacity.  His staff will only trot him out during his brief lucid moments.”

Is Diane a genius?  Nope!  Does Diane have inside connections with the DNC?  Nope!  Is Diane a physician specializing in dementia?  Nope!  Perhaps Diane is a psychic.  No, Diane is merely an American with eyes, ears and logic who is not afraid to state the obvious.

WHY DOES BIDEN ALWAYS YELL?

Biden is showing signs of being in the 5^th or 6^th stage of dementia, out of seven stages.  These symptoms include 1) Agitation, aggression & irritability= THAT is why he yells or screams, with a “I want to kill you” look on his face, during most of his speeches; 2) Delusions and hallucinations= THAT is why he believes America is respected on the world stage when even our friends are turning their backs on us, and why he believes the economy is strong when it has not been this bad since Carter was president; 3) Wandering and becoming lost= he cannot figure out how to get off the stage even when he has written instructions and a red carpet to follow; and 4) Little memory of recent events= several hours after meeting with South Korea’s president, he could not remember what they had discussed so he read off note cards.

REAGAN IS TOO OLD!!!

When Republican Ronald W. Reagan ran in 1980 to unseat President Jimmy Carter, Democrats and Big Media screamed: REAGAN IS TOO OLD!!!  The media made Reagan’s age a constant issue throughout the election in order to help Carter win re-election.  Carter, born in 1924, was age 56. Reagan, born is 1911, was age 69.  Despite the constant drumbeat from ABC, NBC, CBS & NPR* that Americans should not and cannot vote for a man who was “so old,” Reagan won in a near landslide.

During the 1984 election, Carter’s Vice President, Walter (Fritz) Mondale, challenged Reagan for the White House.  Mondale was age 56, and Reagan was age 73. Reagan’s win was an even bigger landslide because his policies had improved the economy which had stagnated for over a decade.  He won in every state except Minnesota, Mondale’s home state.

And the rest is history.  Reagan, who’s doctor said he had the constitution of a man half his age, completed both terms in good health, despite an assassin’s bullet shot into a lung just weeks into his first term.  He passed away in 2004 at age 93, 15 years after leaving the Oval Office.

AGE & THE PRESIDENCY: 2016 ELECTION

Did you hear a peep about Donald J. Trump’s age DURING THE 2016 ELECTION? He was born in 1946 so he turned age 70 during the campaign. Ever wonder why Big Media, Social Media and the Dems said NOT A WORD about Trump’s “advanced” age?  The answer is obvious: his opponent, Hillary Clinton, was just one year younger and in poor health.  She was born in 1947 and turned age 69 during the election.

If the DNC and their partner, Big Media, had brought up the issue of age there would likely have been a focus on Clinton’s health problems: 1) severe concussion several years earlier, 2) symptoms of A-Fib, a serious heart condition, 3) lack of stamina, and 4) pneumonia during her campaign, to name just a few. It is likely she had other health problems that she successfully hid because healthy people do not get pneumonia. **

AGE & THE PRESIDENCY: 2020 ELECTION

Big Media spent four years insisting that Trump had mental problems.  Even after he aced a dementia test, Democrats continued to say he was mentally unfit to be president.  Former Vice President Joe Biden was showing signs of dementia in 2019.  Big Media was deaf, dumb & blind.  Biden was born in 1942 and turned 78 during the 2020 election.^  Trump was born in 1946 and turned age 74 during the campaign.  Of course, hypocritical Big Media rarely mentioned age. 

AGE & THE PRESIDENCY: 2024 ELECTION

The Joe Biden of the 2020 election, wherein he could stand on the presidential debate stage and do a decent job answering the softball questions, is long, long, long gone.  His White House staff has already developed ulcers, high blood pressure, migraines, and other stress-induced health problems as they struggle to find ever more creative ways to hide his deterioration from voters.  Susan Rice, Biden’s major handler, is jumping ship.  Within hours of Biden’s re-election announcement, the DNC announced they will not hold primary debates because Bobby Kennedy, Jr. will run circles around him. 

Will the Presidential Debates Commission cancel the three presidential debates which they have managed, and Americans have enjoyed, every election cycle since 1988?

*Cable TV and the internet did not exist. Broadcast television and radio had long since become the public relations firm for the Democrat Party.

**Since some of her health problems were displayed on camera Big Media had no choice but to mention them: Uncontrollable coughing and fainting.

^Granted, the concept of “old” has changed substantially over the last few decades.  In the 1950s, 1960s & 1970s it was somewhat common for men in their 40s & 50s to die of natural causes.  [Women of that age were less likely to die.]  With the advance of medical science, Americans now expect most people to live into their 70s and 80s.