May 23: Did not think I’d be discussing Joe Biden so soon

In which, former President Joe Biden crashes the news cycle, the screws tighten on Russia, and the Middle East balances on a knife’s edge.

Did not think I’d be discussing Joe Biden so soon

“[A]n intentional or negligent act by any person that causes harm or a serious risk of harm to an older adult.” That is the US Department of Justice’s definition of elder abuse.

And with former President Joe Biden’s announcement this week that he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones, it’s hard to ignore the possibility that the Biden term of office was nothing short of an extended episode of such abuse. It’s either that, or an act of such colossal narcissism on the part of Joe Biden as to totally justify the manner in which the Democratic Party removed him from running for reelection last June. Either way, that there was a coverup of some kind is fairly obvious.

Consider the fact that prostate cancer is one of the most screened for and survivable forms of cancer out there. Consider that the chances of developing prostate cancer go up significantly as men enter their 70s. Consider further that American presidents get routine and extensive medical screenings. Consider still further that Biden himself joked and “gaffed” about having cancer numerous times in the last decade.

There’s no way, absolutely none, despite the Biden team's insistence, that his cancer diagnosis was not known until after he exited the White House. If that was the case, then Biden had an incompetent medical team at best. At worst, and this really is terrible, we’ve got a legitimate constitutional crisis the likes of which America has never faced before. The constitutional crisis emerges from the fact that we don’t know how long President Biden knew of his condition, we don’t know at what points he was receiving treatment and the effect of that treatment on his cognitive, decision-making abilities, and we further don’t know if, how, or to whom his decision making authority was delegated. Technically, it should’ve been delegated to VP Harris, but Biden’s distrust of Harris was well known, so it’s hard to think they wouldn’t attempt some workaround. In other words, there are any number of presidential decisions from signing legislation and executive orders to granting pardons to making appointments to positions of authority that we now don’t know if President Biden was signing those documents (this is the autopen scandal), or even signing them without full cognition of his actions.

Kid you not, this was literally a plot point in Season 2 of The West Wing, which aired in 2001.

Furthermore, we don’t know how far the status of Biden’s health was known amongst administration staff, Congressional Democrats, the Democratic Party, or their media allies. To what degree was this an effectively guarded secret, and to what degree was it a conspiracy of silence?

Commenting on Biden’s frail health and obvious cognitive troubles in 2020 commentator Dave Rubin noted that when it came to Biden’s health, “the scandal is that there is no scandal.” Congressional Republicans have every right to demand investigations, and Congressional Democrats would do well to cooperate if they’re to regain some measure of public trust.