WAS: What Adults are Saying about Making Things Worse
The President's cognitive decline enhances America's danger
The odious, disgraceful display by 47 at West Point’s May 24th commencement has sealed the deal the man no longer possesses cognitive independence. As typical his speech included plenty of fingernails-on-chalkboard moments and his usual disregard for respecting those who invited him. That was to be expected. But this one was different—more disgraceful, detached from reality and rambling than 47’s already rambling, non-sensical style. During a week when so much attention had focused on the cognitive condition of a former President, the current one illustrated—while addressing newly installed officers as their Commander-In-Chief—the brain-train has just about left the station without him.
Anyone facing that life stage must surely encounter a frightful, solemn and somber time. In an aging country its become common and it’s not typical for outsiders to judge the cognitive soundness of another when that cruel part of aging might suddenly come for any of us. But, when that person is your aging President such judgment must be at ready call. At least that’s what Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson revealed in a recent book that offered little else. So then it must be said, and not lightly, 47 is toast. Whatever “normal” populated his narcissistic, demeaning, “I know you are but what am I” brain has given way to some type of bubbling oatmeal that invites even greater danger to America. If you are prone to doubt here is the speech transcript. If still skeptical, consider he gave a reprise of sort on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery
Such a sad review will hardly be considered controversial in the context of recently reviewing Joe Biden for the same malady. But as President 47 is now pulling the strings not his predecessor. His opaque, tawdry, Non sequitir of a speech revealed he’s no longer capable to that task. Always the most emotionally immature and least empathetic President of modern times, 47 offered plenty of reason to doubt the soundness of his synapses is working in a normal function. But his cult-like followers would have none of it and a narrow victory was achieved—in large part due to “dark” money and foreign intrusion into our election.
This has always raised the question “to whom is 47 beholden?” Some “one”, “group” or subterranean “movement” prompted the election result and why? Clear indicators were known even before ballots were cast in Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation, the outside influence of Leonard Leo (especially in compromising the Supreme Court), the continual financial feather bedding the Koch brothers purchase and others. There continued agenda was best served in 47 being a proverbial puppet President who could be easily bought and luxuriate in his new riches. But the savagery of cognitive loss now means 47 is no longer a “proverbial” puppet but an actual one.
Not since the late-days of Reagan or the final two years of Wilson can we find a historical suggestion that someone other than the duly elected President was actually calling the shots. Now that 47 is primed to add to that legacy, who will be in charge as he continues to occupy the Oval Office as a feckless, soulless, aimless self? Moreover, this realization has occurred just as 47 and his “diplomats” have failed at a Russian-Ukraine truce while sending up from the House a bill that guts what little is left of a social safety net for America’s most poor. Before 47 was “gone” he failed in most ways that mattered to be President: Analytical, cooperative, intelligent, shrewd and even occasionally quiet. He grasped none of these. Forty-seven can now add cognitively-impaired to the list of traits that few would ever want near the Oval Office.
MAGA money, 47 and his narrow-minded voters effectively installed an imbecile in the White House. The MAGA propaganda machine married with Russian election tactics and bumbling Democrats (perhaps with a would-be opponent holding his own cognitive decline), have now steered the country onto a dead-end street in the middle of the night in a rough part of town. Yikes! Meanwhile 47’s transactional, incompetent, sycophants that he calls a Cabinet will continue to add chaos as behind the scenes they stretch for a bigger slice of the proverbial pizza. That some believe they will enact the 25th Amendment is laughable. Their President is now a marionette and these jokers will eat one another for a chance to be puppeteer!
Sanity from any corner in MAGA land should not be expected in part, because their isn’t any and worsening conditions won’t change that dangerous fact. America today, is greatly stretched over a barrel. Not since Oval Office discussions between LBJ and his Vietnam generals or early discussions as “Dubya” raced back to Washington on 9/11, can such serious and imminent danger be recalled. Now, sadly, its worsening because America’s imbecile President is in cognitive decline. The fingers of fate have been doling out bad cards for awhile. Keep hope that will soon change.