President Joe Biden is doing his durnedest to show he’s capable of spending another four years in the White House, even as some continue question his physical and mental status. What does this man have to do? Walk on water? His Republican opponent, Donald Trump can barely get through one sentence without muffing things up.
So dear media, can you lighten up on Biden already?
And there’s at least one ditzy conservative lawmaker who’s pushing a new crackpot conspiracy to explain Biden’s poor debate performance in June, The New Republic [1] reports.
Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert, who probably doesn’t know what hypocrisy means, used it anyway by asking online with mock concern, “I wonder what could have caused Joe Biden’s rapid physical and cognitive decline?” But her decision to include photos of Biden getting vaccinations showed that her question was not only shallow but hypocritical as well.
How typical of her to do something like this. Boebert is a rabid anti-vaxxer and she’s aggressively pushed the hype that Covid-19 vaccinations are dangerous, even going as far as calling door-to-door vaccinators as the pandemic raged “needle Nazis” and declaring that instituting a mandatory vaccine network can be likened to “communist China.” And even after she suffered a medical emergency and became a target of the conspiracy she helped ignite, she duked it out with them anyway.
Because really, there is no making sense of this woman.
I wonder what could have caused Joe Biden’s rapid physical and cognitive decline? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/p83tQbrfVt [2]
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) July 11, 2024 [3]
But Boebert isn’t the only one bringing the stupid regarding Biden’s faltering debate performance.
This week, the White House had to shut down [4] a conspiracy that Biden somehow has Parkinson’s disease (even though Trump leans more than the famed Tower of Pisa). And this silly idea was mostly based on one GOP lawmaker’s opinion on the president’s shoes.
This led the White House to issue a news release Monday night, in which medical experts that Biden has been under the care of Dr. Kevin Cannard, who has reportedly visited the White House eight times since last summer. He’s been a member of the White House medical unit since 2012, and is the “longest serving Neurologist at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and in the Military Healthcare System.”
So, for the worrywarts wringing their hands over Biden’s health, here’s what Dr. Kevin O’Connor, physician to the president had to say:
“As I have written in each of the President’s medical reports, as part of the President’s annual physical, he sees a team of specialists that have included Optometry, Dentistry, Orthopedics (Foot and Ankle), Orthopedics (Spine), Physical Therapy, Neurology, Sleep Medicine, Cardiology, Radiology, and Dermatology,” O’Connor wrote in the release. “Dr. Cannard was the neurological specialist that examined President Biden for each of his annual physicals. His findings have been made public each time I have released the results of the President’s annual physical. President Biden has not seen a neurologist outside of his annual physical.”
In other words, Biden is checked out physically all the time.
But Boebert knows more than all them medical experts, y’know. Even if she did fail [5] her GED test, before finally passing the test just months before she was elected to Congress.
I wonder how many GED tests the medical experts failed?