Biden Trump debate II: What did the neurologist think?

Well that wasn’t subtle was it? Biden gave several incoherent confused responses to questions proving beyond a shadow of doubt that he is cognitively impaired.

Here is one such. In response to Trump’s defense of his record on debt and deficits.

“I should say in a ten-year period we’d be able to wipe out his debt. We’d be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do child care, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the with the Covid, excuse me, with, um, dealing with everything we have to do with, uh, look, if…we finally beat Medicare.”

One such response is all you need, but here’s another

Biden response to Trump’s claims that the U.S. Supreme Court was right to overturn Roe v. Wade and return questions of abortion regulation to the states:

“The idea that states are able to do this is a little like saying, we’re going to turn civil rights back to the states. Let each state have a different rule. Look, there’s so many young women who have been, including a young woman who just murdered and he went to the funeral. And the idea that she was murdered by a by by an immigrant coming in to. They talk about that. But here’s the deal. There’s a lot of young women being raped by their by their in-laws, by their by by their spouses, brothers and sisters, by just it’s just ridiculous. And they can do nothing about it. And they try to arrest them when they cross state lines.”

It starts out well enough with a very plausible point and then wanders off topic and becomes incoherent and bizarre “young women being raped by their by their in-laws, by their by by their spouses, brothers and

sisters

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I watched to the end thinking that this would be when cognitive decline would be most evident, but I thought Biden’s responses and general demeanor improved toward the end.

Trump showed none of this, but was incredibly irritating by rarely answering the questions put to him.

My opinion of CNN went way up. There were no softball questions to either candidate and the questions they did ask were hard hitting and relevant to the concerns of the electorate: inflation, the porosity of our border, the drug problem etc. etc.

Much has been made of the relative stamina and vigor of the candidates, but neurological expertise has nothing to offer on this point. So I won’t.