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Biden, Pelosi lose it on camera [video]

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

The top leaders of the Democratic Party, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, are so out-of-touch that they can’t keep their train of thought more than a few minutes.

The Democrats, who have a combined age of 157, have suffered some humiliating fumbles in recent days.

In a video for his campaign website, Biden repeated himself three times in less than one minute.

Discussing the George Floyd riots, Biden looked down at his notes twice as he said, “The act of protesting should never be allowed to overshadow the reason for the protest.”

Then, Biden stared down at his talking points again and repeated the same sentence, as if it were a brand new thought.

“The act of protesting—you know—should never be allowed to overshadow the reason for the protest in the first place,” he said.

A few seconds later, Biden sneaked a peek at the soundbites his staffers had written down for him and again said, “We can’t allow the protesting to overshadow the purpose of the protest.”

This time, he used hand gestures, like he was introducing an idea nobody had ever heard.

Biden did better than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who lost her train of thought for 10 full seconds during a press conference last Thursday.

Her mind shut down completely at an event she called, on a subject of her choosing, about a letter she wrote.

She started talking about President Donald Trump’s response to riots when her mind suddenly went blank.

Her eyes widened, and she started gesturing around.

“The…la—uh. The, uh…what is it?” she asked reporters, who were just as clueless about where she was going.

Finally, she looked down at her letter and proceeded to read the same words she had just spoken.

Biden also needs to read his statements word-for-word; it’s so important for someone to feed him his lines that the presidential hopeful’s been caught on camera, begging his staffers to update his teleprompter so he knows what to say.

Biden interviewed liberal Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania for the Biden 2020 website…but he spent almost as much time talking to whoever controlled his electronic memory.

As thousands watched, Biden desperately tried to stop his aide from having the teleprompter scroll up. “Keep it down,” he told the operator while Gov. Wolf was trying to talk.

At another point, Biden told his assistant to “go back to the top”—evidently without even realizing his microphone was still on.

In the same interview—in the middle of asking the governor a question—he commanded someone to “put that back on.”

This is the latest in a long line of flubs, foibles, and forgetfulness.

Foreign news like Sky News Australia have run multiple clips of Biden’s “confused, crazy rants.”

On the campaign trail, Biden “appeared frail, perplexed and just odd on too many public occasions—so much so that his campaign workers have been accused of elder abuse for wheeling him out ‘Weekend at Bernie’s’ style,” said reporter Rita Panahi.

But the reality is slowly dawning on politicos of all backgrounds that Biden’s memory problem may be a powder keg waiting to blow up in the Democratic Party’s face.

“At some point, he’ll be caught without the teleprompter,” wrote Miranda Devine at The New York Post, “and an off-the-cuff Joe is a ticking time bomb.”

At live campaign rallies, Biden is “low energy and frequently befuddled. If he were your grandfather, you’d take away the car keys.”

The former Delaware senator’s speeches have been so discombobulated that President Trump nicknamed him “Sleepy Joe.”

But members of both parties have begun waking up to the problem.

“Democrats are conspiring to gaslight the American people by engineering the presidential election of a man clearly suffering from dementia,” wrote Ted Rall, a cartoonist and ultra-liberal columnist.

“If you have encountered dementia, you know Biden has it,” he wrote in the Japan Times. “No one who has been close to someone deteriorating from that disease could fail to see the same signs in Biden.”

Even the socialist Jacobin magazine wrote “it’s incumbent on you to at least give his mental state some serious consideration,” because “he’ll no doubt make more gaffes than any candidate in history.”

The leftist rag warned the Democratic Party that “running someone experiencing rapid cognitive decline” is “a guaranteed disaster.”

If he’s elected president, it could be a disaster for the whole country.

“How would he cope with 14-hour days, having to jump off Air Force One straight into the heat of India for meetings and outdoor rallies, and then race back to handle a pandemic?” asked Devine. “How do we know that if Biden became president, he wouldn’t be a puppet manipulated by others?”

Rall went even further, saying it’s not just for Democrats to stand behind a befuddled vice president no matter what. “It’s anti-American and unpatriotic to vote for someone suffering from dementia for a position with exclusive control over nuclear launch codes,” he wrote.

If Biden ever leaves his basement and starts campaigning again, look for Biden’s verbal time bombs—and voters’ alarm bells—to start going off.

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”

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Stephen is a U.S. Army veteran with over a decade of combined experience in political commentary, economics, and news.