Ep. 687 - What To Do When Your President Is Senile
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Summary
Joe Biden continues to fall apart mentally and physically. Is it time to put an upper age limit on the presidency? Why haven t we talked seriously about that already? Also, 5 headlines including a plan in Oakland to give $500 monthly checks to poor families, except the white ones. Another example of systemic racism against whites. And Sesame Street gets racially woke. Plus a new mask you can wear while eating.
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Joe Biden continues to fall apart mentally and physically.
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This is the consequence of putting a senile man in the White House.
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Is it time to talk seriously about putting an upper age limit on the presidency?
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Why haven't we talked seriously about that already?
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Also, five headlines including a plan in Oakland to give $500 monthly checks to poor families,
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Another example of systemic racism against whites.
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And Sesame Street gets racially woke, plus a new mask that you can wear while you eat.
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Unless you have self-respect and dignity, that is, in which case, of course, you won't wear it.
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In our daily cancellation, I will once again have to cancel the people who are trying to cancel me.
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All that and much more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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As it turns out, it may not have been the best idea to put a 78-year-old dementia patient in the White House.
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We've only just begun to experience the consequences of having a mentally and physically unfit person as commander-in-chief.
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The embarrassing display during Biden's first press conference on Thursday was the latest embarrassment
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that he has brought upon himself and thus upon the country.
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The media is, of course, making things as easy as it can for our senile president by posing questions like,
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are immigrants coming here because you're such a good and decent man?
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You've said over and over again that immigrants shouldn't come to this country right now.
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Instead, the perception of you that got you elected as a moral, decent man
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is the reason why a lot of immigrants are coming to this country and entrusting you with unaccompanied minors.
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How do you resolve that tension, and how are you choosing which families can stay and which can go,
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given the fact that even though with Title 42 there are some families that are staying,
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and is there a timeline for when we won't be seeing these overcrowded facilities run by CPB
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That's the reason why it's happening, that I'm a decent man or however it's phrased.
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That's why they're coming, because I know Biden's a good guy.
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It strikes me that you're a very good-looking, handsome man.
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But their efforts couldn't save Biden from himself as he stumbled, mumbled,
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bumbled his way through the short exchange with his obedient press corps.
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At one point, the president claimed that he came to the United States Senate 120 years ago.
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With regard to the filibuster, I believe we should go back to a position of the filibuster
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that existed just when I came to the United States Senate 120 years ago.
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Now, that claim is closer to the truth than it ought to be.
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I mean, it wasn't 120 years ago, but it was not far from that.
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His math is still a little bit off the mark, though.
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And that was far from the most alarming incident.
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At another point, the president began to answer a question, trailed off into unintelligible rambling,
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stopped abruptly, and picked up with a new thought.
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I have never been particularly poor at calculating how to get things done in the United States Senate.
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So the best way to get something done, if you hold near and dear to you that you like to be able to...
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And if we have to, if there's complete lockdown and chaos as a consequence of the filibuster,
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then we'll have to go beyond what I'm talking about.
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I think it helps to hear it again so we can understand just how incoherent it was.
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I have never been particularly poor at calculating how to get things done in the United States Senate.
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if you hold near and dear to you that you like to be able to,
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Now, if this was the first time that Biden had stumbled in this way,
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we might just assume that he didn't have enough coffee that morning
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or he was especially distracted for whatever reason.
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Not slips of the tongue, but divergences into full-on incoherence.
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Remember, it was only a few days ago that Biden proved himself incapable of safely navigating a flight of steps.
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Now he's standing on national television claiming that he entered the Senate in the year 1901.
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It now seems to be a question not of whether Kamala Harris will be the one finishing out Biden's term,
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If Biden becomes entirely incapacitated, assuming he isn't already at that point,
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How can we have any confidence that they'll tell us the truth about Biden's condition in the future
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if they clearly aren't telling us the truth right now?
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All of the ingredients for a catastrophic constitutional crisis are present.
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They were already baked into the cake the moment that a 78-year-old man was inaugurated.
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And this ought to be the last time we allow that to happen.
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In a sane country, laws and amendments would be passed to ensure that this does not happen again.
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Quite simply, it is madness to allow a man like this to become president of the United States.
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Leaving aside my personal and political feelings about Joe Biden,
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I mean, I wouldn't want him to be president even if he was 30 years younger, admittedly,
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but there could never be a good reason to put a person so old
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into the highest and most important political office in the land.
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Even if Biden were not already showing clear signs of mental regression,
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it would still be the case that one in seven people over the age of 70 have dementia.
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The percentages only get higher as you get older, and it certainly can't help your case
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if you happen to be in one of the most physically and mentally demanding jobs in existence.
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About 2 million people with dementia in this country are age 85 or older.
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But there are only 7 million people total in that age bracket.
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What this means is that mental deterioration is very common for older people
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and only becomes more common the older they get.
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If a man is elected president at 78, again, even pretending that he has his wits fully about him
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at the point that he's elected, there's a very significant probability that he will lose his mind
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If he does not lose only his mind, he may likely lose his life in the intervening years as well.
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The life expectancy for a 78-year-old man is nine years.
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So if you're at 78, most likely you've got nine years left, if not less.
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And that, again, doesn't factor in the unique stresses and burdens of the job.
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They get to that life expectancy of nine years for 78-year-old people,
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but they're measuring this based on the majority of 78-year-old people who are retired
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We don't allow anyone under the age of 35 to run for president,
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and I've rarely heard anyone complain about that age restriction.
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In fact, I've never heard anyone complain about it.
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Yet, the risk inherent in having a decrepit president are much, much greater than the risks
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Because if we're ruling out the 32-year-old on the basis of his age alone,
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it doesn't make any sense that we refuse to rule people out on the other end of the age spectrum.
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There should be an upper age limit on the presidency just as there is a lower limit.
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We could be generous, and we could talk about what the age limit should be.
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And this would give every American 40 years, between 35 and 75,
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to take their shot at the presidency if they desire.
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I realize this age limit will never be put in place.
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because it would have to be put in place by politicians
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who are willingly limiting their own chance to become president.
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There are maybe a handful, maybe a handful of politicians in D.C.
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with the integrity to support such a self-limiting policy,
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and we need a lot more than a handful to get this done.
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Is there any good reason to keep the cap off of the presidency?
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Is there any ethically or logically sound argument
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for allowing 80-year-olds and 90-year-olds the chance to take office,
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the idea of putting an upper age limit on the presidency
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with putting a very elderly person in the White House.
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only a culture in denial about death and mortality
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you get closer and closer to the end of your life.
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A stern father who adheres to middle school rules
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Matt, you're always ranting and raving about cats and dogs