In case you’ve been in a sensory deprivation chamber, or hiding under a rock since last Friday, you may not have heard the news.  On April 5, at about 10:23 am, we had a magnitude 4.8 earthquake here in New Jersey.  Ever since that time, we have heard of little else (other than the April 8 solar eclipse, which has engendered almost as much hype and hysteria).  Now, I’m certainly not downplaying the potential damage that an earthquake may cause.  Major earthquakes can be devastating.  The 2010 7.0 earthquake in Haiti killed more than 300,000 people.  By far the place in the US which experiences the strongest earthquakes is Alaska, which lies on the Pacific Ring of Fire.  A 1964 9.2 quake there killed more than 100 people.  The 1906, 7.9, San Francisco quake was our most deadly, taking more than 3,000 lives.  Property damage can be extensive.  The 1989 Northern California 6.9 quake took down part of the Oakland Bay Bridge.  Then again, one wayward container ship just took down all of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and there was no earthquake.  But back to last Friday’s apocalyptic natural disaster.  The 4.8 quake, centered near White House Station, was the third strongest recorded NJ quake.  There was a 5.3 in Rockaway in 1783, and a 5.2 in Weehauken in 1737.  The problem I have with all the hype about this latest quake is that there’s never been even one fatality caused by an earthquake in New Jersey.  Even way back in 1783, when building standards didn’t exist, the most damage caused was that a few chimneys toppled over.  But I guess last Friday was a slow news day, because that’s all we’ve heard about ever since.  Sure, the shaking can be scary.  I learned of it from my daughters, who texted “did you feel that?”  We didn’t.  Although reports are that the quake was felt from Maine to Virginia, we were in Monmouth County and didn’t feel a thing.  And so far as I can tell, the only report of damage that’s been made is from Newark (New Jersey’s own Haiti), over 40 miles from the epicenter of the quake, where some residents reported that the quake caused their homes to shift and lean.  No offense, but I saw the houses on the news, and they looked like they began leaning when FDR was in the White House.  I guess if you don’t have a student loan to forgive, you have to find another way to get some federal money.  I get that earthquakes in New Jersey are pretty rare, so that may account for the hysteria.  But that being said, earthquakes aren’t rare.  In 2023, there were more than 500,000 earthquakes worldwide.  Most were minor magnitude quakes but there were 16,000 quakes over 4.0 magnitude, that’s better than 4 a day.  Why all the earthquakes?  Well, it’s not the reason given by a Green Party candidate for Senate here in New Jersey.  Kristina Amira Khalil, who based on her photo appears to be an amiable idiot, contributed this to the dumbing down of America, “I experienced my first earthquake in NJ.  We never get earthquakes.  The climate crisis is real.  The weirdest experience ever.”  And she wants to replace Robert Menendez in the Senate.  Then again, maybe she’s an upgrade.  For the record, climate change is not the cause of earthquakes, any more than it’s the reason we had a solar eclipse on April 8; and yes, I heard Leftist idiots propose that too.  Let’s take the second one first.  We have solar eclipses because, purely by chance, the Sun happens to be 400 times bigger than the Moon, and the Moon also happens to be 400 times further from the Sun than it is from the Earth.  The result is that, when the Moon and Sun pass before one another, from our perspective on the Earth, they appear to be the same size.  Earthquakes occur for another reason, which also has nothing to do with climate change.  I’ll make this simple enough for even a Senate candidate to understand.  The Earth has a molten iron center, which is under great pressure, and our landmasses lay on tectonic plates which are separated by cracks we call fault lines.  When the plates rub together mountains arise, and the sliding of plates and fault lines sometimes causes earthquakes, as the pressure is released.  This process has been ongoing for more than 4 billion years.  The process is driven by what’s under the Earth, and not by an atmosphere surrounding the Earth.  Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes have been happening since the Earth was born, including for the billions of years before there was any life on Earth and before there was any CO2 or oxygen in the atmosphere.  Simply put, there were earthquakes before there was a climate.  Case closed.  So on the next rare occasion when we in New Jersey experience the Earth shake, rattle, and roll, don’t feel guilty about your carbon footprint.  It’s just Mother Earth showing us who’s the boss.

This week, I note with sorrow the passing of former Senator Joseph Lieberman, who represented Connecticut in the Senate from 1989 to 2013.  At a time when our politics has become more divisive than at any time save the years before the Civil War, Joe Lieberman was the voice of reason, and in truth, he may have been the last reasonable Democrat.  At age 82, Lieberman died suddenly on March 27, reportedly after a fall at home.  An obituary in The Wall Street Journal referred to Lieberman as a “Party gadfly.”  That label trivializes the man’s accomplishments.  A gadfly is an irritating critic, or a nuisance.  What Joe Lieberman was was the conscience of a Democrat Party which had become increasingly intolerant to dissent of any kind.  Joe Lieberman was the embodiment of the American dream.  Born to Jewish immigrants, he attended Yale University, where he became the editor of the Yale Daily News.  He went on to Yale Law School, and served as Attorney General of Connecticut before his election to the Senate in 1988.  When first elected, Connecticut was split between Democrats and Republicans.  During his tenure in the Senate, things changed.  Connecticut went to the Left.  The Parties moved farther and farther apart.  Politics became more and more divisive.  But Joe Lieberman never changed.  He was from a different, more reasonable time.  Unquestionably liberal on social issues, Joe Lieberman was no ideologue.  He was less concerned with what the Democrat Party line demanded, and more concerned with doing what was right.  He angered Democrats by supporting the war in Iraq.  It cost him dearly.  In 2006, he was defeated in the Democrat primary by Leftist Ned Lamont.  Instead of just going away, Lieberman ran as an Independent and won, getting 70% of the Republican vote.  It is one of the persistent ironies of the Democrat Party, which blathers constantly about bipartisanship, that a candidate who truly is able to reach across the aisle, is reviled rather than being embraced.  For Democrats, bipartisanship means they tell Republicans what to do, and they just do it.  Lieberman later supported the candidacy of John McCain in 2008, angering Il Duce Obama.  He incurred the wrath of the Almighty again in 2010, when he blocked a Democrat scheme to impose a Socialist single-payer healthcare system, during the debate on what became known as Obamacare (the Unaffordable Care Act).  After retiring from the Senate in 2012, Lieberman refused to endorse Il Duce Obama for reelection.  He later became the head of the No Labels Party, which every four years threatens to run an Independent candidate for president.  This year is no exception.  In his last days, Lieberman lashed out at the detestable Chuck Schumer, who had called for the replacement of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, labeling his criticism, “meaningless, gratutitous, and and offensive.”  As you will remeber, it was the detestable Chuck Schumer who famously warned Donald Trump that, “If you criticize the intelligence establishment, they can get back at you six ways to Sunday.”  That may turn out to be the only thing Schumer ever said that was true.  The intelligence establishment tormented Trump for 6 years.  In any case, a week after his criticism of Schumer, Lieberman was dead, and with him went the last voice of reason in the Democrat Party.  Ronald Reagan was fond of reminding people that he once was a Democrat, quipping, “I didn’t leave the Democrat Party, it left me.”  Sadly, that is the truth.  While the Republican Party is plagued by a few of its own unmovable ideologues to be sure, what has become of the Democrat Party in the past 40 to 50 years is shocking.  For those whose political information is limited to lies from MSNBC, half-truths from CNN, and fantasies from The New York Times, let me set the record straight.  Democrats may still pay homage to John F. Kennedy, but he would be unwelcome in today’s Democrat Party.  He was elected by being perceived as stronger on national defense than Richard Nixon.  He was succeeded by LBJ, who engineered the enactment of Medicare, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act, and who launched the War on Poverty.  Despite these liberal programs, LBJ was considered a conservative by mainstream Democrats in the 1960’s, and he’s never mentioned by today’s crop of nuts.  LBJ’s Vice-President, Hubert Humphrey was to the Left of LBJ, so much so, the LBJ referred to him as “a bomb thrower.”  However liberal Humphrey was, he would not be insane enough to fit in with today’s Democrat Party.  In the Broadway show Evita, there’s a song with the lyric, “Politics, the art of the possible.”  It once was just that.  Consensus was not only a positive, it was an imperative.  Our politics has moved from the art of the possible to the enforcement of purity.  The result is stalemate at a time when the problems of the world cry out for action.  They used to say you don’t want to see how sausage or laws are made.  Right now, legislative gridlock has reached the point where nothing is being made, while we fall deeper into debt, and become ever more vulnerable to our enemies.  Joe Lieberman represented a time when finding the middle ground meant you were a Statesman, and not a traitor.  His voice will be sorely missed.

Attainder, huh?  Okay, you may be asking, what’s he talking about now?  I’ll explain.  In English criminal law, an attainder was the “stain” or “corruption of the blood” which arose from being condemned for a serious crime, meaning a felony or treason.  The defendant who was attainted not only lost his life, but his property, his hereditary titles, and the right to pass them on to his heirs.  The practical result of an attainder was the removal of the defendant, and the confiscation of everything he owned by the Crown.  Think of the old Errol Flynn movie, The Adventures of Robin Hood.  King John declares Robin Hood an outlaw, and steals all his land and other property.  Monarchs used attainders against political enemies and those who posed potential threats to the King’s position and security.  Attainder was a handy tool, which not only did away with real or imagined political opponents, but also made the monarch even richer.  Sound familiar?  Once attainted, the descendants of the noble could no longer inherit their lands or income.  Attainder essentially amounted to the legal death of the attainted’s family.  Attainder by verdict resulted from conviction by jury.  Attainder by process resulted from a legislative act outlawing a fugitive; a bill of attainder.  This form of attainder made it unnecessary to go to court where one would have to deal with pesky things like evidence and burdens of proof.  The U.S. Constitution prohibits bills of attainder.  What does this fascinating history lesson have to do with life in the 21st Century?  I’m getting there.  Because Democrats and their leftist comrades consider the Constitution merely an obstacle standing in the way of their iron-fisted dictatorship, they are practicing attainder even as I speak.  The feudal Lord who is the subject of this latest attainder is, of course, one John Donald Trump, former President of the United States, Duke of (New) York, builder, billionaire, and erstwhile thorn in the ass of the bilious bastards who populate the Establishment of both political Parties.  Attainder was most commonly used on people who were charged with treason.  In England, treason included not only killing or attempting to kill the King, but even the act of imagining the death of the King.  A charge of treason could result from participation in an insurrection.  Uh oh, there’s that word again.  Sound familiar?  For a number of years now, the Establishment, consisting of Democrats, assorted other leftists, and RINO Republicans, has been hard at work trying to impose attainder on Donald Trump, his family, and any other person who has dared to provide aid and comfort to the treasonous Duke Donald.  Trump is considered to be a traitor.  Not a traitor to the United States, as that term is defined by the Constitution, which limits treason to “levying War against the United States, or adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”  Trump’s crime is much worse than that.  Think about it.  The Left is levying war against the United States every day, by bankrupting the treasury, admitting millions of illegal alien invaders, and cancelling law enforcement, thus putting citizens at risk of death or serious bodily injury.  Trump is much more dangerous than that, and for that reason, the Establishment is pursuing the attainder of Trump, both by verdict and by process.  The attainder by process began in 2016, when officers of the Crown, namely Il Duce Obama, a/k/a King Barrack I, and more specifically, the Justice Department, FBI, CIA, and other agencies, conspired to prevent Trump’s election, and to remove him from office once elected.  These agencies basically declared Trump an outlaw, so anything went.  Attainder by process continued, in the guise of two phony impeachments.  Trump’s crime?  Imagining that someone from outside the Establishment could be President, and then actually making that happen.  You see, Trump knew better than to do that.  For years, he supported the Establishment with contributions.  He understood the way the system worked.  You paid the political crooks, then they left you alone and provided their influence.  But he rebelled.  In 2016, Trump took on the Establishment and defeated it at its own game.  That did it.  In 2016, they declared Trump an outlaw, who was subject to attainder.  And even after the 2020 election, which replaced Trump with Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, a/k/a Mad King Joe, the pursuit of attainder continued, again, both by process and by verdict.  The attempts to remove Trump from State ballots is nothing more than an attempted attainder by process.  Royal Attorney General Merrick Garland has unleashed the Grand Inquisitor and Lord High Executioner, Jack Smith, to pursue attainder by verdict by indicting Duke Donald for what amounts to an imaginary insurrection in Washington, D.C., and the heinous act of maintaining classified records, as every President before him has done without objection.  Mad King Joe then enlisted other servants of the Crown, Letitia James, the Bailiff of New York, Alvin Bragg, the High Sheriff of Manhattan, and Fani Willis, the Countess of Fulton (Georgia) to pursue attainders by verdict.  Recently, Lord High Justice Arthur Engeron –

(No offense, but in my opinion he looks like an evil vindictive prick) – ordered Trump to pay $454 million to New York State, and put a monitor in charge of his businesses, for an imaginary fraud involving inflated real estate values (the hallmark of every real estate developer), which defrauded no one.  These lawsuits and indictments seek to imprison Trump for the rest of his life, and to seize all his assets, his businesses, and his ability to hand down any property to his descendants.  They’re even looking forward to removing the name “Trump” from everything he ever has built.  They used to do that in ancient Rome.  Right after they murdered an Emperor, they removed his name and likeness from all statues and public monuments.  Some things never change.  So, life in prison, all property seized, and the Trump name forever erased from the public consciousness.  In other words, attainder.  Don’t forget, attainder was the remedy to remove potential threats to the Crown.  Mad King Joe, and his leftist courtiers want to remain in power.  That’s the only reason for all the lawsuits, indictments, and 24 hour a day bashing of Trump.  It’s necessary, because Trump really is a threat.  Simply put, the Establishment wants to take Trump’s life, estates, and property, so they can continue to take your property and your freedom.  So, the next time Trump says “they’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you,” believe it.

The failed State which is Haiti is back in the news.  Independent for more than 200 years, Haiti never has had a stable government.  It’s been ruled by a variety of dictators, juntas, and thieves, all of whom have been purged by violence.  The latest purge took out the latest weak ruler, Ariel Henry, who made the mistake of traveling to Puerto Rico, and now can’t return.  A number of violent gangs now control Haiti, the biggest of which is run by a thug called “Barbeque,” due to his habit of setting rivals on fire.  Charming.  The poorest, most corrupt nation on Earth is now in the hands of blatant criminals, instead of being in the hands of criminals masquerading as government officials.  Of course, Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden is inviting fleeing Haitians to come here.  It all put me in mind of the 2018 Donald Trump “Shithole” controversy.  At that time, Trump questioned the wisdom of admitting people from “shithole countries.”  I addressed the issue on these pages on January 18, 2018, to prove Trump was right.  Here’s part of it again.

(From Frank on Friday, 1/18/18) –

Trump asked “why the U.S. would want to continue taking in more people from shithole countries like Haiti and some African nations.  The Dems and the media predictably went nuts, calling Trump a racist who defamed nations like Haiti.  The problem is that truth is a defense.  In other words, you can only be defamed by false statements.  If Haiti really is a shithole, then Trump was right.  Let’s take a look at Haiti.  In 1788, there were 47,000 free people and 700,000 slaves in Haiti.  In 1792, the French colonial masters abolished slavery.  In 1800, the newly freed Haitians revolted against the French, and set up their own State.  In 1802, Napoleon tried to put down the revolution.  He sent 57,000 troops to Haiti.  But the Haitians won, because within months, 50,000 Frenchmen died of yellow fever.  The French gave up, presumably having concluded that Haiti was a shithole.  The U.S. profited however, as Haitian war losses led France to sell Louisiana to the U.S.  I’m not sure if we should thank the Haitians for that, or yellow fever.  In 1804, Haitian President Jean-Jacques Dessalines launched the First Empire, and declared himself Emperor for Life, which sounds a lot like Idi Amin, who later ran another shithole, Uganda.  Dessalines ordered the massacre of all whites who did not swear allegiance to him, but spared women who agreed to marry non-white men.  Thomas Jefferson and most of the world refused to recognize Haiti.  Things did not improve.  In 1809, nearly 10,000 refugees, knowing a shithole when they saw one, fled Haiti and settled en masse in New Orleans, doubling the city’s population.  Sound familiar?  In 1824, more than 6,000 African Americans migrated to Haiti.  Many quickly returned to the U.S., presumably preferring a slave nation to freedom in a Haitian shithole.  In 1825, the Haitian government promised the French 150 million francs, later reduced to 90 million, for independence.  It took Haiti 122 years to pay the bill.  The U.S. occupied Haiti for some years starting in 1915, after the assassination of Haiti’s president, Vilbrun Guillaume Sam.  Apparently Haitians were upset by Sam’s habit of killing political prisoners.  The Duvaliers, brutal dictators, ran Haiti from 1957 to 1986, during which time they killed more than 60,000 Haitians and stole $500 million.  When a country robs, starves and murders its own people, it’s probably a shithole.  In the 1990’s, Jean-Bertrand Aristede staged a coup and took over the government.  He later fled the country, after a revolt in Northern Haiti.  When your elected leaders flee their own country, it’s probably a shithole.  But how about the weather?  Housing is so deficient in Haiti that lives are at risk whenever there’s a storm.  If thousands die and tens of thousands are left homeless every time it rains hard, it’s probably a shithole.  The 2010 earthquake left 300,000 Haitians dead, and 1.6 million homeless.  How’s the infrastructure doing years later?  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers assessed the damage from the quake and found that many of the roads aren’t any worse than they were before, because they never were any good.  If a massive earthquake couldn’t make the roads worse, it’s probably a shithole.  What about the Haitian people?  Well, they are largely uneducated, and unskilled.  More than 40% of them are unemployed.  The International Red Cross reports that seven out of ten Haitians live on less than $2 a day.  It is one of the poorest, and by far, the most corrupt nation on Earth.  If it’s the poorest and the most corrupt, it’s probably a shithole.  The commune of Cité Soleil in Port-au-Prince has been called “the most dangerous place on Earth” by the United Nations.  If even the U.N. calls it that, it’s probably a shithole.  Not that the U.N. has been much help.  The massive cholera outbreak, that killed 10,000 Haitians, reportedly was caused when cholera-infected waste from a U.N. peacekeeping station contaminated the country’s main river.  But at least they have their health, right?  Wrong.  The World Health Organization cites diarrheal diseases, HIV/AIDS, meningitis, and respiratory infections as common causes of death in Haiti.  Ninety percent of Haiti’s children suffer from waterborne diseases and intestinal parasites. The incidence of tuberculosis in Haiti is more than ten times as high as in the rest of Latin America, and malaria is rampant.  Putting aside whether these diseases are the result of living in a shithole, give me one good reason why the U.S. should be importing infected men, women, and children; children who will be added to your kid’s class in school.  You can’t get your U.S. citizen child into school without vaccinations, but infected Haitians, come on up!  But wait, Haiti, at least is supposed to be a democracy.  They do have elections.  The U.S. even gave Haiti $33 million to ensure fair legislative and presidential elections in 2015.  It didn’t help.  A special verification panel declared the results “tainted by significant fraud.”  No, we didn’t get a refund.  I don’t want to influence the readers.  Make up your own minds.  In light of the foregoing, is Haiti a shithole, or not?  It’s really not about whether using the word “shithole” was a good idea.  Take “shithole” out of the equation, and convince me why we should be importing more unskilled, poor people, who don’t speak English, from places like Haiti.  I can’t think of a good reason.  Trump was right again.”

I rest my case. And now Biden is inviting the shithole denizens to bring their problems here.  Maybe Barbeque will come over too.  If he starts burning people over here, the only thing the Leftists will complain about is the carbon footprint of the corpse.  It’s sick out there and getting sicker.

Last week Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden managed to stay up late enough to give a 68 minute State of the Union speech.  You may have seen it –

Actually, it was not so much a speech as an angry rant, during which Old Joe did his impression of a clueless octogenarian yelling that all Republicans, MAGA supporters, or anyone else who objects to his totalitarian dictatorship should get off his lawn.  The speech started later than expected because of a traffic tie up on Pennsylvania Avenue, as a number of pro-Palestinian would-be martyrs sat in the road blocking it.  38 protestors were arrested.  Sadly, none were martyred.  Better luck next time.  When Biden arrived at the Capitol, and managed to get down the aisle, he proceeded to embark on an angry rant against Donald Trump, to whom he repeatedly referred as “my predecessor.”  This was remarkable, because the State of the Union address is supposed to be the Executive’s report to the Legislature regarding the state of the nation, focusing on the actions taken by the Executive in the preceding year, and the policies proposed for the upcoming year.  It’s true that the State of the Union message, as specified in the Constitution originally wasn’t an in person speech, but only a written report.  The advent of television transformed the annual event into the televised spectacle that it has become.  However, what the speech never was intended to be was a campaign speech by a candidate, nor was it intended to be a rant against one’s political opponent.  For this reason, a number of former presidential speech writers panned Biden’s performance.  Their assessments were damning. “This was the most partisan State of the Union I’ve heard in my lifetime.”  “No outreach to Republicans, and the clear message was this: the era of big government is back, with a vengeance.”  “An utter disgrace.”  “Attacking his opponent directly in the first minutes of his speech is unprecedented and perhaps the most partisan start to a State of the Union address in modern memory.” Biden’s address “sounded angry.”  “For its force, it depended upon him basically shouting and projecting outrage.”  The speech was “a laundry list of bad solutions for the problems he caused.” Another commentator said Biden spent the first half hour of the speech screaming uncontrollably, while intermittently coughing and slurring his words.  It was surreal and by far, the most unhinged and angriest State of the Union in history.  That would have been bad enough had the things Biden yelled about actually been true, but, Joe Biden being Joe Biden, the speech was a 68 minute tissue of lies, half-truths, and senile delusions.  Surprising no one, Leftists praised the speech, saying Biden was “fiery.”  Drug-addled was more like it.  Biden faulted Trump for failing to “talk tough” to Russia and China.  That’s a lie.  Trump not only talked, he acted on sanctions and tariffs that Biden lifted.  Biden said, “elect Democrats and I’ll restore Roe v. Wade.  I guess that means he plans to cancel the Supreme Court.  Biden claimed to have created 15 million new jobs.  That’s a lie.  Many people went “back” to work, the Democrats having shut down the economy in 2020.  In fact, fewer people are working today than in 2019.  Biden again claimed to have cut $1 trillion from the budget.  In fact, since 2021, the debt has risen by $7 trillion, and Biden proposes to spend another $7 trillion next year alone, adding another $3 trillion to the debt.  Biden said inflation is down.  As anyone who’s visited a food store can tell you, it’s really up more than 18%.  You’ll be happy to know that Biden thinks crime is down.  Someone better tell Governor Hochul she doesn’t need the National Guard in the subway.  Biden also claimed wages are up, while actually they’re down because of his inflation.  Old Joe has a plan for the economy though.  He plans to destroy it with a 25% tax on billionaire’s holdings, including unrealized gains.  In other words, if an investor buys a stock and its value increases, Biden wants 25% of the paper increase, even though the stock hasn’t been sold, and the price could go down tomorrow.  If enacted, and if it’s constitutional, which is a big if, it will destroy the stock market and end new investment in America.  Think Bill Clinton’s plan to tax US yacht builders to raise revenue.  They all went out of business, and now yachts are built in Italy.  But perhaps the most memorable moment of the speech was when Biden managed to anger the nuts in his own Party.  Marjorie Taylor Green challenged Biden to mention the killing in Georgia of Laken Riley, who was murdered by an illegal alien Venezuelan, whose previous criminal acts should have seen him deported or jailed.  Biden acknowledged that “Lincoln” Riley was “killed by an illegal.”  He went on to ask “How many are killed by legals?,” as though that’s a justification for murder.  Of course, Lincoln Riley was a former football coach at USC.  But what set off the Left was the word “illegal.” Anti-American Representative Ilhan Omar set the record straight, “Let me be clear:  No human being is illegal.”  Biden later apologized to the vicious Venezuelan killer, clarifying that he should have used the word, “undocumented.”  The clear message was that the real crime wasn’t the taking of an innocent young life, but the utterance of a disapproved word.  Brain damage.  Democrats have come up with an even dumber word for the illegal alien invaders, “newcomers.”  Why didn’t somebody think of that sooner?  Imagine the effect on history.  Rome, 410 A.D., the Visigoths sack the City, killing, raping, and enslaving its citizens.  “Visigoth is an ugly word.  We’ll call them newcomers.”  The Abbott of an 8th Century English monestery, “Look at those Vikings swinging those big swords.  Hey guys, it’s newcomers!”  Pearl Harbor 1941, “All those planes have red meatballs on them.  Must be newcomers.”  Is it any wonder Joe Biden is delusional?  At least he’s 81, the younger “progressives” have no excuse.  As usual, Donald Trump was best at summing up Biden’s disgraceful performance last week.  “He was angry, mentally disturbed, and misrepresenting a lot of the facts concerning almost every subject he discussed.”  “But he got through it.  He is still breathing, and they didn’t have to carry him out in a straight jacket.”  “Other than that, I think he did a terrible job.”  I devoutly hope most Americans got the same message.