Amid Multiple Mental Stumbles, Joe Biden Proclaims He's 'Ended Cancer as We Know It'

Joe Biden appeared in the White House’s East Room on Tuesday to promote a new initiative to force insurance companies to cover mental healthcare at the same level physical healthcare is covered.

On that topic, it may be a defensible moral pursuit, but it’s certainly not going to help with the outrageous costs currently crushing American families. Insurance rates have skyrocketed since the implementation of Obamacare (despite promises that government intervention would lower them). Forcing more things to be covered will only cause those rates to go up further. No one would argue that mental health isn’t important, but I’m not sure bankrupting more Americans is the right way to tackle the issue.

Regardless, the real story of Biden’s presser wasn’t the content, but the man delivering it. There were the typical moments of senility we’ve all come to expect anytime the president steps into the public eye.

Biden says "over 100 people" died from COVID pic.twitter.com/clPbK7ttKN

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This wasn’t just a single verbal stumble either. After saying “over 100 people” died from COVID, Biden then asserts, “That’s 100 empty chairs around the kitchen table.” He never even realized he made a mistake, likely because he was just reading what he thought the teleprompter said. There doesn’t appear to be much mental processing by Biden when he speaks. It’s just bland repetition, and at his advanced age, even that often goes wrong.

Biden then pushed a bill that would supposedly increase privacy rights for children. Toward the end of the clip, he leans in and starts whispering into the microphone, “Pass it, pass it, pass it.” You can see him squinting to read the teleprompter in front of him (which is not a regular teleprompter, but a massive television) at multiple points.

BIDEN: "Ya ever get a change to look at what your kids are looking at online?!" pic.twitter.com/b42PIyJcK8

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To answer Biden’s question, yes, I do have an idea of what kids are looking at online (my kids aren’t allowed on social media for a reason). Still, I find the president’s concern to be completely manufactured and unbelievable. Remember, this is the same guy that complains of “book banning” because Florida passed a bill to remove literal pornography from school libraries. If Biden were actually concerned about what children are being exposed to, he wouldn’t be promoting books like Gender Queer and insisting that teachers be allowed to discuss sexual matters with their students.

But I digress, there was one line Biden delivered that left everyone scratching their heads. Namely, he claimed that his administration had “ended cancer as we know it.”

Biden claims that he "ended cancer as we know it." pic.twitter.com/sHMIIPsSP5

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While I would love nothing more than to see cancer obliterated, I have no idea what the president is talking about there. Right now, the United States is estimated to have nearly 2 million cancer cases in 2023. That is actually slightly more than the estimated cases in 2022. So what exactly was “ended as we know it?” For context, in October of 2022, just before the mid-term elections, Biden claimed that he was “starting” to “cure cancer.” He seems to be skipping over the entire “curing” part in his latest proclamation.

As I’ve written in the past, I find this politicization by Biden to be repugnant. Taking something as serious as cancer and boiling it down to some meaningless White House initiative that has produced no real-world results is disgusting. Real people suffering and dying from cancer every single day. They don’t deserve to be fed false promises by weak politicians trying to take credit for things they didn’t do. If cancer is ever fully cured as a global menace, it won’t be because of Joe Biden.