Have We Ever Had A President That Talked To The Dead?

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   Sharlee01posted 2 years ago

   OH MY GOD! I CAN"T REALLY KEEP UP WITH BIDEN" CRAZY STATEMENTS --- can't they just keep him out of sight... What the hell next?
   
   
   Biden says he 'spoke to' man who 'invented' insulin, A man who died before the president even was born.
   
   "How many of you know somebody with diabetes, and needs insulin," Biden asked the crowd. "Do you know how much it costs to make that insulin drug for diabetes? … It was invented by a man who did not patent it because he wanted it available for everyone. I spoke to him, OK?" However, insulin, a hormone produced in the body, was never invented but was discovered by Frederick Banting. The late physician and scientist died at the age of 49 on Feb. 20, 1941. Biden was born on Nov. 20, 1942.
   
   So, I say this was not just a mistake in words, this is a man that is living in another reality. He is sooooo confused.  But there is more, much more, and it is all very bizarre
   
   https://www.newsweek.com/bidens-gaffe-f … sm-1756156
   Biden's Gaffe-Filled Speech Sparks Criticism
   
   President Joe Biden delivered another speech Tuesday in which his gaffes overshadowed his message.
   
   Campaigning in Florida to promote the successes of his administration's Inflation Reduction Act and potential Republican threats to repeal popular programs like Social Security, the 79-year-old Democrat made numerous questionable claims and missteps that quickly picked up steam on the internet and drowned out his closing arguments in the often-contentious state.
   
   Among the errors: misstating his son's cause and place of death, mistakenly referring to Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as "Senator," and a claim that he had spoken with the people who invented insulin that was quickly contested by conservative commentators.
   
   Others called him out for using similar word salad often deployed by his predecessor, Donald Trump, in explaining inflation, which he falsely claimed was among the "lowest in the world." (World Economic Forum data show that is not even close to being the case.)
   
   "That's what I call inflation," he said. "The end of the month. What you have left. You have no money. That's inflation. What's, what do you, the things you need. Are they going up? They are. They are."
   
   Explaining the cause of inflation, he pointed to the "war in Iraq" before correcting himself to Ukraine, saying shortly after he thought of Iraq "because that's where my son died."
   
   While his son, Beau, served in Iraq, he died of brain cancer six years after his deployment ended. (The president noted this shortly afterward, in a line discussing the high cost of the drugs needed to treat his condition.
   
   A more minor gaffe came early in the speech when he referred to the recent hurricane that wreaked havoc across Florida, Hurricane Ian, as "Hurricane Ivan," the 2004 storm that caused significant damage in the Caribbean and upon making landfall in Alabama.
   
   One contested claim, however, was plausible. Discussing legislation he'd worked on to cap the co-pay cost of insulin at $35 in his federal relief package, Biden noted that its inventors—James Collip and Charles Best—initially sold the patent to the University of Toronto for $1 because they wanted everyone to be able to access it.
   
   The catch, however, was that Collip died in 1948 and Best in 1978, five years after Biden was elected to the U.S. Senate.
   
   The speech came one day after a viral video in which Biden said during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania that the U.S. has "54 states" instead of 50.
   
   Youtube ---   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfqfmQxSFHU

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