What Do You Know, Joe? by Scipio

I want to look at Joe from another perspective than a majority of Americans do presently.  Most people have anywhere from an unfavorable or very unfavorable opinion of his job performance. I would put myself in the second category.  I would add that I think Joe is a despicable person with an alleged criminal leeching past.  He has had forty plus years in politics and has accomplished nothing of any significance for the nation, or even his own communist/fascist party.  He is the only politician who can get away with multiple career-ending gaffs while people say, “that’s just old Joe”.” He is many other things but I can’t put those in print.

However, the man is extremely mentally ill.  He is old.  That combination makes him an abused elderly disabled person. I am talking about the man’s condition here, not his office or the ramifications of his illness.  I am talking about out and out public elder abuse.  For Christ’s sake, the man has the Easter Bunny directing him to where he should go in his last high-profile public appearance.  If he were a POW, according to the Geneva Convention, his handlers would be guilty of torture by parading him around in public like they do.  I am sure Joe doesn’t know what he is doing or where he is most of the time. Yet, he is made a fool of and ridiculed because the people he was so loyal to his whole life want let him live out his life in with dignity but want to drain every bit of political capital he may still have in him for their own selfish goals.  The hell with Joe Biden, the human being, that’s what their actions show.

I have a personal reason to be angry at Joe’s “people”.  I had temporary amnesia once.  It’s called Transient Global Amnesia (TGA).  I am told every Neurologist and Neurosurgeon at North Carolina Memorial Hospital examined me because my condition was so rare, no professional in this large teaching hospital had ever seen a case of TGA.  It was the most terrifying thing I have ever experienced.  I was “gone” for a day and half but did not know I was “gone”.  I was living in an alternate reality that was so real the when I came “back” I wasn’t even aware I had been gone. For several weeks thereafter if I would say or do something I would have to ask my wife if I said or did what I thought I did.  I only recognized them and not much of anything else, and I depended completely on them to tell me what was “real” at that time.  The doctors tell me that TGA’s never remember what happened to themselves or anything about when they were “gone” and they will never recall it.  It’s like a blank gap erased in your memory.

So, I can ID with Joe with his serious mental issues.  It pains me to see him where he is being used and manipulated when he needs help and understanding.  Besides my personal brush with mental illness our youngest son is mentally ill and lives with us as we give him 24/7/365 care.  Sometimes he is “gone” and he doesn’t know it.  That’s when he needs us the most because when he is not “gone” he is OK. I shudder to think if he was in some institution where they paraded him around as their mentally ill poster child like Joe, while ignoring his needs of care and dignity as a human being.

Anyone who has worked with homeless people or prisoners know that a high number of them are mentally ill.  That is the not the only reason they are homeless or incarcerated, but it’s untreated and wrecks their lives, their families and drains society of potential contributing members.  Joe has been manipulated to give Ukraine $50 billion dollars in war aid when less than a tenth of that is spent for mental illness in America.

I recently saw a movie, “Kesari” (2019) made in India. It is based on a true story of 21 Sikhs who fought to the death 10,000 Afghans in the Battle of Saragarhi in 1897, one of history’s greatest last stands. The Sikhs had repulsed two assaults, but with only four men left they were prepared for their last stand.  Their cook, an Afghan, came to the leader, Havildar Ishar Singh, and offered to fight with them.  Instead, Havildar said, “I have a job for you that is more important than fighting.  I want you to get a water bottle and give water to the wounded and dying on the battle field because when they are fighting, they are enemy, but when they are wounded, they are human.  You will be providing a great service to them.” Today the Fourth Indian Regiment commemorates that battle and the bravery of those Sikhs every year on September 12^th, the day of the battle. BTW “kesari” means “saffron” which is Sikh’s fighting colors.

Don’t get me wrong, I have no sympathy for the man, Joe, and what he did with his life.  But he is a human, and he is being openly manipulated, used, and abused for other’s personal gain and that is unforgivable.