Biden, who has faced heavy criticism in recent years for a series of gaffes and apparent mental lapses, mistakenly said that Hezbollah was responsible for the attack while making the ceasefire announcement on Wednesday.

“Good afternoon, it’s a very good afternoon,” Biden said while flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken while announcing the deal at a press conference. “Because at long last, I can announce a ceasefire and a hostage deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas.”

“[After] more than 15 months of conflict that began with Hezbollah’s [sic] brutal massacre on October the 7th,” he continued. “More than 15 months of terror for the hostages, their families, the Israeli people. More than 15 months of suffering by the innocent people of Gaza. Fighting in Gaza will stop and soon the hostages will return home and to their families.”

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    Is this even news any more? Elect a senile old man and he’ll make errors.
    Americans voted for 4 more years of that, nottheonion is going to get a lot more material.

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      I just hope Trump’s senior moments don’t get us all killed. I mean, his lucid thoughts are bad enough.

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        Going by his Covid response, you can probably make some reasonable predictions.

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        My fellow Americans, I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw russia blue states forever. We begin bombing in five minutes!

        (Fun fact: Ronald Regan actually said that as a joke, the russia part, not the blue states)

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      You never mix stuff. But this is not caused by your intelligence (not intelligent), but because you have so little going on.