For his opening act on Thursday, Biden made his way out of bed and to the NATO summit across town, all for the honor of stepping on stage and referring to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy — whom U.S. taxpayers have gifted hundreds of billions of dollars at Biden's direction to fight Russia — as "President Putin". To refer to Zelenskiy as Putin, and at a NATO event nonetheless, is about as big of a f*ck up as you can possibly make given the world's geopolitical climate right now.

This would have been like introducing President George W. Bush throwing out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium after 9/11 as "President Osama Bin Laden".

And if you weren't in stitches after his first set, Biden returned later in the evening for an encore at the much heralded 'Big Boy' press conference he had been scheduled to give in order to show the world, to quote the movie Big Daddy, that he could "wipe his own ass".

But instead of instilling confidence in the nation, Biden coughed, mumbled and stumbled his way through about an hour's worth of prepared remarks and softball questions.

At one point, he referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as "Vice President Trump".

Sadly, Biden is slurring his words far more noticeably each day. Even for a skeptic of Biden's, I had to sigh and turn the press conference off before it finished, writing on X last night: "He is cooked. This has to be the end."

In other words, even for us conservatives, libertarians and critics of the Biden administration, it's just getting difficult to watch. Each day jokes about elder abuse look closer and closer to reality, and the humor of a massive clusterf*ck in the Democratic political arena is eroded away by the blossoming realization that it's simply depressing to watch a human being — somebody's son, father and husband — deteriorate publicly, without dignity, and surrounded by people too cowardly to do the right thing for him.

The gaffes last night quickly shot down what little chance Biden had of trying to stay in the race, in my opinion. I know it's technically "up to him" but the powers that be couldn't have scripted a worse outcome than him calling Zelenskiy "Putin" and then calling Harris "Trump". Biden's goose is cooked, mark my words.