A name for a politician who shows some evidence of mental decline that is not reported on -- or is actively concealed -- by media. It's namesake, President Joe Biden, is a very good example. Paul von Hindenburg was as well.
Joementia seemed lost at his recent town hall, but media cherrypicked his strongest answers for their clips.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)