Yeah, that is not dementia, that is natural distraction/digression. The fact that he was unable to assemble the words to get his precise meaning across does not alter the fact that he was entirely cogent and just stumbling a little.
The other guy, by comparison, dropped at least 50 BS bombs in his ~45 minutes of delusional blorting. This is our choice: a bland Biden America or to be living inside Individual-ONE’s delusions, as he tries to make the country be what he thinks it is.
I do not care if the rent is comped, I do not want to be living inside that man’s head.
Reagan was senile at the end of his term, and he was pretty effective despite that. Trump is also losing his marbles, and is an evil liar who might decide to start WWIII because someone insulted him.
It seems clear to me that Biden had a cold, and it hurt him in the debate. It also seems clear to me that the cold wasn’t the whole problem. You know what, he has surrounded himself with competent people. He’ll do fine. I plan to work for Biden’s re-election. But yes, this debate hurt his chances. He looked terrible. So I’ll also be working to elect Democrats to the House and Senate. Well need them.
What is Axios?
They just tossed a grenade on the White House serving staff. They also said Chandler West (White House’s deputy director of photography from January 2021 to May 2022) publicly said “It’s time for Joe to go.”.
“I know many of these people and how the White House operates. They will say he has a ‘cold’ or just experienced a ‘bad night,’ but for weeks and months, in private, they have all said what we saw last night — Joe is not as strong as he was just a couple of years ago,” West wrote, according to screenshots obtained by Axios.
Well, shit, if we’ve lost the former deputy director of photography, we may as well pack it in now!
Seriously, if this is the best they can do, I’m not impressed. Who wants to bet this guy was fired and has an axe to grind?
Hard to say. Maybe he woke Biden up from a nap. But photographers are going to have a lot of access to the inner workings of the White House. Maybe it will all die down in a couple of weeks.
On a different note, the new Time magazine cover is just brutal. It seems way out of character for an outlet that isn’t hostile to Democrats.
Time’s agenda is to sell magazines. They’ve made the same calculation the rest of the media has and have concluded that a Trump presidency will accomplish that. We’ve even got pundits admitting that on Twitter;
Back to Mr. West, his LinkedIn profile is remarkably silent about why he left the White House, and even the post about his leaving says nothing about why except “spending more time with my wife” (but wouldn’t you know who won the pony, he worked for Elizabeth Warren in the 2020 primary!) That was in May 2022 - are we supposed to believe that Biden has been mentally infirm for over two years and nobody noticed?
Have you considered reading your own responses upthread to find out? Could be enlightening.
I said nothing of the kind. But your ongoing deflection is noted.
Thank you for continuing to prove my point.
That’s not a response. I have no idea what your point is.
Not a hard question to answer.
If Biden interrupting the very important G7 photo op by wandering off to acknowledge the loser peon parachutist that just risked his life for the entertainment of the G7 very much more valuable humans doesn’t prove Joe is senile what does?
I agree. It’s up there with the time Biden suggested nuking hurricanes and raking forest floors and shining a UV light up your ass to cure covid.
That’s funny because I’ve mentioned it multiple times, including in posts you’ve responded to.
You push the narrative that using a teleprompter requires no thought at all (which isn’t really true, but whatever), but when Biden’s extemporaneous jousting with hecklers at the SOTU was pointed out you claimed that he must have memorized various planned responses.
It wasn’t. Which is why I answered it. What part of “I said nothing of the kind” did you not understand?
Of those two people, yeah Biden is infinitely better.
Do you think that if we ask nicely a crisis would back off and wait for the next day?
We can do better (than Biden).
and this is what everyone should have taken away from the debate.
If a geopolitical emergency happened to coincide with Biden being incapacitated in some way (mentally or otherwise) … the backstop is the array of competent staff he has ready and able to step up, starting with Kamala Harris.
When you vote for President, you’re not voting for a singular mastermind who makes all decisions and causes all things to happen. You’re voting for, among other things, a general governmental ethic. The President is the public face of that ethic, yes, and will frequently make the hard calls based on competent, considered advice. But it’s not as if in the event that a President is suddenly unable to carry out their duties, everything just grinds to a halt.
I just wish Biden had some memorable lines.
“My opponent would like to make my age a campaign issue. But I won’t use his relative youth and inexperience against him. I will, however, use his irreverent truth, and his inexperience in telling the truth.”
This will be the thought process of many voters.
Not of the best-informed: we know that Trump on his best day is worse than Biden on his worst day. But our votes are not enough.
To beat Trump, there must be votes from millions who don’t follow the news much, or who don’t always (or ever) vote. And all of those people are going to be seeing clips from this debate from now until the election.
And they’re going to be thinking ‘okay, maybe he had a bad day–but what if that’s not the ONLY bad day he has between now and 2029?’
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Sure, that’s what they SHOULD (my bolding in the quote) have taken away.
There are all kinds of things they SHOULD have taken away.
But SHOULD is meaningless.
What matters is what they DO take away–and how it leads them to vote.
I have a question, as a non-US citizen (I live in Finland but I like to follow US politics because it’s kinda entertaining).
Given that there are multiple videos showing Biden in embarrassing confused state on some occasions, and things like that, is it still possible for the Democrats to replace him with someone else as candidate or is it too late at this stage? If it is possible, who would be the most likely substitute?
That given is not correct. Biden does have a speech impediment- a stutter- which he has had to content with all his life, even as a Senator back in the 70’s. Bidens performance during the debate was an outlier and unusual.
The only way for the Democrats to replace him is if he dies or he withdraws. In that case, it would be Harris.
That assertion is super-deniable. That quote isn’t even particularly incoherent. It’s not a very good example of public speaking, but it’s nowhere near, “Obviously mentally incapacitated.”