This is why people shouldn't need to have to choose between two 80 year old candidates
The presidency requires a lot of travel. If your performance and capabilities are significantly affected by jet lag, you probably shouldn't be the president of a large and powerful nation. I imagine Trump will be affected just as much by jet lag as well if he were elected.
If he would actually work. The last time he just did a record amount of golfing and shitposting.
Why is every doom and gloom political post always from a less than 1 month old account? Suspicious that.
Oh please. Just stop the gaslighting.
Put someone else in there. Someone that will FIGHT like hell for this country and its people against the con menace.
“It was his stutter.”
“He had a cold.”
“He overprepared and got flustered.”
“A malicious actor used an Inator on him.”
"He was jet lagged"
I wonder what the next excuse is gonna be.
He was stutterlagged while coldmaxxing.
called you got old
even with elite healthcare your mental capacity still declines
no denying that fact or getting around it
Biden got old about a decade ago. The man's 81 years old. The US was still cleaning up the rubble from Pearl Harbor when he was born
Moderate Dems were telling FDR he had to wait one more term to get Americans universal healthcare when Biden was born...
And at 81 his policy position is still that we're not ready for it somehow.
People are acting like the job is easy.
But reports are coming out Biden is always like this in the evening...
Which is why we call it Sundowning, and it's a normal part of aging.
He's signing up to be the president though, traveling the globe is part of that, and emergencies might happen after 8pm.
He's just not able to handle it, which is fine. He's 81 and I'm like 99% he'd be out oldest president.
The big problem is his refusal to admit this is happening, again, completely normal. But not acceptable for the leader of America
Which is why we call it Sundowning, and it’s a normal part of aging.
I'm not even pushing some crazy conspiracy theories but just clarifying that sundowning is NOT a normal part of aging. Sundowning is only a symptom of dementia that doesn't affect healthy old folks.
Joe is just old.
From the article:
Mr Biden, 81, last returned from travel on 15 June, nearly two weeks ahead of the 27 June debate.
Stop pushing age as the problem with Biden. The problem with Biden is Trump. If you don't vote for biden, you get trump.
Fuck off and stop trying to ruin the country.
Look, I’m voting for Biden. But at some point, you have to start dealing in the currency of reality.
Yeah, I'm thinking of all the low-info types that will be shown clips of Biden, etc...and go vote for donnie, because, hey, at least he's younger.
I don't give a rip about Biden's age - it's just a number and I'm not someone dumb enough to think being younger makes a politician somehow magically better than someone older. And if he's slower and has senior moments - SFW. As long as he wins. Then Kamala can be President if he needs to step down. But we need to win. And that is not likely to happen with the way things are going right now.
If the Democrats had been honest about Biden's state from the start, they could have rallied behind a replacement by now.
His age is a problem to the point where some people are worried about voting for him. And the Democrats have to include that fact in their calculus as they make decisions and move forward - or they will lose.
The problem with Biden is that he's going to lose to Trump. Voters' major concern about Biden was his age, and he completely validated those concerns last week. His polls are bad and getting worse, and we can't wait and see if they get better; we don't have that much time to waste. We need to replace him.
A contested convention is risky, but it's our best shot right now. It would dominate the news cycle for at least two weeks and create energy and excitement in the base. As long as we come out with someone generally inoffensive, we have a good shot of winning. My pick would be Gavin Newsom; I don't particularly like him, but he's polling on Biden without even campaigning.
It is now very unlikely that Biden will win the election. Acknowledging that isn't the problem, and ignoring it and hoping it goes away isn't the solution. We need to accept it and find a solution.
I don’t care about Joe Biden’s age. I care about the fact that the Democrats are obviously lying to us.
It took days for them to come up with the “jet lag” explanation (though they instantly said it was a cold), and he hasn’t travelled internationally for two weeks. Come on, they’re lying.
For many people, I think the shock of Biden’s debate performance was less about the shock of Biden being feeble and more about the shock of realizing that the Democrats have been lying about his feebleness for so long
You clearly DO care as you decided to push that particular factoid out of this article.
I don't care what the excuses are, I don't give a fuck about anything other than trump NOT becoming president.
So I and you and everyone else in this fucking country with half a gob damn braincell needs to start focusing on the positives you have under Biden and start to TRULY understand how fucked you will be under Trump - especially now that the prez has carte blanch to assassinate people, apparently.
You clearly DO care as you decided to push that particular factoid out of this article.
No, the part I quoted is evidence that he's probably lying about jetlag.
I don't care about Biden's age.
Agreed it sucks. What do you want to do about it in the 2024 election?
Call your Senators, Congressman, State Rep, anyone with a D in front of their name. Tell them you've lost confidence in Biden and want the party to pressure him into stepping down before the convention. Then we can hold a contested convention, where the delegates will probably take several rounds of voting to decide a candidate. It's risky, but not as risky as doing nothing. It would also steal the headlines from Trump for a least a few weeks, which could build some momentum for the new candidate.
I don’t think that steals the headlines in a positive way.
I don't think it's going to steal them in a negative way. These things usually go by very quickly, and it's unlikely to become a drawn out, bitter affair like the last few primaries have been. If Biden drops out with grace, and the candidates all agree to keep things positive, it could be a huge boon for the party. Ezra Klein covered it in depth on his podcast this week, it's worth a listen.
Big Feinstein energy here...
Dude doesn't fucking know what's going on. He's not fit to run a Dairy Queen. Let alone a major world power.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The president's remarks come amid intra-party panic ahead of November's election over his mental fitness, and after a congressman from Texas became the first sitting Democratic lawmaker to call for him to step aside following the debate.
"I am hopeful that he will make the painful and difficult decision to withdraw," Rep Lloyd Doggett said in a statement on Tuesday.Mr Biden appeared to struggle through some responses during a debate with former President Donald Trump last Thursday.
"It’s not an excuse but an explanation,” he said at a private fundraiser in Virginia on Tuesday evening, referring to his travel.He also apologised for his performance and said it was "critical" that he win re-election, according to ABC News.Mr Biden made two separate trips to Europe within two weeks last month.
Incoherent debate performance heightens age fearsPanic and confusion as Democrats weigh Biden's futureOn 15 June, he appeared at a fundraiser alongside former President Barack Obama after an overnight trip from Italy.
His spokesman, Andrew Bates, said the president began "working well before" 11:00, after his exercise routine, during his time at Camp David.His age has been a long-simmering issue this election, with voters in multiple polls saying they think he is too old to be effective.Mr Biden is currently the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for the White House.
"Congressman Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland, told MSNBC this weekend that the debate created a "difficult situation".He acknowledged that there were "very honest and serious and rigorous conversations taking place at every level of our party.
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