• dhork@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Do you have any proof at all that Biden is mentally unfit, or are you just repeating what TikTok says?

    All I see is that he’s old, his stutter has gotten worse, and he tripped over a sandbag once.

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      6 months ago

      My favorite part about all this is both sides just kind of ignoring that their candidate can’t string together a coherent sentence, gets confused a lot, and mistakes people for others all the time as if those aren’t signs of cognitive decline.

      Cheers. Thank you for doing your part to ensure this never changes.

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        6 months ago

        Here’s an excerpt from the very beginning of Biden’s speech two weeks ago:

        In the winter of 1777, it was harsh and cold as the Continental Army marched to Valley Forge. General George Washington knew he faced the most daunting of tasks: to fight and win a war against the most powerful empire that existed in the world at the time.

        His mission was clear. Liberty, not conquest. Freedom, not domination. National independence, not individual glory.

        America made a vow. Never again would we bow down to a king.

        And here’s an except from Trump’s speech from his most recent rally just a few days ago:

        By the way, they never report the crowd on January 6. You know, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley … did you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it? All of it, because of lots of things, like Nikki Haley is in charge of security, we offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, national guards, whatever they want. They turned it down.

        Biden is old, just like Trump. Nobody denies that. But surely you aren’t trying to “both sides” this one by equating the two mentally or physically, right?

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      6 months ago

      his stutter has gotten worse,

      He was a favorite in the 1988 presidential primary because he was such a a great public speaker…

      He got over his stutter when he was a child, and a stutter doesn’t make someone say something completely different than what they meant to. Hell, he wasn’t even doing it while Obama’s VP, and he was in his 70s then.

      Stop pretending he just has a stutter, he’s 80 years old and he gets confused sometimes. It’ll happen to all of us if we’re lucky to live that long.

      That doesn’t mean he’s still fit to be presidet, and he sure as shit isn’t the best option for a Dem candidate even if he is mentally fit for office.

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        6 months ago

        He was a favorite in the 1988 presidential primary because he was such a a great public speaker

        Were you alive back then? As I remember it, he was a perennial also-ran because he couldn’t help but stay stupid shit now and then. It’s as if the word “Gaffe” in politics was invented to describe stupid things Joe Biden said. And saying stuff like that stopped campaigns cold back then. (remember when Howard Dean’s campaign got killed over screaming the wrong way?)

        But then Trump happened, and all of a sudden saying stupid shit all the time was no longer a liability.

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          6 months ago

          I was alive and eligible to vote in 88 but I was a dumb kid that voted but didn’t pay attention to the primaries so I don’t remember him at all.

          And he wasn’t a “great public speaker” in that he was known for saying dumb shit as you say. (If anything gaffe was a term that applied earlier to Dan Quayle, former VP).

          I don’t recall for sure if the stutter was present then or to what degree.

          I also don’t see a lot of evidence that he is mentally unfit (for his age) as far as I am aware.

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            6 months ago

            I also don’t see a lot of evidence that he is mentally unfit (for his age) as far as I am aware.

            Curious, have you even heard of his gaffes and other funny stuff (Corn Pop, pony soldier, trueananashabadapressure, falling, not knowing where to go after a speech)? There are so many funny moments from his speeches. People put together “best of” compilations on every video site. They don’t get reported on CNN and stuff, you do have to look for them.

            The mental fitness stuff is exaggerated for the most part, but he does lose track of his line of thinking when speaking off the cuff, without a teleprompter. He will start reciting a story he’s told 1000x, then he just sighs and says, “anyways…”

            I would say, as with Trump, to go to as original of a source as you can. Watch an hour long campaign really or whatever to hear the whole speech in context. Don’t just read a headline or synopsis from the media.