• dhork@lemmy.world
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    8 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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      8 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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      In 2020, his campaign had to stop scheduling evening events with Buden because he would start sundowning. He’s an 80 year old man who is clearly starting to show signs of his age.

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        8 months ago

        I agree with you that he’s showing signs of his age, but isn’t it possible he simply gets tired by 8PM, and since hes the boss, he can simply say “Dont schedule me for late nights thst arent necessary”?

        There’s a whole lot of daylight between that and “sundowning”.

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        8 months ago

        Source?

        Edit: 1 day later. There is no source. Consensus wins. They pulled it from their ass.

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          His ass.

          I could believe though of not having events past 8pm. Anyone with good sleep hygiene would do that though.

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      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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        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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        I don’t see anyone ignoring it. In fact, it appears to be all some folks can talk about.