• takeda@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The media is being paid to just hamper this. Isn’t it strange that no one cares about trump viabiity for the office?

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      4 months ago

      I’m concerned about both Biden and Trump viability in office, as many people are…just because you complain about Biden doesn’t mean you support Trump.

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        4 months ago

        From this interview it looks like his motor skills are slow but he is functioning fine.

        This whole thing was astroturfed, because trump knows Biden could get some Republicans voting for him. If it wasn’t, we would see similar requests for trump to stop down, but there are crickets, why?

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      4 months ago

      Trump’s cognitive deficiencies are old news, whereas the Biden we’re seeing now is unrecognizable from the last campaign. Given the narrow margin Biden won by last time, that should be concerning to his supporters. You really think this is a media conspiracy?

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        4 months ago

        It’s not. Democrats right now would vote for Biden if he was in a coma. We had the “luxury” of experiencing how each of them run the country.

        Biden, unlike other potential democratic candidates is more likely to have some non trump Republicans voting for him.

        The fact that media is only talking about Biden without urging trump to step down shows me the whole thing is astroturfed.

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          4 months ago

          Democrats right now would vote for Biden if he was in a coma

          Not like the Republican is an existential threat to American democracy or anything, we can just half ass it…

          /s

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    4 months ago

    A smart move on Biden’s part. A neurological evaluation isn’t a test that is going to come back with a positive or a negative. No matter who took the test, there would be a wealth of statistics for dishonest actors to distort.

    I suppose he could take a simplified screening test like Trump did, but that was not done by an independent neurologist.

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      4 months ago

      A smart move on Biden’s part.

      I agree. You don’t concede things like this. And honestly until last Thursday, it wasn’t Biden’s mental faculties that had him in the doghouse, it was his political ones.

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      4 months ago

      I’m about 20 minutes in.

      This is like, its almost more painful than the debate. This entire section on his polling is like… I can’t even speak to how beyond the pale this is.

      I think this interview hurt him. He not only is doubling down on his clearly floundering campaign, but very very detached from the political reality around him.

      I don’t know he pulls out of this tailspin if every time he gets in front of a camera he makes the situation worse.

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      4 months ago

      the cannabis consume is tested by an independent laboratory

      the president should be held to the same standards

      Instructions unclear. It sounds like you just wrote a sequel to “How High”.

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    4 months ago

    Maybe the Lord Almighty needs to step in and exercise His ultimate veto…

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      4 months ago

      why would god off Biden but not Trump?

      also, what kind of asshole did Er have to be, to get god’s special attention? (Gen 38, the asshole that god smote because “reasons”, leading to the story of Judah and Tamar… and also most famously the horribly-out-of-context justification for banning contraceptives.)

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        4 months ago

        why would god off Biden but not Trump?

        Because he’s a petty, spiteful, vengeful ghost who could have made a universe free from suffering and chose not to.

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    4 months ago

    Stephanopoulos: Would you undergo an independent medical evaluation that included cognitive tests

    Biden: I undergo that every day.

    Yea but are you passing?