Nicholas Bauer PhD: There's a window where the Presidency increasingly becomes listless as staffers don't want to give up power while the principal slowly gets worse. That's the problem with degenerative conditions - there's no bright line, and everyone involved is incentivized to wait it out.

the media, led by the Times, has done to Biden what they did to Claudine Gay at Harvard there is no way to convince the public, because the people who he needs to convince to do that (the media) are never going to tell the public that he’s fine I think dropping out is a when, not if at this point

"President Biden has told a key ally that he knows he may not be able to salvage his candidacy if he cannot convince the public in the coming days that he is up for the job after a disastrous debate performance last week."

Biden Told Ally That He Is Weighing Whether to Continue in the Racewww.nytimes.com The president’s conversation is the first indication that he is seriously considering whether he can recover after a devastating performance on the debate stage in Atlanta on Thursday.

To hell with the New York Times, but I don't think these concerns are manufactured. Progressive spaces like TNR and Zeteo expressed immediate concern about Biden after the debate. But so did Never-Trump allies. The move to seriously grapple with stepping down is broad and organic.

They're 100% manufactured, because it doesn't even matter. It's not like if Biden dies or becomes incapacitated in office the country falls apart. He's just a man. We'll be fine either way.

There's a window where the Presidency increasingly becomes listless as staffers don't want to give up power while the principal slowly gets worse. That's the problem with degenerative conditions - there's no bright line, and everyone involved is incentivized to wait it out.

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