Michael Tae Sweeney: Donald Trump has good days and bad days but increasingly only bad days. He's lost it - he can't focus and his brains are leaking out his ears, but the press is very impressed with him because HE CAN STILL SHOUT

Donald Trump has good days and bad days but increasingly only bad days. He's lost it - he can't focus and his brains are leaking out his ears, but the press is very impressed with him because HE CAN STILL SHOUT

"RETRUTH IF YOU WANT TELEVISED MILITARY TRIBUNALS" is, to me, a deranged and instantly disqualifying thing for a presidential candidate to say, but on the other hand joe biden looks and sounds very old

increasingly of the opinion that Biden could have fought the debate to a draw if he'd just shouted folksy insults at Trump all night

Yeah absolutely needs to call him names and insult him and stuff. There's no debating "policy" or whatever with him he and his voters don't care.

it would have been ugly as hell and the headlines would have been "two old guys scream at each other for 90 minutes" but it would have been forgotten in 48 hours

Yep

i definitely still think about the part where reagan clearly had cognitive decline yet also that ol Gipper Affect and no one cared because this is actually all about aesthetics not substance

& the fact that voters know Biden would lean heavily on his admin removes the valid concern abt democratic representation, I think.

What's especially bonkers about this is... we know how Biden is as the actual President, because he is President RIGHT NOW. Joe Biden at age 83 will not be enormously different from Joe Biden at age 79, and we have seen that at age 79 Biden was probably the most active pres we've had in generations!

POTUS coverage centers performances (debates, pressers, interviews, statements & speeches) rationally disregarding the age-related cognitive decline in POTUS would expose how empty all that coverage isz So there’s gonna be all this institutional weight in news rooms against thinking like that.

Who knows what's up with him, outside of his staff, but I suspect he's entirely capable of the folders-and-Secretaries-in-the-Oval work, as well as the "President's on the phone for you, Senator" politicking. Just don't expect a tired old man with a stutter to throw down like Eminem.

This is the same press that was convinced that a fancy autocomplete was about to become a superintelligence because it told them very confidently it was really smart.

This is something that’s driven me nuts about the post debate coverage. There’s nothing impressive about being to emphatically lie for two hours

Look maybe democracy doesn’t work in the first place. How old is the king anyway?

I guess the real question should be, “What do we think of Keir Starmer?”

One might say that someone who makes factual errors like "all legal scholars agree that Row should be overturned" is cognitively impaired. I'm sure the NYT will get right on this and investigate

he should have just responded with "classic gish gallop nonsense" and say something else that hopefully didn't include stats of any sort. Let folks go to the internet and look up what it gish gallop is. His team certainly should have been ready for it. he would have won the debate of public opinion.

Exactly. They make the same mistake Condi Rice made with W: he acts like a prick, therefore he must be brilliant.

From a few months ago: open.substack.com/pub/kindler/...

Trump’s Steep Mental Decline Should Be a Top Campaign Issueopen.substack.com And the Reasons It’s Not Demonstrate the Problems with Our Politics

I get it, but I'll vote for Joe Biden's corpse if I have to, not because I particularly care about Joe Biden the man, but I happen to enjoy the government that's been built on his watch and it is essential to continue succeeding. Everything falls if Biden-Harris loses. For the rest of our lives.

My goodness. That Donald Trump is in a bad way. If only the Democratic Party had the confidence to attack Trump's age and befuddlement.

It doesn’t matter. The center right politico-media complex has deemed ‘Bidens Old’ to be the only issue that matters in this race. E.g. Courts ruling a Trump dictatorship is just fine (right after they said they’re the only experts to decide on American Government) and it’s already off the table.

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