It also makes me feel insane that the rat fuck around Biden’s age and mental capacity is being uncritically spread around by Democrats when Trump is *incredibly obviously* grotesquely mentally incapacitated, in a way that is genuinely terrifying.
It makes me feel very much unmoored from reality to see all this *buying into* the Biden Too Old ratfuck narrative, days after the Supreme Court ruled that Trump gets to be dictator for life, just weeks after Trump became a convicted felon (oh, and there’s the Epstein stuff that just came out).
Seriously. He's so clearly more mentally fit than Trump. I say this as someone dealing with a parent with advanced dementia.
Trump seems like he's got dementia, Biden seems like he's slowing down a normal amount for his age.
You can argue they're both too old. They are! But those are the choices.
One guy lost his train of thought, pretty embarrassingly, in a debate one night.
The other talks about sharks and Hannibal Lechter and thinks some airplanes are invisible, and hoards paperwork, some classified, in the bathroom in his own personal Versailles.
And one more thing, because I'm all het up about this, but the only two sitting Congress people calling for him to resign over age are also part of the fucking gerontocracy. Everyone over 70 can step down or shut up.
He's been on an absolute tear at his rallies obsessed with batteries in the water and sharks (or he brings up the damn windmills again) and he met recently with CEOs who came out of the meeting and said he was all over the place and couldn't finish a thought. Barely reported.
But he could barely finish a thought during his entire presidency - that doesn't appear to be a non-starter for Trump. He doesn't look much like he's deteriorated from whatever this was before that people voted for. It's awful and I don't understand it but it's bad and incompetent as it ever was!
I remember when they had to lead Mitch off the stage. The Republicans circled around their buddy with a protective shield and the whole episode is pretty much forgotten. Personally, I have zero problem with Joe’s age. I actually think someone slipped some drug into his Gatorade or coffee.
I have a problem with both of their ages. I have a problem with a gerontocracy. But the primary voters, in their infinite wisdom, have chosen these two yahoos, and so we must choose one of them.
(note that this link has selected an image of bernie Sanders, who I do not advocates for president, but is directly about the fact that the DNC asserts that, as a private org, it can and always intends to run anyone they like regardless of primary outcomes)
One of the old guys has a perfectly competent vice president.
The other guy hasn't even picked a running mate yet, and for all we know it may be David Duke or Steve King.
Like, what are we doing here?
he has to pick someone who won't betray him
but unfortunately everyone he's ever met is an unprincipled, self-obsessed, greedy, two-faced, backstabbing rat-fuck you couldn't trust to put a quarter in a meter
so you can see the sort of dilemma he's in
And referred to him as “the late, great Hannibal Lecter,” which means he believes three things:
1. Hannibal Lecter was A Good Guy
2. Hannibal Lecter was real
3. Hannibal Lecter is dead now
All three are alarming.
Except canonically he’s not! When last we left him (in the novels; iirc the ending of the movie was more ambiguous, and the TV series is an adaptation of Red Dragon) he was living in a mansion with Clarice Starling!
Also: Biden has been on camera giving speeches since the debate--there's one the other day where he talks about climate change for 15 minutes. Granted he's on a teleprompter, but Biden on teleprompter is a thousand times more coherent than Trump on teleprompter.
Exactly this. When you've been around someone with dementia, and those word salad/disconnected thoughts, it's usually easy to see the difference between that and just the memory snags that come with age. Listening to trump is scary. Seriously.
And one problem is how few people are talking about them both being too old, as if they aren't essentially the same age. It is driving me up the freaking wall.
I feel like I'm losing my goddamn mind most days, Faine. Like I'm separated from reality by a soundproof pane of glass screaming, "STOP FALLING FOR THE BULLSHIT!! STOP FALLING FOR THE BULLSHIT!!" and no one hears me.
The mainstream media has found their new “but her emails” and it seems most everyone is falling for it.
I can only imagine the America we’d have if the media hadn’t been bought by oligarchs hellbent on bending us to their will.
The no joke solution to all of our problems is to go as low as possible. I.e: "Biden is not in cognitive decline you moron, you just were too dumb to comprehend what he said, he is slow and uses big words. Your guy finishes sentences my kindergartener thinks"
Same. I know we need to care about whether the president can do the job. But I’m also supposed to care about my car insurance and signs of a 1933 Nazi Enabling Act means I really can’t care about that right now.
I was just talking about this with a friend today. The balance of trying to stay sane while also remaining engaged as a responsible citizen has been...taxing, to say the least.
