Kaitlin Ruiz: every syllable is a negotiation--which, to my mind, demonstrates a kind of mental limberness many of us could envy.

This this this fuckin' *this*. Jesus christ, people.

*Joe Biden is not demented, he has a fucking learning disability*

lot of self-described progressives have an ableism problem

"He's a ret***!" No, my good fucknugget, he has a STUTTER, and that's a lifelong thing to fight in EVERYTHING HE SAYS.

every syllable is a negotiation--which, to my mind, demonstrates a kind of mental limberness many of us could envy.

Right? The CONSTANT self-awareness and -monitoring required just to have a "normal" conversation are some next-level shit.

(There are *plenty* of policy-related things to get mad at him about—I certainly am, even though I'm equally certainly going to vote for him to at least *slow down* how fast we're going down the drain—but people have to focus on minor disability and AGE. Massively ableist bullshit.)

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