Microplastics Sommelier: i’m much more worried by his campaign’s inability to understand and respond to public concern in a remotely timely way. the nyt is what it is, but they just don’t have a handy, repeatable, explanation for what we saw, and the absence of one is making it worse.

have said this before but trump’s brain is pretty obviously far more cooked than biden’s if you listen to what they actually say. but the presentation - basically trump being a spaz - makes trump *look and sound* less cooked to many people i think

Biden v Trump is a pretty direct ageism thing. Trump is aging worse than Biden, but due to vanity and aging in different ways Trump codes as less old and therefore gets way less shit for it.

i’m much more worried by his campaign’s inability to understand and respond to public concern in a remotely timely way. the nyt is what it is, but they just don’t have a handy, repeatable, explanation for what we saw, and the absence of one is making it worse.

and it is coming hand in hand with a glacial, stoic, attitude towards the out of control scotus winding up to plunge us into autocracy. i can’t say whether that’s befuddlement or what, but it’s an inability to meet the occasion with force that is becoming pretty frightening.

I mean, they immediately said he had a cold. How much more can they explain? He IS 81 years old.

that would be perfectly reasonable! so do an interview right away and assuage everyone’s concern. reiterate the strong parts of the debate. don’t wait for it to take over a news cycle unaddressed like this.

and now they’re saying it’s because he was traveling two weeks prior. which is it?

Both? His old tired body’s weakened immune system caught up.

They've said 4 different things, please don't be so gullible

How much is it the campaign vs the whole of the media salivating to setup this horse race and their ongoing 'he's old' narrative that is easy to write and rile people up over, that I haven't seen then let up on for well over a year?

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