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[-] Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au 0 points 1 week ago

yes, but this is nothing new. Reagan was basically cognitively absent in a significant portion of his last term, and many believe his wife essentially took the role of the presidency. This has been talking point among democrats for decades now, so there was a lot of "revenge" coping going on with Biden. His cognitive state is not truly known. The books, like Tappers, have provable false information them. However those within the west wing at that time have things against their stated evaluation on Biden's competency. We, unfortunately, have no idea how bad it was, and all the outpouring of statements against him, and in his defense, are too full of intentional disinformation to really know, at this point. I imagine that some years from now there will be information that comes to light that cuts through a lot of this obfuscation, and we will have closer answers. Right now too many parties have interest in it being not known. I think if there was clear records of his decline in the records from the white house, Trump would be parading them around. So we shall see.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

He could actually speak coherently. Are we seriously comparing a couple gaffes with a constant stream of sentence fragments?

[-] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Biden's final debate performance was pretty awful. Seemed lost a couple times. Nothing like the guy who had debated Paul Ryan years before. It was so bad that he had to drop out.

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

He looked like a tired old man in that debate. Good grief, i will never understand why everyone points at that debate as if he wasn't lucid.

[-] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

as if he wasn’t lucid.

Simply doesn't fit the narrative that the only acceptable old politician is Bernie.

[-] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

He never seemed "lost", he seemed hoarse.

[-] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago
[-] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago

He doesn't look lost. It looks like he's someone with a well known stutter stumbling over his prepared talking points. And getting flustered over it because it's a very public event.

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