Biden’s fitness for a second term

Good to see that Biden still has a sense of humor

I didn't take a dig at you.  I made an assumption about making friends after reading your complaints about liberals.  If I was wrong, fine.  

And pointing out facts about Ramaswamy is not a dig, either.  For someone who claims to care so much about the truth, you seem to get really defensive when anyone else makes truthful statements that don't fit with your narrative.

I have been very clear in that I think trump is extremely dumb with mental issues.  That is my opinion based on what I witnessed.  

What you said in the post in question was “ And that was BEFORE the confirmation of his "diminished mental faculties" from someone that spent a good of time with him”

The key word being “CONFIRMATION”.

Normally when one says a medical condition has been confirmed it’s done by medical professionals.  I’m simply asking who in the medical profession confirmed President Biden has “diminished mental faculties”.  I did bold the part I was talking about.

As usual you refuse to answer a question, instead of answering you go off on some ridiculous tangent.

Then you whine because no one wants to have an honest discussion.

Some of your recent posts sounded like you were complaining that everyone has been out to get you. I was trying to point out that my post, which you labeled as a dig, was not actually a dig.

As far as facts, you are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own set of facts.

On Valentine's Day, this is a really sweet story of how they met. And President Biden does not appear to have any trouble remembering details from 50 years ago.

Interesting that on the other poll that asks Do you think Biden has a significant mental decline?, there are 86 no votes and only 37 yes. That poll is more neutral and not flawed with only 1 answer. Seems like that might be a truer, more accurate count.

I'm not sure if you're accurately describing the poll or if we're just looking at it differently. Here's a recent poll that I found with the exact question. President Biden is 81 (a fact that the media is constantly reminding us) I think almost everyone could agree that because of his age, there are some risks to his physical and mental health. Add to that, the presidency is a highly stressful job.

Here's my answer and I imagine a lot of others would agree. I would probably answer the poll with either major or moderate concerns. However, those concerns will not change my vote. I will not hesitate to vote for Joe Biden because I think he is the most qualified candidate. I trust the people around President Biden and none of them are saying he is not capable of performing the functions of his job. Biden meets with politicians on both sides of the aisle, world leaders etc and none of them are commenting negatively about Biden's ability to perform his job.

In comparison, a lot of Trump's advisors have come out and said Trump is not qualified, not fit or should never hold office again.

Seems like a pretty easy choice.

And just to repeat, I don't put a lot of stock in polls 9 months out.  Even closer to elections, they're not always accurate.  Just look at the red wave that was predicted and never happened in 2022.  I think the results of the elections in 2018, 2020, 2022 and the special election in NY are probably a better predictor of November.

So you can keep repeating the results of the NBC poll or your flawed poll, but I don't think either poll is significant or meaningful.


www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/bidens-age-fitness-top-list-voters-concerns-poll-finds-rcna137212


Does each statement give you major concerns, moderate concerns, minor concerns, or no real concerns about that candidate?

At 81 years old, Joe Biden not having the necessary mental and physical health to be president for a second term

The choices were major concerns, moderate concerns, minor concerns and no concerns.

I think he's right.  We've run out of words to describe the awfulness of Trump.  And Trump has done so many horrible things, we just expect it and are somewhat numb to it.

www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/opinion/donald-trump-biden-election.html

Everywhere I turn, people are rightly laboring to sound the alarm about Donald Trump’s spectacularly reckless, deeply evil expectorations — like his remark that if a NATO ally weren’t pulling its financial weight, he might encourage Russia to invade it.

The problem is that we’ve run out of sirens.

And that’s not principally because we used them too often in the past — though we’re somewhat guilty of that. It’s because the examples of Trump’s moral perversity are pretty much infinite. How can we not exhaust our storehouse of warnings and our vocabulary of censure when someone suggests suspending the Constitution, muses about executing a military general who’s not lap-dog enough, mocks Paul Pelosi’s head injuries from a hammer-wielding assailant, exhorts and then idolizes insurrectionists, weaves ludicrous lies to reject election results and undermine democracy, and sends political Valentines to despots the world over?

The usual pejoratives don’t cut it. Take “hypocrite.” It shortchanges the magnitude of Trump’s double standards and disingenuousness. He hectored those NATO countries about not paying their bills, but he’s infamous for not paying his own. He chided Nikki Haley for casting her defeat in the New Hampshire primary as a kind of victory, but he cast his defeat in the presidential election as both a victory and a conspiracy.

He faulted Haley’s husband, who’s doing military service, for his absence on the campaign trail, but his own spouse, who’s doing nothing of the kind, is scarcer than the yeti. Michael Haley is in fatigues; Melania Trump is merely fatigued. Doesn’t deter Donald. Can a hypocrite attain frequent-flier status, like Diamond on Delta? Trump earned it long ago.

I’ve always maintained that his superpower is his shamelessness: It means that he’ll go places competitors wouldn’t dare to — they’re restrained by this musty and quaint quality known as decency. But it also means that his taunts, tirades, insults and inanities are so legion that they blur together. No one of them stands out properly or sticks around. Each has too much competition, too much company.

We in the world outside of MAGA aren’t so much culpable of crying wolf as we are foiled, at this point, by the challenge of capturing the wolf’s madness and appetite. President Biden struggled with that on Tuesday. Responding to Trump’s NATO nuttiness, he noted that “no other president in our history has ever bowed down to a Russian dictator.” “For God’s sake,” he added, “it’s dumb, it’s shameful, it’s dangerous, it’s un-American.”

That’s a stern condemnation — but is there an adjective or idea in it that hasn’t been thrown at Trump before? I bet that Biden’s lament washed over many Americans, some of whom will later wonder why he isn’t more forcefully denouncing Trump.

We’re all muddling through this together.

Well, not all of us: Trump is conducting an experiment in unbound narcissism with no room for anybody else. It’s bonkers, it’s unscrupulous, it’s terrifying. Pick your put-down. It won’t be sufficiently heard because it won’t be remotely fresh.