• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    We didn’t know of any obvious major health issues with Biden. He had a shit debate and everyone suddenly acts like they knew something was wrong other than just getting old, being propped up on cold meds or whatever the official excuse was. Prostate cancer doesn’t cause these symptoms.

    Sure, no one would have known about the prostate cancer, but plenty of people had been questioning Biden’s mental fitness since 2020, and they were called ageist by pundits. Stewart himself was accused of aiding Trump for running a segment on Biden’s strange mental gaffes just weeks before the debate. If people like Tapper had been doing their jobs instead of deferring to the administration, we would have had answers, not questions.

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      Yep, I strongly remember being called a useful idiot for wanting a better canidate than Biden after the horrid debate performance, with every time being deflected to “But did you see Trump?? Clearly Biden can stop him now!!”

      If Jon fucking Stewart was called ageist and a Russian bot because he accurately saw that Biden was not doing too well, its no wonder people called other fellow humans that too. I’m not shocked Apollo is trying to lie by omission of “We didn’t know of any obvious major health issues with Biden” besides being in the most stressful job in America and being the oldest person in that poisition.

      But instead Biden went on “full” steam ahead, only keeping to his one term promise when internal polling showing he’d lose to Trump by 400 EC votes.

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        Yeah, we technically didn’t know that he was cognitively impaired, but 80% of Americans said they thought he was too old and couldn’t handle another term. We were all listening to the guy speak and thinking, “…I’m not a doctor, but that guy seems like he’s struggling.”

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      Funny how nobody is calling Trump out on his mental fitness. Could you imagine the outrage if Biden had said and done half the shit Trump has. Such a double standard.

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        I’m loving the responses to your comment that just say, “There’s articles.”

        Like seriously what do they think shaped the whole “ Biden is too old” narrative? It wasn’t articles. It was regular people making jokes, memes, and content that caught on.

        Meanwhile, the left was busy Googling for articles like that was gonna shift culture.

        Go figure the left treating this like a research paper. Why the fuck are we like this.

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        First of all, there have been dozens of articles about Trump’s mental fitness. Second, Biden’s decline was sharper and more noticeable; that’s why, even though they both sounded like rambling old men during the debate, Biden came off worse. Finally, Trump’s mental fitness is usually people’s third concern behind his authoritarianism and corruption. Anyway, now that we’ve addressed that, it would be great if you could give a shit that Democratic party insiders hid the President’s cognitive decline from the country.