Biden blames jet lag and travel for poor debate performance
Biden blames jet lag and travel for poor debate performance
The president's comments come after a first Democrat in Congress called for him to withdraw from the election.
That’s weird. I thought they said it was because he had a cold.
Why is every doom and gloom political post always from a less than 1 month old account? Suspicious that.
I recently switched to Lemmy from Reddit. You can find a much longer post history from me on Reddit. Same username.
There's literally no reason to believe you are the same person. We we believed that, it would be an excellent way to exploit us.
Even so, this ain't Reddit. You need to go ahead and learn that right now.
You're new here, and you're posting stuff that opposes the only person standing between America and a rapid fall into violent authoritarianism. Welcome to Lemmy and don't carry water for fascists if you want to have a good time.
“It was his stutter.”
“He had a cold.”
“He overprepared and got flustered.”
“A malicious actor used an Inator on him.”
"He was jet lagged"
I wonder what the next excuse is gonna be.
He was stutterlagged while coldmaxxing.
This is why people shouldn't need to have to choose between two 80 year old candidates
The presidency requires a lot of travel. If your performance and capabilities are significantly affected by jet lag, you probably shouldn't be the president of a large and powerful nation. I imagine Trump will be affected just as much by jet lag as well if he were elected.
If he would actually work. The last time he just did a record amount of golfing and shitposting.
Oh please. Just stop the gaslighting.
Put someone else in there. Someone that will FIGHT like hell for this country and its people against the con menace.
called you got old
even with elite healthcare your mental capacity still declines
no denying that fact or getting around it
Biden got old about a decade ago. The man's 81 years old. The US was still cleaning up the rubble from Pearl Harbor when he was born
Moderate Dems were telling FDR he had to wait one more term to get Americans universal healthcare when Biden was born...
And at 81 his policy position is still that we're not ready for it somehow.
People are acting like the job is easy.
But reports are coming out Biden is always like this in the evening...
Which is why we call it Sundowning, and it's a normal part of aging.
He's signing up to be the president though, traveling the globe is part of that, and emergencies might happen after 8pm.
He's just not able to handle it, which is fine. He's 81 and I'm like 99% he'd be out oldest president.
The big problem is his refusal to admit this is happening, again, completely normal. But not acceptable for the leader of America
Which is why we call it Sundowning, and it’s a normal part of aging.
I'm not even pushing some crazy conspiracy theories but just clarifying that sundowning is NOT a normal part of aging. Sundowning is only a symptom of dementia that doesn't affect healthy old folks.
Joe is just old.
From the article:
Mr Biden, 81, last returned from travel on 15 June, nearly two weeks ahead of the 27 June debate.
Stop pushing age as the problem with Biden. The problem with Biden is Trump. If you don't vote for biden, you get trump.
Fuck off and stop trying to ruin the country.
The problem with Biden is that he's going to lose to Trump. Voters' major concern about Biden was his age, and he completely validated those concerns last week. His polls are bad and getting worse, and we can't wait and see if they get better; we don't have that much time to waste. We need to replace him.
A contested convention is risky, but it's our best shot right now. It would dominate the news cycle for at least two weeks and create energy and excitement in the base. As long as we come out with someone generally inoffensive, we have a good shot of winning. My pick would be Gavin Newsom; I don't particularly like him, but he's polling on Biden without even campaigning.
It is now very unlikely that Biden will win the election. Acknowledging that isn't the problem, and ignoring it and hoping it goes away isn't the solution. We need to accept it and find a solution.
I don’t care about Joe Biden’s age. I care about the fact that the Democrats are obviously lying to us.
It took days for them to come up with the “jet lag” explanation (though they instantly said it was a cold), and he hasn’t travelled internationally for two weeks. Come on, they’re lying.
For many people, I think the shock of Biden’s debate performance was less about the shock of Biden being feeble and more about the shock of realizing that the Democrats have been lying about his feebleness for so long
GTFO joe