During the last couple of months, having seen a couple of his speeches, I am fearful that Biden is suffering from dementia. All joking aside, I don't care about a man's political affiliation when it comes to being a member of my party - The HUMAN race. I see a man who is struggling with mental acuity and a downgrading of his cognitive abilities. I feel sorry for him.
shareStop promoting this nonsense. He'll be a far better president than Trump, although that's a pretty low bar.
shareIt isn't nonsense. Anyone that has watched Biden, especially anyone that remembers him when he was campaigning as VP with Obama can see that he is having serious problems. The best thing if the world would be for him to step aside now while the party still has time to find a suitable replacement.... but if he stays in and gets the nomination he stands a very good chance of losing to Trump. He might be able to hide the dementia now.. but stick him in a debate where he has to think on his feet and he is going to scare away quite a few voters when he just stands there after a question is asked an looks around wondering where he is.
shareTrump has been the greatest president of the last 70 years, or more. Biden has dementia, and should step down.
shareWhatever your opinion on Trump, Biden is F'd in the brainpan. No question about it. DNC knows it and they are planning around it as I type this. Wait and see.
shareWell, he is getting up there. I hate ageism discrimination as much as I despise Aerosmith. However, I would be worried about voting for someone to be president whose pushing 80. At least if Trump gets back in as I hope he does, he'll be 80 or 81 by the time it's time to step down. I think 80 is too old to be president.
shareHe stutters and he makes gaffs ... he is not well produced and slick. But he can do the job. He has more experience all over the world and in the US than all of Trump's cabinet, who only have experience in corruption.
Biden is an honest guy who probably is not a good debater, but the President does not need someone who is a debater ... all his public appearances are pretty much scripted. We need a President who knows that is what and what is going on. That is Joe Biden. True, he does not exude a lot of confidence when he speaks, but you cannot run for President and do all the things necessary for that and have dementia ... you just can't.
The problem is Trump, and Trump needs to go ... preferable to prison ... but out of the White House in any case. Biden understands what needs to be done - most of it is to reverse Trump horrible rules and appointments. And finally there is the Supreme Court and RBG ... just for the sake of the SCOTUS Biden needs to be the one to right the scales of justice in the country.
To brux - Your opinion, not mine
shareGlad you are clear on that. Seriously, have you ever been around or do you know anything about dementia? No one can have real dementia and operate effectively in the real world ... let alone run for President.
Trump clearly has a lot more issues than Biden. Biden trips and misspeaks, but Trump is just plain lazy, ignorant and holds ideas that were popular when he was a kid - he cannot learn anything new, and does not even want to.
My late aunt had dementia. I know what it looks like. It starts slow and grows, and that is what I fear is happening to Biden. I could be wrong of course, but considering the man's age, I doubt it.
shareI have had 3 cases of dementia in the other side of my family, and I know as much and probably more than you do about it. Biden does not have dementia.
You can say he acts weird, because he has always done that, but as even you mention, what ever symptom you focus on it gets more exaggerated and the frequency goes up. Biden has none of that. If anything he has learned and is more deliberative about what he says, staying on message. Not perfectly, but about 500% more than Trump.
Biden like a lot of people has trouble expressing himself in public under stress. That is it.
Why should that one talent or ability be important for a President whose main job is to manage and make decisions. When you look at the President's job, Donald Trump either had dementia or is just incredibly incompetent and stupid.
And that other thing that show Trump's decision-making ability is corroded is the fact that he is a compulsive blabbermouth. He simply cannot shut up even when he knows he is talking the most obvious horse puckey, he talks just to hear the sound of his voice that he is love with.
I am sorry to hear of your experiences with dementia. It takes a toll not only on the person with it, but with the family. Putting all politics aside, which was the main point of my original post, I still fear for Biden as a human being. Maybe he doesn't have any cognitive issues. I don't know. But, that is what it looks like to me. My original post had nothing to do with politics, if you recall. And it was just an observation from someone who like a lot of people, hate the workings of politics and feel that world just might be a better place without it. Wishful thinking, I know, but for the most part, I have almost always been an optimist. Anyways, my post, if you will re read it again, clearly was NOT political.
shareCognitive - related to cognition
Cognition - The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience and the senses.
I see some behavioral issues that Biden has. He stutters, and he is sometimes at a loss for words and does not know exactly how to express himself on the spot. That is nothing like Alzheimer's disease or dementia. The fact is that Joe can learn and process facts and come to appropriate conclusions and work with people to forge a political consensus and compromise. The fact that he can do that, and has done it in front of America in the last year, to me proves that he does not have dementia.
That fact that you overlook that to reiterate your comment, the same comment, when faced with facts that refute your analysis seems to me to indicate your are not being honest about the motivation of your supposed fear.
If you were to apply the same analysis to the two candidates and come to the conclusion you came to you are either not looking at them with equal temperament and objectivity or you may be subconsciously biased and unable to see that.
We agree to disagree. Like I said. My original statement, whether you believe it or not, was not political. It was fear for another human being. I expressed my fear, right or wrong. But you still pushed politics into it.
I will agree with you on one point. Trump is an a$$hole. But, what he was doing for the country before COVID19 hit was improving the economy. A$$hole or not, he was making strides. And I am beginning to believe what some are saying, that COVID19 was released as a biological weapon by certain Chinese intelligence agencies to wreck America.
> But, what he was doing for the country before COVID19 hit was improving the economy.
That is absolutely false. Republicans jigger the economy with tax cuts that the people and corporations who get they use to bid up the price of stocks to make it look like the economy is growing when it is not. I don't know how you people can know that you do not understand the economy and yet so fully have faith in the people who tell you stuff that directly benefits them, while holding the news and government in contempt. Man, that is just stupid.
So, we agree to disagree. And I don't believe that is absolutely false. I have a friend who is in accounting and he told me that Trump had made some strides towards a better economy before the disease hit. You will believe what you will believe and I will believe what I will believe and as someone much wiser than me said years ago "To those who don't understand, no explanation will suffice, and to those who understand, no explanation is necessary. Have a good life. Win lose or draw, the coming months will tell us all who is fittest to lead.
shareYou are an absolute fool to think the US economy is getting better. The inequality factor is expanding every day, especially now. Somehow I suspect you are not a billionaire or the spawn of a billionaire, so you are being hoodwinked with BS.
shareIf there is inequality, is it only the billionaires that thrive?
shareNO...you are a fool to call others who disagree with you "an absolute fool". Like I said, we agree to disagree.
shareSorry, to agree to disagree would be giving credence to you and your opinion and Trump that you do not deserve. There are not good people on both sides.
shareWell, as I said earlier, to those who do not understand, no explanation will suffice. To those who do understand, no explanation is necessary. Have a good life.
shareIf you realized how dumb you sound when you previously say "to those who do not understand" ... it is a piggish behavior that everyone can see that means nothing.
share"Sorry, to agree to disagree would be giving credence to you and your opinion and Trump that you do not deserve. There are not good people on both sides."
To agree to disagree is not giving credence to the other person's opinion.
I think maybe you're out of your depth here, Brux.
He's senile, no question about it! He's also very creepy, and quite possibly a sexual predator.
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