Maybe you're young enough, or lucky enough, not to have watched a parent, aunt, uncle, or grandparent decline -- but as someone who has watched many relatives decline (among them my mother, for whom I was the live-in caregiver), I can tell you that the person in decline does *not* have an accurate sense of their abilities, so Biden's saying that he's good to go is largely meaningless.
To be clear: I support and will vote for Biden in 2024, as I did in 2020. I have 100% faith in his ability to assemble a cabinet that will shore him up when that's needed. But I'm not kidding myself about the obvious signs of deterioration -- you need only watch some vids of him in 2020 to see a very different energy level and an ability to communicate clearly -- and no one else should, either. Keeping our heads in the sand means that we can't quickly come up with a good alternative, should one be needed.
Our goal is to keep a Dem in the WH -- and a lot of Americans think that Biden is impaired and should not be elected. We can't pretend that lot of people believe otherwise! We can't pretend that our staunch faith in him will magically impel them to vote for him. Our solution doesn't have to be "replace him," but whichever solution we choose, it has to be based in *facts*.
Actually, I’m 71 and took care of both of my parents for 5 years before they passed. I watched Biden in Madison WI and he did a great job. My head is not in the sand-I am grateful for the people he has in his life and cabinet and clearly so is he. I do not think removing him at this point will win the election, thus my comment.
You are exactly right -I too watch relatives decline and pass throughout my life - my parrents (now deceased) were each the youngest of eight and what I saw on that stage (and I did go back and look at the 2020 debate) looked too familiar. I absolute hate Trump and wish Biden was not like this, but we MUST win.
The Democrats cannot win with just the Democratic Vote - same for Trump. He also needs independents and low information voters and the GQP will be running a confused looking Biden on a loop all the way till election. We need a younger candidate
totally - but the question is -via what medium? Young people don't vote as much and Old people watch Fox. I was hoping that was going to be the plan closer to the election as that is all the Low Information voters will make their vote based on. The GQP will be showing NON-STOP Adds of Biden looking dead or demented so they better have something way more juicy to Air on Truimp - like his relationship with Epstein and is abortion treachery, which he knows is a massive liability. Biden totally fucked up a question about abortion and steered the answer to an illegal alien killing a woman, handing Trump a gift from God.
THAT WAS POLITICAL MALPRACTICE and if you cannot function being tired, or having a cold or travelling, then the conclusion the world will make - regardless of all the cheerleading here - is that Biden does not have the mental and physical stamina to run the country. And we all know, it is NOT going to improve in the coming years. I think a lot of younger people are eager to see people born after Vietnam or the Gulf War (versus WWII) running for office
Biden says he’s good to go——so what the hell is all the confusion about?! He’s doing a great job- so dems better get their shit together soon!!!
Maybe you're young enough, or lucky enough, not to have watched a parent, aunt, uncle, or grandparent decline -- but as someone who has watched many relatives decline (among them my mother, for whom I was the live-in caregiver), I can tell you that the person in decline does *not* have an accurate sense of their abilities, so Biden's saying that he's good to go is largely meaningless.
To be clear: I support and will vote for Biden in 2024, as I did in 2020. I have 100% faith in his ability to assemble a cabinet that will shore him up when that's needed. But I'm not kidding myself about the obvious signs of deterioration -- you need only watch some vids of him in 2020 to see a very different energy level and an ability to communicate clearly -- and no one else should, either. Keeping our heads in the sand means that we can't quickly come up with a good alternative, should one be needed.
Our goal is to keep a Dem in the WH -- and a lot of Americans think that Biden is impaired and should not be elected. We can't pretend that lot of people believe otherwise! We can't pretend that our staunch faith in him will magically impel them to vote for him. Our solution doesn't have to be "replace him," but whichever solution we choose, it has to be based in *facts*.
Actually, I’m 71 and took care of both of my parents for 5 years before they passed. I watched Biden in Madison WI and he did a great job. My head is not in the sand-I am grateful for the people he has in his life and cabinet and clearly so is he. I do not think removing him at this point will win the election, thus my comment.
You are exactly right -I too watch relatives decline and pass throughout my life - my parrents (now deceased) were each the youngest of eight and what I saw on that stage (and I did go back and look at the 2020 debate) looked too familiar. I absolute hate Trump and wish Biden was not like this, but we MUST win.
The Democrats cannot win with just the Democratic Vote - same for Trump. He also needs independents and low information voters and the GQP will be running a confused looking Biden on a loop all the way till election. We need a younger candidate
And the dems should be running ads showing trump’s lies, rape accusations, racist remarks…….
totally - but the question is -via what medium? Young people don't vote as much and Old people watch Fox. I was hoping that was going to be the plan closer to the election as that is all the Low Information voters will make their vote based on. The GQP will be showing NON-STOP Adds of Biden looking dead or demented so they better have something way more juicy to Air on Truimp - like his relationship with Epstein and is abortion treachery, which he knows is a massive liability. Biden totally fucked up a question about abortion and steered the answer to an illegal alien killing a woman, handing Trump a gift from God.
THAT WAS POLITICAL MALPRACTICE and if you cannot function being tired, or having a cold or travelling, then the conclusion the world will make - regardless of all the cheerleading here - is that Biden does not have the mental and physical stamina to run the country. And we all know, it is NOT going to improve in the coming years. I think a lot of younger people are eager to see people born after Vietnam or the Gulf War (versus WWII) running for office
—-then they’d better figure it out!
I think that is what everyone is desperately hoping for and waiting patiently fo - but we are running out of time.