A Right Wing Cannot Flap Alone, or, Donald Trump Screwed the Putsch

[A Black Falcon]

Seriously, the people claiming that Biden has dementia or what have you have absolutely no case.  There is no evidence, only lies and pro-Trump bias.  I'm not dismissing it because of Biden's party, but because it so obviously isn't true.  I watched that press conference as well.  I saw someone angry about the Republican hitjob lies that fill the Hur report and also angry about the fact that the press are extremely eager to repeat those attacks because they so badly want Trump to be President again because it'd be better for their ratings, and someone obviously quite knowledgeable about policy as you saw in the long, detailed answer at the end about Israel/Palestine.  It is unfortunate that he messed up one word in that answer, but saying Sisi is President of Mexico instead of Egypt, or the news that he recently said Mitterand instead of Macron for President of France, are really minor.  Biden is older, and he's made a few minor 'saying the wrong name' mistakes, but I see no reason to think that that's anything other than the kind of accidental saying the wrong thing error that anyone could make.

(Oh, and on the Sisi issue, apparently calling Sisi "the Mexican" is a common slang term used for him in Egypt to talk about their leader without using his name.  It's entirely possible that Biden had heard about this before accidentally calling him President of Mexico.  Egyptians on the internet were apparently quite amused by what he said.)


As for Jon Stewart, while he can be an amusing comic, he helped elect Bush in 2000 with his lies about Bush and Gore being the boring same thing, and no I haven't forgiven him for it... but why should I when he's obviously still peddling the same "both parties are the same" lies?  Because they are not in any way the same, as we all know... at least "they're both old" is less obnoxious than those trashing Biden while ignoring Trump's worse signs of mental aging, but still, it's wrong (and ageist).
 

I can't think of a good way to hand-wave away a person having trouble recalling when they were VP and when their son died. That the Oct 7th just happened and Biden was probably really stressed out feels weak.

This claim was probably the thing that Biden was angriest about in the press conference.  He said that that absolutely never happened and that he'd never have confused that.  Why should I believe a Trump supporter trying to attack Biden over Biden and other Democrats' word?  I see zero reason to do that.

Of course, yes, he's older than he was four years ago, but he is someone who has always been prone to speaking errors.  If he had dementia or some other serious age-related mental problem I'm sure that we would know.  The signs would be obvious for anyone looking, as they were for Reagan.  I just don't think that is the case here.  And quite the opposite, I think that Biden's experience has greatly benefited the US; nobody else would have done more than maybe half as good a job at managing the current Middle East crisis as he has, and his experience is surely the primary reason for that.

Also, Biden's not going to run for anything else after this.  So long as we get through this election with Trump defeated yet again, even if the worst happens as I do not think it will, things will be okay... though we don't have anyone else nearly as good at managing foreign policy as Biden is.  He's not perfect and has made mistakes, everybody does, but he's better at it than anyone else we have.


So yeah, I am worried about Biden's age.  I am worried because the press has proven that they will relentlessly go after him for this issue in order to tear down Biden and give Trump a better chance of winning because of how boring the Biden administration is to cover.  But am I worried because of his age?  Thanks to modern medicine, not really.  He's showing no signs of significant mental decline and seems generally healthy.  The Presidency significantly ages most people who hold that office due to how stressful it is, but for now at least he seems able to handle it.