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‘As Long As I Gave It My All’...
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Especially if when you asked him if anyone else could do the surgery, and he drifted off, rambled on a bit, then eventually said only "lord God" would prevent him from doing the surgery no matter what anyone else said...
It's fucking insane so many people are defending him. They act like the president is meaningless but also that it has to be Biden. And they can't give a single reason that isn't easily disprovable.
They've tied their identity to Biden like trumpets to trump.
But like, at least with trump I get how idiots would fall for it. I have no idea why it's happening with Biden.
It's not. I only defend him when the criticism isn't valid and he's not even my president. People actively ignore that he has a speech impediment. People on this site repeat the lie that he has dementia. And everyone who remotely dislikes him keeps calling him genocide Joe as if he's the one orchestrating the whole Israeli-Palestinian conflict alone, ignoring the history and political context.
I hardly think that's true. Biden's personality is boring old white guy with no swag.
Stop the lies.
You know Biden has been on camera for decades, right?
1988, literally called the greatest orator of his generation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R1GB-6aIPw
2008, still great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89FbCPzAsRA
2012 debates, this is when his childhood stutter came back, because he's almost 70 (get into that below) but he's still lucid and very on top of his game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYcdSwbrErI
2020, lots of people had doubts, but between him and trump he squeaked out a very narrow win:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLvKaUi8VXw
Now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFyBapzgbSs
He had a childhood speech impediment. When someone overcomes that, it's because of a semi-concious action in the prefrontal cortex. As we age, that's one of the first parts of our brains that takes a hit. And it is very easy to write off damage for years, but it's accumulating.
That same part of the brain handles critical thinking, controlling emotions, and overcoming impliciti bias which is why there's a stereotype of people "getting" racist as they age. They're literally losing the part of the brain that say people outside of their in-group might not be murderers and thieves.
You don't have to take my word for it. There is literal decades of science about how aging effects the brain.
Look at those videos. Biden isn't starting down this path, he's pretty fucking far down it, and were discussing if he can run the country during a fascist takeover.
These rhetorical questions sound very condescending.
Yes, I know the basics of neurology and anatomy. I also know that you're less likely to focus and use those mental functions if you're exhausted from travel and sickness, which I've experienced before at less than half his age.
Yes, geriatrics is a branch of medicine.
My point about his stutter is that people are pretending that he's far worse than he is because he struggled that night with his speech. He's not excellent and yet not outright incapable because his executive functions are all there. You can piece together what he's trying to say but it's just not coming out how he intends to. The format of the event where he gets cut off instead of taking a deep breath and trying again unfortunately accentuates it. And if he's still incumbent and doing fine without any obvious characteristic signs of severe mental decline that are not expected for his age, why should we focus so hard on it? You can see that he's fine in the ABC interview.
And I will not accept your claim that his stutter was only during his teenage years. Those are life-long conditions. I should know because I have one.
Did you not watch the interview?
He was back 12 days from the overseas trip before the debate, and Biden contradicted himself by saying it wasn't a virus and then it was a cold.
Seriously, it's a good interview, they brought up a lot of tough questions and would repeat when he wouldn't answer.
But it was far worse than a stutter....
I literally just gave you a 36 year timeline of his public speaking abilities...
Because "for his age" is him breaking his own world record for "oldest American president"...
And four years ago it was already a valid concern.
I can not...
The one that I linked for "now" up there?
Like, even if you mean you personally consider that "fine" theres noway that you can think people don't have a valid reason to question after the interview.
Fine, but I can't provide links of every single time Biden spoke publicly on video and expect you to watch all of it to verify.
You just need to find one video of Biden stuttering before 2012 when I said it came back. Hell, let's just say the 2012 video I linked. Give me a timestamp where he's as bad as he is now and I'll say I'm wrong.
You think it's literally impossible to overcome a stutter?
I don't think you understand how common stuttering was back then for kids. Biden got rid of it by fifth grade, completely gone with no trace before he went to college.
Like, it happens now less commonly, but how do you think everyone with a childhood stutter continues to have a stutter? And how is Biden so special his disappeared for 60 years?