How did they compare to younger Biden moments? One of the things I've been thinking about is how his stutter manifests. In the past, when he encountered a word he had trouble with, he'd often try to switch to another word, and you could practically see the gears shifting in his head in specific stages. Stage 1 would be "oh shit, that's gonna be hard to say." Stage 2 was an obvious attempt to navigate the word. And Stage 3 would be "Nope, can't do it, let's try a different word." Sometimes the different word would fit. Sometimes it wouldn't.

How did his performance today compare? Were the pauses like that? Or did they seem materially different?

That's a fair critique, but I genuinely do think the debate performance was a one-off, a shitty confluence of events, and that he's otherwise been fine.

I'll eat crow if the interview is terrible or highly edited, though.

Dude, he's already been in public multiple times since the debate. He did a rally, he gave some speeches, and he did a medal of honor ceremony. He was fine in each, and you can watch them completely unedited.

Unless he's caught another cold and is high as balls on cough medicine, he'll be fine.

Oh look, it's "small government" types getting government to interfere with private medical decisions.

Nah, she's the magic crystals lady.

Disclaimer: someone calm me and op down.

Nope. Too busy losing my goddamn shit over this insane, dictator-making, Enabling Act 2.0 garbage.

If he bows out, I'll breathe a sigh of relief. In a way, it doesn't matter if he had a cold and jet lag during the debate, and he's tip-top now. In fact, I've watched footage of him since the debate, and it seems to be true. He's back to his normal self.

But the political damage could be too much, regardless of his actual health.

At the same time, if he doesn't bow out, I will gladly crawl through broken glass to vote for him.

He committed those acts before he was president, and he paid out of his personal accounts. I seriously doubt he's going to be able to wriggle out of this. Of course, his strategy is delay, delay, delay, so this is still, frustratingly, a win for him.

And that, right there, was the goal. This decision, rather than clarifying anything, intentionally muddied the waters - and treads awfully close to turning the presidency into a monarchy - in order to allow Trump to drag things out even more. They really, truly do not want him to face any sort of justice for January 6th before the election, and they hope the election will result in him never having to face justice at all.

I don't care if you fucking hate Biden, people... Vote for him like democracy depends on it, because it fucking does. This is not a dress rehearsal. There will be no do-overs. If you let Trump become president again, America is done.

Hey, uhh, Europe? Can we talk?

Look, I know the way the left has been handling immigration has you upset, but could you please take a closer look at the absolute freaks you're electing today?

I mean, just take a good look at the United States, circa 2017 through 2020. Did we look like electing an absolute freak worked out for us? Did it fix our own immigration problems? Did it make electing your own Donald Trumps look like a good idea?

My son is trans. Please vote for Joe Biden so he can have the protections he needs and I don't have to stay up at night worrying about him.