Gulfstream4 said:
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Civilized said:
ncsupack1 said:
Civilized said:
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packgrad said:
It's fascinating to watch Democrats threats to democracy.
Trying to over turn the "people's vote".
Is Biden unfit or not?
If he's unfit he needs to step down.
If he's fit to govern for the next four years, what have y'all been complaining about?
You can't have it both ways.
He's been unfit. This didn't happen overnight.
I've been saying for years on here that I don't think either of the candidates are fit and what our country needs. There are better options than two geriatrics that can't speak well, one of whom is a felon and sex assaulter that tried to overturn an election.
From the outside Biden' health seemed steady state for most of his term though. And with him having pieced together a great staff and an unusually successful term legislatively, his supporters were hopeful (naively) that a mid-late 80's Biden could continue working effectively until and through the end of the next prospective term.
What's different according to a ton of reports is that his acuity has seemingly taken a nosedive recently, to an extent that has shocked people that have spent time around him.
I'm not buying the nosedive. The only difference now, he isn't being protected and sheltered. The Dems want him out for whatever reason and they are throwing him under the bus. With the help of their friends in the media.
Agree. This is not a new and developing issue. Anyone paying attention for the last four or five years could see Biden's condition deteriorating.
Same with Trump, his seeming decline just isn't exacerbated by a speech impediment.
He speaks like an elementary schooler now. Go listen to him talk 20 or 30 years ago. It's shocking how bad he's gotten at forming cogent thoughts and talking.
Read this article, from 2017. It's gotten much worse since. Watch the embedded video from 1987. His talking straight up sucks now by comparison. He just distracts from it with his angry, pugilistic style.
Trump wasn't always so linguistically challenged. What could explain the change?Quote:
In interviews Trump gave in the 1980s and 1990s (with Tom Brokaw, David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey, Charlie Rose, and others), he spoke articulately, used sophisticated vocabulary, inserted dependent clauses into his sentences without losing his train of thought, and strung together sentences into a polished paragraph, which and this is no mean feat would have scanned just fine in print. This was so even when reporters asked tough questions about, for instance, his divorce, his brush with bankruptcy, and why he doesn't build housing for working-class Americans.
Trump fluently peppered his answers with words and phrases such as "subsided," "inclination," "discredited," "sparring session," and "a certain innate intelligence." He tossed off well-turned sentences such as, "It could have been a contentious route," and, "These are the only casinos in the United States that are so rated." He even offered thoughtful, articulate aphorisms: "If you get into what's missing, you don't appreciate what you have," and, "Adversity is a very funny thing."
Now, Trump's vocabulary is simpler. He repeats himself over and over, and lurches from one subject to an unrelated one, as in this answer during an interview with the Associated Press last month:
"People want the border wall. My base definitely wants the border wall, my base really wants it you've been to many of the rallies. OK, the thing they want more than anything is the wall. My base, which is a big base; I think my base is 45 percent. You know, it's funny. The Democrats, they have a big advantage in the Electoral College. Big, big, big advantage. … The Electoral College is very difficult for a Republican to win, and I will tell you, the people want to see it. They want to see the wall."
For decades, studies have found that deterioration in the fluency, complexity, and vocabulary level of spontaneous speech can indicate slipping brain function due to normal aging or neurodegenerative disease. STAT and the experts therefore considered only unscripted utterances, not planned speeches and statements, since only the former tap the neural networks that offer a window into brain function.
That's not to even speak of his criminality and attempts to overthrow the election.
If you want to hold Biden accountable for his mental decline, hold Trump to the same standard.
At least with Biden, his team has four years of serious, competent governance and legislative successes. His campaign at least had that track record to point to in spite of him not being as fit as he was decades ago.
Trump's last term was characterized by the inability to get legislation passed, installing his family members as senior advisors, and leaving a historically high number of positions in his government unfilled.
What makes you think he'll govern differently the second time around?
