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Daniel Drezner

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I really did not want to write this but in the end had no choice. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-codger...

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Alice Tawhai's avatar Alice Tawhai @alicetawhai.bsky.social
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It’s the shit we expect from the other side but from our side

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Ugly Margarita's avatar Ugly Margarita @ncalcote.bsky.social
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Really what you are painting here is exactly not what you say you are painting. You are painting a yellow news story akin to “Remember the Maine” while saying that it’s being instigated by close Biden staffers.

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John Brown stan account's avatar John Brown stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social
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Really? That's interesting. I think you actually did have a choice.

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The need for the President to get out there and do some interviews is not at all hard to discern, and that he has not, is really the most telling thing. Either he is indeed unreliable or his political advisers are terrible and either way he needs to relinquish it to Harris.

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James Downie's avatar James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social
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One thing I'd add about the "shifting dynamic" around Biden's age is that many of these stories share a chronology: recent "weeks and months"/"since the previous fall"/"since last summer." There's reason to blame staffers, but as anyone with old relatives knows, the decline can be out of the blue.

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Ann Laabs 🏳️‍🌈's avatar Ann Laabs 🏳️‍🌈 @annlaabs.bsky.social
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Sounds pretty hopeless, then.

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post malone ergo propter malone's avatar post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social
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what about your experience as curator of the toddler-in-chief thread led you to believe this?

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William Bennett's avatar William Bennett @wirab.bsky.social
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I am baffled that his senior staff thought it smart to put him on a rapid-fire quiz show. Thinking fast, with stereotyped, reflexive responses, is hardly a measure of what makes a good president or even a good candidate, IMHO. Anyone could have predicted it wouldn’t work with Biden. As for Trump …

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DeathsHead419's avatar DeathsHead419 @deathshead419.bsky.social
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Narrator: "He did, in fact, have a choice"

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I didn't want to buy into these critiques of Biden, who still clearly isn't as far gone yet as, say, Dianne Feinstein was while still holding onto her Senate seat with what turned out to be a literal death grip. But the echoes of accounts of Feinstein near the end are getting louder, unfortunately.

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