you are not crazy, this is an entirely true statement that many, many more people need to print out, tape up to their mirror, and ground themselves with every morning. it is fucking JULY. everybody needs to pop an edible and calm the fuck down.
He was slow at the debate, evidence that... He's old. We know that and knew that. He seemed great the very next day.
Then I heard some clip of some new "mistake" that... Didn't sound at all off, just, like, old dude talking like an old dude.
Plus everyone who was willing to say "I've decided he should step down" got on teevee or got a front page story and everyone who said the opposite got "well, of course they'd say that, wonder what their secret motivation is?"
This may be a wild concept, but we don't all actually have to take the media narrative at its word and assume it is a correct analysis of the situation. NYT op-eds are not actually the perspective of voters.
I keep coming back to the question: what condition? What is the "condition" everyone is so certain he has?
I have seen a lot of cowardly people refuse to say "dementia" or "alzheimers" beyond "early stages."
And the press keeps asking for "brain scans". Scans for what, of what?
Listen, if the Biden campaign wanted to quell concerns about his age, they would have put him out there, like in the post-debate pressroom, a rally, an event at the Stonewall monument, a national address, a medal of honor ceremony, a meeting with governors, another rally, and televised interview.
One of the single most important thing we can all do for ourselves and each other under sustained attack from would-be tyrants is to remember and remind ourselver/each other nope, it's not just me. NOT CRAZY. Gaslighting is one of their major tools. Kill it with fire.
look at the calendar don’t look at the polls, look at the calendar don’t look at the polls, look at the calendar don’t look at the polls, look at the calendar don’t look at the polls, look at the calendar don’t look at the polls, look at the calendar don’t look at the polls, look at the calendar don
They need to sign up for some door knocking or phone banking or something and be useful. I think the sense of fear and helplessness is driving a lot of this craziness.
They’re freaking out because this shouldn’t be happening. Biden’s age is almost incidental, the panic is: dear God, surely we’re not walking back into the mouth of madness?
Trump should be in jail not maybe kinda sorta leading the polls, and we all know it.
my gummies have kicked in and i feel like we are all unconscioulsy complicit in suppressing/forgetting "Senile Man Will Face Trump in '24, Not Ideal!" and then all that dry kindling for a firestorm freekout was set off by The Debate.
this is a Coen Bro universe.