Am I fucking crazy, or has this been one shitty debate performance, followed by a week plus of story after story about "panic" etc? No new evidence that he's unable to do it, just constant "people are saying"?
Yep.
What happened to the narrative about how incumbents always fumble the 1st debate. Even Obama!
There's no reason to panic. His performance at the actual job has been excellent. This is just screaming for attention by people who don't deserve it.
A lot of journalists claim to have important inside sources reinforcing the narrative, but on the other hand there's so many ways that could be bullshit, or at least highly unrepresentative.
If you have the right job and want to cultivate a reporter who will be useful later, you can be that source!
The debate was all the evidence needed. Things like that don't happen only once. If he was a Republican you'd be all over it.
This is fixable, I don't get what all the denial and conspiracizing is all about. Just replace him!
Youāre confused because you donāt realize how low you have made your standards in order to rationalize Biden staying in the race. Compare him today to her, the successful governor of a must win state who won her re-elect by 10 points, swept Dems into the state house
Biden had bad debate.
Trump was peppy and lied like a rug. He has also been a gibbering idiot for years. News came out in court documents that he had regularly scheduled "massages" at Epstein's.
But Biden had a bad debate.
The media is engaged in some ratfucking regardless of Biden's mental state.
I was in a parish for 12 years.
Anytime anyone said, "Well, a lot of people have said/complained/spoken to me/emailed me with their concerns" and you asked who it was inevitably always the reporter and one friend.
Every. Damn. Time.
The insular corporate news world is no different.
Yes, that's how the media operate. I've seen everything from explainers on the 25th Amendment to signs of dementia. Maybe Joe was over prepared or it was a bad day.