But it's linked to the reality we all saw of him faltering at the debate. Beginning to feel like we have to choose between what they say or our lying eyes.
He had just traveled across Europe, had a cold, and flubbed the 1st debate like most incumbents do.
I will never understand why the story isn't Trump lying his ass off. More importantly, why aren't we discussing the GOP's betrayal of the Constitution?
I just said this, but repeating: Biden coming across as "faltering," may also reflect his essential decency in not confronting Trump who was in all his mendacious glory. That's what Trump relies on: That others' humanity will restrain them so he can be as full-on despicable as he wants to be.
I mean, Trump is an insane felon rapist and a lot of people still voted for him. There’s no rule that says we have to honorably give a shit about if our candidate comes off as slightly addled, especially when we’ve got a perfectly good VP who can take over as soon as he makes it past the post.
We can trust that Biden has assembled a competent team, including his VP, to get the work done, and vote to continue having a Democrat in the Oval Office
Or we can split the vote and hand the nuclear football back to Trump
In this world, with these systems, those are our choices 4 months out
And yet the LITERALY FOLLOWING MORNING he had a rally in NC and was doing great. Almost like he got some much needed rest (notably also had a mild cough at the rally)
Seriously. The man is not doing well! People are freaked out because the debate was quite legitimately something that would cause a viewer to freak out, and the campaign did zero of the things that they would be expected to do if it was an isolated incident
Did you see him on Friday in NC? Did you see him today in WI? (I don't necessarily mean you personally.) A tiny fraction of voters saw the debate. What is driving the narrative is the feedback loop of coverage, leading to concern, leading to more coverage, leading to more concern. At least IMO.
I feel like we’re seeing different realities here, because what I’ve been seeing is he’s spent the weeks before and after the debate running around all over doing a reasonably competent job, no different than usual.
Even the debate was just “meh,” not “ZOMG DISASTER” in my eyes
The panic is WEIRD.
If your worry is that you, personally, think he’s unfit for office based on what happened in the debate that’s tied to what you saw.
If your worry isn’t that, but that other people will perceive it that way and it will affect the election, your worry has actually zero to do with the reality you saw
