• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    And by the way and by the way and by the way and by the way and by the way and by the way and by the way I’m a better golfer than you

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      9 days ago

      That’s an interesting one: That dig requires a measure of empathy, a capability often diminished by dementia. Biden had to understand the mindset of his opponent to pick something that would get under his skin in particular. Boy howdy, did it work! The target was totally unable to recognize the bait, and brush it off.

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        9 days ago

        Nah. He did a great job baiting trump in 2019 but in 2024 he wasn’t on his game he wasn’t even in the same city as his game. Trump essentially did brush that remark off, he basically just "no u"ed at it.

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          8 days ago

          Heh, this discussion underscores my point. Here we’re parsing how much age has affected Biden, how much he’s slowed down, how much he struggled to articulate his ideas, which were at least indicative of a fundamentally-sound mind. I mean, he said, “We beat Medicare,” but we all knew what he was trying to say. Meanwhile, his opponent was a gibbering baboon, who got easily emotionally triggered (not a quality I want in a President), and his best response after getting visibly angry was “no u.” But hey, at least he was able to bellow it out, and that feels like strength to monkey brain, so we can pretend he’s not manifesting more and more dementia symptoms as time goes on.

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            8 days ago

            I’m not saying trump isn’t senile. I’m saying he did a much better job hiding it at the debate. He won so hard the dnc ditched Biden as their candidate.