Joe Biden’s Aging Is Treated Much More Harshly Than Ronald Reagan’s Was – The 81-year-old president has a grueling schedule and there’s no evidence of cognitive decline. Compare that to the 40th president, who was fading at a much younger age.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-bidens-aging-is-treated-much-more-harshly-than-ronald-reagans-was
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Of course it’s treated more harshly, look at the GOP today
Biden is fine. He’s going to romp trump on thursday
Republican Jesus didn’t have dementia, he had the Freedom Confusies. Nice try, libral.
Look I don’t like the fact that Biden is running again, I don’t believe we should have a president who is going to be damn near 90 when he is done in office his second term but unless another candidate steps up I’ll be voting for Biden and hoping he can last his second term.
Reagan likely had dementia while in office. It seems like subjecting aging politicians to greater scrutiny was a reasonable lesson to take from that situation.
There are plenty of people that remember what Reagan’s decline looked like and have fears that Biden could go the same way. Not a completely unwarranted fear, but if this is the bar we are measuring on then Trump is in far worse condition than Biden and more at the level Reagan was at the end of his second term.
I think I’m seeing the projection of how republicans use demented old men like it’s Weekend at Bernie’s.
In a normal Presidential campaign in an alternate reality where the GOP picked someone reasonable and younger, I could care about Biden’s age eventually – once he gets a few more years down the road.
In the real world where the GOP is a batshit terrorist organization actively trying to overthrow the nation, Biden’s age is nothing. We’ve got actual important things to care about.
It’s a 3 year age difference between the two.
They would’ve been in high school together.
If you’re worried about age, you should be worried about both pretty much equally.
Every time Joe Biden goes out and gives a good strong public appearance, we go about a week before people start coming out of the woodwork to claim that he can’t put two sentences together again.
They’ve been doing this for 4 years.
No matter how many times they get proven wrong, it won’t die.
Like the State of the Union address he gave a few months ago was fucking incredible, but it didn’t take long at all for people to start pretending that that never happened.
Or the address on the Israeli war a few weeks ago. Same thing. Good strong public appearance, completely ignored.
If the debate happens on Thursday, and he gives a masterful performance, by next Thursday they’ll be saying that he’s senile again
Reagan had Mrs. Reagan’s astrologers to fall back on
Biden’s physical age is apparent (though the guy still rides a bike regularly which is impressive) but his ability to deal with the mental and emotional requirements of being President are still there and haven’t had any noticeable decline.
24/7 propaganda for republicans constantly shoving that talking point out on air will do that.
I honestly think the media companies want Trump to win, as it’s Christmas for news stories for the next 4 years.
I mean compare it to Trump. The media is complicit in whatever political successes he ever has.
Reagan is also proclaimed as some sort of economic god, despite leading a worse domestic recovery to a similar global inflation crisis than Biden’s.
But don’t worry, GOP worship of their politicians totally isn’t religious blasphemy
Its propaganda.
Trump peons dont know what else to criticize him on. So they will repeat this until election day.
The real problem is that it’s being treated much more harshly than Trump’s aging. Biden gives a speech and stumbles over some words and people start flipping out and claiming he has dementia. Trump makes multiple speeches that are just incoherent ramblings frequently calling people by the wrong names, and just freezing mid sentence, and nobody says a word.
Reagan was so senile at press conferences that he would read the cover sheet about what he wasn’t supposed to talk about and they would have to hustle everybody out of the room and have a redo sometimes as many as three times.
When the Air Force shot down some Libyan jets Reagan complained about why he wasn’t a pilot in the movie he didn’t wanna be the president.
Reagan got mocked pretty harshly.
And the 45th President who was fading well before he ran, but is now fading even faster than Reagan ever was.
Plus he’s a felonious rapist and a self-admitted pedophile.
The media needs to sell this election as a close race and to do that they have to make TFG appear to be a sane option despite the entire body of his life’s criminality, his reputation for being the embodiment of each of the 7 deadly sins, and the increasingly violent rhetoric that he and those in his fascist orbit are using.
[It’s absolutely insane that TFG isn’t polling in the single digits, but he’s got a full blown death cult following him and the media is normalizing his behavior, so here we are.](https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcHpleGRlaWRlMWZhYWUzaGJ3dmpiYnlpZ3YxamwyYjJlaThjaGxpbiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/CKrlUi30dn44w/100.webp)
Both of these old men show plenty of signs of cognitive decline. At this point we’ve got 2 X elder abuse.
Listen. I like Biden. Even though he wasn’t my first choice in the Primary elections, I’m pleased with what he’s been able to accomplish. I also know that he hasn’t done everything I would have liked but he’s doing a lot considering the GOP has the House of Representatives.
I also recognize that not many other people on Capitol Hill had the chops to do what he’s doing now. He’s the best guy for the job by far.
All that being said, I can see an obvious slow down in his mental faculties from, say, 16 years ago.
Trump is worse though. Not just because I don’t agree with him. But because he will surround himself with people who are incompetent and incapable of saying no. He’s also a moron on top of having mashed potatoes for brains. He’s also in league with our most dangerous enemies.
For all these reasons, it’s a no brainer that I’ll be voting for Biden.
No evidence of cognitive decline is an interesting statement. We don’t gotta lie to ourselves to prove he’s still more fit than Trump.
We aren’t blind. Biden is showing the signs of aging far more significantly than trump.
Say that doesn’t make me a Trumpanzee or MAGAt.
Bidens stumbling and bumbling around really hurt his chances. He looks confused and sick in far too many interviews and public appearances.
They are both dinosaurs and it’s embarrassing these two are the best this country can offer. I’m sick of the only candidates being geriatrics who were born before desegregation.
Compare it to *Trump*. Trump was never particularly coherent but he’s been falling off the map recently.
Too bad for them we have eyes.