Biden’s verbal slip-ups over dead European leaders put the focus on his most potent political weakness: His age | CNN Politics
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Questions about President Joe Biden’s age and fitness for office are not going away, even as the 81-year-old president juggles multiple high-stakes international and domestic crises simultaneously and criss-crosses the country to make his case to voters for another term in the White House.
    • PilferJynx@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Trump is definitely losing his ability to manage his lies/grifts. Biden is losing his syntactic abilities. Both options aren’t good, but one is waaay more damaging to the American way.

      • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Biden isn’t losing his syntactic abilities, he’s a man with a stutter and a history of verbal gaffes, who has lived a long time and met a lot of people, and was interviewed during a time of extreme stress (right at the start of the Israel/Palestine conflict), after having likely gotten minimal sleep for days.

        I hate that this narrative of “he’s too old” is making the rounds again, when if you had a camera following you around 24 hours a day, it would almost certainly capture you saying something stupid all the time.

        Watch footage of his recent speeches without cherry-picking the ones with gaffes. He’s been perfectly fine and eloquent most of the time.

        • ringwraithfish@startrek.website
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          9 months ago

          They’re both too old. I understand why Biden is running, DNC shit the bed and didn’t offer any viable alternatives. I wish we would see a shift across the entire political spectrum to younger representatives.

            • ringwraithfish@startrek.website
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              9 months ago

              It’s not ageism to say that young people need their fair representation in politics. The median age of America is about 40. The median age of Congress is about 60. There is a very real concern that our leaders may not truly grasp or fully understand the issues of the younger generation.

              Not to mention the risk of death and health related issues is convergent with age. It can’t be avoided, no matter how much people want to pretend it shouldn’t be considered. 70+ is pushing it, 80+ is well beyond average male life expectancy. To hide behind “that’s ageism” when anyone brings it up as valid concerns is to ignore the facts.

              • Ioughttamow@kbin.social
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                9 months ago

                Yes, but telling older Americans they simply can’t be politically involved anymore isnt the play. Younger Americans certainly need greater representation, but that doesn’t mean denying representation from older ones. Less for sure, but not none