“He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’)
This was a five-hour interview the day after the October 7 attack in Israel. He was thinking about a brewing war in the Middle East and couldn’t recall a date. He also strikes me as the kind of person who thinks about things like this out loud. It doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t know, just that he was processing it externally.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
OK, fuck, that’s not great. Then again, I’m 40 years younger than him and I can’t tell you the exact dates when important people in my life died.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
This one just pisses me off. It’s framed so dishonestly.
I can recall extremely specific things about when people I know died. What the weather was, what I was wearing, what video game I was playing when I heard the news, and so on. But I couldn’t necessarily pull the right year out of my brain without checking. Or necessarily even the date for some people.
I promise that Biden remembers the death of his son in whatever specific way is meaningful to him. It might not be “on this day/month/year.” It might be “on a Tuesday” or might be “a cold snowy day when I was baking bread.” I have no idea. But this just isn’t how memory works, and it’s hurtful, evil even, to print something that dishonest. It boils my blood to read such dishonest reporting.
This right here. I’m 43 and don’t remember birthdays or death days for most of my family. I also have to think things through to remember at times. I also have problems recalling specific words at random ass times, for example I wouldn’t be able to bring up the word “table” but could tell you about fermis paradox, another time it would be “sidewalk” that my brain could be assed to remember.
Biden is old and should be retired somewhere on the beach. He chose to run again because he knew we needed to get rid of trump, remember that, he chose to run again. Now he is the only thing standing between democracy and another large step into fascism with a future dictator.
Hey - AP News - where’s the shocking exposé that Trump is a demented, convicted fraud and rapist who organized a coup the last time you gave him a four year free ride without ONCE calling him a liar, or definitely guilty of collusion or violating emoluments or anything of the kind? Hm? WHERE IS THAT COMMON SENSE REPORTING WE’VE BEEN DOING FOR YOU FOR EIGHT YEARS.
Fucking Biden can’t remember things. You fucks. You republiQan-owned turd factory. Get the fuck outta here with your bullshit horserace clickbait. God damn you.
Well, that’s not great.
Hur is Republican, but he doesn’t have anything really egregious in his past to suggest he’s a hardcore ideologue. But man does it sound like that report was constructed for political purposes. On the other hand, those are direct quotes, and lying about that would be a significantly worse act than trying to describe the president unkindly. And if he were a regular suspect, saying he’s a kindly old man with memory problems wouldn’t really be inappropriate, and would be relevant for whether he should be held culpable, so I guess it’s plausible Hur’s trying to be objective.
Hur was appointed as special counsel by Garland who was appointed by Biden.
Hur is a Republican. Garland picked him to pacify the Republicans. His opinion of Biden doesn’t mean anything to me.
On a scale of 1-10 how pacified would you say Republicans are right now?
That was a stupid thing for Garland to do. Not defending that. Nothing pacifies Republicans.
This whole thing is McGovern 2.0. Biden is self-destructing his own candidacy in spectacular fashion. It’s going to be a disaster in November if Democrats don’t do something drastic to turn things around.
MBFC rating for AP News:
Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER
Factual Reporting: HIGH
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY
Seems like the Democrats want Trump in the office in 2024, running Genocide Joe instead of getting someone younger or just slightly better…
In an August poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs, 77% of U.S. adults said Biden is too old to be effective for four more years. It was one of the rare sources of bipartisan agreement during a politically polarized era, with 89% of Republicans and 69% of Democrats saying Biden’s age is a problem.
You do know Trump is only 3 years younger than Biden, right?
Yes, I knew they were close in age.
The people think it is an age problem, when it is really a mental health problem.
Donald was Born: Donald John Trump, June 14, 1946, Queens, New York City, U.S.; Age: 77 years
Joe was Born: Joseph Robinette Biden Jr, November 20, 1942, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.; Age: 81 years
So you’re saying Donald Trump is mentally healthy?
I am not a fan of Donald or Joe.
It just seems one of them has more mental health problems than the other.
They should both be retired and enjoy their vast wealth while they can…
It just seems one of them has more mental health problems than the other.
Yes. The one who:
has on multiple occasions bragged about acing a “difficult” cognitive tests that doctors say are simple for people with normal function. As one doctor put it, “It’s a very, very low bar for somebody who carries the nuclear launch codes in their pocket to pass and certainly nothing to brag about.”
And this is just sample of the recent stuff. Would you like to go back to the time period where he was suggesting that people inject bleach to protect themselves from COVID?
Buy stock in alcohol. This campaign season and the debates… whew, it’s gonna be… something.
Yes, they will be way more interesting!
It just seems one of them has more mental health problems than the other.
Yes. Trump. Very clearly.
You may not like what Trump is for and what he says and stands for, but Joe is the one showing mental health problems.
I would suggest to compare them both when they talk or when they are in the public.
No need to lie about Genocide Joe’s mental health problems.
What do you think of the links @Boddhisatva pasted?
Trump did the same damn things, and more often, you disingenuous hack. He’s been telling stories about how he was beating Obama in the polls (and in past elections), mixing up world leaders, and spoke to Nikki Haley (Nancy Pelosi) on insurrection day. Dude bragged he passed a dementia test and said it was hard.
This new news just reveals Biden doing some of the same things. Both of them are unfit to run the country, but not in a million years has Biden been worse than Trump.
Yes, the sundowning, unstable behavior, throwing childish storm offs in court, and rampant narcissistic behavior of Trump sure aren’t mental health issues. Yep, not showing mental health issues at all!
I would suggest to compare them both when they talk or when they are in the public.
It’s like you’ve never watched a video of Trump speaking. You could go to Youtube right now and do that, if you weren’t so busy bending over backwards to defend Trump.
You definitely win the most dishonest argument of the day award.
