This is like 2020’s “speech impediment.” The “speech impediment” didn’t cover for his obvious cognitive decline if you listened to recordings of him pushing the crime bill in the 90s or whipping votes for the Iraq War a few years later and then watched his performance in the 2020 primary debates (I did this; it was depressing). And the “recovering from a cold” doesn’t cover for the obvious dementia we saw last night. Particularly for those of us who’ve cared for loved ones through that and knew what we were looking at.
Funny, I dont hear this about trump and couldnt even answer a question, called killing kids after being born abortion, called yhe person paying the tariff gina, i stead of the bill. Biden does have a speech impediment and is old, but trump is downright evil, stupid and clearly talks about sharks for what reason again?
The difference is Trump has been this way for decades. He’s just like that. He’s always spoken in sentence fragments that run together and then have to be interpreted. It’s bizarre and maddening to try to tease meaning from, but it isn’t necessarily a clear sign of cognitive decline. He’s just like that.
Biden is sadly demented. Running him in 2020 was elder abuse and this year’s campaign is just sad to watch. No amount of spin about “speech impediments” and “colds” makes that any less obvious to people who aren’t desperately looking to be convinced. It isn’t convincing.
I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020 and I’m not voting for him this time. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have eyes, ears, and a functioning brain.
I have looked back to interviews from the 90's and when Obama ran, and that's just not true. He has always spoke like this sense running for president but it's worse now. Look at hos ramblings on his latest events to those when he ran in 2014. It's not just fragments, but completely incoherent thoughts and merging of topics. He has the nerve to then say he "aced" a cognitove test, there is no A.
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u/GrumpyOldHistoricist 6d ago edited 6d ago
This is like 2020’s “speech impediment.” The “speech impediment” didn’t cover for his obvious cognitive decline if you listened to recordings of him pushing the crime bill in the 90s or whipping votes for the Iraq War a few years later and then watched his performance in the 2020 primary debates (I did this; it was depressing). And the “recovering from a cold” doesn’t cover for the obvious dementia we saw last night. Particularly for those of us who’ve cared for loved ones through that and knew what we were looking at.