sj_zero on Nostr: 2 of 17. Joe Biden's cognitive decline There were already concerns in 2020 about Joe ...
2 of 17. Joe Biden's cognitive decline
There were already concerns in 2020 about Joe Biden, but the character of the COVID election and the hysteria of the media helped him run a campaign essentially "from his basement". The press ran Joe Biden's campaign in 2020, and used massive amounts of long built-up credibility to get him elected. Joe Biden also had a strong halo effect due to his association with the popular Obama Campaign. With the media attacking the Trump administration non-stop, as well as establishment factions with the Republican party actively attacking the Trump faction (Trump had the executive, the house, and the senate in his first half, but faced high levels of pushback from within the Republican party), as well as the COVID-19 pandemic and more importantly the global response to COVID, he was in a prime position to lose 2020, and he did. Now he and his team think there were voting irregularities that contributed to that loss, I tend to think the situation itself was more than enough.
For the next 3 and a half years the Biden Administration with Harris as VP continued going along, and there were a lot of challenges. To be fair to this Administration, there was no way to avoid the consequences of the COVID lockdowns. Inflation was inevitable. Supply chain disruptions were inevitable. This was going to be a tough 4 years no matter who was in charge.
Going into the 2024 election, the media was claiming Joe Biden was "sharp as a tack". There's a video on YouTube of dozens of news anchors using the same exact phrase, as if they were getting fed lines from a common source. The plan was for Joe to run in 2024, beat Trump again (The line of thought being that it's easier fighting a defensive battle from the presidency), and by 2028 Trump wouldn't really be capable of running for President again so the threat would be over and MAGA would be defeated.
The obvious problem was that even in 2020, Joe Biden wasn't the same man he was when he was Vice President 4 years earlier. Verbal slips like "I'll take immediate steps to deploy shuanamanaprezure" or "batacathcare" suggested a mind that wasn't firing right. Moments like Biden biting his wife's finger out of nowhere suggested something going on with impulse control circuitry in his brain. Biden would eventually go on to take more vacation days than any President before him, and the gaffes seemed to get more numerous.
The final straw was the first debate with Donald Trump. He seemed confused, and barely there. He mumbled through sentences, and overall he displayed the worst thing he could have displayed: The suggestion that Trump had been telling the truth about Joe Biden since 2020 and the media and the Democratic Party had been covering it up.
At that point, Joe was already selected in the primaries as the candidate, so something happened that was unexpected, except to people who have been paying close attention since 2020.
There were already concerns in 2020 about Joe Biden, but the character of the COVID election and the hysteria of the media helped him run a campaign essentially "from his basement". The press ran Joe Biden's campaign in 2020, and used massive amounts of long built-up credibility to get him elected. Joe Biden also had a strong halo effect due to his association with the popular Obama Campaign. With the media attacking the Trump administration non-stop, as well as establishment factions with the Republican party actively attacking the Trump faction (Trump had the executive, the house, and the senate in his first half, but faced high levels of pushback from within the Republican party), as well as the COVID-19 pandemic and more importantly the global response to COVID, he was in a prime position to lose 2020, and he did. Now he and his team think there were voting irregularities that contributed to that loss, I tend to think the situation itself was more than enough.
For the next 3 and a half years the Biden Administration with Harris as VP continued going along, and there were a lot of challenges. To be fair to this Administration, there was no way to avoid the consequences of the COVID lockdowns. Inflation was inevitable. Supply chain disruptions were inevitable. This was going to be a tough 4 years no matter who was in charge.
Going into the 2024 election, the media was claiming Joe Biden was "sharp as a tack". There's a video on YouTube of dozens of news anchors using the same exact phrase, as if they were getting fed lines from a common source. The plan was for Joe to run in 2024, beat Trump again (The line of thought being that it's easier fighting a defensive battle from the presidency), and by 2028 Trump wouldn't really be capable of running for President again so the threat would be over and MAGA would be defeated.
The obvious problem was that even in 2020, Joe Biden wasn't the same man he was when he was Vice President 4 years earlier. Verbal slips like "I'll take immediate steps to deploy shuanamanaprezure" or "batacathcare" suggested a mind that wasn't firing right. Moments like Biden biting his wife's finger out of nowhere suggested something going on with impulse control circuitry in his brain. Biden would eventually go on to take more vacation days than any President before him, and the gaffes seemed to get more numerous.
The final straw was the first debate with Donald Trump. He seemed confused, and barely there. He mumbled through sentences, and overall he displayed the worst thing he could have displayed: The suggestion that Trump had been telling the truth about Joe Biden since 2020 and the media and the Democratic Party had been covering it up.
At that point, Joe was already selected in the primaries as the candidate, so something happened that was unexpected, except to people who have been paying close attention since 2020.