Originally posted by: Robert Dietz
I do not understand how any reasonable person can argue for hiding Biden's condition and basically lying to everyone about his fitness and potential for serving a second term. The Democrats ran someone who was highly unlikely to fulfill a second terms. He clearly was struggling and deficient the tale end of his first term.
Doctors are not coming out of the woodwork to argue that this was a sudden-onset condition. Nobody. The line "you are not a doctor" is a red herring. There aren't any doctors arguing that Biden was fit and that this was a recent event that wasn't hidden from public consumption.
If you love Joe Biden and think he was the best president in history, none of that changes the two paragraphs above.
Why or how can someone support an overarching lie, a complete manipulation of the public in service of A, B, or C? This is Soviet style propaganda. Lies about Covid origins and vaccine effect (after the first three incarnations of Covid) were, in my opinion, worse propaganda. The whole laptop schtick was trivial lying, except it was in service of actually winning an election, which elevates it.
I spent decades never thinking the Democratic Party would devolve into this. But here we are.
When I type here, it's always with the question hanging in the air, "Will I look like an idiot to my descendants a hundred years from now if they read it?" I don't see how anyone can come to a conclusion other than that the Democratic Party was all-in with a bullshit narrative many times in the last five years, and those narratives not only were false and they had a good understanding that they were false, but they insulted the intelligence of the average American again and again.
I was never rooting for the Democratic Party to be revealed for what it currently it. Never. It sickens me to acknowledge it, but I'd have to be deranged to ignore reality.
Dude...you look like an idiot right now, bleating your vaccine conspiracy theories. But as far as Biden's condition is concerned, all you folks have gone through a fallacious mental exercise, not that you're honest enough to admit it:
1. Gee, Biden just stuttered--and I saw him stumble on steps the other day. He must be disintegrating!
2. His staff didn't make any announcements that agree with my infallible expert evaluation.
3. It's all a giant cover-up and CONSPIRACY!!!!
The reality is that he is now and was then an old man. We ALL make verbal and physical gaffes and stumbles. Old people make them more often. But let me ask you a simple, objective question: does that in and of itself connote unfitness for office?
If your answer is ANYTHING but "I don't know," you're wrong. BECAUSE: the 25th Amendment doesn't define fitness for office.
Period.
Lacking an objective, agreed-upon evaluation method, the White House didn't deliver a verdict. And if such a method had existed, Trump should have been subjected to it as well.
I'm sorry, but I doubt that you'd be happy if someone evaluated YOUR mental and physical condition by following you around constantly, recording every time you misspoke or stumbled, and playing it all back as some kind of highlight reel.
And I know the popular wisdom disagrees with me. Like the sun revolving around the earth. That was "common sense and simple observation," too.
