I disagree with Obama when he says, Biden puts the Nation first, as it is clearly not in the Nation’s interest for him to continue. In my experience it is very difficult to get elderly people to accept that they can’t do something anymore, whether it be driving a car, or even walking unaided. This is no different. Also the health of geriatrics is extremely variable, they can be virtually incapable one day, and back to their old self the next.
Playing the civilization game, i understand this statement, I always try to unlock democracy, but ultimately autocracy and fascism I choose for ultimate power.
I have a very hard time believing Biden has any credibility inside the White House and any ability to make decisions that stick. It's a lot easier to believe that war criminals Sullivan and Blinken, who are actually running the show, like being President and really want to keep their jobs. As for Dr. Jill, I don't even want to try and guess.
No they can't mate. That's the whole point. If you watch the video it explains how the only way for the Democrats to get rid of him is for him to decide to step down himself.
It's too late. Trump wins. Harris's approval is ~1%, any substitute that's not a WoC they'll have claims of racism or misogyny (or misogynoir if it's a white man). Obama orchestrated this all by getting Klobuchar and Buttigieg to drop out of the 2020 race and endorse Biden.
its not as shocking as other world leaders, who are murderers, dictators, tyrants in their own countries, people who rig elections, or don't even have elections or guys who imprison large sections of the population they don't like - there are far more shocking people around
Ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776 James Monroe, 18 Aaron Burr, 20 Alexander Hamilton, 21 James Madison, 25 Thomas Jefferson, 33 John Adams, 40 Paul Revere, 41 George Washington, 44
Voters in the U S should be entitled to a detailed medical report on Biden to determine what his mental health is and if he has the ability to continue
You are missing the point: This wasn’t a ONE-OFF event. This is the culmination of a series of fumbles that indicate a worsening condition. Yes, he can be alert and coherent and then, without warning drift away. That makes him unreliable and the next major incident may occur at a high-powered summit in front of the world’s cameras. Action must be taken now while he still retains some of his faculties and rescue the Presidency before it turns into a laughing stock and the poor man is left completely humiliated.
American voters are facing two choices: 1. An old man with a bad debate performance. 2. An old man who is a pathological liar and a convicted felon. You pick your choice at the ballot box... and the rest of the American voters will pick theirs.
Reagan was on an entirely different level to Biden. It isn't about age - it's about mental competence. It is frightening that so many Dems remain in denial about how demented he seems.
Reagan died with Alzheimer's disease. His disease was already in development and on set by his second term. Just look at his second term speeches and the help he constantly got from his wife Nancy when in public.
Nailed it. The founding fathers explicitly frowned upon the concept of a "career politician". And yet here, folks have been convinced to accept it as ...f***ing acceptable
Yeah Jill is just going to hand over the throne because she obviously wouldn't want Biden to feel it's too much. Do you reckon Gollum would eventually give the ring back ?
Stating that someone can be completely different on a great day is no excuse. You can’t have a Mr. Jekyll vs. Dr. Hyde running the country, depending on which day it is.
Sorry to say its not age it is his cognitive decline, he has early dementia, and it is part of illness they have lucid moments or days but I think he is suffering from dementia. sorry!
Multiple cognitive specialists concur that Biden is showing natural signs of aging more than Trump, such as slowing down, quiet voice, etc. but Trump is showing all the signs of dementia, such as confusion between people, not just names, difficulty completing words, the recent swing of his right leg when walking, sleeping in court, etc.. all indicative of vascular dementia specifically.
Biden doesn’t have dementia Joe Biden is 80 years old and I do think with his trips to Europe two weeks before and his many public events, Joe Biden was simply tired. Listen when you had even 50 years of age and you traveled to Europe and back, it takes you a week or so to get back on a schedule where you are not tired. Do that to an 80 year-old. Bye 18-year-old grandson just returned from a trip to Japan, and it took him several days that he wasn’t in the bed sleeping . Also, perhaps you do not know., Joe Biden was a stutterer as a young child and had a really bad stutter, and he figured out a process by which he conquered his stutter. He has over the years, met young boys who have a stuttering problem and have met with him privately to talk about how he, took on his stuttering and conquered it. Nobody’s talked about it, but I have wondered as you get older as most of us get older you lose the skill that you had managing in affliction. Also, I want to reiterate I think Joe Biden was just tired. I think his team had him out and about trying to counter all the publicity that Mr. CHAOS was getting FROM THE MEDIA. AND I THINK THAT WAS A HUGE MISTAKE. BUT I ALSO THINK WITH SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS AND BEING FATIGUED, JOE MAY HAVE FELT HIS STUTTER COMING ON AND HE HESITATED TO REALLY SPEAK OUT. THAT’S JUST A GUESS OF MINE, BUT I CAN’T IMAGINE THAT AGING AND FATIGUE DOESN’T IMPACT HIS ABILITY TO MANAGE THAT STUTTER.. HE IS A DECENT HONEST MAN. I ALSO SUGGEST YOU LOOK AT THE ECONOMIC STABILITY AMERICA IS ENJOYING AT THE MOMENT AND YOU HAVE A GUY 35 YEARS YOUNGER THAN JOE BIDEN AND HE’S NOT ABLE TO FIX YOUR ECONOMIC SITUATION IN THE UK. DON’T WORRY ABOUT US WE’RE GONNA ELECT JOE BIDEN, DEPEND ON THAT!💙🇺🇸
I wonder ... if Mr Biden applied for pretty much any other job in society would he be the preferred candidate on the basis of an interview? If not, then how can he even be considered for one of the most substantial jobs on the planet?
I wouldn't employ Trump for any job whatsoever. I would expect him to lie and cheat, he would get into conflict with other staff, and his malignant nature would do untold damage.
Absolutely it doesn't make any sense. This is not only in America this problem. Even for a small, there is cut off age, criminal record declaration and lots but for the biggest and busiest job no such restrictions!!
Trump’s accomplishments as president were superb, even with all the carry on by the Democrats. Newsom has destroyed California with millions having left the state due to his policies.
The man has mid-stage dementia. I've known several people with this condition, including my father. They can rebound for awhile and be almost normal, then suddenly drop down again. Worse then that, they can be at mid-stage for years, but unpredictably fall suddenly into the late-stage. Once you hit late-stage you may have some returns to lucidity but typically for shorter and shorter times. Eventually, there's no return to anything resembling normalcy. I perceive Biden tiptoeing into the late-stage, which could overtake him at any moment. The only thing unfathomable to me is why the media and DNC were in denial for so long. As far as I am concerned, let him and let the democrats and the media take their well-deserved LOSS in 2024. Honestly, it didn't take a genius to see this TWO YEARS AGO. That the media covered for this deeply corrupt man, and put the security of the country at risk, is disgusting.
@@tonyedwards3938 don't think the older Republican demographic who hated trump would have voted for Bernie. They would have considered him too progressive and voted independent. Imo
@@lindaharrison1757 Yup, the idea was to sway voters who'd otherwise stay at home (i.e. workers who feel represented by neither most Democratic nor Republican nominees).
The common sense answer is that both the Democrats and the Republicans should get rid of Biden and Trump. Because neither of them is the best choice to run a nation.
Common sense says that you actually do not know how close to we have come to losing this this Republics democratic institutions. Anybody seen the crime laden Supreme Court of late. A bunch of men, Republican men accepting thousands of dollars by people who want to influence the court and influence the court. That’s a Democratic institution or once was and we need to change all that’s going on. You do not toss out your candidate. at times like these and introduce totally new people who have not been vetted for over a year. Any kind of accusation add a new presidential candidate that would disrupt the voter base. And please stop trying to make as though Biden and the convicted felon are equals on any level..💙🇺🇸
Trump ran for the ticket and was approved, so Trump is very obviously the democratically legitimised candidate. Biden on the other hand did not put himself out there, the Dems had barred candidates, or did not have primaries all together, so to secure Biden's ticket, which he could not have won fairly. So there is a stark difference between the two. If the Reps did not want Trump, they had the opportunity to choose someone else, which they did not. Getting rid of Trump is not even on the menu.
The billionaires and corporate CEOs who own this country have decided the "best" and "common sense" choice consists of a dementia patient versus a cynical buffoon whose every utterance is a jingoistic word salad. The media ask no questions about it. Our most trusted institutions fully endorse it. And the vast majority of Americans consider it normal and acceptable. That's all you really need to know about the possibility of "common sense" ever entering into the equation.
if the US were a real democracy, voter opinion on these two candidates would have booted them out a long time ago. Democrats like to tout that they're the party of liberty, yet they stifled democratic sentiment by refusing to run a primary against Biden despite their base disliking the idea as a 2nd term president.
Biden's problems have grown significantly over those years. Trump's have also grown and are far more serious - they aren't merely the product of aging but the product of what is likely to be fronto-temporal dementia.
Yes, he should go. It's like an Olympic figure skater: even a top medal hopeful, if they fall, they might get sympathy, cheers and support from the crowd, but they ain't going to win the gold medal.
@@methanedirigible phew......that 2 guys with their combined ages , still have single figure golf handicaps ? And you are being impertinent to that ability ?
😂 you've had substandard leader's forever... Nixon,Bush senior bush jnr, Obama to name a few recent ones.. I'm not a trump fan but if I was American I'd rather have him than all the others I've mentioned. Since the second w w USA has used its espionage to destabilise any opposition in foreign lands. You put sad man Hussein in power only to dethrone him Wen he no longer played ball 🏈
Don't try to lump Trump in with the failing Biden. Trump's approval ratings have never been better. You democrats have a weak candidate, that's your and only your problem, not ours. Trump 2024🎉
They have not got the guts to get rid of him, just like the Republicans don’t have the guts to get rid of the convicted convict and insurrection mastermind front runner. The entire political system in the USA is spineless, pathetic and weak.
@@SS-yt2sq And by the way, Pritzker is less crooked than Donald for sure... and much less of a threat to democracy than Donald and his Republican buddies.
@Mansare94 absolutely. It blows my mind how most people don't get this. The ignorance about very hight rates of infant mortality skewing the average is staggering.
Statista has the historical records. Influences include wars, infant mortality and antibiotics: Over the past 160 years, life expectancy (from birth) in the United States has risen from 39.4 years in 1860, to 78.9 years in 2020.
Once the cognitive decline is visible, especially in someone who has top quality medial care, then it is serious. He will now decline rapidly. Its like a dam burst, by the time you see leaks the damage is severe and the collapse will be soon and sudden.
if you think his only failing is his age, you clearly haven't looked at his record as a senator. From destructive war on drugs bills, to open support of Israel (during a time when even Reagan told them they had crossed a red line), to racism and homophobia, he's no man of the people. His term has been an utter failure from start to finish. Promising change and delivering nothing has given Trump the perfect ticket.
I can’t get my head around why this is news now it has been for the last 4 years ? It is really odd this is only being spoke about now in detail by those with certain policies views
I don't know. If you're saying no Kamala Harris, then all these other candidates have lower name recognition, haven't been vetted on a national stage (much more grueling than anything they've been through), and haven't raised any money (!). None of them have ever polled better than Biden against Trump (to the degree it's been measured). If I were Trump there is no way I would agree to a debate with a lesser-known candidate and give them that critical exposure. Can't help but think this is also the makings of a Democratic loss.
The North Carolina stump speech had teleprompters. Biden could calm anxieties easily if he came out to do more 1 on 1 interviews but if he disappears until September, we are doomed.
I agree. I wasn't too worried before but am now. I think it'll cause a low voter turnout, except for the MAGA loons and the risk of losing to TFG is high now.
@@methanedirigible no, they weren’t. The overall average age of life expectancy was dragged down hard by the numbers of babies and children who died. Providing you made it out of childhood, you could expect to live long past 28 unless you had an accident, a bad childbirth, or something along these lines. Providing you did survive childhood (and childbirth), it wasn’t uncommon to get to your 60’s or 70’s - that was what was considered normal. Some even then made it beyond to their 80’s and 90’s - few, but enough to be part of every community.
@@methanedirigible even in medieval times, marriage records show that people got married for the first time in their mid 20’s. It was never lower than about 23 or 24 years old, and then they began having children. There was never a time when 15 year olds were middle aged and 28 year olds were considered elderly. That’s a myth, entirely due to how early childhood (birth to roughly 8 or 9 years old) was dangerous, with not enough immunity built up for enough to survive, and how that knocks onto the overall life expectancy average. If you made it out of childhood alive, you were OK - and not middle aged in your teens or ancient by 30.
The Democrats are in a tough spot with Biden as their candidate. Replacing him would cause outrage, so they may let him run and face the challenges ahead.
I disagree with Obama when he says, Biden puts the Nation first, as it is clearly not in the Nation’s interest for him to continue. In my experience it is very difficult to get elderly people to accept that they can’t do something anymore, whether it be driving a car, or even walking unaided. This is no different. Also the health of geriatrics is extremely variable, they can be virtually incapable one day, and back to their old self the next.
This is not AGE it is a neurodegenerative disease process. Plenty of much older people with much more cognitive reserve. I am a retired Clinical Psychologist/Neuropsychologist. UTI etc and other reversible causes of an aparent dementia have certainly been ruled out. Presidents get excellent medical care and nutrition.
Stop making excuses and trying to find euphemisms for an illness. It is about age, because illnesses are more likely at a high age and they also get worse with age. Why are you apologists so keen on having incompetent people be the most powerful individuals on the planet?
@@AZhangETH I wouldn't bother even asking :) You know it won't go anywhere. They can never say what it is, they will just start "what about so and so".
..........".some Democrats are already considering the possibility of an open convention, where delegates would vote on a new nominee. However, this process is not without its challenges, and it’s unclear whether it would be possible or practical to hold an open convention at this late stage in the election cycle". This tells me that an Open Convention is absolutely possible. It tells me that the prcticality is in question ,which is ridiculous because if Biden is infact in decline which seems obvious, the result of leaving him as the nominee could be a lot worse than the practicality of a open election at this late stage in the election cycle.
What does that lady mean by (certainly in the west) when taking about old people. Does that mean other people don't respect their old people. I don't understand.
Maybe study geopolitics and the global effects of leadership? The roughly 140 countries that make up the 'free world' are preparing to ghost the US Gov't. if the unthinkable happens and Trump gets in.
yeah, Biden says a tax increase for the rich. then the entire system, left, right, blue, red, democrat, republican , the media come down like a ton of bricks. Same as they did to Mr Corbyn in my country
We were taught to respect our elders and we do but things move fast now. They just are out of their depth. I respect them but I wouldn't follow them.. It's a new world and you have no choice about that. It's the way things are now.
"before joe biden ronald reagan was the oldest president" not true, he was the oldest before trump, then trump was the oldest president, and then biden became the oldest president
President LBJ didn’t run because his wife told him “ enough, enough… we are packing all our stuff and we moving back to Texas. You’re not well “. 🤧 then, he told everyone he isn’t running for president. It’s in Jill’s hands.
1. Nobody should be prevented from running from any office in a democracy 2. There are people 20 years older than Biden with perfectly functional brains. He's too demented not too old, but it's up to the electorate to decide that in any case
And who gave those two choices? Democrats and Republicans. The Dems most certainly could have changed this. I just can’t imagine this was the first time Biden lost it like that.
