10-13-2022, 11:10 PM
(10-13-2022, 08:34 PM)hollodero Wrote: Tell me about it. And I have to translate too :)
Yeah, still what you're doing is giving armchair diagnosis too. You either are against doing so or do so yourself. That's what I'd say to all of these speculations about dementia and whatnot, no matter if Trump or Biden are the target. You are not an expert and you don't know. As for comparing him to your friend's aunt, you'd have to be more specific. "The look in his eyes" does not mean anything, and it does not mean someone has to come and tell Biden that he lives in the white house because he thinks he lives in a tent. And that's what demented people do, forget their name, their age, their current residency, who everyone else is, wive husband and children alike, or that they tell the same story again and again, stuff like that. I was in an elder care facility for almost a year. These demented people are more or less mentally gone, could not be left out of someone's sight, they could not lead a normal conversation, they were a danger to themselves and others when left wandering on their own, and no way they could have gone somewhere and read something from a teleprompter even. I'm sure Biden shows certain signs of age and maybe even of decline. But throwing dementia and alzheimer's out there is something quite different.
Again, not here to defend Dem policies or tell you you should like them.
That I consider partially fair critizism. I was taken aback by all these diagnostics or disgrunted family members or Avenatti and Cohen and all the other folks the media threw out there just to shit on Trump or say outlandish things the moderater didn't want to say. No disagreement on that front really.
Oh boy, I feel this is a lost battle, you're too dug in on that one. I would say type Biden interview into youtube and choose any of the suggestions that aren't mean short clips of him misspeaking. Or you could start with all the Democratic debates and the two debates against Trump really. Is Biden coming across as the best candidate ever in those, no. But he knows what he says, where he is and why there's a podium in front of him at all times, hurdles a demented person could already not muster.
Or no matter your thoughts on CNN, take the recent interview with Jake Tapper . Again, I'm not saying what he says in those are brilliant genius things, or even true all the time, and one can tell he was a stutterer once. But his answers are reasonably quick, clear, cohesive, to the point, showing knowledge of the situation at hand and presenting thoughts that are not at all clinically crazy. Not how it'd go with a demented person.
I will also say that Trump never made nearly as much sense in any interviews, but I don't really want to go there.
I'll make this quick cause I'm heading to bed, but I'll post more tomorrow so I can get more thumbs down and barf emojis on my posts. Ha ha!
You are correct, I am also armchair doctoring. And the last sentence was supposed to be "not being mean" instead of "being mean", but I'm sure you got that.
I wouldn't say it is a lost battle. If I'm wrong I'll admit it. I don't mean scripted interviews with mostly softball questions. If he is really ok, I want to see him take time say 45 minutes and stand at the podium live with no teleprompter and no cue cards and take a bunch of random questions from a bunch of random reporters and answer the questions at least somewhat coherently. If you can show me some videos like that within the last year or so I will admit I'm wrong.
My friends Aunt had good days and bad days right up until the day she passed. It's hard to articulate what I mean in text form. It's just what I see as far as body language and movement and speed and facial expressions. Something isn't right in my opinion.
Also sorry I didn't get to the climate change part of your post earlier. I will try to address that tomorrow.
Have a good night.
