Oh make no mistake. I'm not bashing him. I have a great deal of compassion for Joe Biden. I don't think this is how he should be spending his twilight years. I also think he's being taken advantage of heavily by his party.
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I think you're making unwarranted extrapolations.
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-Harlan Hammerfest, Paladin
You have 24 hours to quote yourself calling out Trump's own physical limitations. If you can't, that makes you a hypocrite. If you won't even bother looking, it makes you both a hypocrite and a coward.
I don't think you can quote yourself calling out Trump's own physical limitations, but I'll give you the standard 24 hours. That's plenty of time to prove that you're actually posting a genuine concern and not, for example, trolling.
On topic: Biden reverses Trump policy of using land mines. Good. They're already in ill-favor, even banned by a 1997 treaty, and cause more problems than they solve. Trump reversed US policy Jan 31, 2020 but I don't know if he actually used his not-quite-one-year left in office to run around the world, dropping land mines everywhere, or if he was just bluffing.
I kid, of course. Trump didn't run. He would have other people do that for him.
I’ve seen the video of Biden tripping on the steps of Air force One — not that big of a deal. I also looked up footage of him being "led" around by the First Lady, which was some Facebook post/video that put together a bunch of clips of them together. You’re honestly reaching if you think that video proves anything. Sure, it seems that she corrects him from time-to-time, but she also, in that same video, admits to doing it cause she’s a teacher. As for her "leading" him off stages, I don’t think that’s anything more than them reaching out to each other to hold hands and walk off together, which reinforces their marriage, commitment to each other and the strength of a solid cohesive unit — that’s important to show as a President.
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For anyone curious, this is the video that Hammer is referring to.
Fairy tales are more than true–not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten. -G. K. Chesterton & Neil Gaiman
If some people think Biden is too old to be president then that must mean they would never vote for Trump, right?
Either way, I'd rather the next president be gen x at least. Same goes for the entirety of congress really.
“There you stand, the good man doing nothing. And while evil triumphs, and your rigid pacifism crumbles to blood stained dust, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns.”
No he is completely warranted. You have no shame or decency. And that's @Endus putting it very modestly tbh..
This controversy and the weird conversation around it are both so mind numbingly fucking stupid.
What's next, are we gonna go back to clutching our pearls over fucking mustard and coffee cups?
pffft, it's awesome seeing people use the "Biden is an old man" card as if that's supposed to convince his voter base of anything. just like pointing out what complete moron Trump is did nothing but endear him to his base.
of course of all the things you can criticize this administration over the fact "he fell off his bike" is the one we're choosing to go with shows an utter lack of any intellectual or political rigor.
this is like a child making fun of a classmate's favorite sports team.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
Pretty much every president has had issues with the AF1 steps.
Ford fell in 1975.
Reagan fell in 1984.
Bush Jr. stumbled in 2006.
Obama stumbled in 2015.
It wasn't AF1, but Clinton had to have surgery after he stumbled down some steps in 1997.
And forget stairs, Trump has problems with ramps...
"The difference between stupidity
and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Alexandre Dumas-fils
Someone seems to have forgotten Obama's infamous dijon mustard scandal.
Ford single-handedly gave Chase an SNL career. If you put a camera on an old man for 4/8 years, you're going to see him stumble.
Normally, not a problem. Different story if that old man said anything like "I am the healthiest man to ever run for office". Then it's 100% fair game to point out the blatant, obvious hypocrisy. Especially those times he accidentally fell down and his dick got stuck in a woman who wasn't his wife yet.
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Trump had a problem with a disease he handwaved. He compared COVID to the flu, then it put him in the hospital and nearly killed him.