• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You know that the debate response had nothing to do with the debate topics or responses. Any other press conference that day would have likely had the same response. It wasn’t what he was saying that was the problem.

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      1 year ago

      True, but until then, the Biden campaign had done a pretty decent job of keeping a lid on his condition. The debate made it impossible to hide any longer. They just had to YOLO him out there and pray it wouldn’t be a fucking disaster.

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      1 year ago

      Any other press conference that day would have likely had the same response.

      He’s done a decent number press conferences before and since that debate and has seemed perfectly capable during all of them, but the big difference is the debate is a 90 minute event in the evening when Sundowners hits hard, and most if not all of those press conferences have been around mid-day when he’s reportedly most lucid. Anyone who’s cared for or been around aging individuals with dementia can tell from the debate that he has dementia and its progressed pretty far

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        1 year ago

        That’s my point. The debate itself had nothing to do with the issue.

        That just happened to be the event where it became more apparent to many people. It could have been any press conference or other speaking event instead.