• @LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
    8•2 hours ago

    The first chance they get republicans will invoke 25th amendment to remove mentally unfit Trump and install JD as their president. Billionaires are bankrolling JD for this exact reason. Trump is literally a stepping stone for the oligarchs to get past this inconvenient thing called election

  • elgordino
    9•6 hours ago

    . Proportionately, he uses 13 percent more all-or-nothing terms like “always” and “never” than he did eight years ago, which some experts consider a sign of advancing age.

    If you ask me this is a sign of worsening mental health as much as it is just getting older.

    • @pearsaltchocolatebar
      7•4 hours ago

      Just look at interviews from the 2000s.he was a completely different person. He definitely has fairly advanced dementia.

    • @dirthawker0@lemmy.world
      4•2 hours ago

      They stopped questioning age when Biden stepped down. Now it’s taken them almost 3 months to realize the other candidate also has age and dementia issues.

      • @affiliate@lemmy.world
        3•2 hours ago

        my experience has been seeing one of these articles/posts about every week since kamala took over. and kamala harris has been drilling this point in her campaigning. but after looking into things a bit more, i think it’s probably just because i’ve been too online and my perspective doesn’t seem to be the most common one. i think what you said is probably closer to the public opinion/perspective on this.

        so i suppose the use of “reignites” is justified here.

  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    -7•7 hours ago

    This was always the danger of defending Biden’s age, and why I never got the big push to do so.

    Running shitty candidates because trump is even shittier just lowers the bar further.

    Kamala’s not great, but she’s slightly under retirement age and isn’t openly advocating for genocide, so compared to them she looks great, but pretending she’s perfect is just keeping the bar lower than it needs to be

    It shouldn’t be a big deal to say a candidate is good enough to vote for, but isn’t everything you want.

    • @PlantJam@lemmy.world
      22•6 hours ago

      She’s a much better candidate than Biden, and Biden was a much better candidate than trump or Hillary Clinton. It’s been eight years, or closer to ten if you include the campaign season for the 2016 election. People are rightfully excited about Harris. You’re absolutely right that we can do better, but this is the most excited I’ve ever been for a candidate. I was pessimisticly excited for Obama, but was afraid he wouldn’t be able to win the general election.

      • @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        -4•6 hours ago

        But you’re ignoring that she’s not better than 2012 Obama, and definitely not better than 2008 Obama.

        Like, everyone knows Hillary was a terrible candidate, we all know Biden was a bad one.

        But Kamala being a decent candidate doesn’t mean we can’t be happy about that, or that we can’t acknowledge reality about her.

        She’s not as progressive as the average Dem voter.

        And until candidates start matching the Dem voter base, shit feels like trump always have a chance

        If the DNC ran a candidate that matched their voter base, it’d be a landslide. Just a lot less money flowing thru the campaign and the DNC. The people running the party have different goals than the people voting for it