Bidens insistence on continuing to run reminds me of my mum's insistence on continuing to drive her car after crashing it and nearly killing a pedestrian.

Some elderly ppl are in total denial about their capacity.

They need gentle persuasion and when that fails, doctors step in to run tests to help others take the matter in hand... just saying.

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di Michele Paris

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https://www.altrenotizie.org/primo-piano/10353-usa-imboscata-a-joe-biden.html

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I agree, CNN Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, your performance was atrocious, perhaps the worst of all three. Trump was being Trump and Biden was being Biden ... but you were not being journalists ...

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So, I've watched the first fifteen minutes of Biden-Trump debate and I really don't know what the media hysteria is about - I was expecting Biden to have a breakdown of epic proportions and I feared he was gonna have to be carried on the stretcher of the stage based on what people have been screaming. It's a pile of BS. Biden botched one question, got one number wrong. Yes, he looks old (even compared to Trump), he stutters (which has nothing to do with his age)

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I did not support Biden in the primary process for a variety of reasons. One of them was not his "capacity", though that now seems somewhat at issue. My primary concerns, if you'll pardon the pun, are (1) his centrism at a time when progressive policy is essential to both human rights and human survival, and (2) his age, but not (at the time) an issue of capacity but of succession.

The succession issue is not properly appreciated, even now, but matters ever more.

The GOP strategy accepts they are a minority candidate and is bulking up on lawyers to challenge elections at state or to make it hard or scary for racial minorities to vote. They want to win not on votes but on procedure, in other words. Failing that, they are nudging crowds to be ready to act out violently, again hoping this will throw elections procedurally into question.

Note that regardless of the capacity issue, which we had assumed was not in play, Biden IS old and old people CAN die. In regular jobs, we just assume this is something we'll deal with as it comes up, annd we don't obsess about it, as people can be quickly rearranged or new people hired if it turns out to matter. But in government we need more process, so we have a line of succession.

Right now if something happens to Biden, Harris takes over. So far do good, but until/unless she has a VP formally installed, we are operating without a backstop because if, even ignoring the unpleasant possibility of foul play, she is injured or sick in a way that makes her unavailable, the next in line to be acting president is Speaker of the House, as the line of succession doesn't respect party.

So Mike Johnson, as Speaker, can end up suddenly in power. And I don't trust that if a GOP party member takes power, they'll ever yield it. This would be a path to a coup for them.

So we need TWO vital people at the top of that succession list, and that is the age-related reason I think the Presidency is special, independent of capacity.

So if, due to the debate performance, there becomes a rapid last-minute scramble for another candidate, maybe Harris. Is Harris/Biden possible? I don't know if a just-Harris ticket can occur, or a Harris/TBD, but it's a bad idea. A Harris ticket with a specific named other could be OK. Harris/AOC or maybe Harris/Inslee or whatever would be fine with me, as long a it's someone specific she could work with.

I think Biden is already hurting on Gaza at this point. If debate performance opens a window to get him to step down and leave Kamala (without going to the chaos of a consensus-destroying open convention) and then have her pick a new running mate, that'd be OK with me.

She needs to have a ready VP pick.

Better this happen before convention because anything later and Trump will call ballots invalid, even if they're not.

This could be an opportunity.

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The entire event was a manifestation of the thorough, deep-going rot that characterizes official politics in the wealthiest and most powerful capitalist nation

Debate debacle triggers panic in Democratic Party - World Socialist Web Site

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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/06/28/slsp-j28.html