James GleickI’ve read the New York Times all my life, and I worked in the newsroom for ten years, and I’ve never seen the news department along with the editorial department commit to a nakedly partisan political crusade, as they are now. Evidently they are more outraged by Biden’s determination to continue running for re-election than they have ever been by Donald Trump.
Nicole ParsonsI don't see these calls by quisling Democrats as true calls to push out Biden. They know it's political suicide.
Rather, they see the debate as a moment of manufactured crisis available for exploitation by opportunists.
You'll hear of back room deals being negotiated to buy a restoration of a fake unanimity in the coming days. Favors & markers are being exchanged as we speak.
Just as Pence bought funding for his presidential bid from the GOP's fascist megadonors by ...
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Geoff Berner@Npars01 @JamesGleick I'm not a quisling, thank you very much. You can't win the presidency by re running Weekend at Bernie's.
This doesn't look like "Weekend at Bernie's" to me.
https://www.youtube.com/live/8W6HiZAhsoA?si=Y8vMF_cw6uNBi8co
Biden poses a threat to quislings because he's famous for appearing to play ball with opportunists, then sandbagging them later.
That kind of strategy isn't possible with another candidate.
'I'm staying in the race': Biden doubles-down at Wisconsin rally
@Npars01 @JamesGleick is this the speech where he promises to win in 2020?
At 80, anyone's eyesight can misread off a teleprompter
@Npars01 @JamesGleick you're really adept at making excuses for him. Think that's going to get him to 53% from 41?
@Npars01 @JamesGleick how? How is he going to do that? Biden has had 4 years to get Americans excited about the novelty of the first octogenarian president. Is that going to magically happen now? How?
@Npars01 @JamesGleick do you think five months of excuses for the mounting evidence that he's fuzzy about what year it is, that's going to put him in the White House? You're as deluded as a Trumper on this issue.
I think Biden is in better cognitive condition than either Trump or Reagan upon their second run.
Running a campaign is exhausting for anyone. Tiredness is human.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/17/ronald-reagan-alzheimers-president-son
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/doctors-are-warning-of-trumps-dementiaits
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-dementia-evidence-overwhelming-top-psychiatrist-1881247
Unless a medical professional has direct contact for a diagnosis, the symptoms of fatigue are hard to differentiate from dementia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/health/parsing-ronald-reagans-words-for-early-signs-of-alzheimers.html
@Npars01 @JamesGleick it's great that you think that. How is Biden going to convince the voters of that? Fatigue? He took 6 days off the road to prepare for the debate. If that made him too tired to debate, guess what that means? He's too tired to run.
@Npars01 @JamesGleick Biden is now promising not to do events after 8pm, so he won't be too tired. Do you think that's a winning strategy? Really?
I think someone who is sufficiently aware of his condition for self-care is cognitively competent.
It's the dementia -addled who cannot sleep and are sending out Truth Social posts at 3 am.
People in cognitive decline have dysregulated sleeping patterns.
https://slate.com/technology/2024/04/donald-trump-sleep-courtroom-apnea-science.html
They also can no longer recognize & acknowledge their own physical limitations. They can't go to sleep without prescription drugs & can't wake up without them.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trumps-4-hour-sleep-habit-could-explain-his-personality
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/of-interest/2024/04/23/trump-asleep-nod-off-trial/
https://globalnews.ca/news/3970379/donald-trump-sleep-hours-night/
Trump also had covid.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/06/kevin-oconnor-biden-doctor-cognitive-tests-debate/
https://mashable.com/article/sleep-tracker-insomnia-covid-side-effect
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanwpc/article/PIIS2666-6065(23)00154-2/fulltext
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2311330
Sleep deprivation has serious medical consequences
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/17/donald-trump-is-poster-child-of-sleep-deprivation-arianna-huffington.html
@Npars01 do you really think Trump is not sufficiently competent to wreck the federal government? You keep making these arguments that have been made for years, with no effect on voter opinion.
Ah. Was waiting for a typical Russian disinformation narrative to arrive.
"It's all pointless. It's too late. Nothing works. Nothing changes. Why bother?"
Russian malign information campaigns treasure their tropes about impotence, futility, passivity, inaction, apathy, and hopelessness.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/06/china-russia-republican-party-relations/678271/
https://jordanrussiacenter.org/blog/propaganda-political-apathy-and-authoritarianism-in-russia
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/russian-misinformation-seeks-to-confound-not-convince/
@Npars01 @JamesGleick you are so right. That's why America has never had an octogenarian president. Because of stuff like that.
After Biden becomes president he will likely have a less rigorous travel schedule.
He has an international anti-democracy movement to take apart, and he's very good at it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/07/09/hungary-treaty-yellen-tax/
@Npars01 @JamesGleick so we're living with different models of reality here. My version says Biden's bosses, the megadonors, are done with him, and they're pulling the plug on the campaign because he can't win. In yours, the forgiving American people listen to you, and realize Biden really can cut the mustard. We'll soon know whose model is correct, and whose is built on fantasy, so I guess I should stop arguing with you. I love your writing on Covid, by the way.
I wasn't arguing.
I presented facts, combined with hope and optimism.
Yes, the donor class looks after their own narrow immediate interests, blind to the fact that a Biden presidency works for the many, not only the few.
@Npars01 @JamesGleick I'm not debating whether his presidency works or not. I'm observing that his campaign does not.
Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.@Npars01 @Geoffberner @JamesGleick
A little story about #Reagan's mental state his final year:
A couple of months after leaving office, the Reagan's attended a fancy ball.
When they returned home, Nancy noticed Ron's sleeve was soaking wet with something clenched in his hand.
He had removed a miniature WhiteHouse from the fish tank and brought it home.
"What is it?" asked Nancy.
"I don't know. I just know that it's important", responded the former president. #TrueStory
The UK was enthusiastic about a 100 year old Queen. It does happen.
The age isn't the issue. It's the alternative. The evil of the alternative is very real.
Trump's family has a medical history with dementia. Biden's does not.
https://martiesirois.medium.com/yes-donald-trump-definitely-has-dementia-a68e5b7b993d
