Ya, they came to the conclusion that he couldn't win the election because he was clearly cognitively impaired.
No, they were responding to concerns over winning the election because of public perception. Public perception being shaped and fueled by media coverage. Media coverage fed by conservative "news" feeds.
Do you remember when the Ninth Doctor regenerated into the Tenth? That was in The Christmas Invasion. Here is the scene in point, though it happens around the three-minute mark:
The British Prime Minister brought down by six words: "Don't you think she looks tired?" Unfortunately the clip ends before we see those six words work their magic; from that Wikipedia page:
quote:The Doctor orders the Sycorax to leave Earth and never return before taking the humans back to Earth. As the Sycorax ship moves away, Harriet orders Torchwood to destroy the ship. The Doctor becomes furious with Harriet, threatens to bring down her government, and whispers to Harriet's aide: "Don't you think she looks tired?"
The Doctor joins Rose, Jackie, and Mickey for Christmas dinner. They watch Harriet on television fending off rumours about her health, with a vote of confidence looming.
BTW, as I recall that was the first mention we heard of Torchwood (though I'm apparently wrong about that). It's an anagram of "Doctor Who" which was apparently used to label the video tapes to obscure their identity. Unofficial motto: "If it's alien, it's ours"
That's what had happened here with Biden. The right flooded the news with "concerns" over Biden being too old and "cognitively impaired" and the public responded to that große Lüge exactly as der Herr Doktor Goebbels told us they would.
Indeed, despite the MAGAts' best efforts, "too old" was the only thing they could find to use against Biden, whereas finding things to use against Trump suffers from being overwhelmed by a vast embarrassment of riches (as in "where to begin?").
And to demonstrate how contrived the whole business of "Biden is too old" is, just look at the massive coverage of Trump's own cascading cognitive decline. As demonstrated in the video in Percy's Message 19, Biden is quite capable answering questions coherently and actually address the question, whereas Trump cannot answer even a single question. And while Biden is able to stay on point in his speeches, Trump immediately descends into incoherency.
So where is the media outcry against Trump clearly being cognitively impaired? There isn't any. WHY NOT? Instead, media goes to extreme lengths of sanewashing Trump in order to make him appear less insane and incoherent than he's actually being. "Sanewashing" is described as "the practice of minimizing the perceived radical aspects of a person or idea in order to make it more acceptable to a wider audience".
An early example was how during the Vietnam War reports from the field would be reworded before release to the public leading to many Orwellian jokes. Our NCOIC had picked up a humor tape in Nam and played it for us. It depicted an Army captain being interviewed with a Public Affairs Officer (PAO) present. The captain would reply in extremely frank and graphic language (I only remember one, that was in 1979 that I heard it only once, which is too sexually graphic to repeat here) and each time the PAO would calmly sanewash it starting with "What the captain means to say is ... ". Then came the final question, the setup for the punchline:
quote:Interviewer: What do you think of how the war is going? Captain: This war is all f**ked up! PAO: What the captain means to say is ... this war is all f**ked up.
The other morning on radio I heard a video clip of a series of right-wing media clips blasting Biden for his "cognitive decline" intercut with clips of Trump doing the exact same things Biden was accused of only far worse; the clip ended with Biden denouncing those claims about him euphemistically as "banana oil."
Did you even watch the debate?
Did you even listen to it? I was in the car and I could tell immediately that Biden was physically not well. His voice was raspy and he had a cough. On top of that, we later learned, he had just returned from international traveling on diplomatic missions (I forget what crisis was involved, but rest assured that it was no pleasure trip).
Also, he was at the same disadvantage as we normals would be in a "creation/evolution debate" in that while our opponent (eg, MAGAt, creationist) can just lie non-stop about anything and everything (and without any need to think or keep any "facts" straight) we must stick to the facts and keep everything straight.
Just how long do you think you, with your youth and exceptionally sharp mind, would last when subjected to that firehose of lies spewing forth from Trump or any creationist? Of course, Harris' advantage facing Trump was her years of experience as a prosecutor having to deal with felonious thugs like Trump.
Bottom line is though why is Biden not agreeing to an assessment in order to put concerns to rest.
The President gets a full annual physical exam which includes a cognitive assessment. So the response to your request is "already been done and he passed." And it's an actual exam unlike Trump's which are all just being pencil-whipped (pencil-whipping is when you just sign off officially that maintenance work or a visual inspection had been performed when it in fact hadn't been).
Normally, the public is told in general how well the President did. Of course, under Trump that information was kept highly secret (eg, we can't even get a straight story on how his ear went straight from being "half blown off" to fully healed). Trump just dictates the medical report and has the doctor sign it. Pencil-whipping at the highest level of government.
Again, why are you so eaten up about Biden while we watch Trump fall apart before our eyes. It's eventually going to get so bad that none of the conservative media (which is most of the media) will no longer be able to sane-wash it away.
Did GDR have to pay extra to get his opinion translated from the original Russian?
Или он говорит по-русский? (Even if you couldn't read that, I'm sure GDR can. Or not, since Putin is finding it harder and harder to find good quality useful idiots.)
Edited by dwise1, : Added hyphen on the advice of my Translate app.
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