(July 14, 2024 at 9:46 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The pro-blue media doesn't seem to need to have lied. It seems to me that the coterie of aides and assistants have shielded him a bit. Not much time on the campaign trail, requiring interviewers to accede to questions beforehand ... whether that's intended to hide Biden's senescence or a natural defensiveness by a campaign under pressure, it's a bad look either way. The cynic in me certainly suspects some obfuscation.
He's a lifelong gaffe machine who has both old balls and a stutter. If they're trying to hide that...and I'm sure they would if they could..they're not doing a very good job. None of this was discovered this month, this year, or even this decade.
What tickles me, as an outsider to this, is that his being an old white guy was very much intentional. Fuckin required..apparently, in order to draw away some of those persuadable trump voters.
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