The longstanding concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and memory intensified on Thursday after the release of a special counsel’s report investigating his possession of classified documents.
“He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’)
This was a five-hour interview the day after the October 7 attack in Israel. He was thinking about a brewing war in the Middle East and couldn’t recall a date. He also strikes me as the kind of person who thinks about things like this out loud. It doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t know, just that he was processing it externally.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
OK, fuck, that’s not great. Then again, I’m 40 years younger than him and I can’t tell you the exact dates when important people in my life died.
This right here. I’m 43 and don’t remember birthdays or death days for most of my family. I also have to think things through to remember at times. I also have problems recalling specific words at random ass times, for example I wouldn’t be able to bring up the word “table” but could tell you about fermis paradox, another time it would be “sidewalk” that my brain could be assed to remember.
Biden is old and should be retired somewhere on the beach. He chose to run again because he knew we needed to get rid of trump, remember that, he chose to run again. Now he is the only thing standing between democracy and another large step into fascism with a future dictator.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
This one just pisses me off. It’s framed so dishonestly.
I can recall extremely specific things about when people I know died. What the weather was, what I was wearing, what video game I was playing when I heard the news, and so on. But I couldn’t necessarily pull the right year out of my brain without checking. Or necessarily even the date for some people.
I promise that Biden remembers the death of his son in whatever specific way is meaningful to him. It might not be “on this day/month/year.” It might be “on a Tuesday” or might be “a cold snowy day when I was baking bread.” I have no idea. But this just isn’t how memory works, and it’s hurtful, evil even, to print something that dishonest. It boils my blood to read such dishonest reporting.
This was a five-hour interview the day after the October 7 attack in Israel. He was thinking about a brewing war in the Middle East and couldn’t recall a date. He also strikes me as the kind of person who thinks about things like this out loud. It doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t know, just that he was processing it externally.
OK, fuck, that’s not great. Then again, I’m 40 years younger than him and I can’t tell you the exact dates when important people in my life died.
This right here. I’m 43 and don’t remember birthdays or death days for most of my family. I also have to think things through to remember at times. I also have problems recalling specific words at random ass times, for example I wouldn’t be able to bring up the word “table” but could tell you about fermis paradox, another time it would be “sidewalk” that my brain could be assed to remember.
Biden is old and should be retired somewhere on the beach. He chose to run again because he knew we needed to get rid of trump, remember that, he chose to run again. Now he is the only thing standing between democracy and another large step into fascism with a future dictator.
This one just pisses me off. It’s framed so dishonestly.
I can recall extremely specific things about when people I know died. What the weather was, what I was wearing, what video game I was playing when I heard the news, and so on. But I couldn’t necessarily pull the right year out of my brain without checking. Or necessarily even the date for some people.
I promise that Biden remembers the death of his son in whatever specific way is meaningful to him. It might not be “on this day/month/year.” It might be “on a Tuesday” or might be “a cold snowy day when I was baking bread.” I have no idea. But this just isn’t how memory works, and it’s hurtful, evil even, to print something that dishonest. It boils my blood to read such dishonest reporting.