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Jon Stewart on CNN’s Biden book: ‘Selling you a book about news they should have told you’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Sure, no one would have known about the prostate cancer, but plenty of people had been questioning Biden's mental fitness since 2020, and they were called ageist by pundits. Stewart himself was accused of aiding Trump for running a segment on Biden's strange mental gaffes just weeks before the debate. If people like Tapper had been doing their jobs instead of deferring to the administration, we would have had answers, not questions.
Yep, I strongly remember being called a useful idiot for wanting a better canidate than Biden after the horrid debate performance, with every time being deflected to "But did you see Trump?? Clearly Biden can stop him now!!"
If Jon fucking Stewart was called ageist and a Russian bot because he accurately saw that Biden was not doing too well, its no wonder people called other fellow humans that too. I'm not shocked Apollo is trying to lie by omission of "We didn’t know of any obvious major health issues with Biden" besides being in the most stressful job in America and being the oldest person in that poisition.
But instead Biden went on "full" steam ahead, only keeping to his one term promise when internal polling showing he'd lose to Trump by 400 EC votes.
Yeah, we technically didn't know that he was cognitively impaired, but 80% of Americans said they thought he was too old and couldn't handle another term. We were all listening to the guy speak and thinking, "...I'm not a doctor, but that guy seems like he's struggling."
Funny how nobody is calling Trump out on his mental fitness. Could you imagine the outrage if Biden had said and done half the shit Trump has. Such a double standard.
First of all, there have been dozens of articles about Trump's mental fitness. Second, Biden's decline was sharper and more noticeable; that's why, even though they both sounded like rambling old men during the debate, Biden came off worse. Finally, Trump's mental fitness is usually people's third concern behind his authoritarianism and corruption. Anyway, now that we've addressed that, it would be great if you could give a shit that Democratic party insiders hid the President's cognitive decline from the country.
There's literal dozens of articles on this community about that. Nice whatboutism.