Your opening line is a little weird. You didn't have to hate Trump to see the clear signs of it in him, and sorry, just not seeing that same lack of mental acuity in Biden. Apparently others have challenged this view too. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/01/brit-hume/geriatrics-experts-say-brit-humes-claim-joe-biden-/
I think he shows the "slowed-down" aspect of his age but fogginess, drifting? No. Don't see it.
OTOH at his age every passing year is going to take more away and six years from now he might not even know where he is half the time.
But this mileage varies. Pablo Casals was at 96 playing gifted interpretation of Bach figured bass pieces for cello and that is extremely demanding numerical musicianship.
We *all* get a big slower as we get older...around age 37 is when you start walking into a room, can't remember why you came there, and start to worry you've got Early Onset Dementia. My mother was - I thought - a real space case when she was my age, now I'm that age and I realize her problem wasn't brain fluffiness but she was just *OLD* :) And Biden is much older than any of us, except my mother ;) Who sitll doesn't have dementia although she's definitely in no mental condition to lead the country (she's 90). I see none of the problems with Biden that I see with Mom although I don't monitor him 24x7. Mostly he reminds me of a classic movies-era cowboy with the flinty eyes and the gravely voice and the more take-no-shit attitude. Is he fuzzier than you and I? Undoubtedly, but I'll bet we'll never be that smart when we're 80.
He's STILL got more going on than the Orange Menace, who couldn't complete a thought beyond the capability of a fourth grader, and if you compare Trump to the interviews Trump gave when he was much younger, like in his fifties, he was a lot more eloquent and less crazy-sounding. Biden wasn't my first pick either but that' who the Dems went with and hell, i'd have voted for Homer Simpson over Trump.
I was forgetting what I came downstairs for when I was 18. I was smoking a lot of weed. Short term memory loss is a well-known thing. We laughed about it.
Sometimes I find myself groping for a word, but that isn't new.
No, when he was younger he was pretty conservative. And anyway the memory effects are temporary, you forget while you're stoned, not for the rest of your life.
I smoked a lot of strong weed for decades, then quit around 1990 and when I started again six years later I smoked much, must less. Stoned I aced calculus exams in college; stoned I wrote code at Microsoft. My memory is fine, especially for numbers.
I don't think Biden is in much bad shape. I'd certainly trust his mind more than Trump or Walker.
Biden was tough on crime, and you can find video of him as a young Senator speaking with a stutter or word salads. I don't think it was pot.
A thing that I notice that people who have never cared for a loved one with dementia is the way his wife, handlers and even vice-President direct him to keep him from wandering, both in speech and action. It reminds me of the way my sisters and I had to care for our mom in her final years. A sad, but familiar sight.
Not trying to argue, our opinions are our own based upon our own experience.
True, you didn't have to hate Trump to see it. Anyone who has lived with a loved one with dementia would recognize the signs clearly. My reference was to what it would take to willfully ignore/deny it, Trump hate or partisanship.
As for "right-wing sources" reporting it, of course. You don't expect the left-wing sources to mention it do you? I use WSJ, Reuters, Asia Times, CNN, NPR, Reason and Daily Wire to get a spread across the spectrum of bias. When I was young and my hearing supported it and there was no internet, I was a short-wave radio listener. VOA, BBC, Russia, Voice of Vietnam via Cuba (I heard Jane Fonda's speech), and miscellaneous stations depending upon condition to get that spread. None of those supply discernment, you must supply your own. If you are not too partisan for that you step out of the echo chamber.
As an interesting side note, at one time I had a job analyzing RF signals pertaining to electronic warfare. Between missions I was listening to the VOA broadcast of a UN security council meeting. Anwar Sādāt was making the US look like absolute assholes and the signal appeared to fade until he could not be heard. There was no fade, the signal was tall and proud on my spectrum analyzer. The noise was modulated in at the source on every VOA frequency. When he finished speaking the fade went away. The Voice of America had jammed itself! A lesson about media bias when I was a young man that led to my quest for information source diversity.
How often does All Sides update that chart? Because I recognize several that jump up and down, back and forth on factualism and bias. I wouldn't put the National Review as far right as they have, but it's still for sure right-wing. Cnn & Fox News both bounce up and down for factualism, so does MSNBC. The Epoch Times and the Washington Examiner are both far right, not sort of right. I prefer Media Bias Fact Check myself, although none of them are the final word on everything.
Maybe I don't know the signs of dementia when I see them, but I do watch for them in my mother, and from what I read in Bob Woodward's books, Trump was handled like a spoiled, easily distracted child by his handlers when he was in office. I don't know if folks are doing the same to Biden but I suspect not. Are you sure it's dementia and not just encroaching old age? Like I said, we all get a little fuzzier as we get older, I can literally completely forget something from a few days previously and it's not that I'm getting senile, that's just how older age is for many of us and my mother was the same at my age...yet 31 years later, at 90, she's sharper than Trump. I dunno, I just don't see it in Biden but then again, we had no idea Reagan was getting fuzzy in his old age, and supposedly his family & handlers hid it from the American public until his second term was over.
I wrote that you must supply your own discernment too all needs sources. The best you can do is seek variety.. You're picking fly crap out of the pepper shaker with toothpick chopsticks trying to find fault with my non -medical opinion about one subject, Biden's mental fitness to be POTUS. That's not about partisanship. Call it what you like, but claiming he is ok to be POTUS is stunning.
I don't know why you keep mentioning Trump, be has nothing to do with it. Yeah Trump was a dumpster fire but he is no longer in office and has nothing to do with Biden.
You haven't yet explained why you thought Biden was showing signs of dementia. Although I understand better where you get your news, I still don't know why you think he's getting fuzzy.
I've listened to his responses to questions and critics. He seems pretty sharp to me. He tracks just fine, while Trump can't speak a coherent sentence without weaving into one of his grievances or his stock phrases ("crooked Hillary," "with hunt," "China virus") and he never uses conjunctive adverbs like "however" at all.
Your opening line is a little weird. You didn't have to hate Trump to see the clear signs of it in him, and sorry, just not seeing that same lack of mental acuity in Biden. Apparently others have challenged this view too. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/01/brit-hume/geriatrics-experts-say-brit-humes-claim-joe-biden-/
When I Google "is biden senile 2022" all I see is allegations in the right wing media about it. Why do *you* think he's senile?
I think he shows the "slowed-down" aspect of his age but fogginess, drifting? No. Don't see it.
OTOH at his age every passing year is going to take more away and six years from now he might not even know where he is half the time.
But this mileage varies. Pablo Casals was at 96 playing gifted interpretation of Bach figured bass pieces for cello and that is extremely demanding numerical musicianship.
Watch this and tell me he's showing dementia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJTilMtrp0o
We *all* get a big slower as we get older...around age 37 is when you start walking into a room, can't remember why you came there, and start to worry you've got Early Onset Dementia. My mother was - I thought - a real space case when she was my age, now I'm that age and I realize her problem wasn't brain fluffiness but she was just *OLD* :) And Biden is much older than any of us, except my mother ;) Who sitll doesn't have dementia although she's definitely in no mental condition to lead the country (she's 90). I see none of the problems with Biden that I see with Mom although I don't monitor him 24x7. Mostly he reminds me of a classic movies-era cowboy with the flinty eyes and the gravely voice and the more take-no-shit attitude. Is he fuzzier than you and I? Undoubtedly, but I'll bet we'll never be that smart when we're 80.
He's STILL got more going on than the Orange Menace, who couldn't complete a thought beyond the capability of a fourth grader, and if you compare Trump to the interviews Trump gave when he was much younger, like in his fifties, he was a lot more eloquent and less crazy-sounding. Biden wasn't my first pick either but that' who the Dems went with and hell, i'd have voted for Homer Simpson over Trump.
I was forgetting what I came downstairs for when I was 18. I was smoking a lot of weed. Short term memory loss is a well-known thing. We laughed about it.
Sometimes I find myself groping for a word, but that isn't new.
Maybe Biden smoked a lot of weed back in the day :)
No, when he was younger he was pretty conservative. And anyway the memory effects are temporary, you forget while you're stoned, not for the rest of your life.
I smoked a lot of strong weed for decades, then quit around 1990 and when I started again six years later I smoked much, must less. Stoned I aced calculus exams in college; stoned I wrote code at Microsoft. My memory is fine, especially for numbers.
I don't think Biden is in much bad shape. I'd certainly trust his mind more than Trump or Walker.
Biden was tough on crime, and you can find video of him as a young Senator speaking with a stutter or word salads. I don't think it was pot.
A thing that I notice that people who have never cared for a loved one with dementia is the way his wife, handlers and even vice-President direct him to keep him from wandering, both in speech and action. It reminds me of the way my sisters and I had to care for our mom in her final years. A sad, but familiar sight.
Not trying to argue, our opinions are our own based upon our own experience.
"𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘮"
True, you didn't have to hate Trump to see it. Anyone who has lived with a loved one with dementia would recognize the signs clearly. My reference was to what it would take to willfully ignore/deny it, Trump hate or partisanship.
As for "right-wing sources" reporting it, of course. You don't expect the left-wing sources to mention it do you? I use WSJ, Reuters, Asia Times, CNN, NPR, Reason and Daily Wire to get a spread across the spectrum of bias. When I was young and my hearing supported it and there was no internet, I was a short-wave radio listener. VOA, BBC, Russia, Voice of Vietnam via Cuba (I heard Jane Fonda's speech), and miscellaneous stations depending upon condition to get that spread. None of those supply discernment, you must supply your own. If you are not too partisan for that you step out of the echo chamber.
https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
As an interesting side note, at one time I had a job analyzing RF signals pertaining to electronic warfare. Between missions I was listening to the VOA broadcast of a UN security council meeting. Anwar Sādāt was making the US look like absolute assholes and the signal appeared to fade until he could not be heard. There was no fade, the signal was tall and proud on my spectrum analyzer. The noise was modulated in at the source on every VOA frequency. When he finished speaking the fade went away. The Voice of America had jammed itself! A lesson about media bias when I was a young man that led to my quest for information source diversity.
How often does All Sides update that chart? Because I recognize several that jump up and down, back and forth on factualism and bias. I wouldn't put the National Review as far right as they have, but it's still for sure right-wing. Cnn & Fox News both bounce up and down for factualism, so does MSNBC. The Epoch Times and the Washington Examiner are both far right, not sort of right. I prefer Media Bias Fact Check myself, although none of them are the final word on everything.
Maybe I don't know the signs of dementia when I see them, but I do watch for them in my mother, and from what I read in Bob Woodward's books, Trump was handled like a spoiled, easily distracted child by his handlers when he was in office. I don't know if folks are doing the same to Biden but I suspect not. Are you sure it's dementia and not just encroaching old age? Like I said, we all get a little fuzzier as we get older, I can literally completely forget something from a few days previously and it's not that I'm getting senile, that's just how older age is for many of us and my mother was the same at my age...yet 31 years later, at 90, she's sharper than Trump. I dunno, I just don't see it in Biden but then again, we had no idea Reagan was getting fuzzy in his old age, and supposedly his family & handlers hid it from the American public until his second term was over.
I wrote that you must supply your own discernment too all needs sources. The best you can do is seek variety.. You're picking fly crap out of the pepper shaker with toothpick chopsticks trying to find fault with my non -medical opinion about one subject, Biden's mental fitness to be POTUS. That's not about partisanship. Call it what you like, but claiming he is ok to be POTUS is stunning.
I don't know why you keep mentioning Trump, be has nothing to do with it. Yeah Trump was a dumpster fire but he is no longer in office and has nothing to do with Biden.
You haven't yet explained why you thought Biden was showing signs of dementia. Although I understand better where you get your news, I still don't know why you think he's getting fuzzy.
I've listened to his responses to questions and critics. He seems pretty sharp to me. He tracks just fine, while Trump can't speak a coherent sentence without weaving into one of his grievances or his stock phrases ("crooked Hillary," "with hunt," "China virus") and he never uses conjunctive adverbs like "however" at all.