White House denies Biden has ‘any form of dementia’ at tense press conference

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/biden-dementia-karine-jean-pierre-b2572882.html

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  2. Ok?

    He’s objectively declining rapidly, even if it’s not literally dementia that’s doing it

  3. I hope those hill reporters don’t let up. Watching them unload during press events is cathartic. You can tell they’re just as pissed as we all are.

  4. Maybe Biden insists his decision making abilities are unaffected now but what about in 2028 at the end of a second term when he’s 85 or 86?

    Does he believe he will be in good shape in 2028 and still rallying support for the party in the 2026 and 2028 elections?

    If he’s likely to step down before a second term finishes in 2029, then why not stay in office now, but quit the race and endorse an orderly transition process that will shore up candidates which he believes most share his views.

    He can create a foundation which endorses candidates which support his vision for a pro-labor economy and stronger alliances and help them get elected to the House which Democrats need to retake.

  5. At this point his refusal to take a cognitive test or undergo any intensive medical examination is itself evidence that he, and his team, aren’t certain he’s okay.

    I never thought I’d type this sentence, but the American people deserve to know if their president has dementia. They deserve to have a comprehensive understanding of the president’s current medical condition, given what he’s publicly displayed and his age.

    It’s not okay to just ask all of us to trust him and his team. We all just did that and then he went on the debate stage — months earlier than originally scheduled, which was at his request — and immediately made clear we have been misled.

  6. He doesn’t sound like he has dementia, he just sounds old and that’s the problem. Older people think less quickly and get muddled more easily. It’s not fixable because he won’t get younger, just worse.

  8. Maybe the answer is simpler. Maybe biden is 81, and age is finally starting to catch up to him.

    the transcripts prove his mind is still there, but he’s losing his train of thought at times, his voice is becoming less powerful, and he has a harder time getting around, he gets tired more easily.

  9. For Trump and Biden, I think to myself, “Would I ride in a car they were driving? Would I trust either to take care of my small child? “ the answer is obviously no and yet those are our two choices to run the country 

  10. He doesn’t have dementia. That’s a far claim to make with little evidence. But he is, visibly, an aging octogenarian. He’s frail and weak and everyone sees it. It’s not hard to understand why people are concerned just based on that. When you can only mumble off vague statistics while making Michael Jackson sound rugged in the face of a complete idiot shouting lie after lie and not getting corrected, it’s clear you aren’t up to the job of the most powerful man in the world.

    But let me be clear: I’d still vote for his decaying corpse over Trump.

  11. He may be sharp as a tack

    He may have an agile mind

    He may in relatively good health (considering)

    …but the American public will, I think, never BELIEVE it. I don’t knot the logistics of replacing the Dem candidate at this stage, but they should seriously consider it.

  12. Here is the thing, Biden is still likely sharper than most people 10 years younger, he likely doesn’t have dementia he is just 82 doing an absolutely exhausting job, he is probably doing extremely well for an 82 year old. However, the President of the United States of America shouldn’t be better than average or need a qualifier like “for an 82 year old”. That job should be reserved for people who need no qualifiers, I don’t want to hear “quick for his age”, or “healthy for an 82 year old who travels constantly”, or “his memory isn’t as bad as we are making it out to be” Relative to the best 1% of Americans he is very slow, his health is fairly poor, and his memory stinks. Relative to the best .01% of Americans the man looks ancient. We want the best of us to represent us, not the average, and assuredly not the worst *cough* Trump.

    The point is that he is no longer the best of us, he is no longer the person that I would follow, who I would send to a metaphorical battle, he is Mr President, a grandfather, a sharp but aging man that needs more care and attention than 4 years ago, a man who isn’t quite fast enough or sharp enough to do one of the hardest jobs on planet earth. He is just a man, and aging happens to us all. He should be proud of what he has accomplished, but he should not be so proud as to go down in history as the last of his kind, but instead as one of the best of us.

  13. My husband and I had a conversation about a year ago with his father when we noticed a cognitive decline. It was incredibly similar to this interview. The denial, pivoting to accomplishments, shock that we would even suspect something, refusing to take a cognitive test, and the rambling answers that try to distract from the questions.

    Since then he has been diagnosed with dementia. Yesterday he couldn’t remember his zip code, or how long he’s lived in his house.

    Anyone who has aging parents or grandparents knows what they’re seeing, and sadly it’s not going to get better.

  14. This is your reminder that the general public does not know what dementia is. They throw it around like a buzzword.

  15. Well, they both appear to have increasing cognitive decline normally associated with being 80 odd years old.

    However, one surrounds himself with qualified people and puts experts in his Cabinet.

    The other? Felons and nepo-babies who walked away with BILLION$.

  16. You don’t need to have dementia or Alzheimer’s to have mental decline. Your brain just doesn’t work as quickly or as well when you get that old.

  17. The whole busy doing wars and waiting for the word of god didn’t reassure me

  18. I’ll still take the guy with dementia over the alternative…

  19. Simple answer is, they should not have to assure the public (multiple times) that the president does not have dementia.

  21. Biden is not showing any signs of dementia. I work with people with dementia. Biden just looks and sounds old as hell.

  22. I like Biden but the job is the top job in the world, needing a nap and coco after 8pm means the free world needs a younger man.

  23. 81 is too old to do any job. This addiction to working past 65 in this country is pathological and needs to be eradicated. We don’t just need term limits for all political offices. There should also be age limits. 65 seems reasonable.

  24. Pig fucker politics. Apocryphal story about one of Lyndon Johnson’s early campaigns in Texas:

    “The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumour campaign about his opponent’s life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows.

    “Christ, we can’t get away with calling him a pig-fucker,” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody’s going to believe a thing like that.”

    “I know,” Johnson replied. “But let’s make the sonofabitch deny it.”

  25. It’s telling that he won’t take a cognitive test. The concern with taking that test is that if they find something he may have to step down or be removed by his cabinet.

    The fact that he won’t take the test means that there is concern that there may be an issue.

  26. Having to make this claim in the first place is a problem for him being in the position he is in.

  27. Why aren’t they asking the candidate who says that inflation is 300%, that the country is burning in chaos, and who thinks that he really won the 2020 election if he has dementia?

  28. I don’t understand why they don’t do a middle gound and select Witmer as his VP. Secure at least one swing state.

  29. The amount of people making excuses for him is flabbergasting: “it’s not unusual for a candidate to have a bad night”. Really? That was a horrendous performance by a declining elder. Everyone knows what it means. And as much as we don’t want to hurt “feelings” this is the leader of the free world we’re talking about. Run a proper candidate. This guy is over.

  30. Okay, then go to an independent doctor and get a cognitive test.

  31. Why won’t he take a cognitive test then? No way he lasts another 4 years.

  32. People forget that Trump has been mush mouthed over these past 10-18 months at most of his debates.

    That he’s made similar mistakes as Biden in getting names and dates wrong.

    The difference is that he’s evil.

  33. All the Biden supporters in here acting like there isn’t a huge chance of him having even more “senior moments” between now and the election, or bombing the next debate even harder. Do they think he’s gonna get younger in the next few months?

  34. Here we go again. Let’s go after Biden for what is clearly an issue with Trump. How many reporters are asking if trump has dementia? I’m expecting the coming weeks to be comparing Trump passing cognitive tests with Biden refusing to take one.

  35. I’d vote a corpse of Biden over narcissistic-corrupt-dictator wannabe traitor any day.

  36. Can we please get public officials who are not past the retirement age? This stuff is nutty.

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