Maybe lay off the Hannity and Mark Levin for a bit. Your statement is laughable. You say 45 comes off as a "loud mouthed blabbering moron", but you express unfounded concerns for 46's "mental acuity".
Just stop talking.
I'm not interested in pursuing this argument if you can't be objective, sorry.
I don't watch Hannity or Levin or really Fox News period. I watched the whole press conference and respectfully I think you have some ideological blinders on. Biden seemed barely able to speak and form words in multiple instances. I mean this is a man who was a notorious loudmouth himself and who was very in command when debating Paul Ryan in the 2012 VP debate for example. Now he seems to struggle just to speak. I think he handled the questions well overall and I am not claiming he's totally gone or anything, but I do not envision him as some strong force behind the scenes calling for these policies.
www.pewresearch.org
www.pbs.org
Genuinely curious what you mean by the bolded section. "Simplistic" can mean "uninformed" but I'm not sure that's what you meant...?
Agree with the thread split, but I thought the conversation was about Pres. Biden's *actual* mental acuity, as far as we can discern it, and NOT about his *perceived* mental actuity.Here is polling data from 4 different sources (Pew, Monmouth, PBS/NPR and Washington Post/ABC News)
From Pew Research 7 Apr 2023
1. Assessments of Biden and his administration
Fewer than four-in-ten U.S. adults (37%) currently say they approve of Joe Biden’s job performance as president, with six-in-ten saying they disapprove.
About two-thirds of Democrats (65%) say “able to get things done” describes Biden at least fairly well, while a narrower majority (of Democrats ) (56%) say the same about “mentally sharp.” (* Note: when combined with Republicans and Independents, the number for mentally sharp in the graph is 31%*)
From The Hill quoting Monmouth University Poll 2 Oct 2023
More in new poll likely to see Biden as too old compared to Trump
Roughly three-quarters of voters said they believe President Biden is too old to serve another term effectively, according to a poll published Monday, a sizable gap compared to those who view forme…thehill.com
A Monmouth University poll found 76 percent of voters think Biden is too old to effectively serve another term, compared to only 48 percent who said the same about Trump. Biden is 80, while Trump is 77.
From the PBS / NPR poll on 23 May 2023:
Where voters stand on Biden and Trump’s mental fitness as the 2024 race takes off
A potential 2024 rematch between President Joe Biden, 80, and former President Donald Trump, 76, would pit the two oldest presidents ever elected to first terms against each other again, and concerns about age and mental fitness have become major points of criticism for each.
A month into Joe Biden's reelection campaign, 62 percent of Americans say that the question of his mental fitness is a real concern about his ability to be president. That's 11 points higher than for the leading Republican candidate, former President Donald Trump, whose mental fitness is a concern for 51 percent.
and finally from The Washington Post / ABC News poll of 8 May 2023:
A new Washington Post-ABC poll this weekend spotlighted this better than anything to date. While 54 percent said Trump had the mental sharpness it takes to effectively serve as president, just 32 percent said the same of Biden. The split was even bigger on physical health, with 63 percent saying Trump passed their test and just 33 percent saying Biden did.
Fixed it for you. Unless your thoughts are somehow indicative of his *actual* mental acuity and not just your perception of it, while everyone else can only speak to their perception. Do you live in the west wing, or somehow have access to info the rest of the poll respondents don't?
My dude..."perceive" and "discern" are used pretty much identically here. Especially with the context, most native English speakers would understand that you just restated exactly what I said, just in a more annoying fashion. To wit: Pres Biden has some level of mental acuity. And what people (including me, you, and probably everyone else on this website) *think*, based on press conferences, public appearances, etc, has absolutely no impact on what it actually is. Therefore, the long-ass posting with four different polls offers practically zero insight on the president's actual level of mental acuity. So come on down off the high horse.
I'm sitting on the sidelines hoping that most of the Republicans run out of money because I think Haley can beat Trump or DeSantis in a 2-3 person race and restore some sanity to the election (assuming Trump isn't in prison / on house arrest by then), and I think she would have a really good shot in a race against Biden.
If you meant "discern" and "perceive" interchangeably, and my change did not change the meaning, then wtf was your meaning? You are stating definitively that the majority of Americans perception is wrong because they believed the "Big Lie" as you claim, and yours is right. Ie, that everyone else's perception is wrong and yours is right.
I hate how every President since JFK is voted into office by how well he looks and sounds in front of a camera vice the substance of his policies, with Trump being the extreme version of that phenomenon.
Fair enough, a reasonable point