2020 Becomes the Dementia Campaign

[IronLionZion]

Biden and Trump partisans trade charges of senility in an era of aging candidates.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/07/2020-dementia-campaign-123106

The two people most likely to control the U.S nuclear arsenal, and with it the capacity to blow up civilization, through January 2025 are both well into their 70s and facing pervasive public speculation that they are becoming senile.

That is some funny stuff, no?

Just listen to Tucker Carlson on Wednesday night, the day after Joe Biden’s big Super Tuesday victory and the victory speech in which he was momentarily confused over which side of the podium his wife and sister were standing. “As a smart friend said last night, Joe Biden has spent his entire life trying to succeed in presidential politics,” the Fox News host chortled, “and now he has: Too bad he’s not there to enjoy it. Pretty funny.”

2020 is suddenly becoming the Dementia Campaign.

President Donald Trump’s own public blunders—saying that his father was born in Germany when it was really his grandfather or referring to Apple CEO Tim Cook as “Tim Apple”—have prompted commentary throughout his term questioning whether his cognitive faculties are deteriorating.

Now that the 77-year-old Biden is the Democratic frontrunner over the 78-year-old Bernie Sanders to take on the 73-year-old Trump, questions about age-related infirmity are taking on a new volume and centrality.

Maybe we can spin this as a general attack on the elderly? Also Trump's base is elderly and he decided to crash their 401Ks and put them at serious risk of infectious disease.

[Newest Reality]

1. Oh Yeah?

Well, just who are you and what did you do with my damn horse?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Joe Biden is definitely the SHARPER tack....

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Dementia can happen in people in their 50s or even 40s

If Tucker won't use the 25th on Trump, he's got no evidence to question Biden.

[Sloumeau]

4. Joe Biden doesn't have dementia,

but even if he did have dementia and was the President right now, he'd still make less of a mess concerning the coronavirus than Trump has made. Trump without dementia is worse than Biden would be *with* dementia.

[2naSalit]

5. +1 IF he had it.

[IronLionZion]

6. That's a good point

Plenty of people can be forgetful, but Biden still has good enough judgment to value the advice from qualified experts when he makes decisions. Trump just rejects it all. Anyone who educated must be liberal deep state trying to undermine him.

[Steelrolled]

7. On a serious note

I would rather not both of our candidates be in their upper 70s. Given how common 2-term presidents are, that puts them in office until their mid-80s. Didn't work out so well with Reagan.

[loyalsister]

8. I have been saying that since the primary started

We are now in a pretty foolish and risky position.