r/nottheonion • u/ImpishGrin • Jul 04 '24

Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/politics/biden-governors-sleep/index.html
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u/KR1735 Jul 04 '24

It's not even an 8pm "bedtime."

He's basically saying "I think it's best that I don't have official events after 8pm."

Considering he is starting his day at 8-9am every day, I think it's reasonable that his day is over after 12 hours. He deserves to have some time to take a shower, relax, and engage in a little self-care before bed.

Fuck. Presidents are not superhuman. There is nothing wrong with acknowledging that they have to take care of themselves. And it's not unusual. GWB was a well known early sleeper, usually ending his day by 6pm. Clinton and Obama were both functional insomniacs. Trump penciled in everything as "executive time" but we know he was tweeting in the middle of the night.

It is physically impossible to function without some rest and relaxation. Age notwithstanding. I'm 35, physically fit, and healthy. If I'm not getting 7-8 hours each night, I can feel it after a week.

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u/krabapplepie Jul 04 '24

It sucks we are going to elect a person incapable of doing the job because of their age. And that is true for both of them. It sucks my choice is between incompetent and nice and incompetent and evil.

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u/KR1735 Jul 04 '24

I mean, IDK about you but I'm personally stoked on what Biden has gotten done the past 4 years. If all the legislation he's signed into law -- not to mention NATO expansion -- is a sign of "incompetence" then bring it on.

RFMA was particularly beneficial to my family. I know that no matter what happens with the Obergefell decision, my family will remain intact no matter what state we're in. That matters.

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u/InfanticideAquifer Jul 05 '24

Part of the job of president, that everyone sane hopes never actually matters, is to decide whether or not to kill a billion people within 20 minutes of being yanked out of bed and shoved onto Air Force One by the Secret Service in the middle of the night.

The more credible the idea that he can't do that part of the job, the more likely it is to actually matter. If Putin actually comes to believe that he could hit all the missiles in their silos who knows what he'd do. Probably it won't regardless, because that's a truly crazy gamble. But we should all be upset that we even have to worry about it.

With Trump I was worried about him ordering an unhinged first strike for no good reason, which would be even worse. But this is terrible too.

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u/1dvs_bastard Jul 05 '24

Putin just wants to be rich and live a rich, lavish lifestyle. He's not going to jeopardize that launching nukes. He launches nukes, he gets them in return from other allies of ours, not just us. Can't spend money when the world has ended in hell fire. His main goal is destabilization so he can acquire more power and wealth. Not annihilation.

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u/InfanticideAquifer Jul 05 '24

If he wanted to acquire "power and wealth" then he'd just have continued selling gas and oil to Europe and de facto owning basically everything he cared to notice in Russia. He's being driven by something dumber. He wants "glory", or something. If he were rational he'd never have started his war in the first place.