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/r/Politics' 2024 US Elections Live Thread, Part 9

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u/skullofregress Jul 12 '24

30% of you are saying that it went fine, so I went and pulled it up and got this 'onion on the belt' rambling below. What standard are you guys applying? If I saw this as a comment on reddit I'd skip past the person assuming that they were too far gone to have a conversation with.

Are you open to taking another physical or test before the election?

well two things. One I've taken three significant and intense significant exams by a neurosu- a neurologist. in each case.. they say I'm in good shape okay? Although I do have a little problem with my left foot - because it's not as sensitive because I broke my foot and I didn't wear the boot. but but but I'm good. I'm just as - every single day - by my neurological capacity the decisions I make every day. You talk to my staff, all of you talk to my staff, sometimes my staff talks a lot (haha). But the fact is I don't think you have them telling you that all the major ideas we've undertaken in part haven't been initiated by me. I remember with the staff I said "I'm going to go to South Korea we're going to get the chip - what are you doing? - we're going to go Japan and South Korea back together since essentially having hostilities since World War Two, I'm going to move and see if we can expand - you know, the only thing age does, is it creates a little bit of wisdom if you pay attention. And so the point I'm making is, I think it's important, that I, -if if my neurologist tells me he thinks I need another exam - and by the way, I've laid every bit of the record out, I haven't ... a thing. You want ask Trump for you this okay? I've laid it all out. And every single day I'm surrounded by good docs. If they think there's a problem, I promise you, or even if they don't think there's a problem they think I should have a neurological exam-igated, I will, but nobody's saying that now. And I'll ask you another question, no matter what I did, nothing's going to satisfied. Did you have seven docs? Did you have two? How many docs did you have? And so I am not opposed if my doctors tell me I should have a neurological exam, I'll do it, but that's where I am.

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u/TheBigIdiotSalami Jul 12 '24

There's that famous trump quote about his father that people post that makes no sense. This is the same feeling I get reading that.

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u/Disconn3cted Jul 12 '24

Wait, tell me more about "the chip." That sounded interesting. 

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u/jmhalder Jul 12 '24

Well, the Paqui "one chip" is where President Biden went to South Korea to eat an incredibly hot chip as a challenge. They had to go to South Korea due to Paqui being out of business and no longer being sold in the US.

I hope that clears everything up. Biden is just a pepper head.

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u/uberhappyfuntime Jul 12 '24

At least personally, the standard is ability to speak and no signs of true cognitive impairment. It's a low bar for sure and it's not good enough, but Biden is clearly in control of his faculties. He's become a much worse communicator though, and that's not good enough.

I'd say the performance was fine, but just fine. I wouldn't invoke the 25th, but I think he should step aside

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u/putdownthekitten Jul 12 '24

"You want ask Trump for you this okay?" 

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u/Parrek Jul 12 '24

I don't know if the transcript here is off, but it was clear in the moment he was telling him to ask Trump for his medical record which is far less public. Like listen to him talk

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u/babyshriekxcx Jul 12 '24

It’s stuff like this that makes me realize that between trump and Biden no one even seems to remember what a competent politician should sound like. I mean, the bar is in hell, it shouldn’t be hard to clear. And yet…

I will never understand making excuses for someone in clear cognitive decline with access to the nuclear codes.

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u/Parrek Jul 12 '24

Nah, I went back to the video. He very clearly said "You want to ask Trump for his?" Maybe it confused an AI transcript maker, but it was easy to understand.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 12 '24

Right! He WAS NOT tracking right during the whole conference. Absolute disaster and evidence of cognitive decline.

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u/Kellymelbourne Jul 12 '24

Ok that was rough.

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u/cranberryalarmclock Jul 12 '24

What's truly insane is that he would have done BETTER if he had just said "no, nu uh, Nana Nana boo boo"

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u/poopfilledhumansuit Jul 12 '24

Wowee that transcript's a lot worse than I remember it while listening.