McConnell’s freezes complicate Republican attacks on Biden’s age
McConnell’s freezes complicate Republican attacks on Biden’s age
Old friends Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell seem to be giving each other political cover as they face questions about their age and health.
Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell struck up a friendship during their nearly quarter-century in the Senate together. Now in their 80s, the Democratic president and the Senate GOP leader appear to be giving political cover to each other as they fend off questions about their advanced age and health issues.
Notably, McConnell, R-Ky., 81, hasn’t joined Donald Trump, 77, and other Republicans who have attacked Biden’s age, health and mental acuity as he seeks re-election.
And after McConnell’s second freeze-up last week, Biden was one of the first to call McConnell, telling reporters that his “friend” sounded like “his old self” and that such episodes are a “part of his recovery” from a fall and a concussion this year.
complicate attacks on Biden's age
No they really don't. They'll talk about Biden's "obvious mental decline" and they'll just not talk at all about Mitch's very public 30 second Journeys Beyond the Stars. They'll absolutely say Biden is too old but that Trump, who is only 3 years younger, isn't. The right is absolutely capable of that level of doublethink. Stop assuming anything matters to them other than getting power they can use to hurt people. They don't care about policy. They don't care about seeming like hypocrites. They've been whipped into a paranoid frenzy and they'll do anything they need to do in order to hurt the people they're afraid of. Start looking at their behavior through that lens and see if it doesn't start to make a lot of sense to you.
I do have to admit, after getting concussed I also appeared to freeze but I was thinking hard of what the right word is to say next.
That said, probably anyone in concussion recovery should be on leave from legislating. The brain will heal more slowly, and your work will be of poor quality.
That's all before getting into the actual politics of having a gerentocracy.
I know a lot of people have talked a out adding an age limit, but it seems to me most of the ancient ones are skating by on incumbent effect. If we had term limits it would resolve that. Alternatively something like the Virginia Gubernatorial rules where you cannot hold the position successively.
This would be devastating if conservatives cared at all about hypocrisy or logical consistency.
These are people that have mastered doublethink, there is absolutely no such complication for people inside the GOP bubble. For everyone else, yeah, it's one more minor bit of hypocrisy, but it's not even a thing for the bleach-koolaid drinkers.
No it doesn't, because the same people complaining about Biden are usually masters of doublethink anyway.
Trumps age complicate republican attacks on bidens age...
complicate attacks on Biden’s age
Do they, though? For that to be true, the following would also have to be true:
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The people mad about Hunter Biden making money on his dad's name would also be mad about Trump's kids doing that
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The people mad about Obama taking vacations (or golfing) while in office would also have been mad when Trump took more vacation time and golfed more
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The people mad about Clinton lying about a blowjob would also be mad about Trump's infidelity and lying
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etc.
I'm going with: it doesn't complicate anything. They don't care about their people living up to the standards they demand others live up to, the point for them is that double-standards are a feature, not a bug.
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Ok, no attacks. But are we talking about how experience is far less valuable in the age of information and that average cognitive ability peaks at around 30, begins to decline at 45, then - on average - rapidly deteriorates after 70?.. because it definitely seems like something we should be talking about.
They’re both too old! And McConnell is a rhino who secretly is best friends with Nacy Pelosi and senator Feinstein. They all sit around together on the weekends babbling, freezing, forgetting where they are and pooping their pants like little babies.
Speaking of shitty ass cancerous Kentucky politicians, whats brother Racist Rand been up to? Sucking Putins old dick?
What do you mean? Rank and file Republicans hate him as much as Biden.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Now in their 80s, the Democratic president and the Senate GOP leader appear to be giving political cover to each other as they fend off questions about their advanced age and health issues.
Notably, McConnell, R-Ky., 81, hasn’t joined Donald Trump, 77, and other Republicans who have attacked Biden’s age, health and mental acuity as he seeks re-election.
McConnell's public health incidents have come as Republicans are ramping up attacks on Biden’s age and mental fitness, a subject voters are expressing major concerns about heading into the 2024 election cycle.
A Wall Street Journal poll out this week found that 73% of registered voters believe Biden is too old to run for president, while 60% said they think he isn’t “mentally up for the job.”
Returning to the Senate this week after the monthlong summer recess, McConnell sought to project a business-as-usual attitude and calm his colleagues’ nerves about his latest health scare.
Immediately after McConnell spoke, one of his former top aides, Steven Law, who runs a McConnell-aligned super PAC, gave a presentation touting strong GOP fundraising numbers — which Hawley described as “a little surprising for the setting.”
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Its supporting evidence to me. Neither should be in office.
Attacking somebody else for something they do themselves has never been an issue for them before now.
how? people vote for the seniors to lead no matter what letter their name starts with or what color their shirt is
but there was noone else on the ballet but the other person with a different name and color would win if we do not vote for this person
Obama and Biden had someone chained to chair for eight hours because she wanted to be on the same debate floor as the demopublicans Biden still got votes https://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/17/green_partys_jill_stein_cheri_honkala