“Never mind leading the free world, if Donald Trump were your ageing father, when would you take away his car keys?”, asks Gaby Hinsliff in the Guardian.
She writes,
Imagine, purely for the sake of argument, that the 61% of Americans (according to Reuters-Ipsos) who think their president has become more erratic with age and the 56% who don’t think he has the mental sharpness now to deal with challenges (according to recent polling for the Washington Post) were not wrong. Suppose that, much as they did with an octogenarian Joe Biden, millions of Americans had sensed something through their TV screens that genuinely did affect their president’s capacity to send thousands of young soldiers to their potential deaths in the Middle East, whether or not that something amounted to a clinical diagnosis.
Imagine they were right to suspect that the lives of countless people around the world rested in the hands of someone whose judgment might not be entirely up to this – including the 45 million estimated to be at risk of acute hunger if farmers can’t get enough fertiliser, a crucial byproduct of a now badly disrupted Gulf gas industry, to grow food. What would it take, hypothetically, for the system to challenge an elected president’s will?
It’s strange that this has become a subject seemingly too delicate to discuss in public, given what is at stake.
It is not strange at all. I think that Ms Hinsliff knows perfectly well why the delicate “cannot discuss” Trump’s possible senility. Her own delicacy in introducing the elephant to polite company demonstrates that. “Suppose that, much as they did with an octogenarian Joe Biden, millions of Americans had sensed something through their TV screens”. Yeah, suppose the sensing-through-the-TV screens had happened before. Suppose your newspaper – suppose your entire media establishment – had frantically squashed the ballooning obvious until it burst like an exploding colostomy bag. Imagine, purely for the sake of argument, that Americans had concluded that either Vice President Kamala Harris was complicit in covering up her boss’s senility or that she was too stupid to notice it. Imagine, purely for the sake of argument, that them voting for Donald Trump in preference to her was a rational decision.
You can’t imagine it; that’s your problem. The cloud of smoke you made to hide Biden’s senility has blinded you.
OK, pass the job to JDV. Let’s see how the G likes that, along with giving him incumbent advantage for the next election and possibly eight more years.
I wonder how many Guardian readers are having a lightbulb moment right now?
It’s zero isn’t it? The only thing that matters is the revolution. Truth, consistency, ethics can go hang.
(according to recent polling for the Washington Post)
– Well, there’s yer problem right there! The WaPo – read only by radical progressives, and a steadily diminishing number of those – Jeff Bezos, its owner, has been trying to move the money-losing WaPo to a more centrist perspective against major resistance from the staff, many of whom quit when Jeff wouldn’t let the paper endorse Kamala Harris last election. So I invite the pollsters (and the people they choose to poll) to answer the milieu-defining question:
“The three most popular new vehicles at the moment are all pickup trucks. Do you personally know anybody who owns one?”
The fact of the matter is that whilst Sleepy Joe was away with the fairies for at least 3 years of his Presidency, an unelected White House Cabal were making & implementing decisions in his name. The Legacy Media knew this & conspired with the cabal to keep it away from public gaze, because of their Orange Man Bad fetish
Two of my close neighbours have pick up trucks. I don’t know if it matters.
The 25th amendment is a joke. A handpicked cabinet who have the opportunity to control the presidency are going to rally together to depose am ill president? ROFLMAO And by the way The cloud of smoke you’re blowing to hide trump’s insanity is blinding you.PS: My voting for trump was a desperate decision. In hind sight she may have been the better choice but I think I simply should have stayed home, arsenic or strychnine.
Trump will be 80 in June. Whatever the actual state of his mind, he doesn’t look bad for it.
The vegetable in chief who “won” in 2020 was vegan friendly years before that, as was apparent to everybody apart from those who chose to wilfully ignored it.
Decades before that, the kindest thing that could be said of sleepy Joe was that he was a time serving dullard. Plagiarising neil kinnock for fucks sake!
But we have der sturmer – for now – for whom senility would probably be an improvement!
Cliff help us!!