I agree with you. But that's exactly why the rest of us need to put the issue front and center in front of everyone else. We cannot trust the GOP to do so, thus it falls to the rest of us to do the right thing and wage whatever campaign it takes to convince everybody else that a mentally deranged Trump is simply too risky and too dange…
I agree with you. But that's exactly why the rest of us need to put the issue front and center in front of everyone else. We cannot trust the GOP to do so, thus it falls to the rest of us to do the right thing and wage whatever campaign it takes to convince everybody else that a mentally deranged Trump is simply too risky and too dangerous to entrust any longer with any real power. The message should be blunt and forceful. It should ask America directly: are you willing to allow an unstable person to have virtually unlimited control over your life, our nation, and the world? With access to the nuclear codes? With the support of the military? Make it a full-on wedge issue with the entire population and push the Trumpists into a position where they have to defend the indefensible, in public, on the record, and accept whatever consequences there may be. We cannot allow them to seize the higher ground because we were too passive or scared to try to hold it.
Republican don’t give a flying fart for any kind of consequences. It’s all live-in-the-moment theatre. Heck, it’s in their holy text - “Take ye therefore no thought for tomorrow” and being literalists, they don’t. And if you can’t reach them, and you can’t, who is there left to convince?
I think you're right, but I also know that even beginning to mention Trump's "man, woman, camera, person, TV" problem will cause a mob to descend on me with a million "Senile Sleepy Joe sniffs hair" comments. Any mention of Trump's cognitive decline is fought tooth and nail, very viciously. On social media, it feels a bit like this is the third rail. You can call Trump corrupt, a draft dodger, a sexual assaulter, and a tax criminal, and MAGA will let it go, but if you dare to call him senile, the troops howl. As a woman, I'm not sure I'd be safe online talking about this.
I wonder why that is. Possibly because with all the other stuff it is word against word and possibly 'fake news'. With cognitive decline the evidence is there for all of us to evaluate personally. So if you call him a draft-dodger they know that that's just fake news made up by the liberal media. But if you point out that he's not all there, they're on the hook for not seeing it. And much like the emperor and his lack of wardrobe, it is pretty damn apparent no matter how much someone want to ignore it.
As for sleepy Joe, it would certainly seem that the republicans of today and their what-aboutism have completely given up on the concept of two wrongs not making a right. Beyond that, I'd have to ask, is the Republican bench so void of quality candidates that the cognitively impaired candidate is still their best chance against another cognitively impaired candidate?
All that said, I don't think Biden's anywhere near as impaired as Trump, but I can see the issue being a potential struggle against a younger (not Trump) candidate.
I agree with you. But that's exactly why the rest of us need to put the issue front and center in front of everyone else. We cannot trust the GOP to do so, thus it falls to the rest of us to do the right thing and wage whatever campaign it takes to convince everybody else that a mentally deranged Trump is simply too risky and too dangerous to entrust any longer with any real power. The message should be blunt and forceful. It should ask America directly: are you willing to allow an unstable person to have virtually unlimited control over your life, our nation, and the world? With access to the nuclear codes? With the support of the military? Make it a full-on wedge issue with the entire population and push the Trumpists into a position where they have to defend the indefensible, in public, on the record, and accept whatever consequences there may be. We cannot allow them to seize the higher ground because we were too passive or scared to try to hold it.
Republican don’t give a flying fart for any kind of consequences. It’s all live-in-the-moment theatre. Heck, it’s in their holy text - “Take ye therefore no thought for tomorrow” and being literalists, they don’t. And if you can’t reach them, and you can’t, who is there left to convince?
I think you're right, but I also know that even beginning to mention Trump's "man, woman, camera, person, TV" problem will cause a mob to descend on me with a million "Senile Sleepy Joe sniffs hair" comments. Any mention of Trump's cognitive decline is fought tooth and nail, very viciously. On social media, it feels a bit like this is the third rail. You can call Trump corrupt, a draft dodger, a sexual assaulter, and a tax criminal, and MAGA will let it go, but if you dare to call him senile, the troops howl. As a woman, I'm not sure I'd be safe online talking about this.
I wonder why that is. Possibly because with all the other stuff it is word against word and possibly 'fake news'. With cognitive decline the evidence is there for all of us to evaluate personally. So if you call him a draft-dodger they know that that's just fake news made up by the liberal media. But if you point out that he's not all there, they're on the hook for not seeing it. And much like the emperor and his lack of wardrobe, it is pretty damn apparent no matter how much someone want to ignore it.
As for sleepy Joe, it would certainly seem that the republicans of today and their what-aboutism have completely given up on the concept of two wrongs not making a right. Beyond that, I'd have to ask, is the Republican bench so void of quality candidates that the cognitively impaired candidate is still their best chance against another cognitively impaired candidate?
All that said, I don't think Biden's anywhere near as impaired as Trump, but I can see the issue being a potential struggle against a younger (not Trump) candidate.