The longstanding concerns about President Joe Biden’s age and memory intensified on Thursday after the release of a special counsel’s report investigating his possession of classified documents.
“He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’)
This was a five-hour interview the day after the October 7 attack in Israel. He was thinking about a brewing war in the Middle East and couldn’t recall a date. He also strikes me as the kind of person who thinks about things like this out loud. It doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t know, just that he was processing it externally.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
OK, fuck, that’s not great. Then again, I’m 40 years younger than him and I can’t tell you the exact dates when important people in my life died.
Some days ago I was asked how old I was and I had to seriously think about it for some seconds. Some things are important to me, some aren’t. Some memories are easy to access and others might be buried below grief and years of just not thinking about them.
And you’re right. He’s probably not running for himself but to keep that orange douche out. And that’s a good thing.
“He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
This one just pisses me off. It’s framed so dishonestly.
I can recall extremely specific things about when people I know died. What the weather was, what I was wearing, what video game I was playing when I heard the news, and so on. But I couldn’t necessarily pull the right year out of my brain without checking. Or necessarily even the date for some people.
I promise that Biden remembers the death of his son in whatever specific way is meaningful to him. It might not be “on this day/month/year.” It might be “on a Tuesday” or might be “a cold snowy day when I was baking bread.” I have no idea. But this just isn’t how memory works, and it’s hurtful, evil even, to print something that dishonest. It boils my blood to read such dishonest reporting.
This was a five-hour interview the day after the October 7 attack in Israel. He was thinking about a brewing war in the Middle East and couldn’t recall a date. He also strikes me as the kind of person who thinks about things like this out loud. It doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t know, just that he was processing it externally.
OK, fuck, that’s not great. Then again, I’m 40 years younger than him and I can’t tell you the exact dates when important people in my life died.
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Some days ago I was asked how old I was and I had to seriously think about it for some seconds. Some things are important to me, some aren’t. Some memories are easy to access and others might be buried below grief and years of just not thinking about them.
And you’re right. He’s probably not running for himself but to keep that orange douche out. And that’s a good thing.
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This one just pisses me off. It’s framed so dishonestly.
I can recall extremely specific things about when people I know died. What the weather was, what I was wearing, what video game I was playing when I heard the news, and so on. But I couldn’t necessarily pull the right year out of my brain without checking. Or necessarily even the date for some people.
I promise that Biden remembers the death of his son in whatever specific way is meaningful to him. It might not be “on this day/month/year.” It might be “on a Tuesday” or might be “a cold snowy day when I was baking bread.” I have no idea. But this just isn’t how memory works, and it’s hurtful, evil even, to print something that dishonest. It boils my blood to read such dishonest reporting.