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I am listening to Matthew Yglesias’s podcast and he’s going through this thing where he’s saying that he can’t understand why anybody would care that Joe Biden is old, can’t see how it matter, and that it just seems to him like a disingenuous, fake complaint. This is just, man — I actually find it really difficult to express how this makes me feel in a way that isn’t knee-jerk reactionary. Like, stuff like this makes me want to vote for Donald Trump just as kind of a fuck you. I’m not saying that’s a good emotion. In fact, I’m saying that it’s something I have to actively resist. But I’m also saying that that’s my genuine, emotional reaction to that kind of talk.
I think Mathew Yglesias is extremely smart and I also think he’s honest, so if he says he can’t see why this would matter to anyone, then I’m inclined to believe him. Like, I’m inclined to believe that he has gotten himself to that position.
What else do you think is true is that it’s an extremely silly thing to believe.
On some level it’s just like, I kind of don’t know what else to say except that when I look at Joe Biden move around in the physical world and move his lips to make sounds he seems extraordinarily feeble and degenerate and incapable. Like, what these people seem to want to say is, ”nuh-uh, he’s not those things!”
And it’s just like, again, I kind of just don’t know what to tell you other than that that’s exactly how he appears to me. That is my honest assessment of how he appears. That is what he looks like to me when he moves through the world as a human being. You can say that he doesn’t look like that to you, and then I guess I’m just forced to repeat for the 50th time that that’s what he looks like to me.
I haven’t subjected Joe Biden to a battery of tests. I didn’t administer a cognitive assessment. I’m not present at the White House on a daily basis to see how he’s actually running things.
I’m just saying that when I look at him on the television screen, he appears to me to be feeble, degenerate, and incapable. That is my honest assessment of how he appears. I would not hire him to run my own company, for example. My assessment would be that he looks too feeble, degenerate, and incompetent, due to his advanced age. For that reason, I would reject him from that role.
I just feel like, look, you know, say that you have to overlook those things because he has a competitive team behind him who can run theday-to-day. Say that you should ignore those things because Joe Biden will appoint the next Supreme Court justice and that’s more important than how he operates on a daily basis. Say that you should overlook the age thing because Donald Trump is a uniquely dangerous candidate. Say any of those things.
But this thing where you just keep saying that the age issue is totally fake conservative propaganda is just so absolutely galling to me.

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