Nate Silver ( ) article gets posted, r/neoliberal reacts cooly and rationally.

I know I'm not too in touch with the median voter, but do people watch the president speak? Are presidential interviews something people voluntarily watch?

They see snippets of the worst parts of the speeches on their Facebook reels and share them around

My dad literally texts me about once a week talking about how he saw Biden acting like an r-slur again in some Facebook clip, it's hilarious.

Anytime Biden does a interview or speech, there's always some minor verbal flub. He's done that his entire career,

do these people actually believe this? i genuinely can't tell.

biden wasn't like this when he was VP. he wasn't like this back in the day when he was against segregation or gays. he wasn't even this bad when he first became president.

My opinion of Nate is getting so low at this point I don't believe he's making this argument in good faith.

If Biden did bow to this plan and do these interviews, there's no world where Nate comes out afterwords saying, "oh good, Biden has reassured me he is not too old"

Yeah maybe that's because he really is too old.

lol

Nate Silver is a good writer. It's telling that their only response to his piece is that "he's making these arguments in hecking bad faith" instead of a real response. /u/ghardgrave is the only one making coherent arguments which are obviously flawed.

That is especially true for a candidate who hasn't been campaigning, and didn't have anyone vote for them. You seriously think that won't depress turnout more than “Biden old”?

This is the entire point of Silver's piece. You have to campaign to win election and it's so obvious that Biden won't be able to run a normal campaign. This means if the democrats are going to keep the presidency they need to find a replacement ASAP, or have Biden not be senile.

There is not a single voter who prefers Trump because of his age, and anyone who cites Biden's age as the reason for sitting out this election is lying through their teeth.

That's not how elections work. If there were compulsory elections this would have a point but for a candidate to win they have to actually motivate people to get to the polls come election day,. To do this you need to campaign while not being senile.

Biden's slow and talks with a stutter. Trump is sounds fricking demented.

This is a cope, but a lot of people on the liberal-left genuinely believe it. Like it or not Trump is charismatic.

Biden was elected on the premise that he could handle four simultaneous crises: COVID, the economy, racism and climate change.

Now that I think about it, have the democrats actually done anything this term about climate change?

I would legit go out and vote if someone ran a candidate under 60 years old at this point. I know its bad for drama, but I also really hate old people; they constantly remind me that my mind will degrade with age to the point of absolute helplessness if I don't kill myself or nobody else kills me.

From the substack comments

Reporting this post for misinformation. Biden is not senile, he is one of the best presidents in history. Open borders, inflation, and escalating towards world war 3 are good. Orange man bad. We need to keep him and Dean Phillips off the ballot in order to protect our sacred Democracy.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

shut the frick up. you never read 1488