It really is hard to overstate how sleazy and inexcusable it is to churn out a constant stream of non-news stories (vaguely disguised op-eds, really) about Biden being too old to lead, based on nebulous feelings and speech foibles that aren’t new.
His age isn’t going to change and barring death or calamity, neither is the reality that he’s going to be the nominee up against a rapist fascist who promises to burn everything down. Pretending this is a real choice is journalistic malpractice.
@maco neither is telling stories about someone and calling them by the name of someone else who held the same office in the past, or in another country. People got very up in arms about a Macron-Mitterrand gaffe. He was doing stuff like that in the 80s.
@maco I’m good with names, I’m bad on years. I’m always saying “when did that happen?” I even had to remind myself of what year my grandfather died by looking him up in the social security death index.
@amaditalks I feel like with years, I’m ok, but relative time…oof. The other day I said “your wife got that dog like 2 weeks ago, right?” to @federicomena then went “wait…you were out of the country when that happened…and you weren’t traveling two weeks ago…in fact I got your postcard last week, so…two months ago?”