Biden Says He’d Consider Dropping Out if a ‘Medical Condition’ Emerged
Biden Says He’d Consider Dropping Out if a ‘Medical Condition’ Emerged
President Biden has said none of his doctors have told him he has a serious medical condition. But his debate performance last month raised questions about his health and acuity.
President Biden said in an interview released on Wednesday that he would re-evaluate whether to stay in the presidential race if a doctor told him directly that he had a medical condition that made that necessary.
Mr. Biden has said repeatedly that none of his doctors have told him he has a serious medical condition. Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House physician, wrote after the president’s physical in February that Mr. Biden is “a healthy, active, robust, 81-year-old male who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.”
But his disastrous performance at a debate with former President Donald J. Trump last month, which prompted a wave of calls by Democratic allies to step aside, raised questions about his health and acuity.
This sounds very much like him setting up a scenario where he can step down without losing face. God, I hope.
Would be best case scenario would show maturity and unity for the party.
This thread pulling bullshit everywhere else is so fuckin fake
Much better than the earlier requirement of God himself descending from the heavens to tell him to drop out. After which he'd only consider it.
Now the Almighty can work in subtler ways like it usually does.
He started with only God Almighty could make him step down...moved to if polls said there was no path to victory...now we are here....it feels like he's warming up to the idea.
Honest question: is that like…. actually a good idea? Probably? What if they decide to replace him with Harris that sounds worse idk
Infighting to replace him is a terrible idea.
Him just retiring in favor of Harris or whoever? Better. Still absolutely horseshit considering no one seriously put their hat in the ring for the convention but whatever gets a president that supports universal healthcare and isn't sunsetting.
please please please (x5) (refrain) please please, yes please, (return to chorus) (bridge) please sir please (return to chorus x2)
With tears in my eyes, please sir
I see this way too
Guess who has the 'rona?
Why couldn't it be Trump? Why do the evil bastards always live beyond a 100?
Happy people live longer, and evil people thrive on this planet of dumbasses. What a delightful life they must live. Like a pig in the biggest pile of shit ever.
You called it!
Alright, now go to the doctor for a comprehensive exam.
Dr. Kevin O’Connor, the White House physician, wrote after the president’s physical in February that Mr. Biden is “a healthy, active, robust, 81-year-old male who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency.”
I mean, I definitely think he should step down, and the white house physician also said Trump was 6'2 200 lbs so...
White House physicians are basically captured medical professionals - they get INSANE access to not just the office, but a lot of the entourage and hangers-on. Yeah you can say no, but it’s a very competitive and prestigious posting that has no shortage of applicants.
O’Connor came back after being Biden’s VP doctor, and has… conflicting interests when it comes to giving medical advice that might make his role redundant
"Well Doc? What's the verdict?"
"Are you serious? We just talked about this. Do you not remember?"
"Oh... I... I... yeah, I totally remember that... and those things were..."
"Well, first of all, there's the apparent memory loss. Then, as we just discussed, there's the obvious dementia, as well."
"What? Dementia? I'm sharp as a rock, doc. Where did you get that? Show me my chart!"
"Dude, for the last time, there is no chart. I'm not a doctor. This is a Denny's!"
"H-h-whut?"
"And most people drink coffee out of those mugs, not the complementary maple syrup."
Update: Wow, a lot of people butthurt on the joke about the mental acuity of an 81 year old! Chillax people. I'd vote for a dead dog if it stood a chance against Trump. Doesn't mean we take it to Westminister and demand a blue ribbon for how obviously healthy, active and beautiful the dog corpse is. Let's acknowledge the absurdity of the reality we are in, please.
Hey folks, you ain't gonna believe this,
medical condition: emerged
Being geriatric is a medical condition.
I hate that the choices in the next election mean I have to vote for him.
There need to be age-limits in place so never again
Trump/Biden candidacies could have been entirely constitutionally gated against and we wouldn't even be here. Probably same for Regan
A reminder to people who say this: people also wanted Bernie Sanders to be president, and he's a year older than Biden.
Did you know there are alternative voting systems in which a spoiler effect doesn't exist? You should start demanding Ranked Choice voting from your state representatives.
More democracy, Introduce competition into the electoral process, improve the quality of candidates across the political spectrum, and we could have more chances at defeating the Republicans. A complete win for the people.
I agree with you that ranked choice voting is he answer, but we have to deal with what we have today. I see one party being a much easier path in progressing to ranked choice voting vs another so it's a pretty easy vote on my behalf (among many, many other reasons) this time around.
Ok!! This works. Take the test, announce the condition, and step down so we can stop stealing time from whoever the actual nominee is. Let’s gooo!
You will vote for bed ridden Joe biden in a oxygen mask, and you will clap. If the clapping is not enthusiastic enough you will be ostracized from society.
Obviously laying the groundwork. Who is going to replace him?
harris but im still hoping for pritzker 🤤
I haven't really dove into his career but everything I heard about him is shockingly positive. I doubt it'll happen but that will be the easiest vote of my life unless some shady stuff comes to light
It is embarrassing that American politics have become such a selfish individual vehicle for well intentioned leaders that end up corrupted the instance they join the upper tiers of our current national government.
It is why neither party can present a better alternative candidate to a government that was built on the hopes of retaining an integrity to prevent the current shit show of a short term power grab happening now.
While Americans are robbed of over half their hard earned income, our leaders don’t even care that we know they are stuffing their pockets to take away another one of our protections or weaken the dollar or screw over the working class to further extend their margins while keeping this well oiled system running uninterrupted with them staying at the top.
Why are we settling for mediocrity, as the greatest economy in the world, in how our government is run? It is a puppet show at this point, our government seems like an archaic joke when measured up to what should be expected from modern humans who will work nearly a third of their life under the current system.
We deserve better than to be treated as uneducated fools while our protections and quality of life slowly diminish at everyones expense except the ruling class. We are the fools thinking voting into an already corrupted system will change what is wrong at its fundamental level.
Trump
You ever see someone at Biden's age fall down? A great aunt of mine was the caretaker for her husband who had sever dementia. She bathed him, managed his meds, everything. She falls and breaks her hip, she was dead in a week. This is common with patients that old, anesthesia alone FUCKs them up for days. A slippery sidewalk is a medical emergency for someone Bidens age.
I recall hearing in a podcast that sometimes their bones are so worn out that it's the other way around, their hips just snap and they fall down
More than we’d ever see from someone like Trump who is also showing signs on top of being an anti-democracy fascist. Js
He'll drop out with a medical condition just like how he'll announce Israel has crossed his red line.
His physician will also conveniently fail to find anything wrong with him just like the state department failed to find evidence of war crimes in Gaza.
Come on, Joe. You know what’s right and you will go down in history as a gotdamn hero.
Harris/Kinzinger ‘24
My tummy hurt. Good-bye.
Alien style. From his chest.
How about the medical condition where your brain is actually soup?
Apparently, that's common in world leaders (Putin, Trump, Biden)
And isn't it sad