Biden at the Democratic convention was unrecognisable from his disastrous debate

Because our media is shit

Biden really was visibly too old. But they’re also pretty good at ginning up issues literally out of nothing when they want to.

That's confusing cause and effect. Howard Dean's speech was supposed to be a concession speech after losing the only early primary/caucus he was trying to win. He poured in all of his resources in the hopes of winning Iowa, underperformed expectations against a backdrop of dropping in the polls for weeks, and coming in third (with no real prospects for New Hampshire or South Carolina) basically made it impossible for him to have the volunteers, money, or press coverage to survive into the next stage of competing in bigger states with primaries clumped up together.

He showed everyone his plan of winning Iowa or going home, lost Iowa, and then gave some kind of rallying speech as if he had a plan to recover from that loss. He never did, and it wasn't the scream that killed his campaign. His campaign was dead before the scream happened. It's just that the scream was a particularly memorable way for a campaign to die.

people didn't like that scream?

That's a pretty rad scream.

EEeeYEAH-HyeeuuUH!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwkNnMrsx7Q?t=50

Don't forget that we voted for Bush because people would rather have a beer in their back yard with him than with Kerry.

Remember that Biden has a stutter. It's a condition that has no cure and can only be managed.

It blows my mind that “Biden just had a raspy voice!!” isn’t banned as misinformation here. Because it literally is, there is no reasonable way to interpret “we beat Medicare” being yelled over and over as the result of a raspy voice. Absolute memory hole shit.

I was intrigued to find out last night what he meant to say.

"We finally beat Big Pharma."

I hope he recognizes that he needed to do it. Even in 2020, "making" him run (I put making in quotes because you can't make a person run for office) felt like elder abuse. That is even more true now.

I imagine it feels bad to have been pushed out like he was.

I'm sure it feels bad but he shouldn't have been running again in the first place. The dead horse has been beaten to powder but he is way too old to be running a country - especially 4 years from now.

He first ran in the 1970s, he's definitely wanted to be a president for a long time. I do wonder, though, if Trump was what really pushed him to go.

It’s a silent u

Simpsons did it

That cold must've hung on a long time, because people said he was just as bad at other events and meetups he went to. People were hoping it was just a bad night, but apparently it wasn't.

It's obvious the guy's highly motivated, and I've seen younger men overwork themselves into an early grave. It's no big shock that his mind isn't as sharp as it once was. Also, I'm sure having a stutter just makes that even worse.

Yeah. That theory actually seems plausible but I’m very very happy he had that cold.

Yeah from a telepromter...

Not that I can really complain since they all use it now, but still. All you gotta do is read while the camera makes it look like you're looking at the Audience.

At least he didn't offer to do away with voting, call POWs and veterans names, be the adulterer in all 3 marriages, and generally doent understand democracy (much less democratic processes). When you measure the two against eachother, I'd think you might start actually giving a fuck

I honestly don't think his problem is his mind. His mind is sharp, but his body is betraying him. When he slips up and can't find the next word, or mixes up some names, I think it's just his mouth outpacing his brain. When you give him time to finish his thought, he shows he still understands well.

Note that I'm not trying to minimize this. While I understand where his issues are, I still l think he's better off quitting and letting new blood take over.

Contrast this with Trump, who can't stay on topic even with a teleprompter. His insistence that Harris "started out Indian, then turned Black" can be explained by the idea that he can't tell the difference between Harris and Nikki Haley. I think Trump is much further gone than Biden is. Neither should be running

Misogyny was a small part of it and mostly used as an insult to people that had questions. Kamala hasn't been accused of any crimes as far as I know. That's the biggest difference between the two campaigns, aside from the fact that everyone is relieved Biden is leaving office by choice. Hilary might have even been able to win this election, but I definitely would rather have Kamala over Hillary.

He doesn't usually have those pauses when he's reading from teleprompter though, or at least it's less noticable. His off the cuff pauses and stutters seem more natural when they happen. When he's reading from a teleprompter and still having the same issues, it reads as if he's having issues comprehending the words that are coming out of his mouth as he saying and expressing them, which is understandably not illustrating confidence for some people.

Keeping someone that old awake that late is just blatant elder abuse. 10:26pm surely isn't prime time hours for the president to be giving a speech. That's insulting