I don't care about weirdos counting threads.

Doc, before you go(for the 175th time) did you see a New York appeals judge overturned a lower court ruling and sent back one of two emoluments cases back for the lower court to get it right.

Biden's performance at the Democratic debate was often confused, but the standout moment came when he was asked what needed to be done to "repair the legacy of slavery " and he answered by saying that parents need social workers because  "they don’t know what to play the radio" or to "make sure you have the record player on at night," a technology that only twee hipsters use anymore. (I am one, so don't @ me.)

That comment was incoherent yet still somehow kind of racist, a combo that's increasingly coming to define the Biden campaign.

Trump, let it be said, was no more coherent Thursday, despite having the benefit of a teleprompter. He ranted about how energy-efficient lightbulbs are the reason why "I always look orange" and made fun of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, for having Spanish and Maltese surnames (respectively). He called his vice president "Mike Pounce."

It was incoherent and super-duper racist, a combo that has come to define the Trump presidency.

This is a admittedly touchy subject, talking about the possibility of an election defined by two older men — Biden is 76 and Trump is 73 — rambling nonsense at audiences and at each other. Certainly, people are within their rights to say it was ageist when former HUD Secretary Julián Castro taunted Biden for allegedly forgetting the details of his own health care plan.

Ironically, Biden was actually keeping his story straight on that particular subject. But it's also fair to note that he repeatedly lost the plot during the debate and appeared, at one point, to forget Sen. Bernie Sanders' name.

Concerns about mental acuity aren't just about age. After all, Sanders is older than both of those men, at 78. Like him or not, he's sharp and energetic, and no one can deny he communicates his ideas well. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is slightly younger, at 70, but has the wit and energy of a woman half her age. Such is the great injustice of the aging process, which impacts different people at different rates for different reasons, often reasons beyond their control.

It's not fun to think about, especially since the unpleasantness of age is coming for us all. But we have to talk about it. This is the presidency of the United States. Sharpness, clarity and coherence matter.

With Biden and Trump, it might not even be about age, or at least just about age. The rambling and incoherence is just as likely the result of both men living lives of almost unimaginable privilege for decades, Trump as a celebrity businessman and Biden as a U.S. senator, starting in 1972, followed by eight years as vice president.

These two men, in other words, are simply used to being able to prattle on, confident that people around them will nod indulgently, rather than challenge them to make sense. Anyone who has been around powerful older men has likely witnessed this behavior, even without neurological decline.  It's hard to stay coherent when no one ever demands it of you.

Biden and Trump have gone soft. Trump was likely always soft, drifting through life on his daddy's money. And the kid-glove treatment that Biden has grown accustomed to was evident in the way the media covered Castro's insults, as cable-news pundits rushed forward to shame Castro instead of considering, for a moment, whether he has a point about the dangers of running a candidate who can't keep track of what he's saying.

Warren and Sanders, on the other hand, have come at politics from an underdog perspective, and have stayed sharp because they are routinely challenged on their ideas and must continually practice their rhetorical skills.

ExceedAndExcel wrote: stayer wrote: I don't care about weirdos counting threads. Lol @ you calling other people weirdos. You should review some of your own posts. Like the one where you told us you spent 3 months in Norway chained up in the basement of some bondage-loving swinger couple.

I think if there was a market for Vice President candidate, he would be pretty short the way Texas is collapsing for the GOP. 39 electoral college votes in a notionally RED state would win the election.

Isaac soloman wrote: ExceedAndExcel wrote: stayer wrote: I don't care about weirdos counting threads. Lol @ you calling other people weirdos. You should review some of your own posts. Like the one where you told us you spent 3 months in Norway chained up in the basement of some bondage-loving swinger couple. Shows the state of your mind that you can remember. Dirty

When someone tells the forum that instead of exploring a foreign country they decided to spend their 3 months indoors with some couple who engaged in bizarre sexual practices it is not easily forgotten. The fact that you have just shows the star of YOUR mind. Probably not on the mush level but well on the way.

P 384

I think not.

Both. Very Trumpian/SloMo of you denying what is in print in front of you though. 

Thanks for proving my point that there's a few "weirdos" on here.

Buckle up kiddies. Bolton is gone, Iran seems to have fired a shot and it is up to Trump/Pompeo to respond without Bolton as bad cop cover. 

stayer wrote: You mean you think he won't, or that he has nothing to apologise for?

Why would I apologise? That wasn’t even the post.

Regardless, the point remains. You calling others weirdos is as hilarious as it gets. Although to be fair anyone jumping on an Internet forum and pretending to a bunch of strangers that they’ve practiced law is certainly qualified to know what a weirdo looks like.

Passing Through wrote: You mean he posted twice(at least) about his ''unusual'' trip to Norway?

Apologies, I misread the post you quoted. Yes that’s the one. The weirdo was holed up with a couple of swingers for 3 months instead of being out exploring a new country. Yes, he certainly knows what weird looks like.

Instead of exploring a new country he was exploring a new “lifestyle”

A total weirdo for sure!

If sexual misconduct as a drunken fratboy disqualified you from high office there would be a lot of casualties - world wide.