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Pierre Lindgren's avatar

Everyone ages differently. You can be 95 years-old and still be spry and mentally sharp. Or 80 and tragically lost in dementia. Comparing Trump and Biden today, or to make things fairer the 2015 Trump, we can see one far more lucid and without a quixotic fixation towards "windmills."

But even in the best of cases, the decline can be rapid and sudden. Yet I don't worry so much about Biden today, more years down the road. The United States is at a precarious situation and it'll continue to be so at the point of the next election. Trump, or no Trump. Biden with a successful second term, or not. Especially as Americans have a track record of sweeping their presidents' mental issues under a rug. In which case, all we can hope is for the White House to get better at keeping secrets. It'll be far worse if he actually dies in office.

Biden's haughty echoing of Trump's 'I alone can fix it!' and not trusting the Democratic bench behind him potentially carries a very steep price for his successor. He is the only choice if you care about democracy, however. Even should he be at his deathbed flinging feces come the election because his administration won't be filled with authoritarians running the day-to-day operations of the government.

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Sharon Heidē Ward's avatar

My favorite quote, by an unknown author, is “Age is a privilege denied to many”. Oldsters don’t usually just suddenly keel over stone-cold dead. In fact, most Americans will enjoy(?) a long lingering death due to modern medicine. Mazel tov.

President Biden is the perfect age — the age of wisdom, perseverance, courage, empathy, and compassion. He’s seen the horror of young family members gone too soon. If you haven’t, please be grateful.

My family is not the typical mortality chart experience. One dozen family members died young. Grandpa was only 59. Children died — five first cousins, 2-17. Young beautiful women died. The median age was 23 years old. I call my life hillbilly Hamlet because dad’s suicide, at 43, was a direct result of Gertrude’s betrayal.

Live long and prosper. I’m gonna have the best birthday ever next year. When I’m 64…🎶

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That Democracy Guy's avatar

I know, it has to stop. I'm getting so weary of how a multitude of media commentators have to constantly remind us that Biden is 81 years old (when they're taking a break from talking about high inflation supposedly still is). This narrative about Biden being too old is tired, weak, lazy, and careless. If these people were at all responsible, every time that they feel they have to 'helpfully' remind us about Biden's age, they need to also remind us of the fact that Trump is only a few years younger. And acts like a dementia patient. I hope that The Lincoln Project can start to change this narrative.

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Maxine Hunter's avatar

I agree, Rick. Out with this Garbage. Those that worry about age need some age on them and then they should give thanks to be so blest. Also, you all picked very good illustrations of Trump sycophants for the ad. I thought the guy in the ad that said, "Trumps memory is even better than mine," needs help. I certainly would not want to copy off of his test paper, particularly a history test. Thanks always for you and the LP team's hard work.

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Don Klemencic's avatar

Rick, I would like to see an ad weaponizing the Meidastouch poster comparing Trump quotes with Hitler quotes: if available, add recordings with sub-captions (key words in bold), in Hitler's case both in German and in English translation. This would carry a much greater punch of visceral disgust than the static poster does. Release it at the point in the 2024 Presidential Election where you think it will have the greatest effect.

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Tony's avatar

The LP, as usual, doing the lord’s work.

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kdsherpa's avatar

THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU SO, SO MUCH!!!

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KAY MCELRATH's avatar

What differentiates Trump from Joe Biden is his cruelty, hostility, and indifference. What voters never see is what Trump looks like without makeup, extreme hair products, and just the right lighting. And voters don’t factor in that one of the two works his tail off 12 hours a day governing and the other gets flown to a few rallies where he “works”maybe an hour.

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Ransom Rideout's avatar

More, more, more! I owe the LP more too. Gotta hit ActBlue and up it.

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Dgerzeeboy's avatar

A million little cuts, a million little cuts...

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Liz Scheffler's avatar

Ok who selected a Requiem for the background music.

Very well done! May we have the other 9 minutes

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kdsherpa's avatar

I thought that, too. The most beautiful part of Mozart's "Requiem".

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Andrea's avatar

MORE OF THIS, PLEASE!!!

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Jaye Shands's avatar

Another great ad. Rick, you’re the best and I never tire of your work and logic. May the truth continue to be told!

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Scott Monty's avatar

BRING IT! Fantastic use of Mozart’s Requiem, by the way.

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Penelope Daner's avatar

BRILLIANT!!! And sadly, much of his MAGA base doesn’t even register his cognitive word salad.

Love the Verdi Requiem touch; from the divine to the ridiculously demented.

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kdsherpa's avatar

(Mozart)

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Jaye Shands's avatar

It’s difficult to comprehend even word salad when the brain is constipated. They need cranial prune juice.

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Penelope Daner's avatar

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

Not just the MAGA moron’s but the MSM. Today’s journalists will hit Biden hard, but be easy on Trump for fear they’d lose access and ratings....:)

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That Democracy Guy's avatar

It's clear that the media has treated Trump differently from everyone else and have failed to hold him to the same standard for decades. Then there's this drive for supposed objectivity, which leads to both-siderism and this compulsion to find something to fault Biden for. It's lazy and stupid.

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Robert Jaffee's avatar

True, but it’s deeper than “both-siderism.” We saw first hand how they went after Biden’s age but didn’t pay Trump any attention to age; even though he makes more gaffes than Biden and is only three years younger.

They are afraid of Trump. If they go after Biden, there aren’t any repercussions, but Trump has an entire media ecosystem devoted to him, so the MSM needs Trump more than Trump needs them.

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That Democracy Guy's avatar

I know, you're right about the fact that they're afraid of Trump. That's a major problem.

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kdsherpa's avatar

FINALLY! I get it! Just like it was in 2016, when they literally "gave" the orange sadist his win, THEY'RE DOING IT AGAIN!!! Thank you for helping me understand. SO upsetting.

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Bill Mccoll's avatar

It was Mozart's very last bit of music too! If Mozart was my age, he'd be dead for 50 years!

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Penelope Daner's avatar

Good Grief! Did I confuse Mozart’s Requiem for Verdi’s?! Still, it’s divine and he’s disgustingly demented.

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kdsherpa's avatar

They are both exquisite!

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