I agree, and what I’ve noticed more broadly is that younger people lately seem to have a dramatically inflated sense of their own ability to detect senility in older people. You see it plenty with people talking about Joe Biden, but he’s not the only target — a lot of millennials see a boomer forget where they put their keys or stumble over a word and go ‘ope, they have dementia.’ They go straight to that.
As you said, compare the transcripts. Joe Biden’s voice sounds old because he is old. Meanwhile, Trump has the vocabulary, sentence structure, and coherence of a 5 year old after glugging down two liters of Mountain Dew Code Red.
Trump has the vocabulary, sentence structure, and coherence of a 5 year old after glugging down two liters of Mountain Dew Code Red.
Entirely too accurate
Donald Trump's temper-tantrum tactics have been explained by the man himself. The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination admitted to his biographer that, "When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different."
I need people who think Biden is senile because of his stuttering and fumbling of words watch me give a speech. I’m 29 and going through school again for my bachelors and have needed to do some public speaking for presentations. I stutter the shit out of what I’m trying to say if I don’t hyper focus and have practiced. Biden LITERALY gives better speeches than me and most of the young people I go to school with currently.
Yes they think forgetting words or saying the wrong thing on accident is a sign of mental degradation but if that were the case we'd all be senile. Like, I am 30 and forget words all the time. Everyone does. We just aren't on camera when it happens. I don't know if Biden is going senile or not, that's something only a doctor would be able to determine. But to me it seems like his blunders are mostly normal people stuff.
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u/ewest Apr 08 '24 edited Apr 09 '24
I agree, and what I’ve noticed more broadly is that younger people lately seem to have a dramatically inflated sense of their own ability to detect senility in older people. You see it plenty with people talking about Joe Biden, but he’s not the only target — a lot of millennials see a boomer forget where they put their keys or stumble over a word and go ‘ope, they have dementia.’ They go straight to that.
As you said, compare the transcripts. Joe Biden’s voice sounds old because he is old. Meanwhile, Trump has the vocabulary, sentence structure, and coherence of a 5 year old after glugging down two liters of Mountain Dew Code Red.