Showing posts with label age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label age. Show all posts
Friday, November 14, 2025
Obese people could be denied visas to enter the United States - The Washington Post
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. will consider chronic health conditions and even factors like retirement age as reasons to deny visas to immigrants...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
In 'Original Sin,' Jake Tapper describes a 'cover-up' of Joe Biden's decline (Terry Gross; Fresh Air podcast)
CNN's Jake Tapper calls his new book a tragedy. Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, which Tapper co-authored with Axios' Alex Thompson, describes two Joe Bidens.
"The first one is the one that everybody got to know during his vice presidency," Tapper says. "And the second one was kind of a non-functioning Joe Biden. ... And that non-functioning Biden would rear his head increasingly starting in, like, 2019, 2020. And then, as his term went on, more and more behind the scenes."
The book describes a president who failed to recognize longtime political allies, lost his train of thought in important conversations and forgot important dates, including the death of his son, Beau: "We in the public would see some of it in front of the cameras ... but we had no idea how bad it was," Tapper says.
Tapper says one source described a president that was being propped up by aides: "One person told us that the presidency was, at best, a five-person board with Joe Biden as chairman of the board."
On Sunday, Biden's office issued a statement, revealing that the former president has been diagnosed with an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer, which has metastasized to the bone.
"It is very sad what happens to us, if we're lucky enough to get old. Very few of us retain our acuity until our death in our sleep at age 99," Tapper says. "It is the human condition, and that makes it difficult to report on this. But by the same token, we have a right to believe and expect that a president will be sharp and on top of things."
Interview:
"The first one is the one that everybody got to know during his vice presidency," Tapper says. "And the second one was kind of a non-functioning Joe Biden. ... And that non-functioning Biden would rear his head increasingly starting in, like, 2019, 2020. And then, as his term went on, more and more behind the scenes."
The book describes a president who failed to recognize longtime political allies, lost his train of thought in important conversations and forgot important dates, including the death of his son, Beau: "We in the public would see some of it in front of the cameras ... but we had no idea how bad it was," Tapper says.
Tapper says one source described a president that was being propped up by aides: "One person told us that the presidency was, at best, a five-person board with Joe Biden as chairman of the board."
On Sunday, Biden's office issued a statement, revealing that the former president has been diagnosed with an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer, which has metastasized to the bone.
"It is very sad what happens to us, if we're lucky enough to get old. Very few of us retain our acuity until our death in our sleep at age 99," Tapper says. "It is the human condition, and that makes it difficult to report on this. But by the same token, we have a right to believe and expect that a president will be sharp and on top of things."
Interview:
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Trump Temple Playlist (Conspirituality podcast)
Trump’s Town Hall DJ love-in stumped a lot of folks. From the conspirituality angle, however, there’s something familiar about this improvised ritual. Because the world we cover is strewn with the wreckage of charismatic patriarchs who bleed their followers dry in the closed-loop system of cultic dynamics.
When leaders like Trump get to the end of the line, all that’s left is pure affect. They have exhausted themselves in the efforts of self-aggrandizement. They have nothing left to say because they’ve said it a 1000 times. They’re all out of stories. They might even be bored of their own bullshit. Underslept or dysregulated by chaotic schedules, they may not be sure where they are. They’re beset by enemies, ill and in cognitive decline, but can’t admit it. And when they start to feel overwhelmed by their followers' pathetic—in their view—neediness, they will reach for any help they can get in maintaining their emotional dominance.
What October 14 showed us is that in these moments, Trump’s go-to resource is canned music, and, without his own iPad at the ready, a DJ handler who can spin the tracks and support his reverie of relief and control.
Interview:
When leaders like Trump get to the end of the line, all that’s left is pure affect. They have exhausted themselves in the efforts of self-aggrandizement. They have nothing left to say because they’ve said it a 1000 times. They’re all out of stories. They might even be bored of their own bullshit. Underslept or dysregulated by chaotic schedules, they may not be sure where they are. They’re beset by enemies, ill and in cognitive decline, but can’t admit it. And when they start to feel overwhelmed by their followers' pathetic—in their view—neediness, they will reach for any help they can get in maintaining their emotional dominance.
What October 14 showed us is that in these moments, Trump’s go-to resource is canned music, and, without his own iPad at the ready, a DJ handler who can spin the tracks and support his reverie of relief and control.
Interview:
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age -- New York Times
With the passage of time, the 78-year-old former president’s speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past, according to a review of his public appearances over the years.
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Questions surrounding Trump's mental acuity are a real 2024 story
Who can make sense of this talk?
The words below were taken verbatim from a campaign speech former President Donald Trump delivered in Potterville, Michigan, Thursday when he was attempting, at least initially, to criticize Kamala Harris' record in San Francisco, presumably referring to her tenure as district attorney there:
"She destroyed the city of San Francisco, it's — and I own a big building there — it's no — I shouldn't talk about this but that's OK I don't give a damn because this is what I'm doing. I should say it's the finest city in the world — sell and get the hell out of there, right? But I can't do that. I don't care, you know? I lost billions of dollars, billions of dollars. You know, somebody said, 'What do you think you lost?' I said, 'Probably two, three billion. That's OK, I don't care.' They say, 'You think you'd do it again?' And that's the least of it. Nobody. They always say, I don't know if you know. Lincoln was horribly treated. Uh, Jefferson was pretty horribly. Andrew Jackson they say was the worst of all, that he was treated worse than any other president. I said, 'Do that study again, because I think there's nobody close to Trump.' I even got shot! And who the hell knows where that came from, right?"
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Unhinged reaction to rise of Harris worries supporters
Rambling speeches peppered with insults, narcissism and an obsession with crowd size have raised questions about the former president's fitness for office…
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Sunday, July 7, 2024
5 takeaways from Joe Biden’s big interview with George Stephanopoulos
President Biden gave the most important TV interview of his career Friday…
Saturday, June 29, 2024
President Joe Biden Addresses Concerns Over His Age and Shares His 2024 Agenda
President Joe Biden addresses the concern American voters have about his age, shares what his agenda for the 2024 election is and discusses the dangers Donald Trump poses to democracy.
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Misleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral. The fact checks have trouble keeping up.
"The lie is sprinting the 100-meter dash and the fact-check is taking a stroll on the beach. So it's never going to catch up. And it's never going to have the same reach," said Eric Schultz, a Democratic strategist and Obama spokesperson who on Sunday publicly called out the Post's characterization of the fundraiser as false...
Friday, June 7, 2024
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Special counsel Robert Hur’s testimony undermines key GOP claims on Biden - The Washington Post
On several key points, the former special counsel took issue with Republicans' summary of his report on Biden and his mental acuity…
Monday, February 26, 2024
Gavin Newsom: Biden’s age is an asset - POLITICO
The California Democrat appeared on "Meet the Press" as a top White House surrogate to tout President Biden's record and pitch a second term...
Sunday, January 21, 2024
Trump confuses Nikki Haley with Pelosi when talking about Jan. 6
The former president has previously mixed up President Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama, among other flubs...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Monday, September 18, 2023
The old story: Biden team veers from humour to hardball to tackle age issue | Joe Biden | The Guardian
Elaine Kamarck, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution thinktank in Washington and former White House official, noted that Biden had been making his case in speeches across the country and called for a sense of perspective. "His age will only be a liability if he's running against somebody young," she said. "It's not going to be a liability running against Trump. You've just got to look at the guy.
"All that's happened is so far the Republicans have been more aggressive on the age issue. But this is people throwing stones at glass houses. Trump is a walking heart attack, he looks a mess, he's overweight and he talks in frequently incoherent babble. I don't know if it's dementia or just plain old stupidity. At least Joe Biden says things that make sense."…
Friday, September 8, 2023
Republicans Insist Biden Is Staying In His Basement. He’s Traveled More Than Trump. | HuffPost Latest News
What Biden aides have found most frustrating is a lack of equivalent voter and media attention on the age and acuity of the 77-year-old Trump, himself no stranger to verbal slip-ups and strange proclamations. The same survey found 51% of the public thought Trump was too old to serve over the next four years...
Monday, May 29, 2023
Trans adults over 45 are less likely to be out than those under 35, poll finds - The Washington Post
Roughly one-fifth of trans adults 45 and older have not told anyone they are trans, a Washington Post-KFF poll conducted late last year found…
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Josh Bernstein Wants to 'Make It Harder to Vote in America' - RWW News
Radical right-wing commentator Josh Bernstein says that voters should be required to show "proof of income" before voting.
https://youtu.be/mXcRhWuVa48
https://youtu.be/mXcRhWuVa48
Friday, September 4, 2020
Trump Campaign Running Photo Ads Edited To Make Joe Biden Appear Older | HuffPost
Yet again, Trump officials are using deceptively altered imagery to attack the former vice president.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-biden-older-facebook-ads_n_5f515dcfc5b6946f3eaf3fbe
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