Biden’s press conference
7/12 '24
I came away thinking Biden kind of nailed it, as much as he could have. Except of course for the crazy name transposition in the beginning, but that's kind of classic Biden.
Maybe my standards have been lowered. I heard him making sense so I wasn't really thinking about whether he was meandering too much.
I think they trained him to slow down, they figured out he makes more sense that way.
I don't know that it will be possible to remove him after this, unless he really trips over himself between now and the convention.
I wish he would step down but I no longer think it is likely.
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I will settle for President Not A Violent, Self-Absorbed Lunatic.
I wonder if, because you’re used to talking to neurodivergent people, maybe more so than ~40% of the population, you instinctively did the same, “yeah yeah” thing we all do when we listen to a friend, like glossing over their verbal mis-steps because you’re patient enough to let a friend make their point, instead of sweating the details?
And, maybe that 40% of the population is 99% political scientists and journalists? No, okay, that’s a broad claim.
But, I think the second time or first time you met Ted, you guys had a conversation about being vegan, where he named foods that were way out on the edges of your culinary no-fly zone and gradually moved species by species to “that means no chicken, beef or pork.” And you followed along, hopping from conceptual rock to conceptual rock until there was a pattern and it all made sense.
My point is, yes, I agree and I wish others were as charitable as you are.