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Did they coincidentally start posting more often when Dantes left?
Nope - neither were suspended.
I can confirm it's not Ryan.
Wasn't Brendan that's for sure.
Every time I thought Ross was on a wind up, he’d do something that made me think “wait, is he actually being serious”.
It got to the point where you had to think - someone can’t be making themselves look this silly for comedic value and if he needed to do that to bring joy into his life - then I feel for him.
Dantes was just delightfully mental.
It got to the point where you had to think - someone can’t be making themselves look this silly for comedic value and if he needed to do that to bring joy into his life - then I feel for him.
Dantes was just delightfully mental.
Did either of those two actually post on anything football related or did they just spend their days wanking to pictures of a giant fat oompa loompa
Biden has a speech impediment (stuttering) from childhood that he mostly overcame (enough to do dozens of political campaigns and probably over a thousand public speeches), but it still sometimes manifests itself. Not a big deal. Misspeaking and dementia are not the same thing - learn to tell the difference and remember it’s disingenuous to conflate the two.
It is, but suffering from the former doesn't mean he can't now be a victim of the latter. Having a languages degree and having worked in special education for most of my career I have some idea of the difference between speech problems and intellectual problems, and right from Biden's stumbling inauguration speech the signs have been there. Just the other day in one of those public press calls when two heads of state are sitting in some posh sitting-room trying to look relaxed, he had to read from a crib sheet. He's a husk of a man being used by his handlers, and it shows.
Opinion: Joe Biden isn’t the person I knew in Congress. He should get cognitive testing, with the result made public.
If the president passes, as did Donald Trump, it will relieve many people who worry about a calamitous miscalculation.
Greg Ganske | Guest columnist
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In March 1997, Congress held a bipartisan retreat for families in Hershey, Pennsylvania, in an attempt to heal wounds over bitter congressional fights on welfare reform and balancing the budgets. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough gave a remarkable speech on respect and decency. Members ate together, danced together, shared stories, and got to know better the members of the other party and their children.
My wife and I were joined at our table for lunch during the retreat by Sen. Joe Biden and his wife, Jill. We had a delightful time getting to know each other. Biden was witty and charming, with no stuttering or incomplete thoughts. Our wives shared professional experiences. We were impressed with them.
It pains me greatly to see a decline in President Biden, and it worries me. He was 54 years old then and is 78 years old now. People age differently. My own mother is 93 and still sharp, but younger friends have mental deterioration that is significant.
Why am I concerned about Biden’s mental acuity?
During the campaign, he said, “I think we can win back the House” when it was already in his party’s hands. Super Tuesday became Super Thursday; he forgot the words of the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women are created, by the, you know, you know the thing.” He even misstated what office he was running for in South Carolina: “My name’s Joe Biden. I’m the Democratic candidate for the Senate.” He repeatedly got confused about which state he was in, he called his son the attorney general of the United States and confused British Prime Minister Theresa May with Margaret Thatcher.
Here in Iowa we saw puzzling behavior in confrontations with voters, calling them “damn liars” and threatening them with pushup contests. Even his Democrat rivals questioned his memory. Julian Castro: “Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?" Cory Booker told CNN, “There’s a lot of people concerned about Joe Biden’s ability to carry the ball across the end line without fumbling.” Biden responded to a reporter afterward, “What health concerns, man? You wanna wrestle?” Biden’s garbled sentences, misstatements and failure to finish trains of thought prompted Bernie Sanders' surrogates to promote the hashtag #WhereIsJoe, implying that Biden’s campaign was keeping him in the basement.
More recently he’s made weird statements, telling one online audience that when he was a patient at Walter Reed hospital, the nurses would “breathe in my nostrils to make me move.”
It’s gotten worse since the election. In a CNN interview, he opined, “Um, you know there’s a, uh, during World War II, uh you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing, that uh, you know, was totally different, than a, than the, he called it, you know, the WWII, he had the War Production Board.” In March he forgot the name of his Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, at a White House event, calling the Pentagon chief “the guy who runs that outfit over there.”
I am not alone in seeing a difference in President Biden. Mike McCormick, who worked 15 years as a White House stenographer and with Biden from 2011 to 2017, has said, “He’s lost a step and he doesn’t seem to have the mental acuity he had four years ago. He doesn’t have the energy, he doesn’t have the pace of his speaking. He’s a different guy. He read that Democratic National Committee speech verbatim — it’s not Joe Biden anymore.”
We have seen in recent interviews that Biden appears to be reading directly from a teleprompter, including reciting written instruction from his staff such as “END QUOTE” and “TOPLINE MESSAGE.” He whispers.
Many of my physician friends who have cared for aging patients with memory problems and dementia say it is not surprising that people question Biden’s mental acuity. A neurosurgeon friend noted Biden's two intracerebral bleeds and a 1988 surgery for brain aneurysms and said "it takes a toll and can show up later.” You’d expect some decline over a period of time, but coupled with changes in his gait, with little normal arm motion, I am seeing a dramatic change from when we had lunch together or even when he was vice president.
Prior to the election, many commentators such as Rachel Maddow, Scott Dworkin, Eric Garland, Amy Siskind, James Comey, and other Democrats promoted the idea that President Donald Trump was crazy and mentally incapacitated and should be removed from office. Trump has an egocentric personality that turns off some and speaks more recklessly at times than I would prefer. However, he is not senile and his brain is relatively sharp whether you like what he says or not.
President Joe Biden listens during a virtual meeting from the South Court Auditorium at the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, to … mce-anchorShow more
SUSAN WALSH, AP
And Trump had a normal Montreal Cognitive Assessment test at his Walter Reed physical.
During the vice presidential debate, the issue of the candidates’ age and mental acuity was on the minds of many, which prompted moderator Susan Page to ask Kamala Harris and Mike Pence if they had talked with their respective running mates and reached an agreement about safeguards and procedures in regards to presidential disability. They both dodged answering. Fortunately, the 25th Amendment exists to handle this possibility.
Biden should undergo mental cognitive testing and the result should be made public. If he passes, as did Trump, it will relieve many people who worry about a miscalculation of momentous importance by the most powerful person in the world. If he doesn’t, he should resign.
I pray for the president’s health. I personally like Joe Biden and want the country to do well under his leadership, though I disagree with most of his policies. But there’s enough evidence to legitimately require an inquiry into his mental acuity.
Dr. Greg Ganske is a retired surgeon and represented Iowa for four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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If the president passes, as did Donald Trump, it will relieve many people who worry about a calamitous miscalculation.
Greg Ganske | Guest columnist
View |107 Photos
Joe Biden cartoon gallery: Kamala Harris, GOP, Congress, COVID, more
See President Joe Biden – and candidate Biden before that – through the eyes of USA TODAY Network cartoonists.
In March 1997, Congress held a bipartisan retreat for families in Hershey, Pennsylvania, in an attempt to heal wounds over bitter congressional fights on welfare reform and balancing the budgets. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough gave a remarkable speech on respect and decency. Members ate together, danced together, shared stories, and got to know better the members of the other party and their children.
My wife and I were joined at our table for lunch during the retreat by Sen. Joe Biden and his wife, Jill. We had a delightful time getting to know each other. Biden was witty and charming, with no stuttering or incomplete thoughts. Our wives shared professional experiences. We were impressed with them.
It pains me greatly to see a decline in President Biden, and it worries me. He was 54 years old then and is 78 years old now. People age differently. My own mother is 93 and still sharp, but younger friends have mental deterioration that is significant.
Why am I concerned about Biden’s mental acuity?
During the campaign, he said, “I think we can win back the House” when it was already in his party’s hands. Super Tuesday became Super Thursday; he forgot the words of the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women are created, by the, you know, you know the thing.” He even misstated what office he was running for in South Carolina: “My name’s Joe Biden. I’m the Democratic candidate for the Senate.” He repeatedly got confused about which state he was in, he called his son the attorney general of the United States and confused British Prime Minister Theresa May with Margaret Thatcher.
Here in Iowa we saw puzzling behavior in confrontations with voters, calling them “damn liars” and threatening them with pushup contests. Even his Democrat rivals questioned his memory. Julian Castro: “Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?" Cory Booker told CNN, “There’s a lot of people concerned about Joe Biden’s ability to carry the ball across the end line without fumbling.” Biden responded to a reporter afterward, “What health concerns, man? You wanna wrestle?” Biden’s garbled sentences, misstatements and failure to finish trains of thought prompted Bernie Sanders' surrogates to promote the hashtag #WhereIsJoe, implying that Biden’s campaign was keeping him in the basement.
More recently he’s made weird statements, telling one online audience that when he was a patient at Walter Reed hospital, the nurses would “breathe in my nostrils to make me move.”
It’s gotten worse since the election. In a CNN interview, he opined, “Um, you know there’s a, uh, during World War II, uh you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing, that uh, you know, was totally different, than a, than the, he called it, you know, the WWII, he had the War Production Board.” In March he forgot the name of his Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, at a White House event, calling the Pentagon chief “the guy who runs that outfit over there.”
I am not alone in seeing a difference in President Biden. Mike McCormick, who worked 15 years as a White House stenographer and with Biden from 2011 to 2017, has said, “He’s lost a step and he doesn’t seem to have the mental acuity he had four years ago. He doesn’t have the energy, he doesn’t have the pace of his speaking. He’s a different guy. He read that Democratic National Committee speech verbatim — it’s not Joe Biden anymore.”
We have seen in recent interviews that Biden appears to be reading directly from a teleprompter, including reciting written instruction from his staff such as “END QUOTE” and “TOPLINE MESSAGE.” He whispers.
Many of my physician friends who have cared for aging patients with memory problems and dementia say it is not surprising that people question Biden’s mental acuity. A neurosurgeon friend noted Biden's two intracerebral bleeds and a 1988 surgery for brain aneurysms and said "it takes a toll and can show up later.” You’d expect some decline over a period of time, but coupled with changes in his gait, with little normal arm motion, I am seeing a dramatic change from when we had lunch together or even when he was vice president.
Prior to the election, many commentators such as Rachel Maddow, Scott Dworkin, Eric Garland, Amy Siskind, James Comey, and other Democrats promoted the idea that President Donald Trump was crazy and mentally incapacitated and should be removed from office. Trump has an egocentric personality that turns off some and speaks more recklessly at times than I would prefer. However, he is not senile and his brain is relatively sharp whether you like what he says or not.
President Joe Biden listens during a virtual meeting from the South Court Auditorium at the White House complex in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, to … mce-anchorShow more
SUSAN WALSH, AP
And Trump had a normal Montreal Cognitive Assessment test at his Walter Reed physical.
During the vice presidential debate, the issue of the candidates’ age and mental acuity was on the minds of many, which prompted moderator Susan Page to ask Kamala Harris and Mike Pence if they had talked with their respective running mates and reached an agreement about safeguards and procedures in regards to presidential disability. They both dodged answering. Fortunately, the 25th Amendment exists to handle this possibility.
Biden should undergo mental cognitive testing and the result should be made public. If he passes, as did Trump, it will relieve many people who worry about a miscalculation of momentous importance by the most powerful person in the world. If he doesn’t, he should resign.
I pray for the president’s health. I personally like Joe Biden and want the country to do well under his leadership, though I disagree with most of his policies. But there’s enough evidence to legitimately require an inquiry into his mental acuity.
Dr. Greg Ganske is a retired surgeon and represented Iowa for four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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It was obvious he had dementia from the first time he spoke during his campaign, what two years ago now? His speech patterns, the expression in his eyes, his spatial awareness, his shuffling walk, there's no debate. You'd have to be comically stupid to think it was even a question then, let alone now. This just underscores my impression that everyone now lacks what could pass as some minimum semblance of intelligence.
If I was a democrat, I'd be pushing for him to be tested. He hasn't got another election campaign in him, that's for sure. They need him out more than the republicans.
I think it's mad that him and Trump were the chosen two. They're both pretty awful choices. It shouldn't have been about which is better between them, it should be about, how nobody else managed to get nominated ahead of them.
I don't agree with you lot – I think Biden is far from an "awful choice," in fact he is one of the only remaining Democrats who retains an authentic connection to the party's working-class roots. I'm afraid once people like him are gone, the Left will get completely untethered from the blue-collar folks, other than some actual socialists offering to blow up the system and eat the rich... Plus he's very solid on foreign policy and his morals are in the right place. That's definitely more than enough for me to forgive an occasional gaffe, which he was always prone to even in his younger days.
And while I don't have the professional expertise of @Judge Jules, I think the whole "dementia" angle has been at best wildly overblown by the Right to take away focus from Trump, who is an actual demented fucktard and weirdo. I mean, the guy's foot got stuck in a bike pedal and he lost balance for a second and they talked about this on Fox incessantly for days – meanwhile their guy can barely walk and is still proud of himself for "acing" a basic cognitive test.
And while I don't have the professional expertise of @Judge Jules, I think the whole "dementia" angle has been at best wildly overblown by the Right to take away focus from Trump, who is an actual demented fucktard and weirdo. I mean, the guy's foot got stuck in a bike pedal and he lost balance for a second and they talked about this on Fox incessantly for days – meanwhile their guy can barely walk and is still proud of himself for "acing" a basic cognitive test.
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