• ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 hours ago

    I mean its worth talking about his cabinet hiding his cognitive decline by hiding him from public appearances as his presidency went on but it should not be a priority it is something to talk about though.

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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        7 hours ago

        It would be ideal if future administrations didn’t do any kind of health coverups, though of course prior admin discussions wouldn’t take precedence over e.g. a big fat war.

        (Not sure if Biden’s health was actually covered up - point should hold either way)

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          2 hours ago

          so like this is the worst part, i can see logically why they might. “gotta project strength. old and ailing projects weakness. regardless of whether the chronic ailment (getting old) is physical or mental, the statesian public assumes any physical decline is immediately preceded by a major mental decline and putain has a literal army division devoted to memes” or something like that.

          i dislike it, but statesians are in general pretty ableist (i have charts and graphs if you disagree) so they’re not going to vote for someone they acknowledge has a physical deficiency. Hell, from wikipedia on FDR:

          Roosevelt remained paralyzed from the waist down and relied on a wheelchair and leg braces for mobility, which he took efforts to conceal in public.

          he wouldn’t have concealed it if the public were accepting of those with disabilities. And this was before the damned polio vaccine (that was 1950. he died 5 years before and really needed it in 1920 as he got sick in 1921) so like, you’d think people would be more accepting? or maybe just more people died.

          and well, when i lived in utah, attitudes seemed very set in the 1930s

          also those charts and graphs are for if you agree too.

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      6 hours ago

      What the fuck do you expect them to do? I’d fully expect them to hide it as best they can no matter who that president is. They’re definitely hiding it with Trump, it’s just that he’s always been so fucking dumb and weird that it’s not such a strong contrast. Biden is miles better even at the absolute worst times of his age getting to him. Do I want them to hide it? No. But you gotta be dumb as fuck if you ever expect anything else.