Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
by oezi on Sunday July 21, 2024 @05:11PM
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No, it is a sign that both terms occupy close relationships in the brain. I consistently fumble the name of my elder sister with the name of my eldest daughter and I know many people who have similar mixups.
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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
by keybored on Sunday July 21, 2024 @06:01PM
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Are you nitpicking that specific complaint? Or saying that Biden seems relatively okay?
Even the Democratic Party has given up on the far-fetched excuses. It’s time to surrender to the evidence. That example is just one out of dozens.
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
by gcanyon on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:41PM
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Laying out an argument (Biden mixing up names indicates he's senile) and having it disproven doesn't prove the case.
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
by khazhoux on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:24PM
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Biden is showing signs of decline, but the name-swapping thing was never (and still isn't) that. It's mental klutzery, nothing more. As the other person pointed out, it is /very/ common when two names are mentally-adjacent, to reach for the wrong one. My parents would call me by my brothers' names all the time, and I just did that with my own kids this morning.
Anyone who thinks that Biden got confused and thought he was in a press conference with Vladimir Putin (!!) is just spouting nonsense.
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate
by chaostheory on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:08PM
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During the same event, he called his VP, Vice President Trump. Regardless of what you call it, it’s a bad sign similar to GW Bush’s constant gaffes.