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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by Gibbon1 on Sunday July 21, 2024 @08:14PM (#41029645)
I've made that argument. Someone that agrees with it is Jimmy Carter.

My opinion is if the voters are happy to send a geriatric congressman to Washington to sleep through meetings that's fine. But he shouldn't be chairing committees and other offices.

That said Reagan was suffering the beginnings of dementia during the last year or two of his presidency and the world didn't end.

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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by achievingApathy on Sunday July 21, 2024 @10:43PM (#41030447)
That's not to say it couldn't have. The Constitution and its new SCOTUS interpretation places such a heavy emphasis on the executive branch that even with safeguards and a 25th amendment, maybe protecting the electorate from itself is warranted.
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