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Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by curt15 on Sunday July 21, 2024 @08:21PM (#41029683)
The president has a large support staff to keep the lights on most of the time. Unless the nation is physically under attack, the president's day-to-day job is probably physically less demanding than that of pilots. They have plenty of time for golf.
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by wcunning on Sunday July 21, 2024 @08:50PM (#41029875)
None of that support staff is constitutionally allowed to make the call to respond to an imminent or ongoing attack. We need a commander in chief and we need to know who that person is -- which was the whole point of the Presidential Succession Act and the 25th amendment. This isn't even a Biden thing -- we had similar issues with Wilson, FDR, Kennedy and Reagan, and I'm sure that some administrations had similar issues that were never reported or written about afterwards.
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by nothercastle on Sunday July 21, 2024 @10:09PM (#41030281)
Airplane can fly and land themselves for the most part it’s only in case of a emergency does a pilot really need to have quick judgment
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by mensetmanusman on Sunday July 21, 2024 @11:34PM (#41030701)
Economic attacks are a thing.
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by runarberg on Monday July 22, 2024 @01:18AM (#41031120)
Isn’t that true of airplanes as well? In theory support staff in the flight control room could instruct e.g. a flight attendant or even a passenger to land an airplane. However it is still not a good idea, chances are it will fail, so you do as much as feasible to prevent both pilots from becoming incapacitated in a large commercial plane.
Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by Perceval on Monday July 22, 2024 @10:25AM (#41034784)
> Unless the nation is physically under attack, the president's day-to-day job is probably physically less demanding than that of pilots.

Having worked in the White House, this is 110% wrong. The Presidency is an extraordinarily demanding job. The cognitive demands and the and physical toll it takes on you is tremendous.

Re:Joe Biden stands down as Democratic candidate by Suppafly on Monday July 22, 2024 @03:15PM (#41038601)
>They have plenty of time for golf.

Only the bad ones. The good ones have less downtime than a regular person. Random dudes you work with probably golf more than most presidents do.