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Because they operate in bad faith and cannot be trusted.

The majority of people who objected to Biden were Democrats that wanted a better candidate because we were afraid that Biden would lose to Trump. The majority of Republicans can't conceive of a universe where Trump ever loses an election so there hasn't been an equivalently loud push on the GOP side.

Also, while I'd personally rather Trump be off the ballot entirely a fair chunk of democratic voters seem to think we're better off with Trump on the GOP ballot than someone who is younger and may be better able to seem less openly deplorable. I disagree with that notion and also think Trump should step down because any chance that he wins the election is too high of a chance.

Basically, this article is drawing an equivalence between two very different situations.

Are people really just now realizing he's barely coherent? That's why he got so much coverage 9 years ago in the first place. It's been the #1 joke every fucking day for night show hosts since he rolled down that escalator to say Mexicans are rapists.

Nothing is disqualifying for a Republican candidate for president.

Except maybe, I dunno, having a plan for healthcare or housing affordability or something.

The donor class doesn't really care about Trump's mental (and psychological) issues, and really don't even care much about Trump at all. They're not actually supporting him - they're supporting the handlers and advisers with which they intend to surround him, and the policies (and primarily Project 2025) that they intend to enact through him.

If anything, his incoherence is, to them, a benefit, since he's just that much easier to manipulate. Since he can't form a coherent thought on his own, he can be readily filled up with someone else's ideas, just so long as they're framed correctly.

He's like a wind-up toy - all they have to do is feed him carefully crafted stories and get him wound up and pointed in the right direction, then just let him go.

Trump being senile doesn't matter to Trump voters. As long as he hates the same people they hate, they'll decorate their trailers and go out and put him in power.

Biden being senile did matter to Biden voters. That's why they attacked him on it. And rightly so. Let the poor man retire. It's not an easy job if you actually bother to do it.

The GOP won't replace Trump even if they his health does concern them, because if they do they go from just under half of the votes to being obliterated.

The bothsiderist media didn't even bothsides things when both candidates were older. Now that only the Republican one is older, I have zero expectation of them asking why donnie is so old.

...i mean, to be fair he was barely coherent at seventy, too: that's kind of his whole thing, sputtering out incoherent word salad so his fanbase can infer whatever they want to hear...

"Well, yes, he said that but what he really meant was this. I like him because he tells it like it is."

People need to start talking about a possible President Vance. If Trump wins, it is a near certainty that he will die or be declared unfit within a year or two at most. If that were to happen, Vance will become president. Project 2025 would have Vance's full support and the support of the Federalist Society and the backing of billionaires like Thiel and Musk.

Hi. I’m here. Trump is too old and demented to be president. Just like biden.

The difference is the right doesn’t care. Because they know it doesn’t matter who is in office. Either way they get everything they want.

Edit: and arguably everyone who was actually concerned about biden and not just a republican shill is now happily voting Harris.

Because Biden is a boring president.

He had no controversies, He said no outrageous things. The worst thing Biden ever did was show up, heavily jetlagged, to a debate, and still managed to perform decently in it (despite what the mass hallucination the media has incited would have you believe)

He did his job, he did it well.

And because of that, people didnt turn into broadcast media in droves to see the latest tidbits on what he had done. So ratings, and viewership, and profit declined for broadcast media.

Which is why they love and want another Trump presidency.

Because he is always saying something horrible, doing something horrible, has some new horrible controversy, almost every fucking day.

Things that drive people to turn to the news every day and watch, in numbers that havent been seen since 9/11, and those numbers endured for 4 years of presidency.

The Broadcast Media is addicted to trump, and will stop at nothing to ensure they can continue hit their drug of choice every. single. day. multiple times a day, if possible. and the best way to do that is to whitewash everything he does and says, and go after his opponents with an aggression that is worthy of lawsuits, to ensure he can be president again and give them those ratings, viewership and income again.

Where are they? Exactly where they always were.

On the Left and amid the DNC, there has always been a lack of unity. The Democrats in general display a stark willingness to turn against their own, to eat their own candidate, in the event of a failure. A favored politician gets caught sending inappropriate pictures to someone who isn't their spouse? Their career is over. An incumbent fucks up a debate? Their base splits and explodes and forces them out. On the left, you can't fuck up and still expect unwavering support like you could on the Right.

On the right, the cries about age and fitness are being shown as bad faith arguments. The fact that they still support their pants-shitting senile rambler felon of a candidate makes it pretty clear that they don't actually care THAT MUCH about age and fitness. It was just a convenient weapon they could turn turn against Biden, because he was very slightly older than Trump, and when Trump babbles like an imbecile that's just his normal. He's always been unfit, as opposed to recently declining to that level.

republicans will never admit to anything ever, not one instance has a republican EVER admitting to fault in ANY scenario.

On Hexbear and .ml seething that Trump isn't going to win.

Fuck Hexbear, Russian trolls, and tankies everywhere.

He's barely coherent because he's Trump, not because he's 78.

The left is criticizing him but his base doesn't care.

The right is falling in line, as they tend to. In fairness, it's waaaay too late for them to do anything about it now.

Well since Biden's leaving office shortly I don't care that he's too old for reelection anymore. Trump on the other hand has always needed to go; his mental degeneracy, the cognitive kind not the part where he's just a degenerate, it's just a new reason to add to the list.

......................on the Democrat side and already deeply hate him.

His senility is the smallest problem when it comes to Trump.

The fact that Biden's brain was turning to jello before our eyes was only a big topic of conversation because delusional libs refused to acknowledge it for years. "Trump is incoherent" is not a big topic of conversation because no one who is human denies it, it's been obvious since before Biden was a serious candidate

Sucking trumps Dick

Let's be very Frank with you, republicans want that. Not the rank and file, but the politicians that want control over the United States.

What they want from Trump is a rubber stamp to do whatever they want.

Easy. We wanted the Democrats to have a better, more competitive candidate so we needed to take down Biden. His age was frankly, only a minor component of that that came into play at the end.

I have no interest in adding the Republicans swapping out for a more viable candidate.

This man is far too old to be learning for the first time that the press treatment of Trump ranges from ‘with kid gloves’ to ‘trying to get him elected’. Has he been asleep since 2016?

This also has the taste of a dude that is seething about Biden being pressured into not seeking re-election, in which case he needs to get the fuck over it.

What are your favorite top 3 "wow, Trump is nuts" videos to show your uncle who's only seen the Fox News version of Trump? The nuclear engineer monologue is pretty good.

Now I get this article is rhetorical, but just we're all clear: When Democrats recognize truth, then they adjust; when Republicans recognize truth, they ignore, spin, lie, and double-down on said lie. We saw the truth behind both Biden and Trump being old; but naturally, their criticism only applies to the (D).

It's also literally in their brain wiring. Their Anterior Cingulate Cortex tends to be smaller, which reduces the capacity to recognize patterns or introspect on cognitive dissonance...

The 78 and barely coherent crowd was already voting for Trump. The "we want more than barely coherent" now has Harris.

That's not barely coherent, that's the weave!

Weaving in and out of reality more like.

Am really pissed off when interviewers or reporters don't just call him out there and then. They do it to people here in UK (a lot of the time) unless you're on a dog whistle station.