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[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

You can't prove a cover-up for mental failings when that person is getting up in front of everyone and talking on a regular basis. You might think it's evil talk, you may even think it's nonsensical babbling most of the time, but a shitload of people don't think that. There are no consequences possible because this is an active choice, not a surprise outcome with a cover-up.

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Just because a bunch of people are stupid enough not think his rankings are sane doesn’t make them so.

If half the country said 2+2=5 would they be right too?

[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

2+2=5 is not politics. Politics is a game of power, popularity, and persuasion, not math. If everyone in power says no, then it's no.

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Sanity is also not politics.

Sanity is the state of having a healthy, sound, and rational mind, characterized by good judgment, emotional stability, and the ability to function rationally. It represents the absence of mental illness or insanity, often described as possessing "wholeness of mind".

Just because a bunch of morons believe him doesn’t make him sane or competent; to the contrary it shows their lack of wherewithal. They ALL need dealt with.

[–] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Outsiders can agree all they want about that fact, but truth is created in small rooms it seems, and that truth can be very different than day to day reality. The rules of the game that were setup are complicated, and the players are currently still willing to play even though they didn't originally know or imagine playing the game this way themselves, it seems to them to be a valid way to play. The regular people also play along, because of the rules of the game, even though how it's played has changed, and some rules they thought couldn't be changed can be, so they don't all like playing anymore, but they are always the first to try to leave the game, so there are many guard rails in place to see that they cannot disturb the real players too much. Even though they could.... Generally they don't. So no, sanity is not politics, but that's already baked in.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

You can’t prove a cover-up for mental failings when that person is getting up in front of everyone and talking on a regular basis

Buddy...

If you standard of mental incompetence is not being able to physically stand up and have words come out of their mouth....

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of too much to cover on social media.

But as far as evidence, yes you can absolutely prove it for Biden term the receipts are already out. Fucking books have been written about it, people have gone on record already...

JAKE TAPPER: A lot of us have covered Joe Biden’s aging, and the accompanying inability to do things the way he used to, throughout his Presidency. But what we uncovered, after the election was over, when all the people that we had been talking to for months and years, and all of the people who had been saying, “He’s fine, he’s fine,” were suddenly willing to talk about what had been going on. It was only after the election that we were able to get the insider point of view. Before that, the only insider point of view we really got was from the Hur report, when the special counsel described what he saw behind closed doors, sitting down with Biden for an extended period of time. Before that, it was a lot of: “He’s fine, he’s fine, he’s fine.” But Alex and I have spoken with more than two hundred people after the election. And, unencumbered by their fears of “if I say this, then Joe Biden won’t get elected or Kamala Harris won’t get elected,” they were much more candid.

It’s very important that folks were noting that he tripped onstage at a graduation at the Air Force Academy, but comparing that to him not being able to conjure the name of or recognize George Clooney, somebody he’d known for decades and somebody throwing the most lucrative fund-raiser in the history of the Democratic Party—those are two different things. Noting that he mistakenly thought that he’d had a conversation with François Mitterrand as opposed to Emmanuel Macron—we all saw that and we noted it and we talked about it. But compared to him not knowing the name of one of his top advisers, in December, 2022—there’s a difference. What we found by writing this book is that everything that we saw going on in front of the camera was much worse behind the scenes.

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/jake-tapper-and-alex-thompson-on-president-joe-bidens-decline-and-its-coverup

Bidens admin just didn't investigate anything trump did, because they didn't want to draw attention to what they were doing.

But all three administrations were incompetent. I'm sure there's enough bread crumbs to start building cases, offering please deals, and expanding and working up.

Especially when you realize how valuable non appointed staff are on those investigations