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The truth is that if this was actually about Biden’s ability to fulfill his duties as president, you don’t have to sit around and play doctor; all you have to do is look at how he’s been fulfilling his duties as president. I don’t need to see the results of Joe Biden’s next colonoscopy to be able to see the American Rescue Plan, which saved the U.S. economy after Covid; to see the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which put people to work after the “infrastructure week” punch lines of the Trump era; to see the gun safety law, the first gun bill passed in three decades; to see the Chips and Sciences Act, which has led to a boom in American manufacturing; to see the PACT Act, which gave desperately needed health care to our veterans; to see the Violence Against Women Act reauthorized; to see a record 13.5 million jobs added and the unemployment rate hit a 50-year low.
Again, we don’t have to guess whether Biden is capable of doing the job, because he’s quite literally already doing it — and I’d argue doing it more effectively than any other president in modern American history.
We don’t have to guess whether Biden is capable of doing the job, because he’s quite literally already doing it
And to be clear, none of this is to deny the validity of anyone’s worries about Biden’s age. He’s old. Too many of our leaders are old. I get it. But aside from the fact that Biden has already proved that he is up to the job because he is currently exceeding expectations while doing the job, let’s also not pretend that we don’t know the stakes in this upcoming election. Our elections are binary; they’re a choice between two people. As of this moment, it certainly does seem that the choice is going to be between an 80-year-old Joe Biden and a 77-year-old Donald Trump.
And I have every ounce of faith in the world that Americans — who, yes, may certainly recognize that Biden is old — won’t make that a higher priority than the fact that his opponent is a dangerous, anti-democratic authoritarian currently contending with four indictments and 91 criminal charges and whose most recent act as president was to incite an insurrection against our own government. So the GOP and its willful accomplices in the media may parrot Republican talking points about Biden’s age until they’re blue in the face, but we won’t be distracted by the same antics they deployed ahead of the 2016 election. We know the stakes of this election, and no amount of right-wing propaganda is going to change that.
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2wIncluding fighting back against a wannabe autocrat who claims he is the only one who can have a detained citizen, held as a bargaining chip, released. One has to wonder whose side he is on.