President Biden closes gun control speech in USA with 'God save the Queen'

Maybe so but other recent media show him certain looking and acting unsteady and aged at times. God save the green.

There is no centre right for the Republican party anymore. In 2008, a concerted effort was put in motion to destroy this particular political bloc, and it came to fruition in 2016. It's a monster that the Republican party will be dealing with for a long time, and good enough for them for being so recklessly irresponsible.

An elderly relative of mine had dementia as well but it doesn't give me a reason to be offended by some randomers online.

You posted the first reply on this thread and described Donald Trump as "literally a Nazi" which ignores all sorts of facts and would be seen by a lot of Jewish people as offensive in the extreme.

The problem you have when you deal in crass generalisations is that when you start crying foul and asserting how offended you are you're not starting from a position of any great respectability.

My point being that until we can get out of the habit of only being able to see things from our own perspective all we end up with is overly emotional, verbal (or more accurately written) diarrhea.

To be fair to him he cops to it rather quickly and in a rather fitting r/watchpeopledieinside kind of way. 😂

"I reckon there are many ordinary Americans who would think 15 odd seconds is rather a long time for a US President to not recognise the US national anthem."

I reckon there are at least as many who won't think much ado of anything about it. Many ordinary americans barely have a 15 second attention span.

"I feel very sorry for him, he's being slowly humiliated and deserves better."

No President has ever been humiliated more. /s. Those around that guy pretend nothing is wrong there either, and it's very humiliating. All the same, it's not cognitive decline, and he will be mentally competent to stand trial. For the same reason I'm unclear why people try to turn every gaffe into a confirmation against Biden's mental competency when most of those same people arguing that otherwise would want Biden to stand trial for dubiously alleged 'crime family' corruption? And if either is competent to stand trial, they are mentally competent enough to carry out the article II powers and duties of the president (if so elected).

Already there's a tweet somewhere accusing POTUS of being 'handled' and asking 'who the puppet masters are' etc.; all droll stuff. Asking POTUS to comment on things no reasonable person would ever comment on in their position, nor should they, POTUS shouldn't exert influence on independent DOJ investigations.

I posted a full speech from biden via CSPAN the other night and encouraged users to timestamp where they 'spotted the mental decline' did you see any?

"the protocol of the visiting nation’s anthem being played first "

One of those 10,000 little bars that can be thrown into whatever proportion the beholder wants.

^ and that was 5 years ago, he's older now and wants 4 more years.

It's not my argument that it is a "new phenomenon" as you'll recall, my argument is that this is a traditional phenomenon of the plebiscite doomcasting mental or health disfunction on the sitting president. In one example I quoted The West Wing, the pilot of which predated the candidacy of either person by a significant margin.

Do you have a clip of him tying his shoes?

You have some very gilded goalposts there.

This whole thread is doth protest too much.

(BTW: outgoing Obama had to be trolling inaugural POTUS Trump there, right?)

Of the two, who would you vote for? Or would you abstain?

The reason it comes up is that is the likely choice, with the alternate being Biden and desantis. DeSantis in his short career so far does not have a good record for public speaking and just had a giant gaffe when announcing his candidacy.

You also don't want politician to retire, so you are saying age doesn't matter which has you conceding on your one point (people get old).

He has been making gaffes for decades. He has a stammer. He is now giving high profile speeches as President, almost every speech he gives is recorded. Every event he attends recorded. This is far higher profile than VP or Senator. And far more recording going on.

Stuff that wouldn't have been mentioned 20 years ago now ends up on Youtube and Twitter to be used against him.

Already explained but you ignored it. He has a stammer. It causes unpredictable and 'weird' verbal stumbles and mannerisms.

You don't have a clue what you are talking about. So now he has tourettes does he? And you're qualified to know this how?

Of course you aren't. You are just demonstrating your ignorance of these matters.

Did you see him in Ireland giving his speeches? At the State of the Union? Did you watch the entire gun control speech?

I already posted this on the thread, but here you go again:

NYU speech pathologist Eric S. Jackson explains, “Stuttering can be thought of as a neurobiological ‘glitch’ — broadly speaking, the neural processes that are involved in speech, at times, don’t function like those in non-stuttering speakers. The glitches manifest themselves as intermittent and somewhat unpredictable interruptions in speech, typically repetitions of syllables or audible/inaudible prolongations of sounds. The speaker knows precisely what he or she wants to say, but in that moment, their body temporarily prevents them from producing speech.”

Are Joe Biden’s gaffes related to a lifelong stuttering problem?

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/accessibility/471707-how-joe-bidens-gaffes-have-affected-his-campaign-and/amp/

The Democratic presidential candidate’s gaffes may be rooted in a little-understood disability.

On the day of his inauguration, US speech & language pathologists Dr. Phil Schneider and Uri Schneider reflect on President Joe Biden and the narrative of overcoming stammering...

If we watch Biden speaking during the presidential debates, we can observe moments when his voice and sound production stops suddenly. At those moments, his eyes squeeze shut as his effort to produce the awaited sound increases. At other moments, he seems to rapidly repeat a sound segment or quickly switch a word or rephrase his thought. Some of his interruptions appear related to delays in finding the right word and some to what he calls 'gaffes' (misspeaking). His speech fluency is most certainly challenged, as he continues to pursue his message.  

True Paradox: Joe Biden & Overcoming Stuttering

https://stamma.org/your-voice/true-paradox-joe-biden-overcoming-stuttering

On the day of his inauguration, US speech & language pathologists Dr. Phil Schneider and Uri Schneider reflect on President Joe Biden and the narrative of overcoming stammering.