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by mk89 704 days ago
I say this as someone that agrees that Biden should have stepped down earlier (for the 2nd election I mean).

But please, people, do not compare the average person in their 80's to what this man has to do daily.

Just alone entering a war room and giving an order to bomb a place, or watching the raw videos of war (which we luckily don't get access to) is something you don't come back from. This is not an average person, and he was doing OK after all.

However, he objectively got older. That's it. No coming back from that either...
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pennybanks 704 days ago
many people that age have been in actual wars. not saying which is more intense or which causes more stress on your body it definitely matters context of what you went through. although id say most vets that went through vietnam or korea probably been through a lot.

at least i know my korean gpa has. man is crippled and vocal cords basically non existent due to his job there. but man is so sharp and smart mentally its actually shocking.

but bidens has had serious brain surgeries. that alone should have disqualified him from even running imo regardless of how his term went

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amenhotep 704 days ago
The point is not that Biden has been through an extraordinarily stressful experience at one point in his life but that Biden has been going through an extraordinarily stressful experience for the past four years while already being very old. With the greatest respect to your grandfather, I think it would take a similar toll on him.
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mk89 704 days ago
And 8 years with Obama as VP in 2009-2017 (in his late 60's and early 70's). Obama got visibly older in 8 years, and he was way younger than Biden was at the time. And yet, Biden challenged Trump that had previously won against Clinton, not the new guy in the neighborhood. And he won.

Seriously, the stress he went through in the last 15-20 years, that's some s*. He even lost his son in 2015.

This guy has crazy good genes. And it sucks that people make fun of him. He should not go as a "joke". People should have some respect and understanding for him.

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