Age matters. Which is why Biden’s age is his superpower

The Los Angeles Times ^ | February 9, 2024 | Bill McKibben

[Trump20162020]

Joe Biden is old. Like each of us, he comes from a particular place in history, in his case the LBJ years. And that’s one big reason why his first term has been so full of accomplishment: His age, often cited as the greatest obstacle to his reelection, is actually his superpower.

The first presidential election in which Joe Biden was eligible to vote featured Lyndon Johnson beating Barry Goldwater. History remembers LBJ’s presidency as chaotic because of his tragic adventuring in Vietnam, but in other respects it was remarkable. His Great Society echoed Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal (FDR was Biden’s childhood president). Under Johnson, the federal government took ambitious steps to advance civil rights, to rein in poverty, attack disease, beautify human landscapes and conserve wild ones, and to further science — these were the Apollo space program years. Not every project worked, but lots have lasted: Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps, for instance.

So Biden was socialized in an era when government took on big causes, and you can see it reflected in his first-term commitment to rebuilding infrastructure on a grand scale, boosting a new sustainable energy economy with billions of dollars for solar panels and battery factories, dramatically increasing the number of people with healthcare, and standing up for gun control, voting rights and reproductive rights.

[Aria]

I guess FJB will be even better when he’s dead.

[thesligoduffyflynns]

😖😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝

[NWFree]

They probably meant super stupid

[kiryandil]

Yep, looks like a chimp-out to me.

Dude's only 63...

[cgbg]

Some details from the January 24, 2024 story on L.A. Times layoffs:

—115 alleged humans from newsroom to be laid off
—That is 20% of the newsroom
—Currently losing $30 to $40 million a year
—Former Executive Editor “stepped down” last month—lol.
—Owner said current “high ranking editors not getting the job done”—more lol
—The current owner invested more than a billion dollars in this dumpster fire—a triple lol

[chopperk]

This clown author must be high on something. SloJoe has only set the USA back in all economic levels and Bill doesn’t recogize it.

[cgbg]

They need to upgrade their propaganda game—get some of those “objective” North Korean “journalists”.

[cgbg]

California is having a great few years when properly measured by the PEI.

(That is the Poop Economic Index.)

Lol.

[clearcarbon]

" these were the Apollo space program years. Not every project worked, but lots have lasted"

I have a can opener from that era that is more competent than biden.

[rdl6989]

What in thunderation?

[lurk]

Don’t you know dementia gets better with time. It’s a kind of accumulated wisdom. In fact, dementia patients are like Rain Man, super smart in certain areas.

[Texas resident]

I wonder if this LA Times writer has looked around his city to see first hand the effects of obama’s third term.

[Zathras]

Americans don’t need to be taught how to poop.
I wouldn’t call it a “superpower” but maybe it is at the LA Times.

[Carl Vehse]

Note the enemedia’s emphasis on age, rather than dementia that Traitorjoe has exhibited in abundance for years.

The Demonicrats are willing to sacrifice Dementiajoe by giving the enemedia their talking point on age to use on Donald Trump, who has exhibited none of the mental defects that have been ravaging Flatlinejoe.

[cgbg]

I can’t resist—I have to cram this old article down the throats of LA Slime:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-02-26-me-5832-story.html

Reagan too old.....

Leftists will make any argument—even if it contradicts their previous arguments.

They are shameless liars and propagandists.

[tomkat]

One of the literal enemy regurgitated this execrable screed.

There must be an eventual reckoning . . .

[1FreeAmerican]

Well I now need some drugs after seeing that.

[17th Miss Regt]

Each day I drive by the new LA Times building in El Segundo and I am reminded of the joyful news of the mass layoffs at that building! And I think, “Die, LA Times, die!”

[BraveMan]

LBJ Quote:

... if black people are going to vote, they might as well vote for democrats as President Lyndon Johnson 1963-1969 was purported to have said about the civil rights act —

“I’ll have them niggers voting democrats for 200 years.”

Biden decided to go after the alien wetback vote . . .

[Sicon]

So, Creepy Joe’s age and obvious cognitive decline are a “superpower”, but Trump’s age and “mean tweets” are totally proof that he is not cognitively capable of being President.

Riiiight.