I know that it’s popular to dismiss President Biden. I get it. He’s old. This is the first election featuring the 2 oldest candidates, ever. So what? The future of the WORLD is literally dependent on this election. To boot Biden from the ticket and try to bootstrap another candidate is madness. Booting this incumbent and hoping his VP will succeed is like firing the cook and hoping the dishwasher will give you Michelin-quality food. Stick with the old man, and figure out a way to enact his popular policies while also expanding the Supreme Court, enacting term limits and limiting “Christian” Nationalists.

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    if the vice president and either a majority of the executive Cabinet or a review body appointed by Congress declare in writing that the president is unfit for office, then the vice president immediately becomes the acting president.

    That wouldn’t be enough to LITERALLY remove him, but it would be such a strong signal of disavowal from people who he himself appointed that he’d be effectively dead to the party already.

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      5 months ago

      True. It would still be unethical unless he was actually medically unfit, though. Regardless of debate performance, he’s probably not actually senile yet, which they would know better than we would just from working with the guy regularly.

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        It would still be unethical unless he was actually medically unfit

        Which he clearly is.

        Regardless of debate performance, he’s probably not actually senile yet

        Hard disagree there.

        which they would know better than we would just from working with the guy regularly.

        Or they’d know better how to hide and deny it for the sake of their own careers.

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          Disagreement is fine. Awareness and intelligence are objectively measurable things though. They’re not slipping up names, like say, calling one child a different child’s name or not being able to deal with a gish gallop of falsehoods. The medical bar is much higher than what we lay people might judge from our standards of “normal”.

          I doubt VP Harris is hiding any form of disability for her own career, since it would not help her career. She would be best served personally by having the most competent administration possible, or leading it herself.

          Conspiracies are fun, but they tend to fall apart when careful analysis is applied.