For the most part, leading Democrats are ducking what is fast becoming the first real litmus test of the 2028 campaign: former President Biden's mental acuity.
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Even outside the US, you and the rest of the American mainstream media are seen as the fascism enablers you've become. The regime you're trying to appease (if that's the case) can't and won't be appeased.
Eventually it will come even for the yt people among you.
“President Trump is accepting foreign bribes, kicking people off Medicaid, killing thousands by letting a nazi-saluting white suprematist dismantle the government with the most racist children he could find and you’re asking about someone who’s not running?”
"Some Democrats argue their leaders aren’t owning up to the truth about Biden"
"Some" implies more than one. The article cites only one, a former Democratic House member from SC.
No voters are going to care about Biden in 20 fucking 28. Nobody cares about him now, except right-wing politicians looking for someone to blame for their own incompetence.
he is no longer president, he will not be president again, and he's no longer a leading figure in democratic politics. such has it been for several months now.
I'd say they're less obsessed with Biden than desperately trying to cover up what a corrupt, dumb bigot Trump is. This is Politico giving Republicans cover for the mid-terms
So fearless to focus on Biden, who isn’t POTUS anymore, whereas I noticed Trump doesn’t get the same questions asked when he says “I invented the word equalize”, doesn’t know what “groceries” are, & talks non-stop like a human mad lib.
Hi. Dem voter here. I don't give a shit. I assumed Biden was old when I voted for his dusty ass, Harris replacing him when he had to retire mid term was always kinda in the cards, and I'm curious how anyone thinks that would look different than what happened
Realistically he should have stepped down from running again around midterms instead of clinging on until it was impossible to do a proper primary and continuing to declare he was fine to run when it was very clear he was not.
It takes some time for the press to decide on and ramp up their preferred false narrative to support the Rs and attack the leading D.
And I was a Harris voter in 2019, but given the racism and misogyny of the electorate, it's not crazy to think that Biden had the best shot pre debate press reaction.
Idk I feel like Kamala Harris is a big girl and should have been trusted to combat that stuff. Was working decently with Walz till he got muzzled on the whole attacking republicans thing.
He should have been given a second term because right up until his last day he was doing good things for the American people, and behind him there was a splendid, super capable VP to step up.
Exactly! Dems came out in the primaries to vote former Pres. Biden in for a second term. The DNC should have let him run to the finish! And we might have had a President Harris.
Amen. I voted for her in the primaries just like I voted for Biden.
It was all BS that we didn't vote for her and Dems needed a convention. It is heart breaking that so many voters are so fucking stupid to put Spawn of Satan in the job.
No serious candidate would have run a primary campaign against the first woman POTUS, one who stepped in to take over for the guy who delivered the world's best economy. It would have been quixotic career suicide. Obama/Pelosi/pundits wanted Thunderdome but D voters wanted Harris.
"Dems in Disarray!" is the media's favorite type of story ever. They barely got to do any of them during Biden's term and they hated him for it, so now they are catching up.
They definitely like it way more than "convicted felon gets half billion dollar bribe."
Correct. The sooner people start acting like none of this matters (it doesn’t) and start acting like ransacking every U.S. citizen is a heinous crime (it is), only then will the ship get righted.
I want to know how they are responding to Trump and if they understand what is happening in the federal government. If they are talking about Biden they are telling me they don’t care.
So, NYT/Axios/Politico trying to resurrect the 'Biden is too old' storyline to deflect from the fact that they were/still are the "Trump Suck Up Media" that ignored Trump's mental decline and unfitness for office.
Keep waving that shiny object hoping that no one remembers your dereliction of duty.
That is not, in fact, “the first real litmus test of the 2028 campaign”. That is, actually, clickbait to drive people to your web site.
You bear a decent chunk of responsibility for the trivialization of political discourse and subsequent decline of democracy in America. You can still change that.
WTAF IS THIS, Politico? ARE YOU NOW THE DARK SIDE? I’m going to treat you as such.
This has GOT to be the most ignorant thing I’ve read this week, and that’s saying something.
Who gives a shit!They are literally challenging rule of law from a president who only speaks word salad while taking healthcare away from millions of human beings. What the fuck is wrong with you people?And despite Biden‘s mental acuity he didn’t have a team of Fox News alcoholics advising him.
WTF is this? I came here to send this message after reading it elsewhere. (Stopped reading your garbage a while ago!)
Litmus test of 2028? A past candidate? Can’t hide your leanings any longer can you?
Losing more readers by the second, bc you deserve it!
For fuck’s sake, read the room: there is a mentally incapacitated psychopath in the White House right now who is dismantling the country. WRITE ABOUT THAT.
Are you serious? We are in the midst of a full-blown fascist overthrow of our constitution, and you think the mental acuity of someone *no longer President* is the biggest issue facing Dems?
You are unfollowed. Any more of this 💩 and I will block you. Focus on the mentally deranged skkkum that's running our Government now! How about his mental decline? Are you afraid to talk about it, or has he bought you too?
We have lunatic Nazi's in our WH now burning down our country and Biden's mental health is what you want to talk about? WTF is wrong with you people? In case you haven't noticed, Biden is no longer in office. It's over. Done! Try talking about the evil that is running our Government NOW.
Hey! Great story... probably. Wait. You said former President Biden. He's not President now? Is he running for President again? No? Probably a waste of time to even write this then, wasn't it.
Is this a joke? Trying to tie democrats to a retired aged politician while the current head of the Republican party and America is basically the same age and acts like his brain has been scrambled. Shame on you. This is not journalism.
I must have missed these articles in 2021 when you assholes were saying the first Republican litmus test of 2024 was to reject the criminal who just attempted to violently seize power.
The current president is a criminal who is openly accepting bribes while crashing the economy. And has a mush brain. Yet you assholes are still whining about Biden.
For the most part, Politico is ducking what is fast becoming a litmus test on the legitimacy of their position as a serious political newspaper: not discussing the current president’s daily assault on our democracy, his own mental acuity and blatant corruption.
Why doesn't the US media just move on from Biden? Find a new leader for the Democratic voice. It's over. Trump won. Now, focus on Trump's increasing cognitive decline and his authoritarianism/ corruption.
Shut the fuck up @politico.com The current occupant of the Oval Office is who the focus needs to be on. Dude doesn't comprehend the word 'groceries' FFS
The only litmus test for the Democrats is how "how hard did you fight fascism when it began to rip apart our Constitutional system?" If the answer is "not much," then you better duck out.
Ofc it affected the race positively for Trump. The one human proven to beat him was off the table. The difference is where we believe the betrayal behind that lies
Which has fuck all to do with the important issues that potential Dem candidates should be focusing on, which is contrary to the appalling premise of this stupid article.
A core issue in the Democratic Party and our government in general, is that they are only focused process, they will lie to you, and they are a gerontocracy. Who will state this and who will lie? These actions directly led to Trump.
You discredit yourselves @politico.com with this false narrative that the most effective POTUS of our lifetimes had "mental acuity" problems. He restored NATO, led the economic recovery of the world after Covid and left a great economy the current FOTUS is destroying. Focus on that🤨
No one outside the media cares about this. Why don't you focus on the current president, who is both an addled old man in steep cognitive decline and a corrupt fascist. Those things seem pretty important.
Hey now, leave legit hallucinogens alone like shrooms & LSD, they have their proper places. But I can see politico staff snorting crank off their desks & thinking this written piece was grade A. The sort of meth delusions one sobers up to next morning to regret for the rest of your life for doing.
When I think “oh the press doesn’t publish what the public hasn’t pushed upon it,” headlines like this are a real kick in the dick. No person whose job doesn’t depend on publishing “news” cares about this. The constitution is being shredded daily and in real time - this shit is absurd.
No, that's ridiculous. A lobotomized newt is more coherent than Donald Trump. Biden's mental acuity would be an important question if not for the alternative.
What does this have to do with a single problem we have? Biden could and still cam speak in complete sentences and make sense, something Trump CANNOT do, and Politico will never address.
Don't you have something more pressing to write about? What about Hillary vs Bernie, or if the vote count in Florida is going to end up in favor of Bush or Gore? Get with the times!
Let’s be clear about what is happening with this “litmus test” story. No average Dems are focused on this topic. The media @politico desperately wants to make this an issue because their fellow colleagues wrote a book and they want to you buy the book. Back scratches back. The end.
👍😁 You are right. I've seen a multitude of posts about the book and/or the "mental acuity" of one of the best POTUS in history. He brought us back from the brink and left us with the best economy of all COVID recovering nations.
If only there were actual political developments to report on right now.
A shame there's such a dearth of news about important issues like blatant corruption, denial of due process, shipping legal residents to foreign torture gulags, etc.
Politico is ‘way too invested in DC navel gazing and wind sock favor-currying, dishing on Dems. Nobody west of the Potomac gives a fuck about their Biden bashing at this moment. There are ‘WAY BIGGER THREATS to us than Biden’s mental state!
Coming soon from Politico: "The big issue is where do Dems stand on the Woodrow Wilson Stroke Cover-Up. The nation needs to know whether Edith Wilson secretly controlled the Presidency".
this is why people will continue to unfollow you in droves. There are tons of biased “news” vendors to choose from, do we need you? That would be a no.
You people never get tired of beating long dead horses. Oh the emails oh Benghazi oh Biden got long covid .. but the republicans free pass 6 26
Thank you. That is not what I'll be thinking of in 2028. I'll be looking for someone that is not of retirement age, sure, but I'll be looking for someone that upholds our constitutional government and rights--because that's just a basic requirement that we've completely shot to hell. smdh.
This is exactly how I will judge my senators and representatives: On how they are dealing with a person who will never be in the political arena in any capacity for the rest of his life.
You've misframed the issue. It's the honesty and effectiveness of the DNC leadership that is at issue with this "litmus test." It's not Biden. The Biden issue is just the litmus paper. Are they going to be real with us, or double down on the subterfuge.
"There are much better ways to gauge those." You're not taking issue with the accuracy of the gauge being used, or you'd offer an alternative. You're just taking a tool off the table. We do have a four alarm fire, & how we should fight that fire, and who should lead is certainly relevant.
Politico is compromised and should be ignored full stop. This would work well as an Onion piece though. Unintentionally making a parody of itself. Sad.
The first real litmus test is the Democrats DOING NOTHING TO STOP ANYTHING, holding up NOTHING, and ignoring what the “younger” people are SCREAMING AT THEM DAILY! We want FIGHTERS elected, NOT STATUS QUO! Dems should have been holding up all nominees but they aren’t. They are useless.
Why is this relevant now, let alone in 2028. Biden is no longer in any public office or involved in the party leadership. Meanwhile #DementiaDon is the Commander in Chief.
Reminder:
Dems _pushed out their old guy for a 59 year old while GOP elected an obviously mentally declined senile old man. Talking Biden in 2025 is irrelevant
I’m sure you’re writing an in-depth analysis of the mental acuity of Trump, complete with his incoherent word salad, his lack of knowledge of basic: geography, history, science, engineering, economics etc., his sadism, racism and misogyny; because if you’re not this could be seen as biased bullshit.
For the most part, leading journalistic sources are ducking the question of our CURRENT president's OBVIOUS mental decline to rehash old tired bylines that readers don't give a damn about, just because a failed journalist writes a book about it.
It’s not about him anymore!Acknowledge that he was the right person at a crucial time in 2020, then acknowledge that he was totally and completely wrong in 2024. He, his family and friends are to be blamed for a catastrophic outcome.
IDGAF
You must truly love the MAGA movement because y’all do your best to support every ridiculous topic as news. Biden is OLD news. He should have resigned sooner, Yes, we HEARD YOU THE 1ST 5BILLION times. Maybe try to focus on states overturning votes. Something, ya know, important.
He was absolutely unfit and his administration did a very good job despite that and infinitely better than the current administration, so who the fuck cares? What is wrong with your stupid tiny brain?
Actually @politico.com what is happening is a HUGE spotlight on the current Presidents similar age and obviously worse decline. If we want to point to President Biden as a lesson...then the lesson learned is to cut the losses now #25thAmendment
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Now all the sudden they’re attacking Joe Biden for him.
Eventually it will come even for the yt people among you.
Do you let these useless fucking stenographers ask you these questions without telling them how awful they are, just as human beings?
“President Trump is accepting foreign bribes, kicking people off Medicaid, killing thousands by letting a nazi-saluting white suprematist dismantle the government with the most racist children he could find and you’re asking about someone who’s not running?”
"Some" implies more than one. The article cites only one, a former Democratic House member from SC.
You assholes saw to that.
No one fucking cares.
This was 2024!
How about we talk about Leadership today!!!!
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okay, sure thing buddy
this is your fever dream, not ours.
Wonder why you guys never point that out?
And I was a Harris voter in 2019, but given the racism and misogyny of the electorate, it's not crazy to think that Biden had the best shot pre debate press reaction.
It was all BS that we didn't vote for her and Dems needed a convention. It is heart breaking that so many voters are so fucking stupid to put Spawn of Satan in the job.
They definitely like it way more than "convicted felon gets half billion dollar bribe."
Media: "You know who couldn't pass the ketchup? Biden. Because he was old. Let's talk about that."
Kid: "Can I be excused, please?"
They’ll persecute you for even a slight
So you may as well go all out
Keep waving that shiny object hoping that no one remembers your dereliction of duty.
You bear a decent chunk of responsibility for the trivialization of political discourse and subsequent decline of democracy in America. You can still change that.
Not one Dem vote will be influenced by this absurd non-issue.
Jake Tapper's book won't be making the best seller list and Politico won't be regaining credibility anytime soon.
This has GOT to be the most ignorant thing I’ve read this week, and that’s saying something.
Litmus test of 2028? A past candidate? Can’t hide your leanings any longer can you?
Losing more readers by the second, bc you deserve it!
You know, considering that as far as we know the Republican field is wide-open, too.
Get a grip, freaks.
Trump just took a $400 million dollar bribe and we still have tariffs on everything coming to America.
And yall think Imma be like yo what’s cracking with Joe’s head 
👀😆🔥#FuckPolitico
It's not journalism, it's not commentary, and IT IS NOT HELPING.
#SharingIsCaring
Threatening Americans overseas for exercising their right to free speech is dangerously unhinged.
This includes @politico.com
#RhetoricalQuestion🤦🏻
BASTA🛑‼️
https://presswatchers.org/2025/01/political-reporters-are-actively-covering-up-trumps-racism/
It's completely irrelevant to the destruction of American democracy that's happening right now
Read the fucking room!
the first real litmus test of the 2028 campaign
That is their entire fucking deal.
- George Marshall
Why is the fact that the country is being run by a senile imbecile not the front page story, every day?
A shame there's such a dearth of news about important issues like blatant corruption, denial of due process, shipping legal residents to foreign torture gulags, etc.
You people never get tired of beating long dead horses. Oh the emails oh Benghazi oh Biden got long covid .. but the republicans free pass 6 26
Instead of selfish children withholding their votes and thus electing Trump to hurt far more people.
This is exactly how I will judge my senators and representatives: On how they are dealing with a person who will never be in the political arena in any capacity for the rest of his life.
We’ve got a four-alarm fire out on American democracy, and you’re distracting people with this irrelevant bullshit.
Biden can still run rings around 45… who is sundowning.
This is not how democracy works, mechanically.
After Harris was made the nominee, were Dems rejecting her to maintain the idea that Biden was fine?
Biden is not the president, Trump is.
No click for you.
Dems _pushed out their old guy for a 59 year old while GOP elected an obviously mentally declined senile old man. Talking Biden in 2025 is irrelevant
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The Issue is the current pillage of America by Trump Crime Syndicate.
You must truly love the MAGA movement because y’all do your best to support every ridiculous topic as news. Biden is OLD news. He should have resigned sooner, Yes, we HEARD YOU THE 1ST 5BILLION times. Maybe try to focus on states overturning votes. Something, ya know, important.