Top Democrats try to Etch A Sketch away their past endorsements of Biden’s mental acuity, illustrative of a wide swath of the party that is hoping to atone for having fallen lock-step behind octogenarian president. @reidepstein.bsky.social Lisa Lerer www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u... - ThreadSky

peterbakernyt.bsky.social • 20 days ago

Top Democrats try to Etch A Sketch away their past endorsements of Biden’s mental acuity, illustrative of a wide swath of the party that is hoping to atone for having fallen lock-step behind octogenarian president. @reidepstein.bsky.social Lisa Lerer https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/democrats-biden-2024.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c&pvid=C3FDEF1E-1793-4E67-A5E4-3DE45E2BBCA0

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shermied66.bsky.social•19 days ago

What is happening right now??? OMG. Are you seriously covering this story and NOT talking about the actual current so-called president who proves daily that he's INSANE???

sunnydazehaze.bsky.social•20 days ago

Biden was the reason Trump lost. Don’t like it? Get someone who CAN beat Trump that checks all the boxes for the media to finally call out the evil of Trump and the Republican Party. Our country is suffering psychologically under republicans. Biden gave us no distress along with a great economy.

stephjmom.bsky.social•20 days ago

... Ratio 🙄

seansei.bsky.social•20 days ago

Politico was getting lonely in my Ratio Feed. Peter will fill it out nicely. 😉

susanp0507.bsky.social•18 days ago

Not interested in more Biden bashing. Trump does enough of that. The entire Democratic Party failed us and they need to get their act together fast.

3rivergirl.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is just sad..
Do better.

coffeequeen1.bsky.social•19 days ago

Peter, is your use of "etch a sketch" intended to be derogatory? I.e. Dems are trying to push events down a memory hole?

Would it be fair for you to use similar term in regard to Dubyah's Iraq & Afghan follies? Trump's covid response? Or Russian ties? How about Trump's uncivilities? Etc etc etc...

bterrier71.bsky.social•19 days ago

The difference is republicans are shameless

coffeequeen1.bsky.social•19 days ago

Peter, not familiar with "etch a sketch" as a form of political reporting. Could you please explain?

inenc.bsky.social•20 days ago

Can we just give it a rest? That has nothing to do with what’s going on now. We need to worry about the next election not dissect Biden’s age. We need to flip congress. 2028 is more important than 2024. Let it go. There’s more than enough real issue to report on

cherdalump.bsky.social•20 days ago

Do me a favor and call your sources back to tell them that democratic voters don’t give a shit. Thanks!

mapaiko.bsky.social•18 days ago

FAQ

arriadna.bsky.social•18 days ago

Cut it out! Focus on Trump’s mental decline!

old-lady.bsky.social•20 days ago

Stop it.

toniann561.bsky.social•20 days ago

Write about the dangerous asshat in the oval now! No one wants to hear this media circus!

mpet05.bsky.social•18 days ago

At least Biden, wasn’t a convicted felon, tried to steal an election, caused insurrection,compulsive lier and grifter.
Trump is an immoral, mean, cruel and divisive president. Biden didn’t violate immolate rule, ignore constitution or mass deportation no due process!

grandmamuses.bsky.social•20 days ago

Stop this nonsense! Biden in decline outperformed Trump in every way. If there is to be finger pointing it should be in Donald Trump’s direction. It is he who is destroying the country, not Joe Biden.

elizabethdarby9.bsky.social•20 days ago

Appalled that someone w your laurels thinks this is the best use of your time and talent--Today? In today's news-scape?
Covering past pol-spec is the opposite of news--made worse by the fact you know this yet still choose to ignore the incapacities of current Admin which shld be daily hed. #NYTfolds

mpvet79.bsky.social•20 days ago

You are a lost colostomy bag who is overflowing.

jimwhitney.bsky.social•20 days ago

Seems there may be more important issues facing nation than rehashing what people knew/didn't know about Biden's cognitive functioning. Maybe look at the current attacks on democracy, the threats to universities and free speech & the non-stop efforts to use the presidency for personal enrichment.

wottop.bsky.social•18 days ago

The Biden administration was crushing it.

The current one is crushing us.

But sure, this is the most important thing right now.

nickyhopkins.bsky.social•20 days ago

Your Vichy Times posturing won’t save you from the death camps Petey

elisegilchrist51.bsky.social•20 days ago

No credibility! We have an old crazy man with idiots surrounding him. Joe had capable people around him.

noneisthenumber.bsky.social•20 days ago

Biden did an excellent job. Leave the man alone. If he's having issues, all the more reason to leave the man alone, as it is now moot and irrelevant.

jonesls.bsky.social•20 days ago

Enough already. How is this helping anything???
President Biden has been a legislator, a Vice President and President. He has invested in rebuilding our infrastructure. He has invested in our country and the people in this country. He restored our relationships and standing with other countries.

jonesls.bsky.social•20 days ago

He knows what NATO is. He has conducted himself as a professional. He has brought jobs back from overseas and given many years of service to our country.

marianne1857.bsky.social•20 days ago

Whatever Peter… how about commenting on Trump’s mental decline?!

tloebig.bsky.social•20 days ago

So we now have a Nazi in The White House. Who gives a flying F about last year when the media should be more concerned now about the Orange Hitler?

minyuetnyc.bsky.social•20 days ago

Leave Joe in peace. He did a damn good job rescuing us from Trump 1.0 and serves our gratitude.

grandmacozy.bsky.social•20 days ago

Jesus! Just stop! We have bigger and more serious problems with Trump & the GOP! Want to keep rehashing old news? Try this:
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/this-trump-trick-should-have-damned-the-gop-long-ago/

eawinick.bsky.social•20 days ago

People are being snatched off the streets and sent to foreign hellholes without due process

pcrritesgood.bsky.social•19 days ago

Uhh, actually since "Biden is Old" is not a story anyone gives a flying fuck about, what is actually going on is the media, like you and Tapper and every other sleazy worm that pretended there was something wrong with him, and helped trump win, is doubling down to try to justify their BS reporting.

albertjs.bsky.social•20 days ago

I as a democrat do not blame any of them. I liked Joe Biden, he was a great president, and then I voted for KAMALA HARRIS for crying out loud

jamarbella.bsky.social•19 days ago

Crazy poor reporting but isn't Trump POTUS and isn't he just as old as Biden and his mental acuity just as suspect?

dbem73.bsky.social•20 days ago

This Biden shit is distracting. Biden is gone and Trump is destroying our country. What should the story be 🤨?

nywonk.bsky.social•18 days ago

Very revealing that the @nytimes.com decided to jump into the pile of vultures. Not surprising, though.

You people are the worst. No wonder your paper is dying.

chipaustin1.bsky.social•20 days ago

This makes you look like an out of touch, bothsiderism idiot.

xtaz2001.bsky.social•18 days ago

This is but her emails all over again. It’s getting old and the press needs to atone for its role in this mess. They are 90 percent to blame. You still haven’t learned anything other than circle the wagons tighter

jeeneseqim.bsky.social•20 days ago

This isn't news. Trump is a blithering idiot. He is the current POTUS. BIDEN IS RETIRED. He served our country well. Leave him alone and focus on the challenge before us.

twilie09.bsky.social•20 days ago

I don't think Rs will feel the need to atone for having fallen lock-step behind their (nearly) octogenarian cult leader, who has not had mental acuity a day in his life.

I said in 2019 that I didn't want an octogenarian POTUS. 😒 I blame octogenarian James Clyburn, who handed SC to Biden.

longrovebridge.bsky.social•20 days ago

Well. It’s hard to want to boot an incumbent. Never a good look. Biden is the one who should have called it quits after year 2.

hollygal.bsky.social•20 days ago

STFU. You helped elevate a 78 year old nut case and ajudicated sexual abuser….whose own mental acuity sucks — Trump is senile and shits his pants. Write a piece on that Petey.

unawarewolf.bsky.social•20 days ago

Hey Petey, in case you haven’t noticed, Trump is 78 and a raving lunatic, yet his grifter party props up this useful idiot while destroying all that’s decent about this shithole, but thanks for your “perspective”.

lisrafa.bsky.social•20 days ago

Who gives a flying? He was a fine president and could answer a g d question. Now you got mush brain who can’t stay awake or make an articulate answer ever

rgingersoll.bsky.social•20 days ago

Please go deeper on this and tell us more… while the world burns.

ibipelican.bsky.social•20 days ago

This is BS Peter. Believe it or not the Democrats like me gave moved on and are looking to the future. And I’m a baby boomer.

desi4thewin.bsky.social•20 days ago

Have any of you reporters ever watched someone age up close? The reporting on this is tone deaf.

garboblack.bsky.social•18 days ago

Get a real topic for a change. This is just the dumbest thing to be focusing on.

plugrocks.bsky.social•20 days ago

Any rabbits in that hole you're in?

craigwinston.bsky.social•20 days ago

Why the fuck does this matter? Stop treating politics as a game. NYT never says fucking shit about the current occupant's age and sane washes everything he says.

henrymn44.bsky.social•20 days ago

Total distraction from the current insanity and the credit markets drew the line today.

melissjpeltier.bsky.social•19 days ago

Get off this Biden-trashing train.
Seriously.
Write your exploitative exposé books & make yourself a fortune selling them to drooling Trumpers.

But given the precarious state of the WORLD right this minute, these articles are NOT news.

arriadna.bsky.social•18 days ago

Thank you! They are ignoring Trump’s mental decline and attacking Biden again. He was on the View and showed he’s ok.

melissjpeltier.bsky.social•18 days ago

It’s a deliberate distraction.
In fact all those in the book who are wrongly blamed or misquoted (like Jaime Harrison) should sue for libel.

arriadna.bsky.social•18 days ago

Agreed 👍

hollygal.bsky.social•17 days ago

It’s like Noel Casler said — those homes in the Hamptons and Nantucket don’t pay for themselves…..

julzrobins.bsky.social•18 days ago

Seriously, this is your focus? MSM continues to fail us.

oatsdad.bsky.social•20 days ago

Who cares?

Why not pay more attention to the fact the current president can’t utter a coherent sentence and he’s using his office for purposes?

epolaris6.bsky.social•20 days ago

I think his family and close aides will see the disservice to not only the country, but to the person they said they were protecting. How much better would his legacy be now if he had kept it to one term?

billb3.bsky.social•20 days ago

No one cares

sheareh.bsky.social•18 days ago

Dude. You are accomplishing nothing with this nonsense. The election is over. Move the eff ON. READ THE ROOM. You are tone deaf and complicit in bringing us to this current place.

racingbikes.bsky.social•20 days ago

We need to move on. Don’t give it air.

kristinnsig.bsky.social•20 days ago

But we are perfectly comfortable with republicans propping up a mentally sketchy grifting psychopath who is hell bent on turning the US into Hungary. The NYT continues to act as if that’s normal politics, while excoriating democrats who believed in Biden and the team he assembled!

dreadfulpenny.bsky.social•20 days ago

They’re all forgiven for whatever shit you feel they did.

Can we move on now? The current guy thinks he’s bringing back the word groceries.

Focus on the mad lad in the WH currently trying to use the Constitution as TP.

oatie2025.bsky.social•20 days ago

Still would have been better than the criminal that replaced him.

ohhellnocanada.bsky.social•20 days ago

Stop it. Just stop it. You have bigger fish to fry in your country at the moment. No need to go back in the past. That is the problem with you American journalists, you help the Maga spread this irrelevant bullshit. Keep your eyes on the prize which is A SEXUAL PREDATOR DICTATOR in office NOW

tpa2chg.bsky.social•20 days ago

You (and the paper you work for) are a joke. As bad as Biden was, he was more cogent on his worse day than Trump is on his best day. Yet all you can report on is Biden. And to think I funded your pathetic rag to the tune of a grand a year for more than 20 years. What a sucker I am.

proudlibforever.bsky.social•20 days ago

Dude, give it a rest already! Did you watch #DementiaDon rant about drones, Sean Duffy, lumberjacks, Sean Duffy again, lumberjacks again, and on and on in Abu Dhabi yesterday? How come that does not move the needle for clowns like you? How come you and the rest of NYT are silent about that? JFC.

60ssanfrangirl.bsky.social•18 days ago

Oh and Pete rode a bike to work.

ace2448.bsky.social•20 days ago

Peter, this is definitely not it.

angsim.bsky.social•20 days ago

I’d still rather have Biden than this grifter felon.

vivacia.bsky.social•19 days ago

Stfu about Biden. No one cares.
The country has slid into authoritarianism, and social safety nets are being burned. THAT is what we care about.

Unfollowed

wickedferal.bsky.social•18 days ago

Pete has biden derangement syndrome. And he's a twat.

genevorobyov.bsky.social•20 days ago

I think it was a serious mistake for Biden to run, but give it a rest. Have you considered what kind of a lunatic your paper gave a pass last year when it comes to mental acuity? And why - because he yells loud? Because his "weave" never made sense to begin with? Self-reflection is also atonment

acarothers.bsky.social•20 days ago

Stop

johnhoward66.bsky.social•20 days ago

Get bent.

jonathancosmo.bsky.social•19 days ago

This is Baker’s second post today on a non-story. It’s insane this is considered a “big story” when 95% of America has already moved on from Biden. Joe Biden has zero impact on 2025 Democrats, who have bigger issues right now. Goodness it’s depressing to see 2025 journalism.

scottjfrederick.bsky.social•19 days ago

Now do Reagan.. we all give about the same amount of fucks

cloudypatriot.bsky.social•20 days ago

Biden was the nominee we needed in 2020, and the president we needed in 2021. Everyone paying attention knew we were fucked with him in '24, from the onset. That said, the media, yes, all of it, pimped Trump's shitty economy for 8 years while crapping all over Biden's strong one. They elected Trump

onetinsoldier61.bsky.social•20 days ago

Good for ratings is all they care about. Now no one watches.

hollygal.bsky.social•20 days ago

Which translates into book sales for Petey and his wife.

cloudypatriot.bsky.social•20 days ago

Good for billionaires. The ratings aren't important when the owners are raking in money hand over fist.

rosanne328.bsky.social•18 days ago

You are insufferable. Worst kind of journalism. Report on the apparently cognitive decline of the orange corrupt fascist slug. Biden was a saint next to this miscreant.

fthanderson.bsky.social•20 days ago

I would have trusted that old man a lot more than I do the felon.

pargolf.bsky.social•20 days ago

did he not withdraw from the race

stephjmom.bsky.social•20 days ago

He did indeed.

thegreymouser.bsky.social•20 days ago

Shut. The. F"ck. Up.

Seriously. Enough of this.

thenerdy.one•20 days ago

Cool. Now write about the current president's mental acuity.

seekingjustice.bsky.social•20 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/ritahamad.bsky.social/post/3lpc6duqlkk2b

Hey Peter and the rest of the media
THIS IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW-in America-under Trump.

Scientific research is being decimated and you guys are writing about a guy who is no longer in power-while giving the one who is a MASSIVE PASS.

Maybe ask trump why he’s doing this

seekingjustice.bsky.social•20 days ago

Good fucking lord you guys just really can’t live in the moment- can you? How anyone can think this is a story that actual humans care about at this moment is beyond me.

Maybe look at the news…

griffithlawtax.bsky.social•18 days ago

Keep beating that dead horse while the orange ass destroys the planet.

bubbadibbers.bsky.social•20 days ago

Ayfkm

lindamtka.bsky.social•20 days ago

Ok. Now do Reagan. Biden did not run. Move on. We now have a complete lunatic in charge. Please focus on that.

jimsamuel.com•20 days ago

Oh FUCK YOU @peterbakernyt.bsky.social and FUCK the @nytimes.com. Why are you continuing with this story instead of covering the obvious signs of dementia shown by Trump every day?

yubaba49.bsky.social•20 days ago

Give it a rest.

nancymcd-k.bsky.social•20 days ago

LET. IT. GO. We have lots of theories that are trying to explain the past... Here's what we got NOW. We've been lied to. How to get that OUT??? --let's see how we can fix the FUTURE right now.. it's way too IMPERATIVE!!!! WE NEED TO FIX IT before it dies!!!

txbrands.bsky.social•20 days ago

🙄 we’re dealing with a MAD man & his nut jobs … but… NYT is too busy calling out an OLD man & his loyalists to notice! For God’s sake….prioritize. Who’s the real threat to us NOW? Do better 🙄

kdjs-1.bsky.social•20 days ago

what we see is a media that continues to serve 'themselves' for the purposes of clicks, talk time & book sales...

rebradshaw.bsky.social•19 days ago

You cowards let the felon off the hook for your byline dreams. But please, let's keep that hard-on for the Biden admin., whose accomplishments you barely covered, while dismissing the First Felon's criminal behavior. Joe gave his life for his country. The Felon is selling it to the highest bidder.

lucydemo.bsky.social•20 days ago

Who cares?

sopranovox.bsky.social•20 days ago

Atonement? With this GOP clown show going on?

josey75.bsky.social•20 days ago

Why this focus on Biden when tRump's mental acuity is as bad - or worse; at least Biden looked well physically (other than his gait) riding bikes, walking on the beach, etc whereas tRump's constant word salad, right eye is almost shut, his right foot drags, he's obesity, etc. needs golf carts, etc.

sallysparrow.bsky.social•20 days ago

mrstyrano.bsky.social•20 days ago

Democrats need to get behind Democratic populists, NOT the handwringing old school. Bernie, AOC and others have the fire, gravitas and support to push out the Old Democratic Party and its wetdreams of FDR and JFK. Note: including LBJ, those leaders had courage, integrity, force.

dellda.bsky.social•20 days ago

Media malpractice for making this a weeklong story and not addressing Trump’s obvious mental impairment and inability to stay awake in meetings.

scarletscorpio.bsky.social•20 days ago

I would still take Biden on life support over the traitorous rapist we have in the oval now. Do your damn job already and report on the real threat to the Republic instead of disparaging a life long servant and effective POTUS. FFS this is why people are sick of MSM.

abstutz.bsky.social•20 days ago

Jesus Christ. They fucked up. Bigly. Can we all just move along!!!?

captjohnparker.bsky.social•18 days ago

Go
FucK
Yourself

jamaral1575.bsky.social•20 days ago

IDGAFD. Seriously. You used to be a journalist.

iddybud.bsky.social•20 days ago

Peter, the Dems squawking loudest now look like disingenuous losers to me.
Every one of them had ears and eyeballs. Every one of them had agency, from 2020 on, to pose or support a primary challenge in '24. Same for the Dems who went running to the press last summer and asked to remain anonymous.

iddybud.bsky.social•20 days ago

"Atoning" is not what would matter at this point because they're only looking for scapegoats.
The ONLY thing that matters is representing our interests here and now and, from what I'm seeing, their messaging needs dire improvement.

dkod19.bsky.social•20 days ago

Enough with this shit, Peter! Biden is NOT the president anymore. Why are you not covering the mental health issues Trump is displaying? THAT should be the BIGGER story. Trump is the CURRENT president.
Get with it, Peter!

limoniana.bsky.social•20 days ago

Okay, THIS, this is actually a distraction.

davidhelms570.bsky.social•20 days ago

Unfollowed, you're a moron.

djhwood100.bsky.social•20 days ago

Oh, for Chrissakes, you have a toddler running the country right now babbling about nothing and saying he makes up words like "equalizing", is being bought right in the open, but Dems are somehow in disarray is the freaking story?!!!!!

its-me-t.bsky.social•19 days ago

"toddler"?

You spelled criminal wrong.

moleatmal.bsky.social•19 days ago

Peter we know all about your nepo boss’s vendetta against Biden. Why didn’t you mention that ?!

nylgk.bsky.social•18 days ago

Do you people understand that we have a rapist and convicted felon in the White House who is taking bribes every day and you are still singularly focused on Joe Biden aging?🤬🤬

rosalitajerzeegram.bsky.social•20 days ago

FFS, Peter, can you PLEASE give it a rest already?! 🙄

onetinsoldier61.bsky.social•20 days ago

Maybe write about current events and current circus 🎪. NO ONE wants to read this bs!!

flowerslisa.bsky.social•20 days ago

Biden is not the president anymore. What are you trying to achieve with this moronic article.

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