"Let's not act like children"
Joe Biden is 81. Donald Trump will be 79 at the time of the election.
Trump and Biden argue gol handicaps
Gerontocracy is government by the elderly.
The Soviet Union gave it a go and historian Niall Ferguson points out that old men in serious decline was a hallmark of:
Late Soviet leadership, personified by the senility of Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko.
By current American standards, the late Soviet leaders were not that old:
- Brezhnev was 75 when he died in 1982.
- Andropov was only 68 when he succeeded Brezhnev.
- Chernenko was 72 when he came to power, suffering from emphysema, heart failure and pleurisy.
America is attempting to outdo its rival ...
Lose the debate
Biden showed signs of cognitive decline in his debate with Trump on June 27th. And again at the NATO summit last night.
His ratings are plummeting.
Now, the media machine that covered for Biden is begging him to step down.
Expect it to get worse: Nassim Nicholas Taleb reminds us that "the rate of progression is exponential; three months from now Biden will forget there is a race".
Via MacroTourist and PredictIt
