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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Ha, fuck you. Trump is a fascist and is also mentally impaired.
may 16, 2025, 3:01 pm • 11 0 • view
He’s not running. Why would anyone care. Who wrote this headline?
may 16, 2025, 4:19 pm • 4 0 • view
The Trump administration is investigating Axel Springer (Politico) bc they reported on Don Jr’s corruption. Now all the sudden they’re attacking Joe Biden for him.
may 16, 2025, 4:57 pm • 65 10 • view
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.
may 17, 2025, 11:52 am • 63 5 • view
That's the whole problem with extremist regimes, eventually no matter how many boots you lick, you'll find it's not enough to save you.
may 18, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah. We're watching that taking place in real time now.
may 19, 2025, 3:28 am • 1 0 • view
Yes. I can't say I'm enjoying this experience.
may 19, 2025, 12:28 pm • 1 0 • view
But mom, reporting on fascism is haaaaaaard.
may 16, 2025, 3:42 pm • 12 1 • view
The real litmus test is: Do you let these useless fucking stenographers ask you these questions without telling them how awful they are, just as human beings?
may 16, 2025, 3:45 pm • 4 0 • view
The proper answer to this question is: “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?”
may 16, 2025, 3:49 pm • 17 3 • view
Nope. Not a a litmus test you hacks. What the fuck is wrong with you?
may 16, 2025, 11:33 pm • 51 1 • view
"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.
may 17, 2025, 6:40 am • 6 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 4:45 pm • 8 2 • view
He’s not president. You assholes saw to that. No one fucking cares.
may 17, 2025, 2:04 am • 94 4 • view
This
may 17, 2025, 6:13 am • 12 0 • view
Nobody cares about this! This was 2024! How about we talk about Leadership today!!!!
may 17, 2025, 6:46 pm • 20 0 • view
a litmus test by maga reporters for maga reporters
may 17, 2025, 5:31 am • 52 5 • view
Show me on the doll where the Biden admin touched you.
may 16, 2025, 3:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
may 17, 2025, 8:00 am • 23 2 • view
Sucking the dick of Republicans. Again. Hey @politico.com You are disgusting. @allinwithchris.bsky.social @chriscillizza.bsky.social
may 16, 2025, 5:41 pm • 6 2 • view
lol, yeah, that's the first real litmus test okay, sure thing buddy
may 16, 2025, 5:48 pm • 6 1 • view
dooooooogshit
may 17, 2025, 2:58 am • 17 0 • view
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. this is your fever dream, not ours.
may 16, 2025, 5:19 pm • 171 5 • view
Republicans are so obsessed with Biden! Time to put the past in the past and move on. This is nothing but a waste of time.
may 16, 2025, 5:26 pm • 41 0 • view
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
may 16, 2025, 7:44 pm • 30 2 • view
Lol you think midterms are gonna happen. 🤣
may 17, 2025, 4:06 am • 1 0 • view
This shit isn’t fucking over yet. They haven’t won. Don’t give in to despair.
may 17, 2025, 4:25 am • 4 0 • view
The SAVE Act called it needs you to get real about the fact there will never be free and fair elections in the USA ever again.
may 17, 2025, 4:27 am • 0 0 • view
Wait, I know this one…. BDS?
may 16, 2025, 11:28 pm • 5 0 • view
😉
may 16, 2025, 11:30 pm • 1 0 • view
No one outside of right wingers cares about this non-issue.
may 16, 2025, 3:40 pm • 8 2 • view
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. Wonder why you guys never point that out?
may 16, 2025, 4:41 pm • 25 4 • view
may 17, 2025, 7:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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
may 16, 2025, 3:36 pm • 55 5 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 4:39 pm • 4 0 • view
Stepping down when he did completely fucked up the GOP playbook and gave Harris a good opportunity to jump right in, ready to rock.
may 16, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
She lost you fucking dip
may 16, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you think Dean Phillips would've won?
may 16, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Kamala Harris is a pathetic loser and I’d like to stop being the party of pathetic losers sometime soon
may 16, 2025, 8:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Him stepping down earlier would have just given the press more time to unfairly attack Harris.
may 16, 2025, 5:56 pm • 14 2 • view
They were already doing that with Biden? Water is wet and the opposition is going to unfairly attack the candidate.
may 16, 2025, 5:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 6:34 pm • 3 1 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
She ran a great campaign. She outperformed in the swing states. She did best among all incumbents who ran last year across the whole world. It was just a terrible environment. And avoiding or minimizing press bias is just something to take into the calculation about timing.
may 16, 2025, 6:40 pm • 5 1 • view
No she didn’t! She lost! It’s okay to say it! The will of the voters is not some magic thing that needs to align with the stars to win elections she simply had a job and FAILED. Examining WHY she failed and why Biden likely would have as well is important to avoid the future repeating itself.
may 16, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view
You're committing a very basic logical fallacy. A great campaign can still lose. People have known the race is not given to the swift for millennia, why don't you know that? What don't you understand about the fact that all incumbents lost last year in the post-covid reaction? Anyway, muting.
may 16, 2025, 6:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Asks question; declares they will ignore
may 16, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you realize how bleak and hopeless your world view comes across that the people are simply unable to ever vote for good things and prefer fascism occasionally? I choose to believe people do want better but simply were not offered what they need.
may 16, 2025, 6:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 7:08 pm • 9 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 7:39 pm • 3 1 • view
DNC had nothing to do with this. The press environment did.
may 16, 2025, 7:44 pm • 3 0 • view
The political media is a dumpster fire, and the electorate is hardly better. Oh well.
may 16, 2025, 7:11 pm • 2 0 • view
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.
may 17, 2025, 2:38 am • 5 1 • view
I wasn't a huge fan, but a primary woulda made zero sense. What higher qualifications can there even be but VP?
may 17, 2025, 3:33 am • 2 0 • view
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.
may 17, 2025, 4:14 am • 3 1 • view
Yes. Heartbreaking outcome. They gave the nuclear codes to a man who wanted to nuke a hurricane, and thought he could change the path of one with a Sharpie. 😭
may 17, 2025, 5:07 am • 3 0 • view
The voters will?
may 17, 2025, 3:40 am • 0 0 • view
She was the perfect candidate for me. Sigh...
may 17, 2025, 5:09 am • 1 0 • view
Fuck off with this bullshit and start reporting on how insane the current president is
may 16, 2025, 2:11 pm • 14 0 • view
FUCK OFF Politico. The Heritage Foundation is gutting healthcare and you are dithering with this?
may 19, 2025, 1:58 pm • 21 2 • view
Real finger on the pulse shit here, Holly. What would we do without your fearless reporting.
may 16, 2025, 3:19 pm • 426 25 • view
Yep. Dreck takes such as you have outlined are why the 92% give a ginormous side eye to WW.
may 19, 2025, 6:53 am • 0 0 • view
I just looked into her, and she's clearly pushing right-wing propaganda.
may 19, 2025, 7:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Jesus fucking Christ, Holly
may 16, 2025, 9:49 pm • 0 0 • view
"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."
may 16, 2025, 3:51 pm • 9 2 • view
What a hack.
may 16, 2025, 7:31 pm • 1 1 • view
good god this is bleak
may 16, 2025, 3:33 pm • 120 1 • view
It’s only bleak at Politico.
may 16, 2025, 3:35 pm • 85 0 • view
There's still time for a career change, Holly
may 16, 2025, 3:36 pm • 88 0 • view
Run, run, run, run away…
may 16, 2025, 3:40 pm • 15 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 3:39 pm • 9 1 • view
Right? Who gives a fuck about Biden anymore! JC
may 16, 2025, 3:48 pm • 5 0 • view
Kid: "Can you pass the ketchup?" 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?"
may 16, 2025, 3:51 pm • 34 8 • view
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may 16, 2025, 7:36 pm • 2 0 • view
I think the word you seek is "stupid".
may 16, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
bleak in a stupid way. Or stupid in a bleak way.
may 16, 2025, 5:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Huh, almost… almost as if she has a viewpoint and political stance that she is trying to empower by how she frames the articles she writes
may 16, 2025, 4:26 pm • 7 1 • view
Holy shit, fire this fucking moron @politico.com
may 16, 2025, 3:48 pm • 4 0 • view
I think I'll just block @politico.com on all platforms because Jesus fucking Christ this shit is dumb
may 16, 2025, 3:49 pm • 11 2 • view
I blocked them from my news feed because life is too short to waste on their nonsense.
may 16, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
It doesn’t matter if you go soft on the GOP They’ll persecute you for even a slight So you may as well go all out
may 16, 2025, 5:23 pm • 5 0 • view
Politico sure seems to enjoy bashing Democrats these days. Sad.
may 16, 2025, 3:59 pm • 10 2 • view
Look at who they are owned by.
may 16, 2025, 4:10 pm • 6 1 • view
These are all perfectly valid and important articles to write…
may 16, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
A disgrace to Holly’s everywhere.
may 16, 2025, 8:12 pm • 1 0 • view
WHO THE F$CK CARES? ABOUT BIDEN!?!!!!
may 16, 2025, 4:45 pm • 3 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 10:59 pm • 8 0 • view
READ THE ROOM POLITICO
may 16, 2025, 4:43 pm • 3 0 • view
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.
may 17, 2025, 12:55 am • 60 4 • view
Umm. Lol. Also. You fail to mention that Joe Cunningham is the National Director of No Labels.
may 16, 2025, 4:17 pm • 36 3 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 1:16 pm • 151 9 • view
Politico is owned by a German rightwing corporation.
may 16, 2025, 2:48 pm • 50 4 • view
I didn’t know that, but it would make sense. Do you know by which one?
may 22, 2025, 3:29 am • 0 0 • view
Axel Springer
may 22, 2025, 3:54 am • 2 1 • view
Thanks
may 22, 2025, 3:55 am • 1 0 • view
Come to BlueSky for wall to wall denial!
may 17, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
If you’re quick, you will see this response before I mute you forevermore.
may 17, 2025, 3:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Ask me if I care
may 26, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
You sold your credibility cheap. Might as well be a tabloid.
may 17, 2025, 3:27 am • 44 3 • view
Kinda worse
may 17, 2025, 4:58 am • 12 0 • view
Manufactured nonsense by a formerly credible news source. 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.
may 17, 2025, 5:33 pm • 21 1 • view
Exactly this. 👆
may 17, 2025, 7:09 pm • 4 0 • view
um, he's retired. he's not running for anything. He hasn't run for anything since 2020. What in the world are you talking about? 0_o
may 16, 2025, 3:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Now I'm definitely not voting for Biden in 2028.
may 16, 2025, 3:41 pm • 15 1 • view
What in the god damn fuck is even this
may 16, 2025, 1:58 pm • 5 0 • view
What the fuck is wrong with you?
may 16, 2025, 3:35 pm • 11 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 1:22 pm • 5 0 • view
Unfollow.
may 16, 2025, 1:24 pm • 3 0 • view
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.
may 17, 2025, 4:13 pm • 13 1 • view
Only here for the ratio.
may 16, 2025, 8:42 pm • 24 0 • view
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.
may 17, 2025, 7:08 pm • 17 0 • view
I don't think you guys understand the concept of time.
may 16, 2025, 2:30 pm • 6 0 • view
Seriously? This is what you use your time and resources writing about?
may 17, 2025, 10:18 am • 49 0 • view
I had to check my calendar to make sure today isn't April 1st. This posting of Politico is a joke.
may 18, 2025, 10:38 pm • 15 0 • view
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?
may 16, 2025, 3:48 pm • 12 1 • view
has anyone asked any GOP official why Trump keeps saying he knows nothing about any of his administration's actions?
may 16, 2025, 4:30 pm • 7 1 • view
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?
may 18, 2025, 4:45 pm • 6 1 • view
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.
may 18, 2025, 4:37 pm • 12 3 • view
You are a fucking disgrace. A fucking stain on Journalism.
may 16, 2025, 4:24 pm • 38 3 • view
Funny how the 'real litmus test of the 2028 campaign' is for Democrats only. You know, considering that as far as we know the Republican field is wide-open, too.
may 16, 2025, 8:19 pm • 8 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 11:59 pm • 61 2 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 3:24 pm • 3 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 4:46 pm • 279 10 • view
“Politico: Nobody knows politics and policy like we do” 🥴
may 16, 2025, 6:40 pm • 43 2 • view
Let's hope this is true! I'd hate to think there were other folks as stupid as politico.
may 18, 2025, 9:21 pm • 3 0 • view
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. Get a grip, freaks.
may 16, 2025, 4:44 pm • 13 2 • view
Who gives a fuck? The guy in the White House now put tariffs on penguins. At this rate I’d take the doddering old man.
may 16, 2025, 4:22 pm • 6 0 • view
We've moved on, you are the ones obsessed. How about examining the current guy's mental acuity.
may 16, 2025, 4:02 pm • 7 0 • view
Fuck off
may 16, 2025, 3:27 pm • 2 0 • view
WHY IS THIS A LITMUS TEST! THE CURRENT PRESIDENT HAS LOST HIS MIND!
may 16, 2025, 3:07 pm • 3 0 • view
No one cares about Biden right now! Read the room!!
may 17, 2025, 5:24 am • 62 0 • view
🤝 we’ve got bigger problems
may 17, 2025, 8:58 am • 15 0 • view
God Politico, you are the worst.
may 18, 2025, 1:53 am • 32 0 • view
Amen.
may 18, 2025, 8:09 am • 0 0 • view
Free for a reason
may 18, 2025, 2:05 pm • 3 0 • view
I sincerely hope that this headline is the dumbest thing I read today.
may 16, 2025, 5:48 pm • 9 0 • view
Y’all a bunch of goofballs.
may 17, 2025, 3:11 am • 2 0 • view
Only republicans give a fuck about this bro 🤣🤣🤣🤣 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 
may 16, 2025, 3:26 pm • 3 0 • view
Seriously? Dems won't need a "real litmus test" when Republicans are decimated in the mid-terms and other contests well before 2028.
may 17, 2025, 5:29 am • 12 2 • view
Is Biden running again? Because if not, what the fuck are you talking about you feckless gits?
may 16, 2025, 10:20 pm • 9 1 • view
I agree. They need to focus dammit… focus please.
may 17, 2025, 7:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Just here to say nice Fucking ratio you have there. 👀😆🔥#FuckPolitico
may 17, 2025, 5:37 am • 27 3 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 1:35 pm • 78 9 • view
If you wanna be a newspaper Politico print the news
may 16, 2025, 11:06 pm • 7 0 • view
They fear Trump because they are cowards and hacks.
may 16, 2025, 7:04 pm • 3 0 • view
No one gives a shit. Focus on the current septuagenarian with his brains actively leaking out of his fucking head.
may 16, 2025, 5:26 pm • 4 0 • view
What the hell is the matter with you?! And FTR I would have said that before today’s (5/18/25) news abt his cancer diagnosis.
may 19, 2025, 6:50 am • 6 0 • view
And let's not forget Ronald Reagan. (see what I did there?) #OldNews
may 17, 2025, 3:09 am • 26 2 • view
Reagan what about the loon talking about the term groceries!
may 17, 2025, 3:58 am • 14 1 • view
Well, apparently, that's too recent for @politico.com to bother with
may 17, 2025, 1:16 pm • 0 0 • view
The only answer should be “who gives a fuck”.
may 17, 2025, 6:55 pm • 8 0 • view
OMG. biden is not in office and by numbers did an incredible job. maybe ask yourself about the current shitshow happening. this reporting is pathetic.
may 16, 2025, 6:17 pm • 15 2 • view
Or perhaps the litmus test should be actual criminality of candidates.
may 16, 2025, 3:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Much like WaPo's idiot editorial about the legality of accepting a bribe from Qatar, this too is *SHIT*. It's not journalism, it's not commentary, and IT IS NOT HELPING.
may 16, 2025, 3:03 pm • 2 0 • view
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
may 16, 2025, 3:26 pm • 4 0 • view
Who guves a shit when the guy there jow is clearly suffering a far worse and more damaging decline?
may 16, 2025, 6:37 pm • 1 0 • view
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.
may 17, 2025, 6:47 pm • 43 2 • view
Yes, this. Please don't run for prez if you're a corporate tool who loves the idea of genocide.
may 18, 2025, 9:16 pm • 2 1 • view
may 16, 2025, 7:09 pm • 2 0 • view
You fucking idiots. Do you think the MAJORITY of American citizens don’t SEE that you’ve been bought and paid for?
may 16, 2025, 1:56 pm • 7 0 • view
WTF does Biden have to do with 2028? get real.
may 16, 2025, 3:03 pm • 3 0 • view
You might wanna try to bury this one. Just a thought
may 19, 2025, 12:13 am • 12 0 • view
Go fuck yourselves
may 17, 2025, 12:30 am • 107 3 • view
I definitely will, thank you.
may 17, 2025, 10:51 am • 4 0 • view
I got so much use of these over the Bad Place. Less so here.
may 17, 2025, 11:45 am • 3 0 • view
Y'all trippin'.
may 16, 2025, 1:17 pm • 9 0 • view
Did he ultimately run for President in 2024? Or was it a different Democratic candidate, you disingenuous motherfuckers? Eat my entire ass
may 16, 2025, 6:21 pm • 64 2 • view
Are you fucking kidding? What's the other test, their position on FDR's wheelchair?
may 17, 2025, 6:10 pm • 43 1 • view
Politico: Why won’t potential future presidents talk about the past instead of the present?
may 17, 2025, 4:12 pm • 17 1 • view
Because the past one’s brain death led to the current one
may 17, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Way to get it exactly wrong. Try looking through the other end of the telescope
may 17, 2025, 5:18 pm • 6 0 • view
Do you think Biden dropping out of the race with only a few months to go positively or negatively affected Trump’s ability to win?
may 17, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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
may 17, 2025, 7:47 pm • 1 0 • view
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.
may 18, 2025, 2:34 am • 4 0 • view
So do you think it impacted Trump winning re-election or not?
may 18, 2025, 3:22 am • 0 0 • view
Dan, why is it important for you to hear random people on the internet say that it did?
may 18, 2025, 5:42 am • 2 0 • view
It’s important that people grapple with why democrats lost and who’s being honest about it and who’s not. People need to be honest with themselves as well that democrats will lie about the mental fitness of their leaders.
may 18, 2025, 2:08 pm • 1 0 • view
But why is it important for JB Pritzker (or whoever) to address this complaint about a bygone election?
may 18, 2025, 5:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Seriously! THAT's the big flaw with this article that these fools are just ignoring in favor of petty snipes at someone far removed from political power at this point.
may 18, 2025, 6:14 pm • 1 0 • view
So you think owning one’s failures builds credibility?
may 18, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Well we *put* an old man in mental decline into office that is *currently* destroying the country in large deaths so, apparently it didn't have *that* much of an impact, now did it? 😉
may 18, 2025, 3:40 am • 4 0 • view
Certainly not as much impact as fighting the fascist-in-chief right now.
may 18, 2025, 3:41 am • 2 0 • view
I feel that we could have stopped Trump from being elected if elected democrats had been forthright public ally about what was patently obvious to everyone: Joe Biden was not mentally fit to run for re-election and should have stepped aside 2 years before the election. They won’t admit that now.
may 18, 2025, 4:07 am • 2 0 • view
It was not “patently obvious to everyone“. Fuck all the way off.
may 18, 2025, 4:32 am • 1 0 • view
Which is the point of the article
may 18, 2025, 4:07 am • 0 0 • view
Your point, I think, is that Biden helped Trump. What is the relevance in 2025?
may 17, 2025, 7:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Ok, let’s say you’re right. Why is it important for future candidates to take a stance on this? What possible purpose does it serve?
may 18, 2025, 5:41 am • 0 0 • view
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.
may 18, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
No
may 17, 2025, 5:14 pm • 3 0 • view
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🤨
may 17, 2025, 6:47 pm • 34 2 • view
🎯
may 19, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 3:08 pm • 4 0 • view
Trash
may 17, 2025, 2:58 am • 16 0 • view
For the most part, leading news media are ducking what is actually happening and providing cover for Trump.
may 16, 2025, 6:42 pm • 108 5 • view
Amen!! And, using all the words to dance around “fascist” “illegal” “felon”. We live in bizarro world.
may 16, 2025, 10:08 pm • 14 0 • view
Have you heard about that new word everyone is talking about? GROCERIES!!!
may 16, 2025, 2:44 pm • 47 0 • view
may 17, 2025, 3:09 am • 5 0 • view
Congrats. You are now on my "Bootlickers" list.....which I seldom check. Buh-bye.
may 16, 2025, 1:20 pm • 8 1 • view
The REAL litmus test is Republicans ducking questions about the mental stability of President Trump. Threatening Americans overseas for exercising their right to free speech is dangerously unhinged.
may 16, 2025, 3:38 pm • 19 2 • view
Wait till he hears about the things Trump has said when he was overseas. Oh wait…
may 16, 2025, 4:03 pm • 5 0 • view
Hey Politico, just STFU, and do it now It's completely irrelevant to the destruction of American democracy that's happening right now Read the fucking room!
may 16, 2025, 3:43 pm • 30 2 • view
This!!! ✅
may 16, 2025, 3:51 pm • 8 0 • view
Eat shit.
may 16, 2025, 7:27 pm • 3 1 • view
Is drug use a widespread problem at Politico? I don’t mean just meth, fentanyl or cocaine, but huffing solvents and doing shrooms. LSD much?
may 16, 2025, 4:03 pm • 4 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 4:10 pm • 0 0 • view
WTF!?
may 16, 2025, 1:02 pm • 14 0 • view
Nobody cares about this. This is incredibly stupid, what is wrong with you.
may 17, 2025, 1:20 pm • 40 0 • view
I care. It’s hilarious.
may 17, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Have you checked your mental acuity lately? This narrative you're pushing is pure nonsense.
may 16, 2025, 10:24 pm • 10 3 • view
If you lot were better at your job, you’d be looking at the current incumbent’s mental state in 2025, even from your supine position.
may 17, 2025, 6:05 am • 89 7 • view
HAHAHA @diplomatofnight.com did you see this the first real litmus test of the 2028 campaign
may 16, 2025, 3:18 pm • 3 0 • view
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.
may 17, 2025, 8:01 am • 35 2 • view
Jesus, you guys are embarrassingly bad at your jobs.
may 16, 2025, 2:41 pm • 13 0 • view
This is a litmus test for Democratic consultants and no one else.
may 16, 2025, 3:00 pm • 2 0 • view
I shit out better turds than this
may 17, 2025, 5:10 am • 7 1 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 7:31 pm • 3 0 • view
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.
may 17, 2025, 9:21 am • 4 1 • view
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!
may 16, 2025, 4:40 pm • 6 1 • view
They will just scream 'litmus' over and over and then show pics of every Democrat with a question mark. That is their entire fucking deal.
may 16, 2025, 9:14 pm • 3 0 • view
Assuming your maga owners put you up to this
may 17, 2025, 4:26 pm • 5 1 • view
This is beyond stupid.
may 16, 2025, 5:47 pm • 4 1 • view
Me, seeing this headline:
may 16, 2025, 5:02 pm • 4 0 • view
Democrats are officially the "Rearranging Deck Chairs While the Boat Sinks" party. JFC
may 16, 2025, 5:15 pm • 0 0 • view
No the media is because they are afraid to report fairly on the current administration
may 16, 2025, 5:25 pm • 2 0 • view
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.
may 17, 2025, 1:01 am • 75 8 • view
I’d burn that book before I bought it.
may 22, 2025, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
When I realized they're all entertainers, it started making more sense.
may 17, 2025, 4:38 am • 8 0 • view
Thank you! This isn't going to improve lardass' or Congressional Resolutions approval ratings.
may 17, 2025, 8:40 pm • 1 0 • view
may 17, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Bingo
may 21, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Ty Gia. It's always money, isn't it?
may 17, 2025, 3:33 pm • 3 0 • view
👍😁 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.
may 17, 2025, 2:34 am • 16 2 • view
Unbelievable how out of touch this is unless of course it came from two Republican diners in the Midwest. 🤣
may 16, 2025, 3:40 pm • 28 5 • view
when a thing is done it's done. don't look back, look forward to the next objective - George Marshall
may 16, 2025, 3:52 pm • 9 0 • view
Shouldn't we be talking about Trump's mental acuity? Why is the fact that the country is being run by a senile imbecile not the front page story, every day?
may 17, 2025, 7:15 pm • 24 1 • view
Because the media likes him and wants him to rule.
may 17, 2025, 7:46 pm • 7 0 • view
Oh look more ham-fisted attempts at distraction
may 17, 2025, 11:59 pm • 3 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 4:26 pm • 10 2 • view
Who the fuck cares
may 16, 2025, 3:05 pm • 1 0 • view
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!
may 16, 2025, 7:12 pm • 8 0 • view
Literally zero people will cast their votes based on this
may 16, 2025, 8:43 pm • 11 0 • view
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".
may 18, 2025, 3:15 pm • 31 4 • view
You should make sure your home has adequate ventilation and proper air monitoring alarms
may 16, 2025, 2:48 pm • 2 0 • view
may 16, 2025, 4:45 pm • 2 1 • view
Fuck off with this
may 16, 2025, 2:08 pm • 6 0 • view
Shut up.
may 16, 2025, 4:25 pm • 7 0 • view
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
may 16, 2025, 2:27 pm • 4 1 • view
What. The. Fuck. Is. This?
may 16, 2025, 7:09 pm • 93 0 • view
Campaign ad for Republicans
may 16, 2025, 7:44 pm • 72 0 • view
No. Blind blue no matter who loyalty is a guaranteed loss in 2028. The Biden issue is just a "litmus test" for that.
may 16, 2025, 9:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Nope.
may 17, 2025, 12:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Nah. They’re trying to draw your attention away from the dumb bigot on his little patronage tour of the Middle East
may 16, 2025, 9:35 pm • 32 0 • view
👆
may 16, 2025, 9:39 pm • 6 0 • view
Actually, blind blue loyalty would increase the chance of beating Rs in 2028. Mathematically. It would only increase votes against fascism. Instead of selfish children withholding their votes and thus electing Trump to hurt far more people.
may 16, 2025, 9:42 pm • 3 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 9:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes. 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.
may 16, 2025, 7:24 pm • 151 2 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 9:06 pm • 6 0 • view
You’ve misframed the issue. Voters picked Biden.
may 17, 2025, 5:37 am • 4 1 • view
Why do they need to do talk about it at all? He's not a politician anymore
may 16, 2025, 9:08 pm • 4 0 • view
Read what I wrote. It's not about him. It's about them, specifically, their veracity and effectiveness as leadership.
may 16, 2025, 9:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Biden shouldn't be involved in it at all. He is neither the test nor litmus paper
may 16, 2025, 9:13 pm • 2 0 • view
I, for one, think that’s a foolish thing to write about. Not the veracity and effectiveness; there are much better ways to gauge those. We’ve got a four-alarm fire out on American democracy, and you’re distracting people with this irrelevant bullshit.
may 16, 2025, 9:20 pm • 11 0 • view
"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.
may 16, 2025, 10:17 pm • 0 0 • view
The Presidential election—assuming we even have one—is three-and-a-half years from now. Right now, the focus has to be on Trump. Every day. I couldn’t give a single fuck about what AOC thinks about Joe Biden.
may 17, 2025, 1:16 am • 3 0 • view
Also, from the manner in which you’ve been responding to this thread, I thought you were the author of the piece.
may 17, 2025, 4:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Defending the status quo isn't effective opposition. Pressuring leadership to change change course or get out of the way, instead of defending the approach that got us here, that's the first step to effective opposition. We, the opposition, have to be the focus. We can't be the status quo. It lost.
may 17, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Who is defending the status quo here? Not me. I just see no point whatsoever in relitigating Joe Biden.
may 17, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Nobody knows who you’re talking about. No reputation attaches to these staffers no citizens can name. This is not how democracy works, mechanically.
may 16, 2025, 9:37 pm • 4 0 • view
What subterfuge? Picking a new nominee? After Harris was made the nominee, were Dems rejecting her to maintain the idea that Biden was fine?
may 16, 2025, 11:12 pm • 15 1 • view
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.
may 17, 2025, 7:06 pm • 3 0 • view
No one thinks this is true.
may 16, 2025, 6:05 pm • 6 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 6:19 pm • 7 1 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 1:14 pm • 19 0 • view
nobody cares about biden's mentual acuity any more, gtfo
may 16, 2025, 5:52 pm • 21 1 • view
Maybe we should examine your mental acuity instead for publishing this.
may 17, 2025, 11:44 pm • 3 0 • view
Our democracy is at stake and you’re choosing to write this kind of nonsense? Get real.
may 16, 2025, 4:19 pm • 10 3 • view
Bring on that sweet, sweet ratio.
may 16, 2025, 6:36 pm • 48 0 • view
If we're gonna keep spiraling, at least let it be golden!
may 16, 2025, 8:25 pm • 9 0 • view
😂 I do love a public spanking
may 16, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Pictured here: your credibility & relevance:
may 16, 2025, 8:20 pm • 15 0 • view
Pictured here: your credibility & relevance:
may 16, 2025, 8:18 pm • 5 0 • view
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
may 17, 2025, 7:24 pm • 18 1 • view
What does one have to do with the other, #clickbait mongers
may 16, 2025, 6:48 pm • 5 0 • view
Republican dick riding trash. Gfy
may 17, 2025, 6:45 pm • 13 0 • view
No Democrat actually cares. Click bait headlines don't make it true.
may 16, 2025, 1:02 pm • 64 3 • view
who cares beyond getting Biden at the Hague? bsky.app/profile/kate...
may 16, 2025, 3:50 pm • 5 0 • view
For the most part, POLITICO is a tabloid propaganda rag that masquerades as a media organization.
may 16, 2025, 4:22 pm • 11 3 • view
@politico.com FUCKING EMBARASSING
may 16, 2025, 2:36 pm • 2 0 • view
people are getting sent to concentration camps, Adam
may 16, 2025, 3:38 pm • 13 4 • view
😔 so illegal
may 17, 2025, 4:52 am • 0 0 • view
🛑
may 16, 2025, 11:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Asinine take.
may 16, 2025, 7:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Of course it’s ADAM FUCKING WREN LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO
may 16, 2025, 2:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Go fuck yourselves
may 16, 2025, 2:31 pm • 12 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 8:56 pm • 133 5 • view
Looks like the New York Times Pitchbot writes for Politico now.
may 17, 2025, 10:12 am • 68 2 • view
may 17, 2025, 12:53 am • 3 0 • view
How? Biden will be running in 2028???
may 16, 2025, 8:44 pm • 6 0 • view
No, no it fucking ISN’T, you oblivious, complicit fools.
may 18, 2025, 12:29 pm • 14 0 • view
Fascists fucking scum, all of you. Is ANYBODY writing for you even trying to do journalism at this point????
may 17, 2025, 7:19 am • 5 0 • view
This is unbelievably stupid
may 16, 2025, 2:47 pm • 3 0 • view
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.
may 17, 2025, 2:47 pm • 71 5 • view
Press and MAGA trying to make Bidne an issue. It isn't and it isn't news. The Issue is the current pillage of America by Trump Crime Syndicate.
may 16, 2025, 1:19 pm • 5 0 • view
may 16, 2025, 6:13 pm • 46 1 • view
What utter nonsense. The fascists have taken over our government, and this is the garbage you dribble out?
may 16, 2025, 5:38 pm • 13 2 • view
Who is president now?
may 16, 2025, 4:32 pm • 4 0 • view
Getting played by a bunch of consultants
may 16, 2025, 2:32 pm • 2 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 5:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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.
may 16, 2025, 3:48 pm • 5 1 • view
Can we not take the bait and make this a distraction while hump is fascinated over the word groceries.
may 16, 2025, 1:11 pm • 21 1 • view
His new word is "equalize" which for some reason he claims to have invented. Donny is seriously demented.
may 16, 2025, 4:49 pm • 13 0 • view
Ridiculous bullshit while we are in immediate danger now.
may 16, 2025, 4:32 pm • 5 1 • view
No it isn't. And you guys are fucking idiots. You don't want to cover the actual collapse of American democracy, so be it but fuck off with this
may 18, 2025, 3:16 am • 19 2 • view
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?
may 16, 2025, 3:41 pm • 3 0 • view
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
may 20, 2025, 2:13 pm • 1 1 • view
What the actual fuck? No it isn't, are you deranged?
may 17, 2025, 12:49 am • 55 2 • view
What is this shit?
may 16, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Who is this a litmus test for? Is he running?
may 16, 2025, 2:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Man I kinda hope Trump destroys Politico for being mean to Don Jr
may 16, 2025, 3:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Why is Biden’s mental acuity front and center? Our current president has serious mental issues. His rambling with foreign leaders is embarrassing!
may 16, 2025, 2:44 pm • 5 0 • view
Fuck you. BIDEN IS NOT THE FUCKING PRESIDENT. TRUMP IS and Trump is the senile, idiotic one. Biden at his worst was always better than Trump ever was.
may 17, 2025, 8:47 pm • 15 1 • view