This is in response to a gratuitous mental state attack against the candidate who will be our nominee. So, far 20 people on Daily Kos are helping Donald Trump win ! What kind of an a$$ha# empowers Donald Trump to win reelection while Donald is so badly mismanaging this crisis. Just because our party’s symbol is a burro, doesn’t mean that you have to act to like an a$$ ! One person wrote the attack and 19 people recommended it. These people need to understand that the comment is flaggable and recommending a legitimately flagged post (that post could be legitimately flagged) endangers your standing on Daily Kos. Eventually, if you do it enough, you could be BOJOED and it would be deserved.
Here are the rules of the road :
Attacks on Democratic candidates based on right-wing rhetoric and frames
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The poster took this cheap shot at Biden based upon right wing rhetoric and frames:
Biden’s age and mental state means
This is a clear and direct reference to the whole cognitive decline bullshit . Pushing right wing rhetoric and frames against our candidate is unwelcome here.
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.Trump attacks Biden's cognitive health in possible general-election preview
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Don’t push this Biden’s in cognitive decline $hi# because you don’t want to end up like this user.
People who are not neurologists who have examined Joe Biden are not qualified to make this type of diagnosis. Since they are pushing this kind of personal attack that the right wing is pushing against the candidate who will be our nominee and they are not qualified to make the diagnosis, then they are subject to being validly flagged for making the attack. The only person or people who are qualified to make the diagnosis are the physician / neurologist for Joe Biden who has seen him repeatedly. Nobody else is . So, this is an attack without sufficient evidence to back it up and it is an attack pushed by the right wing.
It is fairly incredible that the person referred to Biden’s “mental state” and not Trump’s mental state. Actually, it isn’t. I wonder about the mental state of people who would help Trump win reelection. If these people and others like him did this with Secretary Clinton, then it likely hurt her. Those who are unaffiliated / not committed to the Democratic Party and don’t regularly vote for Democratic Party Candidates may hear this kind of talk and think, “Wow, here is this person who is a progressive and always votes for the Democratic Party’s candidate and s/he says that Biden is in cognitive decline, then why should I vote for Biden when even people who favor the Democratic Party say Biden is in cognitive decline ? Why would I think that a person in cognitive decline would do any better than Trump in handling the public health crisis ? A person in cognitive decline may not listen to any expert ! I think I will pass this election !”
People who wrote this type of nonsense and those who recommend it are pushing something false that they are not qualified to promote, something that is right wing rhetoric and framing, and something that hurts the only candidate who can defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 general election in November. These people are hurting the only candidate who can defeat Donald and they are, therefore, helping Donald Trump win reelection. They are helping the candidate who put children in cages, who obstructed justice, who has taken away health insurance from millions, who has taken away reproductive freedom from women, and who has badly mismanaged the response to the novel coronavirus. They are helping the guy whose mismanagement of the novel coronavirus has caused millions of people to be sick and tens of thousands to die and so far 22 million people to lose their job. The mental state of somebody who would help Donald Trump win reelection in light of this is really in question.
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I am going to add something here — the attack here is not a minor one — if a person says the nominee has dementia and frequently gets lost in their own house, then who that believes that would vote for the nominee ? This type of attack if believed would have to lead to people voting for the other person , Donald Trump, or a third party vote or no voting for the top of the ticket because it would be that serious. This and the number of people who recommended the comment led to it. If the person said that Joe Biden was not a very good basketball player, then the complaint would not matter. No votes or almost no votes will be lost because Joe Biden is not a good basketball player. Who will vote for a guy for president they believe has dementia and frequently gets lost in a 1 bedroom apartment ? Nobody rational who believes this would vote for the guy. Making a statement about Joe’s basketball ability won’t lose votes if believed. The other would . And yet 19 people recommended it and endorsed Donald Trump’s reelection campaign for doing so. This is why the diary was created.