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Yeah, but it's virtuous when THEY do it.
It would be funny and take all the criticism thrown at Biden re: his advanced age and behaviors and bring them up with Trump.
If you want to see some heads spin, raise some of those. Stuff that "just made sense" with Biden i.e. "Do we really want someone tuning out?" "He got a name wrong in a speech." "He looks old." Now, apply that to Trump and all of a sudden it "doesn't make any sense".
I feel like there is a certain amount of hypocrisy required to advocate Trump. Similar to the Party in 1984, part of the success is being able to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time and consider that logical and reasoned.
As an outsider it was quite weird seing a really, really old person in bad health calling out another really really old person because of age. Gaslighting I guess.