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b_b  ·  163 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 12, 2024

That's encouraging to hear. Obviously, you run in circles that the rest of us can only imagine, so I would not pretend to have any insight on how Biden "actually" is. However, I would still go with the numbers and say there is a highly nonzero chance that he can't finish a term. At his age, there's an 8% chance of dying within a year and by the end of the term it increases to a 12% chance. Similarly, even if he's fine now, his chances of developing cognitive impairment accelerate exponentially each passing year. I find it downright hubristic to run for president at age 78 (a la Trump), let alone age 82. In the 70s, we derided the USSR as a gerontocracy, and Brezhnev died at 75!