What’s With The NYTimes? Basically megaphoned the Biden Is Too Old Meme, polled on it, won’t focus on Trump’s dementia:
Widespread concerns about President Biden’s age pose a deepening threat to his re-election bid, with a majority of voters who supported him in 2020 now saying he is too old to lead the country effectively, according to a new poll by The New York Times and Siena College.
The survey pointed to a fundamental shift in how voters who backed Mr. Biden four years ago have come to see him. A striking 61 percent said they thought he was “just too old” to be an effective president.
A sizable share was even more worried: Nineteen percent of those who voted for Mr. Biden in 2020, and 13 percent of those who said they would back him in November, said the 81-year-old president’s age was such a problem that he was no longer capable of handling the job.
The misgivings about Mr. Biden’s age cut across generations, gender, race and education, underscoring the president’s failure to dispel both concerns within his own party and Republican attacks painting him as senile. Seventy-three percent of all registered voters said he was too old to be effective, and 45 percent expressed a belief that he could not do the job.
Yes, Biden is old, too old. Yes, Trump is suffering from dementia. Yet only one of these stories is being rammed down our throats every single day. By the NYTimes.
What did they used to say about newspapers reporting the news and not making the news? Regardless, the State Of The Union speech wouldn’t be a bad time to announce you’re not running again.
Welcome To Comcast/Spectacor Town. This seems like a good idea, actually:
For far too long, Comcast Spectacor, which owns the Wells Fargo Center, and the other team owners have been content to operate their arenas as self-contained islands surrounded by a lifeless sea of parking. As a business model, this approach was extremely lucrative, since it kept the fans’ spending bottled up inside their arenas.
But the absence of mixed-use activity didn’t just make the stadium district a place you wanted to flee after the game; it also stymied housing and job growth in South Philadelphia, leaving a huge void between nearby neighborhoods and the rapidly expanding Navy Yard. Over the years, the sports complex, which was built on the eastern half of FDR Park, metastasized into a 200-acre expanse of asphalt, an area twice as large as the Fitler Square neighborhood.
The plan that Comcast Spectacor released to The Inquirer last week won’t turn those parking lots into a living neighborhood overnight — or even over the next decade — but it does demonstrate a dawning recognition that the status quo is unacceptable. The real value of the plan, which was overseen by Nelson, the firm that helped the Atlanta Braves create the mixed-use Battery complex, is that it starts a discussion about how to use that wasted real estate for the kinds of activities that make cities, well, cities.
Florida Descends Into Swamp Of Plagues, Led By Anti-Vaxxers In High Places:
From The Orlando Sentinel: “Come For The Sunshine, Leave With The Measles”.
From The Tampa Bay Times: “Measles? So On-Brand For Florida’s Descent Into The 1950’s”.
But now, with an entirely preventable outbreak of measles spreading across Florida, medical experts are questioning if quackery really has become official health policy in the nation’s third most-populous state.
As the highly contagious disease raged in a Broward county elementary school, Ladapo, a politically appointed acolyte of Florida’s far-right governor Ron DeSantis, wrote to parents telling them it was perfectly fine for parents to continue to send in their unvaccinated children.
Ladapo’s advice deferring to parents or guardians a decision about school attendance directly contradicts the official recommendation of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which calls for a 21-day period of quarantine for anybody without a history of prior infection or immunization.
It is also in keeping with Ladapo’s previous maverick proclamations about vaccines that health professionals say pose an unacceptable danger to the health of Florida residents. They include official guidance to shun mRNA Covid-19 boosters based on easily disprovable conspiracy theories that the shots alter human DNA and can potentially cause cancer – “scientific nonsense” in the view of Dr Ashish Jha, a former White House Covid response coordinator.
Welp, gotta cut it short today. So much stuff coming up as the General Assembly reconvenes that I’m probably gonna do a Very Special Pre Pre-Game Show tomorrow. Or, I just might watch golf all day…retirement is so tough. Too many choices.
What do you want to talk about?