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We’ve had senile presidents before though. Reagan was gone during his first term. It’s been discussed for decades. But certainly there is some state of the site/internet where you feel that the topic of discussion is discussed enough and I’m asking what that looks like. How are you gauging that it’s not a continual topic of discussion? You don’t see any recent threads about it so that means it’s not being thought about?
I think you’re answering your own question. It was everywhere. We got our digs in. We got bored because it wasn’t moving the needle and we got some new material. The right definitely does still crack the same joke about him not knowing what day of the week it is. Clock memes have gone the way of gritty memes. We don’t have a thread about it everyday for the same reason we don’t re-litigate the primaries everyday. The West Wing Thing mentioned it just the other week. It comes up, it’s just that we don’t have a 100 post discussion about it everyday.
We talk about the Fed and interest rates more because it’s currently more relevant given all the inflation stuff. America having a bad president isn’t an important historical development. It’s always been that way. It’s not unexpected.
Because utlimately, you’re talking about a symbol of decline, not something that is actually increasing the rate of decline by a significant degree. As PorkrollPosadist said, the presidency has always served the interests of capital. Sometimes actively, sometimes with a president who is senile or simply uninterested im the job.
