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# Londinium 90 AD Gaius & Germanicus weigh the Tiberius failures of extreme age with the failure of Mark Twain and Joe Biden to resist staffer manipulation in their seniority. Michael Vlahos Friends of History Debating Society @michalis_vlahos

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Londinium 90 AD

Gaius & Germanicus weigh the Tiberius failures of extreme age with the failure of Mark Twain and Joe Biden to resist staffer manipulation in their seniority.

Michael Vlahos Friends of History Debating Society @michalis_vlahos

1907 MARK TWAIN



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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

Myrida, This is live, the Friends of History Debating Society.

0:33.1

I am Gaius. Germanicus is here.

0:34.9

And we turn to Mr. Biden, former president, Mr. Trump, president,

0:42.2

and Mark Twain. Why? There is a new book, Original Sin, by two members of the fourth estate,

0:49.7

and in that book, they identify with often anonymous sources

0:55.5

that Mr. Biden was troubled with cognition

1:00.3

from the moment he decided to run for the presidency in 19.

1:07.9

And that the people around him were aware of it

1:10.7

and explained it to themselves as,

1:14.1

that's Joe Biden.

1:16.4

I don't limit myself to remarks about Joe Biden.

1:20.5

I limit myself to remarks about age

1:22.9

and what it does to the ability to remember,

1:27.4

to perform, to hold things together.

1:30.2

I am no senior senior, but I'm certainly 77 years old,

1:36.0

and I'm aware that there is a limitation to my acuity, and it's coming.

1:42.2

That is part of the aging process, And I'm lucky to be here.

1:47.6

What we observe with Mr. Biden, according to this book, I don't have any independent source,

1:52.9

just according to original sin, is that the deterioration accelerated, starting in the first year.

2:00.1

There was no delay. And that part of the deterioration

2:05.4

involves a good day, bad day formula. Sometimes you can be extremely sharp and conduct yourself

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