Firstly I want to thank you for a well thought out and thorough response. You didn't just "nuh uh" , but you provided a structured argument with supporting facts and examples. You avoided personal attacks and logical fallacies and stuck to the point. I really commend you. This is rare on these types of sites.

Hey, thank you. I appreciate that, too.

I think the examples you've chosen are for the most part just as true with the other president's we've had this side of the millenia excepting maybe Obama.

I think that's fair, but also, at the same time, totally different situations.

George W. Bush was pretty obviously not fully up to the job, but his solution was pretty straightforward: he just made Dick Cheney effectively the co-president. So from 2000-2008, we didn't have zero presidents - we had two.

And Joe Biden is pretty obviously too old and infirm to do the job, but he's a career politician whose main skill is delegating. The one thing he still knows how to do as well as ever is to select people for all the jobs who will advance his interests while at the same time being competent enough not to embarrass him. So the captain may be asleep at the wheel, but at least he's got a staff holding on to it at all times.

Also conspiracy theory-wise, I still believe he was put up to running by the Clintons who were upset that Obama beat Hillary.

I think that's... half true. I think there's a pretty clear record that he ran for president basically out of spite, because he was incredibly hurt by how the media treated his birther views (and especially by how Seth Meyers turned him into an object of national mockery in 2011).

But that said, Hillary Clinton definitely wanted him for an opponent and did everything she could not to discourage him.

I think he's going to win this next election at this point almost for certain and to be honest I am worried about the result of which.

I'm not sure the numbers add up there. I mean, he lost in 2020. Polls are showing that Biden's unpopular, sure, but also that Trump himself has lost popularity every single year since then. The guy is an absolute broken record at this point. It's hard to imagine him attracting any new support. All he has is his old base, and they couldn't get the ball over the line three years ago.

I think it's looking like it'll be a banner year for third-party candidates and people stubbornly staying home. Wouldn't surprise me if the Libertarian candidate took like 8% of the vote next year. But I'm not convinced at all that Trump can get the EVs to get to 270.