An important lesson that I have learned.

[RickHworth]

An opportunity to pursue a lifelong dream of learning to fly an airplane presented itself to me. I met who was going to be my instructor, who was a little older than me, very candid and knowledgeable with his hundreds of hours as an instructor.
After completing the prerequisites, came the time to choose my flight instructor, as the one that I was assigned through ground school was much younger and there was a personality clash that I did not feel comfortable with.
The one that was my choice, the older guy, tried to dissuade me because he was getting ready to retire. I pressed him to be my instructor because ideally if I complete all of the training, I will earn my certificate about a month before his retirement day. He agreed.
Everything was going to plan right up to when COVID hit, and it all came to a stop. He then went on to retirement.
A few years later, I tried to get back to flying, had a really good instructor, younger but no nonsense, great at explaining technique. The one thing that kind of bugged me was that he had an occasional tremor. Sometimes it was more noticeable than other times.
Anyway, due to a job change and the expense of it, I had to stop training with quite a few hours before obtaining the certification.
Last year, during an open house at my airport, I found out that my first instructor had Parkinsons disease. It was implied that my first instructor was hiding that he was ill, thus the reason for his retirement just before his physical. Listening to the other instructors and staff pretty much rumor mongering, I remembered that he too had a tremor in his hands on occasion, that was becoming more frequent at the end of our training sessions.
As far as my last instructor, he had moved to another flight school, and no one really followed up on him.
Thinking back on that experience at the open house, it now sounds a lot like this new assault on former President Biden. The questioning about his mental acuity and pulling up speculation of his abilities, at that time. Mind you, I have never experienced anything that would make me question the abilities of my former instructor, even when he had to take the controls from me on more than one occasion. I feel just as confident about then President Biden.

[Walleye]

1. Getting old never changed Joe Biden's character. He was always honest, ethical, and kind.

And that is sorely lacking in this administration, all of it

[Midnight Writer]

2. Selective perception is a human weakness.

We see 40-year-old people do or say stupid stuff, well, people screw up, don't they? We don't assume all 40-year-olds are stupid.

We see old people do and say stupid stuff, then they must be senile, right?

We see the same dynamic at work in Republican politics. A black or brown person, an immigrant, an LBGTQ+ person does something horrific, and the perception is that "those people" are acting out.

A white person does something horrific, and the perception is "that person is crazy".

[Clouds Passing]

3. Reddit is overloaded with people taking smack about Boomers, as if we are the most

ignorant arrogant generation. Joe is not a Boomer but there is youthful contempt for the older generations.

The reason dumpy did all the dick jokes was to “prove” to the youth he was one of them.