what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct
I wish Biden could be more responsible when speaking in public, maybe by encouraging his supporters to inject bleach or something. You know, cognitively sound thinking.
I do kind of feel bad (not too bad cuz whatever) but Biden gets dragged for normal human error because people have put him under a microscope. Meanwhile Trump is bragging he’s smart because he asked a batshit shark hypothetical. Like come on
Not to mention, people regard “billion” and “trillion” the way they do “gazillion” and “Brazilian” nowadays. I don’t think most people have a handle on how much more a billion is than a million
Trump would say that he got NATO allies to cut a check to the US for eleventy katrillion dollars and the press would be like “Trump reiterates challenge to NATO members to increase funding”
Lol, exactly. Imagine if the press hyperventilated over every mistake, lie, flub, violent threat, and bit of hate speech coming out of Trump's mouth in each speech he gives.
I truly hate these motherfuckers. I have never hated anyone in my life, but I hate these fucking assholes with the heat of 1,000 suns. I hope every single one of them suffers excruciating muscle spasms in the middle of the night for the rest of their lives.
If I submitted that text as copy to this outlet in an interview it would be cleaned up in a way that would actually make me feel embarrassed to have turned it in as such
Oh you didn't see the new updated DSM?
Says that if you ever do this, and go back and correct a verbal flub, you're to be committed to an insane asylum. It's a sign of early onset insanity. Sorry, can only choose from unicorn candidates now.
I think people made too much of the debate performance being entirely a media invention.
But this kind of thing is exactly why it’s not crazy. No sane person watching someone speak holds that against them. This kinda shit *is* pure media invention.
It’s bullshit. It’s nonsense.
I tried to make the case for him having a brain fart at the debate but I was diagnosed with dementia. Apparently, being before a live national audience with media eagerly hoping you’ll fail while debating a blathering ignoramus is something the average Bluesky user breezes through without a hiccup.
I have ADHD so brain farts are a way of life for me. Before the debate someone should have given him a lozenge and a drink of water if they knew he sounded hoarse.
I have brain farts when I get frustrated and stressed. I want someone to be Biden’s Frustration Translator and do a voice over on the debate. I think he spent most of his effort to stop from dropping the f-bomb during the debate.
All we heard was “Medicaid.” What we didn’t hear was, “I can’t believe people for him. Ungrateful motherfuckers. Look at this list of all the things I’ve done… Infrastructure… Record low unemployment… Student loan forgiveness… Medicaid… Cheap insulin… I bet lard ass shoots that shit himself.”
