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Yesterday I had to record many takes for a video ad for my campaign. Working off a 15-second script, I kept messing it up, saying “I’m running to be your next civil rights attorney.” Guess I have dementia!
I know it will not calm anybody, but here’s two explanations of the thing Biden said: 1) his brain told a perfectly functioning mouth to say he was a black woman, a thing he believed 2) a true thing he was saying got a bit garbled between brain and mouth. Zero people believe (1).
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If anyone recorded me speaking extemporaneously, I’d have dementia x100: I can’t get through three sentences without mangling my words.
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And for quite literally that entire time “he mangles his words” has been a defining feature
Counterargument: Biden has been in politics since before you bwere born.
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Yeah, like ever since I’ve been aware of him, the number one rap on him was “oh that Biden is a gaffe machine.”
seriously. the media is successfully turning something everyone already knew, "biden regularly eats shit when speaking publicly, been going on for decades now," into a fucking panic.
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yep, and that was the number one rap on him being obama's VP.
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Yeah that was like “oh haha there goes Biden again” Look at ANY of his speeches as Senator. He was a one man gaffe machine who never shut up. That was his reputation. “Enough about you judge let’s talk about me.”
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Counterargument: Biden has been in politics since before you bwere born.
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Most people can't. It's a skill of rhetors, and one you should study, as you are now a politician. Over to @jenmercieca.bsky.social.