Did he do it for the memes?

    • @[email protected]
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      311 year ago

      During Premier Trump’s reign, on Reddit, that picture preview always pointed the way to the most roaring political dumpster fires.

    • FuglyDuck
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      Still doesn’t deserve to have that happen. And of course he brushed it off. Ukraine is relying on western support for its very survival. Zelenskyy can’t afford to lose that support.

      Still, gotta sting for being confused with that particular asshole.

  • @[email protected]
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    He did pick up on the Putin gaffe and immediately corrected himself and explained that his enemies have been on his mind lately.

    He didn’t correct calling Kamala Harris Trump.

    He’s been known for making gaffes since he was Obama’s vice president. From his Wikipedia page:

    The remark revived Biden’s reputation for gaffes.[227][221][228]

    Those sources are from 2009.

    Journalist and TV anchor Wolf Blitzer has called Biden loquacious;[692] journalist Mark Bowden has said that he is famous for “talking too much”, leaning in close “like an old pal with something urgent to tell you”.[298] He often deviates from prepared remarks[693] and sometimes “puts his foot in his mouth”.[169][694][695] Biden has a reputation for being prone to gaffes[696] and in 2018 called himself “a gaffe machine”.[697][698] The New York Times wrote that Biden’s “weak filters make him capable of blurting out pretty much anything.”[169]

    He has struggled with a stutter most of his life, which he learned to cover up.

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    It’s like saying the wrong name at your wedding 😂

  • @[email protected]
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    The funny thing is that Biden’s had gaffes like this his whole career and could have laughed it off under other circumstances, but with the eyes of the entire world on him watching for him to have another senior moment this is another nail in the coffin.

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      Biden has been dogshit in general for his entire career. Not sure why the party pushed so hard for him in 2020.

    • @[email protected]
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      691 year ago

      Trump at a rally this week: “Mothers will never again be forced to watch their children overdosing & hosp–lee. We will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms, screaming, ‘What can I do? Help me God, what can I do?’ We are a nation whose once revered airports are a dirty, crowded mess.”

      Has any media covered that word vomit?

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      251 year ago

      Combined with his constant look of intense confusion, it seems like a lot more than senior moments.

  • @[email protected]
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    Welp that’s it folks. He can’t win and if he steps down all of the free world’s hopes are on the shoulders of a “tough on crime” one-term senator who couldn’t even make it to Iowa when she ran for the nomination.

    • @[email protected]
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      191 year ago

      Or you could be positive, talk to the people who have doubts about the parties general platform, what Biden stands for, and the initiatives that Kamala has embraced and run while vice president as well as her tempering her views on crime as she grew into the role of vice president.

      And just to be sure, ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about how one should properly motivate the people in your life to be more politically active than voting every 4 years.

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    He was just asked about his confidence in Kamala to be able to beat Trump, should he be succeeded(sp?)… and he referred to Trump as his VP and then meandered into some vague talking points.

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      I thought you were trolling, like in a “you have to double check if I’m bullshitting you now” kind of way. But it’s actually true… and unlike his Putin remark he didn’t seem to even notice he said it.

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        Its only been getting worse as this post conference pressser has gone on.

        He has forgotten entirely to respond to parts of a multipart question, meandered into basically ‘I sat down with Golda Meir and Yitsak Rabin and we accomplished peace!’, just keeps repeating things he did (some of which are legitimate accomplishments) that have little to do with the questions asked…

        … “You said your presidency would be a bridge to younger candidates, what happened to that?”

        Rambles about being in the Senate a really long time

        … at one point he actually said, outloud, ‘How do I not make this seem self centered?’ before answering a ‘Considering the stakes, do you really think you should run?’ type of question.

        In the time I have been typing this he has basically barked in anger after a short response to a question that was followed by the reporter asking ‘thats all?’.

        He also keeps doing the sort of asshole loud whisper sarcasm voice.

        He is coming off as a sundowning angry old man who doesn’t want his car keys taken away.

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          Yes and it’s really getting to the point where it undoubtedly impacts his ability to perform without an aide basically at his side at all times. Imagine him telling another world leader something insane and the translator having to jump in correct him. Or worse, how can you be sure something he did mean to say was actually something he meant to say and not just another mistake? That kind of communication failure is very dangerous at the highest level.

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            Man, imagine being the White House translator the next four years. Whoever wins, you’ll be stuck there looking apologetically at the guests going “sorry dude, IDK either”.

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            Yes, I spoke with someone earlier today about how communication is VITAL to being president. If he can’t communicate, he can’t do his job.

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          Yes, his emotional regulation is pretty bad now too. He was always a seemingly calm, nice old man and now he’s gotten petty, blames his staff for errors (very unlike him), and in general is acting really off.

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        Yes, I think the people here claiming Biden is as sharp now as 4 years ago, that he’s always made these “gaffes,” must either 1) not have watched him actually make these errors to see how bad they were 2) do not remember how sharp he was comparatively 4 years ago and/or 3) have never been around someone with cognitive decline and don’t recognize how serious it is.

        And the Putin remark - he caught himself, but still couldn’t remember Zelensky’s name. And he’s met Zelenksy a few times, he should know him.

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        I mean… it was pretty bad but also clearly a slip of tongue as it didn’t confuse the sentence or message - not great though , fuck the DNC

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    I’d be more concerned if Biden stopped making gaffes, that would be out of character

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      Did you see the debate? He stopped saying much of anything then, for really long periods of time…

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          Mitch McConnell?

          Edit: oh yeah, now I remember, when he completely just went absent in the middle of a presser. Funny how we haven’t heard much from him recently…