Wrong. It is "I was in the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping."

  • AssaultRifle15 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The official transcription is fun:

    We’re going to miss Justice Breyer. He’s a patriot, an extraordinary public service [servant], and a great justice of the Supreme Court.

    And, folks — (applause) — let me close with what I’ve long said: America is a nation that can be defined in a single word. I was in the foothi- — foot- — excuse me, in the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping, traveling with him. (Inaudible) traveled 17,000 miles when I was Vice President at the time. I don’t know that for a fact.

    And if anyone's curious about the word he eventually gets to, it's

    spoiler

    possibilities

    • rubpoll [she/her]
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      edit-2
      2 years ago

      possibilities

      Well, sure. It's possible you'll end up a trillionaire in America thanks to lottery of birth and an inclination for psyhopathy.

      Just like it's possible (far more possible) that you'll end up living in a gutter. It's possible.

      And that's the best Liberalism can offer. A default life of utter squalor, poverty, and misery. But as long as it's POSSIBLE to POTENTIALLY MAYBE escape it through dumb fucking luck, then the system is working as best as any system ever has or ever will.

      This is what Liberals ultimately truly believe .