So your response to "He's probably accelerating environmental devastation by opening public lands to new fossil fuel extraction because he's barely conscious of what he's doing" is "no, he's definitely fully conscious of it"?
Uh cool I guess.
Let's dispel with this notion that Joe Biden doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing...
Reminds me about how I had just watched hyper-normalization, and wastalking about how the whole world knew Syrian leadership was the prime suspect for the Lockerbie bombing....except the Clinton administration who conveniently placed the blame on Libya.
The person I was talking to dismissed the whole thing on the grounds that they heard Clinton was a genius who could do crossword puzzles while watching the news.
Even if we accept that Biden has always had a stutter, he is clearly much more sharp in any clip during the Obama administration compared to now.
I remember him kicking ass in the 2008 VP debate with Sarah Palin, but I was also a lib back then so maybe that's coloring my memory.
could also be that sarah palin is the intellectual equal to a drunk toddler
"being a walking thesaurus" is a great spin on "can speak english"
They just wanted to vote for Obama for a third time so badly, but they can hardly call Joe "very articulate"
Joe Biden's Thesaurus: Every noun replaced with "the thing," every verb with "y'know", every adjective with "uh...".
Inventing superpowers for my parasocial relationship with the president
As someone with a stutter, I wish people gave me half as much leeway as they give this asshole
So, I have the stutter that Biden supposedly has (although calling it a stutter is a bit of an incorrect description - the stutter is a symptom), and while coping strategies for word access and speech issues does absolutely require learning a lot of synonyms and how to adapt to your inability to say what you want by following a different sentence structure after the process of speaking has let you down, it does not in any way make you smart. It just gives you a slightly better chance to say what you want to say, instead of whatever your stupid brain-mouth translation process decides you get to say instead.
Yes, but I also think that it has gotten worse as a function of general cognitive decline. It would be entirely reasonable for that to happen, if only by limiting his ability to on-the-fly adjust his speech to account for the brain-mouth disconnect. In a sense, in being correct regarding the most proximate question (is Joe Biden misspeaking a product of a word-access and speech impediment?) but incorrect with its relevance to the question of mental decline, libs are doing what they always do and ignoring anything but immediate phenomena.
Goldfish constantly being shocked by the sight of that damned castle.
He did have one when he was growing up, which is well documented as part of a growing up overcoming challenges thing, and I'd believe that it'd be coming back as a subset of his brain slowly turning into slurry
I swear, with each year it sounds more and more like people are talking about their favorite anime characters and not actual politicians.
When I open a thesaurus to find a synonym and it’s like “uh yknow… the thing”
lol, sharp as a tack indeed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1ChfHRRnH4
i talk like that sometimes, try to get 3-4 words out at once and look like an idiot
was it this bad during the campaign, or did it get worse because this is way worse than i remember
Does he go on in that anecdote to actually say what that single word is? Or did he just completely forget it and move on?
Yes, it's possibilities. Biden relates a story where he was talking with President Xi and Xi asked him to define America. Then he said "That's why we're viewed as the Ugly Americans: because we think anything is possible."
https://youtu.be/0mC3Hk92kDI?t=1319
I made the mistake of listening to the most recent chapo episode with Dave Weigal and even he was "well actually-ing" Biden's dementia.
"Oh I've known people with dementia and Biden is just an old guy. I don't think he's as bad as people think, they just shouldn't put in him in situations where people can draw the conclusion that he's unwell"
These people can't help themselves. I just knew that Matt was silently raging :matt:
they just shouldn’t put in him in situations where people can draw the conclusion that he’s unwell
Like being the president.
they just shouldn’t put in him in situations where people can draw the clock
That episode sucked except for the part where Chris said that bourgeois politics are a meaningless spectacle. But then they spent the rest of the episode talking about them.
