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More Biden quotes…

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I see from the above average number of people clicking on my FoxNews link that the other “media” sources must not be reporting any of the most recent Biden jibberish. Disappointing, but not surprising behavior (not the clicker’s behavior, the "media"source’s behavior)

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Is it really news that his adlibs are random?

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I mean, that’s a little more cringey than just random ramblings. Still nowhere close to being as bad as Trump, but it’s a little off.

We knew Biden was prone to gaffes before we elected him though.

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I guess the internet didn’t recoil after all

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Pretty much this. Trump reset the bar.

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If you call it folksy instead of cringey and pretend Biden is on the red team, he’d instantly become a lot more popular in the south.

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Trump lies. Trump says and believes stupid things.

Biden misspeaks. Biden stumbles over his words and choice of words.

Big difference, not a bar reset, completely different bars

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At minimum, the liberal Late Night with Stephen Colbert covered it. I don’t watch all the late-night shows so can’t say which ones did or didn’t. Seth Meyers and Hasan Minaj (guest host of The Daily Show) were more interested in Murdoch admitting that Fox News intentionally and repeatedly lied about the election.

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Where are their priorities?…

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Not sure what you mean. Minaj probably wants to be the next TDS host so went with the biggest news, Seth is pretty leftist so probably went with the meltdown happening with Fox/Dominion, Colbert is obviously leftist but delights in making fun of whoever is in power. Colbert did have a smaller segment about the deposition objectively showing that Fox knowingly lied over a period of years.

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Sarcasm doesn’t come across well.

IMO, the Fox/dominion story is way more important, so picking that to talk about make a lot of sense.

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So important that Fox News didn’t note it once. (According to Hasan’s episode. More about a kid who peanut-buttered his family’s kitchen and shit like that.)

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Content is different for sure, but the bar for me to get worked up has been reset. Hard to get worked up over a comment about a nurse breathing up his nose after comments of injecting disinfectants and pussy grabbing. Weird cringy statements don’t evoke the same reaction after lies and megalomania.

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I kind of understand Fox not talking about pending litigation, although I would think that one should be able to cover the what-happened-today news part without getting into any liability issues. But I’m guessing that’s not why they’re not talking about it.

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This has definitely been the decade (possibly the century) of gold-medal mental gymnastics so far.

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I didn’t click because it just sounded like click bait. I don’t really consider a gaffe news, assuming that’s what we’re talking about. They can be funny, of course.

As for the “bar”, it was set by Bush. Imo. We can ignore Obama and Trump. Obama was a solid speaker and Trump was such a piece of shit that his gaffes were uninteresting. Bush was full of gaffes and it was funny/embarassing too.

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Wow - those are some rose-colored glasses you’re using if you thought Obama was a solid speaker. Obama was a solid teleprompter reader (one of the best), but he was a horrible speaker and also prone to gaffes. If you want a good example of a POTUS who was a good speaker, I think the most recent example has to be Bill Clinton. That man had a gift.

And since you don’t seem to think the link is click-bait and just gaffes, let me give you a snippet of the quotes. (Maybe now you’ll swallow your pride and go click on the link and see what you’re missing rather than just speculating)

  • “She’d come in and do things I don’t think you learn in nursing school,”

  • “She’d whisper in my ear, I couldn’t understand, but she’d whisper, and she’d lean down and actually breathe on me to make sure there was a human connection”

  • “They would actually breathe in my nostrils to make me move, to get me moving.”

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That just sounds vaguely weird? Are you saying he had an affair or something with his nurse?

Anyway, I’d mostly say being able to read a teleprompter is “speaking”, along with note cards, and memorized lines. I think Obama also did well in interviews, but I wouldn’t call that speaking.