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Post by Optimus on May 3, 2022 13:45:06 GMT -5
I mean...I know that the republicans accusations of a "Ministry of Truth" are intentionally hyperbolic, but those accuasations are looking less wacky and more accurate each day.
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Post by robeiae on May 10, 2022 14:03:46 GMT -5
Seriously, it's time to hang it up. Sucks that Harris will take over, but the risk is too great to let Biden keep fumbling around.
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Post by Optimus on May 10, 2022 15:12:35 GMT -5
Lol, I don't even know what to say to that one.
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Post by mikey on May 10, 2022 15:41:53 GMT -5
It ain't like he's making mean tweets or anything like that ((shrug))
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Post by robeiae on Jun 24, 2022 8:26:25 GMT -5
Lol:
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Post by robeiae on Jun 24, 2022 13:54:36 GMT -5
If the instructions said "YOU sit down" instead of "YOU take YOUR seat," do you suppose Biden would walk out onstage and just immediately plop down on the floor? Or at least his staff thought he might do that?
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Post by robeiae on Jul 8, 2022 15:59:46 GMT -5
No... ... ... ...
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Post by Optimus on Jul 8, 2022 17:36:07 GMT -5
Eh...that one is iffy.
He might very well be just reading a quote and indicating that it's the end of the quote so that people don't think it's his original idea. Lots of people say "end of quote" in speeches when doing this. Daily Wire conveniently cut off the beginning of his statement, so without the full clip it's impossible to know whether he indicated earlier that he was quoting someone else.
And he says, "Lemme repeat the line." Again, no way of knowing whether that was a fuck up where he mistakenly read something from the teleprompter that he wasn't supposed to, or if it's another example of him famously going off script, feeling that he needed to repeat the line for clarity, dramatic emphasis, or because he fumbled it the first time.
Biden fumbles a lot but it's also easy to deceptively edit clips to portray him as worse than he is, which is a tactic used by a lot of news outlets. I don't know if Daily Wire has done that in this case but I certainly wouldn't put it past them.
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Post by Optimus on Jul 8, 2022 17:44:54 GMT -5
So, since that clip set off my bullshit detector, I tracked down the full video of the speech and...just as I suspected...Biden was actually directly quoting someone else and made it clear before he said it that he was quoting someone else ("...and I quote..."). I think he was quoting directly from the SCOTUS dissent brief. He also seems to have been repeating that line for dramatic emphasis, which is something he did several times in his speech, and several times before that clip, for other lines (as I suggested earlier that that's what he was likely doing). Full clip: www.cbsnews.com/video/biden-speaks-reproductive-rights-signs-executive-order-abortion-access/#xSo, yeah, this is a dishonest smear job by Daily Wire where they intentionally removed the context of that clip by deceptively editing it. And...you fell for it. "Confirmation bias is a helluva drug." - Rick James Ya really need to crank up your skepticism, Rob, especially for news sources that are notoriously hyperpartisan.
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Post by robeiae on Jul 8, 2022 17:48:01 GMT -5
Good work. It's not just the Daily Wire. There are a bunch of other check marks sharing the same clip with the same claim. I feel better, actually. That one was just a little too much to take.
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Post by Optimus on Jul 8, 2022 18:22:35 GMT -5
Trust no one. Not even me.
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Post by robeiae on Jul 8, 2022 19:35:57 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Jul 13, 2022 10:18:16 GMT -5
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Post by Optimus on Jul 13, 2022 10:28:44 GMT -5
Yeah, they're not really even Mexican/Hispanic either. They're more of a bastardization of a Tex-Mex and Southern California fusion.
Did you see the video? She also horribly butchers the pronunciation of "bodegas." She says it something like "bowduh gahs." Did she even practice this speech in front of people? If so, her handlers are horrible for not correcting her.
Either way, her speechwriters are incompentent for even allowing that section of the speech in to begin with. How could no one on her team realize that she's spouting insulting racial/ethnic stereotypes?
Would she tell a group of black or Souther people (in general) that they're as unique as the Colonel's 12 herbs and spices, or Irish people that they're as unique as various species of potatoes or types of beer, or Asians that they're as unique as all the flavors of Samyang ramen?
I sometimes just can't fathom how completely incompetent and out of touch the current West Wing is as a whole, from Biden and his team, to Harris and hers, and now to the First Lady's. It's truly baffling.
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Post by robeiae on Jul 13, 2022 13:54:40 GMT -5
Joe Biden might tell a group of Indians that they're as diverse as Slurpee flavors...
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