Posted on 09/16/2019 10:13:21 AM PDT by Zakeet
I didn’t watch the last Democratic presidential primary debates because I figured that without Tulsi Gabbard in there shaking things up it would be a boring, vapid parade of insubstantial verbal foam, and I love myself too much to go through such a horrible ordeal. By all accounts my prediction was correct, but I did miss one thing that’s been making the rounds in video clips for the last couple of days which I find absolutely bizarre.
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Most of you have probably heard about Biden’s infamous "record player" comment by now, but for those of you who missed it, Biden was asked by debate moderator Linsey Davis to defend some comments he made about America's problems with racism in the 1970s, and he responded by essentially saying that Black people don’t know how to raise their kids so they need to be taught how by social workers. Biden has been receiving mainstream criticism for his racist and paternalistic position, along with plenty of mockery for saying that parents need to be told to "make sure you have the record player on at night" so that kids hear enough words in early childhood.
It is pretty clear that Biden was trying to communicate an idea that is premised on a deeply racist and condescending worldview, so it’s to be expected that people would want to talk about that. It’s also to be expected that people would be making jokes about how the cute old man said “record player” like a grandpa. But what isn’t being discussed nearly enough is the fact that what Biden said was also a barely coherent, garbled word salad stumbling out of a brain that is clearly being eaten alive by a very serious neurological disease.
I’ve typed out a transcript of what Biden actually said, verbatim. There are no typos. I’ve also noted where Biden closes his eyes, probably to concentrate, which he does whenever he seems to be struggling especially hard to string words together. Try to read through it slowly, word-for-word, resisting the instinct to mentally re-frame it into something more coherent:
"Well they have to deal with the -- Look, there is institutional segregation in this country. And from the time I got involved I started dealing with that. Redlining. Banks. Making sure that we’re in a position where -- Look, talk about education. I propose that what we take is those very poor schools, the Title 1 schools, triple the amount of money we spend from 15 to 45 billion a year. Give every single teacher a raise that equal [closes eyes] raise to getting out -- the sixty-thousand dollar level."Number two: make sure that we bring into the help the -- [closes eyes] the student, the, the teachers deal with the problems that come from home. The problems that come from home. We need -- We have one school psychologist for every fifteen hundred kids in America today. It’s crazy. The teachers are reca -- Now, I'm married to a teacher. My deceased wife is a teacher. They have every problem coming to them. [Closes eyes briefly] We have make sure that every single child does in fact have three, four, and five year-olds go to school -- school, not daycare. School. We bring social workers into homes of parents to help them deal with how to raise their children. It’s not that they don’t wanna help, they don't want -- they don't know quite what to do. Play the radio, make sure the television, [closes eyes tightly] the -- 'scuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the-the-the-the phone, make sure the kids hear words. A kid coming from a very poor school, [closes eyes] a very poor background, will hear four million words fewer spoken by the time they get there."
Notice how it gets more garbled the longer he speaks. The response I transcribed was about eighty seconds in length. That was just one small part of a debate in which the former vice president performed no better and forgot three of his fellow candidates' names.
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Contrast the difference between Biden’s younger footage and what was seen at the last debate with footage of Bernie Sanders throughout the decades, who has remained virtually identical save for appearance and hoarseness. Age does not account for this difference. Biden’s brain is dying.
In all fairness, I’ve never learned at least four of the Dim candidates names.
I was discussing this with my wife yesterday.
Joe’s mind is telling him he is back in the 1950s...
If he starts telling his audience to “duck and cover” then he is done. ;-)
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That could put both of us on the nutjob conspiracy ping list!
Took me a sec......lol
And be bought off with no remorse.
That does give me nightmares...
You are spot on, I watched my grandmother’s early dementia progress to full on bed ridden Alzheimer’s over about 15 years. After watching slow Joe during the first debate it was obvious to me, he is probably about four years into it. He is in the denial stage, he knows something is wrong but everyone is against him. The next stage is losing the ability to manage daily life things like finances, appointments and personal hygiene.
Election 2020: Grandpa Simpson vs. Walt Kowalski.
You mean like a Democrat.
How he's gotten away with this gross behavior over the years without an outcry from women and parents is inexplicable.
I’m not a doctor. But as I’ve stated here a number of times I’ve worked in three nursing homes here in New Jersey and when you work in a ‘’long term senior care facility’’ as the term is now used in NJ no matter what your job is you are required, by law, to attend ‘’in house’’ training seminars where you’re taught all manner of conditions about the elderly and how to spot potential problems or abuse. In listening to Joe is seems to me he might be experiencing a condition called ‘’aphasia’’. It’s an inability to form words and speak in a coherent and intelligible manner. It can be the result of aging or more often it is the result of having suffered a stroke.
In any event Joe Biden is clearly physically and mentally not up to the job of ever being president of The United States. Why in God’s name his family is allowing this is beyond me.
Warren is just another harpy in the Hilary mold. It will amaze me if she gets the nod. Like Hilary lite.
I think she is a better candidate than Hilary since Hilary is so incredibly and obviously corrupt. I don’t know how any honest person could have supported her.
But she is in the same old lady scold mold that Hilary is. Not very likeable or charismatic.
All three are totally out for me due to their extreme commie positions. But I speak here of “electability.”
Joe has a likeability but is obviously demented. His groping is part of that. No impulse control.
And Bernie has the cranky old man demeanor. Haven’t we all had a neighbor like him, just bitchy?
These are the three front runners. Sheesh.
Has there ever been a group of more embarrassing opposition candidates in a presidential election?
HORRIBLE
DEPOPULATE D’rats from the body politic.
Biden will have to be the pick.
Who will be the sidekick?
Hillary
Michelle
The Fake Indian (most likely)
I DO hope they pick Joe. I really do.
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