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.
Unfortunately, the front running Slow Joe still makes more sense than the other idiots in the Rat Race ... including Breadline Bernie and Cherokee Princess Gray Beaver ...
P.S. More goodies including a video of Joe's debate reply in the original article.
Biden is coping with senility, Bernie with Kookiness. Warren will be their candidate. Yes, she’s kooky but she will get the Dem nod.
But... but....
Biden’s brain surgeon just said last month that Biden’s brain is “functional”.
Functional! A Brain Surgeon said that! That should put any fears to rest. Right?
My dead wife is a teacher.
Riiight Joe.
The MSM is being paid NOT to talk about it. The MSM are enemies of the Republic.
Biden is the best they have.
And he’s been brain-damaged for years.
His brain is swiss cheese and he is still the most qualified democrat running.
You cannot waste time ruminating on Groper Joe's relatively minor foibles while nutcases like Irish Bob, Psychojawea, and Willie Brown's Mistress are on stage vomiting out their insane proposals.
Focusing on Biden over that garbage makes you look like a nutcase, and every stupid defense that you can possibly come up with for focusing on Biden...only makes you sound like a really determined nutcase.
You left out Bolshevik Bernie and I thought it was Willie Brown’s Willy Warmer not Willie Brown’s Mistress!
“Biden’s brain surgeon just said last month that Biden’s brain is “functional”.”
That was apparently the BEST that the doctor could say about the child molester’s brain.
NONE are qualified and ALL are deadly dangerous for a variety of reasons.
President Trump MUST WIN REELECTION in a LANDSLIDE!
One scary scenario...
Manipulate Dem processes to select Biden
Chose Hillary as running mate
Wait...
Declare Biden incompetent, presto Hillary President
She does look good for 70. Castro insulted Biden over his age..Not good. Biden has early dimentia. Mayor Pete has a sound bend Dr with 2000 fetuses. Yang does know how to buy a shirt that fits. Bernie is too old and that irritating voice. Just hope Booker is not her VP.
“Biden’s brain surgeon just said last month that Biden’s brain is “functional”.”
Yup, the same surgeon that preformed Biden’s brain surgery, in Baskin Robbins, with a ice-cream scoop.
Meh, I’ve heard the same thing about Trump. And Bush made me cringe EVERY TIME he went off teleprompter.
Then again, my brain IS Swiss cheese. Injury, not age.
Aphasia combined with certain forms of senile dementia....
Time to get off the stage, Joe. Walk away while you still can, with some shred of dignity.
Biden’s foot in his mouth is the only thing keeping his teeth from falling out.
Sounds like one of those ATT commercials.
"Biden's brain is 'OK'".
"Just 'OK'?"
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