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.
Possibly so. President Trump will troll her into going on the warpath.
We will need more popcorn.
Bush just sounded like every oilfield guy/gal I have ever met from Plano Texas. Be the speaker oil worker to PhD Geophysicist, they all sound the same in their syntax, word use & mannerisms! I never had any problem with it.
[Declare Biden incompetent, presto Hillary President]
Hey, I got enough nightmares as it is........
commies protect their own fairly well. Hid FDRs wheelchair and JFKs back shots. Nothing new here. A deceiver is as deceiver does.
[Time to get off the stage, Joe. Walk away while you still can, with some shred of dignity.]
Too late for that. After Biden declared Obama’s destruction of the U.S. healthcare system as a “__________” (can’t be used in good conscience).
Or after Joe Biden declared that FDR didn’t go on TV during the Stock Market crisis.
Well, technically, FDR DIDN’T go on TV during the stock market crisis. LOL
He will be like those planets that Captain Kirk occasionally found where the leader was long dead, but embalmed and rigged to go on giving speeches to the public.
I tend to agree with this. Warren was the DNC back up if Biden proved to be totally nuts (which seems to be the case).
I thought he was incoherent as well, and thought it odd nobody in the media will talk about this .
Or some new entrant. Nov. deadline looming...
Holy cow. What a group of losers.
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?
Best Movie Scene - Young Frankenstein - Abnormal brain in a 7 foot tall, 54 inch wide GORILLA, what can go wrong?!!?
https://youtu.be/R01qeOYm6fw
I said on day one he’d never make it and that it’d be Warren and Kamala. Kamala is losing momentum but Warren is gaining points. Still believe they’ll try to push an all female ticket and Kamala will draw the minority vote. Bernie is just too goofy and he’s an old white male.
A lot of media attention was focused on his false teeth. Were they - like his mind - slipping?
He’s a democrat, compare to how the press, the propaganda arm of the DNC, treated everything Reagan said.
I rather doubt that.
It's a labor of love.
I'm stealing that.
Well considering all commie dems brains are swiss cheese he is in good company
Obviously the author (Caitlin Johnstone) is full of it, because just about the only things that have been said about Biden throughout the campaign is how he's a relic, doddering, and a gaffe machine (all true). I suspect that President Trump will eventually exercise his twofer or threefer by congratulating Biden on his nomination (unless he dies, Biden will be the nominee) while pointing out that the rest of the Demwit candidates (other than his running mate, Mayor Pete the Sweetmeat) lost while dogpiling on with age-shaming and age discrimination as well as their own racism.
The hag Warren has only one sport jacket and it’s red.
Manipulate Dem processes to select Biden Chose Hillary as running mate Wait...
Declare Biden incompetent, presto Hillary President
That's not the real nightmare.
The real nightmare is Hillary is his Wormtongue for 2 years and one day, before Joe is martyred or otherwise leaves this vale of tears.
Hillary has two years and one day of ruling from behind the throne, and is still eligible for two FULL 'elected' terms!
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