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Biden introduces Zelenskiy as ‘President Putin’ at Nato summit (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Did he do it for the memes?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Probably reacting to an earpiece with people shouting, "No, you BUFFOON!" followed by a vuvuzela.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Apparently he's always struggled with speech issues, and grew up being mocked for his stuttering, which he learned to cover with his own techniques/efforts.

Here's a video of him discussing this in a TV interview from 15 years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUFA6JUaAPY

So it doesn't appear to be anything new for him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Let's stop equating this stuff to stuttering. It's not stuttering. I wish it were stuttering.

Head in the sand mentality is just going to get us a dictatorship in the presidency. I don't know what it takes for us to realize that we have to do something about this problem. It isn't going to be enough to just say

"Well, maybe he'll get elected anyway."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Biden's reputation for gaffes is something you clearly weren't aware of:

The remark revived Biden's reputation for gaffes.[227][221][228]

Those sources are from 2009.

Journalist and TV anchor Wolf Blitzer has called Biden loquacious;[692] journalist Mark Bowden has said that he is famous for "talking too much", leaning in close "like an old pal with something urgent to tell you".[298] He often deviates from prepared remarks[693] and sometimes "puts his foot in his mouth".[169][694][695] Biden has a reputation for being prone to gaffes[696] and in 2018 called himself "a gaffe machine".[697][698] The New York Times wrote that Biden's "weak filters make him capable of blurting out pretty much anything."[169]

Now you do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

No we are aware. We're not kids. This is not the same man we voted for in 2008, 2012, and 2020.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Fantastic quality for a man in his 80s running for President.

And it's worse. This is not normal. We won't win pretending it's normal.