explaining how videos of Biden and Trump are carefully edited to demonstrate their failing faculties.
But so what, you don't need this supposedly manipulated "evidence" to know that Biden in particular is failing intellectually and physically, and that Trump is a psychologically disturbed man.
There's Biden's obvious physical decline over the four years of his presidency, , his posture, his gait, his eye lid weakness (ptosis) and his presbyphonia (his weak voice). In regard to his mental faculties, that's harder to judge, and there's a bit of variability, but his total reliance on a teleprompter, and slowness in speech and debate, all point to declining function.
Surely there's enough visible and circumstantial evidence that he is failing, and that he cannot be fit for another four years of presidency. We may be living fitter, longer, but 81 yrs old is still old. That the choice for the American electorate is just so appalling - no-one seems able to stand in the crowd and say "the emperor has no clothes"
PS worth looking up the correct use of "no-one", supposedly it's wrong, it should be "no one", but I disagree, as "no one" could suggest something more specific such as "no one event is....." or "no one thought can.....". whereas no-one eliminates this possible confusion. Additionally when you actually say "no-one", it's as a single non-determinative noun. Of course you could just write "nobody"!
Re: Re ageing president and candidate, fake videos, but so what?
PS worth looking up the correct use of "no-one", supposedly it's wrong, it should be "no one", but I disagree, as "no one" could suggest something more specific such as "no one event is....." or "no one thought can.....". whereas no-one eliminates this possible confusion. Additionally when you actually say "no-one", it's as a single non-determinative noun. Of course you could just write "nobody"!
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Re: Re ageing president and candidate, fake videos, but so what?
I saw that article after having caught sight of the various videos while doom scrolling on Twitter.
I think some right-wing sites had cropped a couple of the videos to make the episodes look worse than they were; the one with Macron for instance, he was actually turning to gesture towards a parachutist but if you crop the video it looks like he was just randomly turning the other way to evertyone else and staring off into the distance. He still looks fairly out of it in the "good" video mind you.
So they seized this opportunity and the article was an attempt to plant the idea in people's minds that any video of Biden showing cognitive impairment is somehow fake or manipulated. Using one or two examples of manipulation to try and taint any existing or future videos of him showing signs of impairment and also to try to head off a likely attack vector for Trump in the upcoming debates: "Who's more demented 2024?".
I notice they didn't try to make any claims for all the videos of him wandering off stage the wrong way or trying to open walls to exit the room and so on.
It's clear they have him cranked up on whatever top end cocktail of speed that they give to the presidents. You can tell from his speech that he's on some heavy doses of amphetamines of some kind. It's probably no coincidence that these episodes occur near the end of events rather than at the start when his gear is wearing off somewhat....no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Re: Re ageing president and candidate, fake videos, but so what?
I agree with you although I probably sound a bit harsher than I mean to (hard to have too much sympathy for Biden though given his record, outside of basic humanity which I still have some shred of left )
It's like Bill Hicks said, "I don't mean to sound cruel and vicious.......but I am, so that's how it comes out". ...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
on June 20, 2024, 12:16 am
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