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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

I don't believe the speech impediment thing. I looked around for old footage of him and he was always very clear and a very good public speaker. there's also nothing about his speech impediment until around 2019 just before the election. It looks more like a Democratic campaign endorsing him for presidency and to cover up his cognitive decline.

I'm just not buying it. He did appear weak. He lost his thought and beck tracked with smiling, almost making a light hearted joke about being forgetful. That's not what I want to see from our president during a time of crisis and it's totally inappropriate for a leader of a country to behave like. Yeah, he's old af but he shouldn't be the president.

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Would much rather have this guy who you think appears weak than the previous idiot you had for president that would attempt to appear strong, but at the same time have the entire international community laughing at him.

The Biden era has been a refreshing dose of boredom for those of us not living in the USA. So, thanks - and keep it up!

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So? Show me something before 2018 on his speech impediment?

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Show me where it matters Columbo? It doesn't change the fact that he was elected and IS the President.

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Personally, I’ve always felt that if there was a minimum age to be able to run for president in our country (35) there should also be a maximum age (I’d say 70.) I think there are outliers who would be great leaders over the age of 70, but the same could be said of some under 35. Ageism is ageism.

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Agree 100%

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Originally Posted by One (+) Sentence

I thought his smiling seemed weird and inappropriate too…

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It was so wrong. It was seriously hard to watch, like wtf?

Trump was cringe too but at least in a really funny way.

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Originally Posted by paulster2626

Would much rather have this guy who you think appears weak than the previous idiot you had for president that would attempt to appear strong, but at the same time have the entire international community laughing at him.

The Biden era has been a refreshing dose of boredom for those of us not living in the USA. So, thanks - and keep it up!

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Many of us in the USA agree and have appreciated the boredom too. Fuck Putin for ending a good thing.

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Originally Posted by paulster2626

Would much rather have this guy who you think appears weak than the previous idiot you had for president that would attempt to appear strong, but at the same time have the entire international community laughing at him.

The Biden era has been a refreshing dose of boredom for those of us not living in the USA. So, thanks - and keep it up!

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You jackasses can't have a talk about a political figure without turning it into a personal thing about your party identity. I didn't vote for trump ya fucking idiot. This IS the problem with politics, it makes people retarded.

Just because someone criticizes the current president doesn't mean they supported the last one or is even comparing them. Fuck this conversation is dumb.

You don't have to instantly turn everything into some cave man us vs. them conversation. Try not to feel personally attacked because "your" guy is being criticized or assume the critisizer prefers the "other" guy.

Get over it
Perfection doesn’t exist & applying it to everyone you see will only lead to disappointment

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

You jackasses can't have a talk about a political figure without turning it into a personal thing about your party identity. I didn't vote for trump ya fucking idiot. This IS the problem with politics, it makes people retarded.

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Um, what's my "party identity?" I ain't american. Funny how you actually brought this up...

I was speaking as someone who does not live or vote in the USA to someone who does. Sorry to ruffle your feathers. Your last president sucked, man. This one is way better, but it's not like the bar was set very high. Get over it.

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

You jackasses can't have a talk about a political figure without turning it into a personal thing about your party identity. I didn't vote for trump ya fucking idiot. This IS the problem with politics, it makes people retarded.

Just because someone criticizes the current president doesn't mean they supported the last one or is even comparing them. Fuck this conversation is dumb.

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You are the one resorting to calling people jackasses.

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Originally Posted by Bunion 2020

Show me where it matters Columbo? It doesn't change the fact that he was elected and IS the President.



Agree 100%

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Didn't the right wingers say the same thing to you lefties when you were crying over the mean words their president were saying. Ageism, cry me a fucking river with that liberal pussy fucking bullshit.

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Originally Posted by Bunion 2020

You are the one resorting to calling people jackasses.

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Because you are.

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Originally Posted by paulster2626

Um, what's my "party identity?" I ain't american. Funny how you actually brought this up...

I was speaking as someone who does not live or vote in the USA to someone who does. Sorry to ruffle your feathers. Your last president sucked, man. This one is way better, but it's not like the bar was set very high. Get over it.

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No. I don't need to get over it.

Why would you assume I support the "other" team? that's where I figured you must be American.

Didn't we just pay for your euro ski trip?

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

Didn't the right wingers say the same thing to you lefties when you were crying over the mean words their president were saying. Ageism, cry me a fucking river with that liberal pussy fucking bullshit.

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And once again, so what? And now its "you lefties".:the_finge

Off you go then.

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Originally Posted by ::: :::

Get over it
Perfection doesn’t exist & applying it to everyone you see will only lead to disappointment

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Perfection has nothing to do with cognitive decline.

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Originally Posted by Bunion 2020

And once again, so what? And now its "you lefties".:the_finge

Off you go then.

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Dumb.

I'm poking fun at both sides. Whatever.

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

I don't believe the speech impediment thing. I looked around for old footage of him and he was always very clear and a very good public speaker. there's also nothing about his speech impediment until around 2019 just before the election. It looks more like a Democratic campaign endorsing him for presidency and to cover up his cognitive decline.

I'm just not buying it. He did appear weak. He lost his thought and beck tracked with smiling, almost making a light hearted joke about being forgetful. That's not what I want to see from our president during a time of crisis and it's totally inappropriate for a leader of a country to behave like. Yeah, he's old af but he shouldn't be the president.

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You're a moron and he's only 100x times more coherent than the previous guy. He's also not an idiot and hasn't surrounded himself with crackhead salesman as advisors, so...you can disbelieve facts, but it makes you (more of) a fucking idiot. Same as ever.

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

No. I don't need to get over it.

Why would you assume I support the "other" team? that's where I figured you must be American.

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I didn't. I said the current president is better than your last president.

"Your" meaning as in you are an american living in america voting for a president every 4 years. Like if you said Trudeau was a better/worse PM than my last one. Whether or not I personally voted for him/his party doesn't matter, and I'm able to handle such a statement without my head exploding. You'll figure it out one day.

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Originally Posted by PNWbrit

Didn't we just pay for your euro ski trip?

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God dang it!

I don't know who did.

I"m not going to be bullied by people that fight over identity politics. I criticized the president for his speech yesterday and it turned into a us vs. them thing which is bullshit. If you can't hear that without your feelings getting hurt then fuck it, send my space to someone else.

Moron is just asking questions

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Originally Posted by paulster2626

I didn't. I said the current president is better than your last president.

"Your" meaning as in you are an american living in america voting for a president every 4 years. Like if you said Trudeau was a better/worse PM than my last one. Whether or not I personally voted for him/his party doesn't matter, and I'm able to handle such a statement without my head exploding. You'll figure it out one day.

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Ahhhh, now I see the communication barrier. When you say "you" president you mean this countries, I heard you saying my parties president. That's a very normal thing the two parties say to each other. Sorry, that was a communication thing.

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

God dang it!

I don't know who did.

I"m not going to be bullied by people that fight over identity politics. I criticized the president for his speech yesterday and it turned into a us vs. them thing which is bullshit. If you can't hear that without your feelings getting hurt then fuck it, send my space to someone else.

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You're clearly the one who's feelings are hurt. I really don't think anyone else here today gives much of a shit.

You just said something dumb and got called out for it, got upset, and are now projecting these feelings on others. We all do it from time to time, it sucks but we eventually cool down. Go enjoy a nice, cold soda!

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

God dang it!

I don't know who did.

I"m not going to be bullied by people that fight over identity politics. I criticized the president for his speech yesterday and it turned into a us vs. them thing which is bullshit. If you can't hear that without your feelings getting hurt then fuck it, send my space to someone else.

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There was an extensive list of those who had.

It's nice to know you didn't take the trouble to look for it.

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

God dang it!

I don't know who did.

I"m not going to be bullied by people that fight over identity politics. I criticized the president for his speech yesterday and it turned into a us vs. them thing which is bullshit. If you can't hear that without your feelings getting hurt then fuck it, send my space to someone else.

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It has nothing to do with feelings being hurt--you decided not to believe a fact. That makes you an idiot, and that's what everyone has pointed out. It seems your feelings are hurt--sorry, post stupid shit win stupid prizes. You're a winner.

If the resistance to booting RU from SWIFT is rooted in oil dependence, is there a feasible way to get oil from other sources to the countries who currently depend on RU? It looks like DEU gets somewhere around 1/3 of their oil from RU which is a ton.

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Originally Posted by Dexter Rutecki

It has nothing to do with feelings being hurt--you decided not to believe a fact. That makes you an idiot, and that's what everyone has pointed out. It seems your feelings are hurt--sorry, post stupid shit win stupid prizes. You're a winner.

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No feelings are hurt. I hate the fact that I can't say anything about a political figure without it becoming a our party vs. your party conversation. It's annoying. I stand my ground on all of that and won't apologize.

I've seen the list of donators but I don't remember lists like that, my brain doesn't work like that unfortunately. For those that did I really appreciate that but if I thought it would make me your bitch with political discussions I would have declined. Identity politics are dumb and I will call people out when they steer something unintended into one.

What's the fact and how do we know that it's a fact?

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

No feelings are hurt. I hate the fact that I can't say anything about a political figure without it becoming a our party vs. your party conversation. It's annoying. I stand my ground on all of that and won't apologize.

I've seen the list of donators but I don't remember lists like that, my brain doesn't work like that unfortunately. For those that did I really appreciate that but if I thought it would make me your bitch with political discussions I would have declined. Identity politics are dumb and I will call people out when they steer something unintended into one.

What's the fact and how do we know that it's a fact?

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Biden has a speech impediment. Always has. Doesn't matter if you don't believe it. I'm not going to bother proving this to you.

I’m unclear how this is identity politics
I think you are conflating issues

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Originally Posted by paulster2626

You're clearly the one who's feelings are hurt. I really don't think anyone else here today gives much of a shit.

You just said something dumb and got called out for it, got upset, and are now projecting these feelings on others. We all do it from time to time, it sucks but we eventually cool down. Go enjoy a nice, cold soda!

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You do understand the communication barrier right?

I took his stoppages in speaking as partly his stutter but for the most part i think he was stopping himself on expanding his answers to the questions. He was being measured. Deciding to keep it brief just as he started to expand on his answer. It leaves less to be misinterpreted. He was smiling when he was rethinking his answers

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But Benny will take you up on whatever unsubstantiated claim you'd like to make.

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Originally Posted by Dexter Rutecki

Biden has a speech impediment. Always has. Doesn't matter if you don't believe it. I'm not going to bother proving this to you.

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Is there any information on that from before 2018?

Even if so, that didn't look like it was his problem with speaking yesterday.

Yes. Again, no one needs to prove this to you--you're uninformed.

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Originally Posted by Mazderati

If the resistance to booting RU from SWIFT is rooted in oil dependence, is there a feasible way to get oil from other sources to the countries who currently depend on RU? It looks like DEU gets somewhere around 1/3 of their oil from RU which is a ton.

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Germany is leaning heavily into solar
Of any of the EU, they likely have the determination to become mostly fossil free — their industry sector is the hardest hole to plug tho. And the transition will take decades, not years.

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

I don't believe the speech impediment thing.

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JFC. You’re not a trained speech pathologist. Like many stutterers, by the time he got to college he learned coping mechanisms, ones that speech pathologists can recognize in use when viewing his videos. In 2008 he made a widely viewed speech about his lifelong battle with stuttering, but his more private discussions went back to the 70s.

We live in a world of fucking dumbass conspiracy theories. To someone with judgment and maturity, it’s obvious that his life story checks out on this subject. If you’d rather believe that over the decades he used a potentially embarrassing (at least to the bullies in the world) condition as a chess master precursor to a viable excuse when he hit senility, go for it, but there might remain a voice of reason inside you thinking ‘huh maybe I’m a dumbass for making this so complicated and insidious’.

And his management of this Ukraine situation is what matters.

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Originally Posted by old goat

Piece by Krugman in NYT today. Laundered Russian money in the West amounts to 80% of Russia's GDP. Seizing those assets are the strongest weapon the West has. The trouble is, too many other powerful people are hiding assets in the same places and are likely collateral damage.

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You mean like American congress people, senators, and ex Presidents?

And even within the past few years you occasionally hear the stutter resurface. It's actually pretty impressive how he's overcome it--so many people didn't know he stuttered until fairly recently. Remarkable people would claim it's not real (and then get upset when called out over it).

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Originally Posted by raisingarizona13

Is there any information on that from before 2018?

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Yes
It’s not hard to find…here’s 2008
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/...oryId=93914952

Stop being a putz on this particular issue; the more you dig in, the worse it looks

You may need to hit the card catalog to get the publications prior to 2000s. Just cuz it’s not on the internet doesn’t make it not exist

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Originally Posted by Benny Profane

You mean like American congress people, senators, and ex Presidents?

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Haha, here we go. $250 million!! False equivalence bullshit FTW.

Y'all having a fun constructive morning of name calling? lol

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Originally Posted by frorider

JFC. You’re not a trained speech pathologist. Like many stutterers, by the time he got to college he learned coping mechanisms, ones that speech pathologists can recognize in use when viewing his videos. In 2008 he made a widely viewed speech about his lifelong battle with stuttering, but his more private discussions went back to the 70s.

We live in a world of fucking dumbass conspiracy theories. To someone with judgment and maturity, it’s obvious that his life story checks out on this subject. If you’d rather believe that over the decades he used a potentially embarrassing (at least to the bullies in the world) condition as a chess master precursor to a viable excuse when he hit senility, go for it, but there might remain a voice of reason inside you thinking ‘huh maybe I’m a dumbass for making this so complicated and insidious’.

And his management of this Ukraine situation is what matters.

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I hadn't seen any of that. Thanks.