"It's Great to Be Here With All of You in Tampa Bay, Minnesota" -- Joe Strikes Biden Again

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umamibella said:
Calling someone ‘dementia joe’ is extremely uncharitable and has absolutely no consideration or care for anyone with dementia or with loved ones with dementia.
Since when was it ok to belittle people with medical conditions or use that medical condition to belittle a person.
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My beloved mother-in-law has later-stage dementia, and it is very hard.

But neither I nor my husband (her son) have any objection to joking around about dementia.

Truly, at least for us, humor helps to lighten up a dark place, and a little humor helps us to remember all the good times we had with her before she was stricken, and even while she has been advancing in her condition. She has even joked about her condition–somewhere, my mother-in-law is still in there!

I had my knee replaced five weeks ago, and it’s wonderful! But for the last 20 years, I have limped around, and I often called myself, “Ol’ Gimpy!” And if my husband or anyone else called me that, I was fine with it–after all, it was true!

Remember all the joking around about Pres. Bush’s stumbles in language (“strategery”)? And the jokes about Pres. Ford’s clumsiness?

Just lighten up. We all stumble over our words and forget stuff, and hearing/seeing VP Biden do it just makes us all feel a little better about ourselves. If VP Biden is elected, he will (hopefully) prove that just because he stumbles over words when he has probably been on the campaign trail for many hours doesn’t mean that he has any mental deficiences (other than continuing to state that abortion is a part of " women’s reproductive care"–now that is demented).
 
Peeps said:
Just lighten up
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I totally get humour. There is a line between humour and making light of something and a very belittling name calling such as ‘dementia joe’
It is not acceptable or charitable or ’ love thy neighbour’. in schoolyards it is called bullying here, name calling, its also called trolling in the media.
Peeps said:
My beloved mother-in-law has later-stage dementia, and it is very hard
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Sorry for your mil . A very good friend of mine nursed her husband at home after he succumbed to dementia. He was a public figure ( although not a politician). To have called him names like that would have been cruel.
 
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The video was removed because it was manipulated.

Not because of censor warriors.
 
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7_Sorrows:
So you admit Joe Biden has dementia?

Censorship plain and simple. You tube, not Facebook.

I don’t see how any rules have been broken.
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Ah, we’re just making up stuff today. Now, you’re not going to flag that and have it censored, are you?
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What in the world are you talking about? Flag what?!
@Thbolt
 
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If you look at my post I was responding to post #12 by
umamibella who mentioned dementia sufferers and mentioned dementia patients again in post#15.

@Thbolt
 
7_Sorrows said:
If you look at my post I was responding to post #12 by
umamibella who mentioned dementia sufferers and mentioned dementia patients again in post#15.

@Thbolt
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Yes in respect to using the condition to belittle and name call.
 
What a desperate act. Should be a crime, the liars who created this should be charged. Is it known who did this?
 
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Tis_Bearself said:
CNN is a veritable expert on deceptive stories. Pretty much everything on their page every day is deceptive.
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The only time I get to watch CNN is when I go to the gym to ride the recumbent bike (good for my knee replacement!).

Network TV news (which is what I watch at home–no cable at our house!) is often biased, but in all fairness, there are at least efforts to be fair. Certain journalists (entertainers) have a harder time looking neutral than others, but at least the words out of their mouths seem to be unbiased, even if their eye rolls, facial tics, tight lips, and voice tone give away their actual opinion.

But CNN!–the stories and announcers seem like something out of the Weekly World News–that’s the little newspaper that used to have the stories about Bat Boy!

I can’t believe that anyone watches CNN, unless they think it’s the Comedy Channel!
 
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umamibella said:
What a desperate act. Should be a crime, the liars who created this should be charged. Is it known who did this?
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They should not have created this story but just goes to show that many of us believed it because Joe Biden has done the same thing so many times when he is addressing the events. He often does not know where he is or makes a gaffe and says the wrong place or the wrong office or person.

It did not seem unreasonable that he would again say the wrong thing.
 
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Wow, this thread got a lot of responses before it was labeled as edited. It was shared on Twitter over a million times too.

Redstate.com, the source of the article for this thread, appears to have deleted the story. The link now produces a 404 error. I think it would have been better for them to have posted a retraction instead of creating those impressions of the story and then just going silent.
 
The associated press article I posted earlier also stated that the video was manipulated.
 
gam197 said:
This is why the story was initially believable
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Unfortunately, and this isn’t specific to a political party, things that people find agreeable or in support of their positions are easier to believe.
 
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gam197:
This is why the story was initially believable
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Unfortunately, and this isn’t specific to a political party, things that people find agreeable or in support of their positions are easier to believe.
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No, but Joe Biden makes big gaffes regularly. He appears to be talking about George Bush instead of Trump recently.

 
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gam197 said:
No but
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No “buts.” Instead of defending the response to the story, let’s all learn from the experience and be a bit slower to extend our credulity to a story. This will happen again. Things like this will only get worst as “deep fake” tools become more accessible.
 
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gam197:
No but
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No “buts.” Instead of defending the response to the story, let’s all learn from the experience and be a bit slower to extend our credulity to a story. This will happen again. Things like this will only get worst as “deep fake” tools become more accessible.
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He happens to do it almost daily . He mixes up everything. He had his own jacket that he wears and yet at the Philadelphia event he tells the participants that he is wear an Eagles jacket. Does he not realize people will know an Eagles jacket?

The Minnesota story was a false story and Red State should make a statement. There are enough real stories without taking on false ones.
 
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7_Sorrows said:
Why is a dementia patient running for the highest office in our govrrnment.?
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Why is somebody with a personality disorder running for the highest office in our government? Oh wait… Trump doesn’t have a psychological diagnosis of this.

Nor do you have a medical diagnosis of dementia for Mr. Biden. Occasional memory lapses do not equal dementia. We all have them in our 50s and up and are still compos mentis.

Please stop the calumny. Criticize his policies and ideas if you must. But refrain from making remote medical diagnoses. Are you even a doctor? I’m sure you’d be the first to jump in and defend Pres. Trump when his opponents accuse him of mental instability.

So in Christian charity, afford Mr. Biden the same courtesy.
 
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