Republican media has convinced their viewers that Biden is basically constantly confused and just slackjawed and drooling constantly. They set expectations for him so low, when reality didn’t bare out their caracicture they had to pivot. I think the implication they are going for is Biden was dosed with something to make him seem coherent, basically the weekend at Bernie’s president. Dumb, but so are Fox News viewers, so I’m sure it’ll go over just fine with them.
That said, it did seem like Biden was yelling a lot. The few moments where he slowed down to talk about some somber topic came as a relief to me. To put a metric to it, I saw in Politico that the written version of his speech contained 80 more explanation marks than last year’s speech.
Their viewers aren’t watching the raw state of the address. They’re watching the sound bites, so the conservative media can sell it whatever way they want
Well, what did you expect him to do when the other side is yelling stupidities all the time? When did a presidential debater had to tell the other side “will you shut up, man?” and call him “this clown”? When they run out of patience when trying to play by the rules, and the other side doesn’t.
Then, you see that a segment of the population is still sleepwalking into fascism. Not some “maybe” danger, actual danger (the contender tried to keep power by force, and yet he’s the main contender?!) Venezuela went through this. Look up the Hugo Chavez story.
The first two minutes of the speech was practically him saying “WAKE UP, AMERICA!! See what’s happening!”
It was about time.
The other side is a constant “NU-UH! NO U!!!” noise, and you felt “relieved” when Biden was speaking calmly?
I say, he should have used 80 more exclamation marks.
Republican media has convinced their viewers that Biden is basically constantly confused and just slackjawed and drooling constantly. They set expectations for him so low, when reality didn’t bare out their caracicture they had to pivot. I think the implication they are going for is Biden was dosed with something to make him seem coherent, basically the weekend at Bernie’s president. Dumb, but so are Fox News viewers, so I’m sure it’ll go over just fine with them.
That said, it did seem like Biden was yelling a lot. The few moments where he slowed down to talk about some somber topic came as a relief to me. To put a metric to it, I saw in Politico that the written version of his speech contained 80 more explanation marks than last year’s speech.
Their viewers aren’t watching the raw state of the address. They’re watching the sound bites, so the conservative media can sell it whatever way they want
Well, what did you expect him to do when the other side is yelling stupidities all the time? When did a presidential debater had to tell the other side “will you shut up, man?” and call him “this clown”? When they run out of patience when trying to play by the rules, and the other side doesn’t.
Then, you see that a segment of the population is still sleepwalking into fascism. Not some “maybe” danger, actual danger (the contender tried to keep power by force, and yet he’s the main contender?!) Venezuela went through this. Look up the Hugo Chavez story.
The first two minutes of the speech was practically him saying “WAKE UP, AMERICA!! See what’s happening!”
It was about time.
The other side is a constant “NU-UH! NO U!!!” noise, and you felt “relieved” when Biden was speaking calmly?
I say, he should have used 80 more exclamation marks.
I was watching it on C-Span and they said the previous SOTU speech by him had 0 exclamation marks
(Autocorrect turned your exclamation into explanation)