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Oh, PLEASE! That it's titled "Creepy Joe" should tell you something about its source. But apparently not. Sky News Australia's rating from Media Bias Fact Check:


It's owned by Rupert Murdoch, for Christ's sake.
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Does that make them better at video manipulation ? It was just first video I found, and imho exactly zero of it is fake. Cut out of context ? Maybe. But I can't think of context which could excuse it. Biden is just old senile creep. And all democrats are like: nah, it's fine, what could possibly go wrong.
 
Dr.Sid said:
Does that make them better at video manipulation ? It was just first video I found, and imho exactly zero of it is fake. Cut out of context ? Maybe. But I can't think of context which could excuse it. Biden is just old senile creep. And all democrats are like: nah, it's fine, what could possibly go wrong.
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From what Stacy said above:
Yet that is what you bring up. Not his policies, not what he has or hasn't accomplished. Nope. "He can't walk", "He can't talk" are your complaints.
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How did he accomplish so much if he's some doddering old dude?

Why do you insist on campaigning against Biden? What do you hope to accomplish when you can't address Biden's accomplishments?
 
Dr.Sid said:
Does that make them better at video manipulation ? It was just first video I found, and imho exactly zero of it is fake. Cut out of context ? Maybe. But I can't think of context which could excuse it. Biden is just old senile creep. And all democrats are like: nah, it's fine, what could possibly go wrong.
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You are doing exactly what they want people to do: look at various clips and let their confirmation bias/prejudice/nasty minds do the rest. People see what they want to see in them and it says more about them than Biden.

For example, this was one that Biden critics got a lot of use from:



But what did Stephanie Carter herself have to say about it?

“As the sole owner of my story,” Carter wrote, “it is high time that I reclaim it – from strangers, Twitter, the pundits and the late-night hosts. I won’t pretend that this will be the last of that picture, but it will be the last of other people speaking for me.”
Biden, she said, had hugged her because he sensed she was “uncharacteristically nervous” and had leaned in to thank her for letting her husband serve in the Obama administration. He kept his hands on her shoulders “as a means of offering his support”, she wrote.
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In her Medium post, Carter said the image in her case was “a still shot taken from a video – misleadingly extracted from what was a longer moment between close friends – sent out in a snarky tweet – came to be the lasting image of that day.”
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The Joe Biden in my picture is a close friend helping someone get through a big day, for which I will always be grateful.”
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What about this "Creepy Joe" nonsense?

Another widely shared image showed Biden leaning towards the 13-year-old daughter of the Delaware senator Chris Coons at his swearing-in ceremony in 2015 and kissing the side of her head.

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Coons told the Washington Post his family is extremely close to the Bidens, and that his children see the former vice-president as a grandfather figure.

“She did not think of it as anything,” Coons said. “All three of my kids have known Joe their whole lives.”

More from the same SkyNews Aus. as your posted clip. Notice the language used and how they hype the 'Creepy Joe" bit. At 1:27 in, they play the "baby sniffing" video that has the manipulated sniffing sound added and then comments "He sniffs too many children, that man."



If you want...or need...to believe this kind of thing then that's on you.
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Orphia Nay said:
Now Jill Stein is running.

https://apnews.com/article/f4d6ab729c94f413d5678e68ae4718d4
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The 73-year-old Stein said in a video announcing her 2024 candidacy on Thursday that the current political system is “broken.”

“I’m running for president to offer that choice for the people outside of the failed two-party system,” said Stein, a physician from Lexington, Massachusetts.
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At 73 years old, she'll be one of the younger candidates for president. Shamelessly pandering to the yoof vote, I see.
 
The Atheist said:
I don't see this gathering Trump any new voters, but it's going to play well with his camp: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bide...igration-proposals_n_654fef0ee4b09c9500aa6153
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We've known for a while that things that would and should have done for ordinary politicians do not work the same way for Trump.

As with Nigel Farage, Donald Trump does well when the media says things like, "Can you believe he is thinking about doing stuff that panders to the worst instincts in society?"

Because the worst instincts in society are not that rare.
 
New Bloomgberg/Morning Consult poll has Trump leading Biden in almost all battlegrounds, with or without Kennedy, with the exception of Michigan which is tied (heads-up) or a 1-point margin for Biden (with RFK Jr.).

I do not want Trump reelected, but unless the Democrats dump Biden and Harris, that seems the most likely outcome. The window for the GOP to save us by denying him the nomination is closing.
 
Brainster said:
New Bloomgberg/Morning Consult poll has Trump leading Biden in almost all battlegrounds, with or without Kennedy, with the exception of Michigan which is tied (heads-up) or a 1-point margin for Biden (with RFK Jr.).

I do not want Trump reelected, but unless the Democrats dump Biden and Harris, that seems the most likely outcome. The window for the GOP to save us by denying him the nomination is closing.
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Seven years running of Republicans backing a psychopath and yet somehow it still remains the fault and responsibility of Democrats.

Here’s a wild idea: Maybe this is the fault of responsibility of Republicans and they should be held accountable for fixing it?
 
Dr.Sid said:
Does that make them better at video manipulation ? It was just first video I found, and imho exactly zero of it is fake. Cut out of context ? Maybe. But I can't think of context which could excuse it. Biden is just old senile creep. And all democrats are like: nah, it's fine, what could possibly go wrong.
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It continues to be weird that you employ maximum hyperbole for Biden but soft-pedal Trump. You don’t appear to be even slightly interested in having a serious discussion.
 
johnny karate said:
Seven years running of Republicans backing a psychopath and yet somehow it still remains the fault and responsibility of Democrats.
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The post you quoted did not place blame for the past anywhere. It only described a future response.

Hercules56 said:
If polls in January still show Biden trailing Trump, Dems will pressure him to pull out
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Among other difficulties like finding what incentive they could offer, finding his replacement, and just the general idea of the DP ever making any move just because it would be politically competent, the biggest block is probably psychological: to reverse course now would equal admitting how long & far they've been going down a course that was wrong all along. The entirety of the pro-Biden case has always consisted of "ELECTABLE!", which is incompatible with suddenly now admitting that his electability is actually relatively low.
 
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It might be nice if Biden would, you know, campaign. I see the occasional TV ad but nothing on Twitter/X or Facebook. The Dem super PACs aren't doing much either. They should be slamming Trump. Every time I look at my phone I should see that Trump is stupid, a traitor, a business failure or all three. Trump is down with his legal troubles but I don't see anyone kicking him. That's a problem.
 
johnny karate said:
Seven years running of Republicans backing a psychopath and yet somehow it still remains the fault and responsibility of Democrats.

Here’s a wild idea: Maybe this is the fault of responsibility of Republicans and they should be held accountable for fixing it?
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It's not the Democrats' fault but at this point I do think they are the only ones who can fix it. The Republicans aren't going to get off the crazy train until it crashes.
 
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