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Barry Markson

(238 posts)
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 06:35 PM Apr 26

Being a lifeguard is now controversial?

Raygun was claimed to have saved 77 people from drowning!

Here he is as governor supposedly saving a kid, and a Black kid at that!
Nancy probably pushed the kid in.
Does it get any more disingenuous?


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Igel

(35,374 posts)
1. Two things.
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 08:14 PM
Apr 26

1. Did it influence the presidential race 44 years ago?

2. Why should I be fixated on the past like this?

3. (Let's call it 2a.) Was the "rescuee" faking it? White or brown but in blackface? Got any evidence for the otherwise baseless and evidence-free accusation?

In other words, besides Reagan-hatred, why should I care about something 40 years past? Just because it says something bad about somebody I want to think bad things about? Sorry. I'm in 2024, not ...wherever-then. What is, is. What will be is not, but will be. What was, isn't ... Whuh-eh-vuh.

Soon I'll show my students simulations of Chicxulub's impact near what's now the Yucatan. But I'm not going to confuse 2024 with the Chicxulub year. (Although, you know, I might just have enough TP to get me through that.)

LeftInTX

(25,618 posts)
3. It was a girl and according to her mother, she was holding onto an air mattress that was pushed away by another kid.
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 08:45 PM
Apr 26

The water was over her head and she couldn't swim.

Some things just are not controversial.

This must have been about 55 years ago....geez....

Torchlight

(3,374 posts)
5. Sounds pretty serious, man.
Fri Apr 26, 2024, 09:35 PM
Apr 26

I hope you figure out what needs to be done before it's too late. Otherwise... well, who knows what might happen.

Barry Markson

(238 posts)
6. This post was in response to the MAGATS accusing President Biden of "plagiarizing" Reagan's life guarding heroics
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 12:23 AM
Apr 27

During his Howard Stern interview this morning.

I guess not everybody here was aware of it.
I should have been more specific.

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,347 posts)
7. I kinda figured it had something to do with Biden being a lifeguard as a kid.
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 12:29 AM
Apr 27

You can always edit the original post.

Celerity

(43,590 posts)
8. Joe Biden "Corn Pop" Story FULL Segment
Sat Apr 27, 2024, 12:40 AM
Apr 27


*Video produced by WITN22 can not be used without the expressed written permission of WITN Channel-22 Wilmington Delaware.
But you can share all you like.

This is the original clip of Joe Biden's full speech from the June 26, 2017, Joseph R. Biden Jr. Aquatic Center Dedication:

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