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Nevilledog

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7. I look at it differently, I guess.

Reply to mucifer (Reply #5)

Tue Sep 1, 2020, 01:18 PM

Sep 2020

Not once did I think this was making fun of stroke victims, because he's vehemently denying it. I understood it to be a clap back at trump on two levels, actually. The racial slur, Pocahontas, that he continues to use on Elizabeth Warren combined with using his denials of any strokes and incessant lies about Biden's mental ability. trump and his loons are jack-hammering the idea that Biden has dementia. They are doctoring videos of Biden as "proof" of this.

I guess we have different opinions about the intent,

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That would be why dump harps on Joe's mental acuity. LakeArenal Sep 2020 #1

He had very little to lose in the first place. Nevilledog Sep 2020 #2

Yeah because making fun of disabilities is what we are all about mucifer Sep 2020 #3

All civility toward trump is fruitless. LakeArenal Sep 2020 #4

It's not about trump It's about people who have had strokes who aren't trump mucifer Sep 2020 #5

I look at it differently, I guess. Nevilledog Sep 2020 #7

This👆 I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2020 #6