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emmaverybo

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12. Movie allusion, but given all the take-offs on Westerns since the days
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 10:25 AM
Feb 2020

of Gaby Hays and John Wayne, this should have easily been seen as a “line,” not delivered with intent to humiliate.

Plant laughed, audience laughed, early news stories reported “Biden said jokingly,” but in typical Biden-bashing fashion, MSM transformed a laugh line into evidence of Joe’s misogyny, bizarre conduct, aggressive hostility on the trail.

Another swift-boating tactic—turn a strength into its opposite. If Joe has AA support, paint him as a racist, if Joe has terrific rapport with audiences, cast him as a shock-jock. If Joe jokes, make his humor into a recondite reference only convalescent home audiences would get.

Of course the plant suffered retroactive trauma.

But, but he has no filter, Gen X,Y, or Z don’t watch Westerns, Biden has no sense of humor because dementia, he’s REALLY slipping etc.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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