• jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    You know the man stutters, right?

    Clip has been edited:

    https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-viral-tiktok-america-xi-jinping-comments-1825039

    "I was in the foothi- — foot- — excuse me, in the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping, traveling with him. (Inaudible) traveled 17,000 miles when I was Vice President at the time. I don’t know that for a fact.

    “And we were sitting alone. I had an interpreter and he had an interpreter. And he looked at me. In all seriousness, he said, “Can you define America for me?” And I said what many of you heard me say for a long time. I said, ‘Yes, I can, in one word: possibilities.’”

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      Lol the actual transcript and real video is so much worse. It’s why your link doesn’t just provide the link to the speech itself if it’s trying to prove the TikTok is edited. It’s 2024, noone is going to write an article if they can just post a 30 second clip to go viral exposing the tiktokers bullshit… unless… the clip and transcript is worse than the TikTok lol. Downvote me all ya want. He isn’t running so I’m not shilling against Biden or going out of my way to shit talk him as a president. With that being said, I hope it’s understood I’m just calling a spade as I see it and all I see is another bumbling old fuck too old to run to the store by himself let alone be running the world’s only legitimate superpower nation, by definition (air quotes).

      It still makes me wonder how the fuck this even went viral again? Obviously because the maga idiots made the deliberate attack but why go with this? He’s too old to be pres but he’s already turned down the second term and the clip is from one of his biggest progressive victories over the Republicans. On top of all that, there are also soooooo many better moments they could’ve used. Like when he fuckin said that even poor kids can be as smart as the white kids too! I mean fuck that one is hard to argue isn’t a big deal. The TikTok at worst just feels like a call back to everyone’s favorite war criminal George W.

      Eitherway I say fuckem all. I’ll vote Harris but only to keep out the fuckin clown. Didn’t mean to blow up your shit, I just got so annoyed that I read the whole article, watched like 20 mins of the speech (which is a good one all tongue slips aside), pulled up the transcript because I thought maybe it was so edited I couldn’t even notice it watching the real speech. Searched the transcript after realizing it was just a super long address. It takes me to the part in the transcript from the TikTok. Read it. Thought wft it reads exactly how the ticktock clip played. Go back to the speech because I think I’m missing something. Fast forward and find ticktock segment of the speech and sure as fuckin shit not only does it happen just as the clip showed. The fuckin TikTok even spares everyone who didn’t watch the speech live from the full unintelligible 5-10mins leading up to and following his mini-stroke. /s (added the satire denotation cuz the stutter really wasn’t that fuckin bad.)

      With that I leave you with the quote in all it’s glory with link to to the White House website the transcript was pulled from. As well as a link at the end for anyone who wants to watch the rest of the speech. It really is worth the watch for everything outside of the only fucking part of the day that went fuckin viral. Enjoy:

      "We’re going to miss Justice Breyer. He’s a patriot, an extraordinary public service [servant], and a great justice of the Supreme Court.

      And, folks — (applause) — let me close with what I’ve long said: America is a nation that can be defined in a single word. I was in the foothi- — foot- — excuse me, in the foothills of the Himalayas with Xi Jinping, traveling with him. (Inaudible) traveled 17,000 miles when I was Vice President at the time. I don’t know that for a fact.

      And we were sitting alone. I had an interpreter and he had an interpreter. And he looked at me. In all seriousness, he said, “Can you define America for me?” And I said what many of you heard me say for a long time. I said, “Yes, I can, in one word: possibilities.” (Applause.) “Possibilities.” That, in America, everyone should be able to go as far as their hard work and God-given talent will take them. And possibilities. We’re the only ones. That’s why we’re viewed as the “ugly Americans”: We think anything is possible. (Laughter.)"

      Link to transcript from the White ahous3 website.

      Link to the full speech and service announcing Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation by the senate to the SCOTUS

      Again, sorry for sounding so abrasive. Im just pissed that you in your defending the article that the TikTok was edited but mostly at the author of the article for providing nothing but literally just cherry picking 2 quotes from the last 3 paragraphs of nonsense that surrounded the tongue slip. Just felt like I was doing your guys’ because the author cherry picked to write the article leading you to cherry pick the article to leave out the whole Himalayas tangent took up 10 mins of the speech between the tongue slip and the word “possibilities.” And I still dont get why the fuck he said that’s why h3 said that’s why we’re called the ugly americans???