I didn’t watch the last Democratic presidential primary debates because I figured that without Tulsi Gabbard in there shaking things up it would be a boring, vapid parade of insubstantial verbal foam, and I love myself too much to go through such a horrible ordeal. By all accounts my prediction was correct, but I did miss one thing that’s been making the rounds in video clips for the last couple of days which I find absolutely bizarre.
Most of you have probably heard about Biden’s infamous “record player” comment by now, but for those of you who missed it, Biden was asked by debate moderator Linsey Davis to defend some comments he made about America’s problems with racism in the 1970s, and he responded by essentially saying that Black people don’t know how to raise their kids so they need to be taught how by social workers. Biden has been receiving mainstream criticism for his racist and paternalistic position, along with plenty of mockery for saying that parents need to be told to “make sure you have the record player on at night” so that kids hear enough words in early childhood.
It is pretty clear that Biden was trying to communicate an idea that is premised on a deeply racist and condescending worldview, so it’s to be expected that people would want to talk about that. It’s also to be expected that people would be making jokes about how the cute old man said “record player” like a grandpa. But what isn’t being discussed nearly enough is the fact that what Biden said was also a barely coherent, garbled word salad stumbling out of a brain that is clearly being eaten alive by a very serious neurological disease.
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5 comments:
He probably was remembering the premise that playing classical music while a child sleeps improves their mental abilities. It does.
In one sense Biden is correct ebonics sure as hell isn't proper english.
Swiss cheese doesn't have so many holes and it's not so mushy.
So what kind of music were Slow Joe and Dr. Jill playing for their drug using son and daughter? Acid Rock??
Yup, Biden called Bernie the President, said black families should play the record player at night, and said he singlehandedly beat up a drug dealer and wrapped him in chains for the police.
Last week claimed he was pinning a medal on an Iraq soldier while under snipper fire, and diffused a roadside bomb on the way to the airfield.
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