It's time for the White House to put up or shut up
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Shielding Biden from public appearances might be a rational strategy -- and that's why it's a bad sign.
    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldOP
      87·
      10 months ago

      He does have a stutter but that’s no excuse to not do public interviews and press conferences. If he can’t do the bare minimum…

      • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        512·
        10 months ago

        It’s never been a prominent stutter. It is almost completely transparent. Like all of his speeches before he was VP showed little to no presence of a speech impediment, claiming his obvious cognitive decline is a stutter is ignorance and denial on display

        • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          4·
          10 months ago

          This guy hasn’t seen any of Biden’s early speeches on the senate floor. He has a distinct speech impediment. Stutter is a specific repeating of letter sounds in most people’s imagination, but it’s also a difficulty in “picking” words, which to many means longer pauses, or slowing speech to make is possible to talk without repeating sounds. There are lots of coping mechanisms they teach in speech therapy, and it’s well documented that Biden has always used them when speaking in public.

          • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
            27·
            10 months ago

            Nothing even close to the extent it is now. Find one single speech pre2008 where he sounds even remotely like he does now. It’s not a speech impediment, it’s a cognitive one