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Originally Posted by Pierre
He probably couldn’t get his feet out of the toe straps, but it’s just the latest in a long long line of videos. I take less from this one, but there are loads of clips ( Jimmy Kimmel one for example) where it is clear he is cognitively struggling and it’s obvious everyone around him are doing all they can to just get him through.
I don’t know who is currently running the US executive, but it isn’t him.
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Just a heads-up that there's some well-viewed fake videos of the Bidens out there. The bike incident is real but the many fakes include:
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A deceptively edited video of Joe Biden making it appear the Democratic presidential nominee forgot what state he was in was viewed more than one million times on Twitter over the weekend.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/01/t...ter/index.html
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Fake video of child swearing at Jill Biden during book reading spreads like wildfire online
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1967809.html
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Opponents of President Joe Biden have repeatedly circulated videos that cut his comments short or take his words out of context to leave a misleading impression.
The tactic, which the Trump campaign employed ahead of the 2020 election, fuels the narrative that Biden is senile and incompetent, experts said.
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https://www.politifact.com/article/2...g-bidens-word/
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Almost million views for faked video clip showing speechless Joe Biden
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https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/...joe-biden.html
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Whilst you are absolutely right, in principle, Biden is the POTUS and rather hostile to the UK as distinct from Ireland. So, maybe, it wouldn't be such a bad idea if he stopped breathing now instead of later.
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The Republic's not proposing to breach an international treaty nor entertain discussions on following Russia's lead in exiting the European Court of Human Rights.
Based on this context, you can see why a POTUS from any party might take a hostile tone to the UK. And, that's before we've even considered the impact of Irish American votes and the Democrats' bond to the Good Friday Agreement which it views as one of its great foreign policy successes.