• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    That probably has more to do with his stutter than anything else. Look up lifetime interviews for the average politician with a record close to Biden’s. He probably has less all across the board. Because a stutter makes you look bad in an interview, even though it shouldn’t matter.

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        9 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…

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          9 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

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            9 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.

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              9 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