In edited videos, Republican officials and allies of former president Donald Trump repeatedly tried to turn Biden’s Normandy visit into a highlight reel of senior moments and missteps, aimed at showing the president as infirm, addled or out of his depth. Trump, who turns 78 on Friday, has also repeatedly attacked Biden over his age and fitness, and regularly shares videos of the president looking frail.
This is easy to do, usually by using very short clips that seem to show something they don't. It's become a Republican staple in their obsession with portraying Biden as a doddering moron.
Never trust a five-second video clip, no matter which side it comes from. I guarantee you that the full context will always tell you something interesting. Even if it doesn't directly contradict the short clip, there's always something that puts a little different perspective on what happened.
The problem, of course, is that the perceived (and likely actual) attention span of the public is approximately that of a housefly. I think it'd be great if they'd show, say, five minutes of a Trump "speech," so people would get an idea of how badly he has deteriorated mentally (and it ain't like he started in Nobel land). But I'm not holding my breath.
I liked how in Nevada he recounted a "story" about a boat (salesman? manufacturer?) he had a conversation with, in which, as Trump put it, owing to his MIT connection (???) Trump was the first person to ask about what would happen if the boat sank in the vicinity of a shark, causing its battery to electrocute things (???) such that if you were on the boat you had a choice between being electrocuted because the battery was in the water or I guess jumping out of the boat into the water (presumably jumping far enough to be clear of the cartoony physics of a battery-in-water) and getting eaten by the shark (which invariably eats people?). My understanding is that Trump would choose death by battery water.
Clearly, a great mind with Big Ideas for helping America.
But who wouldn't choose death by battery? He's so relatable! Just a regular guy thinking about death, and being practical.
Is this why he's so opposed to offshore green energy production? Fear of electrocution in the water? Someone should tell him that the turbines electrocute sharks, so maybe we can combat climate change.
perhaps in Trump's mind, windmills kill birds, and birds are the only thing--the thin feathered line--keeping the sharks at bay. Trump has a longstanding terror of sharks, after all (weird for somebody who looks like he never gets anywhere near water).
Somebody should tell him about that Australian golf course that flooded, and then when the waters receded, the course's water hazards had six bull sharks that continued to live there for almost two decades.
Given Trump's apparent love of his Florida golf course and his galeophobia, maybe that would get him to change his thinking on climate change.
He's been in a multi-year (multi-decade?) legal battle with a wind farm company that wanted to put turbines off the coast near his Scottish golf resort. He's had it in for renewable energy ever since.
If he didn't have personal pique to keep him going, he'd just shrivel up and blow away.
Him and an AWFUL LOT of his cult followers.
They LIVE for grievance. They're anger junkies.
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In this sense, they're not "fake" videos, but misleading or dishonest videos.
How is this video? https://x.com/dom_lucre/status/1800319301335093744
55 seconds... is that long enough?
I think the style originated on comedy shows, illustrating yet again that the conservative point of view is basically satire, which they don't get, but still builds on their attitude that it's all a big joke that they're cleverly in on and you're not --so they're getting away with it because they mean it.
Speaking of which, the old Stephen Colbert Show was once a favorite of right wingnuts, and they even invited Colbert to be the keynote speaker at the White House Correspondents Dinner when Bush Junior was President, thinking Colbert (I kid you not) to be a kindred spirit.
The result was classic. A classic self-pwn, that is. And Colbert's stock among the Lefty set rose even higher.
Until they can come up with something that rivals the blithering lunacy of the shark and electrocution rant, Republicans can shut their collective trap.
Pick your guy- someone who "pauses" at Normandy . . .
or someone who calls the dead there- "losers".
No video the second, just testimony from named decorated generals. Guess which side Fox will air?
To make Trump sound sane, string together heavily edited clips, no longer than a few seconds.
To make Biden look frail, follow the same recipe.
The problem with this chicanery, if you can call it that, is that then everyone's all surprised when there's a video of Biden that hasn't been intentionally edited (like the SOTU speech) and he sounds fine. Then they pivot to "well, he's just on drugs this time" or something.
Republicans: if they're talking (or playing a video), they're lying. You can take it to the bank.
re: a couple days ago,
no humans were involved in making this video,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mogvvKztSow