While giving a speech on lowering healthcare costs alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday, April 3, President Joe Biden raised concerned eyebrows by slurring his speech. Particularly, conservative commenters on X saw a particularly bad clip of the speech and pointed out that some of what he said was more or less unintelligible, a concern given his position of vast power and responsibility.
Particularly, commenters on posts from RNC research, which posted the clip and said, “BIDEN: ‘The seasons are now walergieshnowponush'” and Citizen Free Press, which wrote, “Biden is heavily slurring his speech today,” used the speech to mock Biden and raise concerns about his current cognitive state, which some have feared is in the danger zone since the Hur report was released. Others argued that Biden’s speech was not unintelligible and that he said, “allergies are now upon us.”
In that report, Special Counsel Hur, explaining why he did not charge Biden, said, “We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory . . . It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—by then a former president well into his eighties of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Another part of the report provided, “In his interview with our office, Mr. Biden’s memory was worse. He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (“if it was 2013 – when did I stop being Vice President?”), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (“in 2009, am I still Vice President?”), He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died. And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him. Among other things, he mistakenly said he “had a real difference” of opinion with General Karl Eikenberry, when, in fact, Eikenberry was an ally whom Mr. Biden cited approvingly in his Thanksgiving memo to President Obama. In a case where the government must prove that Mr. Biden knew he had possession of the classified Afghanistan documents after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial, his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall.”
In any case, commenters on X (formerly Twitter) were quick to use the recent slurred speech incident to sound off. Replying to RNC Research’s comment about Biden’s unintelligible speech, one commenter joked, “Oh right yeah that makes sense I’ll just hisjenfsenupsuher myself too.” Another joked, “What season is that specifically?” “Its like he spilled a can of alphabet spaghetti n tries to read it,” said still another.
While some on the Citizen Free Press tweet joked about Biden’s slurred speech, one commenter argued that now they don’t want to mock his gaffes because they are pitiful rather than funny. That commenter said, “I won’t make fun of Biden’s gaffs anymore. They’re not funny. They are pitiful. But don’t get the wrong idea. Biden is a mean, hateful, unethical man who has done immense harm. He doesn’t deserve our sympathy.”
Though many said the speech was unintelligible, some others argued that he said something along the lines of “allergies are upon us.” Still, the words, if not unintelligible, was still somewhat difficult to understand, particularly in the short clips tweeted out.
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