…have gone full Soviet.
Pretty sure, though, that this is a typo: “…the Neo-Bolsheviks, with or without General Secretary Joe, of America’s USSR party will surrender. They will scorch the earth from sea to shining sea if that’s what it takes.”
That first sentence is pretty clearly missing a “not.”
Patriotism is being reframed as supporting Democrats and rule of law is being reframed as accepting government persecution of dissidents of Democrats.
Yes, if you watch the video, he clearly says, “This is not to say the Neo-Bolsheviks…” rather than “This is to say the Neo-Bolsheviks…” Somebody just transcribed it wrong. Worth watching in order to see the clips that are just referred to in the transcript.
But I still think the complaints about “say that again” are a bum rap; the White House transcribed that as “Let me say that again,” and in context it’s quite natural. Biden obviously didn’t actually say “Let me” but the delivery is not diminished by the omission: I have no trouble believing both that that’s what he was supposed to say, and that, this far along, his staff would know better than to make the teleprompter give him complicated instructions — the whole point of a teleprompter is to let you read what you are supposed to say. Any staffer worth anything would have written “combined…COMBINED” if that’s what they wanted, rather than “combined [say that again] combined.”
It’s even plausible that the whole “say that again” was just Biden’s on-the-fly decision to emphasize “combined” for the sake of the rhythm: It’s a grace note to the delivery that I can well imagine Trump or Obama doing, and Biden *does* still have some good days, or good hours.
There are plenty of other inarguable Biden senior moments out there; it’s more convincing if we don’t stretch the point to include less defensible examples. There is a kernel of truth to MSM’s contention that it did not investigate Biden’s dementia because they thought it was all just right-wing spin. Not a big kernel, but not nothing.