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Ben Burgis on FB:
Even apart from taking terrible policy positions and lying like crazy
about his record, Joe Biden's performance last night was a grisly parody
of how a normal candidate might bomb on the debate stage. He called
Bernie the President, he called Barack Obama "the Barack," he showed
every appearance of forgetting things he'd said a minute or two earlier,
he advised black parents to help their kids learn vocabulary by keeping
"the record player" on at night, he blurted out "I'm the Vice
President!" apropos nothing in particular, and his teeth literally
started to fall out. The whole thing felt like an anxiety dream Tony
would have in one of the later seasons of the Sopranos. I'm normally not
a fan of using this word in political contexts, but honestly, the media
treating it like it there was nothing to see there and Biden was within
the normal range of debate performances kinda does feel like gaslighting.
(Wikipedia: Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which
a person seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in
members of a targeted group, making them question their own memory,
perception, and sanity.)
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