The alt-left will actually try to tell you with a straight face that this man isnt senile... yea ok
@jcsamuelson The alt-left would be the extremist elements of the left, those violent or disruptive to anti-free speech views or similar veins of extremes.
As for Biden, calling a senile episode, something has regularly, a "gaffe" is a bit reductionist IMO.
Can you share an example of this from the mainstream media for Biden, Obama, or Clinton?
I know I could fill pages from just Trump and Bush.
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Iassume by "the main stream media" you include the right-aligned media, which being 50% of the population is certainly mainstream. You really dont think any of the right-leaning mainstream media has ever made fun of those three presidents... really?
@threalist @freemo @jcsamuelson The media certainly piled onto Clinton when the sex scandal broke out.
They were afraid to really go at Obama because that might be racist. They are afraid to go after Biden because they don't want Trump, and because he is old and it looks like bullying.
Call me simple, but to me a “gaffe” is really nothing more than what Merriam-Webster says it is – i.e., a social or diplomatic blunder or noticeable mistake. Biden’s flub in that video certainly falls into that category. I just choose not to take it farther than that.
Fair, it is a gaffe caused by his senility and due to it being a repeated pattern makes his senility hard to deny. But sure, its a gaffe in that sense.
As for alt left, I understand that it’s aimed generically at the far (or extremist) left. I simply wondered if you had something more meaningful in mind. I personally don’t find it helpful because it can be slapped on any leftist who happens to rub someone the wrong way.
Agreed, just like the term alt-left.