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Narrator: Joe Biden is not in cognitive decline.

It's a lie.

He does have a stutter, however, and consequently sometimes this gets in the way of speaking. This is not a cognitive disability.
People who work closely with Biden, and know his abilities, endorsed him for president.

(I messed up the truth sandwich in that first tweet!)
h/t @ADForro
newsweek.com/bernie-sanders…

I thought the rumor was started by Trump, but I pulled up the wrong link.
There are people on my feed right now arguing that Biden is, in fact, going senile.

I consider this vile rumor-mongering, and I will block.

If I stood up and talked long enough (actually, more than an hour) you could find instances of me garbling my words.
Actually, I garble my words in less than an hour 🤣 I cringe when I watch videos of my lectures.

Trump is spreading the "cognitive decline" rumor.
People in my feed need to be better than that.
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/m…

As someone pointed out, Biden released medical records.
The video showing Biden misspeaking was maliciously edited, and promoted by Trump.

It was retweeted 34,000 times as of this morning.

I just listened to Sanders give an interview. He knows that if his supporters spread this lie, they're hurting him.
cnn.com/2020/03/08/pol…
It's a neat trick.

Trump spreads a lie and makes it sound like it is coming from Team Sanders. There are Sanders supporters who take the bait and spread the lie.

Trump accomplishes two things:
🔹He spreads the lie about Biden
🔹He makes Sanders supporters look bad

Win win
After enough people yesterday (who were posing as Sanders supporters) told me that Biden garbled sentences at his Kansas City rally, I found full video of his speech. He sounded great.

Obviously people I block won't see this, but I have appeal process. If I block you. . .
. . contact me through my website, apologize, and I'll unblock. (One chance)

I block the following:
🔹People who tell me I'm a stupid idiot (🤷‍♀️ I just don't like it)
🔹People who spread vile lies

Otherwise, I'm open.
Why aren't people understanding this?

🔹Biden has a stutter
🔹Videos of Biden are being maliciously edited
🔹Sanders supporters are hurting Sanders by participating in a disinformation campaign
🔹We should be promoting empathy for dealing with a stutter

I rewrote this thread as a blog post and filled in the information that came out about how this disinformation campaign spread.

terikanefield-blog.com/disinformation…
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