Charles Bastille
1 min readFeb 10, 2024

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I stuttered as a kid and had to go through a lot of speech therapy to work though it. So when Biden mixed up the presidents of Mexico and Egyupt, I totally got it. We're taught to just say something if the word we are looking might make us stumble. If the word is wrong, so be it. It sounds a lot better than O-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-a-d-d-or.

The rest of his talk about Gaza (and everything else) was completely cogent. I don't agree with his approach towards Gaza, but he's not an idiot like Trump, who, if he was in office, would be doing photo opps with Netanyahu bulldozing Palestinian homes.

Anyway. the way the press goes after his gaffes insulting not just insulting to those of us who have stuttered in the past, it's dangerous, because it could lead to a Trump victory.

As the story mentions, where is the press on Trump? Listen to one speech of his all the way through. I challlenge anyone to do that and then tell me he hasn't completey entered the final stages of dementia.

Sucks that we have a choice between two old guys, but shit, people, if you don't vote in the smaller elections, this is what you get.

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Charles Bastille
Charles Bastille

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