#45 has shown them the way and the hucksters are following his
lead.
"Another newly elected Republican House member has had doubt cast
on her backstory after a deeply-reported Washington Post profile
found several discrepancies.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has described herself as a Hispanic conservative who grew up poor, survived a home invasion and lost
her grandmother to HIV/AIDS due to heroin use. But those details
have come as a surprise to family members and friends who knew her
before she entered politics about five years ago, reported the
Washington Post.
https://www.rawstory.com/anna-luna-biography/
Technobarbarian wrote:
#45 has shown them the way and the hucksters are following his
lead.
"Another newly elected Republican House member has had doubt cast
on her backstory after a deeply-reported Washington Post profile
found several discrepancies.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has described herself as a Hispanic conservative who grew up poor, survived a home invasion and lost
her grandmother to HIV/AIDS due to heroin use. But those details
have come as a surprise to family members and friends who knew her
before she entered politics about five years ago, reported the
Washington Post.
https://www.rawstory.com/anna-luna-biography/Biden has shown them all the way - starting back in 1987. --------------------------------------------
WASHINGTON — Standing in front of Floridians who had lost everything during Hurricane Ian, President Biden on Wednesday recalled his own
house being nearly destroyed 15 years ago: “We didn’t lose our whole home, but lightning struck and we lost an awful lot of it,” he said.
Mr. Biden has mentioned the incident before, once saying that he knows
what it’s like “having had a house burn down with my wife in it.”
In fact, news reports at the time called it little more than “a small
fire that was contained to the kitchen” and quoted the local Delaware
fire chief as saying “the fire was under control in 20 minutes.”
The story is not an isolated example of embellishment.
The exaggerated biography that Mr. Biden tells includes having been a
fierce civil rights activist who was repeatedly arrested. He has
claimed to have been an award-winning student who earned three
degrees. And last week, speaking on the hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico, he said he had been “raised in the Puerto Rican community
at home, politically.”
For more than four decades, Mr. Biden has embraced storytelling as a
way of connecting with his audience, often emphasizing the truth of
his account by adding, “Not a joke!” in the middle of a story. But Mr. Biden’s folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that don’t quite add up and details that are exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges
shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences.
Mr. Biden’s instances of exaggeration and falsehood fall far well
short of those of his predecessor, who during four years in office
delivered what the Washington Post fact checker called a “tsunami of untruths” and CNN described as a “staggering avalanche of daily wrongness.”
Former President Donald J. Trump lied constantly, not only about
trivial details (like insisting it hadn’t rained during his
inauguration when it clearly had) but also about consequential moments
— misleading about the pandemic, perpetrating the “big lie” that Mr. Biden stole the 2020 election, and claiming falsely that the Capitol
was not attacked by his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mr. Biden’s fictions are nowhere near that scale. But they are
emblematic of how the president, over nearly five decades in public
life, has been unable to break himself of the habit of spinning
embellished narratives, sometimes only loosely based on the facts, to
weave together his political identity. And they provide political
ammunition for Republicans eager to tar him as too feeble to run for re-election in two years.
His stories have been repeatedly and publicly challenged, as far back
as his 1987 campaign for president, when his attempts to adopt someone else’s life story as his own, and his false claims about his academic record, forced him to withdraw.
...
During his first presidential run in 1987, Mr. Biden said he “went to
law school on a full academic scholarship,” bragged that he “ended up
in the top half” of his law school class, and insisted that he “graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school.”
If fact, as he later admitted, he had only a partial scholarship, was
76th out of 85 law school student and graduated with one bachelor's
degree (with a double major in history and political science). -------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/us/politics/biden-exaggeration-falsehood.html
--
bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
Technobarbarian wrote:
#45 has shown them the way and the hucksters are following his
lead.
"Another newly elected Republican House member has had doubt cast
on her backstory after a deeply-reported Washington Post profile
found several discrepancies.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has described herself as a Hispanic
conservative who grew up poor, survived a home invasion and lost
her grandmother to HIV/AIDS due to heroin use. But those details
have come as a surprise to family members and friends who knew her
before she entered politics about five years ago, reported the
Washington Post.
https://www.rawstory.com/anna-luna-biography/
Biden has shown them all the way - starting back in 1987. --------------------------------------------
WASHINGTON — Standing in front of Floridians who had lost everything
during Hurricane Ian, President Biden on Wednesday recalled his own
house being nearly destroyed 15 years ago: “We didn’t lose our whole home, but lightning struck and we lost an awful lot of it,” he said.
Mr. Biden has mentioned the incident before, once saying that he knows
what it’s like “having had a house burn down with my wife in it.”
In fact, news reports at the time called it little more than “a small
fire that was contained to the kitchen” and quoted the local Delaware
fire chief as saying “the fire was under control in 20 minutes.”
The story is not an isolated example of embellishment.
The exaggerated biography that Mr. Biden tells includes having been a
fierce civil rights activist who was repeatedly arrested. He has claimed
to have been an award-winning student who earned three degrees. And last week, speaking on the hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico, he
said he had been “raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.”
For more than four decades, Mr. Biden has embraced storytelling as a way
of connecting with his audience, often emphasizing the truth of his
account by adding, “Not a joke!” in the middle of a story. But Mr. Biden’s folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that don’t quite add up and details that are exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges
shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences.
Mr. Biden’s instances of exaggeration and falsehood fall far well short
of those of his predecessor, who during four years in office delivered
what the Washington Post fact checker called a “tsunami of untruths” and CNN described as a “staggering avalanche of daily wrongness.”
Former President Donald J. Trump lied constantly, not only about trivial details (like insisting it hadn’t rained during his inauguration when it clearly had) but also about consequential moments — misleading about the pandemic, perpetrating the “big lie” that Mr. Biden stole the 2020 election, and claiming falsely that the Capitol was not attacked by his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mr. Biden’s fictions are nowhere near that scale. But they are
emblematic of how the president, over nearly five decades in public
life, has been unable to break himself of the habit of spinning
embellished narratives, sometimes only loosely based on the facts, to
weave together his political identity. And they provide political
ammunition for Republicans eager to tar him as too feeble to run for re-election in two years.
His stories have been repeatedly and publicly challenged, as far back as
his 1987 campaign for president, when his attempts to adopt someone
else’s life story as his own, and his false claims about his academic record, forced him to withdraw.
...
During his first presidential run in 1987, Mr. Biden said he “went to
law school on a full academic scholarship,” bragged that he “ended up in the top half” of his law school class, and insisted that he “graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school.”
If fact, as he later admitted, he had only a partial scholarship, was
76th out of 85 law school student and graduated with one bachelor's
degree (with a double major in history and political science). -------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/us/politics/biden-exaggeration-falsehood.html
On Friday, February 10, 2023 at 11:36:48 AM UTC-8, bfh wrote:Does Biden have a gaggle of batshit crazy clowns trying to out clown him, the way a whole gaggle of batshit crazy clowns are trying to out clown the orange clown, with even crazier performances?
Technobarbarian wrote:
Biden has shown them all the way - starting back in 1987.
#45 has shown them the way and the hucksters are following his
lead.
"Another newly elected Republican House member has had doubt cast
on her backstory after a deeply-reported Washington Post profile
found several discrepancies.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has described herself as a Hispanic
conservative who grew up poor, survived a home invasion and lost
her grandmother to HIV/AIDS due to heroin use. But those details
have come as a surprise to family members and friends who knew her
before she entered politics about five years ago, reported the
Washington Post.
https://www.rawstory.com/anna-luna-biography/
--------------------------------------------
WASHINGTON — Standing in front of Floridians who had lost everything
during Hurricane Ian, President Biden on Wednesday recalled his own
house being nearly destroyed 15 years ago: “We didn’t lose our whole
home, but lightning struck and we lost an awful lot of it,” he said.
Mr. Biden has mentioned the incident before, once saying that he knows
what it’s like “having had a house burn down with my wife in it.”
In fact, news reports at the time called it little more than “a small
fire that was contained to the kitchen” and quoted the local Delaware
fire chief as saying “the fire was under control in 20 minutes.”
The story is not an isolated example of embellishment.
The exaggerated biography that Mr. Biden tells includes having been a
fierce civil rights activist who was repeatedly arrested. He has
claimed to have been an award-winning student who earned three
degrees. And last week, speaking on the hurricane-devastated island of
Puerto Rico, he said he had been “raised in the Puerto Rican community
at home, politically.”
For more than four decades, Mr. Biden has embraced storytelling as a
way of connecting with his audience, often emphasizing the truth of
his account by adding, “Not a joke!” in the middle of a story. But Mr. >> Biden’s folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that don’t quite >> add up and details that are exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges
shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences.
Mr. Biden’s instances of exaggeration and falsehood fall far well
short of those of his predecessor, who during four years in office
delivered what the Washington Post fact checker called a “tsunami of
untruths” and CNN described as a “staggering avalanche of daily
wrongness.”
Former President Donald J. Trump lied constantly, not only about
trivial details (like insisting it hadn’t rained during his
inauguration when it clearly had) but also about consequential moments
— misleading about the pandemic, perpetrating the “big lie” that Mr. >> Biden stole the 2020 election, and claiming falsely that the Capitol
was not attacked by his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mr. Biden’s fictions are nowhere near that scale. But they are
emblematic of how the president, over nearly five decades in public
life, has been unable to break himself of the habit of spinning
embellished narratives, sometimes only loosely based on the facts, to
weave together his political identity. And they provide political
ammunition for Republicans eager to tar him as too feeble to run for
re-election in two years.
His stories have been repeatedly and publicly challenged, as far back
as his 1987 campaign for president, when his attempts to adopt someone
else’s life story as his own, and his false claims about his academic
record, forced him to withdraw.
...
During his first presidential run in 1987, Mr. Biden said he “went to
law school on a full academic scholarship,” bragged that he “ended up
in the top half” of his law school class, and insisted that he
“graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school.”
If fact, as he later admitted, he had only a partial scholarship, was
76th out of 85 law school student and graduated with one bachelor's
degree (with a double major in history and political science).
--------------------------------------------------------------
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/us/politics/biden-exaggeration-falsehood.html
--
bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
Now I get to do my jive ass imitation, except that I put my point right out front. But, But, but, whine, snort, you ignored my point. I don't think anyone in their right mind has ever said Biden was a saint. I was talking about the followers.
TB
On Friday, February 10, 2023 at 11:36:48 AM UTC-8, bfh wrote:--
Technobarbarian wrote:
Biden has shown them all the way - starting back in 1987.
#45 has shown them the way and the hucksters are following his
lead.
"Another newly elected Republican House member has had doubt
cast on her backstory after a deeply-reported Washington Post
profile found several discrepancies.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has described herself as a
Hispanic conservative who grew up poor, survived a home
invasion and lost her grandmother to HIV/AIDS due to heroin
use. But those details have come as a surprise to family
members and friends who knew her before she entered politics
about five years ago, reported the Washington Post.
https://www.rawstory.com/anna-luna-biography/
-------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON —
Standing in front of Floridians who had lost everything during
Hurricane Ian, President Biden on Wednesday recalled his own
house being nearly destroyed 15 years ago: “We didn’t lose
our whole home, but lightning struck and we lost an awful lot of
it,†he said.
Mr. Biden has mentioned the incident before, once saying that he
knows what it’s like “having had a house burn down with my
wife in it.â€
In fact, news reports at the time called it little more than “a
small fire that was contained to the kitchen†and quoted the
local Delaware fire chief as saying “the fire was under control
in 20 minutes.â€
The story is not an isolated example of embellishment.
The exaggerated biography that Mr. Biden tells includes having
been a fierce civil rights activist who was repeatedly arrested.
He has claimed to have been an award-winning student who earned
three degrees. And last week, speaking on the
hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico, he said he had been
“raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.â€
For more than four decades, Mr. Biden has embraced storytelling
as a way of connecting with his audience, often emphasizing the
truth of his account by adding, “Not a joke!†in the middle
of a story. But Mr. Biden’s folksiness can veer into folklore,
with dates that don’t quite add up and details that are
exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them
more powerful for audiences.
Mr. Biden’s instances of exaggeration and falsehood fall far
well short of those of his predecessor, who during four years in
office delivered what the Washington Post fact checker called a
“tsunami of untruths†and CNN described as a “staggering >> avalanche of daily wrongness.â€
Former President Donald J. Trump lied constantly, not only about
trivial details (like insisting it hadn’t rained during his
inauguration when it clearly had) but also about consequential
moments — misleading about the pandemic, perpetrating the
“big lie†that Mr. Biden stole the 2020 election, and
claiming falsely that the Capitol was not attacked by his
supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mr. Biden’s fictions are nowhere near that scale. But they are
emblematic of how the president, over nearly five decades in
public life, has been unable to break himself of the habit of
spinning embellished narratives, sometimes only loosely based on
the facts, to weave together his political identity. And they
provide political ammunition for Republicans eager to tar him as
too feeble to run for re-election in two years.
His stories have been repeatedly and publicly challenged, as far
back as his 1987 campaign for president, when his attempts to
adopt someone else’s life story as his own, and his false
claims about his academic record, forced him to withdraw. ...
During his first presidential run in 1987, Mr. Biden said he
“went to law school on a full academic scholarship,†bragged
that he “ended up in the top half†of his law school class,
and insisted that he “graduated with three degrees from
undergraduate school.â€
If fact, as he later admitted, he had only a partial scholarship,
was 76th out of 85 law school student and graduated with one
bachelor's degree (with a double major in history and political
science).
--------------------------------------------------------------
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/us/politics/biden-exaggeration-falsehood.html
bill Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
Now I get to do my jive ass imitation, except that I put my point
right out front. But, But, but, whine, snort, you ignored my point.
I don't think anyone in their right mind has ever said Biden was a
saint. I was talking about the followers. Does Biden have a gaggle
of batshit crazy clowns trying to out clown him, the way a whole
gaggle of batshit crazy clowns are trying to out clown the orange
clown, with even crazier performances?
Technobarbarian wrote:
On Friday, February 10, 2023 at 11:36:48 AM UTC-8, bfh wrote:--
Technobarbarian wrote:
Biden has shown them all the way - starting back in 1987.
#45 has shown them the way and the hucksters are following his
lead.
"Another newly elected Republican House member has had doubt
cast on her backstory after a deeply-reported Washington Post
profile found several discrepancies.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has described herself as a
Hispanic conservative who grew up poor, survived a home
invasion and lost her grandmother to HIV/AIDS due to heroin
use. But those details have come as a surprise to family
members and friends who knew her before she entered politics
about five years ago, reported the Washington Post.
https://www.rawstory.com/anna-luna-biography/
-------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON —
Standing in front of Floridians who had lost everything during
Hurricane Ian, President Biden on Wednesday recalled his own
house being nearly destroyed 15 years ago: “We didn’t lose
our whole home, but lightning struck and we lost an awful lot of
it,†he said.
Mr. Biden has mentioned the incident before, once saying that he
knows what it’s like “having had a house burn down with my >> wife in it.â€
In fact, news reports at the time called it little more than “a
small fire that was contained to the kitchen†and quoted the
local Delaware fire chief as saying “the fire was under control
in 20 minutes.â€
The story is not an isolated example of embellishment.
The exaggerated biography that Mr. Biden tells includes having
been a fierce civil rights activist who was repeatedly arrested.
He has claimed to have been an award-winning student who earned
three degrees. And last week, speaking on the
hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico, he said he had been
“raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, politically.â€
For more than four decades, Mr. Biden has embraced storytelling
as a way of connecting with his audience, often emphasizing the
truth of his account by adding, “Not a joke!†in the middle
of a story. But Mr. Biden’s folksiness can veer into folklore,
with dates that don’t quite add up and details that are
exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them
more powerful for audiences.
Mr. Biden’s instances of exaggeration and falsehood fall far
well short of those of his predecessor, who during four years in
office delivered what the Washington Post fact checker called a
“tsunami of untruths†and CNN described as a “staggering >> avalanche of daily wrongness.â€
Former President Donald J. Trump lied constantly, not only about
trivial details (like insisting it hadn’t rained during his
inauguration when it clearly had) but also about consequential
moments — misleading about the pandemic, perpetrating the
“big lie†that Mr. Biden stole the 2020 election, and
claiming falsely that the Capitol was not attacked by his
supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mr. Biden’s fictions are nowhere near that scale. But they are
emblematic of how the president, over nearly five decades in
public life, has been unable to break himself of the habit of
spinning embellished narratives, sometimes only loosely based on
the facts, to weave together his political identity. And they
provide political ammunition for Republicans eager to tar him as
too feeble to run for re-election in two years.
His stories have been repeatedly and publicly challenged, as far
back as his 1987 campaign for president, when his attempts to
adopt someone else’s life story as his own, and his false
claims about his academic record, forced him to withdraw. ...
During his first presidential run in 1987, Mr. Biden said he
“went to law school on a full academic scholarship,†bragged
that he “ended up in the top half†of his law school class,
and insisted that he “graduated with three degrees from
undergraduate school.â€
If fact, as he later admitted, he had only a partial scholarship,
was 76th out of 85 law school student and graduated with one
bachelor's degree (with a double major in history and political
science).
--------------------------------------------------------------
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/us/politics/biden-exaggeration-falsehood.html
bill Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
Now I get to do my jive ass imitation, except that I put my pointLOL. At the end of the day going forward, you're literally still a
right out front. But, But, but, whine, snort, you ignored my point.
I don't think anyone in their right mind has ever said Biden was a
saint. I was talking about the followers. Does Biden have a gaggle
of batshit crazy clowns trying to out clown him, the way a whole
gaggle of batshit crazy clowns are trying to out clown the orange
clown, with even crazier performances?
hoot - and apparently not a transitory one.
--
bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
On Friday, February 10, 2023 at 5:42:24 PM UTC-8, bfh wrote:
Technobarbarian wrote:
On Friday, February 10, 2023 at 11:36:48 AM UTC-8, bfh wrote:--
Technobarbarian wrote:
Biden has shown them all the way - starting back in 1987.
#45 has shown them the way and the hucksters are following
his lead.
"Another newly elected Republican House member has had
doubt cast on her backstory after a deeply-reported
Washington Post profile found several discrepancies.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has described herself as a
Hispanic conservative who grew up poor, survived a home
invasion and lost her grandmother to HIV/AIDS due to
heroin use. But those details have come as a surprise to
family members and friends who knew her before she entered
politics about five years ago, reported the Washington
Post.
https://www.rawstory.com/anna-luna-biography/
-------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON
 Standing in front of Floridians who had lost
everything during Hurricane Ian, President Biden on Wednesday
recalled his own house being nearly destroyed 15 years ago:
“We didn’t lose our whole home, but lightning
struck and we lost an awful lot of it,†he said.
Mr. Biden has mentioned the incident before, once saying that
he knows what it’s like “having had a house burn
down with my wife in it.â€
In fact, news reports at the time called it little more than
“a small fire that was contained to the kitchen†>>>> and quoted the local Delaware fire chief as saying “the >>>> fire was under control in 20 minutes.â€
The story is not an isolated example of embellishment.
The exaggerated biography that Mr. Biden tells includes
having been a fierce civil rights activist who was repeatedly
arrested. He has claimed to have been an award-winning
student who earned three degrees. And last week, speaking on
the hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico, he said he
had been “raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, >>>> politically.â€
For more than four decades, Mr. Biden has embraced
storytelling as a way of connecting with his audience, often
emphasizing the truth of his account by adding, “Not a
joke!†in the middle of a story. But Mr. Biden’s
folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that
don’t quite add up and details that are exaggerated or >>>> wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them more
powerful for audiences.
Mr. Biden’s instances of exaggeration and falsehood
fall far well short of those of his predecessor, who during
four years in office delivered what the Washington Post fact
checker called a “tsunami of untruths†and CNN >>>> described as a “staggering avalanche of daily
wrongness.â€
Former President Donald J. Trump lied constantly, not only
about trivial details (like insisting it hadn’t rained >>>> during his inauguration when it clearly had) but also about
consequential moments  misleading about the pandemic, >>>> perpetrating the “big lie†that Mr. Biden stole the
2020 election, and claiming falsely that the Capitol was not
attacked by his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mr. Biden’s fictions are nowhere near that scale. But >>>> they are emblematic of how the president, over nearly five
decades in public life, has been unable to break himself of
the habit of spinning embellished narratives, sometimes only
loosely based on the facts, to weave together his political
identity. And they provide political ammunition for
Republicans eager to tar him as too feeble to run for
re-election in two years.
His stories have been repeatedly and publicly challenged, as
far back as his 1987 campaign for president, when his
attempts to adopt someone else’s life story as his
own, and his false claims about his academic record, forced
him to withdraw. ... During his first presidential run in
1987, Mr. Biden said he “went to law school on a full
academic scholarship,†bragged that he “ended up in
the top half†of his law school class, and insisted that
he “graduated with three degrees from undergraduate
school.â€
If fact, as he later admitted, he had only a partial
scholarship, was 76th out of 85 law school student and
graduated with one bachelor's degree (with a double major in
history and political science).
--------------------------------------------------------------
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/us/politics/biden-exaggeration-falsehood.html
LOL. At the end of the day going forward, you're literally stillbill Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
Now I get to do my jive ass imitation, except that I put my
point right out front. But, But, but, whine, snort, you ignored
my point. I don't think anyone in their right mind has ever
said Biden was a saint. I was talking about the followers. Does
Biden have a gaggle of batshit crazy clowns trying to out clown
him, the way a whole gaggle of batshit crazy clowns are trying
to out clown the orange clown, with even crazier performances?
a hoot - and apparently not a transitory one. -- bill Theory
don't mean squat if it don't work.
This is just from my questionable memory, but I seem to recall
Brandon, sharing his sympathy with the worries of his
constituents, back when the bussing of minority students into
white school districts, was a political concern, in the early
70s?
I think most of us have "grown" since then, and are far more
understanding about others "VANE", (values attitudes, needs, &
expectations) than we used to be, from a disremembered past, not
including "Ghost Dancers", who wish to go back in time...... I
also think there's an acceptable level, about parables of such
empathy.... Changing one's ethnic background is one of those "red
flags", to me.... People is what they is... Becoming a Martinez,
O'Malley, Flegelstine, for a public political persona smacks of
sheer phoniness....
film...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, February 10, 2023 at 5:42:24 PM UTC-8, bfh wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/us/politics/biden-exaggeration-falsehood.html
Technobarbarian wrote:
On Friday, February 10, 2023 at 11:36:48 AM UTC-8, bfh wrote:
Technobarbarian wrote:
Biden has shown them all the way - starting back in 1987.
#45 has shown them the way and the hucksters are following
his lead.
"Another newly elected Republican House member has had
doubt cast on her backstory after a deeply-reported
Washington Post profile found several discrepancies.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has described herself as a
Hispanic conservative who grew up poor, survived a home
invasion and lost her grandmother to HIV/AIDS due to
heroin use. But those details have come as a surprise to
family members and friends who knew her before she entered
politics about five years ago, reported the Washington
Post.
https://www.rawstory.com/anna-luna-biography/
-------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON
 Standing in front of Floridians who had lost
everything during Hurricane Ian, President Biden on Wednesday
recalled his own house being nearly destroyed 15 years ago:
“We didn’t lose our whole home, but lightning
struck and we lost an awful lot of it,†he said.
Mr. Biden has mentioned the incident before, once saying that
he knows what it’s like “having had a house burn
down with my wife in it.â€
In fact, news reports at the time called it little more than
“a small fire that was contained to the kitchen†>>>>> and quoted the local Delaware fire chief as saying “the >>>>> fire was under control in 20 minutes.â€
The story is not an isolated example of embellishment.
The exaggerated biography that Mr. Biden tells includes
having been a fierce civil rights activist who was repeatedly
arrested. He has claimed to have been an award-winning
student who earned three degrees. And last week, speaking on
the hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico, he said he
had been “raised in the Puerto Rican community at home, >>>>> politically.â€
For more than four decades, Mr. Biden has embraced
storytelling as a way of connecting with his audience, often
emphasizing the truth of his account by adding, “Not a >>>>> joke!†in the middle of a story. But Mr. Biden’s
folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that
don’t quite add up and details that are exaggerated or >>>>> wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them more
powerful for audiences.
Mr. Biden’s instances of exaggeration and falsehood >>>>> fall far well short of those of his predecessor, who during
four years in office delivered what the Washington Post fact
checker called a “tsunami of untruths†and CNN >>>>> described as a “staggering avalanche of daily
wrongness.â€
Former President Donald J. Trump lied constantly, not only
about trivial details (like insisting it hadn’t rained >>>>> during his inauguration when it clearly had) but also about
consequential moments  misleading about the pandemic, >>>>> perpetrating the “big lie†that Mr. Biden stole the
2020 election, and claiming falsely that the Capitol was not
attacked by his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mr. Biden’s fictions are nowhere near that scale. But >>>>> they are emblematic of how the president, over nearly five
decades in public life, has been unable to break himself of
the habit of spinning embellished narratives, sometimes only
loosely based on the facts, to weave together his political
identity. And they provide political ammunition for
Republicans eager to tar him as too feeble to run for
re-election in two years.
His stories have been repeatedly and publicly challenged, as
far back as his 1987 campaign for president, when his
attempts to adopt someone else’s life story as his
own, and his false claims about his academic record, forced
him to withdraw. ... During his first presidential run in
1987, Mr. Biden said he “went to law school on a full >>>>> academic scholarship,†bragged that he “ended up in
the top half†of his law school class, and insisted that
he “graduated with three degrees from undergraduate
school.â€
If fact, as he later admitted, he had only a partial
scholarship, was 76th out of 85 law school student and
graduated with one bachelor's degree (with a double major in
history and political science).
--------------------------------------------------------------
--
LOL. At the end of the day going forward, you're literally stillbill Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
Now I get to do my jive ass imitation, except that I put my
point right out front. But, But, but, whine, snort, you ignored
my point. I don't think anyone in their right mind has ever
said Biden was a saint. I was talking about the followers. Does
Biden have a gaggle of batshit crazy clowns trying to out clown
him, the way a whole gaggle of batshit crazy clowns are trying
to out clown the orange clown, with even crazier performances?
a hoot - and apparently not a transitory one. -- bill Theory
don't mean squat if it don't work.
This is just from my questionable memory, but I seem to recall
Brandon, sharing his sympathy with the worries of his
constituents, back when the bussing of minority students into
white school districts, was a political concern, in the early
70s?
I think most of us have "grown" since then, and are far more
understanding about others "VANE", (values attitudes, needs, &
expectations) than we used to be, from a disremembered past, not
including "Ghost Dancers", who wish to go back in time...... I
also think there's an acceptable level, about parables of such
empathy.... Changing one's ethnic background is one of those "red
flags", to me.... People is what they is... Becoming a Martinez,
O'Malley, Flegelstine, for a public political persona smacks of
sheer phoniness....
I mostly agree except for "People is what they is". These days, the
woke - and the government - have decided that people is what they say
they self-identify as. And that includes ethnicity and race.
bfh <redydog@rye.net> wrote:
film...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, February 10, 2023 at 5:42:24 PM UTC-8, bfh wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/us/politics/biden-exaggeration-falsehood.html
Technobarbarian wrote:
On Friday, February 10, 2023 at 11:36:48 AM UTC-8, bfh wrote:
Technobarbarian wrote:
Biden has shown them all the way - starting back in 1987.
#45 has shown them the way and the hucksters are following
his lead.
"Another newly elected Republican House member has had
doubt cast on her backstory after a deeply-reported
Washington Post profile found several discrepancies.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has described herself as a
Hispanic conservative who grew up poor, survived a home
invasion and lost her grandmother to HIV/AIDS due to
heroin use. But those details have come as a surprise to
family members and friends who knew her before she entered
politics about five years ago, reported the Washington
Post.
https://www.rawstory.com/anna-luna-biography/
-------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON
 Standing in front of Floridians who had lost
everything during Hurricane Ian, President Biden on Wednesday
recalled his own house being nearly destroyed 15 years ago:
“We didn’t lose our whole home, but lightning
struck and we lost an awful lot of it,†he said. >>>>>>
Mr. Biden has mentioned the incident before, once saying that
he knows what it’s like “having had a house burn
down with my wife in it.â€
In fact, news reports at the time called it little more than
“a small fire that was contained to the kitchenâ€
and quoted the local Delaware fire chief as saying “the
fire was under control in 20 minutes.â€
The story is not an isolated example of embellishment.
The exaggerated biography that Mr. Biden tells includes
having been a fierce civil rights activist who was repeatedly
arrested. He has claimed to have been an award-winning
student who earned three degrees. And last week, speaking on
the hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico, he said he
had been “raised in the Puerto Rican community at home,
politically.â€
For more than four decades, Mr. Biden has embraced
storytelling as a way of connecting with his audience, often
emphasizing the truth of his account by adding, “Not a
joke!†in the middle of a story. But Mr. Biden’s
folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that
don’t quite add up and details that are exaggerated or
wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them more
powerful for audiences.
Mr. Biden’s instances of exaggeration and falsehood
fall far well short of those of his predecessor, who during
four years in office delivered what the Washington Post fact
checker called a “tsunami of untruths†and CNN
described as a “staggering avalanche of daily
wrongness.â€
Former President Donald J. Trump lied constantly, not only
about trivial details (like insisting it hadn’t rained
during his inauguration when it clearly had) but also about
consequential moments  misleading about the pandemic,
perpetrating the “big lie†that Mr. Biden stole the
2020 election, and claiming falsely that the Capitol was not
attacked by his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mr. Biden’s fictions are nowhere near that scale. But
they are emblematic of how the president, over nearly five
decades in public life, has been unable to break himself of
the habit of spinning embellished narratives, sometimes only
loosely based on the facts, to weave together his political
identity. And they provide political ammunition for
Republicans eager to tar him as too feeble to run for
re-election in two years.
His stories have been repeatedly and publicly challenged, as
far back as his 1987 campaign for president, when his
attempts to adopt someone else’s life story as his
own, and his false claims about his academic record, forced
him to withdraw. ... During his first presidential run in
1987, Mr. Biden said he “went to law school on a full
academic scholarship,†bragged that he “ended up in
the top half†of his law school class, and insisted that
he “graduated with three degrees from undergraduate
school.â€
If fact, as he later admitted, he had only a partial
scholarship, was 76th out of 85 law school student and
graduated with one bachelor's degree (with a double major in
history and political science).
--------------------------------------------------------------
--
LOL. At the end of the day going forward, you're literally stillbill Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
Now I get to do my jive ass imitation, except that I put my
point right out front. But, But, but, whine, snort, you ignored
my point. I don't think anyone in their right mind has ever
said Biden was a saint. I was talking about the followers. Does
Biden have a gaggle of batshit crazy clowns trying to out clown
him, the way a whole gaggle of batshit crazy clowns are trying
to out clown the orange clown, with even crazier performances?
a hoot - and apparently not a transitory one. -- bill Theory
don't mean squat if it don't work.
This is just from my questionable memory, but I seem to recall
Brandon, sharing his sympathy with the worries of his
constituents, back when the bussing of minority students into
white school districts, was a political concern, in the early
70s?
I think most of us have "grown" since then, and are far more
understanding about others "VANE", (values attitudes, needs, &
expectations) than we used to be, from a disremembered past, not
including "Ghost Dancers", who wish to go back in time...... I
also think there's an acceptable level, about parables of such
empathy.... Changing one's ethnic background is one of those "red
flags", to me.... People is what they is... Becoming a Martinez,
O'Malley, Flegelstine, for a public political persona smacks of
sheer phoniness....
I mostly agree except for "People is what they is". These days, the
woke - and the government - have decided that people is what they say
they self-identify as. And that includes ethnicity and race.
"Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you
count the tail as a leg. When they answered 'five,' Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make
it a leg."
George.Anthony wrote:
bfh <redydog@rye.net> wrote:
film...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, February 10, 2023 at 5:42:24 PM UTC-8, bfh wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/10/us/politics/biden-exaggeration-falsehood.html
Technobarbarian wrote:
On Friday, February 10, 2023 at 11:36:48 AM UTC-8, bfh wrote:
Technobarbarian wrote:
Biden has shown them all the way - starting back in 1987.
#45 has shown them the way and the hucksters are following
his lead.
"Another newly elected Republican House member has had
doubt cast on her backstory after a deeply-reported
Washington Post profile found several discrepancies.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has described herself as a
Hispanic conservative who grew up poor, survived a home
invasion and lost her grandmother to HIV/AIDS due to
heroin use. But those details have come as a surprise to
family members and friends who knew her before she entered
politics about five years ago, reported the Washington
Post.
https://www.rawstory.com/anna-luna-biography/
-------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON
 Standing in front of Floridians who had lost
everything during Hurricane Ian, President Biden on Wednesday
recalled his own house being nearly destroyed 15 years ago:
“We didn’t lose our whole home,
but lightning
struck and we lost an awful lot of it,†he said. >>>>>>>
Mr. Biden has mentioned the incident before, once saying that
he knows what it’s like “having
had a house burn
down with my wife in it.â€
In fact, news reports at the time called it little more than
“a small fire that was contained to the
kitchenâ€
and quoted the local Delaware fire chief as saying
“the
fire was under control in 20 minutes.â€
The story is not an isolated example of embellishment.
The exaggerated biography that Mr. Biden tells includes
having been a fierce civil rights activist who was repeatedly
arrested. He has claimed to have been an award-winning
student who earned three degrees. And last week, speaking on
the hurricane-devastated island of Puerto Rico, he said he
had been “raised in the Puerto Rican community at
home,
politically.â€
For more than four decades, Mr. Biden has embraced
storytelling as a way of connecting with his audience, often
emphasizing the truth of his account by adding,
“Not a
joke!†in the middle of a story. But Mr.
Biden’s
folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that
don’t quite add up and details that are
exaggerated or
wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them more
powerful for audiences.
Mr. Biden’s instances of exaggeration and falsehood
fall far well short of those of his predecessor, who during
four years in office delivered what the Washington Post fact
checker called a “tsunami of untruthsâ€
and CNN
described as a “staggering avalanche of daily
wrongness.â€
Former President Donald J. Trump lied constantly, not only
about trivial details (like insisting it hadn’t
rained
during his inauguration when it clearly had) but also about
consequential moments  misleading about the
pandemic,
perpetrating the “big lie†that Mr.
Biden stole the
2020 election, and claiming falsely that the Capitol was not
attacked by his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mr. Biden’s fictions are nowhere near that
scale. But
they are emblematic of how the president, over nearly five
decades in public life, has been unable to break himself of
the habit of spinning embellished narratives, sometimes only
loosely based on the facts, to weave together his political
identity. And they provide political ammunition for
Republicans eager to tar him as too feeble to run for
re-election in two years.
His stories have been repeatedly and publicly challenged, as
far back as his 1987 campaign for president, when his
attempts to adopt someone else’s life story as his
own, and his false claims about his academic record, forced
him to withdraw. ... During his first presidential run in
1987, Mr. Biden said he “went to law school on a full
academic scholarship,†bragged that he
“ended up in
the top half†of his law school class, and insisted that
he “graduated with three degrees from undergraduate
school.â€
If fact, as he later admitted, he had only a partial
scholarship, was 76th out of 85 law school student and
graduated with one bachelor's degree (with a double major in
history and political science).
--------------------------------------------------------------
--
LOL. At the end of the day going forward, you're literally stillbill Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
Now I get to do my jive ass imitation, except that I put my
point right out front. But, But, but, whine, snort, you ignored
my point. I don't think anyone in their right mind has ever
said Biden was a saint. I was talking about the followers. Does
Biden have a gaggle of batshit crazy clowns trying to out clown
him, the way a whole gaggle of batshit crazy clowns are trying
to out clown the orange clown, with even crazier performances?
a hoot - and apparently not a transitory one. -- bill Theory
don't mean squat if it don't work.
This is just from my questionable memory, but I seem to recall
Brandon, sharing his sympathy with the worries of his
constituents, back when the bussing of minority students into
white school districts, was a political concern, in the early
70s?
I think most of us have "grown" since then, and are far more
understanding about others "VANE", (values attitudes, needs, &
expectations) than we used to be, from a disremembered past, not
including "Ghost Dancers", who wish to go back in time...... I
also think there's an acceptable level, about parables of such
empathy.... Changing one's ethnic background is one of those "red
flags", to me.... People is what they is... Becoming a Martinez, >>>> O'Malley, Flegelstine, for a public political persona smacks of
sheer phoniness....
I mostly agree except for "People is what they is". These days, the
woke - and the government - have decided that people is what they say
they self-identify as. And that includes ethnicity and race.
"Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you
count the tail as a leg. When they answered 'five,' Lincoln told them
that
the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make
it a leg."
If he said that today, he'd be booted off The Table of
Self-identification - and then his toolbox would be dropped on him. The radical woke might even peacefully protest to remove him from pennies
and $5 bills, and then until they're all out of circulation, money-shame anyone caught using them..........wait.......who the hell literally
carries around pennies anymore? Besides, for every 5 pennies that you
don't carry, you can carry an extra 9mm round in case you get into a firefight at Walmart - or for you rich West Coasters, Starbucks.
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