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It's the Literacy

Neither one of them is senile—they both have problems, but one of them is a lot more serious

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In the excitement over Biden’s and Trump’s funny speech mistakes, media are way too eager to frame it terms of a debate on who’s too old, when the verbal problems of both are probably things they’ve had since childhood—Biden from his stutter, which sometimes leaves him grasping for a wrong word like a life preserver (picking “Mexico” instead of “Egypt” …

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