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Friday, 04/03/2020 8:44:16 AM

Friday, April 03, 2020 8:44:16 AM

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Biden Gives Most Unintelligible Answer We've Ever Heard, Tops All His Previous COVID Gaffes

If you’ve spent any time on social media, you’ve probably seen one of those threads that encourages the reader to use predictive text to complete a sentence and post the funny results.

Predictive text is a form of artificial intelligence that your device uses to suggest what word you might want to use next based on the phrases and words you commonly use. You may see that option as you’re composing a text or social media post from your iPhone, for instance.

Repeatedly selecting the predictive text produces funny and often nonsensical sentences full of familiar words that don’t make too much sense when strung together.

I’m beginning to think that may be what is currently happening in former Vice President Joe Biden’s head.

Speaking to MSNBC’s Yasmin Vossoughian Monday, the 2020 presidential hopeful was asked what he would say to Americans who are “terrified” by the coronavirus outbreak.

What he had to say was, well, confusing.

“My message is that the president has to move more rapidly,” Biden began. “You know, we know from experience that speed matters. We know that you can’t go too fast. It’s about going too slow.”

At that point, it was already looking like he wouldn’t be answering Vossoughian’s question about what to tell the American people as he seemed to be rattling off the usual “President Donald Trump is messing things up” talking points. It got worse.

“And in order to avoid that — those very high (death) numbers, we have to do at least several things,” he continued, presumably about to make a coherent list.
Instead, his answer really went off the rails from there.

“One, we have to depend on what the president is going to do right now. And first of all, he has to tell — wait till the cases — before anything happens — look, the whole idea is he’s got to get in place things that were shortages of,” Biden said, speaking about — I’m not really sure, actually.

“We’re not testing enough people,” he continued. “We don’t — our first responders, docs and nurses, don’t have the gloves, the masks. They don’t have the equipment they need. We’re short on ventilators,” he said, making sure to add the magic word that liberals hope is Trump’s Achilles’ heel.
“And as this spreads to other areas, and which is likely to do, we don’t have the capacity to surge the equipment that they need,” the former VP said.

“We have to — he has to use the Defense Production Act much more aggressively, including not just in ventilators, but getting gloves, masks, shields, gowns, etc.,” he ended, finally making at least a little semantic sense, even if his point was factually wrong.

Just like predictive text, Biden was sort of saying the right words that are related to the subject, definitely hitting all the Democratic National Committee talking points, but altogether it was mostly gobbledygook.

This connection between Biden’s speeches and its predictive-text-like feel was hilariously parodied by Twitter user “Predictive Text Joe Biden.”

(At least I think it’s just a parody; the account, just created in February, contains many tweets that sound suspiciously like Biden.)



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