The president used the term to describe Jose Antonio Ibarra, a Venezuelan who crossed the border into the U.S. and has been charged with the murder of Laken Riley.
At any given time, there are a few different anecdotal-type “talking points” that are the new thing everyone’s talking about. You’re going to be hearing about Biden saying “an illegal” for a little while, even though as your transcript notes, it wasn’t even him that chose the wording. People form their picture of the world through these little gestalt-facts, and if you can pick one that will shape the narrative you want to present, and arrange for people to hear it over and over from a variety of sources, and do that in a constant stream that all points to the same types of conclusions, it actually does a pretty good job at controlling how they’ll perceive the totality of the situation.
It’s almost exactly the same as how you will hear over and over that:
We broke a record for fossil fuel extraction in 2023
Biden’s climate bill includes giving money to oil and gas companies
… and then all this weight of emotion behind how bad Biden is for the climate, how he’s just the same, how it’s such a shame that I as a good climate-change person can’t support him… etc etc. Because the little factoids are in fact accurate, and properly sized and shaped to stick in your brain, they count as “supporting evidence” for Biden being bad on the climate.
The reality is, the way to analyze Biden’s performance on the climate is to ask what’s the total content of the climate bill he got passed, and what impact it’s expected to have. That’s it. Just like the reality is that how he performs on immigration has nothing at all to do with whether he said “an illegal” in this specific context.
If you hear someone repeating one of these specific little factoids, or if you start to see one specific one that is commonly repeated, my advice is to become suspicious of the message on top of which it is being placed, like a little evidence-cherry.
>You’re going to be hearing about Biden saying “an illegal” for a little while, even though as your transcript notes, it wasn’t even him that chose the wording.
why isn’t he accountable for the words that come out of his mouth?
Dude just give it a rest. The transcript speaks for itself and you or me or any other person can just read it and form their conclusions. If you read it and your conclusions are some specific way, then of course you’re welcome to that opinion.
It’s just how propaganda works.
At any given time, there are a few different anecdotal-type “talking points” that are the new thing everyone’s talking about. You’re going to be hearing about Biden saying “an illegal” for a little while, even though as your transcript notes, it wasn’t even him that chose the wording. People form their picture of the world through these little gestalt-facts, and if you can pick one that will shape the narrative you want to present, and arrange for people to hear it over and over from a variety of sources, and do that in a constant stream that all points to the same types of conclusions, it actually does a pretty good job at controlling how they’ll perceive the totality of the situation.
It’s almost exactly the same as how you will hear over and over that:
… and then all this weight of emotion behind how bad Biden is for the climate, how he’s just the same, how it’s such a shame that I as a good climate-change person can’t support him… etc etc. Because the little factoids are in fact accurate, and properly sized and shaped to stick in your brain, they count as “supporting evidence” for Biden being bad on the climate.
The reality is, the way to analyze Biden’s performance on the climate is to ask what’s the total content of the climate bill he got passed, and what impact it’s expected to have. That’s it. Just like the reality is that how he performs on immigration has nothing at all to do with whether he said “an illegal” in this specific context.
If you hear someone repeating one of these specific little factoids, or if you start to see one specific one that is commonly repeated, my advice is to become suspicious of the message on top of which it is being placed, like a little evidence-cherry.
>You’re going to be hearing about Biden saying “an illegal” for a little while, even though as your transcript notes, it wasn’t even him that chose the wording.
why isn’t he accountable for the words that come out of his mouth?
Dude just give it a rest. The transcript speaks for itself and you or me or any other person can just read it and form their conclusions. If you read it and your conclusions are some specific way, then of course you’re welcome to that opinion.
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when are you going to stop personally attacking other users?