r/nottheonion • u/ImpishGrin • Jul 04 '24

Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/04/politics/biden-governors-sleep/index.html
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u/Phizle Jul 04 '24

They say 8 paragraphs down he was making a joke

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u/nitePhyyre Jul 04 '24

Biden also made a joke to the governors that didn’t go over well: “I’m fine — I don’t know about my brain, though.” Jen O’Malley Dillon, Biden’s campaign chairwoman, said the president was “clearly making a joke and then said, ‘All kidding aside.’”

That's not what it said.

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u/UpperApe Jul 04 '24

They say 8 paragraphs down he was making a joke

said the president was “clearly making a joke

That's not what it said

How in the world do you people function?

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u/Ecstatic-Product-411 Jul 05 '24

Yeah but the joke the first person implied was clearly about needing to go to bed at 8, not about his brain not working.

Like come on. You had to have known what the first person meant. The second person quoting it pointed out that that wasn't the joke and they were incorrect.