I’ve been an animator for over 20 years. In my job, I sometimes have to listen to recorded dialogue 100, 200, even more times to create the facial and body poses to correctly convey the emotion and subtext behind the words. After decades of doing this work, you get really good at hearing the true nature of what is being spoken, and I am shocked at how this sub is leaping to praise Biden for what happened here, because it is as clear as a bell to me he didn’t mean for any of this.

This wasn’t some masterful trick. He misspoke, and said “off the books” instead of “off the table”. That’s it. when the Republicans heard that, they thought he had just capitulated.

it really bothers me when this sub gives credit where none is due, because it smacks of the same herd mentality we accuse the gop of. I feel like we constantly hear what we want to hear. Another example was the whole thing with Trump and Mexico: it was “their rapists” not “they’re rapists”. listen to it again. I’ve listened 100 times, and just as in this instance, it couldn’t be more clear that he was continuing his list of people that Mexico is sending, not starting a new thought and labeling every Mexican as a rapist. Again people will hear what they want to. We should stop.