politics @lemmy.world Rapidcreek @lemmy.world 4 mo. ago

OOF: Mike Johnson Gets Super Awkward When His Teleprompter Shuts Down

www.huffpost.com OOF: Mike Johnson Gets Super Awkward When His Teleprompter Shuts Down

The House speaker seemed ill-equipped for a tech problem during the Republican National Convention.

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As much as I dislike this guy and his views, policies, past actions, morals, etc.. This was a nothingburger.
- Well, with the exception of how much shit they give Biden for not being able to speak without a teleprompter, yeah it would be nothingburger.
  But there's at least something when it's pointing out the hypocrisy of the right.
  And just because they don't care about the hypocrisy doesn't mean that we shouldn't point it out.
- Right? I want my 30 secs back. They would’ve been better spent on Prime Day.
  
  Edit: serves me right for not using a /s but damn y’all. I thought it was obvious I wasn’t even remotely serious about Prime day.
  
  Fuck amazon
  
  The great thing about Prime Day is that it happens a lot through the month.
  
  There is Prime Day on the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 11th, 13th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 29th, and sometimes the 31st.
Seems to be an ongoing issue for the repubs. Trump complained about the same last month.
- While simultaneously gaslighting Biden for needing a teleprompter.
  
  "Gaslighting" Biden?
  
  Why is this silly, overused word being used in this context?
Is it just me or does he look like Stephen Colbert?
- A bit of an off brand and slightly sanded version, yeah
It's incredible to me how ~~journalists~~ bloggers turn so much nothing into a news story and then people feel the need to share it.
- The Speaker of the House couldn't make a speech due to a teleprompter breakdown. It's not a minor thing. If it happened to the President it would be in the news for weeks.
  
  This begs the question: can Mike Johnson function without someone telling him what to say? And who's telling him what to say anyway? The oil industry? The Chinese? Obama?
  
  Mike needs to answer voters' questions about why he can't function without someone feeding him the words. It's either that or step down. More and more people are asking that recently.
  
  Refinement to your claim: if it happened to President Biden, it would be in the news for weeks. If it happened to Trump as president or any other Republican for that matter, nothing. They could all fall into a trance of aphasic racist gibberish and the reporting would be on how big the crowd was.
  
  Well then that settles it, replace him with AI with speech synthesis. Probably would have less hallucinations too.
  
  Edit: the SotH I mean
  
  I can not think of anything that means nothing more than this.
  
  He's there to read some words, the words disappeared, he was unable to read them. How in the world are you imagining this to be anything at all?
  
  It shouldn't be news if this happens to anyone, including the president. This is not news. This is a tech malfunction.
- Nobody would care if Republicans hadn't spent over a decade talking about how assorted Democrats couldn't function without a teleprompter.
  
  Didn't ya hear that Obama wore a Tan suit once? And he likes Dijon mustard too?!?
  
  I certainly don't care. What I do care about is the dimwits who think this means anything at all. You're so distressed over nothing that everything becomes headline news. This is what news organizations and social media outlets are using to manipulate the narrative and show you more ads. Because you're gullible.
- At the same time, they completely blow off actual news to treat fascists like silly geese (goosesteppers?)

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