Bro didn't even know he was setting the standard that day
To be fair, he was demonstrating that the water in Flint Michigan was absolutely safe to drink (it was not)
This was probably Obama's least impressive moment as president
It's a shameful thing. We have the Army Corps of Engineers and the SeaBees who are both fully supplied and fully funded. Any President at any time can just send them out to fix a large infrastructure problem like this.
Sending in the military to fix the water problem in Flint Michigan would be an extremely popular and good thing to do for any President of any party by the vast majority of the population.
The fact that it hasn't happened sometime in the past 15 years is an incredible travesty.
I'm not from the US and I thought the whole Flint water thing was resolved years ago. It's still ongoing?! That's horrifying
No it’s not people just still talk about it like it is. It ended 8 years ago lol
Thank you for confirming! That's wild, it doesn't seem that long ago since it was in the news regularly
It was resolved years ago
Mhm, sure toxic water and things.
But have you seen how effortlessly he raises that glass?
those are some giant hands
I love how he just stops with his mouth ready to receive the water but his arm won’t go up any further so he calls in reinforcements and pushes it the rest of the way with the other hand lmao
Like two aliens controlling separate parts of his body trying to act human.
Alien hand syndrome is a thing!
That might be the hardest I've ever laughed in a movie. Out of nowhere and completely out of step with the tone of the scene.
Sorta. In that scene, he's basically discussing that they'll have to resort to eugenics and a military fascist power structure for the coming apocalypse and that really gets his Nazi hand going.
The way he has to fight it to get his hand down is what sells it. Sellers was a comedic genius.
I wouldn't say it's out of nowhere. The character is clearly modeled on Nazis like Werner von Braun whom the US recruited after WW II.
"BOB I NEED HELP RAISE HIS ARM A LITTLE HIGHER"
You guys are killing me
No they are not.
Edit: at least I hope so!!?
THATS ALL THE POWER I CAN GIVE 'ER CALL IN BACKUP
Like that dude from Men in Black, I'm not going to be able to unsee this now.
I voted for Kodos
Something is going on. Does he have tremors or is it just his suits like someone mentioned below. In both pics he is bending his whole body/head to drink. He’s not moving his arms up.
My dad and I both have tremors and I know some movements can make it more noticeable.
I don't know if he has dementia, but he for sure doesn't have tremors. He can lift an almost full glass up to his mouth to drink without spilling anything, he just has to use two hands.
An even more common cause for weakness would be a stroke. A minor stroke which affects the motor cortex will cause weakness to a specific part of the body.
Plus if you suffer a series of small strokes, each of which causes a small region of your brain to die, you can end up with vascular dementia, which mouth account for his current behavioral and speech impediments.
It really feels like he’s got an aversion to water or something and has to force himself. Like those videos where someone with rabies is just shaking while trying to drink water
Well, he’s mentally rabid, just not physically.
Maybe it's some kind of new chronic rabies mutation that causes slow deterioration over years instead of days?
Looks more like mobility issues, tbh. Guy is old as fuck, it's not even that surprising - the only reason it sorta is is due to how hard he and his followers try to deny it.
He's imagining it's Putin's dick, and he's remembering Vlad likes his balls fondled while he's receiving oral.
Lmao, he tried but then had to use the second hand.
Can someone ELI5 whats going on.
Is this just a one off quirk? Is it a sign of ageing?
I think it was during the last campaign. Apparently, Biden shook a little when he took a sip of water once. Trump's following base took it as a sign of weakness, that he's too old.
Trump subsequently demonstrated publicly how well he can drink from a glass, and his crowd cheered. The thing is, he was using both hands. Publicly, he intended to mock Biden, but I guess he, an old man with likely a bit shakey hands, is insecure to be seen as weak as well, and also took it as reassurance. I guess he does not want to take the risk and uses both hands since.
It didn’t even have to do with Biden in the beginning, but actually started with Marco Rubio using two hands to drink from a water bottle back in 2013, I believe. During the primary campaign for 2016, trump made fun of him for it when he was targeting him with the “Liddle Marco” insults.
During his term as president, trump often started using two hands to drink water during public appearances, and people haven’t been shy about pointing out the hypocrisy.
I can drink water pretty darn well. One handed, don’t even look sometimes.
I should be president.
I honestly think his suit is too tight for a further range of motion.
He usually wears way too large suits.
Make room for diaper, Donald
Too tight? He literally wears a ill fitted oversized suit
He does have horrendously fitting clothing usually.
His right arm literally does the full range of motion after he gets help with his left. The problem isn't with the right arm's range of motion. It's that it doesn't have the strength to lift the glass all the way to his mouth.
Trump also tends to have a lean when hes on camera (why he looks 'slimmer' when looking at him from the front)
So his range of motion is further restricted probably.
Also pretty sure he almost always flips back and forth between drinking styles. So im sure it has to do with his suit + posture restricting motion.
When you have a stroke, you can gain permanent weakness on one side, usually the right.
Check out how tiny his hands look against that small cocktail glass. 🤣
Maybe it was rabies all along
Second hand is like a booster stage to get the drink into spacedock.
Jesus, that’s grim. How can people not notice this?
He can only use one hand? Pathetic!
What is that mouth action just before he brings it up to drink? It's like he's making a conscious effort to remember how to drink. "Ok Donny, you have to open your mouth to consume. NOT YET you fool. Okay...NOW! Good job me. Just like a normal human. I'm the best." ~ Drumpf inner monologue
Pills
Yeah it looks to me like he prepared his mouth and pills inside it, distribute them before drinking... Cause if you dont do it consciously pills can end up in a bottle... Btw im not American i and do not care about his politics, its just an observation.
Yeah I mean it's super common to take your pills while on stage and about to speak.
I. Got. Pills. I wanna take!
I just let the pills do the talking
To be fair, he doesn’t always abide by the common way to do things.
could be incontinence pills.
Take 3 tablets every 8 minutes during daylight hours
Basically me before I had to give a speech at my sisters wedding and my uncles Got Me blacked the fuck out. Luckily my brother in law had an adderall for me. Funny fact it worked like a charm and that’s when I found out I have ADHD. Not my proudest moment but ya…. Crushed that speech tho…
Speed
What is that mouth action just before he brings it up to drink?
Resettling his dentures.
Correct answer
That's when he reminds himself not to use his proboscis, so as not to rouse suspicion
He just uses it in private to suck the grease out of hamberders.
What is that mouth action just before he brings it up to drink?
Resettling his dentures
His indentured slurpants?
Probably dentures falling loose, sometimes people accuse him of slurring but it's probably loose dentures. They should make fun of him for pooping in diapers
Anuses have a second internal sphincter that needs relaxed before you can properly administer water for the enema.
I just snorted loud enough to wake my baby up. It was worth it. 5/7, would definitely read again.
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Powerful drink of beautiful water.
Beautiful drink of powerful water.
Only a REAL American use all 10 fingers because God intended holy water to be consumed with all holy hands involved in the process
Please this is the funniest one 🤣 now I’m hyper conscious of how I look while drinking water
He has mastered the art. What a true human being!
drinking that cup of water is the most serious thing he’s ever done
Is this the “water” substance these humans speak of? I must bring this to the lizard people so we may advance our invasion of Earth!
Is that even his hand? Looks like someone behind him putting their arm through his sleeve via a hole in the armpit lmao.
He's only using one hand! He's super human!
Surely he could only achieve this feat with the aid of cocaine.
And bioengineering
Bidengineering
Is that how they developed Dark Brandon?
Dark Brandon sounds cool. What archetype is this?
It’s aligned lawful good, and running on Apples new M4 Ultra processors
Jacked Up Joe!!
Cocaine and telekinesis is a hell of a drug
This one trick that Parkinson's doctors hate!
Yeah, what a showoff, right?
Hunter Biden scored him some steroids, obviously.
MAASIVE /s there I don't know who got him the roids but holding a whole glass of water one-handed means he's on the juice.
That is proof that he’s previously looked directly at a solar eclipse and gained super powers, the same one they tell you not to look at and claim you’ll burn your little eyes.
Lol there's so many of these. I'm not even far down the list but I swear this is the 4th DIFFERWNT gif of him drinking water like a toddler. I think he's being bullied and I'm 100% for it
Such a strong, powerful sip. Effortless.
I'm contracting my Chinese supplier to mass manufacture Rambo Biden flags commemorating this amazing feat.
The sippest of all sips.
Have to say I am not that thrilled that drinking water better than the other is a talking point in the presidential election.
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What a serious accusation. You can’t trust them. Same way they can’t trust themselves to drink without spilling.
Jesus Christ I’m fucking dying…
Yea, the way things are going geriatrics won't be old enough. 2028 is going to be AI-resurrected US Grant consciousness vs AI Jefferson Davis
I'd pay six dollars to see this happen. Jeff Davis actually was one of the exact people forbidden to hold office again by Amendment 14.3, before half of America forgot how to read nouns and verbs. I'd pay money just to see MAGA re-re-litigate Davis's eligibility on C-SPAN.
Lol. What would you expect? Policy? Experience? Competence? Character? That hardly seems fair.
There have been coherent statements about policy (watch the most recent SOU address for a strong example) but then "news reporters" start putting out articles and commentaries screeching "REEE! OLD MAN IS OLDER THAN OTHER OLD MAN!!!"
One handed?!?! Who does he think he is, Hercules?
The actual state of Reddit
My favorite senile politician can drink water better than your favorite senile politician!!!
I feel like the idea that Biden is senile or has dementia mostly comes from memes, clips, and assumptions. He's definitely old, stumbles when talking, and is slower than when younger, but that's a far cry from senility. The actual substance of what he says has never suggested senility to me scripted or unscripted. The hot mic moments such as after the SotU and his response to hecklers further convince me of that. I'm not very worried about his actual decision-making abilities.
I mean, try reading what Biden says when transcribed versus transcripts from Trump.
I agree, and what I’ve noticed more broadly is that younger people lately seem to have a dramatically inflated sense of their own ability to detect senility in older people. You see it plenty with people talking about Joe Biden, but he’s not the only target — a lot of millennials see a boomer forget where they put their keys or stumble over a word and go ‘ope, they have dementia.’ They go straight to that.
As you said, compare the transcripts. Joe Biden’s voice sounds old because he is old. Meanwhile, Trump has the vocabulary, sentence structure, and coherence of a 5 year old after glugging down two liters of Mountain Dew Code Red.
Trump has the vocabulary, sentence structure, and coherence of a 5 year old after glugging down two liters of Mountain Dew Code Red.
Entirely too accurate
Donald Trump's temper-tantrum tactics have been explained by the man himself. The frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination admitted to his biographer that, "When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different."
I need people who think Biden is senile because of his stuttering and fumbling of words watch me give a speech. I’m 29 and going through school again for my bachelors and have needed to do some public speaking for presentations. I stutter the shit out of what I’m trying to say if I don’t hyper focus and have practiced. Biden LITERALY gives better speeches than me and most of the young people I go to school with currently.
Biden also has a stutter, which tend to get worse under stressors like publicly speaking.
Biden speaking, with his speech impediment, makes Trump look like he's downright illiterate and mentally challenged.
Millennials are in their 30's and 40's, you might thinking of Gen Z
I'm so tired of the "both are old and terrible" argument.
It's either lazy ignorance or straight up propaganda to convince people that Biden is not worth voting for.
Go look at their actual policies.
Biden has the strength to stand up against Putin. Trump bows down to Putin.
Biden is strengthening US supply chain resilience against China by investing in domestic manufacturing of semiconductors. Trump just invented childish terms like "kung flu".
Biden capped the price of insulin at $35/month. Trump tried to rip away healthcare from millions of people that were covered under Obamacare
Biden invested 1.5 trillion dollars into infrastructure projects, which Republicans voted against and then later tried to take credit for when the infrastructure bill eventually passed.
The difference is night and day.
You don’t even need to look at policies, just look at their characters and it becomes obvious who’s more fit to be president.
I don't think biden is anyone's favorite. It's just like, choose the guy who has such fine points as "how do you feel about firing squads? Can we terminate the constitution? Our opponents are vermin, and immigrants are subhuman garbage. Everyone who didn't stop the last election needs to be locked in prison" or choose the guy who is just old as fuck and maybe not good for the economy. Pick the group that literally said, "Say goodbye to democracy, we're replacing it with God!" or the group that just doesn't want you to be outspokenly racist or die giving birth.
I guess I have to go with the guy who isn't actively trying to stir up a civil war even though he wouldn't be my first pick under different circumstances.
I'd argue Biden's administration has been great for the economy. We've done better with inflation than most countries and it's like everyone forgot that everyone was convinced that a recession was going to happen going into the start of his term. It's not as if the President has fine control over the economy. I think he's done quite well for the economy with what can be expected from the tools of a President.
The Fed obviously deserves a lot of credit too, but people underestimate how amazing it was to pull off a "soft landing." Politicians and central bankers love to talk about "soft landings," but I'm pretty sure this is the first time it's been pulled off.
The big issue is housing supply in cities, which isn't under the president's authority. That's mostly on local governments catering to NIMBYs. I know Newsom has been trying some state level stuff, but afaik, it's too early to know if that's even helped. And he's using authority over local governments that the president lacks.
He's my favorite. He's been more liberal than I thought he would be, and has accomplished more than I thought he could. He just ran circles around the GOP during the State of the Union to the point where they were accusing him of being on steroids for how much energy he brought. Meanwhile he's doing yet another plan to forgive additional student loans where he has already helped millions and want to continue to help millions more. His administration beat back the railroad corporations and got the rail workers their sick days, and he's the first president ever to stand with union picketers at a protest. Biden's been better in many ways than Obama, and that's saying something because millions of people continue to be covered under Obamacare. I'm happy he's president instead of some other Democrats and I'll vote for him in November.
Yea. I knew going in that he is a hell of a Washington operator, and I had high expectations. And he's been blowing those expectations out of the water. It's amazing what he's done with razor thin majorities.
or choose the guy who is just old as fuck and maybe not good for the economy.
Hasn't Biden absolutely been incredible for the economy?
I think it’s more like it’s good as it can be & compared to the rest of the world, but people still have the same issues. They just don’t realize it could be a lot worse. It sounds like Biden was able to do the best that could possibly be done, the economy won’t actually feel good for a while.
But I don’t understand math at all so lol
Yeah he actually has, your job being shit isn't bidens fault lol
Absolutely.
We have structural problems with our society that require a lot more than presidential decrees can accomplish – housing and health care costs come to mind as things that Biden has absolutely no control over with a Republican-controlled legislature.
But the things he does control? He's done spectacularly.
As a casual spectator from across the pond, I really like Biden. He has integrity and gets stuff done. He also hasn't personally insulted my country, which is a plus.
Looks like he just won the vote of everyone on r/hydrohomies
Hydrohomie in Chief
I thought this was r/notinteresting to be honest.
Edit: just scrolled a little bit more to see Trump’s. I get it now.
Didnt Trump have a Diet Coke button installed in the Oval office? Did they remove it? If not, what does it bring Biden? Probably ice cream.
Sunglasses and copies of Car and Driver from the '70s.
I'm still sad that he had to sell the Camaro that Fark crowdsourced him when he was VP.
The Camaro that... Whaaaa?
This would legitimately be very cool.
When the fuck did we get icr cream?!?!?!
Trump’s love of Diet Coke is particularly hilarious, given that he literally said “I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke”
Of all the things Trump did, I kind of respect him for having a beverage button installed, it's not even the close to the most crazy thing I've heard a sitting President do. You should go look up the crazy shit LBJ did in the White House, I can only assume they fumigated it when he left.
But, I agree, Biden having an ice cream button would be on brand and what the heck, the man can have an ice cream if he wants.
He didn’t have a “coke button” installed. There was always a button there, that calls someone in to bring you something. He just always asked for a coke. That’s it.
I hate trump as much as the next guy but this dumbass rumor is so stupid and misunderstood.
Tbf I love Diet Dr Pepper and if I felt I was gonna be stuck in the Oval Office for hours at a time talking to people or hunched over paperwork I'd absolutely get a soda button installed, fuck it why not.
I want an ice cream button
The flattening of the American political conversation into dunking on which geriatric can drink from a glass with any degree of confidence can be safely added to the pile of evidence that the empire is in terminal decline.
r/pics everybody
As an outsider....with some very, very weird presidents.
I find what the US electorate is doing now, very weird to say the least.
Life long American. I agree.
All of Reddit everybody
"Joe Biden drinks water with only one hand. Here's how this spells trouble for Biden's re-election." - headline for an upcoming NYT thinkpiece
“Sure Biden can drink with one hand but he hasn’t uncovered the Irish Crown Jewels so is he really fit to be president”
note the elegance, the rock steady confidence as he uses only one hand to lift the glass to his mouth. This is the man to lead the free world. unlike others.
Showboat Joe some people are sayin’
Based and waterpilled
Look ma - one hand!
Christ, when is this election done?
January 07, 2025.
What a shitty argument and world we live in where politicians can stir up arguments and manipulate the peons over how they drink water.
No makeup. Pretty cool. I like my president not to be wearing makeup or diapers.
So jarringly -- normal!
The absolute madman
holy fuck i forgot how god awful reddit is during the american election season
What the fuck is wrong with this website?
Alot of things. It varies daily.
Thanks bro, didnt know Biden is a living human being who needs Walter to survive
You know, you all know exactly who I am.
Say my name.
I'm the beverage. I'm the man that hydrated men drink.
That's right, now say my name!
YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT!
dude he is so much better than Trump at drinking water. He absolutely has my vote
With two strong and very large hands, maybe the largest hands, you can squeeze a plastic water bottle and consume the entire contents in mere seconds.
At least Biden can drink with one hand. Unlike cult 45. Needs 2 baby hands
Yeah, I kinda guessed that Biden required hydration
‘Everyone knows you have to drink a glass of water with two hands! It’s just common sense! Impeach biden!’ - average conservative
Have we fallen so far that we are now comparing how presidential candidates hold water? I guess we are!
Howard Dean screamed "Yeaaah!" weird and so lost his election run...so yeah, people have always been more into the perceived popularity contest than they should be.
Y’all are so bizarre
I dont get it
r/notinteresting is leaking...
What a show off…
That bastard supports water, which is not gonna go well with voters.
Clearly, he's worse than Satan
/s
Americans, please tell me how on earth things get to the state where the ability of presidential candidates to drink water is news?
One handed no less!
He doesn’t need to use two hands to drink water like the orange buffoon does.
This is where we are in politics. Choosing which president can properly drink a glass of water. Idiocracy is here.
We're not going to make it, are we?
Wtf is going on here?