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What?
If it doesn't happen with off the cuff remarks, or we'll prepared speeches...
Why is it now happening in well prepared speeches and off the cuff remarks?
That just doesn't make any logical sense unless something changes in the last 35 years like the same normal age related mental decline everyone experiences if they live long enough.
Not that I watch it all but I don't see it in super well prepared speeches. Concession speech with political hopes for the future, I guarantee you that shit was dialed in to 9000.
Not off the cuff remarks, off the cuff "insults" (your words). Anger (your intonation) tends to clarify your brain. Insults are a pretty simple message.
See how you're trying to change it?
It happens more in regular speeches that are not super well rehearsed, and interviews where you have to come up with complex answers, convey complex points on the spot, etc.
Nah, I think I'll go with science and video evidence over unfounded opinions...
Thanks tho, I'm sure someone might enjoy reading your opinions.
Don't like how I caught you trying to change it huh.
Long story short: it doesn't happen all the time and your two examples are exactly where it wouldn't happen. Cue your more cherry picked examples, cue me saying it doesn't happen all the time because that's how it works.