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The granddad speech

22 August 2020

1:39 PM

22 August 2020

1:39 PM

CNN is saying the Biden speech proves he isn’t an old man, even though anyone with elderly parents would recognize it as the ‘granddad speech’ – the one where all the grandchildren applaud because he gets through it without falling over. 

What we don’t tell the grandchildren about the granddad speech is that granddad was probably heavily medicated at the time of delivery and I’m allowed to say this because my old dad is dead.

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