If it's Friday, then Nellie Bowles must be on the job with another TGIF roundup. And what a week it was! So...
Item One! Jen Psaki would have you believe that it was a controlled flight into terrain. But President Biden's Wednesday press conference wasn't just a plane crash—it was a blowup to rival the "Hindenburg" disaster. Boy, did Joe …
If it's Friday, then Nellie Bowles must be on the job with another TGIF roundup. And what a week it was! So...
Item One! Jen Psaki would have you believe that it was a controlled flight into terrain. But President Biden's Wednesday press conference wasn't just a plane crash—it was a blowup to rival the "Hindenburg" disaster. Boy, did Joe make news! V. Putin must have been delighted to learn that a minor incursion into Ukraine might, you know, be no big deal. Anyhow, he intimated, NATO is unlikely do much of anything about it because, as the President helpfully explained, NATO member states aren't on the same page. Good to hear! It seems not to have occurred to Biden that if the United States is, in fact, the leader of the NATO alliance, then the US should, ahem, provide leadership. Instead the President prattled on like some cable news pundit, opining that Putin might do this or maybe that. I nominate him for the Golden Umbrella Award for Distinguished Achievements in Appeasement.
Having laid waste to US foreign policy, Joe added some thoughts on domestic policy and politics. Build Back Better, we were told, might have to be reduced to "chunks." An image of the Biden Administration blowing chunks was hardly appealing, but let us look on the bright side. Perhaps the chunks will be small enough to fit down the garbage disposal.
The President also spent some time claiming that he didn't say what we all heard him say, i.e. that anybody who opposes his version of "voting rights" is a white nationalist, racist member of the Jefferson Davis Fan Club. And to drive the point home, he helpfully advised the American people that the 2022 midterm elections are likely to be stolen by said J.D. Fan Clubbers if he and the Democrats don't get their way. Hey, at least Donald Trump waited until after the 2020 election to declare it illegitimate.
All in all, it was a ghastly performance, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Joe Biden is in way over his head. The man is unfit to hand out lawn signs for Hillary! 2024, much less serve as president. And deep down inside, I think he knows this, even if he hides that knowledge from himself. The tell? His intemperate response to particularly tough questions. And just think, America: This clueless, befuddled old fool has three years to go. I know I'm being harsh, but the situation is too serious to admit of euphemism. We live in a time of troubles and alas, we have no effective leadership.
What about school closures? Might that be a political problem for you?
“Oh, I think it could be, but I hope to God that they’re — that — look, maybe I’m kidding myself, but as time goes on, the voter who is just trying to figure out, as I said, how to take care of their family, put three squares on the table, stay safe, able to pay their mortgage or their rent, et cetera, has — is becoming much more informed on the motives of some of the political players and some of the — and the political parties. And I think that they are not going to be as susceptible to believing some of the outlandish things that have been said and continue to be said.
You know, every — every president, not necessarily in the first 12 months, but every president in the first couple of years — almost every president, excuse me, of the last presidents — at least four of them — have had polling numbers that are 44 percent favorable.
So, it’s this idea that — but you all — not you all — but now it is, “Well, Biden is at — one poll showed him at 33 percent. The average is 44 — 44, 45 percent. One polled him at 49 percent.”
I mean, the idea that — the American public are trying to sift their way through what’s real and what’s fake. And I don’t think as — I’ve never seen a time when the political coverage — the choice of what political coverage a voter looks to has as much impact on as what they believe; they go to get reinforced in their views, whether it’s MSNBC or whether it’s Fox or whatever.
I mean — and one of the things I find fascinating that’s happening — and you all are dealing with it every day — and it will impact on how things move — is that a lot of the speculation in the polling data shows that the — that the cables are heading south; they’re losing viewership. You know?
Well, Fox is okay for a while, but it’s not gated. And a lot of the rest are predicted to be not very much in the mix in the next four to five years. I don’t know whether that’s true or not.
But I do know that we have sort of put everybody in — put themselves in certain alleys. And they’ve decided that, you know, how many people who watch MSNBC also watch Fox, other than a politician trying to find out what’s going on in both places? How many people —
Again, I’m no expert in any of this. But the fact is, I think you have to acknowledge that what gets covered now is necessarily a little bit different than what gets covered in the past.
I’ve had a couple — well, I shouldn’t get into this.
But the nature not — the nature of the way things get covered — and this is my observation over the years I’ve been involved in public life — changed. And it’s changed because of everything from a thing called the Internet. It’s changed because of the way in which we have self-identified perspectives based on what channel you turn on, what — what network you look at — not network, but what cable you look at. And it’s — it’s never quite been like that.
If it's Friday, then Nellie Bowles must be on the job with another TGIF roundup. And what a week it was! So...
Item One! Jen Psaki would have you believe that it was a controlled flight into terrain. But President Biden's Wednesday press conference wasn't just a plane crash—it was a blowup to rival the "Hindenburg" disaster. Boy, did Joe make news! V. Putin must have been delighted to learn that a minor incursion into Ukraine might, you know, be no big deal. Anyhow, he intimated, NATO is unlikely do much of anything about it because, as the President helpfully explained, NATO member states aren't on the same page. Good to hear! It seems not to have occurred to Biden that if the United States is, in fact, the leader of the NATO alliance, then the US should, ahem, provide leadership. Instead the President prattled on like some cable news pundit, opining that Putin might do this or maybe that. I nominate him for the Golden Umbrella Award for Distinguished Achievements in Appeasement.
Having laid waste to US foreign policy, Joe added some thoughts on domestic policy and politics. Build Back Better, we were told, might have to be reduced to "chunks." An image of the Biden Administration blowing chunks was hardly appealing, but let us look on the bright side. Perhaps the chunks will be small enough to fit down the garbage disposal.
The President also spent some time claiming that he didn't say what we all heard him say, i.e. that anybody who opposes his version of "voting rights" is a white nationalist, racist member of the Jefferson Davis Fan Club. And to drive the point home, he helpfully advised the American people that the 2022 midterm elections are likely to be stolen by said J.D. Fan Clubbers if he and the Democrats don't get their way. Hey, at least Donald Trump waited until after the 2020 election to declare it illegitimate.
All in all, it was a ghastly performance, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Joe Biden is in way over his head. The man is unfit to hand out lawn signs for Hillary! 2024, much less serve as president. And deep down inside, I think he knows this, even if he hides that knowledge from himself. The tell? His intemperate response to particularly tough questions. And just think, America: This clueless, befuddled old fool has three years to go. I know I'm being harsh, but the situation is too serious to admit of euphemism. We live in a time of troubles and alas, we have no effective leadership.
Straight from joey depends brain
What about school closures? Might that be a political problem for you?
“Oh, I think it could be, but I hope to God that they’re — that — look, maybe I’m kidding myself, but as time goes on, the voter who is just trying to figure out, as I said, how to take care of their family, put three squares on the table, stay safe, able to pay their mortgage or their rent, et cetera, has — is becoming much more informed on the motives of some of the political players and some of the — and the political parties. And I think that they are not going to be as susceptible to believing some of the outlandish things that have been said and continue to be said.
You know, every — every president, not necessarily in the first 12 months, but every president in the first couple of years — almost every president, excuse me, of the last presidents — at least four of them — have had polling numbers that are 44 percent favorable.
So, it’s this idea that — but you all — not you all — but now it is, “Well, Biden is at — one poll showed him at 33 percent. The average is 44 — 44, 45 percent. One polled him at 49 percent.”
I mean, the idea that — the American public are trying to sift their way through what’s real and what’s fake. And I don’t think as — I’ve never seen a time when the political coverage — the choice of what political coverage a voter looks to has as much impact on as what they believe; they go to get reinforced in their views, whether it’s MSNBC or whether it’s Fox or whatever.
I mean — and one of the things I find fascinating that’s happening — and you all are dealing with it every day — and it will impact on how things move — is that a lot of the speculation in the polling data shows that the — that the cables are heading south; they’re losing viewership. You know?
Well, Fox is okay for a while, but it’s not gated. And a lot of the rest are predicted to be not very much in the mix in the next four to five years. I don’t know whether that’s true or not.
But I do know that we have sort of put everybody in — put themselves in certain alleys. And they’ve decided that, you know, how many people who watch MSNBC also watch Fox, other than a politician trying to find out what’s going on in both places? How many people —
Again, I’m no expert in any of this. But the fact is, I think you have to acknowledge that what gets covered now is necessarily a little bit different than what gets covered in the past.
I’ve had a couple — well, I shouldn’t get into this.
But the nature not — the nature of the way things get covered — and this is my observation over the years I’ve been involved in public life — changed. And it’s changed because of everything from a thing called the Internet. It’s changed because of the way in which we have self-identified perspectives based on what channel you turn on, what — what network you look at — not network, but what cable you look at. And it’s — it’s never quite been like that.
Anyway.”
That was brilliant--well done!
Ha-ha! Reading them makes his senile meanderings all the more gruesome...
Don’t you love his knowing the polling numbers when he says he doesn’t follow polls? And if he’s over 28% or even 25% the sky is green.