Protecting Biden From Himself
The rumor these days is that Biden will host his first press conference at the end of March.
It was bad enough when Joe Biden was just a candidate and the media pretended that he was just being a wise and concerned citizen, never leaving his basement to campaign, lest he become a one-man super spreader.
But now he’s been in the Oval Office for nearly two months, and he hasn’t held a single press conference. People are beginning to talk, though Joe Biden isn’t one of those people.
Considering that, by and large, the media consists of lap dogs eager to lick the man’s hand or any other part of his anatomy he might feel like sharing, his disinclination seems odd.
One can only assume that his handlers are afraid of letting lose the human gaffe machine. After all, you can only explain that the President misspoke so many times before even the folks at CNN and the New York Times begin to wonder if “misspoke” is code for “the man is as goofy as Daffy Duck.”
The rumor these days is that Biden will host his first press conference at the end of March. That can only mean that the folks at Disney who gave us the animatronic Abe Lincoln will have completed the animatronic Joe Biden sometime in the next few weeks.
Speaking of Biden, Kamala Harris may think she’s first in the line of succession, but I have my doubts. The way that Biden is limiting his appearances to announcing executive decrees, coupled with the way that Jennifer Psaki has grown increasingly accustomed to using the royal “we” when discussing various issues, leads me to wonder if Harris is second in line, still behind Biden, but further behind President Psaki.
Jan Hooper passed along a bunch of memes, the most worthwhile of which were the following:
“I’ve never seen a country work so hard to get rid of a president, but not illegal aliens, drug dealers and child traffickers.”
“Defining white privilege: The ability to suffer life’s universal indignities without blaming another ethnic group.”
“I have no problem with extensive background checks for gun owners, as long as we do the same with voters.”
“After shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.”
Over a picture of George Washington: “We fought a revolution and worked to give you people freedom, and you sit back and give it away to terrorists posing as a political party.”
In what has become almost a daily event, reader Maralyn Polak has caught me in a double mistake.
It seems I not only misnamed Fleers bubble gum, referring to it as Fleurs, but I called it Double Bubble, when in fact it was spelled Dubble Bubble.
So, I suppose I actually made a dubble mistake.
But, that pales by comparison to the one Frank Fleer nearly made in 1906, when he tried to invent a bubble gum that he was intending to name Blibber Blubber. Even Eskimos might have avoided that concoction.
For the record, Dubble Bubble was invented by Mr. Fleer’s accountant, Walter E. Diemer, in 1928.
For those who are curious but too shy to ask, the gum was not the inspiration for the song “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles.” The song was written in 1919 and referred to soap bubbles.
Jan Hooper shared a warning for pet owners. It seems a friend of hers recently lost her beloved dog because Goldie had a habit of nibbling on the leaves of a household plant. It turns out that heliotropes are highly toxic and will destroy the animal’s liver in short order.
Another timely warning was passed along in a meme by Bob Hunt.
Illustrated with a picture of the Cat in the Hat, it reads: “Forget Cancel Culture, I think it’s a sham. I do not like it, Uncle Sam-I-am. / Ignoring achievements in the name of the Woke and cause more division with the fires they stoke. / Take history out of context is now the new game. Not looking for justice, just someone to blame. / Today, it’s a book, so watch what you do. One day in the future, they may cancel you.”
As Biden and the Democrats go about undoing all the great things that President Trump did for this country, I can only hope that the people will rise up in opposition to the current administration’s scorched earth policy. But I know I am engaging in wishful thinking.
At the risk of sounding elitist, I don’t think the majority of Americans have the ability to engage in critical thinking.
It’s not entirely their fault. For the past several decades, the schools, the press and the social media giants, have been aligned to keep them dumb and submissive. The year-long lockdown was a test-run just as the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s was a precursor to World War II. It convinced Hitler and Mussolini that the other European nations would not intervene to protect Spain against a Fascist like Francisco Franco.
Today, the establishment figures who populate the Deep State and all the globalist groups including the U.N., the World Health Organization and the E.U., all of whom answer to Red China, understand how simple it is to manipulate seven billion people. All you have to do is scare them, and China proved how easy that is to do using a single laboratory in Wuhan.
After I argued that people who insist they prefer the four seasons, even though two of them are absolutely dreadful, because it helps them to better appreciate Spring and Fall, are simply trying to make the best of a bad thing, I heard from Nancy Bradley. She said her late husband Gary always said that “if the Mayflower had landed in California, all of the northeast would still be unsettled.”
When I admitted, while eating a hamburger, that I believe that, all things being equal, a vegetarian has a far better chance of getting into Heaven than I do, I heard from Patrick Miano.
He argued that in the Roman Catholic religion, it is blasphemy to refuse a gift from God. “If He did not want us to eat meat, He would not have made so many animals edible and very tasty, to boot.”
I countered with “That’s the test. If they tasted like Brussel sprouts, not eating them wouldn’t constitute a sacrifice.”
To which, he rebutted with “If some animals will try to eat me, I can eat any edible animal I want.”
I patiently pointed out that he was being totally illogical. “You’re saying that because lions and tigers will eat us, we get to eat cows and sheep? You’re better off keeping to the gift from God argument. Because, carried to its logical extreme, it would mean that if China attacked us, we could retaliate by bombing France. Now, I’m not saying we shouldn’t bomb France, just that it shouldn’t depend on our being attacked first by China.”
After one of my more imaginative readers came up with a way that could pave the way for Donald Trump to return to the White House, requiring only that the House would impeach Biden and Harris and that the Senate would find them guilty, I pointed out the one tiny flaw in her plan: Neither the House nor the Senate, both of which are controlled by the Democrats, would ever do such a thing.
That’s the problem with these marvelous ideas; there’s inevitably a monkey with a wrench hanging around.
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