On Second Thought, Keep Biden Away from the Cameras
It would be funny if people weren't dying
Well, now we know why Joe Biden didn’t give a real press conference on Afghanistan until yesterday.
After terrorists bombed the Kabul airport, killing at least 90 people including 13 American servicemen, Joe Biden didn’t show his face all day. When he did, it was one of the strangest presidential press conferences I’ve seen since… well, since the last time Biden spoke.
First of all, let’s get this out of the way: This is not the time to flash those dazzlin’ veneers, Joe.
So that was weird. I believe that’s known as inappropriate affect.
The speech he gave was labored and halting at times. He was having even more trouble speaking than usual, and when the words did flow, he just started babbling nonsensically. If this were a normal human, I’d say he’s weighed down by the guilt of bungling this so badly and then lying about it, but he’s a politician and therefore has no conscience. No, he’s just having trouble forming sentences because he’s too damn old for this job.1
He tried to talk tough, but not very convincingly:
Nobody actually believes this, with the possible exception of Biden himself, if he’s as cognitively impaired as he seems. The United States is fleeing Afghanistan at his command, and he’s been reduced to asking for permission from the goddamn Taliban. Biden got what he wanted. He surrendered. It’s over.
And now he expects us to believe he’ll do anything about this terrorist attack?
A frail old fool’s pathetic attempt at a blood oath doesn’t really square with “Who’ll be the last man to die for a mistake?” I don’t know how you pontificate about ending a “forever war” and then swear vengeance on America’s foes. How does Biden expect us to believe he’ll find these terrorists before his own arbitrary deadline of August 31?
Joe thinks he’s King Arthur, but he’s actually the other guy.
At least Biden finally took questions from reporters. Sort of:
Instructed? Who’s in charge there?
Then there was this bizarre moment:
Biden blamed Trump for his own failures, and then tried to get a reporter to blame Trump, but the reporter wouldn’t knock over the straw man like he was instructed. So then Biden sank his head in… I dunno, despair? Frustration? The urgent need for a quick nap? Who knows. But it’s not the sort of thing I want to see from the Commander-in-Chief at a time like this.
The press isn’t Biden’s enemy. The Taliban is.
Just imagine being one of these military commanders trying to tell Biden anything he doesn’t want to hear. It’s impossible. He just shuts down like you saw there.
I hate Joe Biden more and more with each passing day, but I honestly don’t think we’ll need to worry about him for much longer. Something is obviously wrong with him, physically and/or mentally, and the White House won’t be able to cover for him forever. I just dread where this Afghanistan fiasco is headed until then, and my worst fears are already coming true.
Biden is a failure, and even more Americans are going to die because of his stubborn incompetence. None of this had to happen, and it’s all on his head. Whether or not there’s anything left inside it.
I’m just so tired.
This is so insane it hardly seems real. We’re telling the Taliban exactly where to look! Now they’re going to kill a lot more people, and the Biden White House helped.
And then Psaki and the rest of them get up there and say, “Well, these are the facts on the ground, the Taliban controls Afghanistan.” Yeah, now. Because Biden handed it to them, just a month after he insisted it could never happen.
Criminals. These people are nothing but criminals.
God bless the people volunteering to do what Biden refuses to do. He’s putting a lot of innocent people in harm’s way, and better men than he are rescuing his victims.
Oh yeah, and Biden’s son is a criminal too. Democrats have to pretend he isn’t, which is one of the many reasons I’m not a Democrat.
And now Sirhan Sirhan might get out of prison? I really don’t like the future and I would like it to stop.
“Hey, I saw See.”
“What did you say? A see-saw?”
“No, See.”
“See what?”
“The show.”
“What show?”
“See.”
“What show do you want me to see?”
“See.”
“Are you saying the letter C?”
“No, See.”
“Like the ocean? I don’t understand what’s happening.”
“See!”
Look:
See?
When I heard Nicolas Cage was starring in a movie called Pig, I pictured him sitting in his agent’s office:
“Okay, Nic, I’ve got a few interesting scripts here. This one is called Pig—”
“I’ll do it!!”
It’s just funny to think of Nic Cage doing a movie called Pig without knowing anything about it. He makes a lot of bad movies these days, so why would that title put him off? Of course Nicolas Cage would be in a movie called Pig!
But it’s actually very good and it really made an impression on me. It’s weird and sad and doesn’t go where you think it’s going to go. Superficially it’s about a guy who’s looking for his stolen pig, but it’s really about a man who’s been in hiding from a world that hurt him, and who’s been forced to walk back into his old life and haunt it like a ghost. A big fat hairy smelly broken ghost.
It’s one of those movies that doesn’t do a lot of hand-holding. There’s almost no exposition. It’s very “show, don’t tell,” and you learn about Cage’s character and his history as the movie goes along.
If I tried to parse the plot and characters logically, it probably wouldn’t make sense, but I’m not going to bother because it really hit me emotionally. I don’t want to say more than that, because I didn’t know much about the movie going in and I’m glad I let it surprise me. It’s definitely not a feel-good movie, but sometimes you need a feel-bad movie.
It’s not a freak-out fest like Mandy, the last Nic Cage movie I really liked. There’s only one real “Cage is being all weird and crazy!” moment. The rest of the time, he’s very understatedly crazy. It’s really an internal performance. Even when he barely moves, you can’t take your eyes off him.
The highest compliment I can give this movie is that I watched it straight through for 90 entire minutes, without looking at my phone or pausing the movie to look it up on IMDb or anything. I was completely engrossed the whole time. That’s pretty rare in a movie these days.
Plus, Gretchen Corbett shows up for a couple of minutes. You might not remember the name, but you had a crush on her if you ever saw her on an episode of The Rockford Files. Tell you what, she still looks pretty dang good.
I give Pig two hooves up! And now I’m going to eat some bacon.
Thanks for reading. Did I mention I’m very tired? Please click the buttons, help me out here, etc. See you Monday.
If you can’t run for president until you’re 35, there should also be a time limit to get it done. Let’s say, oh, 40 years. Once you hit three-quarters of a century, you’ve missed your shot. Don’t get me wrong, some of my best friends are elderly. But we cannot have decrepit old zombies like Biden shuffling around, screwing everything up and getting the rest of us killed.
My first impression of you stinks. I gave a personally hefty donation to your “Who the Hell is Jim Treacher” blog because, well, I don’t know why exactly. I was in a mood for expanding my base of critical analysis targets, finding radical leftism bereft of new material upon which to broaden my understanding of minds that would hate freedom.
I actually enjoy most of your items in your regular postings. You have a wit and a common sensical way about you that makes me believe you are on a search for more truth than has afore been afforded you through your usual channels. And then, Full Stop.
It has continued to amaze me how one man’s name can completely discombobulate an evident and sophisticated trajectory toward truth and cause one to throw all curiosity out the window, even in total contradiction to the journalistic creed to seek truth above all else.
Donald J Trump. He’s not a monster. In fact, he’s exactly what the Founder’s envisioned as the fail-safe against career politicians. The American public has desired, craved, clamored for a candidate unbeholden to the powers that be. Have you not wondered at the concerted effort, the almost military opposition to the first, non-swamp President in over a hundred years? Can you, honestly, not make the connection? If that is the case, my donation was a waste.
With 24/7/365 opposition to his even being a President, President Trump managed to lower the minority unemployment rate to a number lower than ever since that demographic was included in official employment numbers. (So much for racism). He brokered peace agreements between four Arab nations and Israel that earned him 2 nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. Through a conservative use of his powers, he brokered a reset of the NAFTA agreement that gave our country a new lease on life with our hemispherical neighbors and that squelched the hemorrhaging of jobs making the United States a preferred nation for manufacturing.
Even though the narrative was that President Trump was a despot in waiting, he showed Constitutional restraint at using Federal power when Antifa and BLM were torching cities beyond using them to protect Federal properties. He offered federal assistance but refrained from imposing it.
No wars were initiated while he was President. A plan to disengage from Afghanistan was on the books, getting, first, American citizens, then Afghanis, then sensitive equipment, and finally military personnel out, once all was secure. The Democrat Party owns what is happening now.
If you had attended one of President Trump’s “Make America Great, Again” rallies you would know that this is a man, despite his crass history and crude demeanor, who loves America and who loves America’s people. He has lost over 1.5 billion dollars in his attempt to make America the vehicle for any ordinary citizen to achieve what he enjoys. Yet, the MSM continues to put out the narrative that he served only for his own benefit.
I would wish that your obvious mental acuity would bypass your ingrained fears and biases and would engage your common sense and see that the facts I pointed out outweigh what the press, the political establishment; the powers that be have given you as counters to good, old thinking.
Every fact I have proffered is readily found and verifiable but, I’m just a shop hand. I’m not a journalist who lives to verify stuff, would that I had the time to do so. Your chosen profession has the distinct privilege of codified, immutable freedom to tell the truth and to be untouchable in your pursuit of it. That is power. And yet, as if one, the entire profession has banded together, thrown true power under the bus and set about destroying the people’s trust in you along with any semblance of professional integrity. Now, you are nothing more than a mob, egging on the bullies and thugs as they assault us and defending them, protecting them, when it was our freedom for which you were granted your honorable calling.
But, purveying truth requires responsibility, a virtue found lacking, mainly because that sort of responsibility requires the work and the work requires commitment to the truth and that is the rub.
At the turn of the twentieth century, as the fashionable ideology of socialism was gaining acceptance among the elite academics, journalists and union leaders, it was not uncommon for there to be well-publicized debates between advocates for capitalism and socialism. In one such debate, published by the St. Louis “National Rip Saw”, with Socialist writer/editor Henry Tichenor, John Basil Barnhill said, “When the government fears the people, there is freedom. When the people fear their government, there is tyranny.” Between those two points, where do you think we lay, now?
A single agency of the federal government laid waste to the personal prosperity of millions of Americans over a virus against which there is over 99.5% survivability, on a par with the annual flu season. They did it by lying to us, by censoring dissent, and by inducing fear. They have enlisted the Big Tech industry to be publishers, censoring or allowing flows of information, by ensuring that they would retain their non-publisher protection from liability under Section 230. I don’t even know if there is a word for that. Government, in bed with industry, has propagated lie after lie to deceive and to engender fear in the population all the while, suppressing any information or treatment options that might mitigate that fear.
Now, our beneficent government is practicing, again in cahoots with Big Tech, this time Google, with surveillance by geo-fencing. This is virtual dragnetting, guilt by proximity. This can evolve only one way. This cannot help but end in the capturing and suppression of dissidence. Are you afraid, yet?
How about “HR 1” and “HR 4”? These two House bills comprise House Majority Leader Pelosi’s plan to federalize our elections. Together with outlawing any attempts by the states to ensure the integrity of their elections, (code worded “voter suppression”), these two bills require the loose practices of the past election be enforced making election integrity virtually impossible.
Finally, Biden was not a Presidential candidate. He was a slap across the face of America for daring to elect an outsider. He is the admonition that we are never going to be afforded such an opportunity again. He was the Leftist’s saying to us, “We can install any idiot we want and there’s nothing you can do to stop it.” If common sensical people like you don’t wake up, our future leaders will be groomed by the Party and installed and elections will be something our kids will forget ever were.
It ages me, I know, but when you said "Gretchen Corbett" and "Rockford Files", I said "oh yeah" and put Pig on my must-see list. (Like Juanito, I see.)