Really?
Why are some doubling down on STUPID?
On 2/13/2022 President Biden sent out a tweet saying the way to get back to normal is to GET VACCINATED! More performative caring from our very own Pied Piper. Such empathy from Uncle Joe! Wait, wasn’t someone else in recent history nicknamed Uncle Joe?
Like Oliver Wiseman, I suspect sassy quips in friendly interviews (Lester Holt, NBC) or press briefing (Peter Doocy, FOX) are not the best way for the president to answer questions about steadily rising inflation under his stewardship of the economy. In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s The Week, the following was Nancy Pelosi reply to a question on inflation: “People are saying, ‘Well, what we're spending is causing’ — the fact that people have jobs always contributes to increase in inflation. And that's a good thing. But inflation is not a good — you know, we have to contain that.”
On Friday Jen Psaki denied the existence of declassified Army after action reports on the Afghanistan withdrawal, saying it was “important to understand that there was no after-action report.” That evening, a document was published on the Washington Post’s website titled “Operation Allies Refuge: After Action Review.” In today’ Post Dan Lamothe writes“The assessments appear to affirm separate accounts of senior US commanders frustrated by what they characterized as sloppy, misguided management of the withdrawal.”
As Melissa Mackenzie has pointed out in The Spectator, Covidians, too, are, in poker parlance, pot committed. The scolds are the self righteous Karens of today - Teacher's Union writ large.
This all goes beyond being tone deaf. The Congress, Senate leadership and White House seem to be perpetually caught by surprise and on the back-foot on everything from Covid-19, an influx of illegal immigration, supply chain issues, inflation, energy policy, policing . . . Biden is still trotting out Build Back Better and modern monetary theory as means to spend our way out of a looming recession. Yet these same pipers expect us to keep on believing in their provocation for war with Russia, climate change and a creeping Green New Deal agenda, the enforcement of mandates . . . If the consequences weren’t so dire one would be tempted to laugh at this clown show.
Quick! Change the subject! Durham just came out with a report. The Army released an after-action report. Japan is sending LPG to Europe to keep them from freezing and we have to beg the Saudis to pump more oil for us. Meanwhile, Lysenko likely thought he and his cronies would get more for their money than blow up Hunter’s nose. With the smartest man he ever knew in place how the hell did the situation in Ukraine sneak up on Uncle Joe.
As Alex Berenson points out, “THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH. NOT FOR INFLATION, NOT FOR COVID, NOT FOR CRIME, NOT FOR CANNABIS. NOT NOW, NOT EVER. You can party all you want, but the sun always comes up the next day. Understanding this is the first step to being an adult.” Age, even 79 years, does not necessarily confer maturity.
2/14/2022