THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 16, 2024 AT 5:40 PM
Paul Plante says:
To put where we are today in America with respect to what passes for national politics in some kind of rational and logical perspective, notwithstanding these are hardly logical and/or rational times we find ourselves immersed in, with an angry and ranting Joe Biden in the white house, an autocrat cut from the same cloth as Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, Joe Stalin of the old Soviet Union, or Idi Amin of Uganda, who reportedly boasted that he kept the decapitated heads of political enemies in his freezer, although he said that human flesh was generally “too salty” for his taste, I would like to cut to an on-line publication called Reason and Meaning and an article titled “H. L. Mencken: On Politics (Bayard vs. Lionheart),” a political essay written on July 26, 1920 by Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), who was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English who commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements in his time, in that case, nine years before the Wall Street Crash that led to the GREAT DEPRESSION, where we start with the famous quote of his one hundred four years ago which describes to a TEE where we are with Joe Biden adorning the white house today, to wit:
“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”
“We move toward a lofty ideal.”
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
~ H. L. Mencken
And that takes us to the article, which begins as follows:
Henry Louis Mencken (1880 – 1956) was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English.
Known as the “Sage of Baltimore,” he was one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century.
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I have to confess here that Mencken is high up on my list of political commentators, and I am unaware of any today who have his insight into politics, politicians themselves, and how the game of politics is played, which takes us back to the article, to wit:
On July 26, 1920, Mencken published an op-ed in the Baltimore Evening Sun titled “Bayard vs. Lionheart,” which was later included in a volume of his essays: On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe.
Mencken’s essay ponders how it is that political candidates are so often the worst of people—without honor or conviction.
As Mencken puts it:
“It is not often, in these later days of the democratic enlightenment, that positive merit lands a man in elective office in the United States; much more often it is a negative merit that gets him there.”
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And keep in mind that he was writing those words in 1920, and one hundred four years later, with Joe Biden in the white house, they are as true now as they were back then, which again takes us back to the article for more, to wit:
One of the main reasons that the voters often choose the worst people to lead them is that the masses fear thoughtful people, people with deep and sophisticated ideas:
“In the face of this singular passion for conformity, this dread of novelty and originality, it is obvious that the man of vigorous mind and stout convictions is gradually shouldered out of public life.”
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Today, one hundred four years later, we don’t find that the man of vigorous mind and stout convictions is gradually shouldered out of public life.
To the contrary, we find that they don’t even get in, which again takes us back to the article, to wit:
And the voters have themselves to blame for the incompetent and immoral people they choose for public office.
Voters are:
“… unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob emotions.”
“… when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. …”
“The larger the mob, the harder the test.”
“In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by the force of his personality.”
“But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.”
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Today, in our times, that man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum is named Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, and because of that, not only have we been stuck with him and his fiscal profligacy in the white house, but we are seriously threatened with four more years, which takes us to the rest of the Mencken quote above, to wit:
“The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men.”
“As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”
“We move toward a lofty ideal.”
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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Which takes us back to the author’s conclusion on November 29, 2016, to wit:
To be honest, I think that it is every bit as much moral vice as intellectual vice that will doom the American empire in our present moment.
I truly fear that we are moving to an even more more fascist, plutocratic state than the one we are already in.
I hope I’m wrong.
But it is hard just so hard to see how the situation will change without radical intellectual and moral enhancement of human beings.
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Keeping in mind that that was written eight years ago in 2016, with our gift of hindsight, we can truthfully say that the even more fascist, plutocratic state than the one we were in then came to Washington, D.C. in January of 2021 when Joe Biden was installed as president, and lo and behold, here we are today!
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WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 17, 2024 AT 6:14 PM
Paul Plante says:
And now that the momentous occasion of what hopefully will be Joe Biden’s final State of the Union address has come and gone, and I have had ample time to go through the transcript word for word for word, let’s go back to February 20, 2024, and a Fox News article titled “Biden campaign aims to use State of the Union address as reset after damning Special Counsel claims: Report” by Nikolas Lanum, where we have this insight into Joe’s political thinking going into the BIG EVENT, much like having been able to interview Travis Kelce before the Superbowl to find out if having Taylor Swift in the audience would make him a nervous fumblefingers, or like Joe, could he “man up” and deal with it, or a chat with Muhammad Ali before the “RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE” on October 30, 1974 when boxer Muhammad Ali, nicknamed “The Greatest,” reclaimed the word heavyweight title by winning the “Rumble in the Jungle” against George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:.
Officials close to President Biden believe the upcoming State of the Union address could be an opportunity to reset or “neutralize” public perceptions about his age and memory before the November election.
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And good luck with that, say I, because in an article in the Intelligencer titled “Trump vs. Biden Polls: No State of the Union Bounce for Joe” by Ed Kilgore on 16 March 2024, all that prep work to try and make Joe Biden out as something he isn’t with a blustery and windy speech devoid of any actual intellectual content failed to move the needle, one bit, to wit:
It is hard to exaggerate the psychological boost Democrats derived from Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address.
Fears that Biden would show his advanced age on the reelection campaign trail — or worse yet, hide from voters — were dissipated by his fiery upbeat demeanor and extemporaneous feistiness.
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And believe me, people are wondering where SLEEPY JOE Biden who is rumored to fall asleep face first in his mashed potatoes and peas after six o’clock at night, got that fiery upbeat demeanor and extemporaneous feistiness from!
Is Old Joe doing like Sweet Jane, living on Reds, Vitamin C and Cocaine, and some steroids thrown in to induce some “ROID RAGE” in Joe, along with massive hits of Viagra to make Joe look virile and studly?
Going back to that POST-GAME ANALYSIS, it goes on as follows:
His team’s strategy for winning in November was on full display as the president chipped away at public skepticism about his record and identified Republicans with deeply unpopular policy positions and their deeply unpopular nominee.
But while the State of the Union did wonders for Democratic optimism, there’s simply not much evidence that it changed many minds about Joe Biden’s job performance or flipped many votes from Republican to Democrat.
The president’s job-approval ratings remain subpar.
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And with that POST-GAME analysis before us, and the reality it represents, let’s go back to the locker room pre-game for more on what TEAM BIDEN was thinking before having Joe, their CHAMPION, go into the arena, to wit:
According to a Monday report from Axios, Biden’s allies plan to spend hours on the text of his speech as well as the president’s physical preparation to turn the prime-time address into a campaign victory.
“Everyone around him is well aware — well aware — of the need to jack this campaign up,” a source close to Biden said.
“The only way to deal with the negative aftershocks of the special counsel’s report [criticizing Biden’s memory] is for the president to be out there, to be visible — to be strong of presence and strong of voice.”
Biden officials are hoping that the public response to the address will be similar to last year, when the president claimed that Republicans aimed to cut Social Security and Medicare programs.
Plans to re-energize Biden’s 2024 campaign follow the recent Hur report, which investigated the president’s handling of classified documents, after the prosecutor, in his final report, noted that Biden struggled to remember details such as when his son died.
While Hur’s report decided not to prosecute Biden for criminal wrongdoing, it characterized the president as an “elderly man with a poor memory” and led to a flurry of questions from reporters and commentary from left-leaning pundits.
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Which takes us to an analysis of the Hur Report in the Wall Street Journal titled “Opinion | ‘My Memory Is Fine’: Another Unforgettable Denial of Reality” by Gerard Baker on February 13, 2024, to wit:
“I am not a crook.”
“There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.”
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
A president denying reality is nothing new.
Sometimes it’s a self-protective lie.
Sometimes it’s a mangled emanation from the brain of a tired leader.
Sometimes it’s a contorted verbal formula to convince the rest of us that our perception of obvious truths is somehow false.
It rarely works.
On each of these occasions, the incumbent president failed to convince anyone, and in each case the political plight that prompted the denial in the first place helped ensure that his party lost the next presidential election.
“My memory is fine” looks set to join these presidential protestations as verbal monuments to futility.
The intensity of the denials by the White House and its allies of last week’s devastatingly succinct description of the president as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory “ by special counsel Robert Hur is proof that they know it’s true.
The surest testimony to the accuracy of Mr. Hur’s assessment is that they reserved their greatest ire not for the description itself, but for his temerity in writing it.
Bob Bauer, the president’s personal lawyer, told CBS on Sunday that the special counsel’s 388-page report was a “really shabby work product and completely out of bounds for a prosecutor.”
But for political purposes, whether Mr. Hur took liberties with his brief by waxing about Mr. Biden’s mental faculties is immaterial.
The president’s handlers make clear by their behavior that they know it to be true as well as the public does.
Mr. Biden has held fewer press conferences and given fewer interviews than any president since Reagan.
For the second year in a row he skipped the traditional Super Bowl interview, usually a soft pass tossed this way so he can spike the ball in the end zone in front of more than 100 million Americans.
The leader of the free world is a fragile ornament, wrapped in cotton wool, protected by aides from falls and gaffes, sheltered by staff (and in Mr. Biden’s case by much of the media) from accountability, gently cocooned from the risk of doing or saying anything he can’t control.
This amounts to a fraud on the American public.
But it’s an inescapable feature of reality denial that once you’ve started, you can’t stop.
Mr. Biden may not be able to remember names of foreign leaders dead or alive or place important countries on the right continent, but, like everyone who has ever run for the office, he still thinks he’s the right man for the job.
It would be a high-wire act to drop a presidential nominee on the voting public 11 weeks before Election Day.
Democrats would be asking many Americans to choose someone nominated two months before they vote.
No, the reality denial will have to continue for another nine months.
And then, four more years.
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Which brings us up to where we are today, which is on a downhill run with Joe Biden in power, but stay tuned, because the saga of Joe Biden is far from over, so don’t touch that dial!
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Paul Plante says:
And now that the momentous occasion of what hopefully will be Joe Biden’s final State of the Union address has come and gone, and I have had ample time to go through the transcript word for word for word, let’s go back to February 20, 2024, and a Fox News article titled “Biden campaign aims to use State of the Union address as reset after damning Special Counsel claims: Report” by Nikolas Lanum, where we have this insight into Joe’s political thinking going into the BIG EVENT, much like having been able to interview Travis Kelce before the Superbowl to find out if having Taylor Swift in the audience would make him a nervous fumblefingers, or like Joe, could he “man up” and deal with it, or a chat with Muhammad Ali before the “RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE” on October 30, 1974 when boxer Muhammad Ali, nicknamed “The Greatest,” reclaimed the word heavyweight title by winning the “Rumble in the Jungle” against George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), where we have as follows on that subject, to wit:.
Officials close to President Biden believe the upcoming State of the Union address could be an opportunity to reset or “neutralize” public perceptions about his age and memory before the November election.
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And good luck with that, say I, because in an article in the Intelligencer titled “Trump vs. Biden Polls: No State of the Union Bounce for Joe” by Ed Kilgore on 16 March 2024, all that prep work to try and make Joe Biden out as something he isn’t with a blustery and windy speech devoid of any actual intellectual content failed to move the needle, one bit, to wit:
It is hard to exaggerate the psychological boost Democrats derived from Joe Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address.
Fears that Biden would show his advanced age on the reelection campaign trail — or worse yet, hide from voters — were dissipated by his fiery upbeat demeanor and extemporaneous feistiness.
end quotes
And believe me, people are wondering where SLEEPY JOE Biden who is rumored to fall asleep face first in his mashed potatoes and peas after six o’clock at night, got that fiery upbeat demeanor and extemporaneous feistiness from!
Is Old Joe doing like Sweet Jane, living on Reds, Vitamin C and Cocaine, and some steroids thrown in to induce some “ROID RAGE” in Joe, along with massive hits of Viagra to make Joe look virile and studly?
Going back to that POST-GAME ANALYSIS, it goes on as follows:
His team’s strategy for winning in November was on full display as the president chipped away at public skepticism about his record and identified Republicans with deeply unpopular policy positions and their deeply unpopular nominee.
But while the State of the Union did wonders for Democratic optimism, there’s simply not much evidence that it changed many minds about Joe Biden’s job performance or flipped many votes from Republican to Democrat.
The president’s job-approval ratings remain subpar.
end quotes
And with that POST-GAME analysis before us, and the reality it represents, let’s go back to the locker room pre-game for more on what TEAM BIDEN was thinking before having Joe, their CHAMPION, go into the arena, to wit:
According to a Monday report from Axios, Biden’s allies plan to spend hours on the text of his speech as well as the president’s physical preparation to turn the prime-time address into a campaign victory.
“Everyone around him is well aware — well aware — of the need to jack this campaign up,” a source close to Biden said.
“The only way to deal with the negative aftershocks of the special counsel’s report [criticizing Biden’s memory] is for the president to be out there, to be visible — to be strong of presence and strong of voice.”
Biden officials are hoping that the public response to the address will be similar to last year, when the president claimed that Republicans aimed to cut Social Security and Medicare programs.
Plans to re-energize Biden’s 2024 campaign follow the recent Hur report, which investigated the president’s handling of classified documents, after the prosecutor, in his final report, noted that Biden struggled to remember details such as when his son died.
While Hur’s report decided not to prosecute Biden for criminal wrongdoing, it characterized the president as an “elderly man with a poor memory” and led to a flurry of questions from reporters and commentary from left-leaning pundits.
end quotes
Which takes us to an analysis of the Hur Report in the Wall Street Journal titled “Opinion | ‘My Memory Is Fine’: Another Unforgettable Denial of Reality” by Gerard Baker on February 13, 2024, to wit:
“I am not a crook.”
“There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.”
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
A president denying reality is nothing new.
Sometimes it’s a self-protective lie.
Sometimes it’s a mangled emanation from the brain of a tired leader.
Sometimes it’s a contorted verbal formula to convince the rest of us that our perception of obvious truths is somehow false.
It rarely works.
On each of these occasions, the incumbent president failed to convince anyone, and in each case the political plight that prompted the denial in the first place helped ensure that his party lost the next presidential election.
“My memory is fine” looks set to join these presidential protestations as verbal monuments to futility.
The intensity of the denials by the White House and its allies of last week’s devastatingly succinct description of the president as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory “ by special counsel Robert Hur is proof that they know it’s true.
The surest testimony to the accuracy of Mr. Hur’s assessment is that they reserved their greatest ire not for the description itself, but for his temerity in writing it.
Bob Bauer, the president’s personal lawyer, told CBS on Sunday that the special counsel’s 388-page report was a “really shabby work product and completely out of bounds for a prosecutor.”
But for political purposes, whether Mr. Hur took liberties with his brief by waxing about Mr. Biden’s mental faculties is immaterial.
The president’s handlers make clear by their behavior that they know it to be true as well as the public does.
Mr. Biden has held fewer press conferences and given fewer interviews than any president since Reagan.
For the second year in a row he skipped the traditional Super Bowl interview, usually a soft pass tossed this way so he can spike the ball in the end zone in front of more than 100 million Americans.
The leader of the free world is a fragile ornament, wrapped in cotton wool, protected by aides from falls and gaffes, sheltered by staff (and in Mr. Biden’s case by much of the media) from accountability, gently cocooned from the risk of doing or saying anything he can’t control.
This amounts to a fraud on the American public.
But it’s an inescapable feature of reality denial that once you’ve started, you can’t stop.
Mr. Biden may not be able to remember names of foreign leaders dead or alive or place important countries on the right continent, but, like everyone who has ever run for the office, he still thinks he’s the right man for the job.
It would be a high-wire act to drop a presidential nominee on the voting public 11 weeks before Election Day.
Democrats would be asking many Americans to choose someone nominated two months before they vote.
No, the reality denial will have to continue for another nine months.
And then, four more years.
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Which brings us up to where we are today, which is on a downhill run with Joe Biden in power, but stay tuned, because the saga of Joe Biden is far from over, so don’t touch that dial!
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 17, 2024 AT 10:42 PM
Paul Plante says:
Having studied the supposed political reasoning behind it, and having actually read through the transcript of Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, in actuality, a poorly written political stump speech that had nothing to do with the actual state of the union, on March 7, 2024, I was reminded of a political essay by H.L. Mencken titled “Gamalielese” from the Baltimore Sun on March 7, 1921, where the “Sage of Baltimore” laid down the “rules” that govern the preparation and content of political speeches not only in his time, but in our times today, since those rules for what should be or should not be included in a political speech are inflexible and unchanging, as we shall see by examining the evidence, starting with the Mencken essay, to wit:
On the question of the logical content of Dr. Harding’s harangue of last Friday I do not presume to have views.
The matter has been debated at great length by the editorial writers of the Republic, all of them experts in logic; moreover, I confess to being prejudiced.
But when it comes to the style of a great man’s discourse, I can speak with a great deal less prejudice, and maybe with somewhat more competence, for I have earned most of my livelihood for twenty years past by translating the bad English of a multitude of authors into measurably better English.
Thus qualified professionally, I rise to pay my small tribute to Dr. Harding.
Setting aside a college professor or two and half a dozen dipsomaniacal newspaper reporters, he takes the first place in my Valhalla of literati.
That is to say, he writes the worst English I have even encountered.
It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean-soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
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And it is the same today with Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU which indeed reminded me not only of stale bean-soup, but especially, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
As Mencken said on March 7, 1921, it is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it, and these words written then, in 1921, about a speech by Warren Gamaliel Harding, the Ohio Republican who was the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923) and whose term in office was fraught with scandal, including Teapot Dome, apply equally well today about Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU. and well they should, since Joe’s SOTU followed this same formula laid down some one hundred years or more ago, to wit:
It drags itself out of the dark abysm (I was about to write abscess!) of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh.
It is rumble and bumble.
It is flap and doodle.
It is balder and dash.
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And yes, people, those are the main ingredients needed for a successful political speech by an American president today in our times. as we all witnessed on March 7, 2024 when a visibly angry (“ROID RAGE”?) and clearly agitated Joe Biden delivered his bombastic SOTU, only omitting mention of E PLURIBUS UNUM, and ENDEAVOR TO PERSEVERE, which takes us back to a short history of Warren Gamaliel Harding, who has traditionally been ranked as one of the worst American presidents, a ranking now contested mightily by Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior in our times today.
With respect to Harding, in a 1948 poll conducted by Harvard University, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. conducted a survey of scholars’ opinions of the presidents, ranking Harding last among the 29 presidents considered.
As to Harding’s windy speeches, the style of which Joe Biden has adopted as his own today, before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, “America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality….”
A Democratic leader, William Gibbs McAdoo, called Harding’s speeches “an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea.”
So too today with Joe Biden’s speeches and especially his SOTU, which was full of empty platitudes but totally devoid of actual intellectual content, to wit:
“Folks, America cannot go back.”
“I am here to- — tonight to show what I believe is the way forward, because I know how far we’ve come.”
Uh, okay, sure, Joe, whatever you say!
“Turning setback into comeback.”
“That’s what America does.”
“That’s what America does.”
Ah, the inspiration pours forth!
“I say to the American people: When America gets knocked down, we get back up.”
“We keep going.”
“That’s America.”
“That’s you, the American people.”
“It’s because of you America is coming back.”
“It’s because of you our future is brighter.”
“It’s because of you that tonight we can proudly say the state of our Union is strong and getting stronger.”
That, people is a pure example of political rhetoric dragging itself out of the dark abysm of pish, as it crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh.
That is rumble and bumble combined with flap and doodle with the right amount of balder and dash mixed in to make it all absolute political hogwash.
Going back to Harding, he born near Marion, Ohio, in 1865, and became the publisher of a newspaper.
Harding’s undeviating Republicanism and vibrant speaking voice, plus his willingness to let the machine bosses set policies, led him far in Ohio politics.
He served in the state Senate and as Lieutenant Governor, and unsuccessfully ran for Governor.
He delivered the nominating address for President Taft at the 1912 Republican Convention.
In 1914 he was elected to the Senate, which he found “a very pleasant place.”
An Ohio admirer, Harry Daugherty, began to promote Harding for the 1920 Republican nomination because, he later explained, “He looked like a President.”
Thus a group of Senators, taking control of the 1920 Republican Convention when the principal candidates deadlocked, turned to Harding.
He won the Presidential election by an unprecedented landslide of 60 percent of the popular vote.
Republicans in Congress easily got the President’s signature on their bills.
By 1923 the postwar depression seemed to be giving way to a new surge of prosperity, and newspapers hailed Harding as a wise statesman carrying out his campaign promise – “Less government in business and more business in government.”
Behind the facade, not all of Harding’s Administration was so impressive.
Word began to reach the President that some of his friends were using their official positions for their own enrichment.
Alarmed, he complained, “My…friends…they’re the ones that keep me walking the floors nights!”
Looking wan and depressed, Harding journeyed westward in the summer of 1923, taking with him his upright Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover.
“If you knew of a great scandal in our administration,” he asked Hoover, “would you for the good of the country and the party expose it publicly or would you bury it?”
Hoover urged publishing it, but Harding feared the political repercussions.
He did not live to find out how the public would react to the scandals of his administration.
In August of 1923, he died in San Francisco of a heart attack.
And with that history stated, let’s cut to a break for station identification and an INFOMERCIAL starring Hillary Clinton pitching THIGH MASTERS and SHAMWOWS, but don’t touch that dial, because when the INFOMERCIAL is over, we will be back with more, so stay tuned!
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Paul Plante says:
Having studied the supposed political reasoning behind it, and having actually read through the transcript of Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, in actuality, a poorly written political stump speech that had nothing to do with the actual state of the union, on March 7, 2024, I was reminded of a political essay by H.L. Mencken titled “Gamalielese” from the Baltimore Sun on March 7, 1921, where the “Sage of Baltimore” laid down the “rules” that govern the preparation and content of political speeches not only in his time, but in our times today, since those rules for what should be or should not be included in a political speech are inflexible and unchanging, as we shall see by examining the evidence, starting with the Mencken essay, to wit:
On the question of the logical content of Dr. Harding’s harangue of last Friday I do not presume to have views.
The matter has been debated at great length by the editorial writers of the Republic, all of them experts in logic; moreover, I confess to being prejudiced.
But when it comes to the style of a great man’s discourse, I can speak with a great deal less prejudice, and maybe with somewhat more competence, for I have earned most of my livelihood for twenty years past by translating the bad English of a multitude of authors into measurably better English.
Thus qualified professionally, I rise to pay my small tribute to Dr. Harding.
Setting aside a college professor or two and half a dozen dipsomaniacal newspaper reporters, he takes the first place in my Valhalla of literati.
That is to say, he writes the worst English I have even encountered.
It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean-soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
end quotes
And it is the same today with Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU which indeed reminded me not only of stale bean-soup, but especially, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
As Mencken said on March 7, 1921, it is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it, and these words written then, in 1921, about a speech by Warren Gamaliel Harding, the Ohio Republican who was the 29th President of the United States (1921-1923) and whose term in office was fraught with scandal, including Teapot Dome, apply equally well today about Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU. and well they should, since Joe’s SOTU followed this same formula laid down some one hundred years or more ago, to wit:
It drags itself out of the dark abysm (I was about to write abscess!) of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh.
It is rumble and bumble.
It is flap and doodle.
It is balder and dash.
end quotes
And yes, people, those are the main ingredients needed for a successful political speech by an American president today in our times. as we all witnessed on March 7, 2024 when a visibly angry (“ROID RAGE”?) and clearly agitated Joe Biden delivered his bombastic SOTU, only omitting mention of E PLURIBUS UNUM, and ENDEAVOR TO PERSEVERE, which takes us back to a short history of Warren Gamaliel Harding, who has traditionally been ranked as one of the worst American presidents, a ranking now contested mightily by Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior in our times today.
With respect to Harding, in a 1948 poll conducted by Harvard University, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. conducted a survey of scholars’ opinions of the presidents, ranking Harding last among the 29 presidents considered.
As to Harding’s windy speeches, the style of which Joe Biden has adopted as his own today, before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, “America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality….”
A Democratic leader, William Gibbs McAdoo, called Harding’s speeches “an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea.”
So too today with Joe Biden’s speeches and especially his SOTU, which was full of empty platitudes but totally devoid of actual intellectual content, to wit:
“Folks, America cannot go back.”
“I am here to- — tonight to show what I believe is the way forward, because I know how far we’ve come.”
Uh, okay, sure, Joe, whatever you say!
“Turning setback into comeback.”
“That’s what America does.”
“That’s what America does.”
Ah, the inspiration pours forth!
“I say to the American people: When America gets knocked down, we get back up.”
“We keep going.”
“That’s America.”
“That’s you, the American people.”
“It’s because of you America is coming back.”
“It’s because of you our future is brighter.”
“It’s because of you that tonight we can proudly say the state of our Union is strong and getting stronger.”
That, people is a pure example of political rhetoric dragging itself out of the dark abysm of pish, as it crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh.
That is rumble and bumble combined with flap and doodle with the right amount of balder and dash mixed in to make it all absolute political hogwash.
Going back to Harding, he born near Marion, Ohio, in 1865, and became the publisher of a newspaper.
Harding’s undeviating Republicanism and vibrant speaking voice, plus his willingness to let the machine bosses set policies, led him far in Ohio politics.
He served in the state Senate and as Lieutenant Governor, and unsuccessfully ran for Governor.
He delivered the nominating address for President Taft at the 1912 Republican Convention.
In 1914 he was elected to the Senate, which he found “a very pleasant place.”
An Ohio admirer, Harry Daugherty, began to promote Harding for the 1920 Republican nomination because, he later explained, “He looked like a President.”
Thus a group of Senators, taking control of the 1920 Republican Convention when the principal candidates deadlocked, turned to Harding.
He won the Presidential election by an unprecedented landslide of 60 percent of the popular vote.
Republicans in Congress easily got the President’s signature on their bills.
By 1923 the postwar depression seemed to be giving way to a new surge of prosperity, and newspapers hailed Harding as a wise statesman carrying out his campaign promise – “Less government in business and more business in government.”
Behind the facade, not all of Harding’s Administration was so impressive.
Word began to reach the President that some of his friends were using their official positions for their own enrichment.
Alarmed, he complained, “My…friends…they’re the ones that keep me walking the floors nights!”
Looking wan and depressed, Harding journeyed westward in the summer of 1923, taking with him his upright Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover.
“If you knew of a great scandal in our administration,” he asked Hoover, “would you for the good of the country and the party expose it publicly or would you bury it?”
Hoover urged publishing it, but Harding feared the political repercussions.
He did not live to find out how the public would react to the scandals of his administration.
In August of 1923, he died in San Francisco of a heart attack.
And with that history stated, let’s cut to a break for station identification and an INFOMERCIAL starring Hillary Clinton pitching THIGH MASTERS and SHAMWOWS, but don’t touch that dial, because when the INFOMERCIAL is over, we will be back with more, so stay tuned!
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 18, 2024 AT 6:19 PM
Paul Plante says:
It is well known in our times today that reading, as I do on a daily basis, consistently improves concentration and critical thinking skills while strengthening brain network connectivity, so that when I am reading the transcript of Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU, and come across bombastic (forceful and confident in a way that is intended to be very powerful and impressive, but may not have much real meaning or effect) drivel from Joe such as “Above all, I see a future for all Americans; I see a country for all Americans; And I will always be President for all Americans because I believe in America,” it is those critical thinking skills that have me saying, WTF, this man is an idiotic lunatic!
Above all, Joe Biden sees a future for all Americans?
Oh, really!
I wonder what he has in store for me?
And Joe sees a country for all Americans?
I mean, seriously, people, how can you take this **** seriously and consider it to be even remotely “presidential” in nature, or related in any way to the actual state of the union, which was what Joe was supposed to be there to talk about, but ended up way wide of the mark.
And then there is this Biden-esque verbal gem, to wit:
“And I will always be President for all Americans because I believe in America.”
Now, seriously, people, doesn’t that make you feel very good about yourselves and all warm and squishy inside hearing Joe crooning those words in your ear in dulcet, mellifluous and euphonious tones?
And of course it does.
But who is Joe trying to kid there?
Joe Biden is not President for all Americans; he has never been President for all Americans; and he never will be President for all Americans, and that is an indisputable fact.
Think I’m kidding?
Not a joke, people, as we clearly see from a Daily Wire article titled “Joe Biden Calls Trump Supporters ‘Virulent People,’ The ‘Dregs Of Society'” by Joseph Curl on September 17, 2018, where we have the real Joe Biden standing up and being heard as he bellowed and blustered about Trump supporters, to wit:
Joe Biden just had his “deplorables” moment.
Biden, who says he’ll decided in January whether to run for president in 2020 but who is making all the moves of a presidential candidate, used a pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign annual dinner on Saturday to rip President Trump.
And in so doing, Biden had a moment reminiscent of Hillary Clinton, when she called Trump supporters “deplorables.”
Biden did his old act, starting off soft and avuncular before booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about.
“Despite losing in the courts, and in the court of opinion, these forces of intolerance remain determined to undermine and roll back the progress you all have made,” he said.
“This time they — not you — have an ally in the White House.”
“This time they have an ally.”
“They’re a small percentage of the American people — virulent people, some of them the dregs of society.”
“And instead of using the full might of the executive branch to secure justice, dignity, safety for all, the president uses the White House as the literal — literal — bully pulpit, callously — callously — exerting his power over those who have little or none.”
Biden got himself lathered up into a full froth as he waxed poetic about his and “Barack’s” thoughts on Trump.
“Barack and I agreed to remain silent for a while to give this administration the chance to get up and running in the first year,” Biden said.
“God forgive me,” he added, making the sign of the cross as the audience applauded.
“Those who try to excuse this kind of prejudice in the name of culture, I say, ‘Prejudice is prejudice and humanity is humanity — it is a crime,'” Biden said, urging those in the room to continue to oppose Trump.
“Our work is not yet done by any stretch of the imagination.”
“The stakes are much too high.”
And then he went even further.
“This is deadly earnest, we are in a fight for America’s soul,” Biden said.
Biden’s wife, Jill, also got in on the act before introducing her husband.
“There is nothing that makes either of us more angry than a bully.”
“There’s nothing that’s more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn’t belong,” she said.
“There is nothing that makes us want to pick a fight more than that,” she said.
end quotes
And with those words from “CREEPY JILL” Biden before us, it is again time to cut to a break for station identification and when we will get back we will have H. L. Mencken telling us about the inner secrets, the Zen, if you will, or Tao, of good political speech writing, to wit:
But I grow lyrical.
More scientifically, what is the matter with it?
Why does it seem so flabby, so banal, so confused and childish, so stupidly at war with sense?
If you first read the inaugural address and then heard it intoned, as I did (at least in part), then you will perhaps arrive at an answer.
That answer is very simple.
When Dr. Harding (president Warren G. Harding) prepares a speech he does not think of it in terms of an educated reader locked up in jail, but in terms of a great horde of stoneheads gathered around a stand.
That is to say, the thing is always a stump speech; it is conceived as a stump speech and written as a stump speech.
More, it is a stump speech addressed to the sort of audience that the speaker has been used to all of his life, to wit, an audience of small town yokels, of low political serfs, or morons scarcely able to understand a word of more than two syllables, and wholly able to pursue a logical idea for more than two centimeters.
Such imbeciles do not want ideas — that is, new ideas, ideas that are unfamiliar, ideas that challenge their attention.
What they want is simply a gaudy series of platitudes, of sonorous nonsense driven home with gestures.
end quotes
And gestures Joe Biden has by the bushel basket full as he gets himself lathered up into a full froth, booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about, so stay tuned.
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Paul Plante says:
It is well known in our times today that reading, as I do on a daily basis, consistently improves concentration and critical thinking skills while strengthening brain network connectivity, so that when I am reading the transcript of Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU, and come across bombastic (forceful and confident in a way that is intended to be very powerful and impressive, but may not have much real meaning or effect) drivel from Joe such as “Above all, I see a future for all Americans; I see a country for all Americans; And I will always be President for all Americans because I believe in America,” it is those critical thinking skills that have me saying, WTF, this man is an idiotic lunatic!
Above all, Joe Biden sees a future for all Americans?
Oh, really!
I wonder what he has in store for me?
And Joe sees a country for all Americans?
I mean, seriously, people, how can you take this **** seriously and consider it to be even remotely “presidential” in nature, or related in any way to the actual state of the union, which was what Joe was supposed to be there to talk about, but ended up way wide of the mark.
And then there is this Biden-esque verbal gem, to wit:
“And I will always be President for all Americans because I believe in America.”
Now, seriously, people, doesn’t that make you feel very good about yourselves and all warm and squishy inside hearing Joe crooning those words in your ear in dulcet, mellifluous and euphonious tones?
And of course it does.
But who is Joe trying to kid there?
Joe Biden is not President for all Americans; he has never been President for all Americans; and he never will be President for all Americans, and that is an indisputable fact.
Think I’m kidding?
Not a joke, people, as we clearly see from a Daily Wire article titled “Joe Biden Calls Trump Supporters ‘Virulent People,’ The ‘Dregs Of Society'” by Joseph Curl on September 17, 2018, where we have the real Joe Biden standing up and being heard as he bellowed and blustered about Trump supporters, to wit:
Joe Biden just had his “deplorables” moment.
Biden, who says he’ll decided in January whether to run for president in 2020 but who is making all the moves of a presidential candidate, used a pro-LGBT Human Rights Campaign annual dinner on Saturday to rip President Trump.
And in so doing, Biden had a moment reminiscent of Hillary Clinton, when she called Trump supporters “deplorables.”
Biden did his old act, starting off soft and avuncular before booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about.
“Despite losing in the courts, and in the court of opinion, these forces of intolerance remain determined to undermine and roll back the progress you all have made,” he said.
“This time they — not you — have an ally in the White House.”
“This time they have an ally.”
“They’re a small percentage of the American people — virulent people, some of them the dregs of society.”
“And instead of using the full might of the executive branch to secure justice, dignity, safety for all, the president uses the White House as the literal — literal — bully pulpit, callously — callously — exerting his power over those who have little or none.”
Biden got himself lathered up into a full froth as he waxed poetic about his and “Barack’s” thoughts on Trump.
“Barack and I agreed to remain silent for a while to give this administration the chance to get up and running in the first year,” Biden said.
“God forgive me,” he added, making the sign of the cross as the audience applauded.
“Those who try to excuse this kind of prejudice in the name of culture, I say, ‘Prejudice is prejudice and humanity is humanity — it is a crime,'” Biden said, urging those in the room to continue to oppose Trump.
“Our work is not yet done by any stretch of the imagination.”
“The stakes are much too high.”
And then he went even further.
“This is deadly earnest, we are in a fight for America’s soul,” Biden said.
Biden’s wife, Jill, also got in on the act before introducing her husband.
“There is nothing that makes either of us more angry than a bully.”
“There’s nothing that’s more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn’t belong,” she said.
“There is nothing that makes us want to pick a fight more than that,” she said.
end quotes
And with those words from “CREEPY JILL” Biden before us, it is again time to cut to a break for station identification and when we will get back we will have H. L. Mencken telling us about the inner secrets, the Zen, if you will, or Tao, of good political speech writing, to wit:
But I grow lyrical.
More scientifically, what is the matter with it?
Why does it seem so flabby, so banal, so confused and childish, so stupidly at war with sense?
If you first read the inaugural address and then heard it intoned, as I did (at least in part), then you will perhaps arrive at an answer.
That answer is very simple.
When Dr. Harding (president Warren G. Harding) prepares a speech he does not think of it in terms of an educated reader locked up in jail, but in terms of a great horde of stoneheads gathered around a stand.
That is to say, the thing is always a stump speech; it is conceived as a stump speech and written as a stump speech.
More, it is a stump speech addressed to the sort of audience that the speaker has been used to all of his life, to wit, an audience of small town yokels, of low political serfs, or morons scarcely able to understand a word of more than two syllables, and wholly able to pursue a logical idea for more than two centimeters.
Such imbeciles do not want ideas — that is, new ideas, ideas that are unfamiliar, ideas that challenge their attention.
What they want is simply a gaudy series of platitudes, of sonorous nonsense driven home with gestures.
end quotes
And gestures Joe Biden has by the bushel basket full as he gets himself lathered up into a full froth, booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about, so stay tuned.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 19, 2024 AT 9:35 PM
Paul Plante says:
So, going back to the article in the Intelligencer titled “Trump vs. Biden Polls: No State of the Union Bounce for Joe” by Ed Kilgore on 16 March 2024, where we were told that Democrat fears that Joe Biden would show his advanced age on the reelection campaign trail were dissipated by his fiery upbeat demeanor and extemporaneous feistiness on March 7, 2024 when Joe delivered his political stump speech misnamed as a State of the Union address, which it clearly was not, not having anything whatsoever to actually do with the actual state of the union, which is hardly strong with Joe Biden in power, we see Joe and his handlers following the successful political formula laid down a little over a hundred years ago by Warren Gamaliel Harding, who has traditionally been ranked as one of the worst American presidents, a ranking now contested mightily by Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior in our times today, so that like president Harding, when Joe and his handlers prepare a speech, they too think of it in terms of a great horde of stoneheads gathered around a stand upon which Joe Biden rises high above the assembled crowd and gets himself lathered up into a full froth, booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about, so that in Joe’s style, like that of Gamaliel before him, there is pressure, ardency, effortcy, gasping, a high grunting, Cheyne-Stokes breathing.
Like that of Warren G. Harding, Joe Biden has a style that rolls and groans, struggles and complains, the style of a rhinoceros liberating himself by main strength from a lake of boiling molasses, as Mencken said of Harding in the political essay “A Short View of Gamalielese” in The Nation on April 27, 1921.
As with Harding, a speech by Joe Biden on anything, about anything, or about a lot of nothing, as far as that goes, is always a stump speech conceived as a stump speech and written as a stump speech addressed to the sort of audience that Joe Biden has been used to all of his life, to wit, an audience of small town yokels, of low political serfs, or morons scarcely able to understand a word of more than two syllables, and wholly able to pursue a logical idea for more than two centimeters.
As was the case with Harding and remains the case today with Joe Biden, twin sons of different mothers at least as far as political speeches are concerned, such imbeciles as can sit or stand through a speech delivered by Joe Biden do not want ideas — that is, new ideas, ideas that are unfamiliar, ideas that challenge their attention.
What they want is simply a gaudy series of platitudes, of sonorous nonsense driven home with gestures, such as the following concluding words from Joe Biden’s fake SOTU on March 7, 2024, to wit:
I believe in you, the American people.
You’re the reason we’ve never been more optimistic about our future than I am now.
So, let’s build the future together.
Let’s remember who we are.
We are the United States of America.
And there is nothing — nothing beyond our capacity when we act together.
end quotes
And doesn’t that just warm the cockles of your hearts, people, to know that an American president, with all his cares and worries, still has time to believe in YOU, and he wants you to know that you’re the reason Joe and “CREEPY JILL,” whose husband Joe is, have never been more optimistic about our future than Joe and “CREEPY JILL” are now?
And going back to Joe and his handlers following the successful political formula for political speeches laid down a little over a hundred years ago by Warren Gamaliel Harding, Joe and his handlers know that Joe’s followers can’t understand many words of more than two syllables, but that is not saying that they do not esteem such words.
On the contrary, as was the case when Harding was president, they like them and demand them, because the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables, such as “to lead America, the land of possibilities, you need a vision for the future and what can and should be done,” enchants them, and they like phrases which thunder like salvos of artillery, such as “overseas, Putin of Russia is on the march, invading Ukraine and sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond.”
Yes, people, let that thunder sound, and Joe’s acolytes and followers will take all the rest on trust.
Quoting Mencken, because he got it right, if a sentence of Joe’s begins furiously and then peters out into fatuity, such as “my message to President Putin, who I’ve known for a long time, is simple: We will not walk away; We will not bow down; I will not bow down,” Joe’s listeners are still satisfied, because if a phrase has a punch in it like that one does, they do not ask that it also have a meaning.
If a word slips off the tongue like a ship going down the ways, such as “in a literal sense, history is watching,” they are content and applaud it and wait for the next.
As H.L. Mencken said in his essay “Gamalielese” from the Baltimore Sun on March 7, 1921, and it applies to a career hack politician like Joe Biden today, brought up amid such hinds, trained by long practice to engage and delight them, Dr. Harding carries his stump manner into everything he writes, as does Joe Biden today, and as was the case then, the stump speech, put into cold type such as the transcript of Joe’s SOTU that I read, maketh the judicious to grieve, but roared from an actual stump, or a metaphorical stump in the case of Joe’s SOTU on March 7, 2034, with arms flying and eyes flashing and the old flag overhead, it is certainly and brilliantly effective.
Read Joe’s SOTU and it will gag you, as it did me.
But hear it recited with grand gestures to ram home its periods, and you will begin to understand it, keeping well in mind that a tight fabric of ideas would weary and exasperate Joe’s audience because what it wants, and what Joe delivered with his SOTU on March 7, 2024, is a simple loud burble of words, a procession of phrases that roar, a series of whoops.
And here once again, we will take a break for station identification while we cut to a Youtube video of Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea giving us a preview of what to expect from an upcoming video of Hillary Clinton and Lauren Boebert performing “Booty” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxtIRArhVD4 , so stay tuned and we will be back with more.
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Paul Plante says:
So, going back to the article in the Intelligencer titled “Trump vs. Biden Polls: No State of the Union Bounce for Joe” by Ed Kilgore on 16 March 2024, where we were told that Democrat fears that Joe Biden would show his advanced age on the reelection campaign trail were dissipated by his fiery upbeat demeanor and extemporaneous feistiness on March 7, 2024 when Joe delivered his political stump speech misnamed as a State of the Union address, which it clearly was not, not having anything whatsoever to actually do with the actual state of the union, which is hardly strong with Joe Biden in power, we see Joe and his handlers following the successful political formula laid down a little over a hundred years ago by Warren Gamaliel Harding, who has traditionally been ranked as one of the worst American presidents, a ranking now contested mightily by Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior in our times today, so that like president Harding, when Joe and his handlers prepare a speech, they too think of it in terms of a great horde of stoneheads gathered around a stand upon which Joe Biden rises high above the assembled crowd and gets himself lathered up into a full froth, booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about, so that in Joe’s style, like that of Gamaliel before him, there is pressure, ardency, effortcy, gasping, a high grunting, Cheyne-Stokes breathing.
Like that of Warren G. Harding, Joe Biden has a style that rolls and groans, struggles and complains, the style of a rhinoceros liberating himself by main strength from a lake of boiling molasses, as Mencken said of Harding in the political essay “A Short View of Gamalielese” in The Nation on April 27, 1921.
As with Harding, a speech by Joe Biden on anything, about anything, or about a lot of nothing, as far as that goes, is always a stump speech conceived as a stump speech and written as a stump speech addressed to the sort of audience that Joe Biden has been used to all of his life, to wit, an audience of small town yokels, of low political serfs, or morons scarcely able to understand a word of more than two syllables, and wholly able to pursue a logical idea for more than two centimeters.
As was the case with Harding and remains the case today with Joe Biden, twin sons of different mothers at least as far as political speeches are concerned, such imbeciles as can sit or stand through a speech delivered by Joe Biden do not want ideas — that is, new ideas, ideas that are unfamiliar, ideas that challenge their attention.
What they want is simply a gaudy series of platitudes, of sonorous nonsense driven home with gestures, such as the following concluding words from Joe Biden’s fake SOTU on March 7, 2024, to wit:
I believe in you, the American people.
You’re the reason we’ve never been more optimistic about our future than I am now.
So, let’s build the future together.
Let’s remember who we are.
We are the United States of America.
And there is nothing — nothing beyond our capacity when we act together.
end quotes
And doesn’t that just warm the cockles of your hearts, people, to know that an American president, with all his cares and worries, still has time to believe in YOU, and he wants you to know that you’re the reason Joe and “CREEPY JILL,” whose husband Joe is, have never been more optimistic about our future than Joe and “CREEPY JILL” are now?
And going back to Joe and his handlers following the successful political formula for political speeches laid down a little over a hundred years ago by Warren Gamaliel Harding, Joe and his handlers know that Joe’s followers can’t understand many words of more than two syllables, but that is not saying that they do not esteem such words.
On the contrary, as was the case when Harding was president, they like them and demand them, because the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables, such as “to lead America, the land of possibilities, you need a vision for the future and what can and should be done,” enchants them, and they like phrases which thunder like salvos of artillery, such as “overseas, Putin of Russia is on the march, invading Ukraine and sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond.”
Yes, people, let that thunder sound, and Joe’s acolytes and followers will take all the rest on trust.
Quoting Mencken, because he got it right, if a sentence of Joe’s begins furiously and then peters out into fatuity, such as “my message to President Putin, who I’ve known for a long time, is simple: We will not walk away; We will not bow down; I will not bow down,” Joe’s listeners are still satisfied, because if a phrase has a punch in it like that one does, they do not ask that it also have a meaning.
If a word slips off the tongue like a ship going down the ways, such as “in a literal sense, history is watching,” they are content and applaud it and wait for the next.
As H.L. Mencken said in his essay “Gamalielese” from the Baltimore Sun on March 7, 1921, and it applies to a career hack politician like Joe Biden today, brought up amid such hinds, trained by long practice to engage and delight them, Dr. Harding carries his stump manner into everything he writes, as does Joe Biden today, and as was the case then, the stump speech, put into cold type such as the transcript of Joe’s SOTU that I read, maketh the judicious to grieve, but roared from an actual stump, or a metaphorical stump in the case of Joe’s SOTU on March 7, 2034, with arms flying and eyes flashing and the old flag overhead, it is certainly and brilliantly effective.
Read Joe’s SOTU and it will gag you, as it did me.
But hear it recited with grand gestures to ram home its periods, and you will begin to understand it, keeping well in mind that a tight fabric of ideas would weary and exasperate Joe’s audience because what it wants, and what Joe delivered with his SOTU on March 7, 2024, is a simple loud burble of words, a procession of phrases that roar, a series of whoops.
And here once again, we will take a break for station identification while we cut to a Youtube video of Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea giving us a preview of what to expect from an upcoming video of Hillary Clinton and Lauren Boebert performing “Booty” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxtIRArhVD4 , so stay tuned and we will be back with more.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 20, 2024 AT 9:00 PM
Paul Plante says:
Now, here is a relevant existential question for our exciting times today – is it possible that the text or script of Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on March 7, 2024 was not written by actual humans, but was instead concocted by an ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE engine out of various bits and pieces of other political speeches in the long history of political speeches, not only in America, but everywhere in the world since the beginning of time, given that AI would “know” all that stuff, even if a mere human wouldn’t, plus AI would also have the added advantage of knowing the demographics of all the voters out there and especially their IQs, so that AI could then tailer the SOTU to the widest possible audience that could be depended on to waste its time watching and listening to a speech, any speech, by Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior?
Having read the speech, I would have to say that it is a distinct possibility, anyway, not that it would change anything, of course, whether AI prepared the speech, or some humans, or a roomful of monkeys with typewriters, for that matter, because as far as SOTU’s go, it is indeed a lousy one which whether prepared by AI or humans presumes we are all of us too stupid to know the difference about anything, because Joe Biden and his followers all are.
For example, look at this hysterical and delusional horse**** from the beginning of Biden’s SOTU where he intoned in a sonorous voicc as follows:
“In January 1941, Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation.”
“And he said, ‘I address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union.’”
“Hitler was on the march.”
“War was raging in Europe.”
“President Roosevelt’s purpose was to wake up Congress and alert the American people that this was no ordinary time.”
“Freedom and democracy were under assault in the world.”
“Tonight, I come to the same chamber to address the nation.”
“Now it’s we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the Union.”
“And, yes, my purpose tonight is to wake up the Congress and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment either.”
“Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault at home as they are today.”
end quotes
What hype, what blather, what cheap theatrics, because there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING at all “unprecedented” in this particular moment in the history of the Union, other than we are now stuck with Joe Biden in the white house, a serial liar who makes Lyndon Baines Johnson seem truthful by comparison.
And “SLEEPY JOE” Biden is going to wake up the Congress and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment?
Well, as for me, I’m already awake, and I have been awake for some long time now, and the last person I would listen to or believe about any moment in time would be Joe Biden.
And not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault at home as they are today?
Oh, really, Joe?
Do tell!
How about freedom and democracy are under assault at home because YOU are trying to make sure that you are the only name on the ballot for president come November!
And what makes our moment rare is that freedom and democracy are under attack at — both at home and overseas at the very same time?
BULL****, Joe!
Ukraine, which Joe is the supporter and enabler of, is a FASCIST DICTATORSHIP, where there is NO FREEDOM OR DEMOCRACY, period!
Overseas, Putin of Russia is on the march, invading Ukraine and sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond?
Putin is not “on the march” as senile and hysterical and delusional Joe says.
To the contrary, Putin of Russia isn’t marching anywhere because Putin of Russia is BOGGED DOWN in a quagmire called Ukraine.
And Putin of Russia is sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond?
YEAH, RIGHT, Joe!
Which brings us to this absoluteIy ridiculous statement from Joe, to wit: If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you: He will not.
Uh, okey dokey, Joe, you da man!
If you are saying it, it has to be true!
So, see what I am saying here about Biden thinking we are all stupid?
A person has to be totally brain-dead to believe a word of that Biden horse****, and that is a fact!
And that takes us back in time to April 27, 1921 and a political essay by H.L. Mencken in The Nation titled “A Short View of Gamalielese,” from which essay, if AI prepared Joe’s SOTU, it got its stylistic inspiration as follows, giving us what can now be called NEO-GAMALIELESE, or BIDENESE, to wit:
What else is there is the style.
It is the style of what the text-books of rhetoric call “elevated” discourse.
Its aim is to lend force to a simple hope or plea or asseveration by giving it the dynamic whoop and hoopla of a revival sermon, an auction sale, or a college yell.
The nuclear thought is not smothered in the process, as Democratic aesthetes argue, nor is it true that there is sometimes no nuclear thought at all.
It is always present, and nine times out of ten it is simple, obvious, and highly respectable.
But it lacks punch; it is devoid of any capacity to startle and scorch.
To give it the vigor and dignity that a great occasion demands it is carefully encased in those swathings of sonorous polysyllables, and then, the charge being rammed home, it is discharged point-blank into the ears and cerebrums of Christendom.
Such is the Gamalian manner, the secret of the Gamalian style.
That style had its origin under circumstances that are surely not unknown to experts in politico-agrarian oratory.
It came to birth on the rustic stump, it developed to full growth among the chautauquas, and it got its final polishing in a small-town newspaper office.
In brief, it reflects admirably the tastes and traditions of the sort of audience at which it was first aimed, to wit, the yokelry of the hinterland, naive, agape, thirsty for the prodigious, and eager to yell.
Such an audience has no fancy for a well-knit and succinct argument, packed with ideas.
Of all ideas, indeed, it is suspicious, but it will at least tolerate those that it knows by long hearing, those that have come to the estate of platitudes, those that fall readily into gallant and highfalutin phrases.
Above all, it distrusts perspicuity, for perspicuity is challenging and forces one to think, and hence lays a burden on the mind.
What it likes most of all is the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables — the more incomprehensible the better.
It wants to be bombarded, bawled at, overwhelmed by mad gusts of the parts of speech.
It wants to be entertained by orators who are manifestly superior — fellows whose discourse is so all-fired learned and unintelligible, so brilliant with hard words and trombone phrases, that it leaves them gasping.
Let the thunder sound, and it takes all else on trust.
If a sentence ends with a roar, it does not stop to inquire how it began.
If a phrase has punch, it does not ask that it also have a meaning.
If a word stings, that is enough.
Trained to the service of such connoisseurs. Dr. Harding carries over the style that they admire into his traffic with the Congress, the effete intelligentsia, and the powers and principalities of Europe.
That style is based upon the simplest of principles.
For every idea there is what may be called a maximum investiture — a garb of words beyond which it is a sheer impossibility to go in gaudiness.
For every plain word there is a word four times as big.
The problem is to think the thing out in terms of harmless banality, to arrange a series of obvious and familiar ideas in a logical sequence, and then to translate them, one by one, into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns of the highest conceivable horse-power — to lift the whole discourse to the plane of artillery practice — to dignify the sense by all the arts of sorcery.
end quotes
And so, we have Joe Biden’s SOTU – terms of harmless banality arranged in a series of obvious and familiar ideas in a logical sequence, and then translated one by one into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns of the highest conceivable horse-power to lift the whole discourse to the plane of artillery practice.
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Paul Plante says:
Now, here is a relevant existential question for our exciting times today – is it possible that the text or script of Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on March 7, 2024 was not written by actual humans, but was instead concocted by an ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE engine out of various bits and pieces of other political speeches in the long history of political speeches, not only in America, but everywhere in the world since the beginning of time, given that AI would “know” all that stuff, even if a mere human wouldn’t, plus AI would also have the added advantage of knowing the demographics of all the voters out there and especially their IQs, so that AI could then tailer the SOTU to the widest possible audience that could be depended on to waste its time watching and listening to a speech, any speech, by Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior?
Having read the speech, I would have to say that it is a distinct possibility, anyway, not that it would change anything, of course, whether AI prepared the speech, or some humans, or a roomful of monkeys with typewriters, for that matter, because as far as SOTU’s go, it is indeed a lousy one which whether prepared by AI or humans presumes we are all of us too stupid to know the difference about anything, because Joe Biden and his followers all are.
For example, look at this hysterical and delusional horse**** from the beginning of Biden’s SOTU where he intoned in a sonorous voicc as follows:
“In January 1941, Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation.”
“And he said, ‘I address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union.’”
“Hitler was on the march.”
“War was raging in Europe.”
“President Roosevelt’s purpose was to wake up Congress and alert the American people that this was no ordinary time.”
“Freedom and democracy were under assault in the world.”
“Tonight, I come to the same chamber to address the nation.”
“Now it’s we who face an unprecedented moment in the history of the Union.”
“And, yes, my purpose tonight is to wake up the Congress and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment either.”
“Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault at home as they are today.”
end quotes
What hype, what blather, what cheap theatrics, because there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING at all “unprecedented” in this particular moment in the history of the Union, other than we are now stuck with Joe Biden in the white house, a serial liar who makes Lyndon Baines Johnson seem truthful by comparison.
And “SLEEPY JOE” Biden is going to wake up the Congress and alert the American people that this is no ordinary moment?
Well, as for me, I’m already awake, and I have been awake for some long time now, and the last person I would listen to or believe about any moment in time would be Joe Biden.
And not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault at home as they are today?
Oh, really, Joe?
Do tell!
How about freedom and democracy are under assault at home because YOU are trying to make sure that you are the only name on the ballot for president come November!
And what makes our moment rare is that freedom and democracy are under attack at — both at home and overseas at the very same time?
BULL****, Joe!
Ukraine, which Joe is the supporter and enabler of, is a FASCIST DICTATORSHIP, where there is NO FREEDOM OR DEMOCRACY, period!
Overseas, Putin of Russia is on the march, invading Ukraine and sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond?
Putin is not “on the march” as senile and hysterical and delusional Joe says.
To the contrary, Putin of Russia isn’t marching anywhere because Putin of Russia is BOGGED DOWN in a quagmire called Ukraine.
And Putin of Russia is sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond?
YEAH, RIGHT, Joe!
Which brings us to this absoluteIy ridiculous statement from Joe, to wit: If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you: He will not.
Uh, okey dokey, Joe, you da man!
If you are saying it, it has to be true!
So, see what I am saying here about Biden thinking we are all stupid?
A person has to be totally brain-dead to believe a word of that Biden horse****, and that is a fact!
And that takes us back in time to April 27, 1921 and a political essay by H.L. Mencken in The Nation titled “A Short View of Gamalielese,” from which essay, if AI prepared Joe’s SOTU, it got its stylistic inspiration as follows, giving us what can now be called NEO-GAMALIELESE, or BIDENESE, to wit:
What else is there is the style.
It is the style of what the text-books of rhetoric call “elevated” discourse.
Its aim is to lend force to a simple hope or plea or asseveration by giving it the dynamic whoop and hoopla of a revival sermon, an auction sale, or a college yell.
The nuclear thought is not smothered in the process, as Democratic aesthetes argue, nor is it true that there is sometimes no nuclear thought at all.
It is always present, and nine times out of ten it is simple, obvious, and highly respectable.
But it lacks punch; it is devoid of any capacity to startle and scorch.
To give it the vigor and dignity that a great occasion demands it is carefully encased in those swathings of sonorous polysyllables, and then, the charge being rammed home, it is discharged point-blank into the ears and cerebrums of Christendom.
Such is the Gamalian manner, the secret of the Gamalian style.
That style had its origin under circumstances that are surely not unknown to experts in politico-agrarian oratory.
It came to birth on the rustic stump, it developed to full growth among the chautauquas, and it got its final polishing in a small-town newspaper office.
In brief, it reflects admirably the tastes and traditions of the sort of audience at which it was first aimed, to wit, the yokelry of the hinterland, naive, agape, thirsty for the prodigious, and eager to yell.
Such an audience has no fancy for a well-knit and succinct argument, packed with ideas.
Of all ideas, indeed, it is suspicious, but it will at least tolerate those that it knows by long hearing, those that have come to the estate of platitudes, those that fall readily into gallant and highfalutin phrases.
Above all, it distrusts perspicuity, for perspicuity is challenging and forces one to think, and hence lays a burden on the mind.
What it likes most of all is the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables — the more incomprehensible the better.
It wants to be bombarded, bawled at, overwhelmed by mad gusts of the parts of speech.
It wants to be entertained by orators who are manifestly superior — fellows whose discourse is so all-fired learned and unintelligible, so brilliant with hard words and trombone phrases, that it leaves them gasping.
Let the thunder sound, and it takes all else on trust.
If a sentence ends with a roar, it does not stop to inquire how it began.
If a phrase has punch, it does not ask that it also have a meaning.
If a word stings, that is enough.
Trained to the service of such connoisseurs. Dr. Harding carries over the style that they admire into his traffic with the Congress, the effete intelligentsia, and the powers and principalities of Europe.
That style is based upon the simplest of principles.
For every idea there is what may be called a maximum investiture — a garb of words beyond which it is a sheer impossibility to go in gaudiness.
For every plain word there is a word four times as big.
The problem is to think the thing out in terms of harmless banality, to arrange a series of obvious and familiar ideas in a logical sequence, and then to translate them, one by one, into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns of the highest conceivable horse-power — to lift the whole discourse to the plane of artillery practice — to dignify the sense by all the arts of sorcery.
end quotes
And so, we have Joe Biden’s SOTU – terms of harmless banality arranged in a series of obvious and familiar ideas in a logical sequence, and then translated one by one into nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and pronouns of the highest conceivable horse-power to lift the whole discourse to the plane of artillery practice.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/paul-p ... ent-909762
Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 21, 2024 AT 9:20 PM
Paul Plante says:
Now, with respect to Joe Biden’s misnamed “State of the Union” address on March 7, 2024, which address was nothing more than a poor combination of a predictable and boring political polemic (a speech or piece of writing expressing a strongly critical attack on or controversial opinion about someone or something) mixed up with a contrived jeremiad (a long, mournful complaint or lamentation; as in “the jeremiads of a puritan president like Joe Biden warning of moral decay and the loss of the soul of America if Donald Trump is elected instead of Joe Biden”), if we go to the Congressional Research Service website under “History, Evolution, and Practices of the President’s State of the Union Address: Frequently Asked Questions” updated January 12, 2018, what we find out about what a real, not faux as this one was, State of the Union address should consist of, as follows:
Summary
The State of the Union address is a communication from the President to Congress in which the chief executive reports on the current condition of the United States and provides policy proposals for the upcoming legislative year.
end quote
Did Joe Biden actually do that on March 7, 2024, or even attempt to do that, report on the current condition of the United States and provide policy proposals for the upcoming legislative year?
Of course not.
According to the White House transcript, this is how Joe started his show off on March 7, 2024, in what I consider to be a very belligerent (hostile and aggressive; as in “a bull-necked, belligerent old man”), condescending (having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority) and unpresidential manner, to wit:
(The President presents his prepared remarks to Speaker Johnson.)
Your bedtime reading.
Tony!
Thank you.
Looking for Jill.
Good evening.
Good evening.
If I were smart, I’d go home now.
end quotes
Your bedtime reading?
What a flippant and frankly childish thing for Joe Biden to say in a fit of pique (a feeling of anger, especially caused by someone damaging Joe Biden’s feeling of being proud of himself: as in Joe Biden stormed into the room in a fit of pique), where flippant behavior by Joe Biden on March 7, 2024 is defined as showing or having a rude attitude of not being serious esp. by trying to be amusing when most people expected Joe to be serious.
Going back to the SOTU itself, a real SOTU, not Joe Biden’s hollow mockery or pretend SOTU, the address originates in the Constitution (Article II, Section 3, clause 1), which requires that the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
That, people, is what OUR Constitution says, but Joe Biden DOES NOT go by OUR Constitution, and so he just makes **** up as he goes, which takes us back to the Congressional Research Service, as follows, and this is quite relevant to the subject at hand, which is that Joe Biden’s SOTU wasn’t written to be read, but was instead the script for a cheap, televised drama show, to wit:
How Have Advances in Technology Affected the Address?
Advances in technology have dramatically affected the format, audience, and impact of the address.
President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first annual message by radio broadcast, in 1923.
President Truman’s 1947 State of the Union message was the first to be broadcast by television.
Free air time for the President’s message and the opposition response is currently provided as a public service by commercial, public broadcast, and cable networks.
President George W. Bush’s 2002 address was the first to be streamed live from the White House website.
In his 2013 address, President Obama’s Administration produced an “enhanced broadcast” that included infographics that accompanied his remarks.
Commanding a steadily growing audience of listeners and viewers, successive Presidents learned to use the occasion as an appeal to the nation; the message evolved from being a report to Congress to a direct address to the American people, a platform from which the President announced, explained, and promoted his legislative agenda for the coming year.
In 1965, Lyndon Johnson changed the time of his address from the traditional mid-afternoon to 9:00 P.M., to better attract the largest number of television viewers.
The message traditionally draws a large audience:
President Obama averaged 38.7 million over the seven addresses he made.
The largest audience recorded in recent years was 66.9 million, for President Clinton’s 1993 Address to the Joint Sessions of Congress (not officially a State of the Union address), while Clinton’s 2000 address attracted the fewest viewers in recent times, at 31.5 million.
end quotes
So, despite what OUR Constitution says in Article II, Section 3, clause 1 about the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient,” in our times today, as the Congressional Research Service makes patently clear, the whole process has become totally bastardized (a version of something lower in quality or value than the original form, typically as a result of the addition of new elements) precisely because by commanding a steadily growing audience of listeners and viewers in what is a political message that is free and doesn’t have to be paid for like other campaign messaging, mountebanks like Joe Biden posing as presidents have learned to use the occasion as an appeal directly to the people of the nation, in this case the 32.2 million people who are said to have watched Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on broadcast or cable television March 7, 2024, so that the message in the age of Joe Biden is no longer about being a report to Congress.
To the contrary, as the nation and world witnessed on March 7, 2024, what Joe Biden did was to give a direct address to the American people, a platform from which Joe glorified himself while vilifying his political opposition, and that was the sum and substance of the whole affair, which had absolutely nothing to do with the president announcing, explaining, or promoting his legislative agenda for the coming year, because Joe doesn’t really have one.
So, whether AI prepared the text of Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 State of the Union address or whether it was written by humans, it was prepared in the style of what the text-books of rhetoric call “elevated” discourse, the aim of the exercise being to lend force to a simple hope or plea or asseveration (the solemn or emphatic declaration or statement of something, as in “I fear that Joe Biden offered only unsupported asseveration”), that being the hope and plea to reelect Joe Buden when he is the very last thing this nation needs four more years of, by giving Joe’s forlorn hope the dynamic whoop and hoopla of a revival sermon, an auction sale, or a college yell, and following the formula laid down about a hundred years ago now by Warren G. Harding, to give Joe’s diatribe and political harangue on March 7, 2024 the vigor and dignity that what Joe Biden thought was a great occasion demanded of it, Joe’s polemic was carefully encased in swathings of sonorous polysyllables, and then discharged point-blank from the roaring and thundering mouth of Joe Biden straight into the ears and cerebrums of so much (32.2 million people) of the candid world as had the stomach to watch the show, a show which reflected admirably the tastes and traditions of the sort of audience Joe Biden has been aiming at for his very long political career, to wit, the yokelry of the hinterland, naive, agape, thirsty for the prodigious, and eager to yell “FOUR MORE YEARS,” such an audience having no fancy for a well-knit and succinct argument, packed with ideas, it only being able to tolerate platitudes that fall readily into gallant and highfalutin phrases, with what it likes most being the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables, the more incomprehensible the better, so that as was the case on March 7, 2024, the audience was bombarded, bawled at, overwhelmed by mad gusts of the parts of speech, so that the audience and media ended up being entertained by a fellow whose discourse was so all-fired learned and unintelligible, so brilliant with hard words and trombone phrases, that it left them gasping, as the Biden thunder sounded, and sentences ended with a roar.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/paul-p ... ent-910011
Paul Plante says:
Now, with respect to Joe Biden’s misnamed “State of the Union” address on March 7, 2024, which address was nothing more than a poor combination of a predictable and boring political polemic (a speech or piece of writing expressing a strongly critical attack on or controversial opinion about someone or something) mixed up with a contrived jeremiad (a long, mournful complaint or lamentation; as in “the jeremiads of a puritan president like Joe Biden warning of moral decay and the loss of the soul of America if Donald Trump is elected instead of Joe Biden”), if we go to the Congressional Research Service website under “History, Evolution, and Practices of the President’s State of the Union Address: Frequently Asked Questions” updated January 12, 2018, what we find out about what a real, not faux as this one was, State of the Union address should consist of, as follows:
Summary
The State of the Union address is a communication from the President to Congress in which the chief executive reports on the current condition of the United States and provides policy proposals for the upcoming legislative year.
end quote
Did Joe Biden actually do that on March 7, 2024, or even attempt to do that, report on the current condition of the United States and provide policy proposals for the upcoming legislative year?
Of course not.
According to the White House transcript, this is how Joe started his show off on March 7, 2024, in what I consider to be a very belligerent (hostile and aggressive; as in “a bull-necked, belligerent old man”), condescending (having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority) and unpresidential manner, to wit:
(The President presents his prepared remarks to Speaker Johnson.)
Your bedtime reading.
Tony!
Thank you.
Looking for Jill.
Good evening.
Good evening.
If I were smart, I’d go home now.
end quotes
Your bedtime reading?
What a flippant and frankly childish thing for Joe Biden to say in a fit of pique (a feeling of anger, especially caused by someone damaging Joe Biden’s feeling of being proud of himself: as in Joe Biden stormed into the room in a fit of pique), where flippant behavior by Joe Biden on March 7, 2024 is defined as showing or having a rude attitude of not being serious esp. by trying to be amusing when most people expected Joe to be serious.
Going back to the SOTU itself, a real SOTU, not Joe Biden’s hollow mockery or pretend SOTU, the address originates in the Constitution (Article II, Section 3, clause 1), which requires that the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
That, people, is what OUR Constitution says, but Joe Biden DOES NOT go by OUR Constitution, and so he just makes **** up as he goes, which takes us back to the Congressional Research Service, as follows, and this is quite relevant to the subject at hand, which is that Joe Biden’s SOTU wasn’t written to be read, but was instead the script for a cheap, televised drama show, to wit:
How Have Advances in Technology Affected the Address?
Advances in technology have dramatically affected the format, audience, and impact of the address.
President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first annual message by radio broadcast, in 1923.
President Truman’s 1947 State of the Union message was the first to be broadcast by television.
Free air time for the President’s message and the opposition response is currently provided as a public service by commercial, public broadcast, and cable networks.
President George W. Bush’s 2002 address was the first to be streamed live from the White House website.
In his 2013 address, President Obama’s Administration produced an “enhanced broadcast” that included infographics that accompanied his remarks.
Commanding a steadily growing audience of listeners and viewers, successive Presidents learned to use the occasion as an appeal to the nation; the message evolved from being a report to Congress to a direct address to the American people, a platform from which the President announced, explained, and promoted his legislative agenda for the coming year.
In 1965, Lyndon Johnson changed the time of his address from the traditional mid-afternoon to 9:00 P.M., to better attract the largest number of television viewers.
The message traditionally draws a large audience:
President Obama averaged 38.7 million over the seven addresses he made.
The largest audience recorded in recent years was 66.9 million, for President Clinton’s 1993 Address to the Joint Sessions of Congress (not officially a State of the Union address), while Clinton’s 2000 address attracted the fewest viewers in recent times, at 31.5 million.
end quotes
So, despite what OUR Constitution says in Article II, Section 3, clause 1 about the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient,” in our times today, as the Congressional Research Service makes patently clear, the whole process has become totally bastardized (a version of something lower in quality or value than the original form, typically as a result of the addition of new elements) precisely because by commanding a steadily growing audience of listeners and viewers in what is a political message that is free and doesn’t have to be paid for like other campaign messaging, mountebanks like Joe Biden posing as presidents have learned to use the occasion as an appeal directly to the people of the nation, in this case the 32.2 million people who are said to have watched Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on broadcast or cable television March 7, 2024, so that the message in the age of Joe Biden is no longer about being a report to Congress.
To the contrary, as the nation and world witnessed on March 7, 2024, what Joe Biden did was to give a direct address to the American people, a platform from which Joe glorified himself while vilifying his political opposition, and that was the sum and substance of the whole affair, which had absolutely nothing to do with the president announcing, explaining, or promoting his legislative agenda for the coming year, because Joe doesn’t really have one.
So, whether AI prepared the text of Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 State of the Union address or whether it was written by humans, it was prepared in the style of what the text-books of rhetoric call “elevated” discourse, the aim of the exercise being to lend force to a simple hope or plea or asseveration (the solemn or emphatic declaration or statement of something, as in “I fear that Joe Biden offered only unsupported asseveration”), that being the hope and plea to reelect Joe Buden when he is the very last thing this nation needs four more years of, by giving Joe’s forlorn hope the dynamic whoop and hoopla of a revival sermon, an auction sale, or a college yell, and following the formula laid down about a hundred years ago now by Warren G. Harding, to give Joe’s diatribe and political harangue on March 7, 2024 the vigor and dignity that what Joe Biden thought was a great occasion demanded of it, Joe’s polemic was carefully encased in swathings of sonorous polysyllables, and then discharged point-blank from the roaring and thundering mouth of Joe Biden straight into the ears and cerebrums of so much (32.2 million people) of the candid world as had the stomach to watch the show, a show which reflected admirably the tastes and traditions of the sort of audience Joe Biden has been aiming at for his very long political career, to wit, the yokelry of the hinterland, naive, agape, thirsty for the prodigious, and eager to yell “FOUR MORE YEARS,” such an audience having no fancy for a well-knit and succinct argument, packed with ideas, it only being able to tolerate platitudes that fall readily into gallant and highfalutin phrases, with what it likes most being the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables, the more incomprehensible the better, so that as was the case on March 7, 2024, the audience was bombarded, bawled at, overwhelmed by mad gusts of the parts of speech, so that the audience and media ended up being entertained by a fellow whose discourse was so all-fired learned and unintelligible, so brilliant with hard words and trombone phrases, that it left them gasping, as the Biden thunder sounded, and sentences ended with a roar.
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 23, 2024 AT 5:52 PM
Paul Plante says:
So, think about this, people, as we consider the distinct possibility that Joe Biden’s entire SOTU performance, from the moment he came on stage as it were, to the rousing strains of “HAIL TO THE CHIEF,” which is what Joe Biden is in America, anyway, was scripted and directed not by human agency, but by AI, which everybody today who knows anything about anything knows is smarter that any human and knows way far more than a human could know in 20 or 30 lifetimes, how on March 7, 2024, when a visibly angry Joe Biden imperiously walked into the House Chamber of the U.S. Capital. where he is being impeached by his social and political inferiors, belligerent Joe, clearly looking for a fight, striding in as the conquering hero as if he were accoutered in Royal Purple with a golden torc around his bull neck, silver and gold arm rings adorning his massive arms, and a diadem around his brow, in a very surly mood, indeed, which captured the moment instantaneously and made the show all Joe Biden, for not only the people of America to see, but also the people and leaders of every dictatorship out there, and especially Putin of Russia, Xi of China, the dude in North Korea with the wild haircut, and the Houthis, who are using Joe Biden’s navy boats for target practice, that Joe Biden is the MAN THAT AM, somebody not to **** with if they know what’s good for them, a message as well for the Republicans as Joe tossed a copy to the speaker of the house as if tossing table scraps to a dog, telling him, “Your bedtime reading,” how all these many important separate and disparate little details, like Joe Biden’s all-important demeanor, that make or break a theatrical production, as someone with experience in the genre like Wayne Creed could well tell us, how difficult it is the make a theatrical production happen so seamlessly and flawlessly as this one did, that it does indeed smack of the first State of the Union address in America having been prepared by AI, and not human agency.
And what were the results of the experiment?
Let’s check the headlines from that evening and the following day to see:
AP News: Biden uses feisty State of the Union to contrast with Trump …
Spectrum News NY1: Biden lays out agenda in fiery State of the Union speech
U.S. News & World Report: Fiery Biden Takes on Trump in State of the Union Address
Reuters: Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in fiery State of the …
France 24: Biden attacks Trump, defends democracy in fiery State of …
The Hill: Biden’s fiery State of the Union shows he’s miles ahead of ‘ …
CNBC: Biden electrifies Democrats, spars with Republicans in fiery …
BBC: Biden draws election battle lines in fiery speech
Washington Post: Biden delivers State of the Union with fiery political tone
ABC News: 7 takeaways from Biden’s fiery State of the Union – ABC News
NBC News: Biden turns the State of the Union into a fiery campaign …
USA Today: Takeaways from Biden’s fiery State of the Union
The New York Times: Biden Takes His Fiery State of the Union Pitch on the Road
Vanity Fair: Joe Biden Didn’t Mince Words for Republicans in Fiery …
CBS News: Biden hits campaign trail after fiery State of the Union address
YouTube · Scripps News: President Biden gives fiery State of the Union address
CBS News: California Republicans respond to Biden’s fiery State of the …
Le Monde.fr: Biden attacks Trump and warns US democracy at risk in …
NBC News: ‘Wake up’: Biden delivers fiery State of the Union
France 24: Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in fiery … – France 24
NBC4 Washington: State of the Union 2024: Biden delivers fiery …
KQED: 6 Key Takeaways From Biden’s Fiery State of the Union …
Washington Post: Biden campaigns in Pa. following feisty State of the Union …
FOX 2 Detroit: Biden delivers fiery State of the Union speech – FOX 2 Detroit
The Independent Record: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
The Bismarck Tribune: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
Financial Times: Joe Biden attacks Donald Trump on ‘democracy and …: Mar 7, 2024 — Joe Biden vowed to fight for “democracy and freedom” in the US and around the world in a fiery, unabashedly political speech to Congress in …
Facebook · Scripps News: President Biden gives fiery State of the Union address
Lincoln Journal Star: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
U.S. News & World Report: Biden’s Fiery State of the Union
FOX 11 Los Angeles: Biden delivers fiery SOTU address – FOX 11 Los Angeles
The Bay State Banner: President Biden lights up the chamber in fiery State of …
WFMJ.com: Biden delivers fiery state of the union
Albany Democrat-Herald: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
NJ Spotlight News: Biden takes on his ‘predecessor’ in fiery State of the Union …
So isn’t it interesting how universal, except a few instances where “feisty” was used instead, the use of the word “fiery” (emotional or easily made angry: as in “He’s known for his fiery temper”) was in all those headlines, as if coordinated.
And what else is interesting is the fact that none of those publications bothered to call out Joe for totally perverting and degrading what OUR Constitution says in Article II, Section 3, clause 1 about the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient,” which serves as clear evidence in our times today, as the Congressional Research Service made patently clear, that the whole concept of the SOTU has become totally bastardized (a version of something lower in quality or value than the original form, typically as a result of the addition of new elements) precisely because by commanding a steadily growing audience of listeners and viewers in what is a political message that is free and doesn’t have to be paid for like other campaign messaging, mountebanks like Joe Biden posing as presidents have learned to use the occasion as an appeal directly to the people of the nation, in this case the 32.2 million people who are said to have watched Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on broadcast or cable television March 7, 2024, so that the message in the age of Joe Biden is no longer about being a report to Congress.
To the contrary, as the nation and world witnessed on March 7, 2024, what Joe Biden did was to give a direct address to the American people, a platform from which Joe glorified himself while vilifying his political opposition, and that was the sum and substance of the whole affair, which had absolutely nothing to do with the president announcing, explaining, or promoting his legislative agenda for the coming year, because Joe doesn’t really have one.
And the main-stream and legacy media DID NOT care!
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Paul Plante says:
So, think about this, people, as we consider the distinct possibility that Joe Biden’s entire SOTU performance, from the moment he came on stage as it were, to the rousing strains of “HAIL TO THE CHIEF,” which is what Joe Biden is in America, anyway, was scripted and directed not by human agency, but by AI, which everybody today who knows anything about anything knows is smarter that any human and knows way far more than a human could know in 20 or 30 lifetimes, how on March 7, 2024, when a visibly angry Joe Biden imperiously walked into the House Chamber of the U.S. Capital. where he is being impeached by his social and political inferiors, belligerent Joe, clearly looking for a fight, striding in as the conquering hero as if he were accoutered in Royal Purple with a golden torc around his bull neck, silver and gold arm rings adorning his massive arms, and a diadem around his brow, in a very surly mood, indeed, which captured the moment instantaneously and made the show all Joe Biden, for not only the people of America to see, but also the people and leaders of every dictatorship out there, and especially Putin of Russia, Xi of China, the dude in North Korea with the wild haircut, and the Houthis, who are using Joe Biden’s navy boats for target practice, that Joe Biden is the MAN THAT AM, somebody not to **** with if they know what’s good for them, a message as well for the Republicans as Joe tossed a copy to the speaker of the house as if tossing table scraps to a dog, telling him, “Your bedtime reading,” how all these many important separate and disparate little details, like Joe Biden’s all-important demeanor, that make or break a theatrical production, as someone with experience in the genre like Wayne Creed could well tell us, how difficult it is the make a theatrical production happen so seamlessly and flawlessly as this one did, that it does indeed smack of the first State of the Union address in America having been prepared by AI, and not human agency.
And what were the results of the experiment?
Let’s check the headlines from that evening and the following day to see:
AP News: Biden uses feisty State of the Union to contrast with Trump …
Spectrum News NY1: Biden lays out agenda in fiery State of the Union speech
U.S. News & World Report: Fiery Biden Takes on Trump in State of the Union Address
Reuters: Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in fiery State of the …
France 24: Biden attacks Trump, defends democracy in fiery State of …
The Hill: Biden’s fiery State of the Union shows he’s miles ahead of ‘ …
CNBC: Biden electrifies Democrats, spars with Republicans in fiery …
BBC: Biden draws election battle lines in fiery speech
Washington Post: Biden delivers State of the Union with fiery political tone
ABC News: 7 takeaways from Biden’s fiery State of the Union – ABC News
NBC News: Biden turns the State of the Union into a fiery campaign …
USA Today: Takeaways from Biden’s fiery State of the Union
The New York Times: Biden Takes His Fiery State of the Union Pitch on the Road
Vanity Fair: Joe Biden Didn’t Mince Words for Republicans in Fiery …
CBS News: Biden hits campaign trail after fiery State of the Union address
YouTube · Scripps News: President Biden gives fiery State of the Union address
CBS News: California Republicans respond to Biden’s fiery State of the …
Le Monde.fr: Biden attacks Trump and warns US democracy at risk in …
NBC News: ‘Wake up’: Biden delivers fiery State of the Union
France 24: Biden takes on Trump and Republicans in fiery … – France 24
NBC4 Washington: State of the Union 2024: Biden delivers fiery …
KQED: 6 Key Takeaways From Biden’s Fiery State of the Union …
Washington Post: Biden campaigns in Pa. following feisty State of the Union …
FOX 2 Detroit: Biden delivers fiery State of the Union speech – FOX 2 Detroit
The Independent Record: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
The Bismarck Tribune: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
Financial Times: Joe Biden attacks Donald Trump on ‘democracy and …: Mar 7, 2024 — Joe Biden vowed to fight for “democracy and freedom” in the US and around the world in a fiery, unabashedly political speech to Congress in …
Facebook · Scripps News: President Biden gives fiery State of the Union address
Lincoln Journal Star: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
U.S. News & World Report: Biden’s Fiery State of the Union
FOX 11 Los Angeles: Biden delivers fiery SOTU address – FOX 11 Los Angeles
The Bay State Banner: President Biden lights up the chamber in fiery State of …
WFMJ.com: Biden delivers fiery state of the union
Albany Democrat-Herald: Biden delivers a fiery State of the Union address to draw …
NJ Spotlight News: Biden takes on his ‘predecessor’ in fiery State of the Union …
So isn’t it interesting how universal, except a few instances where “feisty” was used instead, the use of the word “fiery” (emotional or easily made angry: as in “He’s known for his fiery temper”) was in all those headlines, as if coordinated.
And what else is interesting is the fact that none of those publications bothered to call out Joe for totally perverting and degrading what OUR Constitution says in Article II, Section 3, clause 1 about the President “shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient,” which serves as clear evidence in our times today, as the Congressional Research Service made patently clear, that the whole concept of the SOTU has become totally bastardized (a version of something lower in quality or value than the original form, typically as a result of the addition of new elements) precisely because by commanding a steadily growing audience of listeners and viewers in what is a political message that is free and doesn’t have to be paid for like other campaign messaging, mountebanks like Joe Biden posing as presidents have learned to use the occasion as an appeal directly to the people of the nation, in this case the 32.2 million people who are said to have watched Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on broadcast or cable television March 7, 2024, so that the message in the age of Joe Biden is no longer about being a report to Congress.
To the contrary, as the nation and world witnessed on March 7, 2024, what Joe Biden did was to give a direct address to the American people, a platform from which Joe glorified himself while vilifying his political opposition, and that was the sum and substance of the whole affair, which had absolutely nothing to do with the president announcing, explaining, or promoting his legislative agenda for the coming year, because Joe doesn’t really have one.
And the main-stream and legacy media DID NOT care!
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 26, 2024 AT 10:41 AM
Paul Plante says:
Now, let’s face it, people, as we go further and further into the SILLY SEASON leading up to the November presidential election, we are confronted with a serious problem as free citizens of the United States of America who care about the QUALITY of our national government, that it is not a corrupt, profligate, scandal-ridden, incompetent, inept, untrustworthy national disgrace, or an international laughing stock on the world stage in this day and age of American DICTATOR and LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first Biden ever to achieve such fame and glory in the entire history of the Bidens, is that as a pathological liar, Joe is going to keep lying, telling the same lies over and over, no matter how many times Joe’s lies get debunked, and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it, nor can we depend on the media, outside of the Cape Charles Mirror, to say boo about it, or to attempt to fact-check Joe, whose pathological lying the main-stream and legacy media simply accept as part of Joe Biden’s character or personal make-up.
Case in point is Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU where Joe came out with the following, to wit:
Tonight — tonight, I want to talk about the future of possibilities that we can build together — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.
And, by the way, I understand corporations.
I come from a state that has more corporations invested than every one of your states in the state — the United States combined.
And I represented it for 36 years.
I’m not anti-corporation.
But I grew up in a home where trickle-down economics didn’t put much on my dad’s kitchen table.
That’s why I’m determined to turn things around so the middle class does well.
When they do well, the poor have a way up and the wealthy still do very well.
We all do well.
end quotes
Trickle-down economics didn’t put much on Joe’s dad’s kitchen table?
What whiney bull**** that is!
And it is a patently ridiculous statement, as well, given that Joe was born on November 20, 1942, when DEMOCRAT Frank Roosevelt was president, and there was NO TRICKLE DOWN to affect little Joey’s dad.
Then, Frank Roosevelt died in office so that on April 12, 1945, DEMOCRAT Harry S. “The buck Stops Here” Truman became president, and was president until 1953, and still there was NO TRICKLE DOWN to affect little Joey’s dad.
As to Joe’s statement about growing up in a home where NON-EXISTENT trickle-down economics didn’t put much on my dad’s kitchen table, if we go to Joe’s own published bio on Wikipedia, this is what we find concerning Joe’s father, to wit:
Biden’s father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old, and for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton.
end quote
Joe's father was a lousy businessman or money manager and a poor provider which is why little Joey grew up in a home without much on the table, and when poor, starving little Joey was seven years old, it was 1949 and DEMOCRAT Truman was president, so really, people, who does Joe Biden think he is kidding here with his speech on March 7, 2024 which reflected admirably the tastes and traditions of the sort of audience Joe Biden has been aiming at for his very long political career, to wit, the yokelry of the hinterland, naive, agape, thirsty for the prodigious, and eager to yell “FOUR MORE YEARS,” such an audience having no fancy for a well-knit and succinct argument, packed with ideas, it only being able to tolerate platitudes that fall readily into gallant and highfalutin phrases, with what it likes most being the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables, the more incomprehensible the better.
So, people, think about it, with that bull**** spew about trickle-down, does Joe Biden think we all are unable to grasp reality because he and everyone around him are unable to grasp reality, which thought takes us back to a Newsweek article titled “Joe Biden Airs Thanksgiving Ad To Try To Boost Floundering Campaign” by Giulia Carbonaro on 24 November 2023, where we had the same BIDEN BULL**** that we were subjected to on March 7, 2024 flowing quite freely, to wit:
Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign will air a television ad during the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day football game on Thursday as the president tries to boost support in his bid for re-election, which appears to be dwindling.
Recent polls by The New York Times and Siena College have shown that Biden is losing ground to Donald Trump in five critical states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
That means that the embattled former president — currently the frontrunner in the Republican primary by a huge margin — is ahead in five out of six key battleground states, where voters said they trusted Trump over Biden on tackling issues surrounding the U.S. economy, immigration and foreign policy.
Biden was leading only in Washington, where he had an advantage of two percentage points.
The president and Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Wednesday that the one-minute commercial will air during the Lions-Green Bay Packers game on Thursday, in one of those swing states where Biden is trailing Trump, Michigan.
According to the New York Times/Siena poll, Trump would win the state by five percentage points.
The ad, titled “Never Left,” focuses on Biden’s Scranton roots and underlines the Democratic president’s understanding of the struggles of middle class Americans, as reported by The Detroit News.
“He grew up a middle-class kid in a middle-class town,” the ad says, adding that the middle-class town “has never left him.”
“He knows what life is like for working people and knows middle class life is too expensive right now.”
“For Joe Biden it’s about restoring the sense of security working people deserve — that simple promise, that peace of mind.”
“He’s determined to get it back, because of where he’s from and who he is,” the narrator says in the ad that will show at the Thursday game.
end quotes
“BIDENFLATION JOE” Biden is going to restore the sense of security working people deserve and Joe is determined to get it back, because of where Joe’s from and who Joe is?
Joe Biden a middle-class kid in a middle-class town and the middle-class town has never left him?
Joe Biden’s Scranton roots?
Joe Biden understands the struggles of middle class Americans?
What rot!
And Joe Biden knows what life is like for working people?
How so, people, when there is no evidence that Joe Biden ever worked an honest hour at an honest job in his entire lifetime?
As to Joe’s claims of understanding the middle class, if we go back to Joe’s bio, this is what we are confronted with, to wit:
At Archmere Academy in Claymont, Biden played baseball and was a standout halfback and wide receiver on the high school football team.
end quote
Ah, yes, people, Archmere Academy where tuition for the 2023-2024 academic year is $32,400.
Good old “middle class” Joe, alright!
As to the term “trickle down economics,” according to Wikipedia, it was rarely seen in published works until the 1980s.
However, the concept that economic prosperity in the upper classes flows down into the lower classes is at least 100 years old, the term itself being used mostly by critics of the concept.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary notes that the first known use of “trickle-down” as an adjective meaning “relating to or working on the principle of trickle-down theory” was in 1944, while DEMOCRAT Frank Roosevelt was president, while the first known use of “trickle-down theory” was in 1954.
As to Joe’s “bottom up middle out” theory, it is hardly new and way back in time, in 1896, in fact, United States Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan described the concept using the metaphor of a “leak” in his Cross of Gold speech, to wit:
“There are two ideas of government.”
“There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below.”
“The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.”
Which statement humorist and social commentator Will Rogers in a 1932 column criticizing Herbert Hoover’s policies and approach to The Great Depression, wrote about as follows, which describes exactly where Joe Biden has us today, to wit:
“This election was lost four and six years ago, not this year.”
“They [Republicans] didn’t start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour.”
“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy.”
“Mr. Hoover was an engineer.”
“He knew that water trickles down.”
“Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot.”
“But he didn’t know that money trickled up.”
“Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow.”
“But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.”
end quotes
Stay tuned, more is yet to come!
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Paul Plante says:
Now, let’s face it, people, as we go further and further into the SILLY SEASON leading up to the November presidential election, we are confronted with a serious problem as free citizens of the United States of America who care about the QUALITY of our national government, that it is not a corrupt, profligate, scandal-ridden, incompetent, inept, untrustworthy national disgrace, or an international laughing stock on the world stage in this day and age of American DICTATOR and LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD Joseph Robinette Biden, Junior, the first Biden ever to achieve such fame and glory in the entire history of the Bidens, is that as a pathological liar, Joe is going to keep lying, telling the same lies over and over, no matter how many times Joe’s lies get debunked, and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it, nor can we depend on the media, outside of the Cape Charles Mirror, to say boo about it, or to attempt to fact-check Joe, whose pathological lying the main-stream and legacy media simply accept as part of Joe Biden’s character or personal make-up.
Case in point is Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 SOTU where Joe came out with the following, to wit:
Tonight — tonight, I want to talk about the future of possibilities that we can build together — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.
And, by the way, I understand corporations.
I come from a state that has more corporations invested than every one of your states in the state — the United States combined.
And I represented it for 36 years.
I’m not anti-corporation.
But I grew up in a home where trickle-down economics didn’t put much on my dad’s kitchen table.
That’s why I’m determined to turn things around so the middle class does well.
When they do well, the poor have a way up and the wealthy still do very well.
We all do well.
end quotes
Trickle-down economics didn’t put much on Joe’s dad’s kitchen table?
What whiney bull**** that is!
And it is a patently ridiculous statement, as well, given that Joe was born on November 20, 1942, when DEMOCRAT Frank Roosevelt was president, and there was NO TRICKLE DOWN to affect little Joey’s dad.
Then, Frank Roosevelt died in office so that on April 12, 1945, DEMOCRAT Harry S. “The buck Stops Here” Truman became president, and was president until 1953, and still there was NO TRICKLE DOWN to affect little Joey’s dad.
As to Joe’s statement about growing up in a home where NON-EXISTENT trickle-down economics didn’t put much on my dad’s kitchen table, if we go to Joe’s own published bio on Wikipedia, this is what we find concerning Joe’s father, to wit:
Biden’s father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946, but he suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years old, and for several years the family lived with Biden’s maternal grandparents in Scranton.
end quote
Joe's father was a lousy businessman or money manager and a poor provider which is why little Joey grew up in a home without much on the table, and when poor, starving little Joey was seven years old, it was 1949 and DEMOCRAT Truman was president, so really, people, who does Joe Biden think he is kidding here with his speech on March 7, 2024 which reflected admirably the tastes and traditions of the sort of audience Joe Biden has been aiming at for his very long political career, to wit, the yokelry of the hinterland, naive, agape, thirsty for the prodigious, and eager to yell “FOUR MORE YEARS,” such an audience having no fancy for a well-knit and succinct argument, packed with ideas, it only being able to tolerate platitudes that fall readily into gallant and highfalutin phrases, with what it likes most being the roll of incomprehensible polysyllables, the more incomprehensible the better.
So, people, think about it, with that bull**** spew about trickle-down, does Joe Biden think we all are unable to grasp reality because he and everyone around him are unable to grasp reality, which thought takes us back to a Newsweek article titled “Joe Biden Airs Thanksgiving Ad To Try To Boost Floundering Campaign” by Giulia Carbonaro on 24 November 2023, where we had the same BIDEN BULL**** that we were subjected to on March 7, 2024 flowing quite freely, to wit:
Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign will air a television ad during the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving Day football game on Thursday as the president tries to boost support in his bid for re-election, which appears to be dwindling.
Recent polls by The New York Times and Siena College have shown that Biden is losing ground to Donald Trump in five critical states, including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
That means that the embattled former president — currently the frontrunner in the Republican primary by a huge margin — is ahead in five out of six key battleground states, where voters said they trusted Trump over Biden on tackling issues surrounding the U.S. economy, immigration and foreign policy.
Biden was leading only in Washington, where he had an advantage of two percentage points.
The president and Vice President Kamala Harris announced on Wednesday that the one-minute commercial will air during the Lions-Green Bay Packers game on Thursday, in one of those swing states where Biden is trailing Trump, Michigan.
According to the New York Times/Siena poll, Trump would win the state by five percentage points.
The ad, titled “Never Left,” focuses on Biden’s Scranton roots and underlines the Democratic president’s understanding of the struggles of middle class Americans, as reported by The Detroit News.
“He grew up a middle-class kid in a middle-class town,” the ad says, adding that the middle-class town “has never left him.”
“He knows what life is like for working people and knows middle class life is too expensive right now.”
“For Joe Biden it’s about restoring the sense of security working people deserve — that simple promise, that peace of mind.”
“He’s determined to get it back, because of where he’s from and who he is,” the narrator says in the ad that will show at the Thursday game.
end quotes
“BIDENFLATION JOE” Biden is going to restore the sense of security working people deserve and Joe is determined to get it back, because of where Joe’s from and who Joe is?
Joe Biden a middle-class kid in a middle-class town and the middle-class town has never left him?
Joe Biden’s Scranton roots?
Joe Biden understands the struggles of middle class Americans?
What rot!
And Joe Biden knows what life is like for working people?
How so, people, when there is no evidence that Joe Biden ever worked an honest hour at an honest job in his entire lifetime?
As to Joe’s claims of understanding the middle class, if we go back to Joe’s bio, this is what we are confronted with, to wit:
At Archmere Academy in Claymont, Biden played baseball and was a standout halfback and wide receiver on the high school football team.
end quote
Ah, yes, people, Archmere Academy where tuition for the 2023-2024 academic year is $32,400.
Good old “middle class” Joe, alright!
As to the term “trickle down economics,” according to Wikipedia, it was rarely seen in published works until the 1980s.
However, the concept that economic prosperity in the upper classes flows down into the lower classes is at least 100 years old, the term itself being used mostly by critics of the concept.
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary notes that the first known use of “trickle-down” as an adjective meaning “relating to or working on the principle of trickle-down theory” was in 1944, while DEMOCRAT Frank Roosevelt was president, while the first known use of “trickle-down theory” was in 1954.
As to Joe’s “bottom up middle out” theory, it is hardly new and way back in time, in 1896, in fact, United States Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan described the concept using the metaphor of a “leak” in his Cross of Gold speech, to wit:
“There are two ideas of government.”
“There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below.”
“The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.”
Which statement humorist and social commentator Will Rogers in a 1932 column criticizing Herbert Hoover’s policies and approach to The Great Depression, wrote about as follows, which describes exactly where Joe Biden has us today, to wit:
“This election was lost four and six years ago, not this year.”
“They [Republicans] didn’t start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour.”
“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy.”
“Mr. Hoover was an engineer.”
“He knew that water trickles down.”
“Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot.”
“But he didn’t know that money trickled up.”
“Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow.”
“But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.”
end quotes
Stay tuned, more is yet to come!
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Re: WHERE I HAVE BEEN, AND WHY
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MARCH 27, 2024 AT 5:51 PM
Paul Plante says:
Before we go further into the stilted and hackneyed political language of Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 MOCK SOTU, which was in reality a cheap, poorly-written and disjointed angry political rant and diatribe (cue RODNEY DANGERFIELD – “NO RESPECT” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0toL3C0R14 ) by a shallow, angry old man, let’s go back for a moment to this sentence from above, where Joe came out with the following, to see if we can make a lick of sense out of what Joe is spewing, to wit:
“Tonight — tonight, I want to talk about the future of possibilities that we can build together — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.”
end quotes
When you read that, you are left with no other choice but to set it down as idiotic — a series of words without sense – because that is exactly what it is.
But now imagine Joe Biden in a stentorian voice intoning it as it were designed to be intoned.
Imagine the slow tempo of Joe’s carefully cultivated manner of public speaking, said to be adopted from the style of Paul Devrient, real name Walter Stieber, also Paul Stieber-Walter (17 November 1890 – 5 November 1973) who was a German operatic tenor and theatre director who also gained notoriety as Adolf Hitler’s voice coach and speech teacher in 1932 and for a fee, accompanied Hitler on his propaganda trips across Germany from April to November 1932, not only training Hitler’s voice and speaking technique, but also improving his presence as a political speaker in front of large audiences through acting and rhetoric lessons, which method has served Joe Biden quite well over his very lengthy career as a professional politician serving an endless meal of pure BULL**** to the American people over a long length of years.
Then imagine the stately unrolling of the first clause, “Tonight — tonight,” — the delicate pause upon the word “I” — and then the loud discharge of the phrase “want to talk about the future of possibilities,” “that we can build together,” “a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over” and “the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.” each with its attendant glare by Joe and roll of the eyes of Joe, each with a sublime heave, each with its gesture of a blacksmith bringing down his sledge upon an egg — imagine all this, and then ask yourself where you have got.
You have got, in brief, to a point where you don’t know what it is all about, because it is a ridiculous premise, that somehow, in some mysterious way not yet revealed by Joe, there will be a glorious future created by us today, even though it has never been done before, where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks, especially when under Joe Biden today, it is the wealthy and biggest corporations that are getting all the tax breaks.
As was the case with a political speech by Warren G. Harding, you hear and applaud the phrases because they sound nice, but their connection has already escaped you.
And so, when in violation of all sequence and logic, the final phrase, “all the tax breaks” assaults you, you do not notice its disharmony — all you notice is that, if this or that, already forgotten, is done, “all the tax breaks” will no longer go the wealthy and biggest corporations, while who they will go to is left unsaid.
Anyway, as was the case with people actually watching Joe Biden give his rant on March 7, 2024, as opposed to reading the transcript as I did, they being glad of the assurance from Joe that the wealthy and biggest corporations will no longer be getting all the tax breaks as they are under Joe right now, and thrilled by Joe’s vast gestures as Joe did his old act, starting off soft and avuncular before booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about that drive it home, they give a cheer and call out “FOUR MORE YEARS” like a bunch of jackasses.
And how about that, people – doesn’t that make you feel very good about yourself and all warm and squishy inside, knowing in your heart of hearts that Joe Biden, the very important man who is not only COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of all the American people by popular acclaim, because he is the very best we have in this country, but LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD, as well, wants to wrap his massive, well-muscled, protective arm around YOU, so he can talk to YOU personally like a babe in swaddling clothes in his arms about the future of possibilities that YOU and Joe can build together, because let’s remember who we are, people, we are the United States of America, and there is nothing — nothing beyond our capacity when we act together, including building a future of possibilities — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks.
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Paul Plante says:
Before we go further into the stilted and hackneyed political language of Joe Biden’s March 7, 2024 MOCK SOTU, which was in reality a cheap, poorly-written and disjointed angry political rant and diatribe (cue RODNEY DANGERFIELD – “NO RESPECT” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0toL3C0R14 ) by a shallow, angry old man, let’s go back for a moment to this sentence from above, where Joe came out with the following, to see if we can make a lick of sense out of what Joe is spewing, to wit:
“Tonight — tonight, I want to talk about the future of possibilities that we can build together — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.”
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When you read that, you are left with no other choice but to set it down as idiotic — a series of words without sense – because that is exactly what it is.
But now imagine Joe Biden in a stentorian voice intoning it as it were designed to be intoned.
Imagine the slow tempo of Joe’s carefully cultivated manner of public speaking, said to be adopted from the style of Paul Devrient, real name Walter Stieber, also Paul Stieber-Walter (17 November 1890 – 5 November 1973) who was a German operatic tenor and theatre director who also gained notoriety as Adolf Hitler’s voice coach and speech teacher in 1932 and for a fee, accompanied Hitler on his propaganda trips across Germany from April to November 1932, not only training Hitler’s voice and speaking technique, but also improving his presence as a political speaker in front of large audiences through acting and rhetoric lessons, which method has served Joe Biden quite well over his very lengthy career as a professional politician serving an endless meal of pure BULL**** to the American people over a long length of years.
Then imagine the stately unrolling of the first clause, “Tonight — tonight,” — the delicate pause upon the word “I” — and then the loud discharge of the phrase “want to talk about the future of possibilities,” “that we can build together,” “a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over” and “the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get the — all the tax breaks.” each with its attendant glare by Joe and roll of the eyes of Joe, each with a sublime heave, each with its gesture of a blacksmith bringing down his sledge upon an egg — imagine all this, and then ask yourself where you have got.
You have got, in brief, to a point where you don’t know what it is all about, because it is a ridiculous premise, that somehow, in some mysterious way not yet revealed by Joe, there will be a glorious future created by us today, even though it has never been done before, where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks, especially when under Joe Biden today, it is the wealthy and biggest corporations that are getting all the tax breaks.
As was the case with a political speech by Warren G. Harding, you hear and applaud the phrases because they sound nice, but their connection has already escaped you.
And so, when in violation of all sequence and logic, the final phrase, “all the tax breaks” assaults you, you do not notice its disharmony — all you notice is that, if this or that, already forgotten, is done, “all the tax breaks” will no longer go the wealthy and biggest corporations, while who they will go to is left unsaid.
Anyway, as was the case with people actually watching Joe Biden give his rant on March 7, 2024, as opposed to reading the transcript as I did, they being glad of the assurance from Joe that the wealthy and biggest corporations will no longer be getting all the tax breaks as they are under Joe right now, and thrilled by Joe’s vast gestures as Joe did his old act, starting off soft and avuncular before booming through his power points, punching the air and flailing about that drive it home, they give a cheer and call out “FOUR MORE YEARS” like a bunch of jackasses.
And how about that, people – doesn’t that make you feel very good about yourself and all warm and squishy inside, knowing in your heart of hearts that Joe Biden, the very important man who is not only COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of all the American people by popular acclaim, because he is the very best we have in this country, but LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD, as well, wants to wrap his massive, well-muscled, protective arm around YOU, so he can talk to YOU personally like a babe in swaddling clothes in his arms about the future of possibilities that YOU and Joe can build together, because let’s remember who we are, people, we are the United States of America, and there is nothing — nothing beyond our capacity when we act together, including building a future of possibilities — a future where the days of trickle-down economics are over and the wealthy and the biggest corporations no longer get all the tax breaks.
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