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So much bombastic buffoonery

- Howie Carr

Since our last Weekend at Biden’s, Dementia Joe has asserted twice that we are living in 2020 (correcting himself once) and twice identified Kamala Harris as “President Harris” (he didn’t correct either of those errors).

So much bombastic Biden buffoonery to get to, but let’s begin with an almost-poetic musing over the Christmas break.

All dialogue guaranteed verbatim:

“They were bold they were told that it would be hard but they were stayed bold there’d be too many obstacles they were told but because of the nature of the disease there wouldn’t be enough time where they were told, I suspect.”

Can we quote you on that, Mr. President?

Even though he’s not quite sure what year it is now, the president does have a vague recollecti­on of a random event that occurred sometime in the dim past:

“Did you ever think you’d see in the modern times people comin’ out of the fields down in Charleston, I mean in Charlotte, Virginia, in Charlottes­ville, Virginia, carrying torches?”

Mostly it’s still all Panic all the time. Joe wishes he’d ordered more tests, which he calls “pills.”

“I ordered half a billion of the pills, 500 million pills I mean excuse me 500 million test kits that are gonna be sent to every home in America if anybody wants them but um the answer is yeah I wish I’d ordered half a billion pills months ago before COVID hit here.”

But on other parts of the Panic, he says, he’s done better.

“In March of 2020 we were not ready. Today we spock tile enough we stockpiled enough gowns, mask and ventilator­s.”

He just neglected to spock tile the pills, I mean tests.

“These pills are going to dramatical­ly recrease decrease hospitaliz­ations and deaths from COVID 19.”

All these quotes, such as they are, were read by Dementia Joe off the teleprompt­er, but he can’t even manage that anymore. Certain words he just skips over totally, like “millions.”

For example, he said, “To me the true patriots were the more than 150 Americans who peacefully expressed their votes at the ballot box.”

He also said, “We are preparing hospitals for what’s coming. Those 40 unvaccinat­ed adults have a good chance of getting COVID 19 and some of you will get very sick.”

Numbers in general are tough for Dementia Joe.

“Vaccinated 57 uh excuse me uh 570 excuse me I don’t wanna read it I’m not I got the got the right number the total number of boosters is what? Fifty-seven million boosters?”

You like stats? Well, Dementia Joe’s got lots more numbers for you. Try to keep a running tally in your head.

“We’ve had 300 million tests per month so far and uh that’s 11 million tests a day in addition to that we’re in the process of ordering 500,000 new tests and so we’re gonna be able to control this the new normal is not gonna be what it is now it’s gonna be better.”

Speaking of numbers, perhaps you’ve noticed that prices are going up. Dementia Joe is here to explain the phenomenon.

“What what’s inflation? Having to pay more than the money you have because things have gone up. Well to bring down all those cuts across the board from child care to child care tax credit but I’m not supposed to be having this press conference –”

Please continue, Mr. President. This is so illuminati­ng. Next, can you explain the greed of what your

gasoline-hair-colored press secretary calls the meat conglomera­tes:

“Four big corporatio­ns control more than half the markets in beef, pork and poultry. These middlemen that they buy from farmers and ranchers and sell the processers excuse me and sell the process excuse me sell the processed product to grocery stores that’s the that’s the way it works.”

You don’t say, Mr. President? I’ve never heard it explained exactly … that way.

He lauded America’s caregivers

whom he called “kay-givers.” He recalled his years in the “O’Biden Obama White House, driven by public service.” He tells his critics to “look at the histoical results revolts results for working Americans.”

He reads the word victory as “vision,” inaugurati­on becomes “inaugurana­tion,” indisputab­le comes out as “indispensa­ble,” transmissi­ble as “transmitta­ble. He reads parents as “patients,” tapped as “tocked.” Just yesterday, Joe confused United Airlines with the

United States.

He still doesn’t know the name of his cabinet secretarie­s, even the guy who works at what he calls “the Outfit” — the Pentagon.

“The chairman the the sec secretary of the uh of the uh uh sec-sec secretary Austin.”

Joe told the media Thursday that he remains very concerned with “the misinforma­tion and disinforma­tion that’s on your shows. It has to stop.”

Yes it does. Can someone say 25th Amendment?

 ?? Ap ?? REPEAT, PLEASE: President Biden walks to speak to the media after meeting privately with Senate Democrats on Thursday.
Ap REPEAT, PLEASE: President Biden walks to speak to the media after meeting privately with Senate Democrats on Thursday.
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