Sunday Funnies From The Stable Genius, Sleepy Joe, And I-Just-Gotta-Yell Sanders
[guest post by Dana]
I’m annoyed. And it’s an altogether unbecoming look. Especially as this is the Lenten season and I made a decision to follow the lead of a friend and give up the 3 C’s: chips, criticizing, and complaining. But while I want to remain committed to my commitment, I just need a second to get this off my chest (but I’m still on track with the chips, so thumbs up, God!): The fate of our nation currently rests in the hands of two, maybe three old white guys, with only one of them winning the final contest. We’re looking at two old white guys who no longer seem capable of coherent trains of thought, or speech, or honesty, and inevitably ramble into the brambles of confusion and lies – without even batting an eye. It’s a disappointing game of Guess-what-I-really-meant Bingo. Disappointing because no one really ever gets Bingo!, and instead find themselves scratching their heads in confusion as they hold their empty Bingo cards, wondering What the hell was that?? Of course, if they’re loyalists, they will pretend that not only did they understand the word salad, but are in complete agreement with it too. And while the third old white guy in the mix still seems lucid and able to string sentences together in a coherent manner, he just keeps yelling, and yelling, and YELLING at us about what failures we are, without understanding that his proposals will doom us to real and lasting failure. He reminds me of a cantankerous grump sitting on his front porch and yelling at everyone to get off his lawn. The problem is, he doesn’t understand that, according to his own lights, that lawn belongs to everyone, including those walking on it. I just want him to pipe the heck down!
Honestly, 2024 can’t come soon enough.
At the end of his interview w/ Chris Wallace, Joe Biden boasts that he’s not “sleepy,” then thanks “Chuck” for the questions
“It’s Chris, but anyway.”
"No, I just did Chuck. I tell you what, man, these are back-to-back, anyway, I don’t know how you do it early in the AM" pic.twitter.com/jOx7jKnCh9
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 1, 2020
Trump at CPAC: “Joe’s not going to be running the government. He’s just going to be sitting in a home some place, and people are going to be running it for him.”
Biden: Is that the stable genius saying that? Oh, give me a break. God, love him. I’m going to resist saying what I feel like saying.
Wallace: No, go ahead. Don’t resist it. Go ahead, Mr. Vice President.
Biden: No, no, no, no, no, no. No, I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to try to assign names and insults to the stable genius. This is a guy who doesn’t know what he’s doing. He doesn’t know how to run the country. He is making us more unsafe the way he’s responding to the coronavirus. He has done virtually nothing well as far as I can see, and so I can hardly wait to debate him on stage. I want people to see me standing next to him and him standing next to me. We’ll see who’s sleepy.
Wallace: Mr. Vice President. Thank you. Thanks for your time. Please come back in less than 13 years, sir.
Biden: Alright, Chuck. Thank you very much
Wallace: Alright, It’s Chris, but anyway.
Biden: Chris, I just did Chris. No, no, I just did Chuck. I tell you what, man. These are back-to-back. Anyway, I don’t know how you do it early in the morning too. Thank you Chris.
I swear, if Biden and Trump end up on the debate stage together, there better be some serious double-dog-daring going on, only to be followed by feats of strength and Indian leg wrestling right then and there. And Bernie can yell at them from the front row. If this doesn’t happen, I am going to be mighty disappointed, because if I have to spend months listening to the lies and tall tales of Sleepy Joe and the Stable Genius, I expect there to be some serious entertainment value included in the deal. After all, they’re asking for my vote. And you gotta give to get. But honestly, that vote-getting is looking pretty dismal right about now.
–Dana
LOL. His ‘arrest versus detainment’ story w/dead Mandela was a delicious word salad, too.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/1/2020 @ 4:59 pmApologies for not getting the video up at post publication, but my computer kept rudely freezing up on me. It’s certainly a good thing I didn’t take on four C’s: chips, criticizing, complaining and cussing because that would be 3 out of 4 disappointments already.
Dana (4fb37f) — 3/1/2020 @ 5:05 pmOur Lent starts Wednesday and my daughter is giving up meat. So after church, we drove to a juice and coffee bar for a blue spirulina* smoothie bowl and an organic oat milk iced latte.
*(or maybe it was butterfly pea powder)
nk (1d9030) — 3/1/2020 @ 5:22 pmMy aunt (Mom’s oldest sis) passing away, with visitation on Ash Wednesday and the mass/banquet on Thursday caused a lot if convenient “exemptions” with regard to meat and alcohol. I did earn suck up points by stopping midway from Waukegan to SE side Chicagoin the West Loop for Ashes (Old St. Pat’s Church). My standby is usually donuts, but so far only bought 1 maple thus far.
urbanleftbehind (e4a5bc) — 3/1/2020 @ 5:28 pmMy condolences, urbanleftbehind.
nk (1d9030) — 3/1/2020 @ 5:32 pmI watched the Biden interview on Meet the Press. He seemed coherent and obviously awake then. Maybe he missed his mid morning nap before the next show.
Kishnevi (fb4c79) — 3/1/2020 @ 5:35 pm@4. Sincere condolences ULB. It’s never a good time.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/1/2020 @ 5:53 pm@6. Actually, Wallace confronted him with some harsh realities- like his own word salads– the video clip of him declaring he was running for the South Carolina Senate seat; and his baloney babble on the Mandela arrest/detained episode.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/1/2020 @ 5:56 pmA King Log might be just what we need, actually. Some boring old plodder to kind of calm us down and stop hating each other as much. A nice change from the orange sh!t-stirrer.
nk (1d9030) — 3/1/2020 @ 6:00 pmYou mean the guy who told the NAACP that Romney wanted to enslave them again?
Kevin M (ab1c11) — 3/1/2020 @ 6:06 pmNext Interview:
Q: So. Mr. Biden, why DID you say that your were running for the Senate seat in South Carolina?
A: Well, my memory’s not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory’s not as sharp as it used to be.
Bored Lawyer (56c962) — 3/1/2020 @ 6:07 pmYou mean the guy who told the NAACP that Romney wanted to enslave them again?
It wasn’t the NAACP; I go with the spin that it was clumsy riff/play on words on Romney’s statement that he would “unshackle” Wall Street ) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-tells-african-american-audience-gop-ticket-would-put-them-back-in-chains/ ); and I personally do believe that unshackled capitalists do put people in chains.
nk (1d9030) — 3/1/2020 @ 6:20 pmI think that, like PPMB, Bernie is a specialized fetish. He has an enthusiastic but finite following that he will not increase and others will not succeed in decreasing. The only solution is what Patterico said: For everybody except Biden to get out and stop diluting the field.
nk (1d9030) — 3/1/2020 @ 6:27 pmAwwww. I like Biden more and more. The more doddering he gets the more I like him. If he keeps this up I’ll actually be able to say that I like him. (When you start out not liking a guy, and then like him more and more, it still takes a while to get to “like.”)
I may actually like him. I think I said recently I don’t but I may have been wrong.
Wowie his policies are bad though. I mean so are those of any Democrat.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/1/2020 @ 6:56 pmThis must be a very good friend. 🙂
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/1/2020 @ 6:57 pmSeriously, though, I am honored.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/1/2020 @ 6:58 pmFunny post btw.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/1/2020 @ 6:59 pm@13. JVW’s suggestion seems wiser- Biden should get out a make room for a younger moderate. The dude makes a cadaver look like an Olympian.
And besides, he’s a plagiarist; a thief.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:07 pmI like Biden, too, just not for Leader of the Free World. Also, Biden should be given a pass for his gaffes because, if nominated, Trump laps him on the gaffe scale.
Paul Montagu (ac6302) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:14 pmHowever, it still seems to me that Biden has lost a mental step or three.
I personally do believe that unshackled capitalists do put people in chains.
In what fantasy world have you ever found such a mythical critter…???
Ragspierre (d9bec9) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:19 pmShakespeare’s Venice?
nk (1d9030) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:22 pmThis past week’s news?
nk (1d9030) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:23 pmThe Amistad?
nk (1d9030) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:24 pmLudlow, Colorado?
nk (1d9030) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:26 pm@20. Reaganomics.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:29 pm@19. Plagiarists are unprincipled. And they are thieves.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:31 pmThat is one conversation nobody wants to have, DCSCA. That an invisible little bug in Wuhan can take 3,000 points off Wall Street in one week.
nk (1d9030) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:31 pmI’m sorry, Patterico. Biden is not a nice person. Remember this?
https://apnews.com/cd977f7ff301993f7976974ba07c5495
Not to mention how he treated Clarence Thomas.
You might want to vote for him in this dumpster fire of an election. But like him? I can’t.
Simon Jester (7b213b) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:35 pm@27. ‘Little Bug In Wuhan’…
Herbies?
You can see a Disney reboot in the making, financed by China w/Volkswagen product placement starring Lindsey Lohan.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:37 pmHe is because he is influencing me toward Godly behavior and kindness. But, if those two pesky C’s get the better of me over the Lenten season and I start scarfing down chips for solace, only to arrive at Easter 10 lbs heavier, I suspect I’ll be forced to rethink his status.
Dana (4fb37f) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:43 pmDCSCA and nk, both y’all are nutters. But I expect you know that and revel in it.
Ragspierre (d9bec9) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:49 pmNo, not at all. Capitalism is a useful animal, a valuable animal, even an invaluable animal, but only when reined, harnessed and hitched to people’s use. Left to run wild, it overbreeds, destroys the crops, forage and young trees, and pollutes the waterholes.
nk (1d9030) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:55 pm“ Public Enemy announced Sunday they are permanently “moving forward” without Flavor Flav, firing one of hip-hop’s most memorable hypemen after 37 years. The abrupt dismissal comes just two days after the rapper sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bernie Sanders over Chuck D’s concert at the campaign’s Los Angeles rally Sunday.”
Public Enemy Fires Flavor Flav After Bernie Sanders Rally Spat
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/public-enemy-flavor-flav-bernie-sanders-960272/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
harkin (b64479) — 3/1/2020 @ 7:59 pm__ _
nk, you are deeply confused, as your “list” indicates.
Nothing there was an example of capitalism.
Ragspierre (d9bec9) — 3/1/2020 @ 8:01 pmNo, nk is right. The examples he gives are excellent examples of capitalism in the wild.
Kishnevi (d99923) — 3/1/2020 @ 8:05 pm@14 I had plenty of garrulous irish great uncles. At least I know Joe’s type and it is familiar and generally likeable in person. (This was actually a problem with me when Paul Ryan was running for VP. I liked Romney, but Ryan was every d!ckhead trad-boy I went to Catholic HS with and I Could Not Get Over It.)
Nic (896fdf) — 3/1/2020 @ 8:10 pmNow I am confused. How are not 1) moneylending, 2) investment in foreign manufacturing, 3) the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, and 4) Rockefeller machine-gunning striking workers examples of capitalism? Is it a “no true capitalist would do that”, or is it a “real capitalism has not been tried here”, thing?
nk (1d9030) — 3/1/2020 @ 8:11 pmThanks for the encouragement, nk and DCSCA.
Nic…how much distance is there between the Paul Ryan archetype and Nick Sandmann? I will say this…if Sandmann and cohorts were true aggro-douche, they’d have been at a basketball or wrestling tourney and not at the M4L. Dustin sees in the Covington boys what you saw in Paul Ryan.
urbanleftbehind (038ab2) — 3/1/2020 @ 8:17 pmIt’s like blaming the Second Amendment for the latest mass shooting du jour.
It leaves out a lot of important context.
Dave (1bb933) — 3/1/2020 @ 8:18 pmFlavor Flav was always flaky. I think the glam Karen white wimmminz and the E list/Sharknado level celebs he commingled with on reality TV got to him.
urbanleftbehind (038ab2) — 3/1/2020 @ 8:21 pmDana, you definitely picked some tough ones to give up for Lent. You could’ve taken the easy way out, like giving up broccoli.
Paul Montagu (ac6302) — 3/1/2020 @ 8:25 pmOh snap, now it’s really over if you get punked in your own backyard: http://news.yahoo.com/klobuchar-rally-minnesota-canceled-amid-035306657.html
urbanleftbehind (038ab2) — 3/1/2020 @ 8:26 pm2024 when AOC becomes president?
corona virus (2b0303) — 3/1/2020 @ 8:33 pmI take it that it’s potato chips, Dana. I hope, for your sake, you don’t mean chocolate chips. I keep a bag of them in my refrigerator as an emergency supply. The chocolate chip cookies (Keebler Chips Deluxe Original) are next to me. With the bag of Hersheys Nuggets (plain milk chocolate) sitting on top of them.
nk (1d9030) — 3/1/2020 @ 8:36 pm2024 when AOC becomes president?
What is it with old guys and their hankerings to be bossed by young women? Aren’t you like 90 or something, Perry? You were already a septuagenarian when you were commenting on the other Dana’s site fifteen years ago.
nk (1d9030) — 3/1/2020 @ 8:42 pmTyphod mary was a libertarian and the last time free market libertarian capitalism had to deal with a pandemic 50 to 100 million people died. We will now test how not having medicare for all works.
corona virus (2b0303) — 3/1/2020 @ 8:46 pm@38 I don’t really know enough about Sandman to say for sure. The descriptions were generally recognizable as within what would have been within the normal range for my group, but Covington seems a little more economically priviledged. Pro-life was Very Very Very Big at my HS and so March for life was definitely at thing, but we were pretty far away so only the more wealthy of my classmates ever went. There is also the factor that my HS was one of the few places I ever heard people my own age telling the ocassional n-word joke (late 80s/ear;y 90s), but I was in the summer of mercy age group and there is less racism in general today, so theoretically there should be generational differences.
Nic (896fdf) — 3/1/2020 @ 9:06 pmhttps://twitter.com/brandondarby/status/1234329851764658176?s=20
Got to admit the wording and the photo can throw you off.
harkin (b64479) — 3/1/2020 @ 9:24 pmWow. Fivethirtyeight.com now estimates the odds are two-in-three that no Democrat will arrive to the party’s convention with a majority of delegates. Can’t wait to see what those numbers look like after Tuesday.
JVW (54fd0b) — 3/2/2020 @ 12:32 amSorry for your loss, urbanleftbehind.
mg (8cbc69) — 3/2/2020 @ 2:57 amOK, nk and everyone, lets walk back into history and reality a bit.
TRADING has gone on about as long as recorded history.
CAPITALISM, on the other hand is a relatively new wrinkle.
One ESSENTIAL element of capitalism is voluntary exchange. Remove that, and you have an older form of exchange happening. There are other essential elements.
Ergo, my Viking ancestors were traders, but they were not capitalists because the essential elements of capitalism had no yet been developed.
The slave trade world-wide pre-dates capitalism, and slavery is anti-capitalistic.
So is what was done in the coal camp in Colorado. That was a modern example of feudalism. In almost every respect anti-capitalism.
The practice of lending money is a more muddled question, though it again pre-dates real capitalism. Like trading, it resembles capitalism in some aspects. Aside from the fact that The Merchant Of Venice is fictional, and it does offer some interesting illumination of contracts as understood at the time of its writing, it is no example of “unfettered capitalism”. In fact, that period and place is a good setting for seeing the development of capitalism as it evolved after the Middle Ages.
In fact, one element of capitalism is that exists in a system of laws that protect private property, regulate its uses, and foster competition. Hence, the term “unfettered capitalism” is silly. True capitalism cannot be “unfettered”, and there is certainly no example in the modern era of any such thing.
Ragspierre (d9bec9) — 3/2/2020 @ 6:17 amSo “no true capitalist” it is.
Marcus Crassus who owned all the tenements in Rome and used the rents to finance Caesar’s and Pompey’s military expeditions expecting to be repaid with the loot they brought back was not a capitalist.
400 years before him, the Athenian middle class who owned all the ships and traded everything everywhere in the known world were not capitalists.*
100 years after him, the currency speculators who had set up shop in the Temple until Christ whipped them out (they probably came back an hour later) were not capitalists.
You’re joshing us, Ragspierre. Capitalism is as old as history. Literally: Themistocles, Herodotus’s other hero, was a member of the merchant class.
*(BTW, their rowers may have been the first laborers’ union. They were all free men, paid a “union rate” of one silver drachma a day.)
nk (1d9030) — 3/2/2020 @ 7:10 amYeah, and Robert Bork. I know, I know. The bar for being likable has gone down a lot.
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/2/2020 @ 7:20 amLOL
Patterico (115b1f) — 3/2/2020 @ 7:21 amYou’re joshing us, Ragspierre. Capitalism is as old as history.
You’re full of crap, nk.
Trading is old, as I pointed out. Capitalism is a recent development in humans dealing with humans.
Ragspierre (d9bec9) — 3/2/2020 @ 7:27 amBye-bye, Ragspierre. It was nice knowing you. (No, not really.)
For the rest of you, who may have read Ragspierre’s previous comment, it is trading which has a voluntary exchange as its essential element. He even got that simple little thing wrong.
But he can be your problem from now on. If you want to let him.
nk (1d9030) — 3/2/2020 @ 7:36 amnk, distorting what I HAVE said is a sure sign if a looser.
A voluntary exchange IS an essential element of capitalism, as it is trading (I never said otherwise). But it is a necessary but insufficient component of capitalism.
You’re the one who got it wrong, as I’ve demonstrated. There is no such thing as “unfettered capitalism”.
Ragspierre (d9bec9) — 3/2/2020 @ 7:49 amJim Sciutto
harkin (b64479) — 3/2/2020 @ 11:01 am@jimsciutto
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Amy Klobuchar will end 2020 presidential campaign and endorse Joe Biden – CNNPolitics
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11. why DID you say that your were running for the Senate seat in South Carolina?
A good answer could be:
“Till now most of the time I have been campaigning it was for the United States Senate. Singing is one way I learned to avoid stuttering, because singing uses a different part of your brain than normal speaking. People who have had strokes that stopped their ability to speak can often sing coherently. And a person can say words that run together without considering their meaning, like in a song. Saying I am running etc… was like a song. And the words just came out because those were the next words in the song.”
Sammy Finkelman (9fe80b) — 3/2/2020 @ 12:08 pmThe next Democratic presidential debate is scheduled for Sunday March 15, but if there are only two candidates left then, it might not take place because then it would be easy for one of the candidates to beg off.
No dates or conditions for participation in debates have been set for after March 15.
Sammy Finkelman (9fe80b) — 3/2/2020 @ 12:30 pm