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Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 10:33 AM Mar 2021

Biden refuses to play into the Fox News narrative, and it's making me and Sean Hannity FURIOUS!


As a loyal Fox News viewer, I am disgusted by President Joe Biden’s stubborn and un-American refusal to behave in a way that matches the narrative I have been receiving.

Biden is, I’m told, a senile old man who barely knows he’s there, and also a radical leftist tyrant fiendishly scheming to turn America into a socialist hellscape that outlaws Dr. Seuss and the Bible and, if it exists, the Dr. Seuss version of the Bible.

But when I tuned into the president’s first news conference Thursday, there he was, acting all “not at all like the way Fox News hosts have described him.”

For starters, at no point during the news conference did Biden trip over something and fall down. He also blatantly — and probably intentionally — failed to completely lose his train of thought and start talking about pancakes.

It was unbelievable. How am I supposed to feel outraged by a 78-year-old man who speaks calmly and seems to have a strong grasp of wide-ranging policy issues that I don’t begin to understand?

Does he expect me to read up on these issues and gain a thoughtful understanding of them so I can form nuanced opinions and identify areas where we might agree or disagree? THAT’S LUNACY!!!


[link:https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/rex-huppke/ct-biden-border-china-press-conference-huppke-20210326-sqxzh2ofuzbathxiuxavjuao7u-story.html|]

More funny stuff in article. It is sarcasm.
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Biden refuses to play into the Fox News narrative, and it's making me and Sean Hannity FURIOUS! (Original Post) Midnightwalk Mar 2021 OP
Are you experiencing cognitive dissonance, Bunky? EYESORE 9001 Mar 2021 #1
He is all powerful and controlling while also being under the thumb underpants Mar 2021 #2
He's smart and wicked enough to control a vast conspiracy of millions of people, Rabrrrrrr Mar 2021 #3
Welfare mothers in Cadillacs underpants Mar 2021 #4
Every immigrant costs the US an aircraft carrier. Who will think of the carriers?!?!?!!???!!! Rabrrrrrr Mar 2021 #6
😆 underpants Mar 2021 #9
Work colleagues talk of increasing astonishment lambchopp59 Mar 2021 #5
Ha, ha, ha!!! PatSeg Mar 2021 #7
DAMN IT! BobTheSubgenius Mar 2021 #8
Me too, though I guess I'm not supposed to anymore, especially when being referred to Backseat Driver Mar 2021 #11
No idea. eppur_se_muova Mar 2021 #18
ive heard a lot of this narrative for thirty years even into my child hood . AllaN01Bear Mar 2021 #10
I don't know, maybe think for yourself? Nah, too radically left-like. rickyhall Mar 2021 #12
Did Fox Include the Picture of Tucker Carlson... TomCADem Mar 2021 #13
Too freaking funny! niyad Mar 2021 #14
Flawless bucolic_frolic Mar 2021 #15
"So WHY isnt he campaigning???!!" "Because he doesnt NEED to to beat trump" oldsoftie Mar 2021 #19
GOP numbers were padded by cult voters which made ECV appear closer bucolic_frolic Mar 2021 #20
I just didnt think he would get what he did. I was shocked by 75M oldsoftie Mar 2021 #21
But James48 Mar 2021 #16
👍 Joinfortmill Mar 2021 #17

underpants

(182,736 posts)
2. He is all powerful and controlling while also being under the thumb
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 10:51 AM
Mar 2021

of the radical left wing ....uh elites.

Rabrrrrrr

(58,347 posts)
3. He's smart and wicked enough to control a vast conspiracy of millions of people,
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 11:48 AM
Mar 2021

but so beset by dementia he has to have notes when speaking to the press.

The democrats control the media, the corporations, and yada yada yada and basically taken over the world from the good people, but they also don't have the cajones or warrior sensibility to lead or manage anything.

Just like immigrants are simultaneously stealing every American job while also not doing a goddamn thing but sucking off the government teat on welfare and handouts because not a single goddamn one of them will get a job.

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)
5. Work colleagues talk of increasing astonishment
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 11:59 AM
Mar 2021

With the RW flock that has accepted countless, utter nonsensical narrative contradictions at this point. I'm contracted for work in one of the "reddest" counties in Cali for the next while, even here most of the "Trump 2020" displays have been removed exception of a few impoverished albatrosses who betray their inability to grasp voting against their own interests.
I'm traveler ancillary medical staffer, gives me a close perspective from some of the most bamboozled of MAGA's, most everywhere I'm contracted.
The one display here has so much self-contradictory betrayal in their own ignorant Trumper display it's mind boggling: starting with the "Trump 2020" flag still PROUDLY displayed with "no more bullshit" printed on it.
(hanging on an old travel trailer complete with tarp covering the leaky roof and an old POS car held together by copious duct tape... ahem... "repairs" )
So much to unpack there. I won't even walk the dog near that mess.

Backseat Driver

(4,385 posts)
11. Me too, though I guess I'm not supposed to anymore, especially when being referred to
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 12:57 PM
Mar 2021

repetitively by Grey's Anatomy script writer. (spoken byTeddy's lady lover while Teddy's in some kind of catatonic complex PTSD funk of remembrance about the departed...so what already - "I'll make pancakes"?????

What's with referrals to "pancakes" all over, now? What did I miss?

AllaN01Bear

(18,119 posts)
10. ive heard a lot of this narrative for thirty years even into my child hood .
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 12:43 PM
Mar 2021

how about the floridation one ? countless others . love mr biden.

bucolic_frolic

(43,123 posts)
15. Flawless
Fri Mar 26, 2021, 09:12 PM
Mar 2021

Last edited Sat Mar 27, 2021, 06:03 PM - Edit history (1)

The Biden campaign and the Biden Administration has thus far been flawless on messaging. I'm beginning to wonder if they used their idle time last year - there was no actual campaigning on the road for example - to deeply study every nuance of how to handle things. There just has been no visible weakness so far.

Let's not forget, Joe had 4 years on the sidelines to study Trump. Joe did his homework. Big time.

oldsoftie

(12,523 posts)
19. "So WHY isnt he campaigning???!!" "Because he doesnt NEED to to beat trump"
Sat Mar 27, 2021, 10:12 AM
Mar 2021

Although the end result was a LOT closer than i expected. Still a surprise at how close it was. By the numbers, Biden barely won. But win he DID.

bucolic_frolic

(43,123 posts)
20. GOP numbers were padded by cult voters which made ECV appear closer
Sat Mar 27, 2021, 10:38 AM
Mar 2021

The frightening thing would be if the ignorant remain politically active. Because historically they aren't. The only thing that motivated them before 45 was local elections when developers ran for office and they all thought they could get contracting jobs. The former guy's connection to these fools is still not entirely explained.

oldsoftie

(12,523 posts)
21. I just didnt think he would get what he did. I was shocked by 75M
Sat Mar 27, 2021, 12:03 PM
Mar 2021

Mostly because i know "almost" for a fact that several '16 trump voters didnt vote him this time. They MAY have lied, but i dont really believe they did. And i figured if I knew some, a lot of other people did too
But then Trump himself lost the Senate, because here in GA a TON of Nov voters stayed home for the runoff, handing Ossoff & Warnock the win. And trump is to blame because he convinced them that "its rigged anyway", so they stayed home.
And you show these turnout numbers to people and they'll STILL say "they stole it". I guess its easier to LOSE if you insist it was taken from you

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