I mentioned yesterday that I wouldn’t be staying up to watch Joe Biden shout at the country for an hour, and I didn’t. I went to bed at 5:00 p.m.
I waited until this morning to watch a few clips from Biden’s alleged State of the Union speech. Watching a few clips was more than enough.
I considered writing my column in Biden’s public speaking style, but I thought having to READSOMETHINGWRITTENinthewayBidendelivereditmightbeDIFFICULT, so I changed my mind.
Besides, you’d need to read it out loud as fast as you could, and that would be downright impossible unless you, like Joe, were first dosed with a stimulant.
I said yesterday that I would prefer it if the president submitted his State of the Union in writing rather than subjecting the country to an hourlong campaign speech from the House chamber. Having watched several clips from Biden’s speech, I stand by that.
The news reports on Biden’s shouty diatribe and the tweets from media people all confirmed my prediction from yesterday. They gushed like over-indulgent pageant moms about how powerful and “fiery” Biden’s screech was.
And while Joe did not invite Cookie Monster, he did take the time to angrily decry what shrinkflation has done to the size of Snickers bars.
Are you sure it’s shrinkflation, Joe? Maybe the Snickers bar just got out of a cold swimming pool.
I stumbled across this picture as I was scrolling through my Twitter feed at 4:00 a.m., and laughed myself silly:
I don’t know much about Speaker Mike Johnson, but I fell just the tiniest bit in love with him looking at that picture.
His expression while watching Grandpa blow a gasket is priceless.
It summed up what I was thinking as I watched the clips of Shouty Joe.
It makes me think of those old Snickers commercials, like the one with the Brady Bunch:
Mike Johnson should’ve offered Shouty Joe a Snickers bar.
Then again, with Snickers bars getting smaller due to shrinkflation, that might not do the trick.
This is one of the few times I’ll say this, but I wish Donald Trump still used Twitter just so I could have read through his live-posting responses to Joe’s screech.
I saw a few screen captures of Trump’s Truth Social posts that made me laugh with nostalgic appreciation:
That’s the Donald Trump I miss. The “IT’S A WITCH HUNT! THE ELECTION WAS STOLLEN” Trump? Not so much.
Any road.
I don’t know who on Team Biden told Joe that shouting would make him appear commanding and in control, but whoever it was should be fired.
(Then again, no. Keep ‘em on.)
If Joe Biden wants to convince voters that, unlike Trump, he is a reasonable, level-headed adult in whose hands our country is safe and our future secure, maybe going on live television and bellowing like an angry old codger who can’t get the remote the work wasn’t the best way to do it.
Finally, one correction.
Yesterday, I said that not one word of Biden’s speech would be remembered by the next day.
I was wrong about that.
The media and the Democrats can’t shut up about Biden using the word “illegal” to describe the vicious murderer who beat Laken Riley to death.
They’re never going to let that go.
These guys are more angry about Joe calling that monster an “illegal” than they were about that illegal beating Laken until her skull was crushed.
Don’t be surprised if some reporter at today’s press briefing asks Karine Jean-Pierre about Joe calling him an “illegal.” There will probably be editorials condemning the president for “dehumanizing” immigrants because “no human being is illegal.”
Americans are deeply concerned about illegal immigration and the crisis at the southern border. The media and Democrats choosing to white knight for a murderous illegal alien is the most tone-deaf thing imaginable.
Then again, Democrats are often their own worst enemy.