Friday Night Open Thread: Taking the “Statesman” Completely Out of “Elder Statesman”

The response should have been: “Do you?”

Biden Accused Of Mocking Americans’ Intellect: ‘You Think They’d Understand What We’re Talking About?’
Daily Wire | 6 Nov 2021

President Joe Biden was accused of mocking Americans’ intelligence on Saturday during remarks that he gave in the morning as he answered only a few questions from reporters.

Biden made the remarks about Americans’ knowledge of supply chains as he said that the pandemic has impacted the lives of every American.

“COVID has disrupted almost every family one way or another, whether it’s wearing a mask or losing a family member. You know, 750,000-plus Americans dead — 750,000,” Biden said. “And so, people are worried. People are also worried about, you know, coming up — they don’t — understandably. ‘Why is the price of — of agricultural products — and when I go to the store, why is it higher?’”

“What — like, for example, if I had — if we were all going out and having lunch together and I said, ‘Let’s ask whoever the — whoever is at the next table, no matter how — what restaurant we’re in — have them explain the supply chain to us.’ You think they’d understand what we’re talking about?” Biden continued. “They’re smart people. But supply chain — ‘Well, why is everything backed up?’ Well, it’s backed up because the people who supply the materials that end up being on our kitchen table or in our — in our fam- — our life — guess what? They’re closing those plants because they have COVID.”

 

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16 Comments

    • Supply chains? C’mon, man, the Republicans are gonna put you all back in chains – I mean – what if I didn’t have a chain when I met with Corn Pop? … Didja know Barack was a chain-smoker, but who could blame him? Look who he had to work with! And I’m chained into a tiny room once the lid is called for the day – you talk about taking the pressure off – but what am I saying, anyway…

  1. Biden talks in Mad Libs.

    He always leaves it up to the rest of us to fill in the missing words.

    What _____
    the heck am I talking about?

    like, for example, if I had _____
    permission, and

    if we were all going out and having lunch together and I said, “Let’s ask whoever the _____
    president is, or

    whoever is at the next table, no matter how _____
    incoherently,

    what restaurant we’re in _____
    they’d look at me as if I was nuts. I might as well

    have them explain the supply chain to us.”

  2. The supply chain is an incredibly complex system, but it can be understood by breaking the system into a series of simple steps. In doing so we can ask Joe 4 simple questions. The correct answer to these questions will solve the supply problem.

    Step one: Energy.

    Why is the energy required to produce supply so expensive, Joe?

    Step two: Labor.

    Why is everyone staying home and getting fat, Joe?

    Step Three: Production.

    What’s your “fair share” of a private business’s productivity, Joe?

    Step Four: Transportation

    Why are there dozens of container ships stuck waiting at port full of supply, Joe?

  3. Hedley Lamarr: If you will just sign this, Mr. President. Right here.
    President Biden: Yes, yes. What the hell is it?
    Hedley Lamarr: Well, under the provisions of this bill, we would spend trillions of dollars on a left wing wish list of dubious social programs that will affect several million Americans by taking money from them which we have deemed unsuitable for their use at this time. They’re such children.
    President Biden: Several million Americans? Several million Americans? What’ll it cost, man, what’ll it cost?
    Hedley Lamarr: [brings out a carton of trillion dollar bills] A box of these.
    President Obama: Are you crazy? They’ll never go for it. And then again they might! Those stupid middle-class morons… they love higher taxes!

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