“We Love you, Joe, but…”: Hollywood’s Advice to President Biden
There is something to be said about ignoring actors. They assume roles, quite literally, camouflage themselves in scripts where personalities are created, and behave accordingly. Given that they are paid liars, their political promptings should be treated with caution. It is no accident that much the same thing can be said about the members of Congress.
Given that the US President is now not so much functioning in twilight as in rapidly descending darkness, the recent intervention by Hollywood grandee and Democrat benefactor George Clooney has prompted ever more tittering about the electoral prospects of Joe Biden.
Choosing the New York Times to make his point, Clooney spoke of his love for Biden mixed with anguish about political realities. “We are not going to win in November with this president.” He wished the Democratic party operators “to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw,” referring to Biden’s calamitous showing in the first debate against Donald Trump. “We’re so terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term that we’ve opted to ignore every warning sign.”
Personal reflections about Biden’s recent behaviour flowed. At a co-hosted Hollywood fundraiser held over three weeks ago at the Peacock Theatre, Clooney found “not the Joe ‘big F-king deal’ Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020.”
Reflections about the Democratic establishment are also plentiful. Having spoken to Democratic lawmakers – Clooney does not say how many – the broad consensus was clear: Biden’s candidacy was a liability across all political races. “We won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate.”
The grim assessment is inevitable: “Most of our members of Congress are opting to wait and see if the dam breaks. But the dam has broken. We can put our heads in the sand and pray for a miracle in November, or we can speak the truth.”
Others in the movie business are also offering their “love you but exit” suggestions. This is director Robert Reiner’s unimpressive gobbet on social media: “We love and respect Joe Biden. We acknowledge all he has done for our country. But Democracy is facing an existential threat. We need someone younger to fight back. Joe Biden must step aside.”
Predictably, given their profession, there were also suggestions from the thespian community about how Biden could do better from a purely superficial perspective, satisfying the spectators and viewers transfixed by the blood sport of a US presidential race. Michael Douglas, for instance, had his own morsel on The View about how the debate with Trump should have gone. “First of all they should have just told the president to stand up, put a little makeup on for the debate and then where to look.” Biden should – and here, the jaw drops – have not dealt with his own facts – “just deal with [Trump’s] lies.” Now that’s acting.
With all that out of the way, Douglas still had to concede feeling “deeply, deeply concerned” while gazing at the “big bench” of “heavy hitters, a lot of talent” on the Democratic side. (Names, please.) Clooney, in making his case for a replacement, had made “a valid point.”
Not that we should assume all such figures feel the same way. Perennial cause seeking activist Jane Fonda, in views expressed last month, thought that age could actually play to Biden’s advantage. In remarks made to Wolf Blitzer on CNN, Fonda noted how she was “older than he is. And I’m all for age. I can tell you that you do get wise and you do learn things you learn from your mistakes. And I have seen him close and personal and he’s fine.” The incumbent was accordingly “perfectly suited to be president of the United States I don’t know of or in spite of the age he’s just fine.”
With such supremely skewed analysis, we know that anybody can be president, whatever their mental infirmities. Appropriately, Whoopi Goldberg was full of candour in declaring that she would still vote for the president even “if he’s pooped his pants. I don’t care if he can’t put a sentence together. Show me he can’t do the job and then I’ll say, okay, maybe it’s time to go.” Presidential politics really has struck a low bar.
Clooney’s scribble has laid bare the knotty state the Democrats have created for themselves. The issue of Biden’s condition was already well inked last year, but the machine men and women would not have a bar of considering his replacement. This late in the day, the Democrats have been shown, by virtue of such mildly condescending notes from Clooney (the “love you Joe” sort), to have abused their elderly relative by initially supporting them, only to publicly withdraw their blessing as the show is wearing thin. You were good for the laughs; time to go home.
Through this, Biden has become a victim of wide scale elder abuse, be it in the form of prolonging his agony as a candidate – disingenuously or otherwise – or calling for his prompt exit. Whether he soils his pants or not, he certainly is proving on the international stage that his cerebral functions are blunted beyond repair.
His latest addition to the cabinet of gaffes and mental enfeeblement: confusing, at the NATO summit in Washington, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. In another slip, he also referred to Vice-President Kamala Harris as “Vice-President Trump”.
Those in the dream factory of Hollywood can take some comfort in these displays. A CNN report, citing an unnamed White House source, makes the delicious point that the president’s “entire display is a kind of an act.” Unfortunately, even for those in thespian land, it’s not even a good one.
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Return to home pageIt beats me how anybody could love Biden. He has the blood of 40,000 people on his hands, complicit to genocide, which is worse than Trump. Why his ego won’t let him stand aside for the good of his country to allow a younger, more dynamic, and hopefully not bloodthirsty, person to stand against Trump, I’ll never understand. Genocide Joe and a 6 year old narcissist? They deserve what they get, and so do we, for supporting the USA.
If one listens to celebrity, contrived, falsified, frauded, faked, fantasied and farquittery in monumental piles, you fail yourself and all of us. That is the USA problem, for too many actually believe in superheroes, science fiction, cartoons, John Wayne dogshit fraud scripts as if from some god, the whole lying edifice of self deception. Guaranteed masturbatory overconfidence is fatal to any intellect, logic, science, balance, analysis, assessment, and crapheads like the gross Trump and the shrivelled Biden are ruining this planet and our home. There is no justice in superstition, fraud, egofixation, self.
Say what they will, but here’s the thing. John Howard was too arrogant to admit that his high point was behind him and is simultaneously known as the second-longest serving PM and the second PM to lose both a general election and their seat with it. Joe Biden has a choice, bow out now and celebrate 36 years in public life with 8 as a Vice-President and 4 as a President among them, or be remembered as the President who lost the House, the Senate and the Presidency in one fell swoop if polls are to be believed. I admire many things Biden has done (I do NOT admire his support for Israel) but he has to save democracy by stepping aside for a candidate who can really take the fight up to the evil trump.
Looking forward to the Democrat’s National Convention in late August. “Weekend at Bernie’s” meets “Groundhog Day”.
I watched the ‘slip-ups’ by Biden and my view is that they were deliberate and practised, not accidental.
Now why would a current Head of State, of all places that great ‘democracy’ of the USA, do that?
In Feb 2024, Biden was investigated for mishandling classified docs and the prosecutor for the case (Robert Hur) said “part of the reason he wouldn’t charge Biden was that the president could portray himself as an “elderly man with a poor memory” who would be sympathetic to a jury”. A man with “poor memory” is the leader of the free world?
That’s an insult to the whole supporting infrastructure of corporate governance.
All those political corporate pretenders are in on the gag.
Do you think it an accident they kept him on as President, knowing full well elections were just around the corner.
He was left in place so a collapse of confidence becomes inevitable.
Is America a democracy or a fascist State, that is, an economy where government and big business interests collaborate to the exclusion of any real input from the public, much like Australia?
What is the ‘New World Order’ and why has Joe Biden caused uproar by using the phrase? 24 March 2024
(independent.co.uk new-world-order-meaning-biden)
Obviously, Sleepy Joe knows and is onboard with the plans of the NWO, that is clear as day.
He’s a well-paid puppet for yet other actors one level up.
Is it his role to act as temporary delivery driver of said NWO bus to the local depot, the White House?
If you ask me, yes, that’s his role and I reckon he deserves an Oscar for his performance.
Rob,
I want some of what you’re sniffing, sounds like it’s great for suppressing critical thinking and letting fantasy run riot.
If the circus known as American politics only effected their own country I would gladly ignore it all completely and watch something that actually stimulates my brain function rather than make me want to puke. Playschool comes to mind. About the same level of maturity in those involved.
I tend to agree that Biden is getting too old for the job. That is not a criticism of him, we all get old and infirm eventually. Whether we recognise it in ourselves or are willing to admit it is a different matter. He has served the American people pretty well over a long period of time. Unlike the other ridiculous SoB who has only ever thought of himself and his own hedonistic desires.
What still amazes me is how so many Septic Tanks can consider a convicted felon, a proven continuous liar, a proven multiple adulterer and cheater of all the wives he has had, a personal friend to convicted paedophiles, a narcissist megalomanic, a failed businessman with multiple bankruptcies that lost so many investors their life savings, and a liar even of his own golf scores so he can put fake placards to himself in his own golf courses. Why would anybody donate money to somebody that claims to be a ‘billionaire’ to help his legal battles. Americans may look like us but I am glad we don’t think or act like them. They are truly one of a kind and Australia would be far better off with less influence forced on us by the ‘great Satan’ and it’s deceptive and untrustworthy policies.
The choice is simple:
Biden, a man who believes in democracy, with an excellent team to support him
or
Trump a loose cannon who is not democratic and has no team.
just goes to the heart of the problem. When you elect a president, the assumption is that he makes all the decisions.
This is just such a stupid position to hold in your heart, lol.
A president surrounds himself with advisers who know what they are talking about. Biden is a classic case.
Now if you want to live in the fantasy world of a president makes all the decisions, look no further that the big fool Trump. He doesn’t take advice.
Now how old do you get before you feel you are the ” smartest person in the room”? Come on now, stop being brain dead and see through the ageism being pushed for click bait.