I don’t know whether to laugh or get angry. What you’re about to hear, and it’s blessedly only thirty seconds long, is Liz Harrington calling Joe Biden a “fraud” and saying that the real State of the Union address was given Saturday at CPAC by the “real” president.
The unfortunate part of all this, as you are painfully aware, is that there are people who actually believe this.
Yes, this is comical and ridiculous. I’m surprised that when she was calling Biden a fraud she didn’t allude to the movie studio that he supposedly operates out of, with a set which is 3/5 the size of the White House.
This is good for laughs. But the reason it angers me is that America is in a time of war. This has never, ever, in our history been the stance of any Americans before now, to be at odds with the sitting president in a time of war.
All this does is undermine democracy. I’m sure Harrington gets a decent paycheck for this, one that she could never earn at any kind of normal job for which she has the skills. I get it that money is seductive. But she and Jenna Ellis and all the rest who have jumped on the disinformation bandwagon are doing harm to our culture which may be irreparable.
If you’re looking for America’s true enemy, look no farther. These people aren’t the 4th Estate. What they are is the fifth column.
If these people are getting the state of our union from the shit gibbon, they are in a state of delusion so gripping it would be hard to calculate–off the delusion scale. I’m just saying psychiatrists would have a real head scratcher going.
I’m surprised that no one has used the quote by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry: “We Have Met the Enemy and They Is Ours.” Seems appropriate.
Uh, you’re either taking that out of context or confusing it with another similar quote.
Perry’s quote was “We have met the enemy and they are ours” and he was referring to the fact that the Americans had defeated a British naval squadron (the rest of the quote includes the inventory of British vessels captured by Perry).
I think you intended to quote the late genius Walt Kelly who paraphrased Perry’s quote and turned it around as “We have met the enemy and he is us” in a “Pogo” poster for the first Earth Day in 1970 (he’d expand on it as a special strip for Earth Day 1971). The poster shows Pogo carrying a trash collection bag and wielding a little trash picker (those little spear-like sticks with a pointy tip used to pick up trash, especially paper–and can be used to pick up damp or fresh leaves) in front of part of the swamp (presumably Pogo’s home swamp) that’s awash in all sorts of trash. The comic strip shows him and his friend Porky (the porcupine) walking through a relatively pristine part of the swamp only for the next panel to show the pair seated in front of another part of the swamp that’s basically been turned into a garbage dump.
It’s Kelly’s version that’s most apropos to the current situation.