Talk about conspiracies!
The first LVIII Super Bowl commercial I saw, days before that glorious pageant of sport and commerce, was the “Don’t Forget Uber Eats” spot pinballing around social media.
It begins on a movie backlot with a young assistant handing Jennifer Aniston a green bag filled with flowers.
”I didn’t know you could get all this stuff on Uber Eats,” the gofer enthuses. “Gotta remember that.”
”You know what they say,” Aniston sermonizes. “In order to remember something, you’ve got to forget something else. Make a little room.”
Then we’re off to the races, in a series of celebrity vignettes about forgetting. David and Victoria Beckham, in their kitchen, trying to put their finger on a certain 1990s pop group.
“Remember when you used to be a Pepper Lady?” David asks, waving a jar of pepper.
“Wasn’t it the Cinnamon Sisters?” former Spice Girl replies.
Has to be a plot, right? Can’t be a coincidence. President Joe Biden is mercilessly grilled for being a forgetful octogenarian. And boom, the Super Bowl, already rigged to highlight Taylor Swift and thereby increase the impact of her eventual endorsement of Sleepy Joe, immediately unloads a highly effective ad that is basically a valentine to forgetfulness.
None of the actors in the commercial are particularly old. Though David Schwimmer (who, for those just joining us, starred with Aniston in “Friends,”) does have a certain, ah, weariness in the best vignette, as he makes a beeline to his former co-star.
“Jenn!” he says, arms spread for the hug. “Hey!”
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No, Biden isn't risking the Ruth Bader Ginsburg effect, as he doesn't have metastasized cancer as she did, plus she had a chance to be replaced by a like minded woman in 2009 by Obama, when she was 75, but her appalling selfishness & her stupid egomaniacal attitude that she & only she could do the job, doomed us to that idiot handmaid Barrett on SCOTUS!
ReplyDeleteNice try, Cul-de-sac, Drumpf and McConnell are the culprits for this unfair and unbalanced gaggle of Supremes, and RBG can only be blamed for lacking clairvoyance.
DeleteYeah, just keep defending the indefensible! She was a fool who hung around too long!
DeleteClaiming that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was "a fool who hung around too long" is not a winning argument in these parts. We are all fools who hang around too long.
DeleteThanks for writing this. Those of us who are octogenarians appreciate having someone younger remind us that it's okay to have occasional memory lapses.
ReplyDeleteWell good morning to you too Clark Street
ReplyDeleteI think that Neil is pointing out that it is almost exactly the same thing Biden has. Is a metastasized age issue which is only going to get worse and there will be no convincing him that someone other than him can do the job
It would be a shame if his appalling selfishness and stupid egomaniacal attitude would doom us to the orange one once again
Let the ratfucking begin. The "big East Coast media" (among others) are going to hammer away at this fraudulent Biden report from now until election day while giving the FG the "what about, both sides" kid glove treatment. If you plan to visit Europe, do it soon. You won't like it after Putin has his way with it.
ReplyDeleteIt appears that dozens of former Justice Dept prosecutors are furious with that idiot Garland for allowing such biased editorial content into the report, in direct violation of all Justice Dept. rules prohibiting such content.
DeleteHur was & is an insane Trumpie, chosen by that idiot & fool Garland, trying to bend over like a pretzel to show fairness & instead ending up with a lying biased report.
Why Biden hasn't fired Garland by now is appalling, as his laziness in indicting Trump is responsible for most of this, as Trump should've been indicted for sedition & election interference by Feb 1, 2021!
I had forgotten about that Jesus character.
ReplyDeleteThe phrase "on the tip of my tongue" has been in my lexicon for I can't remember how many years. Certainly, I'm more forgetful now than I was 70 years ago or so, but I'm not trying out for Jeopardy. Nor is President Biden. Nor is former for that matter. Who would be first to press the nuclear button? Putin of course. That's the way he rolls, quick on the draw, deadly to friend and foe alike. If the American people want a Putin/Wyat Earp to clean up Tombstone USA, we should choose Trump or one of his miracle clones. We could rule the world...for a while. At the cost of millions of lives and perhaps all life as we know it. One good thing: we won't have to memorize the date the world ends.
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I can't improve on Neil's half brained analogy but I heard something troubling this week relating to the MAGA mania infected the country. Neighbors here in Florida told us they have to return to Boston in early March, because there are going to be massive power blackouts across the country and they want to be home before it happens. A local chimed in that he was stockpiling in anticipation of the same event. Sounded like tinfoil hat nonsense to me, and there it was being propagated by the right wing media machine. All caused by Biden's green energy agenda. That The Big Three; Fox, OAN and Newsmax are broadcasting this bullshit is no surprise. That people are changing plans because of it is a frightening symptom.
ReplyDeleteThink back to 9/11. Americans were, for the most part, resilient and resolute, and rather unflappable. There was very little, if any, panic. Now fast forward two decades, to the MAGA years. Specifically, to the Plague. The hoarding and the panic buying. The toilet paper crisis. The stockpiling of guns and ammo.
DeletePeople are more nervous and edgy and anxious than ever before. All kinds of rumors and fears and tinfoil-hat bullshit. Takes very little to set people off. And some of these fears are almost laughable.
Example: "Authorities" and law-enforcement in Lorain County, Ohio, just west of Cleveland, are strongly suggesting that residents begin disaster-prep activities immediately. Three days' worth of food, water, and fuel in every home. Another plague? A historic blizzard? An ice storm? Civil unrest and rioting? Terrorism?
None of the above. Lorain County is directly in the path of...wait for it...a total solar eclipse. On April 8th...55 days from now.
Police officers warn of gridlock. A million outsiders...yes, you read that number right...will descend on the area like a horde of locusts. The roads are only two lanes, and traffic will make it impossible to buy food or bottled water or gasoline. People will be trapped in their homes. Chaos will ensue. The outsiders are coming...from everywhere. Oh...my...God...
What fear-mongering bullshit. And the local Fox station ate it up, and played right into it. Interviews...advice...and dire predictions. Gimme a break. I was in Carbondale in 2017, where 50,000 to 100,000 people were expected to invade from Chicago and St. Louis. The same scare stories did just that. Scared most folks away.
A fraction of the expected numbers actually showed up. There were none of the predicted 20-mile highway backups. The water and gasoline I brought, in case of being trapped on the highway, were unnecessary. The state police kept everything orderly and under control.
What's happening here in northeast Ohio, eight weeks in advance, is both ridiculous and unnecessary. A repeat of the dire predictions of seven years ago. And a symptom of the way millions are feeling. Waiting for the next Pearl Harbor moment.
That won't be on April 8. It might be in November. Or this summer. Or even the day after tomorrow. In a nearby town, or in another state, or in another country, or on the other side of the world. A sudden noise, a few sheep are spooked, and the whole herd stampedes. Maybe that's exactly what certain wannabe shepherds want. So they can "fix it." Yeah, right.
Yes, Grizz. Like the doomsayers who keep moving back the date of the Apocalypse, they want to be the messengers even when there is no message. Like the millennium fears, I figured if there were problems I could deal with them eventually, no need to pre-panic.
DeleteI try to stay relatively well-informed, but I don't watch cable news or even the TV news anymore. So while I'm familiar with this "Biden is too old" argument, I hadn't really seen him much. I happened to watch his press conference last week, though, and I gotta say it was not encouraging. His saying Mexico instead of Egypt was the least of it -- all kinds of people have slip-ups like that and they go unnoticed. And he clearly understood what he was talking about and there's obviously a lot to keep track of. But he just seemed to be struggling the whole time. Whether it has to do with controlling his stutter, just trying to be careful, or whatever, I found it hard to watch. (My wife pointed out that Obama used to take a long time mulling over his words as well, but nobody but right-wing cranks thought he wasn't on top of things. Which is true, of course.)
ReplyDeleteBut, if he were to step aside, is there somebody else who can wrangle the herd of cats that managed to stick together well enough to elect him? Who knows?
The apt bottom line in today's column remains: "You could surgically remove half of Biden’s brain, and he wouldn’t become a liar, bully, fraud and traitor in thrall to America’s enemies." And the people he surrounds himself with would not go from being competent professionals to toadies, scammers and crooks who care less about democracy than feathering their own nests.
As far as "the special counsel report dancing a jig around Biden’s forgetting stuff during questioning," folks participating in interviews like that aren't known for being overly forthcoming. Saying "I don't remember" to pointed questions is par for the course, whether the person being interrogated is 25 or 85. The fact that the counsel is politically motivated is certainly no surprise in this benighted nation, but one wishes the "mainstream media" would do a better job of putting the whole thing in perspective.
I'm almost 89 and I still can name all eight of my grammar school teachers. But I often have difficulty remembering the name of the last book I read or what we had for supper last night. I find that such things often come back to me a day or two later when I'm thinking about something entirely unrelated. I think what's happened is that my memory has decelerated to keep pace with my physical body functions. Dannyathome
ReplyDeleteCalling Ginsburg a fool is still accurate & correct!
ReplyDeleteNeil, another one knocked out of the par... Damn, I forgot what I was gonna say.
ReplyDeleteDamn, I just realized I used to live on Clark St.ages ago.
ReplyDeleteNot sure how i feel about that now.