Lately, it’s almost as if every instinct and conscious decision that the Biden Administration exercises comes back to produce a rolling disaster that then must be explained as a random act of chance. Nothing is ever Joe’s fault. Think about it. Something as basic as baby formula is unavailable in the supposed center of the global empire. The fact that that doesn’t set off warning bells shows us just how feckless these people are. Working women are both one of the Democrats core constituencies and also the group of mothers least likely to breast feed their infants for any extended time. Panicking that group into thinking that their babies might starve is an unforced error of monumental stupidity.
And that is just the emergency du jour. Tomorrow it might be organ theft gangs harvesting eyes and the day after that peanut butter shortages. In essence it’s just comprehensive incompetence across the whole administration. But that phenomenon has to be traced back to the source. I’ll have to give Obama credit for telling us not to underestimate Biden’s ability to screw things up.
People say that the five stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. I think I have detected these stages in news coverage of the Biden Administration. The Left is grieving for the loss of Joe FDR Biden’s New Deal Moment, the Great Reset, the Build Back Better Rip-Off. If you think back to last year I remember when prices started to rise and the headlines were full of denial. Do you remember how they claimed that the Fourth of July cookout was something like $1.47 cheaper than the year before? And then there was the meme about inflation being temporary.
Let’s see what we have for anger. Maybe that’s when everybody on the Left was getting mad about “Let’s Go Brandon.” And I guess all that talk about a “Winter of Death for the Unvaccinated.” That was pretty angry.
Lately I’m seeing a lot of bargaining in the articles. A lot of it is in the vein of “If the Democrats do this and this and if somehow these other things happen, maybe the midterms won’t be so bad. The latest is “If the Russian people overthrow Putin, then gasoline prices will come down.”
And just today I think I caught a good strong whiff of stage four, depression. These have centered around the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Even the anger at the Right on this issue can’t disguise the depression that exists on the Left over this defeat. But I’m looking forward to a good bit more depression in the weeks and months ahead.
Looking ahead I’m contemplating what a Politico headline will look like when they’ve reached the acceptance stage. And when will that happen. Maybe it will coincide with the day after Election Day. Would it feature a Banner headline reading “Let’s Go Brandon”? Or maybe it will skip the euphemism and read “F*** Joe Biden” instead. Personally, for the sake of decorum the former will do for me.
So, I’ll continue to monitor the headlines to see if my hypothesis stands up to scrutiny.