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Biden was spitting angry when he came out to Meet the Press, I'm surprised he didn't punch out Doocy, but Biden realized that wouldn't be a smart move. He is wiser than I.

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My dad, in his 30s, used to run through all of our names, including the dog's, before he would land on the correct name for the kid he wanted to talk to.

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Feb 10·edited Feb 10

Number one, my fellow Americans, Hur knew damn fucking well no matter what else was in that 633 pages, one sentence (guess which one) would grab all the headlines. Mission Accomplished!

Number two, that was not a "press conference" where reporters wait to be called on, it was a hyena fest with nonstop howling.

Number three, let me ask this: Why does it seem like every fucking American has forgotten Trump sat on his ass watching his fans riot for 3 hours, despite the pleas of his staff and even his own daughter? And when he was finally persuaded, he sent those foul criminals home with "We love you...you're very special."

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Will no one... NO ONE ever, ever, EVER mention that Biden has overcome a stammer that, gosh, just *might* have something to do with his supposed "gaffes". JFC it's so goddam obvious as a thing to bring up.

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But, but, if us "journalists" don't shout bullshit questions at the President trying to get him confused, how can we "report" that he was not able to answer our bullshit questions without being confused?! We're professionals, dammit, and we'll create the truth if we have to!!

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"Thing is, most of us aren’t on camera when we call the kids the wrong name."

Thank GOD!! I can't tell you how many times I've gone through all the dogs' names AND both kids before finally getting to the correct one!! And I also frequently misname the dogs, calling them by former pets' names (I guess I talk to dog ghosts 🤷‍♀️)

Anyway, Thanks, Dok!! That was wonderful and I share your rage at all this performative bullshit.

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I live with the satisfaction that my ex probably calls the new one by my name more often than she uses his.

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Cats don't qualify for the name slip because they all have 552,837 names, at least one of which is Asshole, Dipshit, or Dumbass, if not all three.

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I've done it to my brothers, to my clients, and yeah. I see how that works.

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I thought that was intriguing, the speculation that dogs are routinely mixed up with children, because dogs respond more to their names than cats do. In the last week alone, both Gryffn and Máebh came running so fast when their name was called that they skidded around the corner.

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I *routinely* swap the names of my elder child and my younger brother, all the damn time, going back to when elder child was a teenager. Pretty sure I’m not senile, I just have them stored in adjacent memory cells in my brain, or something.

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Mom'd throw her little sisters' names into the mix regularly, and occasionally one of our friends, lol.

I'll mix either of my children with each other and/or my baby brother regularly. Son doesn't seem to mind this nearly as much as Daughter does, lol. Bro just gives me a long suffering look

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I vaguely remember reading some idea that we tend to conflate those who are closest to us in our brains, which is why parents tend to mix up their children's names. I've been called every one of my sister's names by every one of my other sisters since I was a child.

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Speaker Mike "Nebuchadnezzar" Johnson hears voices telling him to treat people appallingly and Repubs don't so much as blink an eyelid at that break with reality but Biden gets some names wrong and he should be put in a padded cell, ffs.

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Sounds to me that Ol Joe was thinking of Mexico so that is what came out.

I do that all the time and I am not even 50 so.....

OH and the PBS guy tonight, I am not making this up, is mad that DEMOCRATS keep talking about Biden's age instead of his policies.

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It occurred to me that “Mexico” slipped in there because he’d just referred to his late son’s rosary, which Beau had taken to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico to be blessed. The whole coverage of this business is jackal-like, with our Vichy press squeezing the orange as hard as possible before the Super Bowl.

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"unfounded opinions about Biden’s mental acuity"

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Let us suppose for the sake of argument that President Biden is a senile old fart and an embarrassment to the US. That's still an upgrade over somebody who’s a senile old fart, and also a traitor, a sexual predator, a fraud, an active danger to the US, and an embarrassment to the US.

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That's so true. Even if Biden is slipping, then what? Trump is not a serious alternative.

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The kindest thing I can say about the grotesque, degenerate White House press corpse is that thankfully they'll all be executed once their beloved $hitler and his gang of MAGAts seize control.

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