Reality Wars: Episode MMXXIV

The Farce™ Abounds

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REALITY
WARS

Episode MMXXIV

THE FARCE™ ABOUNDS

It is a period of civil unrest. Protests have erupted throughout the Republic. The Uniparty has taken control of the Legislature, executive agencies have become corrupt, and the aging Executive continues to upend the Republic while once again soiling his diaper.

Having braved the perils of the Coronavirus Conflicts, a bold band of rebels intrepidly pushes back against the rise of radicalism, and though attempts to infiltrate the ranks of the Legislature and displace those bent on bringing down the Republic have been mostly unsuccessful, they still battle valiantly to restore justice and liberty.

As the economy crumbles under the weight of incessant inflation, many struggle to make ends meet, and hordes of homeless numb themselves with drugs, often collapsing on (or defecating in) the streets.

At the same time, wars rage in far away places, and the Uniparty regularly remits the Republic's money to those distant lands, while at the same time oppressing the citizens of the Republic, trampling their rights, and failing to protect them from the insurgence at their borders.

Pro-terror activists occupy institutions demanding those institutions take up their cause. Criminals, many repeat offenders, are arrested and released back into society while those guilty of simply entering the hallowed halls of Congress languish in prison.

The rebel Resistance struggles to gain ground, and a valiant (fictional) hero once part of the (fictional) Resistance turns to the dark side, now propounding The Farce™ that all is ok and that the Executive is the man best suited to save the Republic...

Sometimes, reality truly is stranger than fiction. It is often difficult to imagine even a screen writer coming up with what unfolds on a daily basis in today’s society. Last week, as if walking the red carpet for the premiere of the next episode of Star Wars, Mark Hamill recently joined Karine Jean-Pierre in opening the White House press briefing (first 3 minutes) on May 3 as a celebration of May the Fourth (for those unaware, though I imagine that would be few, “May the Fourth” is celebrated as “Star Wars day” due to its similarity to “May the force be with you”).

Hamill was ecstatic not only to have been invited to the White House (again - he mentioned being invited during Carter’s presidency and during Obama’s), but that this was his first time he was invited into the Oval Office, and the president gave him a pair of aviator sunglasses! Fanfare aside, during this press briefing, Kook Skywalker said that Joe Biden was “the most legislatively successful president in my lifetime.” Now we’ve re-entered the realm of fiction.

Setting aside the fact that Presidents don’t legislate, they enforce (“All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States” - U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 1, Clause 1), by what measure has Biden been “legislatively successful?” Though he claims not to have to go through a list, he provides one anyway:

• the bipartisan infrastructure law - unconstitutional

• the PACT act

• the “chipsets” - referring to the unconstitutional $8.5 billion grant to chipmaker Intel

After these three, Hamill jumps the shark from fantasy to farcical:

• “all of that inflation” - is he praising Biden for inflation? Because most people are not happy about inflation

• 15 million jobs - the president cannot create jobs, does not have responsibility for creating jobs, and did not “create” 15 million jobs; people returning to work after being laid off during the coronavirus outbreak does not count as “creating” jobs

Following these, Hamill launches into a somewhat incoherent and self-contradictory mélange of sentences laced with what he thought was a cute bit of Star Wars humor:

Well, you know, I called him Mr. President, he said, “you can call me Joe.” And I said, ”Can I call you ‘Joe-bi Wan Kenobi’?”

If this press briefing was rated on Rotten Tomatoes, it would likely be a bigger flop for Hamill than Corvette Summer.

But this Jedi-turned-Sith (Simp?) is still just the Padawan. Not to be outdone, Hamill’s mentor, the true master of The Farce™, Joe Biden, was interviewed on CNN just five days later. And the Executive did not disappoint.

At the outset of the dialogue, the reporter addresses Trump’s shortfall (what interview with President Biden would be complete without mention of his archnemesis, the great orange ID) in “creating” jobs at Foxconn, only delivering 1,000 of the 13,000 promised. She states that Biden is promising 2,000 union construction jobs, and that 100,000 will be trained in AI. She asks, “why should people believe you will succeed where Trump failed?”

Biden responds: “He's never succeeded in creating jobs, and I've never failed. I've created over 15 million jobs since I've been president.” Ooooh….The Farce™ is strong with this one! Since we are not weak-minded, his farce™ mind tricks have no effect on us. Thus we can ignore his first statement, and move on to asking, “what exactly did he do to create these alleged 15 million jobs?” Nothing. Again, a president does not, nor is he responsible to, create jobs.

Much more half-intelligible farce™ follows this reply, little of which is related to the interviewer’s question (including more whinging about Trump), but when he circles back, this Simp Lord hits us with some fuzzy math:

Beginning probably the first tranche and 3 to 4 years, the community colleges are going to the one we're at provide for 2000 folks. And to be able to be trained 200 a year.

Perhaps it’s my lack of training in The Farce™, or in Common Core, but by my calculations, at 200 people per year, it will take 500 years to train 100,000 people. Even based on the higher of the two figures, 2,000, it will take 50 years to train 100,000. This does not seem like much of an accomplishment to me. Of course, the “journalist” never questions his math (maybe she is trained in Common Core, or she too is a farce™ padawan).

Following another two-and-a-half minutes about AI, the network employee brings up the economy. Rightly noting that home prices have doubled during his presidential tenure (or since the “pandemic”), and that families are paying 30% more for groceries than they had been prior to the Covid outbreak, people are experiencing lower real income due to inflation, GDP has been lower than projected, and consumer confidence is low, she asks the Executive if he is concerned about having enough time before the election to turn these things around. During this exchange on the economy, the executive wields The Farce™ adeptly, replying regarding the cost of food: "the fact is that if you take a look at what the people have, they have the money to spend. It angers them and angers me that you have to spend more.”

What? What attempted mental manipulation is this? Could such a powerful Simp Lord truly be so tone deaf? But his next statements reveal his allegiance to the dark side that has been so subtly hidden:

For example, the whole idea of this notion of Senator Casey, you talk about shrinkflation. Yeah, I think, you know, it's…[interviewer interjects]…They did a thing that's like 20% less for the same price. That’s corporate greed. That’s corporate greed, and we've got to deal with it.

There it is, the dark side - Marxism! He mentioned corporate greed earlier as well, but it’s even more striking here. Inflation isn’t really the issue - it’s those greedy non-corporeal entities called “corporations.” They’re greedy. They just want more. They’re not suffering higher operating costs due to inflation. They feel no economic impact from the rising price of supplies and labor (because the Executive claims his policies have given people “access to good paying jobs”). No, only those he says are suffering are truly suffering. Those corporations are just greedy and making people pay more simply because they want more profit. This is the cry of the true Marxist.

This is the dark side The Farce™. The lies are simply a translucent facade attempting to cover the socialism lying just beneath the surface. Yet this does not stop Mark Hamill from declaring on his X (Twitter?) feed that “Joe Biden is the best president we’ve ever had.”

https://x.com/MarkHamill/status/1782499294731485478

I guess Mark Hamill still can’t tell the difference between a good script and a bad one. Perhaps if he could, he wouldn’t have gone back to appear in Star Wars: Episode VIII. Joe Biden could also stand to learn a thing or two about spotting a good script, because right now, the ones from which he is reading abound with The Farce™.

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There was much more farce™ involved in Joe Biden’s CNN interview, but I chose to omit much for the sake of saving you, my readers, from information overload and from being overwhelmed by The Farce™. If you would like to see more for yourself (like withholding weapons from the only democracy in the Middle East which is constantly under attack while at the same time railing about how we have to send billions in money and munitions to save a small eastern European democracy, one of many, from a tyrannical aggressor), check out the interview (and attached transcript) at the link provided above in this post.