Politicians. Some altruistic; others self-aggrandizing. Nice life if you can get it. Think of the current President. He’s been a politician for more than half a century. Now rich, he has survived all his gaffes and lies, all his contradictory stands, and all his scandals and disastrous policies, such as encouraging a rush to the US border under the guidance of drug cartels and human traffickers, shutting down energy independence, spending money on pie-in-the-sky green energy for the sake of cooling the planet while China and India do little or nothing to quash fossil fuel use, and leaving billions of dollars in military equipment in Afghanistan for the women-suppressing Taliban to use. Did he become President because of his wisdom, drive, and leadership? For his eloquence? Is Joe Biden the modern Pericles? Has he led us into a new Golden Age? And what of his political partner, Kamala Harris, the primary-race dropout Biden chose as his running mate?
Harris?
No bastion of wisdom there. Here’s her latest profundity: "Culture is a reflection of our moment and our time, right? And present culture is the way we express how we're feeling about the moment and we should always find times to express how we feel about the moment that is a reflection of joy ‘cause you know — it comes in the morning.”
Like Olive Garden, Harris Offers Bottomless Salad Bowls
"I think the first part of this issue that should be articulated is AI is kind of a fancy thing," Harris said. "First of all it's two letters. It means artificial intelligence, but ultimately what it is, is it's about machine learning. And so, the machine is taught – and part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine that will then determine – and we can predict then, if we think about what information is going in, what then will be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that may be made through that process.”
And this one:
"This issue of transportation is fundamentally about just making sure that people have the ability to get where they need to go! It's that basic.”
And this gobbledegook that rivals all philosophers’ and physicists’ statements on time:
"So I think it's very important, as you have heard from so many incredible leaders for us at every moment in time and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present, and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future.”
I could cite other…yeah, I will: “I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled. Certain issues are just settled.”
And: “So, during Women’s History Month, we celebrate and we honor the women who made history throughout history, who saw what could be unburdened by what had been.”
A banana is a banana: “You know, when we talk about our children — I know for this group, we all believe that when we talk about the children of the community, they are a children of the community.”
Location is everything: “We invested an additional $12 billion into community banks, because we know community banks are in the community….”
Remember how much fun the Democrats had when Dan Quayle misspelled the plural of potato? How much fun they had when the very athletic Gerald Ford tripped? And yet, there’s no “Chevy Chase” on the networks to make fun of the physical and verbal stumbling of both Biden and Harris. Well, as Biden says, “Two words: Made in the Democratic Party.”* To which I'll add two more words: "Made with the aid of a highly complicit Press afraid of asking any challenging questions or of questioning the absurdity of the two leaders' statements." (Oh! was that more than two?)
The Modern Pericles?
Where’s Pericles when you need him? Not that Pericles was perfect. Thucydides (not the writer) accused him of mishandling funds, an accusation that might have been true. Pericles, however, silenced his accuser by offering to repay the treasury whatever amount Thucydides said he owed by giving the state some of his private property. His only stipulation? He wanted his name on the real estate he gave to Athens. Not an unjustified request given Pericles’ contributions to Athenian greatness.
Will Joe make the same offer to appease all those who accuse him of selling influence to foreigners via Hunter? Will the millions his family received in foreign business dealings go into the Treasury? He could make the same offer Pericles made, maybe turning over his vintage gas guzzler sports car as a contribution to some green energy fund.
A New Golden Age
Imagine Athenians sitting on stone benches listening to the great debater speak, hearing the defining words of their age from the wise Pericles. Compare the rhetoric of Pericles and Biden, the latter having said a sentence that will forever define the greatness of the country: “America is a nation that can be defined in a single word: Asufutimaehaehfutbw.” Truly, we have entered a new Golden Age. We are fortunate to have not one Pericles, but two.
*”Two words: Made in America,” Biden recently said to union members.
Harris?
No bastion of wisdom there. Here’s her latest profundity: "Culture is a reflection of our moment and our time, right? And present culture is the way we express how we're feeling about the moment and we should always find times to express how we feel about the moment that is a reflection of joy ‘cause you know — it comes in the morning.”
Like Olive Garden, Harris Offers Bottomless Salad Bowls
"I think the first part of this issue that should be articulated is AI is kind of a fancy thing," Harris said. "First of all it's two letters. It means artificial intelligence, but ultimately what it is, is it's about machine learning. And so, the machine is taught – and part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine that will then determine – and we can predict then, if we think about what information is going in, what then will be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that may be made through that process.”
And this one:
"This issue of transportation is fundamentally about just making sure that people have the ability to get where they need to go! It's that basic.”
And this gobbledegook that rivals all philosophers’ and physicists’ statements on time:
"So I think it's very important, as you have heard from so many incredible leaders for us at every moment in time and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present, and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future.”
I could cite other…yeah, I will: “I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled. Certain issues are just settled.”
And: “So, during Women’s History Month, we celebrate and we honor the women who made history throughout history, who saw what could be unburdened by what had been.”
A banana is a banana: “You know, when we talk about our children — I know for this group, we all believe that when we talk about the children of the community, they are a children of the community.”
Location is everything: “We invested an additional $12 billion into community banks, because we know community banks are in the community….”
Remember how much fun the Democrats had when Dan Quayle misspelled the plural of potato? How much fun they had when the very athletic Gerald Ford tripped? And yet, there’s no “Chevy Chase” on the networks to make fun of the physical and verbal stumbling of both Biden and Harris. Well, as Biden says, “Two words: Made in the Democratic Party.”* To which I'll add two more words: "Made with the aid of a highly complicit Press afraid of asking any challenging questions or of questioning the absurdity of the two leaders' statements." (Oh! was that more than two?)
The Modern Pericles?
Where’s Pericles when you need him? Not that Pericles was perfect. Thucydides (not the writer) accused him of mishandling funds, an accusation that might have been true. Pericles, however, silenced his accuser by offering to repay the treasury whatever amount Thucydides said he owed by giving the state some of his private property. His only stipulation? He wanted his name on the real estate he gave to Athens. Not an unjustified request given Pericles’ contributions to Athenian greatness.
Will Joe make the same offer to appease all those who accuse him of selling influence to foreigners via Hunter? Will the millions his family received in foreign business dealings go into the Treasury? He could make the same offer Pericles made, maybe turning over his vintage gas guzzler sports car as a contribution to some green energy fund.
A New Golden Age
Imagine Athenians sitting on stone benches listening to the great debater speak, hearing the defining words of their age from the wise Pericles. Compare the rhetoric of Pericles and Biden, the latter having said a sentence that will forever define the greatness of the country: “America is a nation that can be defined in a single word: Asufutimaehaehfutbw.” Truly, we have entered a new Golden Age. We are fortunate to have not one Pericles, but two.
*”Two words: Made in America,” Biden recently said to union members.
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