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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChicago Tribune: Joe Biden Isn't Behaving Presidentially.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/rex-huppke/ct-biden-george-floyd-funeral-trump-protests-black-lives-matter-huppke-20200609-w64wcywgubchrdg2qhq4mgjq4a-story.htmlThe most immediate example, of course, is that he spent time Monday traveling to Texas to meet in person with the family of George Floyd. He was the black man killed by a white Minneapolis police officer, setting off nationwide protests over police brutality and racism.
What kind of modern-day leader shows empathy during a time of national crisis? If Biden had an ounce of presidential timber he would have been in a secure location, surrounded by armed guards and newly erected fencing, tweeting about his own GREATNESS and calling his political opponents Crazy!
Even worse, Biden has yet to tweet the words LAW & ORDER accompanied by no specific context or policy proposals. Donald Trump, our current president and the model for cutting-edge presidential behavior, has tweeted those words a dozen times in the past week. That, former Vice President Biden, is a thing we Americans have come to recognize as leadership. Maybe try it some time.
Indeed, while Biden spent time meeting privately Monday with Floyds family before the 46-year-old mans funeral in Texas, he failed to label Americans exercising their right to protest as thugs or terrorists. He didnt attempt to paint people appalled by systemic racism as part of a shadowy group known as antifa, which isnt actually an organized group but sounds scary and is probably coming to destroy your family farm or rage-stomp your begonias...
The full text is pretty good I think...
murielm99
(30,761 posts)NNadir
(33,544 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,797 posts)NNadir
(33,544 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,797 posts)coti
(4,612 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Very well done, too.
soldierant
(6,921 posts)but there are a couple of word choices which give it away as satire, For instance, "schoolyard" insults, instead of "stinging" insults or the like. There are others.
NNadir
(33,544 posts)stopdiggin
(11,361 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)...in his bio.
I think that makes it satire.
niyad
(113,552 posts)Warpy
(111,339 posts)The last paragraph quoted gives that away.
The Tribune is a conservative paper, but that doesn't mean they're dead above the neck or that they will endorse 4 more years of chaos. It means if the Republicans ever manage to dig up a sane candidate who isn't ignorant, bone lazy, or a Russian agent, they will back him.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)Demsrule86
(68,667 posts)niyad
(113,552 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)I think they lean L, because "bizness" or something.
But, they've not been socially conservative to any great degree since Murdoch bought the Sun-Times. (Since sold to a local consortium.)
They crazy territory was taken. (Although ST endorsed BHO in 2008, they dropped national endorsements in 2012.)
I actually think both papers are middle of the road. The "conservative" tag is a long term hangover from the MacCormick craziness.
murielm99
(30,761 posts)the consensus on their slant. They seem to be called center-right these days.
ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)The business worship still proliferates the ed board.
carlvsam
(21 posts)If one compares the News content to the Editorial section, you would think sometimes that you are reading two different papers ...
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Zorn's my favorite. Mary Schmich is also great (she wrote the famous "always wear sunscreen" commencement speech).
mucifer
(23,565 posts)leftieNanner
(15,149 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)Does he ever do any work? I mean, really, didn't presidents used to do things? Read policy papers, call congresspeople, negotiate ???
He has, of course, called Putin, and apparently coordinated a withdrawal of our troops from Germany to clear a path for Russia or something.
https://dailysoundandfury.com/trump-pulled-troops-out-of-germany-because-putin-told-him-what-why/?omhide=true&utm_source=newsletter-1521&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tti
KS Toronado
(17,317 posts)Let's say the average tweet takes 5 minutes to study what's being said, compose & post a tweet w/o spell check.
He averages 75 tweets a day, 125 on weekends when not golfing, 6 hours a day just tweeting & watching Faux news
just so he knows what he should be tweeting about to rile up his base, 10 hours on a busy twitter day.
But all is not lost because he claims he works 24/7 for us with no time off to sleep because he's so busy.
So he's working hard for us about 18 hours a day according to twitter, I'm sure he would never lie to us.
FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)... many of Chump's tweets are written by staff.
For example Stephen Miller and Brad Parscale are known to be frequent "ghost" authors of the more intelligent tweets that are published under Chump's name. We can usually tell when something is written in complete sentences and the misspelled words are held to a minimum. I'm sure there are several other ghost-tweeters, but maybe they have to check for permission first.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)That diverts him from venting his rage in other, more destructive ways - at least I hope so.
matt819
(10,749 posts)The piece is - or better be - sarcasm.
It's a riot. Read it.
murielm99
(30,761 posts)Every day, he would bring home a copy of each of the Chicago newspapers. There were about four of them back then.
The Tribune had a cartoon on the front page every day. My dad would always denounced the cartoon, and make a big deal about the Republican ownership of the paper. I started reading all of the papers at an early age. I learned the difference, and figured out how newspapers can slant the news.
When I was in college, I became acquainted with a teacher who burned a copy of the Tribune every day. He was quite flamboyant, and it was fun to watch.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)Mr. Huppke gets four Poes out of a possible five, and deserves them all....
GoCubsGo
(32,088 posts)I think he may be auditioning for a job "The Onion." The Tribune has been gutting their staff under their new ownership, so his current job is probably not secure.
splunge63
(102 posts)Sadly, one of a very few good writers left at the Trib (looong time subscriber here, or more accurately, ex-subscriber. Can't stand their editorial board: Rauner was the last straw).
yonder
(9,674 posts)That column seemed to be channeling bits of Mr. Royko, R.I.P.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)I thought it would be another instance of us raking Biden over the coals for everything, while letting Repugs get away with actual murder.
calimary
(81,466 posts)I had to read down into it to realize what was really being communicated here.
I was all set to take umbrage. But I soon realized otherwise.
Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)and the riots were still going on, rightwank media hustled out "BIDEN FAILS" articles that completely ignored Generalissimo Corpulente's utter lack of leadership. One of them got reprinted in my local neocon-posing-as-glibertarian-run free fishwrapper (San Mateo Journal) and I was fully expecting this to be more of the same.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)Rex Huppke writes a humor(ish) column. He is considered (by himself) to be Americas most-beloved columnist, though there is no empirical evidence of that. Before becoming a columnist he spent a decade reporting on social justice issues, from poverty and gang violence to the gay civil rights movement. He previously worked for The Associated Press.
mvd
(65,180 posts)And this isnt the most liberal news source in the world.
gademocrat7
(10,668 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)does that make me a bad person?
NNadir
(33,544 posts)These lines sealed the deal for me:
Theres no way Sleepy Joe would have the moral fortitude to pull off such statesmanship. In times like these, we need a leader unafraid to forcibly disperse Americans; appear uninvited outside a church whose bishop would later condemn him; and then have the White House press secretary equate his short, ignominious walk to Winston Churchill inspecting bomb-ravaged London during World War II.
snowybirdie
(5,234 posts)Listen to him on the podcast Unpresidential with Cliff Schecter and John Aravosis
Karadeniz
(22,572 posts)Funeral because it would be a distraction, what with the secret service and all. As if that's not damning enough, then he makes a video all by himself! That's immoral, wasting a perfectly good photo opportunity. Jeez!
Initech
(100,102 posts)Anything is a step above that!
MustLoveBeagles
(11,634 posts)He's on our side.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)LiberalFighter
(51,084 posts)PatSeg
(47,586 posts)That was priceless.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)Awsi Dooger
(14,565 posts)I can't count how many days I wake up to that headline, while merely trying to check my email.
I've mentioned to many friends that Americans have become so immune to that type of thing they don't remember what it was like to have a classy quiet president simply doing his job
NNadir
(33,544 posts)...we would have come this January.
I do hope the country survives until then. This maniac is doing every last bit of destruction he can do, and he hasn't even been voted out of office yet.
Cha
(297,655 posts)TY, NNadir
Dr. Strange
(25,923 posts)at three in the morning, instead of tweeting stupid shit.
Is this really what we want in a president?
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)mdillen
(29 posts)For the Chicago tribune this is the closest we will get to them endorsing a democrat.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)and then I read the article. I guess acting "presidential" is a matter of interpretation. I like Joe's interpretation much better than the Orange Hemorrhoid's interpretation.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)3-story high "Trump" sign in every goddamn photo of the Chicago River.
Lawrence O'Donnell has it blocked out of his show's "Chicago" green screen.
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)He is on our side, as opposed to rightwing hack John Kass.
splunge63
(102 posts)I avoid him like the plague
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)That makes it especially egregious. We used to get the Chicago Daily News, then it folded and Royko went to the Sun-Times. When Murdoch bought the times, he went to the Trib.
Once in a great while I'm enticed to start reading a Kass column, but rarely do I make it through the first few paragraphs. He really is a horrible RW hack.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)The MAGATs really won't get it.
SunSeeker
(51,697 posts)burrowowl
(17,645 posts)Rainbow Droid
(722 posts)No, really, he'd be praising this article on twitter tomorrow if someone didn't explain it to him.
Wait, what am I saying... he doesn't listen to advice, doesn't know anything, doesn't care to learn anything, and doesn't believe anything he's told unless it's what he's already thinking
He probably will be praising this on twitter tomorrow.
47of74
(18,470 posts)I saw the headline I thought it was gonna be some Fuckopotomus boot-licker and was getting ready to get the nasty tweets ready. Once I saw the article though....that's a great article. If Fuckface von Clownstick is behaving Presidentially I sure as fuck don't want Biden or any other person running for that office the way said Fuckface does.
(Sorry for swearing so much)