Yesterday’s press conference by Joe Biden highlighted Biden’s lack of competence. A reporter listed some of Biden’s big failures in his first year, and he asked Biden whether or not he thought he had fulfilled the promises he made when he ran. Biden’s response was: Classic Biden — bragging with no relation to reality. “I didn’t over-promise,” Biden claimed. “But I have probably outperformed.”
REPORTER: Inflation is up, your legislation is stalled…voting reform is going to fail, COVID-19 is still taking lives…and the nation’s divisions are still as raw as over a year ago. Did you over-promise?
BIDEN: “I didn’t over promise but I have probably outperformed…” pic.twitter.com/ZsrHTAnKDq
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 19, 2022
That’s one way of looking at it. He is better than what many thought. Even worse. It’s only been a year, but it feels like so much longer because it’s been such a failure of a year from him. Unfortunately, we have three more years of fun yet to go — if he manages to hold out that long.
I’m thinking that the last thing most Americans were thinking about yesterday was celebrating Biden. They are only thinking about his poor policies and how they will survive them.
But that didn’t stop the Orwellian effort by the DNC to suggest that all is well and we should all just be thrilled with what Biden has done.
Biden’s 1st year in office is celebrated with this award @DNCTonight, we will display a light show in front the White House to commemorate accomplishments such as “record job figures, infrastructure investments and shots in arm under President Biden” and Vice President Harris.
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) January 19, 2022
The DNC said that they would be celebrating “accomplishments” like “record job numbers, infrastructure investments, and shots in arms under President Biden and Vice President Harris.”
People thought that it was The Guardian when they saw the announcement. RealClearPolitics reporter Philip Wegmann being satirical. The DNC was not real. Real, but very disappointing. So apropos to match Biden’s dismal year.
Pictures of the @DNC light display celebrating Biden’s first year in office: https://t.co/uXBV6Crar6 pic.twitter.com/5CoHb6ABTN
— Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) January 20, 2022
That’s a “light show”? They had 20 people. Did they have any other options than to get rid of 81 million? What a shameful display, considering the amount of resources available. It is so difficult to read.
How did it happen? What happened? Did the supply chain failures affect their ability to have any significant “light” at their “light show?” If they were trying to “project” success, it’s safe to say that they failed, bigly. I’m also betting Biden didn’t see it, as it was likely past his bedtime.
Others mocked this effort as well.
DNC “celebrating” Biden’s first year with cardboard signs, a bed sheet, and a projector in the middle of the road…pathetic, just like Biden’s record https://t.co/VkffxY4zhu
— Tommy Pigott (@TommyPigott) January 20, 2022
This is exactly the kind of joyless, haphazard display I should’ve expected from the DNC, but it’s still hilarious https://t.co/VKX9aNX31r
— Jake Schneider (@jacobkschneider) January 20, 2022
they tried to buy up all the 20 watt bulbs but there were supply chain issues https://t.co/0nQkQoUv0D
— Sean Spicer (@seanspicer) January 19, 2022
Let’s get to the bottom of it. If Biden had “accomplishments,” Americans would recognize them; you wouldn’t need to have to try to advertise them to people with such a cheap display, they would know them. The fact that you have to advertise — in this failed-kind of a way — is an acknowledgment that you know Americans think he’s a failure. That’s the problem here. You know he’s a failure, but you think just a little bit more PR might convince people and fix the problem, as opposed to acknowledging the problem is the man and his policies.
This is embarrassing — but so symbolic of Biden’s failures.