Watched some of it on YouTube and he F'ing crushed it. Good amount of self-deprecating humor, plus his delivery and timing was actually on point and he landed the punchlines really well. Not bad for a supposed dementia patient.

Made Trump look even more like a humorless dewsh for having skipped this every year during his term. 

I guess we can also add comedy to the list of things Biden is better at than Trump. Loser. Sad.

10 hours ago, M.C. said:

 

Good explanation for some of the folks who are old and don’t understand the problem

12 hours ago, Dave Moss said:

 

Not sure how i missed this before I posted, but it was one of the first things I saw while waking this morning and I was just like...

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 hour ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Watched some of it on YouTube and he F'ing crushed it. Good amount of self-deprecating humor, plus his delivery and timing was actually on point and he landed the punchlines really well. Not bad for a supposed dementia patient.

Made Trump look even more like a humorless dewsh for having skipped this every year during his term. 

I guess we can also add comedy to the list of things Biden is better at than Trump. Loser. Sad.

Yeah totally crushed it!  So glad we're back to normal where the POTUS has a team of writers to make jokes for him at a big fancy gala!

 

Of course hes terrible at his actual job, but this is so fun!  Biden 2024 if hes still mentally competent!

5 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:

Yeah totally crushed it!  So glad we're back to normal where the POTUS has a team of writers to make jokes for him at a big fancy gala!

 

Of course hes terrible at his actual job, but this is so fun!  Biden 2024 if hes still mentally competent!

Old Man Bad!

33 minutes ago, Mike31mt said:

Yeah totally crushed it!  So glad we're back to normal where the POTUS has a team of writers to make jokes for him at a big fancy gala!

 

Of course hes terrible at his actual job, but this is so fun!  Biden 2024 if hes still mentally competent!

stay mad, you salty loser

 

 

 

 

Self-own?

 

Happy May Day Dave Moss.

Somebody the capitalists will pay for their crimes.

3 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said:

Happy May Day Dave Moss.

Somebody the capitalists will pay for their crimes.

Thanks Art

Don’t forget Mom next week

 

3 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

Thanks Art

Don’t forget Mom next week

 

Mum is in an eldercare home in Guildford.

Likely tossing off the help for extra jam on her scones.

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Biden Kills It at White House Correspondents' Dinner

Donald Trump did not see fit to attend the two White House Correspondents' Dinners that took place during his presidency because he cannot handle being the butt of jokes, even a little bit. Joe Biden is not as thin-skinned, and so he showed up to this weekend's event with bells on, and gave what may be the most effective speech of his presidency. Among last night's presidential zingers:

• "This is the first time a president attended this dinner in six years. It's understandable. We had a horrible plague followed by two years of COVID."
   
• "Just imagine if my predecessor came to this dinner this year. Now, that would really have been a real coup if that occurred. "
   
• "[The First Lady] doesn't pay much attention to the polls, though she did say the other day: Instead of introducing myself as Jill Biden's husband, maybe I should introduce myself as her roommate."
   
• "Everyone at the White House is so excited. I told my grandkids and Pete Buttigieg they could stay up late and watch this show tonight."
   
• "And, look, Fox—Fox News, I'm—I'm really sorry your preferred candidate lost the last election. To make it up to you, I'm happy to give my chief of staff to you all so he can tell Sean Hannity what to say every day."
   
• "And, folks, I'm not really here to roast the GOP. That's not my style. Besides, there's nothing I can say about the GOP that Kevin McCarthy hasn't already put on tape."

Biden did end on a serious note, acknowledging the importance of a free press, commending those in attendance for their coverage of Ukraine in particular, and also paying tribute to several folks, including Madeleine Albright.

The President was followed by the "headliner" (a dubious assertion when the President of the United States is on the stage). Anyhow, this year it was The Daily Show's Trevor Noah, who also uncorked a few winners. Among them:

• "I'm not doing this just for the attention. I'm a comedian, not Kyrsten Sinema."
   
• "I know a lot of you are worried and, yes, it is risky making jokes these days. We all saw what happened at the Oscars. I've actually been a bit worried about tonight, I won't lie. What if I make a really mean joke about Kellyanne Conway and her husband rushes up on the stage and thanks me?"
   
• Addressing himself to Biden: "I was a little confused about: Why me? But then I was told you get your highest approval ratings with a biracial African guy standing next to you."
   
• "Fox News is sort of like a Waffle House. It's relatively normal in the afternoon, but as soon as the sun goes down, there's a drunk lady named Jeanine threatening to fight every Mexican who comes in."
   
• "Apparently Jeff [Zucker] got fired after he tried to keep his workplace relationship a secret, which is weird because if he really didn't want anyone to know about it, he could've just made a show about it on CNN Plus."
   
• "This is the golden era of conspiracy theories, whether it's the right wing believing Trump can still win the 2020 election, or the left believing Joe Biden can still win the 2024 election."
   
• "Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate you. Please be careful leaving tonight. We all know this administration doesn't handle evacuations well."

Biden seemed to appreciate the jokes made at his expense. Maybe he was faking it, but he seems like the type to be able to take some ribbing. Further, when the targets of jokes are actually angry, they generally aren't very good at hiding it. Certainly, everyone knew what was on Trump's mind when he was roasted by Barack Obama in 2011. Similarly, George W. Bush didn't have much of a poker face when he was shredded by Stephen Colbert in 2006.

The White House press White House Correspondents' Dinner presents a potentially valuable opportunity, at least for most presidents. First, by making and taking a few jokes, a president can humanize themselves and make themselves a bit more accessible. Second, because the humor provides plausible deniability, a president can say things that would be problematic if said directly. Like, could Biden get away with calling the Trump presidency a "plague" if the remark was not (allegedly) tongue-in-cheek?

Trump is actually the rare president who had little to gain from attending. Not only is he preternaturally unable to take a joke, he's also completely unable to make one. Though he's been an entertainer, in various ways, for four decades, he's never, ever, ever been funny. Not when he was on Howard Stern, not when he was on Letterman, not when he was on The Apprentice. Even the best writers in the world couldn't have come up with a speech for him to deliver that would have actually generated laughs. Meanwhile, The Donald had no filter, so he hardly needed the benefit of a once-per-year occasion where a president can get away with pushing the limits. In short, there was no real upside to his showing up to the dinner, taking withering fire from every other speaker, and giving the networks extensive footage of him glowering.

Biden's a different fellow, however, and the event suits him well, just as it did Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan, among others. We'll see how wide a circulation the President's performance gets, as it's kinda inside baseball, but he might actually have done himself a little good this weekend. (Z)

 

23 hours ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Made Trump look even more like a humorless dewsh for having skipped this every year during his term. 

 

i don't know man, when trump suggested that we nuke a hurricane, i spit my drink out. 

13 minutes ago, 4for4EaglesNest said:

Biden "crushed it".  What a desperate loser that guy is.  Only thing Biden crushes is his pills so he can digest them.  

Aww, did another trumpbot get his feelings hurt? 

I'm personally exhausted with all the winning this country has been doing.

2 minutes ago, Kz! said:

I'm personally exhausted with all the winning this country has been doing.

But he read some jokes at a dinner, so we got that going for us

5 minutes ago, mikemack8 said:

But he read some jokes at a dinner, so we got that going for us

The best part was when he lold at a joke about gas prices and inflation, two things that are causing real suffering among the poorest americans. That ish was hilarious!

Old man told jokes????  Nooooo!!!!!!!!

23 hours ago, Mike31mt said:

Yeah totally crushed it!  So glad we're back to normal where the POTUS has a team of writers to make jokes for him at a big fancy gala!

 

Of course hes terrible at his actual job, but this is so fun!  Biden 2024 if hes still mentally competent!

trumpbots coming into this thread to cry about biden's perfect stand up routine is the content i needed this morning.   

never change, bots...never change.   

43 minutes ago, Kz! said:

The best part was when he lold at a joke about gas prices and inflation, two things that are causing real suffering among the poorest americans. That ish was hilarious!

This must be so hard for you, I can only imagine what watching the president is like for you

It should be pretty tough for everyone, considering he is failing by every metric imaginable. But hey, the adults are back in charge!