Just when you thought you had heard everything, in a ‘welcome to absurdity moment’, we find that Joe is trawling the Celebrity market to give him some sort of leg up to win the most coveted of all prizes, not an Oscar, but the Presidency of the United States of America.
It’s probably hardly surprising, poor Old Joe has turned to the Entertainment and Acting communities to take up the most difficult of burdens – getting the old, addled fool re-elected. And why not. After all, the earn their daily bread by playing people that they really aren’t, but are pretending to be.
The list is long and curious: they include Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Vivica A. Fox, Stephen and Ayesha Curry, Jay Leno, Bruce Springsteen, Tracee Ellis Ross, Larry David and Jason Alexander, Cardi B, Mark Cuban, The Chicks, Michelle Kwan, Keegan-Michael Key, Howard Stern, Zooey Deschanel and Jonathan Scott, Jon Stewart, Aubrey Plaza, Common and John Legend, Diplo, Jimmy Buffett, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Cat Cora and Nicole Cora Ehrlich, Billy Porter, Billie Jean King, Barbra Streisand, Drew Carey, Tia Carrere, George Clooney, Cher, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, Madonna, Ben Affleck to name a few.
I suppose his ‘trump’ card is Tay Tay (Taylor Smith). The pop singer made it official late last year by endorsing Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
“So apt that it’s come out on the night of the VP debate,” Swift said to her more than 87 million followers. “Gonna be watching and supporting @KamalaHarris by yelling at the tv a lot.”
She spoke to V Magazine’s readers issues ‘Thought Leaders Issue’ and wished that her vote for the Biden-Harris ticket will help start the nation’s “healing process.”
Swift said Biden’s message is one of healing and that it advocates for women, the LGBTQ community, and people of colour.
“The change we need most is to elect a president who recognizes that people of colour deserve to feel safe and represented, that women deserve the right to choose what happens to their bodies, and that the LGBTQIA+ community deserves to be acknowledged and included,” she told the magazine.
It very much sounds like a Miss Universe Constants’ answer, Host: “What are your dreams for the future”. Miss Universe hopefuls answer “World Peace”.
Joe is planning to use his upcoming State of the Union address to “reset” his image with voters — and if the jobs section of his campaign website is any indication of his priorities.
Amid an onslaught of speculation about a potential second Taylor Swift endorsement of Biden, we have scrolled through the Biden job board and found several interesting open positions, including a director of celebrity outreach role that will pay a lucky applicant up to $120,000.
In a tenor befitting of a scatterbrained president, the job posting is vague and confused in the extreme: it says that it is for the director and deputy director role in different places.
“The Biden For President campaign is seeking a Director of Celebrity Outreach to oversee the strategic integration of celebrities, artists and community influencers across campaign operations,” the listing reads under a heading for “Deputy Director of Celebrity Outreach.”
As if the relationship between Democratic politicians and celebrities wasn’t already close enough, prospective staffers ideally have “2 or more cycles of campaign experience. Previous experience working in the entertainment industry.”
It’s almost surprising how many high-level jobs remain unfilled this close to Election Day. Openings include chief of staff to analytics team, a duo of deputy research directors, director of digital partnerships, director of social communications, states policy director, state political and coalitions director, and many more, down to a series of internships that pay $17 an hour.
The website’s fine print also requires that staffers be “‘up to date’ on Covid-19 vaccination status as prescribed by the CDC as a condition of employment.” Applications also list optional diversity questions that inquire about race, preferred pronouns, membership of the LGBTQIA+ community, gender identity and veteran status.
Needless to say, whoever fills the role has a tough summer ahead of them: how could they possibly top the DNC’s celebrity version of “Fight Song” for 2016, or the Billy Porter-Stephen Stills follow-up in 2020?
Jo Found With Sensitive Classified Documents.
There was a recent Special Council investigation into Jo’s actions because sensitive classified documents were found at the Penn Biden Centre in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 2, 2022 and then in the garage at Biden’s home in Wilmington. They were stored in a broken cardboard box, between an old washing machine and a dead pot plant.
Jo’s Memory and The Hur report says one of the reasons prosecutors didn’t bring charges against as they believed Biden “would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during their interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a failing and poor memory.”
Lower in the report, it says that during an interview with the special counsel, Biden “did not remember when he was vice president” and that he “did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.”
“And his memory appeared hazy when describing the Afghanistan debate that was once so important to him,” the report said.
Special Counsel to the President Richard Sauber and Bob Bauer, personal counsel to Biden, vehemently rejected all characterizations of Biden’s memory loss in a letter to the special counsel, urging him to amend the report before releasing it publicly.
“We do not believe that the report’s treatment of President Biden’s memory is accurate or appropriate,” they wrote. “The report uses highly prejudicial language to describe a commonplace occurrence among witnesses: a lack of recall of years-old events. Such comments have no place in a Department of Justice report, particularly one that in the first paragraph announces that no criminal charges are ‘warranted’ and that ‘the evidence does not establish Mr. Biden’s guilt.’”
They also wrote that Biden’s “inability to recall dates or details of events that happened years ago is neither surprising nor unusual, especially given that many questions asked him to recall the particulars of staff work to pack, ship, and store materials and furniture in the course of moves between residences.”
Joe has stumbled and tripped in public. He has fumbled and “forgotten” names during speeches (most recently Hamas, they say). The advanced age and “poor memory” of America’s oldest president have been the subject of many a debate.
Amid these concerns, the 81-year-old leader, on Wednesday, visited the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre in Maryland for his annual medical examination.
Dr Kevin O’Connor wrote in a memo that Mr Biden “is a healthy, active, robust, 81-year-old male who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency”.
He added that Biden “feels well and this year’s physical identifies no new concerns”, after last year’s examination turned up a cancerous lesion.
Returning to the White House with the medical all-clear, Mr Biden said at an event on combating crime “there is nothing different than last year” with regard to his health.
The oldest ever US president also joked about his age, saying “they think I look too young” to police leaders while gesturing to reporters looking on.
Oh dear, what a mess.
