All the while Joe Biden has appeared as a senescent blowhard, i.e., in a light that appears shockingly close to the truth.
Subsequent leaks and statements have attempted to counter the appearance of somnolent passivity. First we heard that Chinese spy balloons had checked us out previously in the Trump administration, so Biden’s passivity had a venerable precedent. Upon the denials of every relevant Trump administration officials, the story evolved. These previous flights were recent discoveries. As of yesterday, NSC spokesman John Kirby supported this version of the story but professed that his tongue was tied. He couldn’t go into “the forensics.”
The joy of Jimmy Webb’s hot-air balloon ode “Up, Up and Away” is conveyed in the line ‘For we can fly!” The essence of the Biden administration is conveyed in a twist on that line: “For we can lie!”
[Get ready for a lot of those gaseous emissions tonight, too. I’d bet that Three Dog Night’s circus-themed “The Show Must Go On” will be more relevant tonight than “Up, Up, and Away”:
Oh, I’ve been used (ooh-ooh)
I’ve been a fool, oh, what a fool
I broke all the rules, oh yeah
But I must let the show go on
— Ed]
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