Posted on 07/11/2023 7:55:36 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
"Listen up, folks!" Biden said frantically with wide-open, bloodshot eyes. "It's — sniff — time to stop fiddling around with all this other malarkey and get — sniff — down to business. I have authorized my administration to immediately get to work on — sniff — a number of important projects. We'll have everything completely — sniff — fixed before the sun comes up tomorrow morning! I've never felt so alive in my whole life! Neefarbingrizzle! Wooooooo!"
Congressional Republicans expressed suspicion at the President's sudden burst of energy. "It's very unlike President Biden to show such vigor," warbled Senate Minority Leader and cocaine expert Mitch McConnell. "I'm used to seeing this type of behavior, but not from Joe Biden. Other members of the Biden family, yes. Various members of Congress, absolutely. The riff-raff lining the streets of every city in America, certainly. But President Biden hasn't had this much energy since the Nixon administration."
At publishing time, top officials of the Biden administration were scrambling to keep up with President Biden, who was reportedly last seen sprinting from the White House to the Texas-Mexico border on foot.
And the US is in possession of multiple UFOs!
See , Joe is on Drugs
“See , Joe is on Drugs”
Just not the drugs we assumed he was on.
Quick! Get Joe more blow!
It’s already gone from the news. It will be forgotten, just like hunter’s incriminating laptop, the “manifesto”, Afghanistan, the 85 billion in armements to the taliban, and Benghazi.
Baby1on B33 is a leftist mag. Look it up. As of the last time I checked, their CEO is a well-known leftwad.
Hey, Joe! If you can do all that I’ll let you snort coke off the Vice-Whore’s ass in the Oval office every day!
LOL !
I guess Brandon isn't leftist enough for them.
That's funny.
BABYLON BEE Owner Seth Dillon On How to Fight Against Cancel Culture
By Movieguide® Staff
In 2017, a fan named Seth Dillon bought the Christian satire site, The Babylon Bee. However, since becoming the owner, Dillon has experienced accusations of spreading false information.
“We’ve gotten into a couple of situations where if we joke too much about targets [the Left doesn’t] like, then they start saying things like, ‘Oh, are these people really a satire site? Or are they a misinformation outlet that’s just trying to deceive people on purpose?'” Dillon told Charisma.
Fact-checking sites flagging the Bee’s content has become a common occurrence as cancel culture grows prevalent. Despite their self-described satire, many sites like Snopes are looking to ban Dillon and his company from the media.
A recent example came when The Babylon Bee posted a joke about CNN buying washing machines to spin its news coverage.
“It was an absurd joke, but we almost got kicked off Facebook for it because we were ‘spreading fake news’ at a time when Facebook was really cracking down on fake news,” Dillon said.
He added: “The fact-checks were always filled with this language implying that we were actually deceiving people on purpose.”
“I love a quote by G.K. Chesterton,” Dillon added. “He said that humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle. That’s a beautiful way of putting it. Humor is disarming. People let their guard down when they are laughing about things, and so it’s one of the first things that they go after, saying that they need to stop when it’s being effectively used as a tool against them.”
However, Dillon pointed out that the satirical site is willing to make fun of itself.
“There’s a lot of self-deprecating humor, and we are willing to laugh at ourselves,” Dillon said. “That’s the whole point of satire, beyond ridiculing bad ideas and confronting hypocrisy—to get ourselves to not take ourselves so seriously, which is a very big problem in today’s world.”
Dillon believes that restrictions on free speech will ultimately negatively affect humor and that The Babylon Bee has successfully fought back to uphold free speech in comedy.
“[Comedy] is dying right now, in large part because there are so many things that they’ve put beyond the bounds where you’re not allowed to joke about them,” Dillon said. “They are restricting speech so much, it’s starting to affect even their own comedy.”
“We have fought back very successfully just by making a lot of noise about it, making people aware of how ridiculous it is that they are trying to mischaracterize us like this,” Dillon added.
Dillon encouraged others to stand up for freedom of speech and not bow to the increased pressure from the cancel culture.
“If we’re going to make a dent in the momentum of cancel culture that’s been sweeping us away in this big wave lately, it’s going to result, from my perspective, from people really getting a backbone,” Dillon said. “The solution is in enough people seeing boldness and bravery and enough examples where they get emboldened to stand up and fight back against it, and just be vocal about what they believe and why they believe it.”
It doesn't seem like it to me.
I thought the Bee was particularly astute with this reference to Biden's obsession with overturning everything Trump.
-PJ
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