"... among the few events where he does not use a teleprompter. At a fundraiser Thursday in Brentwood, Calif.,... Biden veered into an unprompted discussion of technological changes that have fractured society and made discerning the truth all the more difficult. 'There are no editors anymore,' he said. 'The ability of newspapers to have much impact is de minimis.'"
From "Party gatherings give a window into Biden’s mind, from nukes to Pelosi/Democratic fundraisers provide rare unscripted moments when the president seems to muse aloud" by Matt Vise.
That's in The Washington Post, a newspaper, which would like to have an impact that is more than de minimis.
But it's always so transparent that its trying to help Biden, like here. It's presumed that "Biden's mind" is a place of substance, into which we are honored to peer. And his speech is not a muddled mess, but a clear representation of what's in that mind. We have "a window" as he "muses aloud."
Is that ludicrous or horrible or am I being unfair to the old statesman? I'll turn away and amuse you with the etymology of the verb "muse." From the OED:
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French muser (12th cent.) probably < an unattested Old French noun *mus face (see muzzle n.1). Compare Old Occitan muzar to gape (12th cent.; Occitan musar), Catalan musar to dream away the time, Italian (archaic) musare to idle, loaf around (13th cent.), to gape, wonder (c1300), (of an animal) to hold the snout up, sniff about (15th cent.), post-classical Latin musare to stare, waste time (1311 in a British source).
I bet you weren't expecting bagpipes.The widely divergent sense development in Old French apparently has its origin in the description of different facial expressions: the sense ‘to ponder, reflect’ (c1170; compare senses 1, 2) is perhaps originally descriptive of the contemplative look of a person deep in thought; the sense ‘to waste time, idle, loaf around’ (c1170, but probably earlier: compare musart absent-minded, foolish (1086)) is perhaps originally descriptive of a gaping, staring look; likewise the Anglo-Norman sense ‘to gape, stare, wonder, marvel’ (c1180; compare sense 3); and the spec. sense ‘to play the bagpipe’ (c1120; compare muse n.2) is perhaps originally descriptive of the puffed-up cheeks of the bagpiper.
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the old statesman
Berke Breathed's Bloom County comic strip had a line once: "a statesman is just a dead politician."
It then went on to say, "Lord knows, we need more statesmen."
Trump's tweets were not insights into his id but a highly processed sense of humor. It's just a refusal to recognize humor that's in play here. It's a game and Trump knows it's a game.
I'm reminded of an A.J. Liebling 1956 quote: "People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."
Pretty sure Biden's Mind is a place of constant chaos.
Coleridge, a poem mocking the musing style of poems of the day, in Biographia Literaria
Pensive at eve, on the hard world I mused,
And m poor heart was sad; so at the Moon
I gazed and sighed, and sighed; for ah how soon
Eve saddens into night! mine eyes perused
With tearful vacancy the dampy grass
That wept and glitter'd in the paly ray
And I did pause me on my lonely way
And mused me on the wretched ones that pass
O'er the bleak heath of sorrow. But alas!
Most of myself I thought! when it befel,
That the soothe spirit of the breezy wood
Breath'd in mine ear: "All this is very well,
But much of one thing, is for no thing good."
Oh my poor heart's inexplicable swell!
Biographia Literaria
The period following the 1998 Drudge Report's "stained blue dress" NBC leak to the present will be seen as a civil war of retrenchment by the Fourth Estate (press). They've been wigging out ever since they lost control over the means of information production and distribution. Trump had to be destroyed at all costs to preserve any media economic and political power at all.
The media now lives in the establishment's propaganda bubble with wishful thinking it'll all blow over. Somehow, someway they want to return to the power they held in the 3 TV network era before the Web. And so cancellation and censorship began, ironically among Watergate era "First Amendment" advocates.
I don't see how this can endure, as they are corrupt, selfish, undisciplined, and short-sighted. If they win we face chaos and self destruction (2020's "Mostly Peaceful Protests.") If they accept defeat we'll have a new ethics and honesty litmus test ~~ sort of McCarthyism in reverse.
" It's presumed that "Biden's mind" is a place of substance, into which we are honored to peer."
THAT. Is the funniest sentence I've read in a long time. Thank you. (i'm still laughing)
"I bet you weren't expecting bagpipes."
No. No I was not.
Bagpipes.Even when they are present, are unexpected.
I said here two years ago that Joe Biden's reckless mouth would get us into WWIII, and here we are, a passel of fogs in water that is getting hotter every day. I just saw a clip where europeans were thanking Joe for putting the grownups back in charge. Must have been in Stockholm, is all I can think.
So, let me get this straight? the WaPoo, presumed that "Biden's mind" is a place of substance;
and THEN wondered WHY people think they are full of it?
No one is So Blind, as Those that will not see (except those that DO see, and pretend they don't)
Is that ludicrous or horrible or am I being unfair to the old statesman?
Statesman? That guy is the chief architect of the high-tech lynching of a decent black man that dared to leave the plantation. He should be reviled.
Look at the outrageous finger pointing in the picture-
https://americanmind.org/salvo/biden-doesnt-need-woke-help-to-destroy-america/
Nobody expects the bagpipes.
"It's presumed that "Biden's mind" is a place of substance,..."
And what a presumption it is! In his best days, Biden's mind rollicked along like a teenager driving a convertible on a Friday night. That is, in his younger, post law-school, Junior Senator days. He was sometimes the loud braggart, sometimes the threatening bully, sometimes the clown in the room. But he was never relied on for his deep thoughts, and often ridiculed for those thoughts that got out in public. Since then he's had a life full of corruption, grift, and sleaze, mixed with being privy to the greatest power meetings in the world. His decayed mind now is a mash of all of it. And what typically comes out are meaningless mixed-up half thoughts about young girls, windmills, and Barbarians- in the form of white conservatives- at the gate.
I love bagpipes!
Perhaps Biden could keep a couple of pipers on hand. When he starts musung they start piping.
It would hide his dementia.
John stop fascism vote republican Henry
Garbage in, garbage out.
How many countries have bagpipe museums? England, Scotland, Italy, maybe Canada. Spain may have two. Ours was in Maryland, but it closed down. So there's an opening for an enterprising collector. You can get a starter set on Ebay for $97. Just be sure to wash it good.
How many actual Biden quotes were in the article?
Did the article mention all of the video collections of Biden's mumbling and drooling in public?
I bet you weren't expecting bagpipes.
No, but Biden, blow-hard, it fits.
So Biden "muses aloud" but Trump's tweets were a manifestation of his id. Mm hmm.
It would be an interesting experiment for a Washington Post writer to have a conservative minded person read their article before it was published to point out their subconscious use of judgmental words when describing a Republican. Romney seemed "to dismiss nearly half the country" and "he added curtly". Whereas, Mr. Viser used much more neutral language when he described Obama's and Hillary's utterances like he "talked" and she "told". Liberal reporters can't help themselves.
It would be an interesting experiment for a Washington Post writer to have a conservative minded person read their article before it was published to point out their subconscious use of judgmental words when describing a Republican. Romney seemed "to dismiss nearly half the country" and "he added curtly". Whereas, Mr. Viser used much more neutral language when he described Obama's and Hillary's utterances like he "talked" and she "told". Liberal reporters can't help themselves.
Curious how Trump's tweets come from his id. Which organ do Biden's brain farts come from?
Maybe the author uses "musings" in the 14th century sense of staring and wasting time, or the 15th century sense of sniffing.
No, Biden isn't a deep thinker. It's not hard to say that the world isn't what it used to be. The rest of his comments seem to be things he shouldn't actually be saying.
At this point someone (but who?) should tweak our host's sense of etymology to investigate the many uses of the word drone in the current zeitgeist.
No drone, no honey. No drone, no bagpipes. No drone, no lurking attack. No drone, no commentary.
Fungible and flexible, it's time for drones to stand up and be counted.
Translation: The Dems can no longer rely on the Legacy Media to create the narrative. Rush Limbaugh, bloggers, Fox News, Bannon and Breitbart have broken the monopoly.
Not using a teleprompter doesn't mean he's not using note cards. There's zero chance that Biden, in a live setting, is articulating reasoned arguments or answering questions coherently.
In any event, moaning that there are no editors anymore suggests a complaint that there's no one to call to get a story spiked or at least shaped. So it's his team's influence (lately) that is de minimis.
Democracy Dies in Darkness Bezos owned propaganda paper says what?
Biden's honesty regarding the prime frustration of the infotainment sea change that will eventually destroy the DNC Davos money grubbing corruptocrats is shining through his cognitive decline.
Trump was able and allowed to communicate with everyone.
Something the left should want. The anti-transparency anti free speech left do not want.
Instead - we get Crook puppet Biden - and a media who do all they can to manage him.
"...Biden’s comments are projected to the public less often, but just as revealingly, through the donor gatherings..."
What are they gathering to donate to Biden?
Stem cells for his brain?
Bagpipes and Biden's brain. Yeah, that checks out. The only question is whether it is playing the same song in a loop, or if it changes every 30 seconds or so, or it is just random sounds played by someone who has never tried to play a bagpipe before.
Biden is a national embarrassment. Clueless old fart, shaking his fist and yelling at the sky…
Retire, already.
I used to love Trump's pre-flight Marine One extemporaneous news conferences. I suspect the gaggle of reporters did also. They were so long at times, it's a wonder Marine One did not have to refuel prior to takeoff. Now we are stuck with "Biden - man of substance", who has been an imbecile since he was first elected. Can't put a sentence together.
Joe Biden charges money for his true thoughts, and cuts in the press as his middleman. Trump didn't allow insiders to profit off of his views before they became public.
Ever wonder what a parallel universe is? Peruse the comments section from the article. These people are in absolute denial.
Biden's mind: Bagpipes softly playing 96 Tears in the background, explorers wading through a thick ooze of crackpot theories and fantasies, as an all-enveloping fog of indecipherable grammar blankets the environment like a soggy down comforter.
Man of Substance? Recall a few days ago Biden's teleprompter telling him to say the website ReportFraud D-O-T gov which he did, instead of ReportFraud.gov? I am guessing his teleprompter input folks were afraid if they put in just .gov, Biden would have said Period gov.
The man has a mind like a steel trap. When I think of Inga's hero here, three dimensional chess comes to mind.
Democracy Dies in Darkness!
Humperdink: "I used to love Trump's pre-flight Marine One extemporaneous news conferences. I suspect the gaggle of reporters did also."
The press hated and despised the extemporaneous press conferences. That format did not allow the self-infatuated smug reporter morons to be seen on camera, their long-winded full-blown-speech DNC-generated-talking-point "questions" generally could not be heard by viewers, and Trump was able to completely control the tempo of the gatherings.
Which is why he was happy to meet with the reporters and engage them for such long periods of time almost every day under those parameters.
No more Jim Acosta droning on and on on camera and reading poems and pushing away the microphone girl as a means to interview for a CNN primetime gig.
Alas, after this week Acosta is likely to be shown the door and he wont even have CNN+ to fall back on!
I hear the gadfly-approved Lincoln Pedophile Project might have an intern opening.
Biden's brain was the size of a walnut in his best years, like 1987. Now it's the size of a peanut. I do wonder about his minders as we see Democrats running for office, like Fettermann, abandon the green policies that are killing the country. Fettermann now says he "has always supported fracking." The videos of him saying the opposite should help Oz. Mark Kelly is now talking about the Border in Arizona. I doubt it was save him but it interesting to see Democrats trying to run from Biden policies. Of course, after they lose the House and Senate they will blame Republicans for the recession that began 3 months ago.
At what point is a long-term newspaper going to publish an editors opinion piece on how for 4.5 years the press publicly and regularly espoused concerns about Trump starting WWIII, while he actually reduced our foreign military involvements.
And now ~20 months into a Biden administration we have nuclear war being threatened and we are engaged in a proxy war with Russia
Not nearly enough concern was expressed that the only time Biden expresses his true thoughts is to big money Dem donors. F the public, amiright?
"Is that ludicrous or horrible or am I being unfair to the old statesman?"
Biden and WaPo are ludicrous and horrible, you are more than fair ("statesman"?).
There's an old saw about a kid gleefully throwing horse droppings into the air as he digs into a pile of manure. Someone asks, "Why"? The kid replies, "With all this horse crap there must be a pony in here somewhere".
Same with the NYT looking for that pearl of wisdom in the Biden brain.
WPo, not NYT.... A distinction w/o much of a difference.
You can't even count on the Post getting the details right anymore. Brentwood, CA is located in Northern California. Biden was at a fund raiser in the Brentwood section of LA, where, BTW, OJ killed his wife.
"Cornemuse" is the French word for bagpipes, a familiar instrument in Celtic Brittany. It's not so surprising that "musing" in Norman Britain might have something to do with the bagpipes. To make things complicated a cornamuse is another antique musical instrument, a member of the reed family closely related to the crumhorn.
If you called your blog posts "musings," you wouldn't be claiming they were serious and deep, but you also wouldn't be admitting that they weren't, so it's a very useful word. "Musings" can be silly woolgathering but may contain gems of wisdom.
Musings is a sciency blog by Lucia. It used to be one of the top go-to sites for global warming content of the skeptical variety back in the day.
https://rankexploits.com/musings/
Bagpipes in and bagpipes out! And drummers in between. The Edinburgh Tattoo!
Bagpipes in and bagpipes out! And drummers in between. The Edinburgh Tattoo!
"It's just a refusal to recognize humor that's in play here."
Progs don't do humor and don't understand it.
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