When Captain Joe "Unity" Biden (also known lovingly by some as "The Big Guy") came to office, he resolutely set out to become FDR reincarnated.
Well, first, he needed a nap.
And some pudding.
And his dog caused him to trip and fracture his foot.
But Joe managed to pull himself up from his armchair and got to work making a New Deal for the 21st century. Everything would become iNfRaStRuCtUre, and he would be known as the father of America 2.0.
Instead, we're seeing military defeats, bureaucratic bungling, weak foreign policy, rampant inflation, and other fun stuff!
Groceries are now 20% more expensive than a YEAR ago, and gas is triple the national average last year in some places. The result is that the average American, who might have enjoyed a slim margin of extra cash for a movie night or a nice restaurant, will be shelling out hundreds of extra dollars a month that they don't have.
Some of us have been saying since literally January 27, 2021 that Joe Biden was actually Jimmy Carter 2.0. After all, the two were chums like 3,000 years ago when Biden was just entering middle age.
Well, it seems the rest of the media would is finally starting to catch up to ol' Not The Bee. Here's writer Dana Hull for Bloomberg this week:
As a proud member of Generation X, I have childhood memories of American life in the 1970s as it relates to energy. There were long lines at gas stations as OPEC flexed its collective muscle. There was rationing at the gas pumps. (My colleagues Akshat Rathi and John Ainger wrote on Tuesday about calls at the time for Americans to conserve energy.)
There was inflation: I remember standing in line at the grocery store with my mom and the stress of needing to put items back when the cashier tallied the bill because we didn't have enough money. We planted a vegetable garden in our suburban backyard.
Yikes! This does sound oddly familiar. My family reached a new personal grocery high this week, and we've started to have conversations about how to budget again after several years of not needing to worry about a few extra snacks or the occasional steak dinner.
Good thing we already have a vegetable garden!
Still, instead of saying we need to elect a different president, Dana Hull posits that we should just be like her and bike to work (that'll work well in places like rural Minnesota for families of 6!) and turn off things you don't need, like your furnace.
Those days are on many Americans' minds now, as geopolitics again roil world markets. Rethinking our energy policy is an urgent matter. What if we all vowed to use less energy — from oil, to gas, to electricity? Is it that hard to make meaningful choices in our daily lives — whether it's avoiding single trips in a gas-powered car, or putting on a sweater instead of turning up the heat?
For some wokies, this financial crunch is actually going to be a way to further virtue signal.
Even as society crumbles around them, they'll be hugging a tree and telling Mother Gaia how we've saved her by starving all the poor people.
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