Useful Idiots: Drinking Game Rules for Joe Biden's March 25th Press Conference
The president holds his first formal press conference to discuss mass shootings, Covid-19, and relations with the European Union. To which, we drink!
Joe Biden is holding his first formal press conference today at 1:15 p.m. in the East Room of the White House, as “his fledgling administration grapples with mass shootings, an influx of migrants at the border and an ongoing battle with the coronavirus pandemic,” according to the Washington Post.
Katie and I will be doing live commentary, which you can follow here. At least one of us will be drinking. The rules of the game, for any who want to join in:
Drink EVERY TIME:
Biden references “the previous administration.”
A reporter asks about his dog or otherwise tosses out a “What’s your secret to being so awesome?” question.
He says “God bless the troops,” or mentions “America” twice in the same sentence (e.g. “The business of America is the United States of America!”).
He begins any sentence with “Look,” “Here’s the deal,” or “I’m the guy who.”
He forgets something important, like the name of the Defense Department, or the job title of Kamala Harris.
“Equity.”
H/T to @WalkerBragman for this rule: A sip apiece for “Folks,” “I mean this,” and “Nothing we can’t accomplish.”
Biden appears angry when the content of the sentence doesn’t call for it, or otherwise is emotionally off-kilter. Call it the “Affect mismatch rule.”
Gets weirdly personal with a reporter who asks a non-softball question. Double-shot if he points.
Blames earth’s problems on Republican obstructionists on the Hill more than the minimum five times allotted under the terms of the Geneva convention.
Thank you Matt -- please also note -- tomorrow Kamala (she and her sister are Hillary's protégés) will interview a serial rapist and reportedly pedophiliac Bill Clinton on -- "how to empower girls and women". Below is a link to another alarming example of Kamala Harris - Hillary's protégé:
http://reason.com/archives/2018/08/21/backpage-founders-larkin-and-lacey-speak
At first I thought this was a joke -- the absolute arrogance of initiators of the scam of the century -- the Russia-gate 5+-year ongoing hoax -- the brazen arrogance of these corrupt DNC oligarch is simply astonishing. Also remember, the infamous Neera Tanden was running Clinton's massively corrupt CAP (Center for American Progress) "foundation" -- a vehicle for immense enrichment of Clintons
http://reason.com/archives/2018/08/21/backpage-founders-larkin-and-lacey-speak
A horrifying skeleton in Kamala Harris – in addition to Tulsi Gabbard devastating critique in 2020 primaries. The police testified just how helpful both victims were in combating violence against women and child prostitution. Ms. Harris over-ruled the police and mounted unprecedented campaign for her political purpose. This resulted in sex workers becoming unprotected.
The Senate Accused Them of Selling Kids for Sex. The FBI Raided Their Homes. Backpage.com's Founders Speak for the First Time. An inside look at how indie media veterans James Larkin and Michael Lacey became the targets of a federal witch-hunt.
Kamala Harris' office accused him of pimping, including some counts involving minors. The Texas state attorney general said he was "making money off...modern-day slavery."
Lacey and Larkin were also arrested and charged with "conspiracy to commit pimping." They spent four days jailed in Sacramento, California. Harris, who at the time was running for the U.S. Senate, called them "despicable" and labeled Backpage "the world's top online brothel."
News of the arrest was covered extensively in major media outlets, with Harris quoted prominently. Her complaint was that bad actors and teenagers sometimes used the site—and her evidence that Backpage "knew" this to be true was that it reported suspected underage ads to NCMEC and cooperated with police. Harris was using Backpage's history of working with law enforcement against it.
"Make no mistake," said Lacey and Larkin in statement that month. "Harris has won all that she was looking to win when she had us arrested. Like Sheriff Arpaio, she issued her sanctimonious public statement, controlled her media cycle and got her 'perp walk' on the evening news." While such targeting was not new to them, this was the first time a state had decided it was "okay to consider the First Amendment implications after, not before, hauling people off to jail."
In early December, a Sacramento Superior Court judge dismissed the case. On December 23, with just a few days left in office, Harris tried again, filing new conspiracy-to-commit-pimping charges against Lacey, Larkin, and Ferrer, along with allegations of money laundering. Ferrer also faced 12 counts of pimping. Again, all pimping and conspiracy charges were dismissed, though the judge allowed a money-laundering case to proceed.
"We've never, ever broken the law," Larkin says. "Never have, never wanted to. This isn't really—I know this is probably heresy—this isn't about sex work to me. This is about speech."
"This is the biggest speech battle in America right now," Lacey adds. "The First Amendment isn't about protecting the rights of the McLaughlin Group to speak their mind on television. This is specifically what the fuck it's about. Unpopular speech. Dangerous speech. Speech that threatens the norm. Not only do we have that right, our readers have that right. The [Backpage] posters have that right.
"We spent 40 years doing journalism, groundbreaking journalism, and they want to take all that away," he says—because "they don't like who exercised their constitutional rights to use our advertising platform. And that has no goddamn bearing. The law doesn't say, 'You get to pick and choose who exercises their constitutional rights by whether or not you like their lifestyle.' It's just incredible."
Warning: The potential for an alcohol induced coma is extremely likely!