Tuesday, July 7, 2015

The president visited the Pentagon today

The president held a news conference about visiting the Pentagon today. Isis is an intergenerational situation.

The president visited the Pentagon today.

The president held a news conference about visiting the Pentagon today. Isis is an intergenerational situation.


The president visited the Pentagon today.

The president held news conference about visiting the Pentagon today. Isis is an intergenerational situation.


The president visited the Pentagon today.

The president held a news conference about visiting the Pentagon today. Isis is an intergenerational situation.


The president visited the Pentagon today.

The president held a news conference about visiting the Pentagon today. Isis is an intergenerational situation.


The president visited the Pentagon today.

The president held a news conference about visiting the Pentagon today. Isis is an intergenerational situation.


The president visited the Pentagon today.

The president held a news conference about visiting the Pentagon today. Isis is an intergenerational situation.

This is the news that I heard today whenever I turned off mute and I thought the first time I heard it, how odd, this is the sort of thing a president just does unseen and it goes unreported, and does, and does, and does, because of the relationship and because of the closeness. The pentagon goes to the president's office each day with reports, he goes to them as matter of course whenever he likes as part of any given working day. But this president is the first in my lifetime that has his ordinary duties of office reported as rare and repetitively newsworthy. It's annoying. And I would have had to actually listen to learn his understanding of how ISIS went from JC to intergenerational problem and I'd have to  pay attention to a man showily performing an ordinary job-related duty, then accept his framing of a rising problem that he's refused to address seriously. That's asking too much. I'd have to shut off the tube to avoid seeing the president walked through the duties of his own office as one being introduced to a new workplace. And here's our president talking about what he learned today on his field trip to the nearby pentagon.

10 comments:

bagoh20 said...

The world awaits the end of our long national nightmare, brain fart, schoolgirl crush, or whatever the hell it is we're living through.

Methadras said...

Chip, why the fuck are you mystified at this point? Really? This has been going on for nearly 8 years. The media are nothing but a government state run agency reporting wing. Everyone knows it. They all circulate the same talking points and disseminate the news in nearly the exact same way, word for word, daily about this guy. As if his shits are the nth coming and he pisses platinum.

You would think that someone, somewhere in a position of power would tell him to shut the fuck, sit the fuck down, and shut his shit down at every turn. I mean after all we elected them to do that job, but nope and they act surprised too. Shocker.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

In two words... lip service.

edutcher said...

Notice how IS did zip over the weekend, but the Feds panicked because they published a map?

Would have been interesting if they'd hit the Pentagon while His Poutiness was there.

The pentagon goes to the president's office each day with reports

And maybe once in a blue moon, His Poutiness is there.

PS Somebody on FB came up with the perfect title for our little Messiah.

Meade said...

"ISIS went from JC to intergenerational problem"

What's JC?

virgil xenophon said...

Chip has forgotten his Joseph Heller. Remember Major Major Major who was only officially announced as "in" his office when he was actually out and was announced by his secretary as being "out" when he was actually in? ("He's only in when he's out and out when he's in") That's Obama's philosophical M.O all the way..

virgil xenophon said...

PS: And yes, Chip, like you, I mute the tv and/or change channels every time I see the "Big O" (apologizes to Oscar Robertson)

Chip Ahoy said...

I think it refers to sports, so that could be anything. Those guys pull amusing handles out of their butts, Jellybean Class, Jolly Congress, anything childish and incongruently unsporty but usually not anything rudely nonfamily-oriented like Jacakass Confederacy, nothing like that. But this is coming from Obama who is known to deliver speeches to people who listen while putting on face of disagreement and simultaneously massaging his temple with his extended middle finger, common American signal for "fuck you" so we consider rude possibilities too like Jiggly Cantaloupes and aggressively provocative possibilities like Judge-mental Cunts. Nobody knows for certain nor can state with authority because if asked the subject himself prefers lying for answers. We just shrug.

Meade said...

Okay. I was guessing something like Jihad Cong or Jumping Crybabies or maybe Jiminy Cricket.

bagoh20 said...

Or Jackass Commenters. Because, we all know (even Obama) that those guys are very unforgiving of even the slightest failings.