I was going to use Pogo, thought about Pogo's aphorism, and decided that I was saying something about Biden that is totally different and that today Pogo would not say, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." Today, Pogo would say, "They have seen their enemy, and he is us." Biden was Pogoironic when he said, "I have seen the enemy, and he is you."
Back then, in the fabulous Fifties, when Pogo Possum first shared his insights with America, we were "one nation, under God, indivisible..." Then, we could all believe that we ("us") were the ultimate source of our problems. Not so now. They are the cause, not we; they are the nation's enemies, not us. The Pogoirony of Biden's accusation is not just due to the historical shift; it is also due to the hypocrisy: Biden knows that he and they, not we, are America's true enemy, but out of desperation and necessity he's obliged to shout the Big Lie because Biden also knows that the enemy, which for a hundred years waged The War On America with incomparable political skill, is now, in part due to him, fighting that war with such glaring dishonesty, appalling treachery and incomparable incompetence that for the first time in a hundred years it risks losing the war.
Your definitions of "expert" and "enemy" are way too narrow.
In the Era of J'accuse, an "expert" is a special forces commander, an elite leader, of the martialized ruling class of "our democracy," which is, itself, a self-proclaimed majority comprised of self-identified racial and sexual victims (and their intersectional allies and defenders) of white male oppression, entrenched capitalist greed and invidious legal discrimination, which self-proclaimed majority of self-identified victims, by virtue of the conflict of social forces, the contradictions of historical events and the dialectical struggle for victory over racial and sexual oppression and material need, was chosen by the arc of history to culturally authorize, educationally credential, professionally train, morally entitle, politically pedigree and legally empower "experts" to define, identify, track, bait, trap, ferret out, expose, trash, doxx, cancel, disparage, impugn, silence, harangue, harrass, threaten, intimidate, libel, defame, abuse, spy upon, search, arrest, jail, prosecute, bankrupt, imprison and bring to utter ruin and total destruction the "enemy," those who, when invited and given every opportunity to do so, refuse to self-identify as a victim or to criminally conspire with the self-proclaimed majority who do.
Biden, the Expert in Chief, has seen the "enemy," and he is us.
I was going to use Pogo, thought about Pogo's aphorism, and decided that I was saying something about Biden that is totally different and that today Pogo would not say, "We have met the enemy, and he is us." Today, Pogo would say, "They have seen their enemy, and he is us." Biden was Pogoironic when he said, "I have seen the enemy, and he is you."
Back then, in the fabulous Fifties, when Pogo Possum first shared his insights with America, we were "one nation, under God, indivisible..." Then, we could all believe that we ("us") were the ultimate source of our problems. Not so now. They are the cause, not we; they are the nation's enemies, not us. The Pogoirony of Biden's accusation is not just due to the historical shift; it is also due to the hypocrisy: Biden knows that he and they, not we, are America's true enemy, but out of desperation and necessity he's obliged to shout the Big Lie because Biden also knows that the enemy, which for a hundred years waged The War On America with incomparable political skill, is now, in part due to him, fighting that war with such glaring dishonesty, appalling treachery and incomparable incompetence that for the first time in a hundred years it risks losing the war.
Sad.
All-too-true and understated.
Your definitions of "expert" and "enemy" are way too narrow.
In the Era of J'accuse, an "expert" is a special forces commander, an elite leader, of the martialized ruling class of "our democracy," which is, itself, a self-proclaimed majority comprised of self-identified racial and sexual victims (and their intersectional allies and defenders) of white male oppression, entrenched capitalist greed and invidious legal discrimination, which self-proclaimed majority of self-identified victims, by virtue of the conflict of social forces, the contradictions of historical events and the dialectical struggle for victory over racial and sexual oppression and material need, was chosen by the arc of history to culturally authorize, educationally credential, professionally train, morally entitle, politically pedigree and legally empower "experts" to define, identify, track, bait, trap, ferret out, expose, trash, doxx, cancel, disparage, impugn, silence, harangue, harrass, threaten, intimidate, libel, defame, abuse, spy upon, search, arrest, jail, prosecute, bankrupt, imprison and bring to utter ruin and total destruction the "enemy," those who, when invited and given every opportunity to do so, refuse to self-identify as a victim or to criminally conspire with the self-proclaimed majority who do.
Biden, the Expert in Chief, has seen the "enemy," and he is us.
L'ennemi c'est moi!