Today there is a need for some humor, with it being election day in the U.S. This is a scary election, with millions of people voting for which presidential candidate seems least likely to destroy democracy. (I still can’t get over the fact that out of all the great people here, Joe Biden and Donald Trump are the ones we get to choose from. But I digress…) Anyway, here’s some politics-related pictures that hopefully you might find funny or humorous.
I have to agree… how in the world can we end up with two candidates that most people don’t want to vote for?This would get out of control quickly, because neither Madea nor Trump would back down, but it would be more entertaining than the recent dumpster fire debates.Don’t get mad — it’s a joke. Neither presidential candidate is “right”, IMO.How often do people change their mind? And what methods might be successful? Healthy debates are great, but a lot of online arguing where people just repeat their standard talking points could be time spent doing something more productive. And people might be happier too.Actually, I don’t want to know what people are having for dinner, either… is there a good reason to get on Facebook these days? 🙂 And don’t get me started on the professional trolls who are creating division on purpose…Please don’t judge people by who they vote for. They might have one primary reason to vote for a party and thus vote for a turrible-in-most-other-ways candidate.
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To some, Joe Biden is funny. What makes him funny is that he usually isn’t trying to be funny, but he makes so many verbal mistakes. Some even call him the “human gaffe machine”. In this video clip, he was giving a speech and the teleprompter blew over, so he made a joke at the expense of himself and Obama.
It’s good to be able to laugh at yourself, but isn’t it kinda sad that there’s such a reliance on teleprompters that Obama and Biden are known for extreme stuttering and making ridiculous unintended statements when they don’t have them? I mean, this is the President and Vice-President of the United States, some of the most powerful and influential people in the world! I know it’s more difficult to speak “off the cuff”, but they should know what they’re doing!
Oh, wait, I got kinda serious there. This is the wrong blog for that. My bad… Let’s go in a different direction.
If you happen to see a question-and-answer session or an interview with Obama where he doesn’t have a teleprompter, you could count how many times he says “Uhh” per minute. I used to do that with one of my foreign teachers in college who could barely speak English. (He averaged about 15 times per minute, which is once every four seconds. Imagine listening to that the whole class!) Counting this with Obama won’t cause you to miss much — he usually doesn’t answer the question anyway. Of course he’ll give an answer, but often he “speaks around” the answer, making “politically correct” statements but not actually answering the question or leaving out the specifics.
It’s just another manic Monday, but here at Buffet o’ Blog we make Mondays more fun with a weekly caption contest. And so, let’s get started.
This week I’m posting a politically-themed photo, which in and of itself isn’t funny, but we’re going to make it funny. You don’t have to write about politics, but you can if you want. This is Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s Democrat Vice President nominee. Figure out what’s going on in this picture.
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