BTW, I thought Joe did a good job Fri night. Kass is still 100% correct.
Biden: Frail Old Man Selling Woof Tickets
By John Kass
March 10, 2024
How does America see President Joe Biden now?
They see an angry old man selling wolf (or ‘woof’) tickets to America, a nation that he holds in contempt as a land of Chumbolones, a people he thinks are too stupid to see through his crafty lies.
After he barked at his countrymen for an hour at his State of the Union speech last week, standing upright for an hour while not even drooling on his tie, his media allies pronounced him a rousing, heroic success.
Lefty print media hacks–including one or two with whom I once worked with at “the paper” before it went completely woke–got their talking points directly from the Democrat Party, as if they suckled at the same breast as Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid. They called it a “fiery speech,” and a “bold” speech. Most all joining applause Biden for lecturing and threatening the justices of the Supreme Court. His media lickspittles liked that so much, a thrill or two went up and down their legs.
And CNN, MSNBC and the flesh-eating harpies of “The View” expertly faked ecstasy over Biden’s performance like sad porn actresses. Former Congressman Joe Scarborough went full-on Stormy Daniels, comparing the feeble old president to champion heavyweight Joe Frazier.
“What a left hook!” emoted Stormy Scarborough.
Was it a “fiery” speech? Not really. Yes, old Joe projected irrational, purely partisan anger at a speech traditionally offered by past presidents as a means to reach out to both sides of the political aisle. His was bloody political. Biden and corrupt corporate media once billed him as a unifying force, but there was nothing unifying about his speech that attacked half of America. This speech was theater, directed at the hard left wing of the Democrat Party who see him as weak and a liability. He doesn’t want left wingers to replace him with Michelle Obama before the Democrat National Convention in Chicago. So he trashed half the country.
Yet will it change the American mind that knows he’s much too old for the job?
No.
Did he lie? Of course he lied. The good people at “The Federalist” listed 30 lies in that speech. He’s a politician. He’s lied so long–protected by the soddenly corrupt corporate media–that he can’t recognize truth.
By screaming at the American people as at least 70 percent of Americans think he’s taking the country in the wrong direction, Biden may have dispelled all the talk among Democrats who want to replace him. But did he change the mind of the nation his age and mental infirmity?
Let me explain and try to break this down.
Americans know that he’s senile, an old man hiding with his drool cup, consumed by the size of snacks while young Americans worry about never being able to afford a home mortgage. First Lady Jill Biden shields him, hides him away in the basement from perceived threats, from the big-boy stairs on Air Force One or journalists who’ll challenge him on positions and policy So his strategy was to roar at them all, young and old, to bark at them as he lies to them.
This really wasn’t a State of the Union Speech. This was his assault of on the American Chumbolones to demonstrate to the Socialists that he’s strong enough. He thinks the American people are fools, idiots, clowns, a bunch of bozos. In short, he treats us all as if America was a nation of chumbolones.
And to cover himself, he barks and shouts to convince those of us who see him as too old for the job—almost the entire nation sees him as too old—he barked and barked like some hideously angry Grampa Simpson.
So why did I mention wolf tickets?
Have you heard about whistling past the graveyard to show you’re not afraid of ghosts? “Selling wolf tickets” or “woof” tickets is black slang, something from the time when I was a kid. It’s old. Like me. But perhaps not as old as China Joe Biden.
But it is old. Older than TikTok, even.
I first heard it years ago on the South Side and on the West Side. I heard it in the ghetto and at left wing political meetings of the leftist elite in Hyde Park. Think of the kind of meeting where you might see a community organizer with big ears with the notorious Chicago bagman Tony Rezko sticking out of his pocket. I’d even hear it from knock-around guys who weren’t black but West Side Italians. But they had perspective. They had wisdom. They understood power, since they had it. And they understood fear, because it was their superpower.
And they understood all about some old man barking at people while selling wolf tickets. They’d seen it before from other old men, and young ones too, and women.
According to “Grammarphobia,” to sell wolf tickets is an expression that’s about 60 years old, means to oversell yourself—to spread boasts or threats–that you can’t (or won’t) back up:
“The usage was first recorded in writing in 1963, when sociologists noted its use by Black gang members in Chicago. The sociologists had reported it two years before in a speech, and it was undoubtedly used on the streets even earlier than that.
“Some commentators have suggested that the expression comes from “to cry wolf” (to bluff or raise a false alarm). But a more likely theory is that the “wolf” here was originally “woof” and was intended to mean a bark without a bite.
“In African-American Vernacular English, to “woof” has meant to bluff or challenge since at least as far back as 1930. In fact, the phrase has been recorded as “sell woof tickets” since the 1970s.”
Wolf tickets or woof tickets, the thing is you’ve all seen some frightened little dog–human or four-legged–barking out of fear.
You gonna bite little doggy?
But most little doggies don’t have the CIA and the Department of Justice to hunt and harass their enemies. They don’t have the media, the Washington Post and the New York Times to scalp their opponents.
What was Biden worried about?
There was more about snack chips than fentanyl poisoning of 100,000 young Americans. He blamed his wide open border on the Republicans, not on the 95 presidential executive orders he signed in his first 100 days in office to eliminate Trump border policy.
But he did mention the young woman, the nursing student in Georgia, who was murdered by an illegal released into America by Joe Biden.
He called her “Lincoln Riley.”
Lincoln Riley is a football coach. Laken Riley is the name of the Georgia murder victim.
Her mother ripped on Biden for the slight. She called it “pathetic” while writing on a social media post.
“Biden does not even KNOW my child’s name – it [sic] pathetic!” Allyson Philips wrote Friday in response to a comment on a Facebook post celebrating the passage of the Laken Riley Act.
‘If you are going to say her name (even when forced to do so) at least say the right name!” she insisted.
The leftists in the media wrung their hands. They were more concerned about the use of “illegal” than they were about the murdered Riley.
Remember what the old man selling woof tickets left out of his speech.
The old man signaled to Vladimir Putin that he wouldn’t be all that upset if Russia moved into Ukraine. He enriched Iran to the point where the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has all the money they need to murder Jews. The angry old man screaming during his speech is the same old man who decided to close the Bagram Air base and botched the U.S. withdrawal of Afghanistan that led to 13 young American soldiers killed.
That same angry old man spent trillions like a drunken sailor to buy votes that kept driving inflation higher and higher as Americans can’t afford groceries. He’s the same old man telling Americans they must pay to give free shelter, free healthcare, free education and police protection to some 10 million illegals. That they must pay for the secret flights of illegals into American cities, and he won’t tell us where he’s put them.
That old man invited them to “surge” the border, remember?
The rebuttal to Grampa Simpson came from young Alabama Republican Sen. Katie Britt. I watched her thinking that a star was born. And that was reinforced when the corporate media attacked her and denounced her and trashed her. But that’s what happens when you effectively challenge the leftists.
One leftist Joe Biden doesn’t challenge is Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, The Chinese Communist Party of which Xi is the leader has a fine relationship with Biden. And they, along with Ukrainian oligarchs, have been more than appreciative over the years, making the wallets of Biden Family Inc. plump and fat.
How many nice homes does China Joe Biden have now, on that relatively meager government salary? How many homes does Dr. Jill want?
She only wants the White House now. And she’ll fight to keep hold of the presidency, even if her husband is ready for the drool cup and would rather eat ice cream than defend his nation’s borders.
Don’t ask him. He’ll think you’re a chumbolone. And he’ll try to sell you a wolf (or is that a ‘woof’) ticket.
AS MILLIONS FROM FOREIGN SOURCES FLOWED TO THE BIDEN FAMILY INC., THEN VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN AND CHINESE LEADER XI JIN PING ENJOYED EACH OTHER’S COMPANY 2011
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About the author: John Kass spent decades as a political writer and news columnist in Chicago working at a major metropolitan newspaper. He is co-host of The Chicago Way podcast. And he just loves his “No Chumbolone” hat, because johnkassnews.com is a “No Chumbolone” Zone where you can always get a cup of common sense.
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