Today we introduce the Come On, Man! as both an award and measure of hypocrisy.
We owe this Swiss army knife of lexicon to Joe Biden, who uses it ad nauseam as a catchall phrase, but most frequently when one of his many inconsistencies are challenged and Biden’s cross-firing synapses find comfort and temporary clarity in the familiar retort.
Search the internet and you will find Biden saying this maybe a billion times. When it becomes part of the next stimulus package, each U.S. resident, legal or illegal, will receive 2,000 Come On, Man! credits to be used to help get them through virus-related rough patches.
Think of the Come On, Man! as a verbal currency, a bitcoin of sorts, sharing that digital currency’s lack of intrinsic worth, yet possibly being valued greatly either by those on whom the Come On, Man! honor is bestowed, or by those who recognize it as marking the recipient for derision.
The movie world has Oscars, purportedly named because an executive secretary once remarked that the gold statue looked like her Uncle Oscar, and there are Tonys, live theater awards named for former theatrical influencer Antoinette Perry.
I guess we could call our awards Joeys, but I’m sticking with Come On, Man! The physical award will be a photo of a glassy-eyed Biden, staring blankly into the camera lens while shrugging his shoulders and showing his arms spread outward with palms upturned.
Allow me to anticipate the outrage that the gender-specific “Man” is used. Just quoting Biden. Perhaps his current wife, DR. JILL BIDEN!!!!!!!! , can get him to update his pet phrase to Come On, Man, Woman, or Gender Identity of Choice!
Without further delay, the envelopes, please.
Come On, Man!: To any involved with keeping Bruce Springsteen’s New Jersey arrest for alleged driving while intoxicated in mid-November quiet until after we could be “treated” to his unity advertisement during the past Super Bowl in which he drives aimlessly in Kansas during the winter in a Jeep with no top. Art imitating life?
Come On, Man!: To the Democrats who felt the need to make up evidence, doctor quotes, attribute quotes to those who denied them, and generally turn Impeachment II, the sequel, into as big a farce as Impeachment I. Have they no shame? Why no, they do not.
Come On, Man!: Also to impeachment Democrats, who were very eager to call witnesses, until Republicans said they would happily call 300 or more Democratic witnesses to testify under oath on matters such as what they knew and when they knew it regarding the Capitol violence. The collective U-turn by the left tells you all you need to know about their dirty hands in this matter.
Come On, Man! To all the naive among the left who think the woke mob types never will come for them. Get a dose of reality injected into your fevered brains from the experience of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., he of the sainted surname of traditional Democratic politics, who was booted from Instagram, purportedly for “posting misinformation” that did not wholeheartedly embrace virus vaccinations as the Holy Grail.
Come On, Man!: To all, including Joe Biden, who profess to want unity while sowing discontent. It is a doublespeak corruption of the term when it is used by hypocrites. And thus it joins examples such as diversity, empowerment, inclusiveness and justice on the ash heap of words whose meaning has been altered permanently so that they might be used as political dog whistles.
Come On, Man!: To Mitch McConnell, for his political fence straddling that makes him look like the quintessential symbol of the Republican party’s ongoing failure and the reason why a theoretical third political party headed by Donald Trump would outdraw the Republicans nationwide. Mitch can share the award with other Republicans of his ilk, people like Mitt Romney, Pat Toomey, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Ben Sasse, always too eager to align with the opposition. Only one of these brave warriors actually will have to go before voters in the next election cycle to explain their vote.
Come On, Man!: To be shared by Biden and the aptly named T.J. Ducklo, Biden’s short-lived Deputy Press Secretary. Biden has famously said how he would unceremoniously fire anyone committing offenses such as Ducklo’s. Ducklo threatened a reporter working on a story about Ducklo’s romantic relationship with another reporter covering the Biden campaign. Was Ducklo fired? Silly you for thinking so. He was at first suspended one week without pay. But, when public outcry became rampant, even from Biden’s left-wing media sycophants, Ducklo still was not fired. Instead, he offered a resignation, that was accepted. Where was Joe in all of this? Good question.
Come On, Man! Indeed!!!!