"Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?" the X page for the Sesame Street character posted. Many answers were brutally honest and downright cynical about the dread people are feeling.
I came to the comments to see if someone just summarized what the article is about so I can decide whether or not I want to read it.
Since no one else did, here you go:
“Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?” the X page for Elmo posted. A barrage of responses – tens of thousands of them – were brutally honest and downright cynical about the dread people are feeling.
Here is Biden’s (or his account’s) response:
I know how hard it is some days to sweep the clouds away and get to sunnier days.
Our friend Elmo is right: We have to be there for each other, offer our help to a neighbor in need, and above all else, ask for help when we need it.
Ask for help? This country is built around avoiding meaningful help for others because of “freedom”. You are free to live in a box under a bridge. Free to lack upward mobility. Free to be jailed because of homelessness, drug addiction or mental health problems. Free to lose your home because of a health problem. Help is “socialism” in this country. Can’t have that. Gotta have those freedoms instead.
How is the guy (biden) who’s in a position to actually get shit figured out responding like it’s our responsibility to?
Just to be extremely clear, there is no presidential candidate worthy of the position. Trump and Biden can both wheel their crippled old asses to the nearest nursing home.
How is the guy (biden) who’s in a position to actually get shit figured out responding like it’s our responsibility to?
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for the country…
I think that’s one of the worst quotes from a president of a country. The government is for the people, it’s supposed to be doing stuff for the people. It should be our sword and shield against the corporations and fascists, but instead it’s become the shackles of the people.
One thing is a platitudinous phatic expression and the other is legitimate mental health advice.
Like seriously, how do you think “Be there for each other, don’t be afraid to reach out to others, and remember that you’re not alone” is vapid advice?
Because the problems people are having are not purely emotional family stuff that can be hugged out. It’s shit that we need the government to actually act on, not just give us some bullshit feel good reply about sunshine and rainbows.
And has he taken action on problems that people are facing? Is he never allowed to talk about anything other than what’s on your secret list of valid topics?
I came to the comments to see if someone just summarized what the article is about so I can decide whether or not I want to read it.
Since no one else did, here you go:
Here is Biden’s (or his account’s) response:
Ask for help? This country is built around avoiding meaningful help for others because of “freedom”. You are free to live in a box under a bridge. Free to lack upward mobility. Free to be jailed because of homelessness, drug addiction or mental health problems. Free to lose your home because of a health problem. Help is “socialism” in this country. Can’t have that. Gotta have those freedoms instead.
In America, you are not free to live under a bridge. People get run off of that situation all the time.
The bridges around here all have no trespassing signs. In English and Spanish despite this being Indiana.
You’d think they’d at least have it written in Indian.
:P
You’re free to go find another bridge to live under.
Ok Mr. Biden, can you help me afford a house? I’ve been working my ass off for the better part of 2 decades and can’t seem to manage it.
How is the guy (biden) who’s in a position to actually get shit figured out responding like it’s our responsibility to?
Just to be extremely clear, there is no presidential candidate worthy of the position. Trump and Biden can both wheel their crippled old asses to the nearest nursing home.
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for the country…
I think that’s one of the worst quotes from a president of a country. The government is for the people, it’s supposed to be doing stuff for the people. It should be our sword and shield against the corporations and fascists, but instead it’s become the shackles of the people.
Christ… Thanks Biden for your version of “thoughts and prayers.”
Just as fucking worthless as the typical Republican response to our suffering.
One thing is a platitudinous phatic expression and the other is legitimate mental health advice.
Like seriously, how do you think “Be there for each other, don’t be afraid to reach out to others, and remember that you’re not alone” is vapid advice?
Because the problems people are having are not purely emotional family stuff that can be hugged out. It’s shit that we need the government to actually act on, not just give us some bullshit feel good reply about sunshine and rainbows.
And has he taken action on problems that people are facing? Is he never allowed to talk about anything other than what’s on your secret list of valid topics?
spoiler
Damn this senile dumbass really is just the same mouthpiece for Obama when he was vice president.
Yeah how dare he suggest we should be nice to each other, what a moron
Words are cheap. I don’t want people to be “nice” to me. I want them to stop burning fossil fuel.
It’s not one or the other, you get both words and actions.
We haven’t gotten any action yet. Covid showed me that the best of us will only take half measures and be proud of it.
That much is clear. And the quotation marks don’t seem necessary.
I introduce you to one of the people inspiring the dread in so many others.
Do you mean Biden or the social media manager that wrote the tweet?