The Space Aliens And President Biden Are Both Passive-Aggressive

As I thought about my bill of particulars against the space aliens yesterday, I began to realize that President Biden shares many of the same characteristics. Lest anyone accuse me of making a diagnosis, I would point out that The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) no longer lists passive-aggressive personality disorder as a distinct and separate diagnosis. Thus in calling soomeone "passive-aggressive", I'm not using a professional medical or diagnostic term and am simply using it in a lay capacity as a rough behavioral descriptor.

The same link defines the term as

a type of indirect aggression. It allows a person to express anger and related emotions without directly communicating these feelings. People expressing passive aggression often retain the ability to deny that they intended their behavior aggressively.

Deniability, as I pointed out yesterday, is a key component of the space aliens' behavior at Skinwalker Ranch. "You can't prove it was us who made your electronic monitors malfunction! You're jumping to conclusions, and that's not fair!" But their behavior is pretty clearly deliberate. Who else could it be? That it suggests they're angry and resentful of the Prometheus Entertainment crew with their monitors and amateur rockets is intriguing, and I may take this up in another post.

But let's look at President Biden's strange interview with Jimmy Kimmel Wednesday night.

Jimmy Kimmel: (08:03)
I think a lot of Democrats are frustrated because we got out and voted, we won the House, the Senate, the White House, obviously, and still we have had made very little progress, as far as I’m concerned, when it comes to guns, obviously, reproductive rights, voting rights, climate change, the all these things. And in some ways we’ve moved backwards.

Joe Biden: (08:31)
Well, in climate change, we’ve actually made some real moves. One in seven of all the changes that have taken place in terms of solar, wind, and wind pumps, and I mean pumps and like, have occurred in the last 18 months; we’ve moved.

Joe Biden: (08:49)
And there’s an opportunity with the process we have dealing with energy to be able to gradually move more rapidly than we have been to alternatives.

Joe Biden: (08:58)
For example, electric vehicles, Jimmy, when I got elected… I pushed electric vehicles for the last, I don’t know, God knows how long. Well I had a conversation with the chairman of the board of General Motors, Mary Barra, and she was suing California, remember? Because your standard was too high.

Jimmy Kimmel: (09:18)
Right.

Joe Biden: (09:19)
Well, guess what? We had a conversation, I got a call from her about three days, four days later, she dropped the suit and committed she’s going to go all electric in the entire General Motors by 2035, by 2030 [inaudible 00:09:32].

Joe Biden: (09:32)
Well, but it really is. And then Ford came along and did the same thing. So we’re on a path. And what is the successor to Chrysler is doing the same thing. We’re moving in directions that are being slow.

He and Kimmel then tiptoe around the issue of inflation:

Joe Biden: (11:58)
Second thing is, look, inflation is the bane of our existence. Inflation is mostly in food, and in gasoline, at the pump.

Jimmy Kimmel: (12:11)
That’s what kills you, because it’s a little billboard telling everyone how expensive everything is. If Donald Trump leaves one of those Sharpies over for you, could maybe change the price on that, you know?

Joe Biden: (12:22)
We could. But here’s the deal, you know, my dad used say every, every family has a little bit of breathing room. If you take and look at all the costs that a family has on a monthly basis, it also includes healthcare, prescription drugs, childcare, all those things. When I’m proposing we get, and I think we can get it done, I’m proposing that we in fact reduce the cost of those things.

Kimmel in effect is asking why Biden deliberately increased the price of gas -- can't he do something now to pull back on some of those measures, like bring back the Keystone XL Pipeline that he canceled? His answer is actually pretty clear: every family has a little bit of breathing room. You like to go to the movies? Well, you can cut that out and still buy gas! You've got breathing room! And if you need insulin, well, down the road, we might help you out with that, too! But the key thing is it's important you don't buy gas. By 2035, you'll have to drive an electric car anyhow.

He's saying I know perfectly well you're seeing inflation in food and gasoline. But I'm not gonna do anything about it, because in the context above, climate change. You just have to manage your priorities based on my new policy, which my dad always said you can do. Down the road, if you need insulin, maybe we can help with that.

It actually sounds like he doesn't like the middle and working classes very much; he's just said he's aware he's sticking it to them, and they'll just have to deal with it, for now, anyhow. Why is Joe so angry? Why is he so angry at the people he claims to represent?

And what's with the self-satisfied smirk in the picture at the top of this post? Does he look senile there? I don't think so. He looks like the cat that ate the canary.

There's another factor, which is the stumbling incoherence that's obvious throughout the transcript. The commentary is pretty much unanimous that he's in mental decline. Again, I'm not so sure. I had a grandfather who claimed to be hard of hearing, and that was the family consensus, except my grandmother always said he just heard what he wanted to hear. This is a perfectly rational old guy strategy. Joe stumbles and stutters and misspeaks, except when he doesn't. In the passage just above, he was perfectly clear. From the first link here, the seventh example of passive-aggressive behavior:

7. Weaponized incompetence

Weaponized incompetence is when a person pretends to be incompetent as a way of either avoiding an unpleasant task or punishing another person. For example, a spouse might pretend not to know how to clean the bathroom or do an objectively inferior job styling a child’s hair so that they do not have to keep doing it.

All the garbled blithering is something he forces on all of us as a way of avoiding serious challenge. But when Jimmy Kimmel comes up with a real question, he gives a real answer: all the inflation is part of the plan. It isn't going away. Deal with it.

The space aliens, that is if they exist, are reading from the same script. I guess I'll have to take this up.