1 May, 2022 16:11

Biden mocks himself and roasts Trump

The US president called journalists “the only group of Americans who have a lower approval rating than I have”

President Joe Biden made fun of his own approval ratings, roasted Donald Trump, and took a gentle ribbing from comedian Trevor Noah at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Saturday night. The dinner was shunned by Trump and canceled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“I’m really excited to be here with the only group of Americans with a lower approval rating than I have,” Biden joked to the Washington, DC crowd, referring to his own sub-40% polling and to surveys showing just 36% of Americans trust the mass media.

United in unpopularity, Biden and the press poked fun at each other throughout the night. Biden jibed at Fox News reporters for all being “vaccinated and boosted,” despite many of the network’s conservative viewers refusing the Covid-19 vaccine.

Comedian Trevor Noah, hosting the event, mocked the president for his handling of the economy quipping “You know, I think ever since you’ve come into office, things are really looking up. Gas is up. Rent is up. Food is up. Everything,” and roasted MSNBC for its pro-Biden coverage.

“By the way, MSNBC, can I just say you guys are doing great work,” Noah said. “You know when Trump was in office, your shows were all about how bad he was. And now that Biden’s in office, your shows are all about how bad Trump was. Consistency is important.”

Biden fired off more self-deprecating material, remarking that “Republicans seem to support one fella. Some guy named Brandon. He’s having a really good year. I’m kind of happy for him,” a reference to the phrase ‘Let’s go Brandon’, which has become a popular chant among Biden’s conservative opponents.

However, in a room full of Democrats and liberal journalists and guests, Trump and the Republican Party provided Biden and Noah with much of their material.

Noah compared Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to the “terminator,” hammering him for banning math textbooks so that “nobody knows how to count the votes.” DeSantis – whose state recently rejected 41% of math textbooks used in the state due to references to ‘Critical Race Theory’ and ‘Social Emotional Learning’ – was also indirectly mocked by Biden for trying to “Tear down Mickey Mouse’s house.” This quip referred to DeSantis’ efforts to strip Walt Disney World of its self-governance rights over Disney’s opposition to a law forbidding teachers from discussing sexuality and gender identity with elementary school children.

In explaining the absence of the Correspondents’ Association Dinner for the last six years, Biden sniped “we had a horrible plague, followed by two years of Covid.”

“Imagine if my predecessor came to this dinner this year,” he continued. “Now that would really have been a real coup that occurred!”

As the event closed, Noah made one final dig at Biden over his administration’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan last year.

“Please be careful leaving tonight,” he told the crowd. “This administration doesn’t handle evacuations well.”

Can you imagine any sane human being joking or laughing about this? I hate this cycle we must endure

https://www.rt.com/news/554822-biden-correspondents-dinner-trump/

Trump thanks law enforcement andespecially fire fighting personnel

Farmers got a “glidescope” did he mean glide slope?

He told the farmers to buy More land and bigger tractors. Did he want them buy up before Gates?

Shit when he started speaking about basketball team, I kept on shouting Larry Bird, Larry Bird, Larry Bird, and then he mentions Lebron James! At least he got close to Larry Bird, he was a great basketball star.

Oh well, “We can’t always get what we want, But if you try sometimes, you get what you need!”

He called Romney, Rhymney

Rhymney (/ˈrʌmni/; Welsh: Rhymni [ˈrəmnɪ]) is a town and a community in the county borough of Caerphilly, South Wales. It is within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. With the villages of Pontlottyn, Fochriw, Abertysswg, Deri and New Tredegar, Rhymney is designated as the 'Upper Rhymney Valley' by the local Unitary Authority, Caerphilly County Borough Council. As a community, Rhymney includes the town of Rhymney, Pontlottyn, Abertysswg, Butetown and Twyncarno.[2]

Etymology

The town is named after the Rhymney River, whose name derives from the Welsh word rhwmp "auger" + -ni, a derivational noun ending.[3]

The countryside around present day Rhymney would have been very different in the early 17th century. A new parish of Bedwellty had been formed in 1624,[5] covering the lower division of the Wentloog Hundred, in the county of Monmouth, a hilly district between the river Rumney, on the West, and the Sirhowey on the East. The upper Sirhowy Valley at this time would have been a natural well wooded valley, consisting of a few farms and the occasional small iron works where iron ore and coal naturally had occurred together. Later it would have contained the chapelries of Rhymney and Tredegar, the latter being known as a market town. It wasn’t until the 1750s that industrialisation began with the establishment of the Sirhowy Iron Works. It was from this pastoral pre-industrial period that the Buccaneer Henry Morgan was born around 1635 -the eldest son of Robert Morgan, a farmer living in Llanrhymny,[6] today known as Rhymney three miles from Tredegar. In Welsh the original meaning of Llan is ‘an enclosed piece of land’.

The town was founded with the establishment of the Union ironworks in 1801, with the Rhymney Iron Company later being founded from a merger between the Bute and Union Ironworks in 1837. The ironworks used local coking coal, iron ore and limestone. From the mid-19th century, steam coal pits were sunk to the south of the town. The ironworks closed in 1891 and by the early 20th century the town's collieries employed nearly the entire local population.

The parish church of Rhymney is a Grade II listed building that was constructed in the neo-classical style. It was built by architect Philip Hardwick from London on commission for Andrew Buchan who was the manager of the local Rhymney brewery between 1838–1858.[7] The building was listed in 1990 and was noted for being one of the most 'interesting' examples of neoclassical architecture in South Wales. Buchan himself is buried in the church vaults and is commemorated with a plaque in the nave of the parish. The parish is occasionally visited by enthusiasts of Hardwick's work who are interested in neo-classical buildings of this type.[citation needed]

The history of Rhymney is described in Rhymney Memories, a book by Dr Thomas Jones. Jones was born in the town and his daughter, the Labour Party politician Eirene White, was later granted the title Baroness White of Rhymney…

One of the largest employers inRhymney is Williams Medical Supplies Ltd

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhymney

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Romney vs Rhymney

The Rhymney Valley (Welsh: Cwm Rhymni) is one of the South Wales valleys, with the Rhymney River forming the border between the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. Between 1974 and 1996 a Rhymney Valley local government district also existed (one of six of Mid Glamorgan).[1] The valley encompasses the villages of Abertysswg, Fochriw, Pontlottyn, Tir-Phil, New Tredegar, Nelson, Aberbargoed, Rhymney, Ystrad Mynach and Llanbradach, and the towns of Bargoed and Caerphilly.

This valley is one of the South Wales Valleys, and its history largely follows theirs: sparsely populated until the nineteenth century; industrialised for iron, steel and coal; industrial decline in the 1980s and 1990s. The Rhymney Valley produced a miner poet, Idris Davies of Rhymney, famous for his poems associated with the locality and the struggles of its people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhymney_Valley

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Romney vs Rhymney

Main article: The Bells of Rhymney

Rhymney is known to many outside Wales due to folk singer Pete Seeger's song "The Bells of Rhymney".[13] The lyrics to the song are drawn from a poem by Idris Davies, and the poem was first published in Davies' 1938 anthology Gwalia Deserta.[13] The poem was inspired by the failure of the 1926 General Strike and by the Marine Colliery disaster of 1 March 1927.[13][14] In addition to Rhymney, the poem also refers to the bells of Merthyr, Rhondda, Blaina, Caerphilly, Neath, Brecon, Swansea, Newport, Cardiff and the Wye Valley.[13][15]

The song has been covered by a number of acts over the years, including Judy Collins, Cher, the Alarm, the Ian Campbell Folk Group, John Denver, Robyn Hitchcock, Oysterband and Ralph McTell.[16][17] Arguably the most widely known rendition of the song, however, was that recorded by the American band the Byrds for their 1965 album Mr. Tambourine Man.[14]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhymney

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Romney vs Rhymney

The song has been covered by a number of acts over the years, including Judy Collins, Cher, the Alarm, the Ian Campbell Folk Group, John Denver, Robyn Hitchcock, Oysterband and Ralph McTell.[16][17] Arguably the most widely known rendition of the song, however, was that recorded by the American band the Byrds for their 1965 album Mr. Tambourine Man.[14]

Dylan version

https://youtu.be/oecX_1pqxk0