The
mention of stairlifts reminds me of Billy
Wilder’s celebrated legal mystery thriller Witness for the Prosecution which
was released in 1957.
In that film, the great thespian Charles Laughton plays the eccentric and acerbic senior barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts, who is recovering from a heart attack. Laughton plays him hilariously as if he were doing an impression of Winston Churchill.
The barrister's condition prevents
him from activities such as ascending stairs, hence has stairlift is installed at
his home.
The scene
of a portly and very reluctant Laughton perched in a tiny chair being steered up
and down the staircase at the insistence of his nurse and butler was perhaps
the most hilarious moment in that must-watch picture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-ELiRFK_v0
Stairlifts
are back in the news because a prominent stairlift maker is gently mocking Joe Biden for stumbling down the stairs.
We look at Biden's record with the Air Force One staircase.
In
March 2021, Joe Biden tripped while ascending the stairs of Air Force One, not
once or twice but thrice. Biden was on his way to Atlanta to meet with Asian
community leaders following the massage parlor shootings.
What
was worse it the White House’s laughable attempts to even spin this fall, the reasons of which are obvious to all. Then-White
House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blamed a gust of wind for
causing the stumble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73R11e5kNGk
In May
2022, Biden briefly lost balance as he climbed up his plane’s steps on his way to Illinois to discuss inflation when he was
pictured almost falling up the stairs to the aircraft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80U8ojTkTYU
Just last week, Biden stumbled again, as he departed Warsaw, concluding his 3-day ‘surprise’ eastern European trip to mark the anniversary of the war in Ukraine.
The octogenarian
managed to regain his balance and made it to the top of the stair and waved
goodbye to all at the Chopin Airport.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYx0C05EpeE
These
repeated falls and struggles to construct a coherent sentence have caused many
to wonder whether he is physically and mentally fit to run the country.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6uingtAWbk&t=85s
Obviously, a group of shrewd advertising executives with a dark sense of humor was watching
all of this and decided to use it in their recent advertisement campaign for a well-known
stair life company, Acorn Stairlifts Inc
The following are two of Acorn
Stairlifts Inc's recent tweets mocking Biden's struggles on the staircase of Air
Force One,
“Tired
of stumbling up the stairs? We strive to help all of those in need across our
nation. Whether you live in a small town USA or on Pennsylvania Avenue, we are
ready to help you regain your independence. Contact us for your free,
no-obligation quote today!”
https://twitter.com/Acorn_Stairlift/status/1628859020265025536
A subsequent
tweet in the threat contained hashtags that also poked up at Biden such as #ChairForceOne
and #StairForceOne.
The
Tweet received 233.8 thousand views with 279 Retweets, 129 Quote Tweets, and 984
Likes.
Hence,
Acorn Stairlifts took it to the next level.
The company
posted pledging to provide services to the White House.
The Tweet
read ‘Made for leaders, helping you pave the way to independence one step at a
time’ there was an animated video of the White House.
https://twitter.com/Acorn_Stairlift/status/1628868015574982657
This Tweet received 42.3 thousand views with 79 Retweets, 24 Quote Tweets, and 310 Likes.
But
the best was saved for the last.
Acorn Stairlifts Inc posted a video on YouTube of Joe Biden endorsing their product.
Well,
not exactly.
It
was neither Acorn Stairlifts Inc nor Biden.
It
was a voice-over comedy artist who uploaded a video on his YouTube channel.
In
the video, we hear a near-perfect impression of doddering old Joe claiming to be
embarrassed for repeatedly falling on his posterior while climbing the stairs.
Next, we
see a video of a photoshopped Biden gradually descending the staircase in
a stairlift but ham-fistedly muddling up the switch causing the contraption to
malfunction and poof Joe being darted up the stairs rapidly and tossed out of
the window due to the projectile velocity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9XAFik0aBs
It is
cruel to find humor at the expense of an elderly man who is rapidly losing his
mental and physical abilities?
Yes, it is!
But
it is also cruel for a man with rapidly declining mental and physical faculties
to allow a group of unelected bureaucrats and cabinets to run one of the world's largest democracies via
proxies.
It is
also cruel for the family of a man with rapidly declining mental and physical faculties
to allow his situation to be exploited for power.
It is
also cruel that due to the misgovernance of the Biden administration around
1.5
million retirees, perhaps some who are as old or older than Joe were
compelled to rejoin the workforce, due to high inflation.
It is
also cruel
that 1 in 6 retirees is considering returning to work in search of greater
financial security.
It is
also cruel that the lives of citizens are endangered due to the influx of millions
of illegal aliens due to the Biden administration's purposeful opening up of the US-Mexico
border.
It is
also cruel that Biden and the Democrats are waging war against their political
opponents using government agencies to target them and branding dissenting citizens
as domestic terrorists.
It is also cruel that Biden has pledged more than $111 billion to defend democracy and
freedoms in Ukraine while the democracy in the US is crumbling and citizens are
struggling due to his misgovernance.
A comic
video that pokes fun at Biden's struggles seems innocuous compared to the dire hardships on citizens that are a result of Biden's misgovernance.
The Biden administration should now be known as the Biden maladministration.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XhT86qaQX80
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