Tooting his bugle
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smokingbootFrom Biden we get this:
“It’s clear that this vaccine, even if approved, would not be widely available for many months yet to come. The challenge before us right now is still immense and growing.”
From Johnson we get this:
“I have spoken before of the distant bugle of the scientific cavalry coming over the brow of the hill – today the toot of that bugle is louder”
Nanny, nanny, I want to leave the nursery. It's all very pretty but I'm in my 50s...
“It’s clear that this vaccine, even if approved, would not be widely available for many months yet to come. The challenge before us right now is still immense and growing.”
From Johnson we get this:
“I have spoken before of the distant bugle of the scientific cavalry coming over the brow of the hill – today the toot of that bugle is louder”
Nanny, nanny, I want to leave the nursery. It's all very pretty but I'm in my 50s...
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Date: 2020-11-12 02:11 pm (UTC)On a cynical level it's as though all the imagery and even the stammer-like pauses and repetitions work to delay us from observing that he has actually very little to say. Everything is a metaphor, often the metaphor is martial, as though on some level he trusts us to respond with Pavlovian positivity to words of war.
Clearly it works for some. But I can't see how rational people bear it.