We now reside in a world the place any mistake you make could possibly be vilified on social media. Simply picked up the diesel deal with on the gasoline pump by mistake? That’s going up on Twitter. Tried to stroll into the exit doorways at Dealer Joe’s? Might be Instagrammable.

Whereas I’m not one to take a political angle for one thing like this, I do surprise why we care a lot that President Joe Biden doesn’t know easy methods to learn a teleprompter. It doesn’t matter what taste of politics you subscribe to, it appears odd that we like to mock folks so usually.

Just lately, Biden read a speech and he mistakenly stated “finish of quote, repeat the road” which was meant to be a immediate for him to repeat one thing he stated earlier.

Right here’s one mocking tweet with a video that reveals the gaffe:

Right here’s one other sarcastic tweet:

It’s humorous, however does it imply your complete world order is now going to crumble?

Most likely not.

Is he a complete clown hiding in a three-piece swimsuit?

In no way.

I’ve used a teleprompter earlier than, and it’s not at all times simple to maintain up. Should you pause or skip over a piece, you may shortly get befuddled, and there’s no option to inform somebody to cease scrolling.

I’m not defending him. Like I stated, I can see the way it appears to be like ridiculous.

What I’m questioning about most is why we bounce on social media so shortly about issues like this. We’re always debating the deserves of our public efficiency, and everyone seems to be in public now. The worst half? There’s at all times an angle. If there’s an announcement, or a gaffe, or a tweet, or every other public discourse of any type, social media has made it doable to “expose” issues we don’t like or don’t agree with.

Primarily, social media has develop into a condensed type of clickbait to permit us to trumpet our trigger in microscopic doses.

It jogs my memory of how cable information channels began saying “breaking information” so usually that almost each piece of stories was “breaking” in the long run. Finally, we began tuning out the entire information. (CNN recently announced they won’t do this as often, thank goodness.)

I’m at the moment studying a ebook about Watergate and, let’s be sincere, that is nothing new. Each minor improvement within the scandal turned fodder for information shops on the time. What’s modified is that we are actually all reporting these incidents to one another. It’s all noise. To maintain up on each scandal or minor improvement, you’d have to remain on social media all day lengthy.

And that’s precisely what we do, and that’s precisely what the social media corporations need.

That raises the query about who the true clowns are.