Midweek Memes

Calling Central Casting!

Jul 24, 2024

Joe Biden has shown his proof of life. Now there wasn’t or hasn’t been yet an address to the American people explaining in My Fellow Citizens language his dropping out of the race. Instead I was treated to a clip of sunglass wearing Biden, with no sound at first, mumbling a few things and sprightly hopping onto Air Force One.

Hmmm. My gut instinct said this is not Biden. His throat sagged too low, as the most obvious thing I noticed, and seemed to eat up his face. You have to watch those necklines, guys. From Adams apples to a friend in her forties who went insane on plastic surgery, that neckline always gives it away.

Do I need to be a makeup artist for Central Casting here? I’m not buying it.

I’m not saying this because I feel emotionally (nor am I financially-no kofis for me!) invested in Joe Biden being dead, or disabled, or whatever. The POTUS may emerge this week as the brilliant strategist that he is, allowing his mysterious absence to shield his Vice President from scrutiny during the pivotal time when she needed to circle the wagons on her presidency bid. All is well in la la land.

I’ve been turning my attention to the scriptwriters of this saga. I assume that technology for changing one’s identity has come a long way. I remember when I was 13 years old doing the makeup on a neighborhood friend. She wanted to look like a completely different person and I went to town on her with my artistic touch. I brushed her light freckled skin into a dark tan, changed her eyebrow and eye shape as best I could with basic eyeliner, took off her big rimmed glasses and put her in a dark wig. The result among my small group of friends is that nobody knew that it was my friend from before, who was introduced with a new exotic name. Now she didn’t speak and I remember saying something about how she was very shy and her English was not that good. I was worried that her voice would give her away.

Still I was 13 years old and this was the early 1990’s. I had makeup and a wig. And that’s it.

I was blown away that I managed to fool them.

Now here’s the thing. This type of tech will almost certainly work best on a spy say who is assuming a new identity regarding some target. This tech will never work on a close family member of the person in question. And it’s pretty iffy if it will work for a wider audience on people who have been widely videotaped and recorded.