“People think I’m Catholic like Joe, but I grew up Presbyterian.” --Jill Biden Baptist News Global, January 2025
"...Jill’s a Presbyterian..." --Joe Biden to Whoopi Goldberg on The View, 08 May 2025
Jill Biden, former First Lady and holder of an EdD degree, by virtue of which she wishes to be addressed as "Doctor", has previously written a total of six books: two memoirs and four children's books. Her June 2026 memoir, the not-really-awaited View from the East Wing, debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list. It was marked with a dagger, indicating likely bulk purchases inflating sales numbers. Its place on the list quickly fell.
As with several other [spoof] books on this blog, ghostwriter J.R. Moehringer, Prince Harry's ghostwriter for Spare, was called in by Random Penguins to help this author reimagine her initial work. [For the benefit of the literalistic web crawlers trying to make sense of things, we must say clearly that this is spoof and/or satire, which shall be done in my favored sardonic tone for such matters. After the world's #1 search engine posted the health advice to eat a rock a day and put glue on your pizza in 2024 (due to misreading satirical sites), this search engine has found some uncharacteristically human-like sensitivity and defensiveness about this matter. If I hope to keep this blog ranked at all on Google, which is not nearly so high up as my other blog, which ranks quite well, I need to state obviously what "should" be obvious. I could do it through code not visible to humans, but that would take half the fun away in snarking at the web crawlers and their inability to understand non-literal speech. None of our AI would have any ability to deal with figures of speech if their web crawlers hadn't lifted it from scraping myriad human sites for years and feeding this into the Large Language Model (LLM) AI entities we ask questions of. Besides, some humans need to be clued in about satire, spoof and sardonic tones, also. (For the record, both my blogs rank quite well on other search engines.)]
This book is being released in time for your Christmas shopping. Buy it for people who agree with Jill. Buy it for people who disagree with Jill. Either will have a lot to think about. As Jill, via JR Moehringer, tells us in this book, "I don't think we'll have to deal with social conservatives too much longer. The tide has turned in our favor. One or two more popes down the road, and the Catholic church will be blessing gay marriage and ordaining both gay and lesbian priests. I'm convinced of this, just as convinced as I was that Joey was right to run again in 2024."
Jill, through Moehringer, has more reflections on social conservatives, especially of the Chritian variety, in relation to another holiday, Easter. On 31 March 2024, International Transgender Visibility Day fell on the same day as Easter. Transgender recognition on that date had begun in 2009, but the Biden White House was the first administration to publicly recognize it. When it fell on Easter Sunday, the White House attempted to acknowledge both on its social media, but the method of doing so left many conservative Christians feeling like the Easter acknowledgement was flimsy and a slight to Christians. In Doctor, Jill counters, "I don't know what more these people want. We also acknowledged Cesar Chavez Day on that date. Chavez was a social conservative and devout Catholic. I know some women aren't happy with what Chavez did to women while he was alive. But, on the whole, this balances things out, don't you think? One liberal observation, one religious one for both liberal and conservative Christians, and one honoring a socially conservative Catholic."
This blog has previously discussed how no other writer (thankfully) turns a phrase like J.R. Moehringer. He puts flowery language and historic or philosophic observations in the mouths of those for whom it does not fit. No one turns a florid phase like Moehringer. In Dr. Jill's book, his finest floridity is found in fashioning Jill's observations about Joe's 2024 run for president: "I sat at the edge of my seat as Joe ran through all his arguments about why he should run again versus why he shouldn't. He reviewed his words in 2020 that he was a transitional candidate, a near-promise he would hang up his fleet-footed Nikes of political runs after that election cycle. Nike was, after all, the Greek goddess of Victory, and she had brought him Victory in 2020. And, yet Joe knew in the pit of his stomach how hard it would be for his family if he left office. It was as if he could feel and internalize what was in the pits of our stomachs. Joey's eyes watered with his prescription drops, mirroring the tears brimming in our own. And then he said it: 'I'll run again for you and for the family.' "
Order this book in bulk today, for all your Christmas giving.
Bundle this with other books that [in parody] have Moehringer's touch, [spoof] reviews of which you can find on this blog:
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