Joe Biden has always been considered not very bright and not very honest. Beyond that, he’s thin-skinned and hot-tempered according to White House staff. His ability to remember and his ability to think – never very good – are worsening. He's spent 40% of his time in the White House not in the White House, but on vacation at the beach in Delaware.
He has a creepy thing for other people’s young daughters which an irate dad might someday react to in a way Joe doesn’t anticipate.
As for his casual relationship with facts, he certainly lies on occasion, as when it comes to his family influence-peddling business, for example.
But his real forte is simple BS’ing.
He BS’es that he had conversations with an Amtrak conductor a year after the conductor died – a BS dropping that he’s repeated a dozen times even after being fact-corrected by friendly media like CNN.
He BS’es that he earned academic awards that he didn’t. He BS’es that he earned three college degrees when he didn’t. He BS’es that the driver of the truck that was in an accident that killed his first wife was drunk, when he wasn’t – in fact, the accident was his wife’s fault.
He BS’es about who he is and what he’s done. He BS’es that he was arrested when visiting Nelson Mandela. He has a history of plagiarism and cheating – the academic equivalent to BS’ing.
He BS’es that he received an appointment to the Naval Academy, and was a football star. Untrue and untrue.
He BS’es that he was at the 9/11 site the day after, while in fact it was nine days after. He BS’es that he used to drive an 18-wheeler; he never did.
He gets away with this because the media lets him. They let him because they don’t want a Republican in the White House.
The media are overwhelmingly Democrats, and they don’t feel the need to pretend otherwise anymore. In fact, they mistakenly believe that being open about their political leanings encourages other people to lean along with them.
The ratio of the esteem in which journalists hold themselves to the esteem in which others hold them is the highest of any profession I can think of. They’re oblivious to the public’s contempt for them and their bias.
Call girls are more honest, more smart, more modest, and held in higher esteem than today’s journalists, and that’s not BS.
Joe’s BS’ing has served him well, however. Truly, it has. He’s President of the United States, right?
That’s partly because people tend to forgive Joe’s BS’ing. Encouraged by his media allies, people tend to see his BS as the ramblings of an old man.
To some extent, they’re right. Apart from his lies about the family business, much of his mendacity lacks mens rea – the legal term for a guilty mind. It’s almost like he himself doesn’t know when he’s truthin’ and when he’s lyin’.
But Joe needs more than forgiveness for his BS’ing to get reelected. He needs stable prices. He needs to secure the porous border. He needs the Hunter scandals to go away. He needs Iran to be docile for the next year. He needs the stock market to be stable. He needs China not to invade Taiwan. He needs Ukraine not to cave. He needs the Israelis to win the Gaza war sooner rather than later.
He needs to stop falling down. He needs to be coherent in presidential debates. He needs not to curse at people. He needs to get 20 years younger.
Recent polls are extremely bad for Joe. So bad that we’ve passed a critical juncture where people are no longer embarrassed to state to pollsters, family and friends that they intend not to vote for him. Ask around the dinner table tomorrow how many of your companions want to vote for Joe.
As for voting for Trump, people are still a little shy about admitting it, but they’re coming around. As they do, Biden’s polling numbers will go off a cliff. Do the 39% of people who say they approve of Biden’s job performance honestly approve of it?
Of course not. What they’re really saying is they can’t vote for a Republican.
And they won’t. But many won’t vote for Biden either. They’ll simply stay home on election day.
Me? I’ll vote for Trump, as I did in the last two presidential elections. He’s not my favorite person. He’s not even my favorite Republican. But neither was Ronald Reagan the first time I voted for him. Trump is by far my favorite candidate in the Biden-Trump race we’re destined for.
People know we’re in a dangerous time and place. Joe Biden made it much more so. Connect the dots between Afghanistan, Ukraine and Gaza, and layer on top of that picture a porous border and a woke U.S. military. Voting for four more years of Joe is reckless.
All the gangland lawfare underway against the 45th US President should frighten every American.
Thanks, Glenn. Happy Thanksgiving!