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Joe Biden Needs An Intervention
Townhall.com ^ | August 31, 2019 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 09/01/2019 4:49:41 AM PDT by Kaslin

Joe Biden leads the Democrat pack and he’s a catastrophe, meaning that we have to weigh the human kindness that compels us to seek to end his humiliation against the practical reality that this doddering establishment weirdo will get squashed by Donald Trump like a dung beetle under a steamroller. Or even like an ex-Beatle under a steamroller – Biden is the Pete Best of American politics, the guy who never quite made it. Except Pete Best wasn’t a gropey, senile, corrupt Democrat plagiarist with delusions of adequacy.

And every day, [Pick A Nickname] Joe is getting worse.

Now, Joe used to have this kind of goofy charm. He was and remains a doofus, but a harmless one, sort of like that dorky neighbor who makes circus music play in your head every time he wanders over to your yard to tell you a long and ultimately pointless story about how he saw a squirrel and the squirrel had a nut and it was a fuzzy squirrel and it lived in a tree and how he likes squirrels.

But his regular guy act is wearing a bit thin. His appeal used to be that of someone who liked Budweiser and talking about sports and who did not give off the kind of smarmy condescension vibe to normal people who work for a living that is now so typical of blue state libs. Joe Biden leads the Democrat pack and he’s a catastrophe, meaning that we have to weigh the human kindness that compels us to seek to end his humiliation against the practical reality that this doddering establishment weirdo will get squashed by Donald Trump like a dung beetle under a steamroller. Or even like an ex-Beatle under a steamroller – Biden is the Pete Best of American politics, the guy who never quite made it. Except Pete Best wasn’t a gropey, senile, corrupt Democrat plagiarist with delusions of adequacy.

And every day, [Pick A Nickname] Joe is getting worse.

Now, Joe used to have this kind of goofy charm. He was and remains a doofus, but a harmless one, sort of like that dorky neighbor who makes circus music play in your head every time he wanders over to your yard to tell you a long and ultimately pointless story about how he saw a squirrel and the squirrel had a nut and it was a fuzzy squirrel and it lived in a tree and how he likes squirrels.

But his regular guy act is wearing a bit thin. His appeal used to be that of someone who liked Budweiser and talking about sports and who did not give off the kind of smarmy condescension vibe to normal people who work for a living that is now so typical of blue state libs. You were talking about the old Joe when you talked about old school Dems, the party of the workin’ man instead of the party of the illegal alien, government drone and bitter SJW. These salt-of-the-earth folks were the very people that Trump – who spent his whole career working with union guys to build stuff instead of bloviating for a living like the New Class elites are wont to do – appealed to and stole right out from under the Democrat coalition. Not that many Democrats minded losing the white working class – Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit famously wrote off people who sweat when they work, probably because of all that unjust privilege held by guys who drive Mac trucks or fix toilets.

Joe’s big sell is that he could get these Normals back in the fold, and that was a threat for a while, except Joe has not only dived way left with his party but the scrutiny he has invited has changed the Biden narrative, and not for the better.

Here’s the thing – you are not going to win back hardworking middle-class voters by promising to pay for the medical care of illegal aliens who shouldn’t even be here in the first place. And it’s pretty hard to trash the current medical system when it’s the system you and your boss Barack Obama forced us all into in the first place. Getting huffy when you get asked how many genders there are and then get a follow-up of “So, what’s number three?” does not help you appeal to real people either.

But everyone goes left in a Dem primary, and Joe would no doubt try to pivot back in the general. He might be able to pull off his centrist scam again after the convention, and if that was his only problem, he might have a decent shot.

But it’s not his only problem. He’s got a whole bunch of problems and Trump will mercilessly twist the knife in every one of them.

Let’s start with his family. His relatives were apparently brazenly peddling Joe’s influence to the Chi-coms and the Ukrainians and probably others. While that won’t upset the mainstream media – it only cares about fake TRUMP RUSSIA TREASON baloney when it comes to foreign influence peddling – normal people will find that disturbing. And the mainstream media can no longer treat such stories the way the big Indian (no relation to Elizabeth Warren) treated Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest because we now have alternative media to get out the word on this sordid corruption.

And let’s not even get into his son Cokie’s bizarre lifestyle. “Well, Mr. Vice President, the good news is your son is no longer married to your other son’s widow. The bad news is he left her to marry someone else then knocked up yet another woman.”

Even putting aside his disturbing skinny-dipping fetish, there’s the gal-groping. He seems to be trying really hard not to get handsy with the local talent, but you know he’s going to slip up. He can’t help it. He’s not a mere hugger. He’s gross, and that’s already defining him.

Now, maybe you can survive some tarnishes on the old image. Hell, people still voted for the Clintons again and again. But it’s hard to survive being defined as an incoherent bull-Schiff-er.

Joe is the Gaffe-O-Matic, with a new embarrassment every day exuding from his ever-open piehole. One day he’s standing in New Hampshire extolling the virtues of Keene, Vermont. The next day he’s creating his own ever-morphing Sarajevo sniper story about pinning a medal on a corporal, or was it a Navy captain? There’s a significant difference, in that the corporal actually works for a living. And a “young” Navy captain? Let me assure you that no O6 in any branch qualifies as “young.”

And it just goes on and on. Joe was always a clown, a joke, the politician other pols sent to pick someone up from the airport. If he was a member of the Corleone family, he’d be Chris.

But now this ancient, crusty nimrod wants to have his finger on the button. At 76 today, he’s just not all there, and he was never much there to begin with. His handlers will rightly worry that when he wanders down to the Oval Office in the morning he’ll be in a loose, flapping bathrobe because he forgot to change out of his pajamas. Assuming he was even sleeping in PJs and not going commando. It’s not like the Oval Office hasn’t been the scene of cringey antics before. Four years of this guy? He can’t handle four minutes onstage without embarrassing himself.

Joe desperately needs an intervention, but he won’t get one. We normal people think he’s a Dumb Man Walking, and the polls indicate way too many Democrats think he’s the cream of their commie candidate crop, the one with the best chance to take on Trump. So, he’ll keep mortgaging his dignity until he either wins the nomination or the Democrats decide to go all-in on the Stalinist, or the Squaw, or the Furry, or Stevie Nicks 2.0, or one of the other members of their primary freak show’s cast.

Right now, Trump’s gotta be rolling with laughter.

Oh well. It couldn’t happen to a nicer party.

You were talking about the old Joe when you talked about old school Dems, the party of the workin’ man instead of the party of the illegal alien, government drone and bitter SJW. These salt-of-the-earth folks were the very people that Trump – who spent his whole career working with union guys to build stuff instead of bloviating for a living like the New Class elites are wont to do – appealed to and stole right out from under the Democrat coalition. Not that many Democrats minded losing the white working class – Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit famously wrote off people who sweat when they work, probably because of all that unjust privilege held by guys who drive Mac trucks or fix toilets.

Joe’s big sell is that he could get these Normals back in the fold, and that was a threat for a while, except Joe has not only dived way left with his party but the scrutiny he has invited has changed the Biden narrative, and not for the better.

Here’s the thing – you are not going to win back hardworking middle-class voters by promising to pay for the medical care of illegal aliens who shouldn’t even be here in the first place. And it’s pretty hard to trash the current medical system when it’s the system you and your boss Barack Obama forced us all into in the first place. Getting huffy when you get asked how many genders there are and then get a follow-up of “So, what’s number three?” does not help you appeal to real people either.

But everyone goes left in a Dem primary, and Joe would no doubt try to pivot back in the general. He might be able to pull off his centrist scam again after the convention, and if that was his only problem, he might have a decent shot.

But it’s not his only problem. He’s got a whole bunch of problems and Trump will mercilessly twist the knife in every one of them.

Let’s start with his family. His relatives were apparently brazenly peddling Joe’s influence to the Chi-coms and the Ukrainians and probably others. While that won’t upset the mainstream media – it only cares about fake TRUMP RUSSIA TREASON baloney when it comes to foreign influence peddling – normal people will find that disturbing. And the mainstream media can no longer treat such stories the way the big Indian (no relation to Elizabeth Warren) treated Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest because we now have alternative media to get out the word on this sordid corruption.

And let’s not even get into his son Cokie’s bizarre lifestyle. “Well, Mr. Vice President, the good news is your son is no longer married to your other son’s widow. The bad news is he left her to marry someone else then knocked up yet another woman.”

Even putting aside his disturbing skinny-dipping fetish, there’s the gal-groping. He seems to be trying really hard not to get handsy with the local talent, but you know he’s going to slip up. He can’t help it. He’s not a mere hugger. He’s gross, and that’s already defining him.

Now, maybe you can survive some tarnishes on the old image. Hell, people still voted for the Clintons again and again. But it’s hard to survive being defined as an incoherent bull-Schiff-er.

Joe is the Gaffe-O-Matic, with a new embarrassment every day exuding from his ever-open piehole. One day he’s standing in New Hampshire extolling the virtues of Keene, Vermont. The next day he’s creating his own ever-morphing Sarajevo sniper story about pinning a medal on a corporal, or was it a Navy captain? There’s a significant difference, in that the corporal actually works for a living. And a “young” Navy captain? Let me assure you that no O6 in any branch qualifies as “young.” Recommended 'Bastion of Hate' Professors Demand KU Evict Chick-fil-A Todd Starnes

And it just goes on and on. Joe was always a clown, a joke, the politician other pols sent to pick someone up from the airport. If he was a member of the Corleone family, he’d be Chris.

But now this ancient, crusty nimrod wants to have his finger on the button. At 76 today, he’s just not all there, and he was never much there to begin with. His handlers will rightly worry that when he wanders down to the Oval Office in the morning he’ll be in a loose, flapping bathrobe because he forgot to change out of his pajamas. Assuming he was even sleeping in PJs and not going commando. It’s not like the Oval Office hasn’t been the scene of cringey antics before. Four years of this guy? He can’t handle four minutes onstage without embarrassing himself.

Joe desperately needs an intervention, but he won’t get one. We normal people think he’s a Dumb Man Walking, and the polls indicate way too many Democrats think he’s the cream of their commie candidate crop, the one with the best chance to take on Trump. So, he’ll keep mortgaging his dignity until he either wins the nomination or the Democrats decide to go all-in on the Stalinist, or the Squaw, or the Furry, or Stevie Nicks 2.0, or one of the other members of their primary freak show’s cast.

Right now, Trump’s gotta be rolling with laughter.

Oh well. It couldn’t happen to a nicer party.


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1 posted on 09/01/2019 4:49:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

True dat !


2 posted on 09/01/2019 4:58:00 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Kaslin

Crazy Uncle Joe will just fade away into irrelevancy.

Now that he is in the spotlight, his failing acuity will give voters pause and he will not win many votes.

I am still guessing Faucahontas...being a liar and comitting fraud is no obstacle to her base.


3 posted on 09/01/2019 4:58:36 AM PDT by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: Kaslin

The delusion at the core of every liberal usually bubbles to the surface. However his image of being the only rational non socialist non overt open borders candidate in the democratic field is what is keeping him afloat. Probably 25% of Democratic primary voters are not in favor of socialism, open borders and bizarre spending schemes. Right now they have no other choice. Biden is so flawed that despite this support it is not likely he will be the Democratic nominee. IMHO these voters will either stay home in November 2020 or vote for Trump.


4 posted on 09/01/2019 4:59:40 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: Kaslin

Pretty messed up posting, sometimes review is warranted.


5 posted on 09/01/2019 5:03:54 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Kaslin

I still say pedo Joe will be out of the race by Nov.


6 posted on 09/01/2019 5:10:21 AM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: Beagle8U

biden proves that he is likely to be involuntarily committed each day. Has his criminal family no shame? Do it TODAY !


7 posted on 09/01/2019 5:14:41 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Kaslin

bump


8 posted on 09/01/2019 5:14:44 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: VTenigma; Kaslin

Sometimes it’s necessary to go over the fine points more than once to make sure everyone understands./sarc


9 posted on 09/01/2019 5:15:41 AM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: Beagle8U

Hopefully sooner.


10 posted on 09/01/2019 5:17:55 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: hal ogen

Dems are stupid, but even Dems aren’t stupid enough to give Slo-Joe the nomination. It just won’t happen.


11 posted on 09/01/2019 5:20:13 AM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: Kaslin

As Freepers, it is our duty to hold an Intervention to KEEP SLOW JOE IN THE RACE. Imagine Operation Chaos on Steroids.


12 posted on 09/01/2019 5:22:30 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: All

Do you let the chicken with his head cut off run around the yard and get all bruised up or do you throw a basket over it so that the meat will taste better when cooked?

That is the question. And the reason I say that or think that is that the longer old Joey is it allowed to run around the yard like a chicken with his head cut off the better than message is come primary season or rather the clearer the message is come primary season. But I seriously doubt Biden is going to make the primaries... but he could.

So while the press and pundits on the conservative side are pointing out the fact that Joey is always blundering, perhaps we should all just shut our pieholes and let him blunder away because as Napoleon Bonaparte once said “never interfere when your enemy is making a mistake” And that’s a good action to pursue. Leave it alone and let it fester.


13 posted on 09/01/2019 5:23:16 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Once Biden is out the demonrats don’t have anyone to stop a 45 state landslide. Give Grey Beaver the nomination and blacks will stay home on election day.


14 posted on 09/01/2019 5:30:07 AM PDT by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: Kaslin

Good article, hard to read for repetition.

I think your copy and paste stutters.


15 posted on 09/01/2019 5:39:42 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Beagle8U

Take a look at the polls showing the demographic that supports Joe.

They are seriously dumb, well below 100 IQ, totally and completely brain dead.

Most of us don’t even _know_ a lot of people that stupid.

They _really_ are that stupid—so if Joe goes away it will be because the party bosses tell him to go away.

His core Democratic supporter will be dazed and confused either way.


16 posted on 09/01/2019 5:49:16 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: Kaslin

No offense, but this crap is unreadable. How many times do these articles get posted with entire paragraphs of duplicated text?


17 posted on 09/01/2019 6:09:25 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: Kaslin
you and your boss Barack Obama

Did the author mean to write "your boss, what's his name"? or was this written before Joe forgot out loud?

18 posted on 09/01/2019 6:10:58 AM PDT by Bernard (We will stop calling you Fake News when you stop being Fake News)
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To: Kaslin

19 posted on 09/01/2019 6:21:33 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (NuRulz)
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To: VTenigma

“Pretty messed up posting, sometimes review is warranted”

It does rather suck.


20 posted on 09/01/2019 6:28:24 AM PDT by DAC21
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