Posted on 06/30/2020 12:22:18 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
Victor Davis Hanson is without question the finest true conservative thought leader alive today. He is the William F. Buckley/Emmett Tyrell of his time, and his commentaries are not to be missed.
Writing at The National Review online today, Hanson pens an absolutely devastating takedown of the Democrat Party’s Unfrozen Caveman Presumptive Nominee, Joe Biden. He eviscerates Biden’s elder-abusing handlers for their craven strategy of hiding their obviously cognitively-impaired candidate in the basement of his home, and scorches the Democrat Party for its despicable effort to saddle the nation with a man who is clearly incapable of holding a simple conversation, much less conducting the Office of the Presidency.
Here is one of several absolutely brilliant passages from Hanson’s piece:
Often Biden cannot finish a sentence. Names are vague eddies in his mind’s river of forgetfulness. He is in a far more dire mental state than a physically failing FDR was in his 1944 campaign for a fourth term.
The earlier career of a healthy Biden illustrates that he was not especially sharp even when in control of most of his faculties. We recall the former sane/nutty Biden of Neal Kinnock plagiarism, his “put y’all in chains” demagoguery, the studied racism of Biden’s riffs about a “clean” and well-spoken Obama, and the sane/insane Corn Pop stories. All are the trademark of a once fool Joe Biden, who was at least alert when compared with his current catalepsy. If Donald Trump can be ungrammatical, Biden is agrammatical — he simply streams together half-thoughts without syntax and then abandons the sentence entirely.
If Trump repeats vocabulary, Biden increasingly searches for words, any noun, whatever its irrelevance to the point he is making. Biden seems to suffer dyscognitive seizures, in which for moments he has no idea what he is doing or saying or where he is — a tragic, nearly epileptic condition. In scary episodes, the pale, scaly, and frozen visage of Biden appears almost reptilian, like a lizard freezing and remaining stationary as it struggles to process signals of perceived danger.
Inserting memorized answers into rehearsed questions, as if the entire con was spontaneous, only reveals how his once episodic dementia has become chronic as he loses his prompt and place. It was understandable that his handlers saw opportunity in secluding Biden during Trump’s tweeting, alongside the contagion, the lockdown, the recession, and the rioting that in voters’ minds had equated fear of chaos with the culpability of the current commander in chief. [End]
Here’s another:
Translated, that means the Democratic donor class accepts that they cannot win while siding with the mobs on the street and their appeasers and apologists — and yet the latter leftists are needed to provide the missing 5 to 7 points for victory. With a wink and nod, the vice-presidential candidate will be seen as assuming the presidency and giving to the Left what they could not achieve through a presidential election — while old Joe Biden from Scranton stares at the TV screen a bit longer to prove he’s not a raving socialist.
Also expect the Democrats to push the following strategies harder and harder, as they square the circle of a demented candidate who nonetheless could prove enormously useful — if he can just get elected.
Expect more calls to cancel the debates as corrupt, fluff, reality-TV pizzazz and utterly unnecessary. Anticipate that the virus lockdown will be prolonged nearly until Election Day and will de facto lead Democrats to call for a Zoom campaign: Biden talking to the camera with a teleprompted script behind the screen.
Election Day voting, we will be told, is merely an ossified construct. The key to our new electoral process is not Neanderthal driving into a COVID-infested polling booth, but rather voter-harvested mail-in ballots.
Expect the vote in November to be declared in advance warped, stolen, and invalid — and then declared valid and fair if Biden wins.
Expect blue states to remain economically mired in quarantines, in hopes of aborting a recovery. Democratic leaders will never really crack down on what heretofore have been blue-state rioting and looting; the chronic chaos and recession will be kept alive and geared to the November election.
[End]
The entire piece is probably 2,500 words in length, but is well worth the read. Trust me, it will be the best 15-20 minutes you spend today.
Go read the full piece at this link.
That is all.
Later
Bkmk
Finally a journalist that calls it by it’s true name the “Democrat Party”.
They are not “democratic” in the least..
Love VDH
“In scary episodes, the pale, scaly, and frozen visage of Biden appears almost reptilian, like a lizard freezing and remaining stationary as it struggles to process signals of perceived danger.”
I’m going to hell for laughing at that.
He eviscerates Biden’s elder-abusing handlers for their craven strategy of hiding their obviously cognitively-impaired candidate in the basement of his home, and scorches the Democrat Party for its despicable effort to saddle the nation with a man who is clearly incapable of holding a simple conversation, much less conducting the Office of the Presidency.
VDH in the National Review.
“Names are vague eddies in his mind’s river of forgetfulness.”
Brilliant.
Joe’s dementia is becoming more obvious. His hesitation to answer a question or to originate a sentence. Even his walk across the stage after the speech had a hesitance to it, lacking a crisp step that he should have.
Peeve.
Back in the late 80’s when i just started to get interested in politics as a young early 20’s person i put on CSPAN one day and started watching some senate debate.
this one guy came on and started talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and talking and here i was thinking MAN can this guy talk.
Later i realized that the guy was Senator Joe Biden...a MASTER bullshit artist.
It is both uplifting and sad that this pos lost that ability.
I just hope he hasn’t been faking it this whole time leading up to the debates....i remember one interview a while back where he seemed unusually on his game..maybe he slipped..
VDH ignores the fact the Joe Biden won't legally be on the ballot in November. It will be Electors for Biden who will be there, having been certified by the parties in their respective States. The Democrats can make it known that their electors will all vote for someone else, even though in many States that would be illegal. It will be a crazy time.
ML/NJ
It's stunning to think democrats would be willing to run a person showing early signs of dementia.... What democrats are really saying is 'We don't have anyone you would trust or like - so we're gonna play you for a fool...' Maybe that's better than letting democrats burn down our cities to intimidate us... but it's close.
That’s him.
[[[It’s stunning to think democrats would be willing to run a person showing early signs of dementia.]]]
Not unless you think like them. They want the cabal in there. Joe is the cardboard box to put them in at the entrance to the White House.
Here’s a link to VDH’s full piece:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/when-the-bidexit/
NR has improved with the exodus of diehard anti-Trumpers French and Goldberg.
Pretty brutal stuff from VDH. He writes as if it is a given that Biden has dementia. It’s not a theory.
Like his former boss, they will put a dunce hat on Joe and stand him in a corner while the Nazi’s continue their rule.
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