Posted on 01/14/2023 7:36:38 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
In 2020, America elected Joe Biden to be not-Trump—a role for which he seemed well-suited. In 2016, the country voted for burn-it-all-down upheaval. Trump was the tribune of those who felt betrayed and misled and mistreated. Four chaotic years later, alarmed voters fled into the arms of an aging former vice-president and senator—a man they had twice rejected as a presidential contender—who seemed the personification of the steady hand.
No one expected Biden to be transformational or extraordinary, but we did need him to be the anti-Trump in the most important ways. We needed him to be sober and responsible, to play by the rules, and to uphold the primacy of law and procedure. And he delivered.
But the revelation that, like Trump, Biden mishandled classified documents, including storing them in his garage next to his Corvette, drags us back to precisely the world in which Trump is most comfortable. Like all reprobates, Trump’s default justification when caught out is “everybody does it.”
The great loss here is not that this makes it more challenging to bring criminal charges against Trump for his contempt of the law regarding classified materials, the tragedy is that this is a victory for the kind of cynicism that Trump has popularized.
The man who was dismayed by the spectacle of classified documents splayed out on the floor of Mar-a-Lago has been transformed into the tetchy pol explaining that documents locked next to a Corvette were hardly “sitting out on the street.” That is demoralizing for those who believe that Biden’s chief accomplishment–and purpose–as president has been to restore a modicum of trust to a nation that has been sunk in suspicion and bitterness for too long. Being not-Trump demands better.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
What's this "we" chit, kemosabe?
Oh puhleeeaze.
It’s not like any real people actually voted for him.
Yapping trashbag shrew of the dinosaur era.
Her CNN show went under - like everything elae scumbag DC elitists touch.
Elect? Yeah, right.
Wait, Time Mag wants us to believe they thought Biden was some stand up guy who plays by the rules?
They know damn well Biden is a crook and moocher, government swamp creature.
Time mag is full of crap.
In the 1960s during the Vietnam war, I had the epiphany that Time Magazine is pure propaganda.
These words - :”In 2020, America elected Joe Biden....” are a patent lie.
Joe Biden is the same corrupt, mildly retarded @sshole he always was. So now these duplicitous never-Trump “conservative” @ssholes are running around pretending they didn’t know who he always was.
“WE”? Someone has a turd in their pocket.
Trump’s default justification when caught out is “everybody does it.”
In other words you are saying Trump was correct.
Biden wasn't elected, and we didn't install him.
On his innauguration day I bet that within one year he would be removed from office.
I lost that one, obviously.
How can anybody, even the folks at Time, say that Biden delivered as they wished.
If Biden delivered as they wished, then, they wanted a complete failure with the economy and military and border and crime, etc.
It’s like the liberals at Time wanted the destruction of the country, which I don’t doubt they wanted.
“We Elected Biden to Be Better Than This”
The elites Elected Biden to Be Worse Than This
There, fixed it
I once thought Mona Charen was very good. She has worked her fingers to the bone to make herself unreadable.
It’s a shame how stupid this woman has become.
The best, the very best thing you can say about Biden is that he is a completely corrupt imbecile.
And that should have been readily apparent to all. But, there are none so blind as those who will not see.
Mona sounds really sad.
What happened to Mona Charen?
the only dismay here is that biden F-ed up the latest deep state scheme to “get” trump ... period ...
in fact, that’s a very accurate condensation of the verbiage of this whiny article ...
She’s not stupid. She earns a living by working as a paid propagandist … so she has to write whatever her handlers tell her to write, no matter how irrational and inconsistent it is.
Those who believe Trump had classified documents spread over the floor also believe Trump did his tax returns on the kitchen table.
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