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.
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Mona Charen should be embarrassed to tell the world what a gullible and uninformed dope she is. Biden is and always has been a lying, grifting, self-serving low-IQ POS. To think he would “heal” the country from “four years of chaos” just shows what an idiot you are, Mona. BTW, TRUMP didn’t cause those “four years of chaos”, the Trump HATERS (like you, Mona) caused those four years of chaos.
Is this the same Time magazine that got sold for a dollar? Somebody got ripped off.
The Rats are setting the table to either 25th Amendment him or use the threat of that to force a resignation. Look at the Agnew-Nixon-Ford-Rockefeller affair as an analog, if they do it the end result will play out something like that. The bad news for the Rats is that they don’t have full control of the process. Congress has a major role.
It could go like this; they force SloJoe to go via resignation or by the 25th. They let Kamala ‘play’ at President for 18-12 months. This way she makes ‘history’. Newsom is selected as her VEEP. He takes the “Gerald Ford” role and runs in 2024. The thing is as I pointed out Congress is in involved, will they force a ‘caretaker’ VEEP and president on the Rats to hold the position or accept Newsom until 2024?
In 2020, America elected Joe Biden
1. Lie # 1 (L#1)
Biden not elected, he was installed by fraud.
In 2016, the country voted for burn-it-all-down upheaval.
L#2
We voted to make America great again. And trump did that for a spell.
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
L#3
Biden rejected 3 times
Biden to be to play by the rules, and to uphold the primacy of law and procedure. And he delivered.
L#4
Multiple felonies and most likely treason.
But the revelation that, like Trump, Biden mishandled classified documents,
L#5
NOT like trump, PRES trump was legal
V.P. was illegal handling
L#6
Trump had secret service guarded storage
Biden had an unguarded garage.
Like all reprobates, Trump’s
L#7
Trump not a reprobate
Biden is the reprobate
default justification when caught out is “everybody does it”
L#8
That wasn’t Trump’s claim
that’s what the media claims
bring criminal charges against Trump for his contempt of the law
L#9
There was no contempt OR violation of law
regarding classified materials,
L#10
There was no violation of law re classified materials
those who believe that Biden’s chief accomplishment–and purpose–as president has been to restore a modicum of trust to a nation
L#11
NO ONE believes that.
Biden has only ever been a doofus.
Hmmm, the Me-Dia is piling on very fast…
Difference is Trump’s actions are legal where Biden’s isn’t. Trump declassified his documents and Biden not only didn’t, but couldn’t. Spin it any way, but that’s the facts.
Who is this “We”???? Another idiot rises...
Anyone who thought that voting for Bite-Me was a vote for competence is an utter fool. Brack himself noted that Biden could screw up anything.
Holy crap. They really are going to eject Biden by pummeling him for the next few weeks, aren’t they?
Sux to be you, Mona.
I used to read your column in the Washington Times. My, how somebody’s outlook has changed.
Has there ever been an opening paragraph written with more balderdash?
The old man has a temper. He might not take very kindly to this. He might even call out his handlers.
I’ve got news for Mona Charente. Biden was not elected.
Exactly
If wishes were horses....
Beggars would ride.
WE did not elect that incompetent boob.
That was Newsweak
> “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.”
Nonsensical.
Mona gettin paid by the TIME caretakers.
He wasn’t elected. And, there’s no “we” in this, from my perspective.
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