Posted on 12/15/2024 8:19:47 AM PST by TBP
“‘This is the way the world ends,” T.S. Eliot famously wrote.
“Not with a bang but a whimper.”
He might have been talking about Joe Biden’s presidency.
As he prepares to slink out the door, Biden’s final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure.
He pardoned his convicted-criminal son after vowing not to and his mass commutations included one for a judge convicted of taking kickbacks to send juveniles to for-profit detention facilities.
The judge was in Scranton, Pa., meaning Biden even betrayed distraught parents in his hometown.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Where “not with a bang but with a whimper” comes from:
https://www.owleyes.org/text/the-hollow-men/read/text-of-the-poem
Robinette will be remembered.
A truly historical figure.
When Biden is dying and they call for a the catholic Church to give him the last rites I’ll bet the Church will tell him “Sorry but there are not enough priests in the world to forgive you for all the sins you’ve committed”.
Everything that was wrong with his tenure
NUJATFTU
B.O.
Great column worth the read.
BTTT
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