Joe Biden

Almost vacant

Featured image AEI’s Danielle Pletka is not a fan of President Trump, so I take her pulling on the fire alarm about President Biden at face value: What we hear from members of congress is … terrible. Democrats too. Those who talk the president tell of a man who can’t go beyond the words on the page in front of him. He can’t converse on matters of substance. He can deliver talking »

After last night

Featured image The Michigan primary was held yesterday. President Biden defeated Uncommitted, Marianne Willison, and my cousin Dean Phillips on the Democrat side. Dean commented on Twitter for the benefit of his former friends in the party: “If you resent me for the audacity to challenge Joe Biden, at least you’ll appreciate how relatively strong I’m making him look among primary voters!” President Trump handily defeated Nikki Haley on the Republican side. »

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Featured image President Biden spoke at the Governors Ball Dinner in the State Dining Room at the White House on Saturday evening (video excerpt below). The White House has posted the transcript of his brief remarks here. After the introductory blather, Biden referred to the portrait of Abraham Lincoln behind him — you can see it here — as he attempted to follow his text. This is how the White House transcript »

The Price of Illegal Immigration [Updated]

Featured image Laken Riley was a 22-year-old nursing student in Athens, Georgia. Thursday morning, she went for a run and didn’t return. Her body was found on the campus of the University of Georgia. Riley was murdered by an illegal immigrant from Venezuela: Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, who was arrested Friday in connection to the murder of the 22-year-old Augusta University student, crossed into El Paso, Texas, from Venezuela in September 2022, »

Yulia, we hardly knew ya

Featured image Yesterday in San Francisco President Biden held what the White House termed a press gaggle. In the event it seemed more of a gag than a gaggle. This is the White House transcript of his remarks: Hello, folks. This morning, I had the honor of meeting with Aleksey Navalny’s wife and daughter. As to state the obvious, he was a man of incredible courage. And it’s amazing how his wife »

Joe Biden—Christian Nationalist?!?!

Featured image Like John, it would be hilarious to observe the left’s sudden obsession with “Christian nationalism” if it weren’t based on an abysmal ignorance that is itself a grim threat to the continuation of our republic. I guess Thomas Jefferson was a Christian nationalist for the first sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence, although in fairness to stupid leftists, they don’t believe in “self-evident truth” either, because »

Mixed-up confusion illustrated

Featured image Before Bob Dylan really made his name in folk music he recorded “Mixed-Up Confusion” — a rock song that was his first single and that anticipated the direction he would go a few years later. Dylan recorded it in the sessions for Freewheelin‘, but Columbia held the original back from his albums until Dylan included it on Biograph in 1985. The song comes to mind in connection with the video »

Biden bites

Featured image In her Devine Online newsletter this morning, Miranda Devine updates the story of the Biden dog Commander (links omitted): Honestly, any normal dog owner whose German Shepherd attacks and bites someone just once would be chagrined. You would either get remedial training for the dog, or remove it or somehow keep it away from temptation. The last thing you would do is continue on as usual, and let it happen »

Ambassadors, Presidents and Double Standards

Featured image Steve marks the contrast between Biden’s confused UN ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield and New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who called out anti-Semitism “clearly and forcefully” at the United Nations. Consider also the contrast between Thomas-Greenfield and Ronald Reagan’s UN Ambassador, lifelong Democrat Jeane Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick “studied totalitarianism all her life and was aware of its tensile strengths and subtle ruses for maintaining power,” wrote Peter Collier in Political Woman: The Big »

Stumbling into the future

Featured image The folks running the daycare operation at the White House have done their best to accommodate the physical decline of President Biden. Tumbling on the steps of Air Force One as he boarded proved a death-defying experience for him. Now they have rolled out the short stairs that fold out from the plane’s belly. An August 2023 NPR story treats the issue sympathetically, of course, but even so it makes »

Silver Bullet?

Featured image Back in 2016 I downgraded stats nerd Nate Silver to Nate Bronze because he was confidently predicting even after the polls had closed that Hillary Clinton was going to win, and somehow by the middle of the evening he wasn’t appearing on air any more. He’s bucking for an upgrade back to Silver today with a long note about how Biden needs to step aside. As Silver is respected within »

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Featured image John Ellis posted one of his Political News Items yesterday in accessible form — “A reckless age.” Although it may not please you, it is worth a look. Ellis opens with a long quote from Financial Times columnist Janan Ganesh reflecting on the passing of the first President Bush. He then writes: The president of the United States is running for re-election to perform duties he will no longer be »

Putin puttin’ us on

Featured image I don’t take anything Vladimir Putin says at face value. Politico now reports that, in a Rossiya 1 television interview yesterday, that Putin expressed his preference for Biden over Trump in the 2024 presidential election. For whatever it’s worth, here is the quote served up by Politico: “[Biden] is a more experienced, predictable person. He is a politician of the old school. But we will work with any leader of »

The uses of Beau Biden

Featured image President Biden hastily called a press event this past Thursday evening to proclaim his mental competence in the teeth of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. Having investigated Biden’s retention and disclosure of such documents, Hur recommended no charges. Hur predicated his recommendation on Biden’s incompetence, concluding either that the mental element of potential charges was lacking and/or that a jury would excuse his misconduct »

Biden Our Time

Featured image Anyone think Biden could pull off anything like this: This is how Ronald Reagan handles a question about being ‘too old’ for the presidency pic.twitter.com/yqCN54Y9C3 — Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) February 15, 2024 Instead, we got this today: Joe Biden to Elton John “It’s his fault we spent so much money fighting HIV” You honestly can’t make this shit up anymore in 🤡🌎 pic.twitter.com/BjI52frlYW — Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) February 14, 2024 »

Biden on the Big Screen

Featured image Steve finds fearful symmetry to Biden in Frank Sinatra’s description of Raymond Shaw, one of the most “repulsive human beings” he had ever seen. Other movie characters might also apply to the allegedly “sharp” and “focused” 81-year-old Democrat from Delaware. Consider, for example, the take of Louise (Ruth Attaway) on Chauncey Gardiner (Peter Sellers), when she spots him on television. No, sir. Had no brains at all. Was stuffed with »

“Joe Biden Is the Kindest, Warmest, Bravest, Most Wonderful Human Being. . .”

Featured image It finally hit me: all the Dem talking heads repeating in unison as though from talking points supplied by the White House, about how “sharp” and “focused” and “on top of things” Joe Biden is should remind us of nothing so much as the brainwashed fashion every character in The Manchurian Candidate responds with when asked about Raymond Shaw: “Raymond Shaw is the kindest, warmest, bravest, most wonderful human being »