The New York Times has long ago abandoned any pretense of being an actual news source and has settled into its role as the foremost propaganda arm of the hard Left, capitalizing upon the fact that there is still a considerable number of people in the U.S. and around the world who still think that the Times can be trusted to report events impartially and accurately. In reality, the only thing the Times is good for is revealing what the political and media elites are thinking, and a Friday opinion piece dropped a bombshell, in the Times’ muted, bloodless Voice-of-the-Ages manner: the Leftist establishment is through with Old Joe Biden. Watch for him to be replaced as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2024, and he could be gone even sooner.
The author of the “Guest Essay” was Jonathan Alter, a respected far-Left intellectual who has written hagiographic biographies of some of the Left’s foremost saints, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, and Barack Obama. But don’t expect Old Joe to take his place as the fourth member of Alter’s personal woke Mount Rushmore anytime soon: Alter once admired the serial liar who is currently pretending to be president but no more. The classified documents scandal has the Leftist “historian” searching for a new hero.
Alter begins by lamenting past glories: “Remember the iconic image of a smiling Joe Biden in his 1967 Corvette Stingray? It conjured charming Uncle Joe, a retro-cool guy who’d been around the track and knew how to handle it.” But all that is gone now: “Four months after President Biden called Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents ‘irresponsible,’ that vintage car — parked at the president’s home in Delaware next to his own boxes containing classified material — has been transformed into a shiny symbol of hypocrisy. If you went into a G.O.P. whataboutism lab and asked for a perfect gaffe, you’d come out with the president snapping last week to a Fox News reporter, ‘My Corvette is in a locked garage.’ Well, the storage room at Mar-a-Lago is locked, too.” Ouch!
Alter quickly takes pains to reassure his easy marks, that is, New York Times readers, that he is certain that Biden’s classified documents scandal is trivial compared to Trump’s but laments that the general public is too stupid to recognize this: “Many voters with better things to do with their time than parse the nuances of presidential record keeping may casually conclude that both men are careless, lying politicians.” Or even, perish the thought, that one of them is the target of a relentless and now eight-year-long witch hunt, while the other gets protection from compromised, corrupt, relentlessly politicized government agencies.
But the real problem with Biden’s documents scandal, according to Alter, is that it torpedoes the faux president’s chances of reelection. Alter may be looking for a side hustle as a stand-up comedian, as he writes, presumably with a straight face, that the astonishingly corrupt, morally compromised, venal, cheerfully mendacious individual who postures as president in his Potemkin Oval Office has now harmed his “core political brand of honor and decency.” And so Old Joe has to go: Biden’s “sharp ethical contrast” (stop laughing!) “with Mr. Trump has been dulled,” and this “complicates the president’s expected re-election campaign — and could even short-circuit it.”
Alter tells us this despite the fact that he obligingly avows that Biden’s core constituency is made up of people who are so gullible that they still fall for Old Joe’s act: “Most Democrats still think Mr. Biden is honest, and they view his accomplishments on the economy, climate, infrastructure and defending democracy as far more significant than this lapse.” Skyrocketing inflation? Rapidly creeping authoritarianism and sinister efforts, unprecedented in American history, to frame his principal opponent for a crime and criminalize political dissent? A fictional Southern border? Forget it all! Old Joe has “accomplishments”!
Of course, Jonathan Alter would also have you believe that “the Obama-Biden administration set an exceptionally high ethical standard and usually met it,” and postures about “Mr. Obama’s scandal-less White House” without mentioning the fact that the Chicago Saint had a “wingman” for an attorney general and a cachet as the first black president that meant that he would never be prosecuted no matter what he did, even supply weapons to drug cartels. Alter’s shoddy reasoning and reflexive partisanship aside, however, the real significance of his op-ed is that it signals that the curtain is closing on Biden’s clownish and disastrous star turn as the presidential figurehead. Whether his replacement will be The Cackler or some other socialist ideologue remains to be seen.
“Heels-up”Harris is Biden’s insurance policy and Mike Pense of deep.state fame just threw Joe a
temporary lifeline..Muddying the waters and leading to a bored attention span deficient public to yawn about it all.
Even Carter has far better polls then Biden and all he can do is dig the hole deeper or drill another hole in the bottom of his rowboat
This is exactly what happened to LBJ in 1968 All we are waiting for us the speech saying that Biden is not running again after consulting with his family and his platoon of lawyers
Biden has spent his entire life grasping for power. Whatever life remains in him cannot release his grip upon his Precious without denying all for which his life has been spent. He has no other thought or concern.
A diapered, bumbling, vacuous old man whose life boils down to a single point, the loss off which will unravel what is left of his defenses and coherence.
We were wondering how they were going to get rid of him.
He served his purpose–a faux moderate to help get rid of Trump. As soon as he’s gone, they’ll be tearing down his “statues” for his historic sins.
Remember the cultural revolution took out loyal communists when their turn came. They’ll be coming after Joe “the white supremacist” Biden.
Don’t worry, the democrats will come up with someone even worse to replace their present scapegoat.
They have the Obama woman ready to go
She was the plan all along. She didn’t want to debate Trump, “let Joe do it”.
Joe should just walk around in a uniform dripping with medals like a regular Dictator.
With creepy old Joe , this is the first time in the history of the United States that this nation has no President.
Instead, the US now has only a criminal installed figurehead.
Joe Biden is an affront to to the Office of the Presidency of the United States and a disgrace to the US Constitution as well as a calamity for America and disaster for the American people.
His replacement will be Newsom.
With that old goat, Joe Biden, sitting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a real , genuine US President , he is a catastrophe for the United States as well as for all the other civilized countries of the world.
Bogus “President” Biden is an un-American, subversive treacherous and treasonous villain of very worst sort.
President pretender and impostor ,Joe Biden is a puppet “president stooge and tool of those ‘behind the curtains,” who are as sinister as Biden but much intelligent than him employ him as their useful idiot to full-fill the demonic Red /Green agenda.
Those insidious individual of that power elite along with heads different American states as China , Iran, and Venezuela all did their part to ensure that the November 2020 election was a rigged hoax so that they may all have that unthinking feeble -minded old Joe in Office so that they may manipulate him to achieve their goals.
Truly , Joe Biden is a pseudo “president.”
On the lighter side, yet still keeping with the reality of the truth . There is a tee-shirt about Joe Biden that has a very clear valid and true message printed in it .
Which is that ,in spirit, the letters B.I.D.E.N must really mean “Biggest, Idiot , Democrats , Ever , Nominated.”
Biden gained his wealth at the expense of the security and freedom that was taken from the United States through China., and The Covid Virus, and bankrupting the US military, Trump has never done such aggregious evil, unconstitutional, corrupt things against his own country. Biden, stop funding the Ukraine World War III battle!!!! This is all about the One World Government and destroying the United States. Demand fiscal responsibility from your representatives!
Actually , I don’t really hate pseudo “president” Joe Biden , he’s not man enough to hate.
The only emotion that I feel towards creepy old Joe is a strong feeling of contempt.