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Joe Biden is a genius.
OK, he’s actually a doddering old fool who can’t remember his own name half the time, but we know he has moments of lucidity here and there. We also know that he wanted a second term and his fellow Democrats pushed him to the side. Why he would be shocked that the party that uses “old white men” as a pejorative wouldn’t really be behind an old white man is beyond me, yet he apparently was.
From the moment he stepped aside, though, Biden seemed bound and determined to scuttle Kamala Harris’s nomination.
Sure, it may have been gaffe after gaffe – or, such as when he said Harris had been intimately involved in economic discussions just as she was trying to distance herself from Biden’s economic policies, he might have actually thought it would help – but over a month ago, I commented how it looked just like he was trying to sabotage her.
Colt, barn door, etc etc etc https://t.co/nPf5PO7tq6
— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) October 30, 2024
Plus, despite everyone calling Trump “literally Hitler,” what did Biden do immediately after the election? Have Trump come on over and have a nice sit-down chat with him, something you don’t do with someone who is considered the most evil man to ever live reincarnated.
Then we have the Hunter Biden pardon.
You’ve heard all about it by now. You know what was said, what Biden’s “reasoning” was, and how he’d repeatedly claimed that he would do no such thing, only to turn out that he lied yet again.
But in that same moment, he set a precedent that President-elect Donald Trump can now use as he wants. The problem was that the prosecution was political? That can be said about pretty much every January 6 defendant. Trump could pardon them all, and over a broad period to make sure they couldn’t be prosecuted for anything else later on.
Others have been prosecuted because of their affiliation with Trump. Steve Bannon, for example, or Roger Stone. While Bannon has done his time and it was only a misdemeanor, it would send a signal how he’s running things. Trump held off in pardoning Stone last go-around because it would be a political liability, but that’s not as true today as it was in 2020.
Honestly, from the moment when he left the campaign trail, Joe Biden has done so much that has benefitted Trump that it’s hard for me not to look at some of it and wonder if he was really just trying to hurt the Democrats.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he did. He’d been a good Democrat for decades, working his way up the food chain and finally making it to the top, only to have his party turn on him. If that were me, and I were actually lucid enough of the time, I’d probably think about ways to get back at them without being too obvious.
Of course, that all assumes there’s enough of Biden left to actually be that calculating. I can’t rule out that his handlers are resentful of being ousted with the old goat, so it might be them working through Biden, but that feels a little too tin-foil hat for me.
Then again, the difference between “established fact” and “conspiracy theory” seems to be about six weeks, so anything’s possible.
Madame DeFarge says
Joseph Stalin is the most evil man that ever lived.
I asked a young girl “who is Hitler” , she did not know. She has the vote. We are circling the bowl.
Spurwing Plover says
Mouse-E-Dung was far bigger Mass Murderer then Hitler Karl Marx and his evil as well as his Legacy and Hitler to can be traced straight to Darwin
Rob A says
I wouldn’t be so sure about Stalin being the evilest man that ever lived. Have you seen any of the videos smuggled out of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and what him and his sons died to the Iraqi people? They were so gruesome that they’ve been all but banned from the internet (but are available on the dark web.) So gruesome in fact, that It would be unseemly for me to describe the details of some of the videos that I’ve seen.
Suffice it to say, Saddam Hussein and his sons were evil sadistic monsters on steroids. His sons met their end in a most deserving way but Saddam got off easy by only being hanged.
Compared to them, Stalin was “civilized” and less malevolent.
Leslie says
Pol Pot was no slouch in the “evil” department either, but they’re all communists except Hitler, who was a garden variety socialist until he disarmed the German populace. Once that was accomplished, fascism stepped out from behind the curtain.
BLSinSC says
Could be that Biden is so demented and mentally incompetent that he THINKS he is harming PRESIDENT TRUMP! Like the segment of excrement oblama once said “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to “f” things up”!!
Julia Lutch says
Whoever has been. working in sweats from a basement during the Biden regime is still calling the shots. Biden has no influence whatsoever because he has no capacity.
Justin Swingle says
but behind their meat puppet JOE BIDEN is Barack Obama, George and Alex Soros and Larry Fink there doing the real thinking behind the regime. joe is just for show to make it all appear real.
of course it may also be doc jill who’s keeping joe propped up for a moment of lucidity.
….. and kamala is not pilled up (although she does at time appear buzzed) and is never lucid!
what gives!?!?!
Christopher M Myers says
I am amazed and distraught when I think about how so many people have so quickly forgotten that Joe Biden, with dispatch, I might add, successfully extricated the United States from a twenty year war in Afghanistan. I will always remember the brilliance displayed by Secretary of State Blinken as he negotiated a peaceful reapproachment with the Taliban, especially the rights guaranteed to the female population.
Poetcomic1 says
And let us not forget how honest Biden was about paying back his bribery debts to China. By abandoning Bagram Air Force Base, our most vital base in the middle of the Asian/Mideast land mass, a mere hour from China and a vital center for projecting force and gathering intelligence with the longest runways in the world….. he gave China a victory worth 100 times whatever they paid the Biden crime family.
Brian Ozzy says
Well if you were hankering to win the most ignorant comment of the day I must admit you have won handsomely. However if you were just trying to be ironic, it’s hard to tell, but I give you full marks.
Rob A says
Joe Biden? A genius? Yeah, uh-huh. right. And my college physics professor was a chimpanzee.
Joe Biden a genius…. Well, I guess the old saying “if you live long enough you’ll hear just about everything” is true after all. I can’t imagine what’s next….!!
MARYLOU LEEMAN says
It is a mystery. I have long wondered whether he was playing up the part of a demented fool just to get away with things!! Millions out the back door via his antics c/o the Hunter. Fool? He got away with plenty.
Jojo says
Oh, he screwed the people who “deprived” him of his second term alright. The last impulse of a dying narcissist is always revenge and retribution.
Whiskey Jack says
Even Jill Biden told everyone after Joe’s catastrophic debate performance with Trump that, “Joe was good to go.” Well yes Jill, he most certainly was…and unlike D.B. Cooper, out Joe went without a parachute and bag of loot!
john blackman says
biden is so cogent ! LOL !