Sleepy Joe, a/k/a Slow Joe, b/k/a Joseph Biden, is the leading ‘rat contender for ‘Twenty. Slow Joe is also a moron. It would normally be poor taste to pick on a person as stupid as Slow Joe, but somehow the man imagines himself presidential, from Fox News:
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden reportedly had to correct himself over the weekend after telling donors Margaret Thatcher is concerned about the United States under President Trump.
Thatcher, the former prime minister of Britain, died in 2013 – nearly two years before Trump launched his first campaign for president.
According to Bloomberg News, Biden eventually corrected himself, explaining to the donors he meant to say British Prime Minister Theresa May instead of Thatcher, blaming the mix-up on a “Freudian slip.”
This Slow Joe from last year on why he imagines himself to be presidential:
“I think I’m the most qualified person in the country to be president. The issues that we face as a country today are the issues that I’ve worked on my whole life — the plight of the middle class and foreign policy,”
Note that rather than cite any foreign achievement, much like Slow Joe cites his efforts(what making his sons rich?)
The first rule of holes is stop digging. Slow tried to say he meant to refer to current UK PM Theresa May, rather than the late Lady Margaret Thatcher. Sadly for Slow Joe, Lady Thatcher was never Head of State. The UK Head of State was and is, Queen Elizabeth II. Bless your heart Joe, but called a deceased Prime Minister as the Head of State is not a Freudian slip. Rather it is what we call a senior moment.
“The SCO Report suffers from an extraordinary legal defect: It quite deliberately fails to comply with the requirements of governing law,” Mr. Flood wrote to Attorney General William Barr in a hand-delivered letter.
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Mr. Mueller punted to Mr. Barr a decision on whether to find that Mr. Trump obstructed justice. Mr. Barr concluded he did not.
Mr. Muller said he couldn’t conclude that “no criminal conduct occurred.” Mr. Flood said that is not a federal prosecutor’s job.
“In closing its investigation,” Mr. Flood said, quoting the regulation, “the SCO had only one job to ‘provide the Attorney General with a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions reached by the Special Counsel.’ Yet the one thing the SCO was obligated to do is the very thing the SCO — intentionally and unapologetically — refused to do.”
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“The SCO’s inverted-proof standard and ‘exoneration’ statements can be understood only as political statements, issuing from persons (federal prosecutors) who in our system of government are rightly expected never to be political in the performance of their duties,” he said. “The inverted burden of proof knowingly embedded in the SCO’s conclusion shows that the Special Counsel and his staff failed in their duty to act as prosecutors and only as prosecutors.”
It’s interesting that this is precisely the argument that I’ve been making since the redacted version of the report came out:
Ponder…. if this was the outcome, we can’t tell if it was a crime created or not, what in the world did we need a special counsel for in the first place? What was required here both in terms of the law and in terms of the public interest was somebody saying yay or nay. The Mueller report, as presented, fails to do so.
It will be interesting now to see whether or not the Democrats try to discredit Flood, as they have everybody else it gets in their way. Flood is a particularly interesting case in that regard, given his history in the Clinton administration during the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
My take is that this is the opening salvo against the Democrats. following that of course, will be the Inspector General’s report, which should be out by the end of this month, along with whatever else Bill Barr has in the pipeline.
Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning, not as a how -to guide.
So before we believe the left, that the right are the fascists, and that Trump is the fascist overlord, I dare you to point to ANYBODY on the left who’s been de-platformed, de-banked, shadow banned, outright banned, kicked off college campuses, and so on.
Any takers?
No?
Well, then, I have a question for you. Who is it again that’s acting like fascists?
Former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden expressed skepticism that China is a competitive threat to the United States during an Iowa event Wednesday.
“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” Biden reportedly said. “They’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what? They’re not competition for us.”
The comments were first reported by the Washington Examiner‘s Joe Gabriel Simonson and the Des Moines Register‘s Stephen Gruber-Miller.
Slow Joe has bragged some foreign leaders practically begging for him to run for President. So Mr. Biden, what governments besides the People Republic of China are also supporting your bid? Fearless Leader, b/k/a Robert Mueller, III is currently available. Do we need an investigation potential collusion between the Biden campaign and the PRC?
There seems to be this overwhelming negative stigma attached to the millennial generation or generation y. Depending on where you look and what article you read the millennial generation starts as early as 1976 to 1982 and ends 1996 to 2004. Most common is 81-96. Some groupings also include the microgeneration called xennial which is 76-83, not quite gen x, not quite gen y. The following generation is called the i-gen or generation z and currently we are in generation alpha. However we have lumped everyone after gen x as a millennial and this is where the issue lies. While as millennials we have done our fair share of stupid things there is a vast world of difference between older millenials and younger millenials. It is the i gens and young millenials that have no life skills because mommy and daddy decided that they didnt want their child to know what it meant to fail. Had to be given a trophy for participating, encouraged and taught to whine about how unfair life is. Cant iron, cook, sew, balance a check book let alone write a check, do their own laundry. They are the ones eating tide pods, bath salts, snorting condoms, thinking the world revolves around them.
It isn’t a matter of the parents not wanting to deal with that issue. Mostly it has to do with their being subject to 12 years of indoctrination in an education system run by leftists.
I suggest most parents would have a conniption fit if they actually understood what their kids were being taught in such places…. And not taught.
That is, for example, how they know so much about global warming, and the evils of capitalism and not so much about how to read a map, do basic math, spell, manage their finances, or understand world history.
I will say this again, the worst mistake we ever made as a country, a culture, a people was to turn the responsibility for the education of our young over to the government.
Cher is still touring.
Playing NYC 5/3.
In the name of sanity, Why?
The trend has always been that these mass shootings occur in gun-free zones. UNC is just one more, and the trend remains unbroken.
The abject stupidity of gun-free zones must be challenged.
Didn’t we just spend the last two years, listening to the Democrats complaining about foreign influence in our elections?
Is Joe too tired, too drunk, or needs treatment for his stroke?
First off, one really must wonder who told Joe Biden that he needed to apologize to Anita Hill, and of course why did it take them 30 years to do that?
Then, there’s the whole question of why he didn’t feel it was necessary to apologize to Anita Hill during the 2008 campaign. Granted, “Me Too” wasn’t nearly the thing it is these days, but that bespeaks of an argument of convenience, just as loudly as does Biden’s belated apology.
it is ironic because all it does is serve to remind the voting public of the standard Democrat “hit them with fake charges” playbook. I mean, maybe it’s just me, but hasn’t anybody noticed the similarities between what happened with Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas, and what happened to Brett Kavanaugh and his accusers, as well as President Trump, and his accusers? I mean, which do you suppose has the larger chance of being true?
* That every even remotely Conservative candidate for any major political position is guilty of a “Me Too” crime…
or…
* That the Democrats are willing to lie their butts off to create scandal so as to keep conservative politicians and judges out of their respective seats?
That’s the question, it seems to me, that is brought up by the invoking of Anita Hill by the Democrats now; Is there any point over the last 40 years where the scandals being pushed by the Dems and the Lametream media, against their opponents, didn’t turn out to be a complete fabrication?
Look; It is always true that leftist movements change to eat their own eventually, and it invariably turns into a circular firing squad. So, it should be no surprise to anybody that these problems chasing Joe Biden just now are being pushed by his fellow Democrats.
Thing is, it seems to me that the larger question as I mentioned above, is going to come back and bite the Democrats come time for the general election, no matter who makes it through the primary process. The person or persons who released this weapon against Biden will end up being collateral damage of their own weaponry.
Always assuming of course, that the GOP is smart enough to take the Democrats up on their generous offer of committing political suicide.
The idea that there’s an entity more powerful than government seems crucial to our rights.
* The real tragedy of Joe Biden is not the perception that he is the best candidate the Democrats have to offer, it’s that the perception is an accurate one.
* Joe Biden is Obama without the illusion of Hope and change.
* It’s amazing when will you see Cory Booker defending Ilhan Omar’s anti-semitism. It’s absolutely frightening when we see Democrats defending Cory Booker.
* It’s ironic to hear all of the various Democratic candidates calling Donald Trump “a bully”, when bullying is precisely what Donald Trump’s election was a response to from the voting public. That those candidates don’t understand that factor tells me there isn’t a one of them that stand a chance in hell of winning the General in 2020.
* Ponder the enormity of the task in front of the Democrats. Since Donald Trump has come into office and despite all of the negative predictions our economy has been going through the roof. The Democrats are trying to sell the voting public on returning to the policies that put us through nearly 8 years… years of the economy shrinking. The campaigns are taking on the appearance of the sales campaign surrounding Conquistador Coffee. (Yes, that’s a Monty Python reference.)
But, this just cuts it.
I keep thinking about the dynamics the past few years between the president and what used to be called official Washington. That relationship is ugly and broken, but it could have been otherwise.
When he came in he was a shock to the system, almost literally. He didn’t act like a liberal or a Democrat, or a conservative or a Republican. It was not clear he thought, as opposed to felt. It was clear he was emotional—lots of resentments, wounds and complaints. As the first year went by and then the second the stories were out there, sometimes from his own aides. He doesn’t read, doesn’t like his briefings, he’s spending time tweeting and watching television. He’s picking fights with celebrities and haranguing the Boy Scout Jamboree about our rotten media. He’s firing people or they’re resigning—the chief of staff, chief strategist, then the generals. The travel ban, Charlottesville, he’s a “stable genius,” he’s shoving the prime minister of Montenegro and blowing up immigration talks.
Pretty quickly and to the entire edifice of Washington, it became clear Donald Trump was not a Jacksonian shock to the system, which is what his supporters think he was. He was a daily system overload, a one-man frying of the grid.
Frankly, I can’t possibly think of a way she would get this more wrong than she has, here, though how she arrived at this juncture is certainly understandable if you know something of history… particularly recent history.
Several things are made clear by these comments of hers.
She still doesn’t understand how Trump won, doesn’t understand his supporters, doesn’t understand the rank-and-file of the Republican Party, and has very little understanding of, and little care for, what happens outside Washington. But, at least she’s honest about her elitist desires.
Peggy Noonan has in fact become part of the problem that I described in discussing the example of George Will some time ago. Put more succinctly and somewhat euphemistically, she has become part of the swamp.
For many years Peggy Noonan was part of establishment Washington, and in particular part of the establishment GOP. When the establishment GOP was running things, or even when the Democrats were running things, she did just fine. She is a talented writer, a point which even Ronald Reagan recognized.
She lost her way however, when the establishment GOP came up with Jeb Bush as it’s obviously chosen nominee, something that she obviously felt she couldn’t support. She was smart enough to sense that there was something wrong with the choice, but couldn’t quite bring herself to identify why.
Being solidly establishment GOP, and establishment Washington, she couldn’t bear to bring herself to overtly criticize their chosen critter. She sensed (and I suspect correctly) that she wouldn’t be invited to as many Washington cocktail parties as she used to be, if she correctly identified why Jeb Bush should not have been the choice.
Then, when somebody else outside of the Washington establishment won, the whole thing unraveled for her.
Don Surber notes all of this:
Noonan’s piece, “How Trump Lost Half of Washington,” is her latest attack “not about policy [but] behavior,” which condemns it to the bin labeled Personal Attack.
Don Surber
Oh, she couches it in some high-minded self-righteous talk but nearly four years after he formally announced for president, she still cannot argue against his policies. The ad hominem attacks continue because she will not engage him in policy, lest her true beliefs become public knowledge.
And what are those? Surber, who usually gets things right, continues that trend here, in brutal fashion, but quite fair;
“He destabilized the entire town.”
No. The town’s Road Rage against him comes from their refusal to accept the will of the people and the policies that serve America and not Washington.
She is rooting for Democrats to offer a safe choice who will calm the waters, this shaming the legacy of Ronald Reagan for whom she once worked. Oh well, she always said Dan Rather was her favorite boss.
Hers is a cry from Versailles for Sloppy Joe Biden to save them from this Orange Man who wants to Make America Great Again.
Biden’s slogan is “America’s Coming Back Like We Used To Be.”
By America, he means the people who chatted with Zbig at cocktail parties.
Unfortunately so does Peg Noonan.
One almost feels pity for the woman because clearly, the message around establishment Washington DC that Noonan has for so long considered herself a vital part of, is if you say anything kind about Trump…. or God forbid you actually work for him, your career is most certainly over.
So it is that she finds herself between a rock and a hard place. Not that she’s alone in that position of course. Bill Kristol, Michael Medved, Mitt Romney, the late John McCain, to a somewhat lesser extent, Jonah Goldberg… All Share in that position, all being driven by the desire for establishment Washington to be re-established.
Noonan, along with the rest of the people that I’ve listed here still cannot understand, ( or will not admit they understand) Trump was not the cause of their demise but the result of it. The American voter long since has declared establishment Washington dead.
And Peggy Noonan should understand that better than most but doesn’t. If she had thought about it for any amount of time she would have remembered that establishment Washington wasn’t too pleased about her former boss, Ronald Reagan either, and for precisely the same reasons that she holds Donald Trump in contempt now.
The desk in the oval office wasn’t even cold yet from his having left it before Reagan’s legacy was being torn down by establishment Washington. (Hey, Peggy, when’s the last time you argued for supply-side economics? For actually reducing the size of government?)
That started the American voter down the road of not trusting establishment Washington.
Clearly, that’s the establishment’s hope today, that once Trump goes away, they will be able to put things together and make them the way they were before Trump showed up, and Peggy Noonan, along with them. But, as Don Surber says…
Noonan’s column is like a plantation owner in the 1870s longing for a return to the Antebellum South.
Nope. The Old South failed. Now Old Washington has failed too. We are not going back. No amount of personal attacks on the president will change that.
Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the rest of the Democrats are up to their eyeballs in this stuff.this is the most earth-shaking scandal in history, and the mainstream media has been caught flat-footed trying to defend the Democrats.
The reason neither [Clinton or Obama] mentioned Christians or churches is that the left has essentially forbidden mention of all the anti-Christian murders perpetrated by Muslims in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa and of all the Muslim desecration of churches in Europe, Africa and anywhere else. This is part of the same phenomenon—that I and others have documented—of British police and politicians covering up six years of rape of 1,400 of English girls by Muslim “grooming gangs” in Rotherham and elsewhere in England.
Clinton, a professed Methodist, is still sober enough to use the word Christian when she wishes to condemn an entire religion. Likewise Clinton has to problem using the word Muslim when tries to portray them as victims. Yet Clinton just can not bring herself ever refer to a Christian as a victim nor depict a Muslim as a perp.
Moreover, Clinton twists herself into polically correct double speak by refusing to acknowledge the Christian perception of Easter Sunday, her use of the ill begotten phrase Easter worshippers. Bess her heart, Clinton is unable to distinguish between a Greek Goddess and Christian holiest holiday.
