The Jerk, Too

Early editions of this post just had the title "The Jerk".  Well, it turns out I had another post called "The Jerk" back in 2017, so I made this one a sequel.  Lewis Grizzard never had this problem.

 

I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.

For the past 15 years, you have heard all of this talk about what a nice guy Joe Biden is-just like your favorite uncle.

And in the 2020 campaign, you heard about how normal Joe Biden was. He likes ice cream! He doesn't like porn stars.  He doesn't seem like a Grade-A narcissist like you know who.

After he was elected, people on TV said he wouldn't be as petty as The Big Bad Orange One.

I was skeptical, to say the least.

I have been watching Joe Biden from the corner of my eye for years. I was in the eighth grade when he was first elected Senator.

I didn't believe for one minute that Biden was this Non-Partisan Guy.  I saw what he did to Robert Bork. I saw what he did to Clarence Thomas.  I saw how he told a crowd that Republicans wanted to put African-Americans in chains.

Well, guess what?  Biden has not been your cool uncle who has brought America together after the egoism of Donald Trump.  Rather, he has doubled down on some of the nastiness.

The biggest threat to America is not China, Russia, or Islamic extremists.  The biggest danger is Americans, at least the MAGA kind.

Additionally, a report in Axios calls President Biden "Old Yeller" and it portrays him as a grouchy old man given to profanity laced tirades with all of the F-bombs you might want. You can read the Axios article here: https://www.axios.com/2023/07/10/biden-temper-us-president

That runs counter to the image Biden has given to the public: the kindly ice cream eatin' grandpappy wearing aviator sunglasses with a penchant for tall tales and smelling hair.

In other Biden news, it seems Hunter was given a slap on the wrist for all of his shenanigans although calling it a slap on the wrist is an insult to slaps on the wrist.  It wasn't quite "Teddy gets away with Chappaquiddick" but it is hard to image the same deal being given to a person with the last name of "Trump".

Last week, a small bag of cocaine was found at the White House. We've had several explanations of how a small bag of white powder can show up at the White House but the official version is "We Don't Know", which is the go-to Biden explanation of everything.

But to me, the most damaging hit on Biden was an Op-Ed piece written by Maureen Dowd of The New York Times.  

Ms Dowd is not MAGA. Whatever MAGA is, Maureen Dowd is far from it. However, she wrote this piece: "It's Seven Grandchildren, Mr. President" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/08/opinion/hunter-biden-child.html

The President has seven grandchildren, but only acknowledges six because number seven is the result of a roll in the hay between Hunter and a stripper.  Apparently, it is all the child's fault.

When you are a Democrat and you lose Maureen Dowd, you have trouble.

It is time for all of us to admit one thing. The President is a Jerk.  Charles C.W. Cooke of The National Review called Biden a word that rhymes with "Gas Pole".

Yes, Trump is a jerk, too and that word that rhymes with "Mass Soul".  The only thing positive you can say about Trump is that his jerkiness is part of his brand and he leans, heavily, into it. But, honestly, you just wish he would act like he had some sense like my dad used to say.

Other Presidents have been jerks.  Johnson and his bathroom conferences with his staffers. Kennedy and his trollops. Clinton and his bimbos.  When you tell the world that only you can solve its problems, you will probably have some jerkiness in you.

But there is something about the pious posturing around Biden that makes it all the more distasteful and helps to explain why people do not want him to run for re-election even if the other guy is the other jerk.