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Joe Biden’s Intelligence Is Irrelevant
Democrats rarely criticize Republicans these days. They call us “Trump supporters.” Once someone is labeled as a Trump supporter, they are considered to be so far outside the realm of polite society that no attack could be viewed as out of bounds. Even attacking their family makes sense – they’re evil, right?
I questioned this Democrat strategy from the start, because Trump won’t always be on the political stage, but Republicans will, and diverting the focus of Democrat voters from the policies of the Republican party to some jerk from Queens struck me as short-sighted at best. But it was easy and fun, so this has been the focus of the Democratic Party for the past several years.
I fear that Republicans are now making a similar mistake. They correctly view Joe Biden as a serious threat to America, but for the wrong reasons. All the outrage about whether he has the mental capacity for the job is fun and easy, but I think it’s unhelpful at best, and probably even damaging to the American cause. Does Mr. Biden have some form of dementia? Probably, although I don’t know for sure. I am sure, however, that it doesn’t matter. At least, it doesn’t matter nearly as much as some other things.
First of all, no one has ever considered Mr. Biden to be intelligent. Even his supporters understood that he was of below-average intelligence, even at his peak, whenever that was. He graduated from the University of Delaware ranked 506 out of 688. Then, he somehow got into Syracuse law school (How? Fascinating question…) and graduated ranked 76 out of 85. In the 2020 Democrat primary, I presume that Mr. Biden had the least impressive academic record of all their candidates. He was not selected because of his brilliance. But even that misses the point.
I also don’t think that the problem is Mr. Biden’s ideology. A student of his 50 years in Washington would struggle to come up with an overriding belief system that guided his decision-making. I don’t know what Mr. Biden believes in, and I don’t think that Mr. Biden does, either. I’m not even sure that he would understand the question. He has spent 50 years doing what seemed at the time to best promote Mr. Biden’s self-interest. And that’s it. Very practical and pragmatic. But ethics and ideology have played no discernible role in Mr. Biden’s career. And if Mr. Biden has ignored his belief system, then we should too.
So why is Joe Biden such a destructive president? If it’s not his intelligence (or lack thereof) and if it’s not his belief system (or lack thereof), then what is it? What’s the problem here?
The problem is that he’s a Democrat.
That’s it, really. He’s simply enacting the policies which have been promoted by the Democratic Party for the past several years. And those policies are destructive, as we’re seeing now. And that’s it.
Ask yourself how things would be going now if another 2020 Democrat primary front-runner would have won? Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, or whoever. Would things be any different now? No, not really. They would be enacting the same policies, and things would be going about like they are now. And why is that?
Because they’re Democrats. They would be doing what modern Democrats do. And such things are destructive. Regardless of who does them. And regardless of how smart they are, or how old they are, or where they went to college.
So stop going on and on about Mr. Biden’s apparent cognitive difficulties. That’s his problem, and it really doesn’t affect us as much as you might think.
What does affect us is the inevitable results of electing Democrats. Democrat policies are dangerous. Not the IQ scores of Democrat politicians.
So let’s try to move past the personalities involved, and refocus on ideas. That is a debate that we can win. And unlike Mr. Biden’s neurologic condition, it’s a debate worth winning.
Nobody cares about Joe Biden. He didn’t even campaign for president. It wasn’t about him, and he knew it. It was simply about Democrats gaining complete control of America’s government. It was about power. It wasn’t about Joe Biden.
Even Mr. Biden could understand that, despite his cognitive challenges.
We should try to understand that out as well. We should focus on what matters.
And it’s not Joe Biden.
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Spot on again, Doc.
Indeed.
Democrats are are the party Death, party of Slavery, party of Racism, party of Perverts, party of Greed, party of Crime, and the party of Tyranny. Some of those overlap, and go by different names, in order to disguise their true natures. “Socialism” sounds wonderful in the pitch, but works out to enslaving the makers to satisfy the takers. “Abortion” is a just another way to say “killing babies”. “Feminism” has become just another way to cajole women into serving the evil among men.
I’m constantly amazed at the pass Dem leaders get when they break the rules they push on us all. And not just a pass from the media, but from the brain-dead democrat rank and file.
I’ve been thinking all of this myself. It doesn’t matter which Democrat I put in the blank line–Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Samantha Power, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Rochelle Walensky–the end result is always the same.
That’s why I commented in another thread that it’s all of the people who voted for Biden, who are – at least arguably – mentally ill.
Then how do you explain me? I didn’t vote for Biden. I voted for Trump.
What is there to explain? If you want to say you’re mentally ill too, and yet you voted for Trump, it’s not like the sets are totally exclusive. “All Biden Voters are Mentally Ill” is not the same as “All Mentally Ill Voters Voted For Biden.”
Gerard Baker had a column in the Wall Street Journal last week that absolutely eviscerated Biden and the Democrats. A few choice excerpts, but as the saying goes, read the whole thing:
So, you’re saying your post title is an oxymoron. I agree . . .
Actually, I think he means Joe Biden is an oxygen-consuming moron.
I don’t agree. Yes, it has nothing to do with his mediocre intelligence. But I am very concerned with his mental decline in other areas. And that he’s probably not the person running the country. That’s what I’m disturbed about. He is incapable of firing people who should be fired (even Democrats fire people), making sensible judgments that go beyond the most controversial policies, and interacting with international leaders. People with dementia can burn the house down; who knows what his version of that might be.
In that case, maybe you should take comfort from the knowledge that he’s not actually running things?
The question since that creep was
electedinstalled is: Who is really running things?The other question is: When his dementia is too severe to hide, will the same group control Heels-Up?
His dementia is already too severe to hide.
No. It means we have no idea what’s going on because we have no idea who’s in charge. And he’s still the one in charge of meeting with and making decisions with international leaders. How often can they count on talking back his promises?
BTW, I’ve rarely heard Conservatives comment on intelligence–the Dems are the ones who do that. That’s not the issue with Biden.
I read that column and I don’t think it said anything about his intelligence.
Well put. With the rarest of exceptions, it is never about an individual. It is always about the ideas those in power attempt to implement.
We’ve had NTs at ricochet swear he just gets tongue tied and occasionally misspeaks. They say the talk of dementia is a product of right-wing talk radio.
It’s a simple case that we have Biden because none of the others was electable. It might even yield a benefit of exposing to many of those who voted for Biden just how bad the Democrat policies are even when they vote for someone they think is okay.
Except for those like my ex-neighbors and some of my relatives, who seem to think the solution to Democrat failure is to elect MORE DEMOCRATS.
I’ve heard that the reason Obama couldn’t succeed was those obstructionist GOP-types. You’ll hear the same about Biden, except this time it is because the GOP seduced Manchin and Sinema.
Joe Biden was absolutely unelectable. Respected by no one, his speeches have always been rambling and incoherent (even when he attempts to read them off a teleprompter), no history of success in anything to point to, obviously spectacularly corrupt, best remembered for his ‘high-tech’ lynching of a black Supreme Court justice, viewed by Barack Obama with undisguised contempt, and so on and so forth.
How many Democrat candidates in their last primary were less electable than Biden? None leap to mind.
Biden wasn’t selected because he was electable. Quite the contrary. He was selected because, um, well, I’m not sure why. But as it turned out, it didn’t matter if he was electable or not.
But my point is that his biggest negative is not his mental functioning, or lack thereof. He’s just a standard Democrat. There are other problems that make him dangerous as well. But none compare to his party affiliation.
Which is why even “moderate” Democrats must not be supported, because they in turn still support the radicals.
You make a fair point. And I don’t intend to argue that Mr. Biden is a swell guy who just happens to be a member of the Democrat party. He’s corrupt, vicious, and dangerous in other ways.
I’m simply pointing out that America’s greatest threat is the election of Democrats, whoever they are. Mr. Biden may have more problems than some others, but all of them are dangerous, even the intelligent, handsome, well spoken ones like Pete Buttigieg. In fact, Mr. Buttigieg might be more dangerous than Mr. Biden, because he’s less incompetent, and would likely be more successful at achieving Democrat party goals.
All true, but it is personalities that engage most voters at the Presidential and Vice-Presidential level. It simply is. Personalities are proxies for ideas and give them form.
I question that. I think Buttigieg is every bit as incompetent as Biden – exactly because of what he believes. He is a technocrat with an appalling record in South Bend.
Joe Biden was the first politician I learned to despise. I listened to his simpleminded malice as he (and the murderer Kennedy) smeared Robert Bork. His fraudulent installation into the highest office is a fall that will take us a generation to recover from.
It was almost two years ago when I predicted that even the loathsome left wouldn’t really elevate that senile old grifter. We haven’t bottomed out yet. I keep eyeing the ads for a new generator, and tracking the ammo prices.
At this point, I wouldn’t say his intelligence is irrelevant. Ron Klain and the rest of the Kalorama Klown Ko. wouldn’t have nearly as much fun if they actually had to answer to someone.
Joe Biden is a tool of the fundamental restructuring of America. This all started in 2008.
There you go.
Yes, I’ve been saying this since at least 2008 — I didn’t oppose Obama because he’s black, or, for that matter, Al Gore because he’s a climate hysteric, or Bill Clinton because he’s a sexual predator, or Joe Biden because he’s an opportunistic fool (and terrible representative of my religious community) or, or, or. . . this is what Nevers seem to completely miss, as if there’s a spiritual blindness they’re suffering. The enemy is the Left. The Left is the enemy of all that is good and holy, and it has completely subsumed the Democrat party. You might even say the real leader of the Democrats is The Enemy — Satan himself. Satan is the scatterer and there’s nothing more divisive than the Left’s identity politics and race hustling, all with the goal of consolidating more power in government by destroying the family and atomizing the citizenry.
Think about it — the politics of Pride (literally “gay pride” month) and Envy and even child sacrifice that shames the followers of Moloch in sheer numbers originates on the Left. A decade ago I agreed when Dennis Prager said, “liberals believe conservatives are evil; we believe they’re wrong.” No more. Democrats are under the influence of evil, big time. And Nevers have put themselves in the unfortunate position of enabling the Left to grasp more power because of their disgust with the crudeness of an ugly American New Yorker — not recognizing that the most important aspect of the person of Donald Trump for our political purposes is that he loves America! Democrats hate (with the possible exceptions of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema). It’s what they do.