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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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Well said. His actions are not about the public good but about his own good. He is merely following a playbook handed him by the many courtiers who boosted him into the White House. He has no imagination and no comprehension of the world outside DC so he has no idea how angry the people are.
Dude that’s just mean.
Didn’t Biden also say that Obama was “clean?”
Heh.
Ben Shapiro suggests that Joe Biden wasn’t really much of a factor in the Trump vs. Biden election. The whole election was a referendum on Trump. Sadly it was on Trump’s personality rather than his record. Thankfully, in 2024 the country will have a referendum on Biden’s record.
But maybe the most scary thing is that we don’t know whose hand is on the throttle. (Train engine speaking.)
On the other hand, last time we didn’t have a referendum on Trump’s record…
And the Left will be happy to tell us that Biden doesn’t really have a record since the evil Republicans obstructed him.
I grew up in Delaware. Biden arrived on the scene when Delaware began tilting Democrat although Biden & Bill Roth served as the Delaware senators together for about 30 years. This means the same people voted for both of them. 😯 Roth gave us the Roth IRA. Biden? The first time I spoke to my father-in-law after Obama announced Biden as his vice president he said –I have never forgiven Biden for the way he treated Bork & Thomas.
I am pretty sure Mayor Pete would make an extraordinarily dangerous president. My hope is that a real journalist will do the digging before he makes another run.
Ha! Right!
Only someone who isn’t afraid of being labeled “homophobic.” And/or worse.
IMO, Biden was selected when Bernie Sanders was the primary candidate that most threatened the Dem powers that be, and also was the one most feared by them as entirely unelectable. So the deal was made, to nominate Biden and run him as a moderate and then, once elected, he’d be amenable to enacting Sanders’ policy preferences. Thus it seems to be playing out, at least to the extent of their economy-crashing anti-American-energy policies, their non-enforcement of federal immigration laws, their open border policies, and the politically correct madness started by Obama and continuing to degrade the U.S. military.
I haven’t read all the comments, but aside from Xiden’s obvious mental decline and confusion, to the world, the USA has a rag doll puppet as Commander in Chief. China is taking advantage everywhere it can—some we can see, but it’s the things China, and others, are doing that we CAN’T see that worries me.
Like whatever they’re doing now in their leaky bio labs?
Biden is so stupid, it is almost a plus. He is way too dumb to assemble and delegate to a capable staff. Given that his party’s entire agenda is destructive and evil, a senile moron at the helm is a godsend.
When I was a kid it seemed like with the exception of William Buckley, all the smart people were liberals. Kids today have Biden, Harris, AOC & the Squad, Bernie, Nancy and the woke Nazis as the cognitive stars of the left. They will find it much harder to associate leftism with intellectual superiority.
So revel in the stupid. It’s a gift.
Those people you list are still smarter than a lot of the people they “lead.”
Difficult to believe, but I think it’s true.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t take intelligence or even competence to be destructive. Being on the left is so, so incredibly easy. The wide road.
It’s a mistake to think that leftists in general are stupid, or that they take the easy road. One of them was part of my team and I met a few along the way as well. They have some characteristics in common. First, they are pissed off all the time. Second, they are driven by emotion. Third, they think humanity is perfectible. Fourth, denial ain’t just a river in Egypt (M. Twain).
I once asked a member of my team why he was so angry and the answer was: We have the power to create a Utopia and we waste it all.
Well, Utopia is “nowhere” and being intelligent does not grant wisdom. Still, it would be wrong to think he is stupid. He’s just a fool.
Oh, all the leftists I know are highly intelligent and many are very accomplished. I didn’t mean to suggest they’re stupid. I meant that the goals of leftism — maybe ultimately utopia, but in the process everything must be torn down (you need to break a few eggs. . .) — make being a lefty politician relatively easy. Just do the opposite of everything that leads to flourishing. Open the borders, shutdown the energy industry, facilitate the breakdown of the family, suppress religion (the school of virtue), . . . Destruction is easy. It’s creation that takes effort and skill.
No Christians in this group.
I think we’re on the same page. Maybe a few differences, but none worth arguing about.
For a long time Hunter Biden was an object of great contempt in my judgement, but lately I’ve reflected on the fact that he was raised by Joe. That earns him a lot of slack in my book, he just didn’t have a very good start in life.
Someone pointed out a while back that Hunter seemed to go on a downward spiral when Slow Joe became VP. I’ve wondered if that claim was true, and second, if that was because his scumbag father forced him to be the intermediary for Joe’s plans to sell influence. If so, I feel sorry for Hunter.
I think it was just good old fashioned name-recognition. Democrats didn’t care who got elected as long as it wasn’t Trump. So name recognition became the biggest criterion for Democrats in 2020. I’ll bet that the majority of Democrats couldn’t name five of the other candidates who were in the race.
It’s a lot easier focusing on one really bad dude than 100,000,000 people with really bad ideas. We are facing a very difficult situation…maybe insurmountable. One thing that we certainly can do is be true to ourselves. Being free is an attitude. Live with an attitude friends.
I think that is much more true for Democrats than it is for Republicans.
Hunter was an adult. How could he be forced into anything? My father couldn’t have forced me into corruption.
People on the left tend to put a high value on intelligence. That, and spending money are the cure-alls for all the World’s problems. People on the right tend to put a high value on responsibility and character. I’ve known plenty of people who were technically “intelligent,” but in practice it all went down the toilet because their emotional immaturity made it impossible for them to function normally and make use of their intelligence. I’ve also seen the opposite – below average intelligent people who were very successful because they had their act together.
Obviously he’s not running matters, he seems to have been given authority over a few things. So who is in charge? There is too much systematic and rapid movement in a particular direction to write it off as chaos and incompetence, so someone, or some particular group has great input. Dismembering the military isn’t just an accident. Systematically ignoring the border isn’t just to counter Trump’s policy. Destroying small business, exaggerating the disease and concentrating power in Washington to deal with it are counter productive across the board and concentrate power. There should be a systematic focus by folks in a position to discover sources of power. The Chinese have too much influence but there are obviously others’ Senior bureaucrats pretty much across the board. Soros. A Congressional clique happy to go along as long as they keep power. The press, who influences that cabal? Focusing on Biden weakens opposition to to totalitarian drift. He matters but he isn’t driving anything.