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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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If I finish the race and make it to heaven some day, I’m going to ask God why evil men seem to live well into old age when better men die young. How did Soros survive COVID when he looks like an exhumed corpse already?? I bet he has a warehouse of Ivermectin and zinc.
As for who’s running things, I don’t think it’s one person. The centers of control almost certainly include Kalorama, that’s the HQ for Klown Ko., but the other controllers have to be wealthy. Think it thru – what would it take to buy into that role? Power, is the answer. Power in that sense implies an organization. The only organization center I see with that kind of power is the Obama ecosystem. The others, therefore, must be financially-based, that is, bankrolled by great wealth. The Open Society network includes “philanthropic” foundations and probably most of the quangos, and we can guess who runs it. Add Zuckerberg’s crew, and the evil board room starts to look crowded.
My money is on Mini-me:
I always used to chuckle when watching a James Bond 007 movie. Why would anyone with all that money want the headache of running the world?
And Trump got elected in 2016 because Republicans didn’t care who got elected as long as it wasn’t Clinton.
There is some indication that Joe was a terrible father according to his daughter that no one talks about. Crowder talks about this on Rumble. I wish there was more research into this by more diverse journalists. I like Crowder but he does have a tendency to go overboard.
What good is money if you can’t rule the world with it? (If you don’t understand that, then you’re not the kind of person who is ever going to be become a .001 percenter.)
Ronnie Reagan doesn’t have much good to say about his father either.
On submarines, you call any non-qualified person or passenger a FLOB – free-loading oxygen breather . . .
I was just young and silly back when James Bond was a thing. Now I realize that “I could have been a contenda'” for the .001% club if I just had been a little more focused.
Most “Progressives” see the rest of us as FLOBs.
Yeah. Sons aren’t the most reliable of people. I get that Reagan wasn’t he easiest father to get along with Ronnie could didn’t have to repeat the lies the left. (Ronald Reagan was a pretty decent dude to homosexual Americans and he did not cause homelessness.)
Ronnie has always impressed me as a spoiled child, whatever his age. At least Hunter has the excuse of losing his mother at a young age. Ronnie is a child of privilege comparatively, and an ungrateful one at that. I always find that incredibly unattractive.
There’s a fairly large Republican pundit class that just loves to trash Democrats. It’s very easy to do, and it avoids the problems of what ‘we’ should do or be doing. We have discovered these last 5 or 6 years how they like open borders global corporatism and foreign adventures uber alles, and are relatively uncaring when it comes to our freedom(s) and the corruption of our intel agencies.
They think that if they spend enough time attacking Biden or Kamala or Hillary or AOC, when the next election comes around we will be dying for Chris Christie or Jeb Bush.
We need more Republican governors out front with a strong agenda in the coming election year.
Maybe it was the addiction(s)?
Addiction to what, money? We know he was a drug user, do we know that he was addicted?
Considering what he was using, it’s pretty likely that he was – and probably still is – addicted. Being able to continue his supply and not go to prison – or rebab – could have made him very “pliable.” Like he’s the streetwalker and Joe is his pimp.
I suppose it’s possible that he is a weak adult seeking the approval of his father. Or a weak, amoral adult who saw in his father’s corruption a way to make money for himself.
I think the second is more likely.
And “easy money” is especially attractive to an addict.
A reminder for people.
What’s your point?
Republican pundits might number too many ranting noisemakers (Hannity. Had to type it. Couldn’t get past this sentence otherwise.) who are all heat and no light, but that article reminds us that every person of the left is a liar.