Joe Biden- Everything Orange Jesus will never be
Donald Trump deserves an orange prison jumpsuit...not four years in the White House
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
Charles Bukowski
Joe Biden’s trip to Charleston, SC, was- depending on your perspective- either an opportunity to speak to America’s better angels or to pander to Liberal pussies who hate America and wish for nothing more than an opportunity to destroy it.
It was an opportunity for Biden to push back against Republicans in Congress who’ve been lying about him, his agenda, and (still) the 2020 election.
That Republicans are still lying about the President only underscores how little they have to offer the American Sheeple.
President Joe Biden delivered a powerful speech Monday at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The state is simultaneously friendly and hostile territory, as Black southerners remain his most loyal supporters, and white southerners overwhelmingly back the New York-born fascist.
South Carolina Republicans, of course, took great offense at Biden’s visit, because they can’t let Black people enjoy anything that’s just for us. Donald Trump boot licker Nancy Mace released a video on the generic social media site in which she mocked Biden for failing to “restore the soul of the nation” and promote harmony with the same people who tried to overturn his election victory.
“Today, Joe Biden will visit Charleston and try to use the pulpit of a church to further divide our nation and distract from his failures on the economy, the border and foreign policy.”
Mace, whose district in Charleston was ruled an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, is a singularly graceless liar, which not-so coincidentally was a major theme of Biden’s speech.
Rep. Mace is indeed a graceless liar and GOP mouthpiece repeating cheap falsehoods and Republican talking points. By now, we should understand that every Republican accusation is a confession, regardless of who it comes from. Mace is accusing President Biden of dividing the nation and distracting Americans from failures on the economy, the border, and foreign policy- all things that can be laid at the feet of the GOP. But rather than accept responsibility for their shortcomings, they’re blaming the President.
It’s one thing to lie; it’s quite another to do it so artlessly and devoid of sophistication that the purpose becomes ridiculously and immediately transparent. Republicans like Mace can’t point to any accomplishments from this Congress. So they’re attempting to deflect blame onto President Biden, hoping no one will notice their incompetence and self-righteous partisanship.
The GOP’s lack of accomplishments has nothing to do with Joe Biden. It has everything to do with their refusal to take any action that might hand the President anything faintly redolent of a political victory in an election year.
“Once again, there are some in this country trying to turn a loss into a lie — a lie which, if allowed to live, will once again bring terrible damage to this country,” Biden told the 700 parishioners and other guests gathered at the church. “This time, the lie is about the 2020 election.”
Seriously, four years after the fact, there are those STILL convinced that the 2020 election was stolen and, therefore, Joe Biden is STILL an illegitimate President. They have yet to accept that the election was free, fair, and legitimate…and that NO ONE has put forward evidence that suggests otherwise. Despite numerous opportunities to lay their cards on the table, these folks are still bluffing because they’re holding nothing that supports their case.
Time to move on, y’all. It’s over. It was over three-plus years ago, and nothing you can do or say will change that. It’s time to stop looking backward; nothing good will come of that.
Biden repeatedly called Trump a “loser,” which he is, but it’s also an effective line of attack because it highlights how small Trump is. He’s a wannabe despot, sure, but at his core, he’s an emotionally empty coward who couldn’t accept so public a defeat (one that not even the Electoral College could erase), so he torched the very foundations of our democracy.
Honestly, calling Trump a “loser” is being kind, but it’s probably the one word that hits Orange Jesus where he lives…because deep down, he’s recognizes the truth behind it. Donald Trump is a loser.
In his mind, though, he’s constantly the victim. Always the one being wronged. Donald Trump is perpetually being attacked by the Deep State and Joe Biden’s Department of Justice. All of this is happening because America KNOWS that Trump is the only person who can save them from the forces of evil and incompetence within the corrupt Democratic power structure.
Or something like that.
For a man who claims to be fabulously wealthy and successful, Mango Mussolini certainly has a world-class persecution complex.
The president also had some fiery words for Gone With The Wind fan-fic writer and less successful presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who keeps sticking her zip-a-dee in her doo-dah whenever she discusses the Civil War.
“Let me be clear for those who don’t seem to know — slavery was the cause of the Civil War,” Biden said. “There’s no negotiation about that.”
So Haley couldn’t think fast enough on her feet to answer the question in a way that would satisfy the press while not pissing off her racist supporters…and in the end, she angered everyone by not stating the obvious:
Slavery was the proximate cause of the Civil War. Period. Next question, please.
That’s all she had to say to ensure we’d ridicule her for some other stupid misstatement. Then again, what do you expect from someone who’s spent her life trying to pass herself off as White?
No, I don’t care about her racial background…but she clearly does, given the lengths she’s gone to pass as White in South Carolina. Instead of being who she is, she’s spent her career in politics endeavoring to be something she’s not. That may have worked in South Carolina, but it will be a handicap running for President. It betrays a lack of character and the impression that she’s ashamed of who and what she is.
But, as much as I could go on at some considerable link about the considerable and awful banality of Nikki Haley, she’s a minor threat, a mosquito on an elephant’s ass, if you will. Even in her native South Carolina, no one gives a shit about her chances.
Regrettably, I must report that some morons showed up to heckle Biden during his speech. They chanted “cease fire now!” as if this were in any way an appropriate venue for their protest. This ain’t open mic night. You interrupt a speaker at Black church and you’re gonna get hit upside the head by an old lady’s crown. Biden was more patient with the attention seekers than they deserved, and of course Fox News relished the spectacle. The hecklers were eventually drowned out by chants of “four more years!” — like this was a damn sports arena and not a place of worship where nine people were murdered. When a relative of Susie Jackson, one of the slain, rightly spoke out against the church protest, online dunces called her “pro-genocide.” These are not people who are actually concerned about Gaza or anyone but themselves. (I’m sure the geniuses online who defend this ghoulish behavior will insist that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. frequently crashed church services.)
Regrettably, I must observe that there will always be idiots and assholes among us unwilling to respect the office of the Presidency, if not the man. This is especially true given where President Biden’s speech took place. A White Supremacist slaughtered nine people at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. If that isn’t a reason for respect, I can’t imagine what would be.
That says more about the idiots and assholes than it could ever say about President Biden.
There’s a time and a place for protest. The Mother Emanuel AME Church was neither. Then again, when you’re an idiot and/or an asshole, you’re too self-absorbed and too busy checking your knuckles for scabs to care.
Biden somberly recalled how the 2015 slaughter took place just a few feet from where he stood. Gunfire might’ve taken those nine people’s lives, but the gunman himself was filled with a deadly poison.
“What is that poison?” Biden asked. “White supremacy. Throughout our history, it’s ripped this nation apart. This has no place in America — not today, tomorrow or ever.”
From The New York Times:
He added that hope sprang from tragedy, noting that the shooting in 2015 led South Carolina to lower the Confederate battle flag that had flown on the grounds of the State House, though he did not mention that it was Ms. Haley as governor who led the drive for a law to do so.
Led the drive? GTFOH. More like she was dragged kicking and screaming after years of appeasing Confederate apologists. The NAACP had staged a longtime boycott over the traitor flag that cost the state at least $10 million in lost tourism. This is going to be one of those New York Times articles, isn’t it?
Yes, Dylann Roof may have slaughtered nine innocents on that horrible day in 2015, but he didn’t emerge victorious. People in Charleston and at the Mother Emanuel AME Church didn’t allow Roof’s murder spree to leave them embittered. They carried on carrying on, which they do to this day.
Love wins. That was shown when those present at the church on that fateful day welcomed Dylann Roof to join them in worship before he opened fire.
Ultimately, though, it was just another brick in the wall. Just another mass shooting, another tragic example of the sickness in this country that our leaders refuse to address. And so the random tragedies continue, unabated and unaddressed, because according to Proudly Intransigent Gun Control Foes © and the gun lobby, it’s always “too soon.”
Peter Baker at the Times suggested Biden was simply trying to “rally disaffected Black supporters” and someone on CNN claimed he was reaching out to Black voters “at the last minute.” Yes, Biden’s speech was political, but not cynically so. He’s speaking directly to Black Americans about the existential threat from crazy-ass Republicans, and voting is how we keep our front-of-the bus privileges.
Baker cites the Times’ own polling that showed 22 percent of Black voters in six battleground states had lost their damn minds and planned to vote for Trump. That’s a major surge from Trump’s six percent nationally in 2016 and eight percent in 2020. However, please don’t shrug off that bleak statistic as impossible unless you’ve actually spoken to a Black person in the past year … who’s not me.
One could certainly focus on the claim that Biden’s speech was a political act, but what isn’t political nine-plus months out from a Presidential election? Every time one of the candidates farts, the national media will be parsing it for the political significance of their most recent meal.
Of course, you could always watch the speech for yourself and draw your own conclusions:
And, of course, no Biden visit to Charleston would be complete without an unhinged reaction by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). Sen. Scott, that rarest of birds- a Black Republican- had his own…um, unique…take on the President’s speech:
“President Biden’s visit to Charleston to stoke fears as his numbers are dropping amongst all minority groups is remarkable,” said Mr. Scott, who dropped out of the Republican presidential contest when his own campaign failed to gain traction. “But it’s also indicative of the fact that people of color, Americans all across this nation, are losing confidence in this president.”
Scott himself resorted to actual scare tactics during his failed presidential campaign, which he launched at Ft. Sumter where he insultingly compared Biden and Kamala Harris, the first Black vice president, to the Confederacy. He also supports Donald Trump, who offers nothing but division and hatred, demonizing his political opponents and smearing private citizens. (The judge in one of his several criminal trials had to issue a gag order.) This weekend, he mocked dead war hero John McCain’s physical disability. (Still, again.) It’s not as if Biden is making this personal while Trump soberly presents his proposals to reduce inflation. No one’s dumb enough to believe that … well, except for The New York Times.
That Sen. Scott, a Black man, could seriously defend Trump, a racist to his core, defies rational understanding. But while trying to understand that is worth a few thousand words, the Times is busily trying to “both-sides” the Presidential race.
(I’m sorely tempted to cancel my NYT subscription. The editorial staff is so concerned about not wanting to appear partisan that their efforts to appear neutral are becoming ludicrous.)
It’s beginning to appear that the 2024 Presidential campaign is about to degrade into a battle for control of language. As daft as Trump may appear, like many despots he’s adept at controlling the conversation so that any debate occurs on terms that favors him and allows him to frame said debate.
WITHIN THE PAST 72 HOURS, Trump has made at least five moronic, dangerous, or incendiary comments. And if the past is any guide, the press and social media will be all over each of them. Some will decry his vicious allusion to John McCain’s disabilities, earned in a war Trump evaded (“For some reason, he couldn’t get his arm up”). In a sane world, one could imagine, under trying circumstances, a living McCain insulting a young Trump’s cowardice. But the draft dodger mocking the war hero, and being cheered by the party that supposedly reveres “strength”? As the kids say, “I can’t even . . .”
Others will be outraged by his description of the January 6th defendants as “hostages,” his attempted appropriation of the term “insurrectionist” (applying it to Biden), and his claim that forces other than Trump cultists were responsible for the violence. Those given to whimsy can contemplate his assertion that magnets don’t work if you drop them in water, or his claim that if he had been around to “negotiate” the Civil War, nobody would ever have heard of Abraham Lincoln. (Trump was reportedly gobsmacked in 2017 to discover that Lincoln was a Republican.)
This is playing by Trump’s rules and dancing to his tune. We have yet to learn not to let him dictate the national conversation. It was a neat trick in 2015 and 2016 to spew so many outrageous statements that the rest of us couldn’t 1) keep track of the lies and calumnies, 2) fact-check them, 3) express dismay, or 4) talk about anything but the latest outrage.
Yes, Trump is a walking, talking moral and ethical dumpster fire with the verbal and intellectual range of a 12-year-old. That said, like any bully, he’s very good at controlling the things that devolve to his advantage. He will never conduct himself by the rules, whether in a discussion or on the debate stage. This works to his advantage when his adversary is used to and expecting to play by previously agreed-upon rules.
Donald Trump is a cross between the 800-lb gorilla in the room and a bull in a china shop. He gains the advantage because he’s comfortable with aggressively acting the fool, and he knows that those who oppose him aren’t.
Shutting Trump down will take someone willing to stand up to him, someone willing to face him down and make it clear he’s not going to take any of his bullshit theatrics. Bullies tend to back down when it becomes clear that their attempts to intimidate aren’t working. Donald Trump is all bluff and no bite; if someone stands in his way and makes it clear that he’s not about to be pushed around, the results might be surprising.
The question, of course, is whether or not Joe Biden is willing to do that. Doing so could be the key to his re-election.
Bullies don’t like it when their marks stand up to them, because they rarely have a strategy (or the courage) to follow up on their bluster and threats.
Whatever the case may be, it should be clear that Joe Biden did something that Donald Trump would never have done during his time as President- show compassion and empathy for a minority community that had suffered a mass shooting. Trump couldn’t define either word, much less display those qualities.
The ability to convincingly model compassion and empathy make Joe Biden eminently qualified to lead this country for the next four years as he has for the past four. Trump’s lack of those qualities won’t matter, because if justice prevails, he should live out the rest of his life wearing an orange jumpsuit in a federal lockup.
Karma’s a real bitch…and it’s time Mango Mussolini’s caught up with him.
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