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Indeed, Joe Biden has given the history books and content creators a long list of bloopers, gaffes, and other blunders typical of a screwball comedy.
Will President Joe Biden go down as the worst president in modern US history? This is for the American people to decide. Will he be the funniest commander-in-chief since the dawn of the United States? Absolutely. The genius behind Biden’s comedy over the last four years was its unwitting delivery. It was never forced. While President-elect Donald Trump always appears to be doing the cold opening of a Seinfeld episode, Biden was The Truman Show. It is time to say goodbye, so let’s dig through the memories since January 2021.
Joe Biden Fights Gravity
Gravity was Biden’s archnemesis for four years. It was repeatedly a battle between the president and the Air Force One stairs. However, he also found enemies in a bicycle and a sandbag. Indeed, the Biden presidency contained many falls, not just political ones.
In June 2022, flanked by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden attempted to describe America in a single word. It was too bad that the American people could not figure out the adjective. What was it? “Asufutimaehaehfutbw.”
Joe Biden also possesses a rare gift of seeing and speaking to dead people.
On a couple of occasions, the president detailed intimate conversations with world leaders, usually about how “America’s back” and his counterparts asking, “For how long?” The problem is that these individuals died many years ago. In one instance, he claimed conversing with former French President Francois Mitterand, who led the country from 1981 to 1995 and died in 1996. He also said he talked to former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt despite the chancellor passing away in 2015.
‘End of Quote’
In July 2022, when reading a speech off the teleprompter, the president uttered “end of quote” and “repeat the line” when complaining about Republicans’ legislative pursuits on illegal immigration.
In January 2024, President Biden visited a Wisconsin brewery to highlight his Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The English speech suddenly morphed into a different language when he said something about the beer and the Great Lakes. Here is a direct quote: “The beer brewed here… Hah ish issah use to make the brew beer here… Issh da-finer… Oooooh Earth Rider… Thanks for the Great Lakes!”
Months into his presidency, Biden made perhaps one of the most prominent gaffes of his time occupying the White House. At a CNN town hall in July 2021, Biden assured everyone they would not contract COVID-19 if they took the vaccines. “If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the IC unit, and you’re not going to die,” Biden said. “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” His remarks were made when it was already clear the vaccinations would not stop the spread of the coronavirus.
President Biden enjoyed talking about treating everyone with dignity and respect. He suggested in a BET interview that he was getting lambasted because he picked Lloyd Austin as his Defense Secretary. Unfortunately; Biden did not refer to Austin by name. Instead, he called him “the black man.” This was not the first time he forgot Austin’s name. In March 2021, instead of saying Lloyd Austin or even the Pentagon, Biden stated, “I want to thank the secretary, the former general. I keep calling him general. My guy who runs that outfit over there.”
The National Debt
From January 2021 to January 2025, the national debt soared by more than $8 trillion. In fiscal year 2024, the budget deficit was close to $2 trillion.
President Biden would disagree with these numbers. In several public appearances, he claimed that he paid down the national debt. In October 2023, for example, he told reporters that he reduced the federal debt by $1.7 trillion over his first two-and-a-half years. Even when he focused on the budget deficit, Biden got it wrong. In April 2023, the outgoing president proclaimed that he lowered the deficit by a record $1.7 trillion.
In August 2021, Biden suffered one of this century’s most significant political public relations disasters. During a solemn ceremony featuring the dignified transfer of fallen soldiers from Afghanistan, The commander-in-chief checked his watch multiple times. This moment garnered negative media attention, even from his allies in specific alphabet networks and newspapers.
Did Biden not learn from President George H.W. Bush? You never check your watch in public!
The wildfire tragedy in Southern California has resulted in at least two dozen deaths and displaced tens of thousands of people. The economic damage is expected to exceed $250 billion. This did not stop President Biden from making light of the situation during two separate press briefings.
Biden declared at a Santa Monica Fire Station next to Gov. Gavin Newsom: “The good news is that I’m a great-grandfather as of today.” Days later, he told the vice president to “fire away,” though there was “no pun intended.” Not sure how to react, Harris responded with one word: “Indeed.”
The Debate That Ended a Presidency
President Biden’s debate performance against the Republican nominee effectively ended his re-election hopes. Despite the rest of the public seeing this cognitive decline for years, Biden’s supporters in Hollywood, social media, and mainstream press understood what everyone else noticed. Put simply, Biden appeared as the “elderly man with poor memory,” Special Counsel Robert Hur had described in his report on the president’s mishandling of classified documents.
The nail in the coffin? When President-elect Donald Trump said this to CNN’s Jake Tapper: “I really don’t know what he said at the end of the sentence. I don’t think he knows what he said either.”
Indeed, Joe Biden has given the history books and content creators a long list of bloopers, gaffes, and other blunders typical of a screwball comedy. Even before becoming president, Biden was quite the linguist and policy wonk, telling folks about “trunalimunumaprzure,” “nexnelsrent,” and “badehkefkher.” For that reason if no other, he will be missed. Godspeed, Mr. Biden. Godspeed.
The principles of the American Revolution are alive and well on this Inauguration Day.
by Leesa K. Donner | Jan 20, 2025
The United States of America is less than two years away from celebrating its 250th birthday. By most accounts, the nation has just concluded “the most important election of our lifetimes.” But perhaps we are living in a time much more significant than that. Perhaps it’s an election that will usher in an era of peace and prosperity that our founders dreamed of when they took up arms against the most powerful country in the world. It was 1776 when Americans stood their ground and finally said “Enough!” to the king of England. Colonists sent the message that what was needed was nothing less than a revolution, consequences be damned.
It was not an easy decision. Men risked their fortunes and lives, for surely they understood the significance of their actions. What hope did they have of becoming a nation, both separate and free? It was a longshot at best, but they wagered that this freedom, this liberty, they so ardently sought was worth the sacrifice.
Such a time of upheaval was grounded in a few core principles: The tyranny of taxation would no longer be a yoke strangling their futures and those of their children. They believed in three truths: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – all of which were left wanting under British rule. It was this intolerable oppression that they could no longer accept that would lead them to war.
Evolution and Revolution
Americans of the 1700s had little hope of winning this conflict – the task was daunting, and the odds were hardly in their favor. Yet they were men and women who felt trapped by a distant and unresponsive government and believed nothing less than a revolution would free them from such tyranny.
What they needed was an insurrection by patriots.
They began by articulating their opposition to the British crown. Among these voices for liberty was a young Thomas Jefferson, who would join six others from the Virginia colony in standing up for their rights along with many others who would put goose feather quill to parchment.
Even before the Declaration of Independence was signed, the real action was taking place in Massachusetts, where Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and Patrick Henry were digging in and fighting off King George’s men who believed it would not be a heavy lift to put down the American rebellion. It was during the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775 that the “shot heard round the world” was fired. Patriots were overmatched and wildly outnumbered in the early conflicts of the Revolutionary War, yet they persisted in what must have seemed to many a campaign of folly.
Nevertheless, the Americans would not lay down their arms or principles. They would not buckle; their raison d’etre would be to “live free or die.” Unbound by typical rules of engagement, victory would be found in unorthodox methods like guerrilla warfare, pushing beyond all reason, and in the end they would win this terrible war by the sheer force of their blood, sweat, and tears along with the belief that nothing could or would stop their just and righteous cause.
Donald Trump’s Evolution and Revolution
Likewise, who would have believed in 2021 that Donald Trump would rise from the ash heap of Jan. 6 and win the 2024 election? Many a patriot who engaged in what the left labeled an insurrection would suffer, and one woman would have her life snuffed out during the siege of the US Capitol. It could be said that the monarchists on the left won this first battle, but today, as President Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office for a second time, it is evident that he and his band of patriots have ultimately triumphed.
Much like the Revolutionary War, Trump’s election and decisive win against the establishment and its handpicked standard-bearer, Kamala Harris, would overcome the odds. State and federal prosecutors and courts would try to derail Trump from being elected again. And, similar to the British, the leftists had all the powers of a mammoth government at their disposal – and they used it multiple times and in various ways against their foe. With all the fervor that marked the 18th century, there were huge divisions within families, a pitched rivalry between Trump and Harris, and a face-off between patriots and loyalists that hadn’t occurred since the Revolutionary War.
However, Americans in great numbers chose to fight the tyrannical power of the government, which used everything it had to crush Trump and those who believe in his vision of America. In doing so, Americans of all races and creeds have come together and proven that their tough, independent streak — that looks not at the odds but at the righteousness of their cause – is what propels them to victory.
Almost 250 years after Americans declared their independence from England, the overwhelming force they encountered in the last several years only served to inspire them and demonstrate to all the world that the spirit of America lives on.
“…there’s little political upside in defending the rights of undocumented shoplifters.” — Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times.
James Howard Kunstler Jan 20, 2025
If past is prologue, Mr. Trump lacks the acumen to carry out his ambitious agenda. The first problem is management style. In his first term, Mr. Trump was a poor administrator because of his mercurial, polarizing style and a general indifference to facts and the hard work of governance. — Jack Goldsmith, The New York Times
Thus spake one Shawn McCreesh of The New York Times, America’s all-wise, all-knowing font of everlasting rectitude. But to answer his question, why blah blah: Donald Trump is glaring because he means bidness. His bidness is to shift the paradigm on the mendaciously sanctimonious managerial class of the USA, of which The New York Times is the principal mouthpiece. DJT looks stern, does he? All that really tells you is how nervous the Old Gray Lady is. A million or more brains, from sea to shining sea are about to get vacuumed out and redecorated
Readers of The New York Times — in their various C-suites, ivory towers, ateliers, yoga parlors, tasting rooms, bioweapon labs, and other haunts — remain utterly baffled about what is to begin today. No amount of ‘splainin’ seems to suffice. They behold the Golden Golem of Greatness (DJT) doing his dance onstage behind the cop, the Indian chief, and the cowpoke and all they can really see are their own careers going up in smoke (along with vested pensions, reputations, possibly even chattels, marriages, and health).
As I write, long before dawn, “Joe Biden” remains President of the US. You must wonder, as the hours dwindle to noon, what pardon power magic he’s saving for the final minutes of his term, while the whole nation is distracted by the spectacle in the Capitol Rotunda, the moiling dignitaries and celebrities, the solemn arrival of the elect, the snarky palaver of the cable news jockeys, the electric charge of history in the large room. . . .
It is a fact, perhaps missed by some of you, that Rep. James Comer’s House Oversight Committee just last week issued criminal referrals on James Biden (“Joe’s” brother) and First Son Hunter. Wait-a-minute, was not Hunter already pardoned for Gawd-knows how many misdeeds dating back to 2014, and (supposedly) preemptively for any alleged crimes to come ever hereafter? Part B of that may yet have to be adjudicated. A pardon is not intended to be a get-out-of-jail-free card. Anyway, would it be difficult for a federal attorney of average ability to draw a connection between the newly referred crimes of those two and the departing President? Hence, will “Joe Biden” pardon “Joe Biden” at 11:30 this morning?
Not to mention about 1000 other current and former public officials quaking in their Beltway McMansions this frosty morning. This is part and parcel, you understand, of the massive Cleanup in Aisle Four that must happen if the agencies of our federal government can ever be trusted again. For instance, the Department of Justice.
At the end of the workday, Friday, AG Merrick Garland made a triumphal final exit from the building past a throng of cheering and clapping employees, including dozens of federal attorneys who zealously persecuted their fellow citizens under color-of-law for no good reason, or real legal predicate, and ruined many lives and households in the process. Do you suppose they get a free pass on that? And what of the three bears of Lawfare: Norm Eisen, Marc Elias, and Mary McCord, all of them present at the creation of serial affronts against the Constitution (and decency) lo this past decade. Do they just skate? I doubt it, though it might take a while to shine a light on their turpitudes.
Will “Joe Biden” wave his pardon wand over Tony Fauci, Francis Collins, Scott Gottlieb, Deborah Birx, Rochelle Walensky, and dozens of other public health officials who sprung the Covid-19 operation and the deadly vaccinations on the country? Or Ralph Baric, hunkered out of sight in his Carolina lab? You realize, of course, that the orgy of illness and death from that is hardly over. For four years under “JB” the truth has been obfuscated and buried, because none of those characters has really had to answer for anything.
So, today another door opens. The To-Do list for Mr. Trump and his aides-de-camp is dauntingly long, the corrections needed are monumental. You might have even noticed that such corrections are badly needed all over the other countries of Western Civ, and strangely many are already following suit. The WEF-inflected governments of France, Germany, and the UK are already a’wobble, and Justin Trudeau threw in the towel two weeks ago. An Arctic blast could not be more fitting for what will move through the DC Swamp at high noon today. That is, if Mr. Trump manages to survive the hours until his swearing-in. Godspeed Number 47! And everybody else: put your tray tables up! A patch of turbulence ahead!
Update: I posted the above blog ten minutes before “Joe Biden” issued his raft of pardons for Fauci, the J6 Committee members, and others. We will have to stand by to see whether a “preemptive” pardon is a legitimate legal instrument. My guess is that it is not.
Gone But Not Forgiven - Inauguration Day 2025 by Stilton Jarlsberg
Monday, January 20, 2025
What a lucky "coincidence" that Jimmy Carter just moved out...
Today is Inauguration Day, 2025. The day when Donald Trump will return to the office of President of the United States, replacing...well...we don't know who the hell has been running the country into the ground for the past four years because it definitely wasn't the ancient dementia-ridden criminal bastard who has been the sock puppet of some pretty dark damn puppeteers. The four-year lie that Joe Biden was even marginally mentally competent is an insult to Americans that should neither be forgotten nor forgiven, preemptive pardons or not. Now that "Make America Great Again" is officially policy, I'd like to see a new phrase put into play by the new Trump administration: "Reap the Whirlwind."
What the Left rabidly describes as "revenge" will actually look more like 100% legal justice...and long overdue justice at that. From mere malfeasance to treason, there is a long list of scoundrels who deserve comeuppance.
This is, of course, assuming that The Swamp fails in their next attempt(s) to kill or incriminate Trump. Which is sadly not an assumption I'm making just yet. Still, today's inauguration marks a potentially bright light in the darkness.
Since election day, Trump has already racked up impressive accomplishments on the world stage. I'm optimistic, for the first time in a very long time, that maybe we really can make America great again. Shipping the vile Biden family out of Washington is a good start.
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