Bye Bye Biden
President Biden is a month way from being former President Biden. He has taken off for his home in Delaware – I assume for the Christmas holiday. Will he return to his desk in the Oval Office? Will he attend the Inauguration?
Do not know – and it really does not matter. He no longer is a functioning President – in more ways than one. His only significant potential action – and one that is likely to further damage his reputation and already limited legacy – is to issue an insane number of pardons.
As was the case of his most recent pardons – including his son – they will represent an abuse of the power and purpose of pardons. I will be paying off a lot of bets if his next round of pardons do not include family and friends associated with Hunter’s business dealings with Ukraine, Russia and China – especially now that Hunter can be subpoenaed as a compelled witness.
Whether Biden hangs around the Oval Office or not, his days of relevancy are over. From the moment the 2024 presidential election was called by the national media, former President Trump not only became President-elect but essentially the de facto President. The center of political gravity in America shifted from the White House in Washington, D.C. to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach Florida. World and American leaders of every sort have been on the phones with Trump – many making a homage trip to Trump’s lavish country club home. And not stopping by the White House en route.
In case you missed it, Biden may have already given his farewell address. He recently traveled to the Department of Labor to make his (hopefully) final summation of his presidency – as he sees it (or at least hopes how we see it).
Biden’s address to the nation did not get a lot of coverage. None of the television stations interrupted normal programming to air the speech. It received its greatest attention from MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, who used up an entire segment praising the speech and Biden – and criticizing the news media for not covering it. But then, that is Lawrence O’Donnell and his shrinking audience.
In the first part of his address to the nation, Biden went over his list of accomplishments. It sounded as though his staff had loaded one of his old campaign speeches in the teleprompter. He self-praised the wonderful economy he produced with his misnamed Inflation Reduction Act, the Infrastructure Bill and the Chips Act. The public has heard that speech repeatedly – when he was running and then carried forward by the Harris campaign. In both cases, voters were not buying it.
Biden is trying to convince a very skeptical nation. According to the most recent FOX News survey only 23 percent of votes view the Biden economy in positive terms – 77 percent negative. Only 33 percent of Democrats say that his economy has helped them – 17 percent say it hurt them, and 50 percent say it made no difference. With those numbers, it makes no sense for Biden to make the economy his greatest contribution. He is trying to pump life into a dead horse that has already turned to dust.
Since the speech was his own political obituary, one can understand why there was no mention of his contribution to the worst inflation in decades … the Russian invasion of Ukraine that he failed to stop … the failure to win the release of American hostages held by Hamas … the re-emergence of Iran as a sell financed state sponsor of terrorism … and Afghanistan, of course.
A good portion of his speech, however, was in praise of President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. Biden waxed on about the greatness of the New Deal. I had a sudden impulse to check the calendar. It sounded like speeches Democrats gave in the 1940s and 1950s when their Party WAS the Party of Labor. At best, it was a speech reflecting the reverie of an old warrior living in the past.
As with such historical narratives, his romanticized reflections failed to address the fact that FDR was a strident racist and White supremacist – and that the New Deal programs were racist to the core — designed to shift jobs from Black workers to unemployed White workers. In fact, the NAACP of the times called the National Recovery Act (NRA) the “Negro Riddance Act.” But that is not what Biden wanted we the people to remember.
Biden is exiting the world stage with a whimper – a feeble old man who stayed at the fair too long. He is departing office lamer than any lame duck President in modern times. Perhaps it is just a problem of comparison.
So, there ‘tis.
Larry, you left no secret of your bottomless contempt for the left and Biden in particular. As Biden has been this nation’s duly elected president of all Americans, whether you accept it or not, since January 20, 2021, your apparent neglect of any semblance of respect for a respectable person that Biden has proven through his long career in elected public service.
Biden may seem to have physically been showing his advanced age, but as you can personally attest to your physical ability does not directly correlate to your mental acuity.
There is no comparison between Biden and Trump that Biden garners more objective respect in the greater international population.
Your highly partisan right persuasion means objective True /False assessment of Biden’s history in Congress, as well as his terms in office as VP 2 terms and President 1 term, is factually suspect.
What you have to look forward to with Trump in office and your guys in a meager majority, you will experience a let down. It comes after your blood sport hunt conducted on Biden and everyone associated with him and his family has energized your sarcastic pessimism.
Although, Trump has a Rocky Mountain Range amazing quantity of dirty deals and deeds through his history in property development and politics local and national, that has provided a huge treasure trove of dirt. I doubt your MO of preferring left wing targeted muck racking will find much material in Trump’s media possessed shadow.
You know Trump’s low regard for all who even dare to a mere dream disloyal to anything Trump related. Your opinion punditry prioritizing the left’s presence in politics with commentary positioned firmly on the politically right with great prejudice, which is a fact that you can’t deny. It’s your claim to allusive fame.
The truth is, given the depth of your conviction and loyalty to the right’s ideology, the apparent impossibility in this is your total inability to be objective.
Your opinion does not have room for or the flexibility that objective thinking demands. Objective Truth shines a harsh light on both right and left perspectives revealing glaring flaws. On the left what few flaws that objectivity reveals do not match up at all to the allegations those stories you and PBP’s writers post.
The left has been your punching bag since you cut your political punditry teeth many years ago in Chicago. It wasn’t until you created PBP that your monetizing the solitary punching on your bag of old perceptions hung on the ancient faded post dug into your past.
What you think you are seeing happening in politics during Trump’s term will produce an unprecedented period in U.S. history, when a President has turned upside down those normal conventions dedicated to governing by established laws and organized government’s efficiencies.
Since, Trump’s historic MO is creating chaotic conditions that ensure disorganized inefficiencies. Managing constant chaos created by disorganized shifting managerial order giving and an absence of direct logic is textbook insanity.
When Trump’s term has ended (assuming that will happen) if possible that notes are available. His administration will be a ready made situation study in psychopathology particularly the Trump Executive Administration. That would be an interesting read, in deed.
Bye, Bye, Larry Horist. Your pessimistic punditry work is done here. It is time.
AC .. Not sure why you think my work here is done. You make no sense. But then your longer rants make no sense either. Just the angry and bitter ramblings of an old man with a loose grip on reality. And you question my mental acuity. LOL
AC … You just figured out that I am not a big fan of Joe Biden. You are correct. He does not have my respect. I see him as a high partisan hack politician who has been living (well) off the taxpayer for an entire lifetime — and without much accomplishment other than holding public office. I see a man without =any foundational principles. Just look at his record over time. He bends to the times. I seem to be in good company since almost two-thirds of all American look on Biden unfavorably according to the polls. My assessment of Biden has nothing to do with my opinion of Trump. You cannot seem to separate anything you think from Trump. Your obsessive hatred of Trump informs all you political opinions.
Ah, the honeymoon period is always the best. And the author will milk it till the cow’s go dry. Tugging at Trump’s teat, he suckles up, this buttercup, with no thought of buckle up as the pandemonium begins.
Yes, bye, bye, Larry Horist, you have won, you not only have vanquished Biden, but you are enjoying dancing on his grave like the school boy picking a fight and screaming the other guy started it. Enjoy your victory in retirement. Your legacy will always feature Spanky the Clown. And for you:
Twas the night before Christmas, when all though the House
Not a representative was stirring, not Comer, Jordan or even the louse
Pelosi effigies were hung by the chimney with care
In hopes that St. Donald would soon have real hair
Us Democrats were nested all snug in our beds
Visions of no-sugar-added organic gluten-free sugar plums danced in our heads
And Mama in her pink ‘kerchief, and I, my woke rainbow cap,
had just settled our brains for a long 4-year nap.
When out on the roof there arose such a clatter,
I grabbed my little 2A friend, to see what the fuck was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
tore open the shutter, and grabbed my special stash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
gave 70’s flashbacks to the objects below,
when, what to my dopey eyes should appear,
but a miniature sleigh and eight tiny Trumplicant haters of queers.
With a little old driver, braggadocio lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be the pugnacious prick
More rabid than racoons, his spews how they came,
as he whined and ranted and called people bad names:
“Now Gaetz! Now Greene!
Now, Johnson and Mitch!
On, Mushy! On, Putin!
On, Harris, you bitch!
To the top of the government!
To my Mexico-paid-for wall!
Now smash a way, clash a way!
Condemn Democrats all!”
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky
so up to the House chamber, the supplicants flew,
with the sleigh full of old grievances, and the pugnacious prick too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
the prancing and pawing of each little cloven devil hoof.
As I drew my head in and was turning around,
down the chimney he came with a bound.
He was dressed in real animal fur, from his head to his foot,
and his stories were tarnished with verbal ashes, trashes, and soot.
A bundle of stolen documents he had flung on his back,
and he looked like a Snowden just opening his hack.
His eyes–how dull! His dimples, how scarry!
His cheeks were like roses, from the recent election, Uncle Scarry!
His droll little mouth was screwed up like a Schmoe,
and the beard on his chin sure needed a mow.
The stump of his pot pipe held tight in his teeth,
and the smoke it let off encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a fat ugly face and a little round belly,
and wrote things that stopped laughs, things that were really smelly.
He was chubby and plump, a jolly internet troll,
and I laughed when I saw him, in spite of my goal.
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head
soon gave me to know his ideas were old and quite dead.
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
and emptied the stockings, yeah, he’s that jerk.
And giving me the middle finger aside of his nose,
and giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
I nailed him from 50 yards out as to his team gave a whistle,
Cuz my state has stand your ground, I could use my old pistol.
But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he fell into the night,
“I still hate all Democrats, keep them out of my sight.
Merry Christmas.
Frank Danger … LOL Your parody poetry is as bad as your prose. But it does again show that I am the object of your obsession. You keep this up, you will make Tom jealous. LOL
Wow, Merry Christmas to the narcissist general….. Just kidding, can’t read your mind, but your words lead me to believe you think this is all about you. Take a lot personally, feel insulted a lot, yada, yada, yada.
Obsessed with you? Shirley, you jest.
We will try this one more time, like NYear’s resolutions, just once a year. I AM obsessed with the issues, the extreme MAGA right’s point of view, and I not only can get a good dose of that here, Joe – bless his heart – allows easy posting, so I USE YOU to understand, then do some research, and post what I learned. Note that each of us spins towards liberal or conservative.
You seem to think I spend all my time doing this, no so. Not to mention that you all seem to spend all of your time doing it too. So, OK for you, but not for others? Weird logic for a writer to ask his readers to stand down, get a life, and quit responding to your tomes.
I still hold my Clintonian beliefs to be conservative on the money and liberal on the issues. You seem to be turning more MAGA extreme every day moving away from Reaganesque ideologies.
Yes, I wrote that poem with you in mind but I write a similar one every year. As, as you noted, not very good because I spent little time on it.
Obsessed, no. The fact that you get all defensive, knickers so knotted you have to lash out and lower yourself with vindictive, petty, names meant to demean the person just is icing on the cake that I am bad, you’ve been had, but at least now we all know. As you note, I speak out on most writers here, and, by far, The Dumpster is the worst and my pushback on his lies is far more than anything you face. You spin, but rarely lie, mostly of ignorance, not purposeful. What I do here is probably similar to you obsessing over MSNBC, CNN, picking on Mika for being weak, Joe for being mean to her, as if you are watching 24×7. Is that obsession? Is this?
So, there’s your gift, my explanation so you can move on from your obsession with obsession. Merry Christmas and I hope next year we can discuss issues, facts, figures, ideas, and leave the trailer trash talk in Boca, where it belongs. Stick to the issues and leave the personalities be.
I spell my name: Danger. And I am frank about things.
Never-the-less Larry, what is it exactly that you see in Trump that qualifies him to assume the huge responsibility that is the U.S. President? Surely you must have Trump’s achievements listed and ready to write.
It can’t be that he has shown particular wizardry at anything he said he was the best at and probably more of than any president before him. His grasp of basic Civics appears minimal. He displays no knowledge in the matter of how a bill becomes law. The process is befuddling for his limited comprehension of the democratic two party system that defines what the US Government’s operates with.
Trump should have learned during his first term what the limits and boundaries are and where they stop in this country’s 3 Branches of government system. The President’s position is enumerated specifically on the pages of the U.S. Constitution. No where does the law of the land give the President and more to the point, any president – elect a right to attempt an over ride of a bill in progress while in either house of Congress.
Trump has over stepped his rights as an unelected and not sworn in US Citizen. His presumption of high position and bully rights for committing abuse of Congress.
In the end Trump snd Musk lost their audacious attempt at scuttling Budget negotiators. What became a bi-partisan comprise bill passing both houses was a rout of the Trump-Musk self serving initiative and a win for the country as a whole.
Trump’s antics are a prime example of who he is all about and where his political skills are not.
Larry, your previous hand hold on the slippery slope that is your trust in Trump has been Trump’s policies.
What exactly are those policies of Trump’s that uniquely grant him your trust, undoubtedly your respect?
Historically Trump has not had respect for military veterans, current serving generals, and complicated national security strategies. He operates under the notion that he knows more about the military, NASA, international diplomacy, human health, and Presidential Immunity. Armed with his advanced knowledge he has picked individuals with no background training and understanding of the departments Trump nominated each of them responsibility for.
Clear headed practical wise judgement happens to be the critical part of decision making in all respects of the president carrying out his duties and responsibility to the entire nation. Every man, woman, and minor child.
Trump has not lived up to the expectation of the majority of Americans who he is about to represent in the role of POTUS.
Your poles are laughable as they are useless in the current political chaos. Quote any of your favorites as you will, but you risk going out on a rotten limb when you take the numbers to be accurate. Accuracy in polls died with the results predicting which Candidate was ahead.
Trump himself took exception with a particular pollster and is attempting a suit against her for her inaccuracy in the Iowa vote. Trump argued that the pollster called it close or had Harris’s wining by 2 points.
It’s of no matter what the poll wrongly predicted. After all, didn’t Trump win in Iowa and the election. Why would he waste his lawyer’s expensive time on a frivolous lawsuit? Poor judgement, avarice, greed, retribution, and misdirected anger do not add up and sum to make the high measure demanded of the man who will soon be sworn in as POTUS.
In the assessment of those who use objective judgement of relevant facts which are appropriate to deciding the case regarding Trump’ and his personal capacity’s sufficiency for the job of POTUS, the verdict has been that Trump does not possess the necessary high grade qualifications required to successfully perform at the level of POTUS.
For what ever reasons people voted Trump, they did do in number and enough for Trump to win.
It’s a reality that we all will live in until 2029.
Objectively the election result run against every known rationale for what and who the president must support and must be in his person. It’s well known that Trump does not know the importance the Constitution has been in American History nor does he speak to caring what it means when he is president.
If we the people by a majority of the total votes counted voted in error, electing someone not fit to be president. It’s not the first incidence and this election may not be the last unqualified president. The country will make its way through and survive. It’s early on and before Trump 2.0 commences. The truth will be found in time as Trump’s term proceeds and encounters opportunities and makes decisions on choices. Who will benefit the most, himself and the country, or himself more and the country less. Eventually the stories’ facts will become known.
Larry, you have called me “old man” with the presumption that old means weak and lacking intellect. I have it on good authority that your age and Trump’s are alike. At 78 going on 79 it really rich and hypocritical but naturally hypocritical of you to tell me anything like the “old man” quip.
It’s all you. The old man thing you toss about as if it’s a hand through bomb has rightly landed at your feet.
I may be old in years but you, old man, are senior to me by far and so is your beloved mate old man Trump.
You rate my comments as a rant. If that is as s you see it, then the articles written by you against the left amount to nothing instructive and true. Therefore, with anger and malice your efforts writing equal what are but meaningless tirades that bounce off and rantings of a mad person who has not really ever got his way as wanted in upper level politics. Ever being denied the status you believe was yours and missed out on the wealth owed. Denigrating Joe S out of contempt for “Mornings Joe” and jealousy of his wealth.
Larry, no matter how you spin it in your head. It’s a fact, you are more to be pitied than you are to be feared. How toothless are your comments alleging another’s failure where there is none and attempting authority with merely claiming it’s owed you. Then your reputation does preceded you and it not stellar enough and does not warrant the claims you make.
The little I claim happens to be less than maybe accrued to my account. You, on the other hand, keep reaching to the heights, but never making it into that region. Your’s is a sad case indeed, not accepting the reality that is the truth and at life’s last remains still grappling for that one cord you supposed would lift you up.