Politics 2020

[Buster's Uncle]

Democrats, You Really Do Not Want To Nominate Joe Biden

Exhaustingly hyperlinked with examples of facts asserted.  I used to read a lot of PhD.-level peer-reviewed published academic papers while helping my sister assemble grad course syllabi, and Nathan J. Robinson has totally punked the entire comm studies field for comprehensive attribution.  Click on it and see if you can make it ten paragraphs before brain fatigue shuts you down...

[Buster's Uncle]

-And back to the senile talk about Joe ALL OVER the nets allasudden-

-My two next-door grandparents and my dad all died with several years of dementia under their belts - I was there and an important part of their care.  I think I can claim a little expertise.

The schedule Biden's working, traveling and speaking?  You couldn't do it and speak so sensibly and well after a few days, let alone over a year now.  He's healthier than I am, just tired and suppressing a stutter.  I rather think if he was only a teeny bit senile, right now he couldn't hold up his end of a breakfast conversation.

I have hopes for the next debate, but don't kid yourselves; Joe's good at that.  It ain't going to be a Warren v. Bloomberg knockout.

[ColdWizard]

-But, on the other hand, this is JOE BIDEN we're talking about - tripping over his tongue/misspeaking is sorta his signature going decades back.

I remember Dubya getting dragged for his speaking and the Quayle jokes but I don't remember hearing that about Biden. 


The New Hampshire/Nevada thing I wouldn't even care about on it's own, like trying to get on the wrong private jet. Running for Senate though? I brain fart plenty but that seems more like a brain shart. And I don't even know where to begin trying to parse "vote for the other Biden".

[Buster's Uncle]

Funny thing; until he ran for vice president 12 years ago, I knew he'd run loser presidential campaigns more than once and chaired the committee that maltreated Anita Hill and approved Clarence Thomas.

I was surprised to find out he was so charming and warm, which was a real failure of those presidential runs.  His eternal misspeaking was very much widely discussed at the time, I swear. 

[ColdWizard]

Ah, I was still a youngster back then and there's no way it would have been on my radar. Makes sense that I'd only remember the giant blip that was Dan Quayle.

[Buster's Uncle]

So, I've been intensely following some Liberals Screaming On Twitter since the actual primaries began and the democratic field had winnowed down to few enough people to keep track of.  As is my wont, I've naturally fallen into thought and study about --- and here I need your help, Rusty, 'cause you're so brilliant at generating pithy tags --- I started out calling it Liberals Eat Their Young, but that's not quite right; Liberal Cannibalism is the best I've come up with.

There's a set of jokes about democrats so old that I recall hearing them on TV in my childhood in the 70s.  "The Democratic Party is like cats you hear squalling in the night; they sound like they're fighting, but they're making more cats."  -An old democratic congressman told that one to CBS.  Just in the last week I heard Joe say something about not forming circles, a reference to the old chestnut about the shape of Democratic Firing Squads.

And like, I've noticed it being the liberals doing that -all day, every day, bitterly- not so much the centrists I rail against.  There seems little doubt of a causal connection between that factor and the Republican Lite wing stomping the Liberal wing last week for the million-and-first time since 1975 - they can shut up and pull together briefly when they have to and it won't annoy the Republicans too much.

And I do have some thoughts about why the Left is so exhaustingly, eternally Internecine, but I'd love to have a better label to slap on it, if you can coin something short and awesome, please, Rusty...

[Rusty Edge]

Okay, I'll contemplate it.

[Buster's Uncle]

BTW - am I correct in assuming that if the Pig had ever been hired in the first place at your house, he'd now be fired yet again for fiddling while the 19 crows virus burns?


-I think that right there is impeachable all by itself, and completely refutes Elok's assertion that his incompetence renders him harmless, to boot.

[Rusty Edge]

Internicidal ?

If that's what you're getting at, it reminds me of the Libertarians. We get locked into pointless philosophical arguments about why somebody isn't a true Libertarian (Scottsman). These arguments are more about proving moral superiority over people who are actually working to accomplish something.

Internicidal is kind of esoteric so maybe it needs an easier to understand term.

Democrats are so diverse and so woke that they can only agree on one thing. Gun Control-the feet they save may be their own.

So foot shooters? Or the foot shooters' party? Or is that the name of the convention coming to Milwaukee?

If you're on Twitter, you might enjoy the parody humor of  @MSDNCNews

[Buster's Uncle]

Liberal Circular Firing Squads - LCFS?

[Rusty Edge]

BTW - am I correct in assuming that if the Pig had ever been hired in the first place at your house, he'd now be fired yet again for fiddling while the 19 crows virus burns?


-I think that right there is impeachable all by itself, and completely refutes Elok's assertion that his incompetence renders him harmless, to boot.

Yes. He'd be fired. I don't know about impeachment. Can I sign onto a 401K class action suit against him?  I'll have to start that Corona thread.

How hard can it be for him to realize it's over his head, it's been delegated, and he needs to refer everything to Pence/CDC rather than comment further. Clearly this is a case of chaos as a management style not working.

On the political side of that, I was polled yesterday. One question was about what would I could say to convince friends to support [Sleezebag], even if I were personally opposed to him. I said that his actions to make the pandemic worse & crash the economy, with the resulting decline in transportation and energy usage, depopulation, etc. will do more than any single person to fight global warming.

Well, apparently I've gone from grinding my teeth to the point of debilitating pain to gallows humor.

[Rusty Edge]

Liberal Circular Firing Squads - LCFS?

Maybe. I'll keep ruminating on it.

[Buster's Uncle]

That's a good joke on the Resident.

Y'know, a few days ago, the silly SOB re-tweated a shooped pic of him holding a violin, and naturally some of the Liberals Screaming On Twitter -hereinafter LSOT- promptly started calling him Nero.  He walked right into that one.

[Geo]

Y'know, a few days ago, the silly SOB re-tweated a shooped pic of him holding a violin, and naturally some of the Liberals Screaming On Twitter -hereinafter LSOT- promptly started calling him Nero.  He walked right into that one.

Shouldn't the Resident play a trumpet instead?
He blares enough for it.

[Rusty Edge]

A local commentator gone national coined the term "Trumpettes" for [Sleezebag]'s supporters.