Biden Does What Democrats Imagine Trump Did
Ruminations on conversations and politics from the Salt Lake City Delta SkyClub
Yesterday while my wife and I were sort of working to get ahead of the week, I stopped long enough to call an old friend to wish him a happy birthday.
He and I are the same age, but took different paths in life - we worked together on a project for the Defense Division of Honeywell, a long, long time ago. He was based at the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP) outside Minneapolis and his job was to make sure we were meeting all the "soft" government requirements, like racial quotas in the company and that we were following all the legal requirements of the contract.
He was a full on Democrat-Farmer-Labor Walter Mondale lib, I was a Reagan Republican but as strange as it was, we became friends. In a couple of years, he left Honeywell - I think about the time the defense business was sold and went back to school, eventually getting a Ph. D. in psychology and started teaching.
Needless to say, he hates Trump with the heat of a thousand suns.
He knows my political bent so he started rattling off all the things Trump had done.
As usual, nether Trump, Ron DeSantis, nor anyone in the GOP had done any of that. Honestly, his litany sounded like the worst BlueAnon graphic novel ever conceived in the fever dreams of a leftist. It was true Bad Orange Man stuff.
So, I let him ramble on, understanding that it was pointless and when he ran out of breath, I said:
"You know, for the first time in my life I might not vote for someone who uses their family to enrich themselves, who colludes with our enemies, is protected by elected officials in Congress who lie for him and then uses the media to hide his treason."
I went on to list all the things that Biden has done - or had people do for him - acting as if I was talking about Trump.
My friend literally was not cognizant I was talking about Biden. He is totally locked into "See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil" mode where Biden is concerned.
Imagine his surprise when I told him I was talking about Joe Biden.
He then began to argue that none of what I said happened even though I offered to send him links to favorable leftist media where even they admitted it did.
He simply said he didn't need any cites because he knew Biden was a good man who would never do things like that.
I figured out what the issue was and I told him that he was using everything he imagined Trump did, but didn't, as a wall to block the real issues with Biden.
We ended the call somewhat less cordially than it began, but I think we are still friends, at least for the next year.
Then I ran across this opinion piece at the WSJ by Barton Swaim. It is behind the paywall, so here is an excerpt posted at Powerline - but if you pay for the Journal, it is worth reading the entire thing:
"The deficiencies of Mr. Trump are different from those of Mr. Biden, but the latter’s personal culpabilities and political liabilities are what any normal, uninvested person would call grave. Mr. Biden’s cringe-making decline is on display nearly every time he appears in public; examples are too many, and too painful, to describe. His diminished state might be funny in a novel or a movie, but in the real world it’s a continuing invitation to bad actors to engage in devilry and expect no consequence.
And yet with a tiny number of unremarkable exceptions, Democratic politicos say nothing."
Man-o- man, Swaim’s piece is soooo deliciously good. Like tiramisu and a coffee from a little shop off in the Galleria in Milan (Italy, not Tennessee).
It completely sums up the Democrat Party's willful blindness to the cringing awfulness of Joe Biden and that the real damage Biden and his minions are doing that is even greater than anything their jaundiced brains could imagine Donald J. Trump ever did.
I have a WSJ subscription, and I agree. The article is well worth the time to read it, so I'll try to help those uninclined to avoid the paywall by providing a link gift. Maybe it'll work. https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-bidens-iron-grip-on-his-party-trump-evangelicals-hunter-investigations-62c1cb3?st=xq7035sx1thc1em&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
No matter if the world was to end tomorrow, some of the die-hard indoctrinated Dems would still leave this mortal soil believing Trump is guilty and Biden is innocent! It is so amazing to watch, and truly makes you wonder how these blinded souls ever ended up holding onto a job!