Throwback Thursday: The Guy Who Once Sold His Own Driveway is Now Your President

NOTE: In all that is coming to light because of Hunter Biden's laptop concerning the Biden family financial grift and funny business, as well as our witness to Biden's reckless and foolish leadership, this chapter in "The Continuing Adventures of Joe Biden" seems timely and makes more and more sense as days go by. So here we present a refaire for those who are not familiar with this classic Bidenism.

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 We all have known someone like this. They think they know a lot more than they really do. And when they talk about how things work, it's with so much confidence that you figure there must be some genuine smarts behind it. But in actuality, they are just full of shit. They manage somehow to stick around a long time, so it’s hard to imagine the person is completely clueless and inept. But once you start really paying attention to the things they say, you begin to wonder. What would happen if you put the person in charge of something challenging?

When Joe Biden was vice president, he wasn’t in charge of anything. When he was in the U.S. Senate, he wasn’t in charge of anything. And he hasn’t had a job in the private sector in more than 50 years. To find out how Joe handles actual responsibility, we have to look a little deeper.

National Review's Kyle Smith reminds us that Joe Biden has already shown us what he’s made of. Joe once thought he saw a huge real estate opportunity and displayed his managerial ineptitude on a grand scale. It was a fixer-upper he thought he could buy cheap and make a few simple tweaks to. Kinda the way the Joe of today sees the presidency.

As Smith recounts in lurid and often comical detail, this did not go well at all:

"A couple of years into his Senate career, Biden had a dream of living grandly by buying on the cheap a former du Pont manse, together with a huge chunk of land, for $200,000. The house was boarded up and soon, probably, to be torn down. But Biden saw something in it. Sure, it needed some fixing up. Never fear, Joe is here! Joe is a can-do fellow. 

The first winter he and Jill spent in the house, it used up 3,000 gallons of fuel oil. It turned out the third floor was wide open, to the stars. Squirrels were living up there. Oops. The judgment on display here is not great. Next year, Biden starting selling off bits of the land for development to pay for improvements such as storm windows. 

Small problem here: One of the lots he sold off was his own driveway, and the new owner blocked it off so he couldn’t pass through it. So Joe built a second driveway, which turned into a swamp in winter. 

He sold off another piece of property that, it turned out, included the front of that second driveway, so he couldn’t use that one anymore either. So he built a third. He hated that one for being a dumpy little thing. 

Eight years went by, and he made a deal to buy back the original driveway, the one he sold off when he first bought the house. Which cost him a fortune in landscaping to reshape."

It’s worth the time to click over and read the whole thing.

Now to be fair, this was a long time ago. You might say, OK, Joe has learned a thing or two since then, he’s more experienced now. He must have a better understanding of how things work than he did back then. That’s a reasonable theory.

But Joe still runs around proposing insane ideas to problems he doesn’t understand. Witness his “plan” to address COVID, which consists of a) a bunch of things DJT is already doing; and b) a nationwide mask mandate Joe would lack the authority to impose as president. Sounds like the guy who bought that house back in the ’70s.

This is a guy who complains that “families are reeling” and notes how many people are on unemployment. Yet he wants to confiscate more capital from the companies that could be hiring them. Kind of like the guy who sold a piece of land to get money and found out he had sold his own driveway.

[National Review]

[Cain Gang] 

H/T Broadside Betty

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WH to Unleash The Giggler to Tout Admin's Achievements

According to reports, Kamala Harris is being deployed by the White House to travel the country and gaslight America on the administrations “achievements” while 46* jets off to Europe for photo-ops and further embarrass America after the Giggler's disastrous attempt at schmoozing last week with our Allies.

The Hill reports the vice president will be spending coming weeks crisscrossing the country touting infrastructure (of which not a dollar has been spent yet) expanded broadband access (which not one home has yet received any benefit) and key executive orders signed by Biden (which were basically reversals of DJT's EO's).

"Harris will meanwhile assume a more typical schedule for a vice president during non-pandemic times. That will stand in stark contrast to her recent efforts overseas. Her past three-day sojourn to Eastern Europe was meant to reinforce U.S. support for the region against Russian aggression, however an awkward appearance at a major press conference dominated media coverage."

I would like to introduce our main speaker, The Vice-President, Kamala Harris"...........(crickets)...(giggling)...

Kamala: "I would like to tell you about all the accomplishments of the Harris/Biden Administration".....(crickets)...(giggling) .." 

Every appearance she makes will be a reminder of how incompetent and dangerous this administration is. Lets hope her staff and speech writers do more than copy & paste from Wikipedia articles like they obviously did for her European trip.

The Giggler begins her gaslight tour in deep red Southwest Louisiana this Friday, which tells me this whole thing was dreamed up on the fly.

NYTs: Dems Up Sh*t Creek and Joe Dropped the Paddle

Our betters at the New York Times ran another “Democrats Think Joe Biden Needs a Reset” article. This one came out just before Daylight Savings Time, when everyone resets their clocks, an annoying chore but one that’s actually achievable. Resetting the dem's political reality with Biden at the helm has them biting pillows as they fall asleep at night.

So the Dems met in Philadelphia last week where they reportedly hoped Biden "would offer a winning strategy heading into a challenging midterm election season." (that quote in itself is funny) It seems some now realize what the far-left has done and a “winning” strategy is preferable to a losing one. The retreat was held on the one-year anniversary of Biden’s $1.9 trillion inflationary stimulus plan, which, while it kept food on the table of millions, was shelled out mostly to people who needed no help, and bought a lot of 25 inch rims and leased a lot Benzes down in the hood.  

But 46* is now getting hit from both the right and left. 

From the Times:

Democrats are toiling to retool their message and refocus their agenda. They are worried that the accomplishments they helped deliver to Mr. Biden are being drowned out by concern over the rising price of gas and a focus on their legislative failures. And they are looking to the president, who addressed them at the retreat on Friday, to help them reframe the conversation....

C’mon, Joe, “reframe the conversation” so Americans stop whining about inflation and rising gas prices. Biden told Democrats at the retreat Friday that this may be the most important off-year election in modern history and if Republicans rout Democrats and regain control of the House and Senate the only thing he'll have then is a veto pen, which he probable forgot where he put. 

The Times didn’t seem very convinced that Biden would help Democrats refashion message before November. He’s the president, not Don Draper selling Heinz ketchup.

"Gone was the talk of a transformative agenda to remake the country’s social safety net," which was once a centerpiece of Democrats’ utopian sales pitch to voters. "The words “build back better” were all but forbidden among the groggy lawmakers who arrived in Philadelphia in the wee hours of Thursday morning."

Rep. Praline Jaypal from Washington, who leads the leftist Progtard Caucus, was said to have joked that “Build Back Better” had become like Voldemort in Harry Potter -- that which must not be named. Joe Manchin really sucked the life out of the party, didn’t he?

Some Democrats advise a thrilling move to the center that focuses on “kitchen table issues” like Rep. Sleepy Jim Clyburn executive actions federalizing elections masquerading as voting rights and reform (handcuffing) policing. Rep. Raul Ruiz, chairman of the Hispanic Caucus, wanted Biden to remove the cap on the number of refugees who can be resettled in the US this year. You know, stuff that keeps America up all night. 

I wonder if they ever thought of just not being preachy or condescending.  Nancy Pelosi's heir apparent, the big eared genius and the second coming of Chicago Jesus, Hakeem Jeffries, offered a more compelling message: Democrats "care about everyday Americans" and Republicans don't. 

Yeah, that's a message with all the hallmarks of a landslide. 

But for now their message is it's just all Putin's fault and Republicans appear to be rooting for Putin over Ukraine......

Many Americans Are Having a Ralphie-Ovaltine Moment, and I Don't Feel for Them.

In many homes across the country the classic movie "A Christmas Story" is a holiday staple.  In this perfect little movie, Ralphie has several loss-of-youthful-innocence moments. One of the most poignant is his effort to decode a message to save radio heroine Little Orphan Annie. Ralphie eagerly awaited his special decoder rings arrival in the mail. This is important stuff!  He finally receives the decoder package and rushes off to sit in privacy and decode.  The narrator recounts the tension building as he deciphers. That’s until the whole message is clear.  A stunned Ralphie realizes he’s been duped. It’s another bittersweet moment where he is yanked into the sphere of mature knowledge.

For some Americans, their Ralphie-Ovaltine moment is coming.*   I don’t think it’s funny. I don’t envy them.  At some point, these Ralphies will be engaged, perhaps feverishly, with recollecting a lingering aspect of the chaos of the years of this present presidency, one they voted for in the belief he was their legally elected savior, and it’ll hit them.

Perhaps it will be when one of the many inside stories of the senile man they voted for was really a dupe.  A place holder.  One who did the left's bidding by appointments chosen for him by others that opened wide the doors and allowed the Marxist to march right into the seats of government.

Perhaps they’ll read a book about autocratic or Marxist propaganda. Or maybe they’ll read–or re-read–1984. They will see that a long and unfortunately reliable way to fool people is with what they now project onto many truths they oppose as "The Big Lie." They will come to know that if you tell a monster lie, a preposterous untruth, and repeat it enough, people will come to believe it.  Perhaps they will finally come to realize the Main Stream Media are just useful idiots, mouthpieces gleefully doing the left's bidding for a good ratings payoff, and not the real news after all.

Or perhaps it will be when they realize their freedoms have been eroded. That they too cannot buy books not approved of.  That they too cannot speak freely, or they too cannot go buy what they want, when they want.  Or perhaps it will be when they have no way to protect themselves and their families from a certain criminal element they for long so coddled as unjustly persecuted because of skin color.

Perhaps they will not have their moment for many years. Perhaps it will come when their kids or even grandkids will read about this era of the New Progressive America.  Perhaps it will be them that sees through the government approved lies about the integrity of the U.S. elections, and how many enablers went along with them to get votes. And perhaps a young face will look up to them asking, "You certainly didn’t believe that, did you?"  Faced with that question, what will our Ralphies do when they think back on the unpatriotic and undemocratic actions they approved of at the time, just to remove a president they were told they disliked because (fill in the blank). Or, even with so much time having passed, will they follow dutifully from the wreckage of integrity of the past year and simply lie themselves?

Regardless, I will not feel for these future Ralphies, as many will have a moment when their belief in a utopian progressive movement they went along with because it was cool, will be abruptly shattered, splintered by the searing shock of knowledge that the recent years had been largely a sham: a bloated, unamerican Marxist commercial.

No, I will not feel for them when they do.....

Half the respondents in a new CBS News poll released on Sunday said they were frustrated with Joe Biden's presidency, just a few days before he marks his first full year in office.

*Inspired by a comment during a recent dinner conversation.

~ Thank You WHATFINGER NEWS for the Linkage! ~

WH Fears Another "Let's Go Brandon" Moment. 🤣

46* and Dr. Lady Jill appeared on the fake White House digital set for a the video call as the president wished the military Merry Christmas. The press was brought in to witness the president and first lady make some opening remarks during the call, sitting on the couch with their new puppy. But the media was asked to leave before they could witness the troops speaking to the president, cutting coverage of the call short.

The decision to cut the content of the call short ensured that the public could not hear what members of the military were saying to Biden during the call. Typically the event goes for nearly a half-hour as the president and the troops exchange Christmas greetings. The Bidens spoke for only about five minutes before the press was asked to leave the room.

[BREITBART]

[The Tweeter]

Relax, We Got This......

Supply chains got tangled because of idiot lockdowns. They got even more tangled due to idiot laws (AB-5) and union regulations in California. Supply chains remain tangled because our completely unqualified minority-hire Secretary of Transportation can’t be bothered to show up for work during a crisis. We can’t get enough workers because idiots (ie, Democrats) in Washington decided to almost drown the unemployed in largess.

In the meantime, we have a leader who we are not sure he knows what planet he's on, and our healthcare policy is in the hands of a tranny who just got promoted to a 4 Star Admiral. 

It looks more and more like Biden's visit to see Jimmy Carter was to get advice on how to be an inept and failed leader. Biden listened well.

— Diogenes Sarcastica (@DSarcastica) October 19, 2021

We Are Governed by People Who Suck

excerpts from Scott McKay@American Spectator

Let’s face it: Joe Biden sucks.

Everything about his presidency sucks. He sucks as a messenger, his economic policies suck, he completely sucks as a truth-teller. He sucks in the integrity department.  And people suffering from the debilitating effects of old age can tell you that absolutely sucks. You are not the person you used to be, and you can’t do the things you used to do. Joe Biden sucked before he became increasingly, cruelly incapacitated by the decline of his faculties.

Last weeks Potemkin sham of a press conference, in which pre-written questions and scripted answers replaced an honest dialogue with the American people over the state of our union, made that clear. That press conference sucked. It wasn’t a press conference; it was a book report.

We shouldn’t have been forced to embrace Biden’s suck. Biden’s family sucks for putting him, and us, through what’s going to obviously get much worse over time. This man has the toughest job in the world, and it’s obvious he’s not up to the task. If you can’t answer questions off the cuff from an almost universally friendly press corps, it means you suck at the job. We’ve had presidents who have sucked before. But not since Woodrow Wilson had a stroke in office and finished his second presidential term as an invalid, mostly comatose, with his wife running the country as a proxy president, have we had a situation sucking as badly as this one clearly will.

What’s worse is even now, we really don’t know who’s running the country. It’s supposed to be the guy we elected. The president is supposed to be in charge. Is Joe Biden in charge? He doesn’t even know what he’s doing here. He says it all the time. And the world is watching.

For more than three decades now the Democrat Party has had as its chief project the covering up of just how badly it sucks. If I had to guess I would say we’re being governed by a cabal of four, maybe five people: Susan  Rice is probably a proxy for Barack Obama, so you can toss him in as a Billy Preston to the Four Beatles of the American Apocalypse. Or maybe the Spice Girls. Because these people are not the Beatles. The Beatles didn’t suck....."

Here’s the problem: at some point, you just can’t cover it up. At some point you just plain suck. Last weeks press conference might well have been that point. This sucks. And it’s going to suck a lot worse going forward....."

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