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.

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What Do You Do with a Former Spokes-Liar for a Failed Vice President? Why You Give Them a Show on MSNBC of Course.

Symone Sanders is a Precious among the establishment elite. As a former press secretary for Bennie Sander (not believed to be relation) and late worked in the Biden campaign.  Sanders is one of the many escapees from the office of her Vice Fraudulency Kamala Harris, where the 32-year-old served as a chief spokes-liar and a senior advisor. But even with the full force of the establishment media protecting her, the team around Harris, which included Symone led, failed at every turn. 

What kind of resume is that? You get to anchor your own cable news show because your boss failed upward?  With a short stint at CNN (insert laugh track here) as a verbose and annoying anti -Trump voice under her rather massive belt, MSNBC hired her right out of the White House and branded her new show with the unique title 'Symone'. Her weekend debut on the second rate ugly stepsister to the once respected NBC news network, was a ratings catastrophe.

Sander said she would not be using the show as a platform to spread pro-Biden propaganda. “I’m not here to be a spokesperson for the Biden administration,” she told The Hill’.  So of course her first guess was Joe Biden's primary caretaker, Doctor Reverend Professor Jill Biden. 

NBC-Universal hires people who have no business being on TV and Sander will join their recent trend of hiring unattractive teleprompter challenged talking heads of superior melanin count who who are uninteresting, inexperienced, and have no audience outside a handful of D.C. morons.

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NSA Warns of Being Overwhelmed by 'Birthing Person Day' Messages

 General Paul M. Nakasone - Director, National Security Agency / Chief Central Scrutinizer

MFNS - Washington, DC-- The NSA announced Friday in a closed door meeting with the House Homeland Security Committee that the agency once again expects to be overwhelmed by the email, text and telephone traffic on 'Birthing Person Day' this Weekend.

Taking time out of the Homeland Security Committee's Jan 6th Kabuki Theater, N.S.A. director General Paul Nakasone told the committee that tracking of over 110 million text messages and emails will tax our limits of capacity for information gathering on Americans, adding to the agencies normal heavy load of domestic taps".

While General Nakasone added "while the amount of traffic intercepted may fall short of the 130 million 'Birthing Persons Sexual Partner's Day' messages collected by the N.S.A. last June during the pandemic, the NSA still has a backlog of unread messages to be read." 

He added "we also collected in the neighborhood of two to three million such e-mails from angry Birthing Persons last year who failed to hear from their children."

The director stated while the agency had not foiled any terror plots in their info gathering lately, they did uncover between twenty and thirty thousand extramarital relationships.

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MSNBC’s Squinty & Meat Puppet's Joe Scarborough Advising Vice President Train Wreck

According to a new book about the Biden administration, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns document the general consensus among Democrats that Kamala Harris's tenure as vice president has been, in the words of a former Senate colleague, "a slow-rolling Greek tragedy.

It's just me, but I'm not convinced a failed former Republican congressman & spittle spewing low rated talk show host is the best political adviser I could think of.  

This from WFB:

The authors note that by the end of President Joe Biden's first year in office Harris was "as politically isolated as she had ever been," and "few Democrats had confidence" in her ability to be the party's standard bearer in 2024 or beyond. As a result, Harris has grown "impatient with her own aides," whom she blamed for "letting her down." The VP even "initiated an audit of her office to make it function better." No wonder she has such a hard time retaining staff. 

Martin and Burns write that, in an effort to salvage her political career, "Harris began seeking out advice from beyond her inner circle, taking counsel from longtime veterans of the Washington scene like Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayor-turned-ambassador to Japan, and Joe Scarborough, the congressman-turned-MSNBC star." 

The reporting in "This Will Not Pass" makes clear that Biden and his team of advisers were never particularly fond of Harris, whose only highlight from her failed presidential campaign in 2020 was denouncing Biden as a racist during a June 2019 primary debate. When it came time to choose a running mate, the authors write, Harris was "neither the candidate who most greatly impressed Biden's vice-presidential search committee, nor the person his advisors saw as most immediately prepared for the presidency." That assessment hasn't changed much since the election. 

According to Martin and Burns, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield was among those who privately griped that "the vice presidency was not the first time in Harris's political career that she had fallen short. … Her Senate office had been messy and her presidential campaign had been a fiasco." 

"Perhaps, she suggested, the problem was not the vice president's staff."

The angry black woman in Manolo Blahnik shoes act, as well as just being an unqualified and outright unlikeable person might just have a little something to with her being such a train wreck.

I've Always Seen It As the Ultimate Act Of Selfishness

The prospect of Roe going away has been inevitable since Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Court, giving it five truly conservative justices even without the irritating John Roberts counted in the majority.

It should be understood that the pro-life forces have done everything by the book. They’ve passed laws through the legislative process in order to challenge Roe v. Wade, they’ve engaged in advocacy inside and outside of politics, they’ve invested a great deal of money into crisis pregnancy centers to convince unexpected mothers to carry children to term, they’ve worked to educate the public on the emotional and moral costs of abortion, and they’ve appointed judges through the regular process who could break down the undemocratic and shaky legal regime built around Roe.

It’s been the pro-abortion Left which has broken the rules. They’re the ones who trashed the filibuster for judicial appointments, and that opened the door for Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett to go onto the Court and make a majority for upending Roe. That their bad faith and tactical mistakes are coming back to bite them would lead to some hyper-partisan, radical liberal coward (likely connected to current or former dem minions for Biden or Barky) hand deliver the "scoop" designed to pressure SCOTUS to change ruling & serve red-meat for midterm dems, trashing two and a half centuries of tradition only continues the pattern.  

And for what? 

Roe v. Wade going away won’t make abortion illegal in America. Not by a long shot. What it’ll mean is that Minnesota, Massachusetts and California will have very permissive laws and allow their abortion mills to continue to operate as usual, while Texas, Louisiana and South Carolina will ban it altogether.

That’s the way the country was founded. Let the states make their own policies.  

Now, some pro-life states will try to pass laws making it illegal for their citizens to go elsewhere to have an abortion. That’ll be messy, and ultimately I’ll say it won’t work. I certainly understand the moral imperative in the pro-life movement to stamp out abortion everywhere, seeing it’s murder, of course you’ll want to put an end to it. Politically, though, that’s likely going to be a bridge too far.

And you’ll have the usual virtue-signaling and cancel culture on the Left. California will refuse travel by state employees to pro-life states,  and you’ll probably see government pressure for New York banks to punish red states by refusing to finance bonds anywhere abortion is banned, and so forth. Power to the Correct People! Right?

These things are unpleasant, but honestly even that is better than what we currently have, which is something significant majorities in red states believe is a manifest evil being imposed on them by Washington DC through a poorly-reasoned Supreme Court decision.

The ruling hinges on a dubious reading of the due process clause and previous rulings supposedly promising a right to privacy. Blackmun was clearly stretching to reach an outcome he thought would be modern and On The Right Side Of History

— Mary Vinnie (@MaryVinnied) May 3, 2022

Liberal Elites Gather for Annual "Who Can Look Most Ridiculous" Gala.

The Beautiful People gathered in the liberal's capital of NYC last night for a reason no one really knows what for. Actors, Politicians, Sports Figures, Designer and talentless Artist and Entertainers, some dressed like former clowns for Ringling Bros, others look as if they raided a drag show dressing room,  gathered to drink themselves out of reality and to convince others they are still relevant.

Soon to be former Majority Leader Chuck Schumer absolutely dazzled in a 

'Globberstein' Blue Chiffon gown by designer C. Jovan of the House of Globberstein.

Ma Clinton showed up looking last minute cheap, wearing an old White House 

Roosevelt Room Curtain and with her personal negro attendant. 

I'll save you from the rest as it got just more and more ridiculous.

You don't want to see.  Believe me on this one. 

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