Joe Biden is a wildly unpopular man. The media continually tells us how “likeable” he is, but the public isn’t buying it. The talking heads on left-wing cable insist he’s really just a genuine guy who cares for people, a “devout Catholic,” but we see differently and choose to believe our lying eyes over lying Democrats. What about the people who know him best though? Surely they love him, right? Not so much.
My wife and I recently took our kids to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, for a few days. We wanted to enjoy the weather, the ocean and particularly a place called Funland – a small kids amusement park that’s like a time warp to the '60s – which, if you have young kids and are anywhere within a day’s drive, is well worth visiting.
Rehoboth is home to one of Joe Biden’s mansions, this one right on the ocean. But don’t ask how “middle class Joe” managed to buy it or any other of the estates he’s owned or Morning Joe will call you a conspiracy theorist.
In addition to being where the doddering old man spent his time sunning himself while families were being burned to death in Hawaii, Rehoboth has a mile long boardwalk with all the trappings you’d expect: surf shops, arcades, ice cream, french fries and all other manner of greasy, fattening foods that you wouldn’t think would populate an area where most people wear as little as possible, but whatever.
Surf shops sell t-shirts, and the fronts of those stores are littered with all the different things they can silkscreen onto them – a buffet of funny or stupid things, impulse buys that seemed like a good or funny idea at the time but you realize you’ll never wear after you get home.
Among those shirt options are a bunch of political ones. You find pro-Trump and anti-Trump shirts, though mostly pro-Trump ones. And there are anti-Biden shirts, quite a few of them. What you won’t find is anything that is pro-Biden. The people who “know him best” either don’t like him very much or recognize that their customer base doesn’t.
Rehoboth is a small town that swells in the summer months because of the beautiful beach and boardwalk. It’s full of people from Delaware and anywhere within, like I said, a day’s drive, who flock there for the sun. Surf shop owners are not stupid, they aren’t about to post things on the entry way to their stores that will alienate a large percentage of their potential customer base. Democrats do that – seemingly going out of their way to offend conservatives, making it clear they aren’t wanted to see their movie, buy their concert tickets, or patronize their venues. Smart people don’t do that.
That means the business owners in the town where the president vacations (and he vacations A LOT) recognize there is little to no downside to being negative about him.
Part of that can be chalked up to the fact that Joe Biden is the president, and swipes at those in power, even petty ones on shirts, are important in a free society. But can you imagine not a single favorable t-shirt of Barack Obama being offered when he was in the White House? Of course not.
Joe Biden seems uniquely positioned as someone who's simply tolerated because he’s not his main opponent, but otherwise inspires indifference, at best. This administration's failed policies and the inflation resulting from them have brought about contempt from so many more. If you’re not anti-Trump, you’re probably not a fan of Joe.
“Let’s go Brandon” shirts are plentiful, along with more I can’t quote here. One shop manager told me, “The Trump stuff sells. People love him or hate him, everyone has their own opinion of him. No one likes Joe, at least not enough to want a shirt.”
Again, these are the people who unleashed Joe Biden on the country in 1972 and reelected him ever since. But now that he owns an estate there and is president, every time he goes there it disrupts the area. When the president suns himself, a perimeter needs to be established. When he goes for a bike ride or ice cream, things get blocked off and shut down. In addition to his inflationary policies, he annoys the area by being there “so damn often,” as that manager put it to me.
The people who know him the best like Joe Biden the least. That’s an oversimplification, and no Republican is going to win the state, but it is telling. And, at least in my experience, it’s not unique to a beach town where Joe vacations. That leaves a huge opening for whoever the Republican nominee ends up being. Ideas still matter, but being more liked than President Indifference and inflation matters a lot too.
Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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