I wrote about this in my column yesterday, about the fact that Joe Biden is running for president again in an incredibly divisive way. His entire campaign message is, "Don't let the MAGA fascists win because they'll destroy the country."
You'd think after four years of being president, Joe would actually have a record to run on, some accomplishments – "Hey, look what we did! Let's keep the good times rolling." Yeah, not so much.
Last night, after his video announcement, Biden had an appearance at some union worker event, and he kept the "good times" rolling.
Watch and listen to this upbeat, positive tone.
Let’s finish the job. pic.twitter.com/mnj1m6NKHV
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 26, 2023
When an old man like this starts sneering and screaming, "Let's finish the job," I want to say, "Okay, gramps! I'll go out and finish mowing the lawn! I'm sorry, don't take the belt out again!" But maybe that's just me. Maybe I had my own little personal drama that I had to deal with.
Shouty Joe Biden, yelling Joe Biden, angry Joe Biden, is probably my favorite Joe Biden. It truly is. He is exactly like the ventriloquist dummy, Walter, voiced by Jeff Dunham. He yells a lot – like Old Man Simpson yelling at the clouds.
As seen in the clip above, the man is just incoherent. And all we are asking for is one little, itty, bitty cognitive test before he decides to run for four more years in office. Can you throw us a bone here, Joe? Do us a solid! Just one cognitive test!
"I've never been more optimistic about America's future," he shouted. Just by the tone in his voice, demeanor, body language, posture, and expressions on his face, it reads optimism, doesn't it? It doesn't read anger, desperation, fury, or wrath, right? No, no, no, this is Ronald Reagan all over again! The sunny, optimistic president.
The president then said, "We are on the cusp of major change." Hold on...if things are so great, if Biden is so optimistic and he's done a great job and just wants to finish the job, then why do we have to be on the cusp of a "major change"? If you're running for reelection, you're hardly the voice of change. The whole point of running for reelection is to keep going in a particular direction.
"Manufacturing has come alive again. People can afford decent healthcare," Biden continued. Well, people can't afford decent healthcare. It's way more expensive than it ever has been, thanks to his policies, but manufacturing is back, I have to say. Fact-check: true. Manufacturing is thriving...in China.
In reality, those "jobs" are slave labor. When China can't get the Uyghurs to do it for free to save their lives and get a handful of rice, they at least pay others $1.50 an hour to make the iPhone. So, yes, jobs are back. Manufacturing jobs are booming...in China.
I'm begging Biden's team to make "Finish the job" his campaign slogan. What was his other campaign slogan? Oh, yeah, "You don't have any kids; your kids are the government's." That's a great campaign slogan, too. Vote for Joe.
BIDEN: "There's no such thing as someone else's child. Our nation's children are all our children!" pic.twitter.com/scaZ4vDrPZ
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) April 24, 2023
With all that said, the other big news from yesterday is that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced that there would be no debates during the Democratic presidential primaries. Oh, they're going to have their primaries – they'll have their Iowa Caucus. They have candidates – Joe Biden, of course, Marianne Williamson, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (part of one of the great families of the Democratic Party).
When Joe Biden was asked what inspired him to be a Democrat and run for office back in the late 60s and early 70s, it was RFK, Robert F. Kennedy, Sr. Now, his son is running to oppose him, and the DNC has said "no debates." They are terrified.
RFK, Jr. is polling at 15%, and he's polling this high just after his announcement. He hasn't even started campaigning yet, and the DNC has preemptively said "no debates" because they are terrified of Joe Biden being out there in an uncontrolled situation having to talk about issues, having to respond to questions, or have challenges and exchanges.
Somebody tweeted at me yesterday about my column and said, "Oh, none of this matters." I do love the conservatives out there who are constantly saying that. My Eeyore Republicans are my favorites – "None of this matters. It's all hopeless. The elections are all rigged." I'm glad you are reading our columns, and I'm glad that you are engaged, considering how "hopeless" everything is. But if I really did have your attitude, I would throw all my devices away and live on a boat somewhere in the Caribbean, on an island, or in the mountains; I wouldn't even have WiFi. What's the point, honestly? I love that even though you are hopeless and believe there's no point, you consume all of this information to feed your anger and despair. What is wrong with you? Turn off the phone, turn off the computer – enjoy what's left of your life! "None of this matters anyway!"
However, another person replied, "Well, Biden has a big wake-up call coming because they're not going to let him campaign from his basement again as he did in 2020." And I responded, "Who's not going to let him campaign from his basement? The media? Reporters? Really?"
That is absolutely their plan. And the announcement from the DNC confirms it. Joe Biden is going to do exactly what he did in 2020. It worked, didn't it?
He is going to campaign from his basement. The vast majority of his campaigning, media appearances, etc., will be done in a controlled environment with cameras where he'll be using a teleprompter, or they'll be holding up cue cards and giving him answers or handing him notes. We won't see it. That's what they did in 2020, and they'll do the exact same thing.
There will be no debates during the primaries, he'll have his convention, and that will be a controlled environment as well. And if Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, expect Joe Biden to refuse to debate him – as he'll say they already debated in 2020. If the nominee is someone other than Donald Trump, which is looking doubtful right now, Biden will still try to wiggle out of debates. But if he agrees to one debate, it'll happen three weeks before Election Day, when early voting is already happening in key states.
Now you know what we have in store for us.
I'm actually shocked that Biden really is running. That tells you how desperate the Democrats are not to see Kamala Harris in her glory, or Gavin Newsom, for that matter. Even they know Biden is the only chance they have to be semi-palatable to the American people before it's too late – before no one is palatable to the American people, at least from the Republican side.
It is time for Republicans to deliver a different message. This is who we are up against. This angry, screaming, vitriolic, divisive man. I truly believe that there is an opportunity for a Republican candidate to do a Reagan thing, to do a "Morning in America." There's an opportunity to constantly be upbeat and positive, to talk about the optimism, not to be Pollyanna, not with their head buried in the sand and not acknowledging exactly how dangerous the left is, but by giving the American people something to hope for, something to aim for. We need some idea that things can be better, things will be better, this is how they'll be better if you follow me and my lead.
I think the message is there, and I think pretty much every Republican candidate is capable of doing it. But whether they are disciplined enough, I'm not so sure. We shall see.
2024, game on.