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BidenWatch for May 25, 2020

Monday, May 25th, 2020

Senile Joe became Racist Joe this week, with one of the most amazingly ill-considered answers since Gerald R. Ford said Poland didn’t suffer from Soviet domination. It’s this week’s BidenWatch!

Warning: This week is going to be Twitter-heavy.

  • Let’s jump right into the controversy that may convince DNC insiders that they can’t afford to go into the general election with Biden as their candidate:

  • Charlamagne tha God (AKA Lenard Larry McKelvey), the black radio host who interviewed Biden, did not find his apology compelling. “It has to come to the point where we stop putting the burden on black voters to show up for Democrats and start putting the burden on Democrats to show up for black voters.” (Hat tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)
  • Twitter reactions were…robust:

  • How is the media spinning Biden’s huge gaffe? Either the tried to gaslight us that it was a “joke” or says the real story is, as always, Republicans pounce.
  • Is this Biden’s “Northam in Blackface” scandal? Let’s hope not, since Northam is still in office. (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
  • Heh: “Ancestry.com Revokes Genealogies Of African Americans Who Don’t Support Biden.”
  • Of course that’s not the only bad news to befall the Biden campaign this week. The Ukraine scandal continues to look worse and worse for Biden and his spawn:


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  • ļ»æDan McLaughlin analyzes ever aspect of Tara Reade’s rape allegation against Biden.

    None of this necessarily means that Tara Readeā€™s story is true. But the evidence is fairly convincing that Readeā€™s story is not just a campaign-season invention.

    One point in Readeā€™s favor, in contrast to Blasey Ford, is how she has handled her accusation. She made (as Young notes) a few edits to one of her blog posts to tailor it more closely with her current story, but unlike Blasey Ford, she did not delete her social-media history to erase all traces of political rants (even the embarrassing Putin stuff) before coming forward. She was not initially rolled out by a public-relations firm and a partisan lawyer (though she has since retained an attorney who is a Trump donor). She has not hidden behind her representatives to carefully stage-manage who could talk to her, and under what conditions; while she has canceled a few interviews and seems hesitant to appear on Fox News, she has sat for lengthy questioning on and off air by a diverse array of outlets ranging from left-wingers such as Halper, to ex-Fox personality Kelly, to the Times, Post, CNN, the Associated Press, Vox, and National Review. Maybe Reade is enjoying the publicity, but she is not hiding from questioners.

  • Biden wants to tax you till you bleed. Hiking taxes during a recession: What could possibly go wrong? (Hat tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)
  • Biden wants to kill Charter schools:

  • The (D) after Biden’s name absolves him of all sins:

    One columnist declared that former Vice President Joe Biden could boil babies and she would still vote for him. Feminist leaders have said they believe Biden raped a Senate staffer but they still endorse him. Good government advocates have opposed any investigation into prior sexual harassment or corruption claims against Biden. It seems politicians and pundits alike have discovered the glory of the ā€œpresidential bull.ā€ In this instance, Biden is akin to a papal indulgence that allows writers, members of Congress and journalists to forgive any sin in a holy crusade to retake Washington.

    In the 11th century, Pope Urban II formalized the use of indulgences, which could be purchased to forgive sins. A papal bull of the Crusade accompanied those who fought in the Holy Land and committed atrocities in the name of a higher order. The practice was defended as essentially drawing from the ā€œtreasury of meritā€ created by Jesus Christ, the saints and the faithful.

    Now the 2020 election has become the ultimate crusade, and President Trumpā€™s critics seem to be enjoying indulgences in tossing aside moral and ethical considerations. The freedom that is Biden is nowhere more evident than in a recent column by The Nationā€™s Katha Pollitt, who wrote about the allegations of sexual assault made by former Biden staffer Tara Reade. Pollitt dispensed with any struggle over feminist or moral qualms, declaring, ā€œI would vote for Joe Biden if he boiled babies and ate them.ā€

    As Pollitt explained, ā€œWe do not have the luxury of sitting out the election to feel morally pure or send a message about sexual assault and #BelieveWomen.ā€ Otherwise, Pollitt would have to deal with her column during the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, in which she denounced ā€œsome of his defenders [who] seem to be saying that even if the allegations are true, it shouldnā€™t really matter.ā€

    (Hat tip: Ann Althouse.)

  • Heh:

  • The word salad continues:

  • Joe Biden pledges to beat Joe Biden. (Hat tip: Director Blue.)
  • “Your modern technology frightens and confuses me!”

  • Yep:

  • “Poll: 28% of Democrats believe Biden will be replaced as partyā€™s nominee.”
  • I’m sure that those shock at every single thing President Donald Trump does will be shocked at this as well:

  • Amy Klobuchar gets her turn in the veep vetting barrel. For those that wanted all the personal warmth of Hillary Clinton without the purported body count.
  • But actually having won election as U.S. Senator, Klobuchar clearly has a more plausible case than Stacey Abrams:

    Her attempt to leverage a failed Georgia gubernatorial bid into a spot on the Democratic ticket is so brazenly absurd that itā€™s hard to think of precedents.

    But the 46-year-old African-American activist isnā€™t one to be constrained by standard political practice ā€” or reality. She refused to concede her narrow but clear 2018 gubernatorial loss, instead alleging sheā€™d been undone by a massive voter-suppression scheme.

    As she put it at a recent event, ā€œmalfeasance and incompetence and my opponent, who was a cartoon villain, stole the voices of Georgians.ā€ Usually, candidates who wonā€™t acknowledge defeat are written off as sore losers. Such is the Ā­inflamed, paranoid state of Dems in the Trump era that rather than being embarrassed by the Georgianā€™s graceless and unsubstantiated claims of electoral theft, they have embraced and parroted them.

    Abrams could be forgiven for thinking that if she could get her party to accept she is the rightful governor of Georgia, she has a chance to convince it that she Ā­deserves to be a heartbeat away from the presidency in the administration of a 78-year-old man.

    By her own estimation, sheā€™d be an ā€œexcellent running mate.ā€ She has no doubt that sheā€™s prepared to be president on Day One and touts her foreign-policy credentials of having visited more than a dozen countries.

    President Trump has rewritten the rules of political experience, yet itā€™s still a stretch to imagine someone who has only served in the Georgia legislature ā€” and as a state representative, not even a senator ā€” is ready to become leader of the Free World. Even Pete Buttigieg has more executive experience.

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    Abrams can reasonably boast of an ability to stoke turnout among minority and young voters ā€” she won more votes than any state-wide candidate in Georgia ever. But given her high-octane progressivism, sheā€™d have limited appeal to working-class swing voters and suburban women. By picking her, Biden would also be undermining one of his chief arguments, namely, that heā€™s a low-risk, experienced, steady hand.

    This means that Abrams is likely to be passed over ā€” and, if the past is any guide, conclude that she got robbed.

  • Meta-heh: “To Save Time, The Babylon Bee Will Now Just Republish Everything Biden Says Verbatim.”

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