September 16, 2019

I have now seen the height of American racial politics...



... and it is ineffable, inexpressible, unutterable, unspeakable... but not nameless. We do know the name. The name is "CornPop."

84 comments:

mccullough said...

Joe sits on the Aluminum Throne.

Looks better than Dukakis in that tank.

Mark said...

In an attempt to show his critics he's not too old, little Joey Biden gets in a high chair.

BJM said...

How about "repulsive"?

Leland said...

I did a quick search and found this:

"The Ewoks worship the protocol droid C-3PO, thinking he is a god due to his golden, metallic shine and later display of power arranged by Luke Skywalker through the Force. C-3PO tells the Council of Elders the adventures of the rebel heroes Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo."

perhaps, and I'm taking a huge risk here:

"The identified voters that think black worship the proper protocol candidate Biden, thinking he is a god due to his golden shine from being the Vice President and the display of power arranged by Barack Obama. Biden tells the Council of Elders the adventures of other heroes for whom he gave awards"

madAsHell said...

Joe Biden remembers seeing FDR announce the New Deal on TV.

I'm not sure sitting on a high chair, and gesticulating wildly is a good look for Slow Joe. He looks infantile.

Michael K said...

"Corn Pop"is possibly the father of "T Bone."

JML said...

I'd like to see the video of him getting and up and down out of there.

Ken B said...

So the “evidence” is things said about a man named CornPop not long after he died? Nothing at all from when he was alive and could respond. Is that right?

Mark said...

After questioning the manhood of a Black man, friend-of-segregationists Joe Biden sits on his throne telling the Black folks that he is king.

Ice Nine said...

I don't like Biden; I think he's a dolt and a terrible presidential candidate. I certainly don't want him to win. But I can find no reason whatsoever to not believe the story that he told at that podium. It might have been embellished a bit; we all do that. But not necessarily. It was entirely plausible exactly as he told it.

Ken B said...

Democracy was once described as government by talking about it. Now the democrats seem to want government by unreliable memory.

Rory said...

New dunking chair concept.

Beasts of England said...

‘Marco!’

FullMoon said...

From the twitter thread:

Jeremy Stamper
@jeremymstamper

It was when Biden mentioned the overweight kid at the pool (“Cocoa Puff”) that I grew skeptical.

Ken B said...

My caption

“They want to put you all back in lanes!”

FullMoon said...

Bidens story has been validated because others have shared it before.Not others who were witnesses, but others who have heard the story from Biden.

Once, at the second rate theater on Cortland avenue in San Francisco, I got in a fight with Los Bandido BeBop, (real name Richard). Did ok until scar face Alfred joined in outside and I had to fight them both..

Oh, wait, that was some other guy , not me.

Molly said...

"Bow Down when you come to my town
Bow down when we west-ward bound 'cause
We ain't no haters like you
Bow Down to some nigga that's greater than you"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQiUJlRa0N8

FullMoon said...

Heard about his younger sister, Sugar. Joey B poppped her cherry.

Sugar Corn Pop was tops !

D 2 said...

Weren't you just posting something about there being a dearth of ol timey carnival hecklers and dunk tanks?

FullMoon said...

Joey B was gonna put cornpop back in chains..

Curious George said...

Sorry kids, but they'll be no sniffing today. No go home and listen to some records.

James K said...

Do they get to throw water balloons at Biden?

Ralph L said...

"Where da white women/girls at?"

gerry said...

Thank heaven a white man worked at the pool so dark villainy could be conquered!

n.n said...

Color judgment (e.g. racism, sexism, age discrimination) is a bias. Rabid diversity (e.g. selective-child) is a clear and progressive bigotry.

Bay Area Guy said...

I'm sorry, but the gang nickname, "Corn Pop" doesn't seem to garner much street cred in the hood.

Gk1 said...

Its irrelevant what Slow Joes says as the press will always cover for him. There is no whopper big enough or ludicrous enough for them not to give him a pass. What is different is this "Cornpop" if that really is this villain's name, incident doesn't make the story any less weird. Am I supposed to be impressed that Grandpa Walter Mitty wrapped a chain around his arm to do battle? It sounds too much like Joe fantasizing what he would do if he got Trump behind the football field after school.

Mark said...

"CornPop got uppity with me, but y'all just wear a swimming cap on your nappy hair and we ain't gonna have no problems," Biden tells crowd of Black people at pool.

Gilbert Pinfold said...

And Corn Pop had a straight razor as a weapon. Joe had a six-foot length of chain that he threatened to wrap around Corn Pop’s neck. Joe also advocated taking Trump out behind the school gym and beating him up. Joe seems to have some projection issues as well as fantasies about ahistorical scenarios that make him the hero. Interesting psyche...

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Known Unknown said...

The Ewoks worship the protocol droid C-3PO, thinking he is a god due to his golden, metallic shine and later display of power arranged by Luke Skywalker through the Force. C-3PO tells the Council of Elders the adventures of the rebel heroes Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo.

wildswan said...

Joe should learn to tell more wokie stories such as how he confronted Senator Eastland with a six-foot length of chain wrapped around his hand and told him to never wear his KKK hat again. Then the next day a community activist named Corn Pop was insulted by a life guard and Joe tore off the six-foot length of chain the lifeguard was wrapping around the community activist, and said: "Corn Pop can swim in the pool, we are all Americans here." Then Donald Trump was kicking a puppy named Pepe when Joe Biden wrapped a six foot length of chain around his own record player he'd saved up for, lifted it up above his head, and said "Unhand ...

Like that.

Bob Boyd said...

"Tell CornPop I'll be out in a Jiffy." - Joe Biden

Ken B said...

1962? As in 15 years before Martin Luther King was assassinated?

Bob Boyd said...

Later Joe and CornPop became friends and Joe taught him how to swim naked.

LA_Bob said...

"All o' ya', get off my lawn!....Oh, god love me, what am I sayin'?"

"Anyone know where the bathroom is?"

"Will someone please help me get down from here!!!"

"I'm not going nuts!"

Darrell said...

Jim Croce should have written a song about that.

Or did he? I don't recall a "Froot Loops" one.

Drago said...

Ice Nine: "I don't like Biden; I think he's a dolt and a terrible presidential candidate. I certainly don't want him to win. But I can find no reason whatsoever to not believe the story that he told at that podium. It might have been embellished a bit; we all do that. But not necessarily. It was entirely plausible exactly as he told it."

I liked this story better when Neil Kinnock told it with a Welsh accent.

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

now what's with the corn memes?

"Popcorn" as in "Oh, this is about to get good to watch"
"Corn Pop" chastened by Mighty Young Joe

Grassley and Comey tweeting pics of corn at various stages of development...

Narayanan said...

It is mistake to think chain wrapped arm as offense weapon.

More to protect arm and fend against straight edge razor slash move.

Conan Barbarian concurs and Grace Jones show how to swing chain.

Spiros Pappas said...

That's has to be fake.

Gilbert Pinfold said...

See: “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber.

Bob Boyd said...

Where is CornPop now?

Francisco D said...

I watched the tape of Joe talking about the Corn Pop incident at that pool.

His mind really really wanders which suggests that he is in the early stages of dementia.

JAORE said...

I'll put aside the validity of the story to just note:

This video, as I understand it, was made in 2017. He made two key references of "Pomade" on CornPop's hair and he called him "Ester Williams".

Quick, someone quiz those 13 year old black kids about Pomade and Ester Williams.

Darrell said...

Where is CornPop now?

Dead.
At 73, I think. Joe is living on borrowed time.

Cassandra said...

"It looked so easy when Barack did it..."

Bay Area Guy said...

My home boys Snap and Crackle be comin' fo yo ass next!

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

there's something
"Burt Lahr/Cowardly Lion/ I'll Tear Him Top to Bottomus!!"

about the bloviating and bravado of Joe Blo Hard

rcocean said...

Personally, I'd much rather have a straight razor in a fight. Corn-flakes gets inside Joe Biden, and what's he going to do with that "6 foot chain"

Well it was the south side of Wilmington;
In the baddest part of town;
And if you swim down there
You better just beware
Of a man named Corn pops Brown

And it's bad, bad Corn pops Brown
The baddest swimmer in the whole damn town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog

FullMoon said...

Jim Croce should have written a song about that.

"Bad, bad, CornPop Brown...

Had a 32 gun in his pocket for fun
Had a razor in his shoe."

Sebastian said...

So, Althouse, what about this lie in the same story:

“A guy who ended up becoming our national leader said: ‘I can grab a woman anywhere and she likes it,’” Biden told an audience in Florida."

FullMoon said...

Sraight razor not scary enough. Joe says they had to be rusty.
Guess so you would get tetanus after your throat was slashed.
You know,like steppin' on a rusty nail..

Bay Area Guy said...

Before there was Huey Newton, before there was Eldridge Cleaver, before there was Shaft, there was.......Corn Pop. The baddest poolside nigga in all of Delaware.

narciso said...

Even bigger than robert williams, he defected ti cuba, and aired radio free dixoe

FullMoon said...
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Bay Area Guy said...

I think the photo (and racial implications thereof) of Most High King Joe of Delaware, ought to be examined by John McWhorter and Tennesse Coates.

narciso said...

I could have referenced bumpy johnson

https://www.amazon.com/Radio-Free-Dixie-Robert-Williams/dp/080784923

I heard about williams in moss's monimbo.

n.n said...

So, Althouse, what about this lie in the same story:

“A guy who ended up becoming our national leader said: ‘I can grab


It's not a lie. It's a political myth, constructed on a verifiable (in the near domain) lie (e.g. handmaid's tale), an inference (e.g. affirmative discrimination), an allegation of diversity (e.g. toxic masculinity), which is reduced, reused, recycled, and propagated, inculcated, and exploited for political, social, financial, and judicial (i.e. warlock trials) leverage.

JaimeRoberto said...

Good thing Ponyboy and Sodapop weren't there. Joe would have been in real trouble.

JaimeRoberto said...

Plantation owner shots orders to his property.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...

rcocean said...

Well it was the south side of Wilmington;
In the baddest part of town;
And if you swim down there
You better just beware
Of a man named Corn pops Brown


Uptown got it's hustlers
The bowery got it's bums
Swimin' pool got big Joe Biden
He's a life savin' son of a gun
Yeah, he big and dumb as a man can come
No half as smart a country hoss
And when the black folks all swim together at night
You know they all call big Joe boss, just because

And they say
You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't write yo' name in the snow
You don't pull the mask off that old Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Joe

ndspinelli said...

King of the Negroes.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

"My caption

“They want to put you all back in lanes!”"

My God, genius.

Danno said...

The plantation overseer? Trying to keep his captive black people on the plantation.

Not Sure said...

Crack, Snapple, and Pop!

Ingachuck'stoothlessARM said...

'Corn Pop' by The United Spot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4XGMz_Ir_k

William said...

I wonder how many people believe this story. I guess we'll never know because no polls will ever be taken. The story will be repeated in precincts like this, but I doubt if it will be given much notice on the MSM or if it will attract the attention of the comedy writers at SNL....Trump is to some extent a bs artist, but there's artistry in his work. There's no wink in Biden's self aggrandizement. He's just not ready to host a reality show out of the Oval Office.

Ice Nine said...

Today, CornPop would have just shot him in the lifeguard's chair and been done with it.

n.n said...

We reached the height of diversity politics with... diversity, not limited to skin color.

Bob Boyd said...

CornPop is dead?
That's too bad. Where's he been? What's he been doing all this time since he let Joe live?
Someone should find out.
CornPop, the Missing Years.

walter said...

Lunch Bucket Joe throwin' down on Pop culture.

Baldanders said...

How much has wokeness set back racial reconciliation over the last few years? I'm inclined to think "by a lot."

Since around the time I was born (1971) we've asked white Americans to do something very unnatural (though just, I think) in putting principle before identity. I'm not sure any people has truly done that before, but we were getting there.

In the last few years we have been told that principle doesn't matter, that identity is all-important, but that white Americans are singular in not being allowed an identity, when it is identity that is all-important. This is a recipe for racial strife.

I'm old now, but I happen to have played video games competitively since the beginning of competitive gaming. I no longer have the reflexes to be a top player, but I still play enough to be immersed in the culture, enough to know the memes and culture of teenaged gamers as well as they do, perhaps better.

I also lived in D.C. as a child, the lone white child on my block, and in my school, during the racial ferment of D.C. in the early '70s (this was uncomfortable, and was taken out on me in some cases, though never in a terribly cruel fashion.) I was born too late to see Jim Crow, but not too late to live in its immediate aftermath in a way that very few white people have, and not too late to have understood the anger, and the justness of that anger, of African-Americans who had lived, recently, under Jim Crow. This is something the gamers don't, and really can't, get.

It's a long view from my D.C. pre-school to the gamer chats no real adult is privy to, or would understand if they were. I don't think there are many people as familiar with,let alone as understanding of, the radical black power movement of the 70s and the desultory alt-right.

From this view I can't say what I think our policies around race should be, but I will say that I think they must be based on principle rather than identity, if we are ever to have much in the way of peace. I've seen enough of people to know that a politics rooted in identity is a recipe for never-ending conflict.



Yancey Ward said...

Ken B wins the internet for the day. That was fucking brilliant!

n.n said...

politics rooted in identity is a recipe for never-ending conflict.

It's not merely "identity". That is yet another euphemism used by social activists to hide the nature of their character and actions. It's a color judgment, including assessment of value based on color or low information attributes, and affirmative discrimination.

chickelit said...

Joe Biden to American blacks: “They’re gonna chain you back in puts.”

Meaning: He’s betting on your decline in value.

langford peel said...

That was a great story about Corn Pop.

My favorite Joe Biden story was how he had to fight this Puertorican guy named Bernardo because he wanted to date his sister Maria.

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Kay said...

Despite his clownishness, I can’t help but start to like the guy.

tim in vermont said...
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tim in vermont said...

"I can’t help but start to like the guy.”

Me too.

stan said...

"where's my apple sauce?"

narciso said...

This is a man who lied about who was at fault in his wifes death,