If there are any angels in heaven, they are all male and female nurses. pic.twitter.com/ImQGL8r04B— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 5, 2019
That's something Joe (or whoever runs his Twitter account) chose to feature, not just in a clip but in text, and it's a little disconcerting to experience such slap-in-the-face ineptness with language. I accept politicians using religion in their speeches to the general public, believers and nonbelievers, despite the principle of the separation of religion and government. It's an American tradition. Lincoln did it ("I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side"). But do it well. Do it carefully. Not everyone believes that after death they have a chance at becoming an angel in heaven. But who on earth thinks that only nurses go to heaven?! It's nice to hear that the male as well as the female nurses go to heaven, but what about everybody who's not a nurse? What a kick in the head! You lived a life of virtue, you served your fellow human beings every day of your life, you felt and acted upon the love of God continually, but — whoops! — you picked the wrong job! Nurses only!
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So no transgendered Angels? They're all either male or female?
Biden was probably thinking 'All nurses are angels' and blunders it as 'All angels are nurses'.
Mind you, anyone practiced in logic is unlikely to do this.
Odd. Many people think Trump a buffoon and idiot, but I see plenty of evidence that he’s not I see plenty of evidence, however, for Biden. He has had an entire working life as a politician to learn to keep his hands to himself and mind what he says. But there he is, gassing about Cornpop and bragging about strong-arming the Ukrainians. Oh, and then there is the tape of the likely Democrat nominee talking about how her parents almost couldn’t marry because of family objections to non-existent Indian heritage.
Only male and female?!
He means they're overweight.
There's never any telling what Joe Biden will say next. Yet these people keep complaining about Trump's unpredictable speech!
Human beings don't become angels. Angels are a separate order of being. In fact, the Bible states that humans will one day rule over them.
1 Corinthians 6:1-3
When will democrats finally stop injecting their religion into politics?
I hear he's a double-spacer too...
According to the South Park guys it's Mormons only. So I guess Romney wins in the end!
Also, I want to say that I prefer the moderated comments.
Ha ha. I don’t think there is any scriptural basis for belief that anyone, nurses included, becomes an angel in heaven.
Why take seriously this one sentence of his?
Joe is too damn stupid to be President.
Biden doesn’t realize it yet, but he is done.
It's shocking that he would insult the transgender community in that fashion and then the social media team actually feature the insult.
I think Gabriel used to work in neuro at Mayo.
It's the type of mindless pandering that professional politicians resort to. Not worthy of any serious analysis.
the Amazing Thing, isn't that Jo Biden is mentally incompetent; that's nothing new
the Amazing Thing, is that Jo Biden's PEOPLE are mentally incompetent TOO!
It appears that Bidenists believe that only nurses can become angels in heaven, but his comment doesn’t exclude the possibility of non-nurses becoming saints or some other sort of non-angelic heaven-dwellers. So getting to heaven is not among the hopes non-nurse Bidenists must abandon.
Most people hearing this will just think Biden is complimenting nurses.
I forced myself to listen to Jo's Clip:
He accuses GOD Almighty of poor Labor Relations
"If there Are any Angels in Heaven, they're all M&F nurses... AND THEY'RE NOT GETTING PAID ENOUGH!"
Jo simultaneously:
DOUBTS that there are angels in Heaven
THINKS that they are Humans, WITH GENDERS
SAYS that Only Nurses will make it
STATES THAT GOD ALMIGHTY IS NOT PAYING THEM ENOUGH
The man is an infidel; that Insults ALLAH. AND Disparages the Holy QURAN
There is ONLY ONE THING to do with such 'men'; and You ALL KNOW What that is!
Not the best campaign strategy to make us picture elderly Joe surrounded by either nurses or angels, much less both.
Then Jo Biden immediately segues into talking about:
All Those Home Care Workers {who, by the Way: AREN'T GETTING INTO HEAVEN: Not Nurses)}
So, he insults GOD Almighty, AND The members of the SEIU* that he is Talking TO
members of the SEIU* who, OF COURSE; Clap and Cheer Jo for Insulting them
Reminds me of the old joke where God threatens to sue Satan. Satan laughs and says, "Where are you going to get a lawyer?"
I didn't realize part of the deal was we became Angels. But now that I Know that, I feed cheated. Nurses only. Oh well, there's still time for that nurses correspondence course. I may make it yet.
But isn't that a beautiful nurse's Hell: all of eternity to give sponge-baths and no one else to give them to.
Just hot nurses in heaven, giving endless sudsy sponge-baths to each other.
If a mortal were to glimpse this, because of the difference of perception between our earthly time and eternity, it would seem like the hot nurses were soaping each other in exquisite slow-motion.
And -- being heaven -- the lighting would be perfect.
I am Laslo.
You lived a life of virtue, you served your fellow human beings every day of your life, you felt and acted upon the love of God continually, but here are, dumping bedpans in Paradise for all eternity. What a kick in the head!
Two big errors: Christians would consider being Angels in Heaven a demotion from their status as children of God that comes by pure gift and cannot be worked for by piling up good deeds.
Biden has made a career out of pretending to be so stupid that we can trust him. While Lizzie Warren has made a career out of being the smartest Cherokee at Harvard.
"It's the type of mindless pandering that professional politicians resort to."
Quite so. Lucky for him that he was not addressing a room full of proctologists.
What an inane word salad. He makes it sound like the angels aren't being paid enough and yet need to be treated (for what?). Plus, the home healthcare workers need more training..in other words, they're not good enough yet. Jeez! But "We can do this".
"they are all male and female nurses" I think you parsed his sentence wrong, that's why you're confused.
"[in heaven] they are all male, and [there are] female nurses." Creepy Joe would like that.
How many nurses can dance on the head of a pin?
"Satan laughs and says, "Where are you going to get a lawyer?""
The devil sent God a challenge to a little baseball game. God sent back, "How could you win? I have all the great players." The devil, "That's true. But I have all the umpires."
I keep seeing Ursula Andress with shimmery little wings.
"As a lifelong adherent to congressional tradition, Mr. Biden was wary of acting hastily."
This is an actual, unironic sentence in the above-the-fold front page New York Times article about Biden's courageous, character-building suffering in the face of Trump's daring to make "unfounded" attacks on Hunter Biden. The article is a masterpiece of unadulterated bias, apogee of shameless ass kissing, etc.
I can't imagine how any Democrat with a pulse and IQ points to string together isn't embarrassed by this stuff. But several Democrats told the reporter, anonymously, that Biden's "reverence for congressional prerogatives" prevented him from punching back at Trump.
Also, if you're praising someone's "reverence," why do you feel the need to be anonymous?
Joe is too damn stupid to be President.
Joe has long been a bullshitter and a people pleaser. He was one of the most liked members of the Senate for a long time because he says things that he thinks will make people happy. It's automatic without thinking. In that sense, he is pretty dumb.
Now that he is starting to have cognitive decline, this trait becomes more obvious and painful to watch.
As someone else said, Angels and humans are two different things. Also, Angels are scary.
“You lived a life of virtue, you served your fellow human beings every day of your life, you felt and acted upon the love of God continually, but — whoops! — you picked the wrong job! Nurses only!”
+10 and LOL. Comedy Althouse is some of the best Althouse.
This kind of platitude gets lots of people to nod along in agreement without a single thought as to what they are actually agreeing with. Sloppy wording for sloppy thinkers.
It’s disheartening. One cannot imagine Lincoln, for example, making such a mistake. Or FDR or JFK for that matter. Today’s elites pretty much suck.
He really is a dope of a candidate, similar to Booker and Harris, but superior to Beto. It is a wonder that he polls so well, Warren is surging yet his support remains steady.
Also, what is up with *if* there are any angels in heaven?
If you’re going to talk about angels at all, one thing you don’t do is frame it with speculation about whether they even exist or not.
What a maroon.
Ol' Sherriff Joe is just sucking up to the assembled multitude.
His theology is silly. People who die and go to heaven are not angels. Angels are agents of God.
If there’s a just God then after he passes Joe Biden will still not know who’s in heaven.
His theology is worse than his speech.
Run that line through the truth machine:
"If there are any politicians you cannot investigate, they are all male and female Democrats," says Joe Biden.
The nurses have the phone box.
Hinduism make sense with Gods and Goddesses with children etc.
Monotheism with God as male make no sense.
Why dick with no use for it!?
That was a footnote in Calvin's Institutes. Predestination, but the only thing we know for sure is nurses only.
I'm sure he says the same thing about firefighters when stroking that union.
""If there are any angels in heaven, they are all male and female nurses," says Joe Biden."
When I saw the title of the post and the image of Biden below, the first thing I thought was, My god, he said that in the wake of Sanders's heart surgery?
I thought maybe Bernie had died or something, and Joe figured he was next.
Not everyone believes that after death they have a chance at becoming an angel in heaven.
Not even Christians or Jews believe that.
A human is a human. An angel is an angel. One cannot become the other. There are no trans-angels or trans-humans.
Rory said... I keep seeing Ursula Andress with shimmery little wings.
I assume you mean, like this?
Remember also, Biden was put in charge of accounting for "every penny" of the stimulus funds. Epic fail there as well.
Bet he wore his hospital gown backwards! EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW
Angels have no gender and no sex, IIRC. They have masculine names in the 3GMR, so people get confused.
Narr
Ukrangels are different, they bring cash
Well Joe is retarded so
Not everyone believes that after death they have a chance at becoming an angel in heaven.
Who knows what Mr Biden was intending to say (some half-memory of the Lord teaching that 'in resurrectione enim neque nubent, neque nubentur: sed erunt sicut angeli Dei in cælo', 'when the dead rise again, there is no marrying and giving in marriage; they are as the angels in heaven are' Matt 22,30) but since he repudiates the bimillennial tradition of the Church insofar as her moral teaching goes it is no surprise to me at all that he does the same with her dogmatic teaching, confounding the distinct orders of being inhabited by the angels and mankind.
There is the whole New Age, Della Reese 'Touched by an Angel' nonsense too, so that also is probably mixed up in his poor head, or perhaps he's thinking about inviting Marianne Williamson to be his running mate.
Next Quid Pro Joe will say the angels are truck drivers, teachers, UAW members, unionized hotel staff, and Silicon Valley venture capitalists.
Jeff Brokaw wrote:
"If you’re going to talk about angels at all, one thing you don’t do is frame it with speculation about whether they even exist or not."
I noticed the exact same thing- whoever wrote the tweet was trying to finesse the issue for atheists.
Imagine the ridicule in the press if Trump had said this.
That was a footnote in Calvin's Institutes. Predestination, but the only thing we know for sure is nurses only.
Now that was funny.
Trump should tweet: "I sincerely hope that Joe Biden fully recovers from his recent heart attack and brain aneurysm. Nurses are indeed like angels!"
Then let the media explain that it was Sanders who had the heart attack, and Biden has not had a brain aneurysm for many years.
Trump should tweet: "I sincerely hope that Joe Biden fully recovers from his recent heart attack and brain aneurysm. Nurses are indeed like angels!"
Then let the media explain that it was Sanders who had the heart attack, and Biden has not had a brain aneurysm for many years.
Maybe he was referring to Visiting Angels.
Or he's just a putz. Really; "male and female"?
I think Joe Biden wasn't being real of course.
Perhaps he was saying being a human nurse is a prequisite for being promoted to angel, and as for any angels who were angels before 1854, they all have since been promoted further.
@Andrew
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Biden believes that heaven exists, but he’s not so sure about angels. Of course, now people look at him and think about death. Not a great campaign strategy.
Meh! I bet Joe has said the same thing about strippers every time he's been to titty bar.
It is typical that it took the Trump-Ukraine “scandal” for the media to finally start doing their jobs and looking into Biden’s record/past/connections.
Today’s “journalists” are nothing more than Leftist activists. Remember Tim Russert? Look at Chuck Todd. Look at George Stephanopoulous. Remember David Gregory.
Joe Biden commenting about heaven is silly, he should know he isn't going there. Where he is going, he will be lucky if Nurse Ratched will be changing his bedpan once every millenium.
From what I understand, Judaism doesn't believe in "Heaven". I may be wrong, since every Rabbi has his own opinion.
Biden is probably the worst person you could go to for theology lessons. Any random atheist has a better grasp of theology than that man.
I'm guessing that Joe Biden isn't particularly religious. If a politician isn't particularly religious they should stick to the generic, "God Bless the United States," when invoking references to the divine. I don't think it is part of any Christian Dogma that people become angels when they get to heaven. And specifying 'Male and Female' is weird when he could just say nurses.
I knew that nurses do not have to go to the back of the bus, but this.
Is nursing also the only profession for reincarnation ?
Can I get a buddy pass to Heaven.
Where is my, I’m with nurse t-shirt.
I was told when younger not to hurry to grow up.
This shall be my mid-life crisis mark to not hurry into heaven.
Thank you.
To be fair to Biden, he recently converted to Pro-Choice. He is either bitterly clinging to his Catholic religion, arguing through appeal to empathy, or is being true to his Twilight faith, Pro-Choice religion, and liberal, apparently progressive, ideology.
How do we wind up with duplicate posts under moderation?
"But who on earth thinks that only nurses go to heaven?!"
Depends on what the meaning of "think" is. Do we have reason to think that Slow Quidproquo Joe actually thinks anything?
Anyway, even his compliments are stupid.
On top of his family corruption getting exposed, this is bad for the GOP: we want Joe to be the Dem candidate. Don't tell them, though.
Why did he need to say "male and female" nurses? Was he trying to be inclusive, suggesting he's "woke"/not stereotyping women, that men can be nurses too?
He's an idiot. "Nurse" denotes the profession, has nothing to do w/gender.
Did any nurses have a part in the wall of shame at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center? Do they still get a "I'm a nurse" angel pass?
Every time Joe Biden says something stupid, an angel gets its wings.
'Touched by an Angel', sounds like a sexual harassment case. Does the angel actually exist or not ?
Wearing a gown backwards, sounds like indecent exposure. Is the hospital public or private ?
"walter said...
"How do we wind up with duplicate posts under moderation?"
When I complained about the same issue, someone pointed out that you can delete one of your own duplicate posts. So I think the professor is simply declining to save duplicate posters (like me) from their own stupidity.
If the audience were composed of sanitation workers we'd learn that THEY were the chosen for heaven.
These are my standards. If you don't like them I have others.
Althouse said "You lived a life of virtue, you served your fellow human beings every day of your life, you felt and acted upon the love of God continually, but — whoops! — you picked the wrong job! Nurses only!"
Sounds like a Seinfeld storyline.
Gosh he is dumb.
Gosh he is dumb.
I got banned! Hooray!!
It's a perfect example of an uninformed lunkhead trying to invoke Christian themes. My policy is to never accept moral instructions from those that have none.
"Why did he need to say "male and female" nurses?"
I would bet that JB reasoned that the word "nurse" in isolation implies female.
If you want a laugh, Scott Adams's commentary on this video clip is very funny. Go to 29:40 at this video:
https://youtu.be/HlgsXkYEorI
Thank you, ictARM!
Does not Aerosmith have a song called ‘ That nurse dude looks like a lady ‘.
"For G-d so loved the world that he gave his only son that whosoever were nurses, would have eternal life."
- Biden 3:16
Why differentiate nurses into male and female? Oh, my bad! He's a Democrat and identity politics require those classifications.
Yes! Because when it comes to angels and heaven instead of thinking of healing, restoring and uplifting I think of rapacious vulture capitalists and the politicians they control running the scene, cawing at each other picking over the bones of the underprivileged - as certain Republicans and their leadership must do.
What an interesting vision of religion these people must have! Strange, dark and medieval but at least definitely not left wing!
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