Althouse: Biden babble.

March 31, 2020

Biden babble.

Does anybody speak Biden? I’d love to know his position on this issue. pic.twitter.com/ojqhbpkSls
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 31, 2020

119 comments:

Narr said...: This is supposed to defeat Trump?

Narr
This homunculus?; 3/31/20, 2:13 PM
Automatic_Wing said...: Where is Babs Billingsley when you need her.

"Oh stewardess, I speak Biden."; 3/31/20, 2:15 PM
Sebastian said...: Biden babble: good one.

Not even worth fisking.

And when Althouse can't do more with Joe's verbal mush, you know it's bad.; 3/31/20, 2:17 PM
rhhardin said...: The problem for women is that you can't tell whether he means well or not.

For men it's obvious that he's incapable of thought at all.; 3/31/20, 2:17 PM
Vance said...: The guy is definitely going senile.

And when are people going to question him about Tara Reade and her accusations against Biden, where he literally did what Trump was excoriated for merely talking about: "Grabbing them by the....".

Very, very convenient that Biden's female campaign manager scrubbed all her "Believe all women!" posts which she had made to attack Kavanaugh the day the Reade story surfaced... only, of course, for the media to execute its well known "cover it with a pillow" maneuver.

Funny how all of our "Trump's a horrible evil man! Look at his language! His Morals! Disgusting! We must vote for a moral, upstanding Democrat" posters are completely silent with the Tara Reade credible accusations (she did, unlike all the Democrat women accusing Republicans such as Ford, mention it to people at the time it happened--so it's contemporary. And she was a Biden staffer!).; 3/31/20, 2:18 PM
Rory said...: He could make so many points by saying we have to stop sniping and support the guy we picked.; 3/31/20, 2:22 PM
Ken B said...: Narr
Crazy I know but frighteningly possible. Even a slim chance is worrisome.

How many people here are happy with a 40% chance of him winning? Or 30%? How about 10%?
What risk of president Biden is acceptable?; 3/31/20, 2:24 PM
Francisco D said...: Biden is only the Dems guy until Bernie drops out.

When Bernie is gone, they will do the merciful thing and ask Biden to endorse the DNC choice.

Biden will not be the Democrat POTUS nominee. Isn't that obvious by now?; 3/31/20, 2:24 PM
Mattman26 said...: This man is objectively incapable of holding a thought together long enough to articulate it.

And this is how he presents under about the lowest pressure imaginable, responding to softball questions from friendly interviewers.

Sad!; 3/31/20, 2:26 PM
Gahrie said...: Woods is savage on Twitter. Guess he plans on never working again.; 3/31/20, 2:26 PM
Gahrie said...: This homunculus?

No, the vampire waiting in the wings. I told you we needed to put a stake through her heart.; 3/31/20, 2:27 PM
Vance said...: What if Biden doesn't go gently into that good night and demands that he's not ready to go onto the cart; that he feels happy and wants to go for a walk to the microphone and accept the D nomination?

Can the Democrats wack him and put him on the cart in full view of the world and get away with it?; 3/31/20, 2:29 PM
DrSquid said...: Don Cuomo says it's not going to be him who takes SloJoe's place, or as his running mate. Who can they appoint to the role? Besides HRC, who would even want it?; 3/31/20, 2:29 PM
Mary Beth said...: Woods is going to find himself back in Twitter quarantine.; 3/31/20, 2:31 PM
madAsHell said...: Governor Lepetomane is no longer just a character in Mel Brook's movie.

"Hello Boys! Have a good night's rest? I missed you"; 3/31/20, 2:33 PM
Dave Begley said...: Hillary is a woman. Biden names her VP. Joe accepts the nomination. And then resigns due to doctors' orders and health issue. Hillary is the new nominee. And she picks Pete as VP. Or maybe Liz Warren. Or maybe Amy.; 3/31/20, 2:33 PM
Drago said...: Vance: "Funny how all of our "Trump's a horrible evil man! Look at his language! His Morals! Disgusting! We must vote for a moral, upstanding Democrat" posters are completely silent with the Tara Reade credible accusations..."

Biden should immediately call in Bill Clinton and Jesse Jackson as "counselors" and then, after about 48 hours of "counseling", both Jesse and Bill could declare that Biden has reached a new Zen level on sexual assault and that all is good.

The way that Jesse provided absolution for Bill way back when.; 3/31/20, 2:36 PM
tcrosse said...: Joe-berwocky.; 3/31/20, 2:37 PM
Drago said...: DrSquid: "Don Cuomo says it's not going to be him who takes SloJoe's place, or as his running mate. Who can they appoint to the role? Besides HRC, who would even want it?"

Don Cuomo might simply be pretending to play William T Sherman and instead has every intention of happily accepting the democrat nomination during a democrat convention where Slow Joe's clear dementia can no longer be papered over.

At that point in time, Cuomo, who has made it a point to appear to be working with Trump, would then, reluctantly, because gosh darn it who can turn down such an offer(?), "rise" to accept the appointment as dem nominee by acclimation.

By the way, the Bernie bros are going absolutely bonkers over this possibility already!; 3/31/20, 2:38 PM
DanTheMan said...: If you have witnessed the awful, slow decline of an elderly relative with dementia, then you recognize this.

The emperor has no clothes.
Biden is in the early stages of dementia or Alzheimer's.; 3/31/20, 2:39 PM
Drago said...: Francisco: "Biden will not be the Democrat POTUS nominee. Isn't that obvious by now?"

Yes. He's the placeholder until the convention.; 3/31/20, 2:40 PM
Drago said...: Acclamation (vs "acclimation")

Too much AGW on the mind.; 3/31/20, 2:41 PM
Drago said...: DantheMan: "The emperor has no clothes."

That's what all the female secret service agents hanging around the pool were saying....; 3/31/20, 2:41 PM
Kevin said...: This is just an early prototype of the program that translates Biden’s past statements into somewhat coherent future policies.

By November they’ll be up to release three or four point oh.; 3/31/20, 2:42 PM
h said...: What's puzzling to me is the apparent ad libbing of comments. If Biden himself is mentally competent, why doesn't he insist that the staff give him well prepared talking points to read? If Biden himself is not mentally competent, why does a high level staff person (or Biden's brain surgeon wife) coach him through reading from the 3x5 cards? I think it comes from a life time of having deferential surround him, so nobody ever criticizes, and some clever person at the meeting says, "I think the Vice President made a good point when he said..." and then complete the sentence with whatever idea the clever person wants to advance.; 3/31/20, 2:47 PM
Achilles said...: "Does anybody speak Biden? I’d love to know his position on this issue."

I know mister Woods is trying to be funny.

I don't want to know Joe Biden's position.

He is a paid shill for China.

We should ship Biden and Obama and Clinton and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConell and Burr all the other paid China shills to China.

One way.

If the WHO has offices in the US ship anyone who works in them to China too.

Eliminate the CDC. It has one job and it persists and insists on doing everything but that one job. The only way to have a functioning entity that actually monitors and controls diseases is to completely start over again from zero.; 3/31/20, 2:49 PM
Kevin said...: This would be so much better if they hooked him up to the internet and let people ask him questions.

Citizen: What should we do with purple lettuce in the spring?

Biden: Well you’ve got to ... right now ... you see we must ... Obama and I said, “Mr. President that’s a risk I’m not sure” ... in the Situation Room with Daniel and the Russians will be ... maximum effort.; 3/31/20, 2:49 PM
Tom T. said...: Even apart from the verbal stumbles, he's not saying anything more than the vaguest generalities. "Do something different and more of it." How does this help to demonstrate that anyone could rely upon him to make detailed decisions about complicated issues?; 3/31/20, 2:50 PM
Etienne said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 3/31/20, 2:51 PM
tcrosse said...: Cuomo swears he will not be the one, until the devil takes him to an exceedingly high mountain, and shows him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.; 3/31/20, 2:52 PM
Kevin said...: At least he didn’t mention God.

The left might have found him unfit for office.; 3/31/20, 2:53 PM
Yancey Ward said...: I have written it before- there is zero chance of Biden being the nominee- the Democrats aren't completely insane. However, the Coronavirus has greatly mucked up the DNC's plans by stopping the primaries before Biden clinched the nomination. Each day Biden does one of these, it becomes clear even to Democrat primary voters that Biden can't be the nominee. If the primaries are run at the end of May or in June that had been delayed- it is entirely possible that Sanders can catch him given Biden's utterly pathetic public addresses in planned media. In this particular appearance Biden had notes that he clearly couldn't even read.; 3/31/20, 2:55 PM
Todd said...: I feel that Biden's remarks deserve a counter-point and I think I can safely say I speak for most of us, so in rebuttal I say:

This is not something, such that the thing should not be, you know, and support that with which it is to be supporting all those that work real. Look man, this gets to the heart of, and we can't just, so have at it!; 3/31/20, 2:59 PM
svlc said...: It is sad to see his deterioration. Life can sure be cruel at times.; 3/31/20, 3:00 PM
Ken B said...: I don’t think he will be the nominee. But the DNC doesn’t need to settle on a replacement just yet. As long as they keep Sanders at bay they have time to maneuver. Still, I wonder how long they can let him go on like this without looking awful.; 3/31/20, 3:01 PM
Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...: I've noticed he frequently becomes flummoxed while trying to present prepared remarks. When he realizes it's not going well, he tries to reset and provide the impromptu "Joe Biden Straight Talk" version of the prepared remarks. That effort also tends to quickly go south. Not a good look for a Presidential candidate.; 3/31/20, 3:02 PM
Tomcc said...: Very odd; it's like he didn't expect the question.
"I was told there would be no math."; 3/31/20, 3:04 PM
Yancey Ward said...: I still expect to see "Biden Reveals Positive Coronavirus Test" at some point- true or not.; 3/31/20, 3:07 PM
Limited blogger said...: Transcript, please.; 3/31/20, 3:08 PM
Ken B said...: Tomcc
He sounds like other people I know did when they were in the early stages of dementia, and were mostly there but not fully. The anger outbursts when he is challenged too.
I think he would be an awful president, but I also think it’s cruel and manipulative of 5he party to use him this way.; 3/31/20, 3:10 PM
AllenS said...: Remember, he's the best that the Democrats could come up with.; 3/31/20, 3:10 PM
DanTheMan said...: >>it's not going well, he tries to reset and provide the impromptu "Joe Biden Straight Talk" version of the prepared remarks.

I disagree. He's lost what I believe doctors call "executive function" (no pun intended).
He's lost the ability to express a moderately complex thought. Every day brings new examples.
He can't get from A to E without getting lost around C.

It's sad to see this happen to anyone. To require someone to demonstrate his decline in front of a national audience is ghastly.; 3/31/20, 3:11 PM
Kevin said...: I have written it before- there is zero chance of Biden being the nominee- the Democrats aren't completely insane.

Inga has assured us that she and everyone she knows will vote for the nominee, whoever they are.

Althouse's friend Ben is running the Democratic Party in WI. It's not like he can vote third-party.

So that's, like, three votes right there.; 3/31/20, 3:14 PM
DanTheMan said...: I don't agree that the D's are going to replace Joe.

They had the opportunity to replace Hillary before the election when it was clear she was knee deep in the private server scandal. One word from Comey and she was out. They did not act.

Joe's accusers have given the D's exactly the excuse they need to "investigate" with foregone conclusion that removes him from the race. They will not act.

I believe the only person that can remove Joe from the race is Joe. And like a lot of dementia patients, he's convinced he's "fine".; 3/31/20, 3:16 PM
FullMoon said...: Even apart from the verbal stumbles, he's not saying anything more than the vaguest generalities. "Do something different and more of it." How does this help to demonstrate that anyone could rely upon him to make detailed decisions about complicated issues?

Funny, yesterday he said "Do something more, but less of it"

I may be wrong..; 3/31/20, 3:17 PM
Tomcc said...: It may be cruel and manipulative, but the longer it goes on the more convinced I am that the DNC is putting their (presidential) efforts into 2024 and consider 2020 to be a lost cause.; 3/31/20, 3:17 PM
I'm Not Sure said...: I honestly don't see how this is being allowed to continue. Someone who cares about him should step in and put an end to the charade.; 3/31/20, 3:17 PM
Kevin said...: Remember, he's the best that the Democrats could come up with.

Best of Breed!

Still preferred over Bernie, Amy, Liz, Corey, Kamala, Tulsi, Beto, DeBlasio, Bloomberg, Pete, and a half-dozen others, even with that grabbing the staffer by the p***y thing they all know in their hearts is more than likely true.; 3/31/20, 3:18 PM
bagoh20 said...: He can't possibly end up being the nominee, let alone the President. Really Dems, can you even imagine that? The only thing worse for the Democrats than Biden losing would be Biden winning, not to mention how bad it would be for the rest of us.; 3/31/20, 3:19 PM
Kevin said...: I'm not convinced Joe has dementia.

I think what we're seeing is late-stage TDS.

They're going to need to keep the ventilators around NYC for Joe, Mika, and Maddow before this is all over.; 3/31/20, 3:20 PM
exhelodrvr1 said...: Biden is just cannon fodder - if they retake the Senate, they can neutralize Trump.; 3/31/20, 3:20 PM
bagoh20 said...: Who was it around here that kept telling us that Trump was mentally ill? Are you voting for this guy?; 3/31/20, 3:21 PM
tcrosse said...: Amy, Pete, and Liz are playing along with this grotesque charade. I had thought that the DNC wouldn't fucking dare nominate Hillary again. Now I think there's no depth to which they would not stoop.; 3/31/20, 3:23 PM
elkh1 said...: When Trump eats him alive on the debate stage, Pelosi will impeach Trump on his cannibalism.; 3/31/20, 3:23 PM
DanTheMan said...: I'll paraphrase WFB: If Biden wins, the Dems will demand a recount. :); 3/31/20, 3:23 PM
DanTheMan said...: I'll paraphrase WFB: If Biden wins, the Dems will demand a recount. :); 3/31/20, 3:24 PM
Kevin said...: Someone who cares about him should step in and put an end to the charade.

Right now they're drawing straws to see who puts a MyPillow over his face and tells him this is the N95 mask Trump sent to keep him healthy.; 3/31/20, 3:26 PM
Francisco D said...: DanThe Man said: I believe the only person that can remove Joe from the race is Joe. And like a lot of dementia patients, he's convinced he's "fine".

That is quite often true with dementia patients. When I administered neuropsych testing, patients with dementia were often quite pleasant UNTIL we got to the Word List part. At that point, it was a struggle to keep them from walking out in anger and thus invalidating the testing.

The flashes of anger that you see from Joe when he is questioned are part of his dementia profile.; 3/31/20, 3:28 PM
FullMoon said...: Joes scripted podcast sounded normal. Is there a video of it? A search turns up mostly vids of his goofiness.; 3/31/20, 3:28 PM
mtrobertslaw said...: I think Uncle Joe is telling us that his position is short-aged people are not in the places where they are supposed to be and the President has to get them to stand in their proper places if we are to have any chance to beat this virus.; 3/31/20, 3:29 PM
Darkisland said...: H,

Even worse is that he is not adlibbing. He is being asked questions for which he has notes with correct answers. See him keep looking down?

Which would seem to mean that he was given the questions ahead of time.

And he still can't handle it.

John Henry; 3/31/20, 3:30 PM
mtrobertslaw said...: I think Uncle Joe is telling us that his position is short-aged people are not in the places where they are supposed to be and the President has to get them to stand in their proper places if we are to have any chance to beat this virus.; 3/31/20, 3:31 PM
AllenS said...: Two cannibals are sitting at a table eating a clown, when one of the cannibals says: "Does this taste funny to you"?

Two cannibals are sitting at a table eating Joe Biden, when one of the cannibals says: "Does this taste senile to you"?; 3/31/20, 3:31 PM
wild chicken said...: "Don Cuomo might simply be pretending to play William T Sherman"

Or do like Bullock, who played it perfectly. Make everyone come and beg...; 3/31/20, 3:32 PM
tim maguire said...: Biden loves numbering things, and most things are number one. So you always have to deal with that. And he changes his mind as often as Trump, but, unlike Trump, he forgets to hit his points.

What he means, what he always means, is, "Orange Man Bad." There's no advantage in deciphering beyond that.; 3/31/20, 3:33 PM
Darkisland said...: As the old boltcutter says:

"It’s all a lotta horseshit.”

John Henry; 3/31/20, 3:35 PM
hawkeyedjb said...: "When Trump eats him alive on the debate stage, Pelosi will impeach Trump on his cannibalism."

I dunno, Trump isn't the most articulate guy either, though at least you pretty much know what he means in the end. These two on a debate stage could be hilarious. You might need to hire interpreters.; 3/31/20, 3:41 PM
Darkisland said...: Kevin said...

even with that grabbing the staffer by the p***y thing

Are you sure about that Kevin? Not saying you are wrong and I've not followed it that closely.

My impression was that he didnt just grab but got his finger inside her. And that it was her ass, not her "front hole" as the kool kidz call it these days

John Henry; 3/31/20, 3:43 PM
D.D. Driver said...: What is scary (other than all of it) is he is only going to decline from here. If he is like this now, what will he be like in four years? Yikes.

Anyone care to handicap the likelihood that, if elected, Biden will be replaced in his first term via 25th Amendment? 25%? 30%? Higher?; 3/31/20, 3:43 PM
Gahrie said...: Can the Democrats wack him and put him on the cart in full view of the world and get away with it?

The Clintons probably can, they have so far.; 3/31/20, 3:45 PM
Vance said...: Isn't Biden actually a perfect candidate to run against Trump?

The only possible argument for Biden right now is "We will surround him with experts to tell him what to do. No worries!" I.e. the "Deep State" will be running explicitly against Trump.

Trump versus "Trust us, we're the experts! Go watch TV, we have it all under control!" Biden's perfect for that kind of an election. Anyone can clearly see he will be at best a rubber stamp for the deep state. So that's the election: Deep state versus Trump.

What does America want? 1984 style government dictatorship, or Trump, with all his warts but nevertheless clearly a leader you can vote for?; 3/31/20, 3:48 PM
Susan said...: I find it interesting that the very people who are aghast that the My Pillow guy would be allowed to weigh in on how the War on Disease is going because he dared to mention God and Trump without disdain are the very same people who are rooting for Biden to run the show.; 3/31/20, 3:50 PM
FullMoon said...: I'm not convinced Joe has dementia.

I think what we're seeing is late-stage TDS.

Nah, Joe doing a typical super hero. Pretend to be incompetent and weak .Then, in debates with Trump, unleash the hidden eloquent genius.; 3/31/20, 3:54 PM
Achilles said...: Yancey Ward said...
I have written it before- there is zero chance of Biden being the nominee- the Democrats aren't completely insane.

I don't think it is zero chance.

They might give up on 2020.

There is also a chance they just dissolve social order completely. This COVID-19 reaction has taken us far down that road already.; 3/31/20, 3:55 PM
Drago said...: Vance: "What does America want? 1984 style government dictatorship, or Trump, with all his warts but nevertheless clearly a leader you can vote for?"

Careful!

Many lefties here consider the Reagan years as a literal "Hitler"-istic dictatorship.; 3/31/20, 3:55 PM
NorthOfTheOneOhOne said...: DanTheMan said...

If you have witnessed the awful, slow decline of an elderly relative with dementia, then you recognize this.

Nah! My mother is 91 and has age related dementia. She might go on about needing to file her 1919 taxes, but she does it in complete sentences. Joe's got something way more wrong with him than dementia.; 3/31/20, 3:56 PM
FullMoon said...: Isn't Biden actually a perfect candidate to run against Trump?

The only possible argument for Biden right now is "We will surround him with experts to tell him what to do. No worries!" I.e. the "Deep State" will be running explicitly against Trump.

I am not alone in thinking Trump would hire and appoint people to run things while he golfed and took it kind of easy. The un American resistance to acceptance of the election results forced Trump to actually be much involved. Am always pleasantly surprised at how magnificent he ended up being. (I watched the Apprentice).

If Republicans control house and senate, perhaps rules can be changed to allow a third term, if he could be persuaded to accept...

I hope so.; 3/31/20, 4:01 PM
BarrySanders20 said...: Don't know if it's been said, but it needs saying. Biden is becoming more like Boomhauer from King of the hill every day. Looks and sounds.

From wiki: "Jeffrey Dexter "Jeff" Boomhauer III, commonly referred to as Boomhauer, is a fictional character in the Fox animated series King of the Hill. The character is voiced by series creator Mike Judge, and is best known for his fast-paced and nearly incomprehensible speech."; 3/31/20, 4:08 PM
Vance said...: I actually think there's a large issue shaping up for the election.

The government is announcing that Covid 19 will come back in the fall. Makes sense, it's a flu virus, and that always comes back for fall.

But we've locked down everywhere. How can you hold an election under current "shelter in place and panic!" rules? You can't say that only states that vote by mail will be allowed to vote for President and Congress.

So: do we cancel the election? Oh, the screaming of "Trump as a dictator!" if we do that. Do the Democrats push for "let's declare this emergency again" and well, if we are going to lock down America for Covid 19, "to save one life!" then aren't we a dictatorship where Democrats can arrest people for having a Bar Mitzvah, like the police in New Jersey just did?

Would Democrats trade having President Trump for having a de-facto dictatorship in many states and all metro areas?

And if they can successfully push "No elections as long as Covid-19 is there" then what's stopping them from killing Trump and Pence? They aren't going to be punished come election time.; 3/31/20, 4:10 PM
BarrySanders20 said...: Biden calls 911

https://youtu.be/bIaUfBjHjpI; 3/31/20, 4:12 PM
Achilles said...: Vance said...
So: do we cancel the election?

I am actually looking around at the world now and something is up.

COVID-19 is essentially non-existent in Kenya and they are shooting people over curfews.

Social order is breaking down in Italy.

None of this makes any sense.

There is some real shit going on right now.

We may look at this as the beginning of the end.; 3/31/20, 4:16 PM
DanTheMan said...: >> But we've locked down everywhere. How can you hold an election under current "shelter in place and panic!" rules?

We will likely have a vaccine by then, and much better treatment plans based on millions of cases.

We may also have toilet paper, and hand sanitizer by then as well. Maybe.; 3/31/20, 4:17 PM
Tacitus said...: For his faults, and they are legion, Biden seems to genuinely enjoy getting out and interacting with the public. So this social distancing is likely harder on him than it would be on a normal person. It's like a sensory deprivation experiment.

If your entire being is grounded on the adulation of The People and all you have around you is your wife and some flunkies you're gonna miss it.

And yes, dementia patients can be supremely confident. My mom went for a driver's road test a few years back. Left cocky as all get out. Returned the same way....but with the examiner white as a sheet!

TW; 3/31/20, 4:18 PM
narciso said...: biden has never made an ounce of sense, yet he was paid well to look the other way, by bankers, he repeated the nuclear freeze, he stood against energy independence with the vote against the Alaskan pipeline,; 3/31/20, 4:23 PM
Ben Lange said...: How can we say with any certainty Biden is going senile when he was such an imbecile to start off? Isn’t it more likely the spotlight is just revealing what was always there?; 3/31/20, 4:35 PM
Gk1 said...: After watching that Biden clip all I could think of was:

Olsen Johnson: [after Gabby Johnson's speech] "Now who can argue with that? I think we're all in debt to Gabby Johnson for stating what needed to be said. I am particularly glad that these lovely children are here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed the courage little seen in this day and age. "; 3/31/20, 4:39 PM
iowan2 said...: If this wasn't so sad and frustrating, it would be fun to mock dems. I prefer to mock their core beliefs, not the individual. But this is sad. Joe is in cognitive decline. I don't need a MD degree to see whats happening. Maybe because I watched my mother decline in exactly the same way. No train of thought. Can't find the word she was searching for. Words like dog, or plate, or the Name of the town she spent 83 years living in.
Why Joes wife is allowing this elder abuse is beyond me. Nothing can be worth watching a love one step on the metaphorical rake repeatedly. The Dems have no options to capture the Presidency. None. If they just quit openly fighting the President at every breath, pretended for the next 7 months to work together, they could at least seem human. One election cannot be enough to abuse Joe like this.; 3/31/20, 4:39 PM
FullMoon said...: Tim Wolter said...

For his faults, and they are legion, Biden seems to genuinely enjoy getting out and interacting with the public. So this social distancing is likely harder on him than it would be on a normal person. It's like a sensory deprivation experiment.

Appreciate use of normal instead of "average" . Words have meanings; 3/31/20, 4:45 PM
ga6 said...: "Why Joes wife is allowing this elder abuse is beyond me."

DR Biden wants to be the Edith Wilson of the 21st Century and lead usmal to the wonderland of true progresivesm by proxy..; 3/31/20, 4:45 PM
Rory said...: I like that he's scratching his face in the first ten seconds.; 3/31/20, 4:47 PM
Rockeye said...: Pretty damning stuff. Self-isolation is the only thing keeping this poor man in politics now. Once he is able (and required) to get out there and the full extent of his debility is undeniable, things will get (politically) interesting.; 3/31/20, 4:56 PM
madAsHell said...: We need Barbara Billingsley to speak up....."I speak Biden".; 3/31/20, 4:57 PM
Clyde said...: AllenS said...
Remember, he's the best that the Democrats could come up with.

Yeah, he's their Hannibal Smith. Or Lecter.; 3/31/20, 4:58 PM
Tommy Duncan said...: We're not seeing a Joe Biden who has keen insights and thoughtful plans, but is struggling to express them. When you sort through the word jumble there is nothing there but some tired platitudes.

It is telling that the DNC is allowing him to embarrass himself. The DNC has kept others like Nancy Pelosi and Robert Byrd on track. They appear to have abandoned Joe in his basement video studio. They are allowing Joe to fail in a very visible way.

I suspect the issue facing the DNC is one of timing. They are looking for an event or crisis they can use to showcase an alternative to Joe Biden. When the time is right they'll have an intervention where they invoke the 25th Amendment on their Presidential candidate. The media will be orgasmic and will praise the DNC and their new candidate while presenting a moving documentary on the life and times of Joe Biden.; 3/31/20, 5:02 PM
Iman said...: Fuck me running, but he’s confused.; 3/31/20, 5:09 PM
Iman said...: The DNC has kept others like Nancy Pelosi and Robert Byrd on track.

Yeah... she’s got one foot on the platform, and he has both feet in the grave.; 3/31/20, 5:12 PM
Lurker21 said...: Biden is going to have to pull out himself, though there's likely to be pressure put on him to do so. As much as he hates to do it - and as much as the party hates to do it - he may just endorse Sanders in an effort to put an end to the comedy and the chaos. Try to foist somebody else on the delegates and you'll have all the presidential hopefuls clamoring for attention and fighting each other for the nomination. More comedy and chaos.; 3/31/20, 5:15 PM
gspencer said...: "We're not seeing a Joe Biden who has keen insights and thoughtful plans"

Good one.

That Biden never existed.

Remember what Robert Gates wrote about Biden - "wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."; 3/31/20, 5:41 PM
Ryan said...: He called a woman a dog-faced pony soldier. He should have been out at that moment.; 3/31/20, 5:42 PM
Wince said...: While I sit here I'm staring at Biden's cup of Jello on the tray wondering if he's going to eat it.; 3/31/20, 5:55 PM
Gahrie said...: If Republicans control house and senate, perhaps rules can be changed to allow a third term, if he could be persuaded to accept...

I hope so.

It would require a Constitutional amendment to repeal the Constitutional amendment that prohibits it.; 3/31/20, 5:56 PM
gilbar said...: Don't Forget(don't EVER forget) Jo Biden, IS THE BEST CHANCE THEY'VE GOT!!!!; 3/31/20, 6:06 PM
stevew said...: Imagine, if you will, a Congress, both House and Senate, controlled by super majority Republican rule with Joltin' Joe Biden in the POTUS seat. I would wager even Donald J. Trump would consider that a win.; 3/31/20, 6:14 PM
Marcus Carman said...: God help us.; 3/31/20, 6:56 PM
bagoh20 said...: Now that nobody understands what Joe is saying, he's no longer completely wrong on every issue. Hell, he might even be right sometimes, but who knows?; 3/31/20, 7:07 PM
Bill Peschel said...: He's one SNL skit away from being dumped.; 3/31/20, 7:07 PM
rcocean said...: Imagine, if you will, a Congress, both House and Senate, controlled by super majority Republican rule with Bernie Sanders in the POTUS seat.

I would wager even Donald J. Trump would consider that a win.; 3/31/20, 7:34 PM
chickelit said...: It is just inconceivable and likely untrue that half of my fellow Americans tell pollsters that they want to replace Trump with this man.; 3/31/20, 7:40 PM
chickelit said...: The one person still worse than Biden is of course Hillary.; 3/31/20, 8:11 PM
Chuck said...: Trump's best words 2017.

Trump's best words 2018.

Trump's best words 2019.

None of which has ever been blogged by Althouse. It kills the buzz at Althouse.; 3/31/20, 8:27 PM
Achilles said...: Here comes moderation again.

Yay.; 3/31/20, 8:30 PM
Gk1 said...: The worst part in all this is Joe is in no shape to challenge anyone to a push up contest any more, least of all President Trump. And we can forget Biden fighting and whipping Trump behind the school gymnasium.; 3/31/20, 8:34 PM
robother said...: Even the Manchurians would've given up on this candidate.; 3/31/20, 9:25 PM
narayanan said...: Blogger Gahrie said...

If Republicans control house and senate, perhaps rules can be changed to allow a third term, if he could be persuaded to accept...

I hope so.

It would require a Constitutional amendment to repeal the Constitutional amendment that prohibits it.
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If Trump can win over 3/4 of states maybe it would even be successful.; 3/31/20, 9:25 PM
Josephbleau said...: I think Hillary! has good chance. God takes care of fools and drunks, she is thus dual qualified.; 3/31/20, 9:54 PM
LA_Bob said...: Chuck said, "..."

Whaddyasay the Dems make Chuck their nominee (not being a Dem hasn't stopped Sanders...yet)? I'd love to see him on the debate stage with Trump.; 3/31/20, 10:48 PM
Drago said...: LLR-lefty Chuck: "None of which has ever been blogged by Althouse. It kills the buzz at Althouse."

LLR-lefty Chuck is left REELING from the utter collapse of his and the lefties and Gov Whit-less's lies and threats against doctors and pharmacists in MI.

Just today Gov Idiot had to completely retract her earlier LLR-lefty Chuck approved lies regarding the Trump admin holding back equipment because Trump didn't like her (seriously, how stupid and insipid a democrat/LLR do you have to be to have CNN call you out?! LOL) AND, on top of that, Gov Moron had to pull back her astonishing and unbelievable middle-of-a-pandemic threat against the good doctors and pharmacists in her own state serving her own constituents.

Just how warped do you have to be to attempt all that in the last several days?

Well, I'll tell you.

You have to be as warped as LLR-lefty Chuck, who approved and defended each of those actions.

Passionately.

Only to be undercut by the horrific Governor herself!

#Winning; 4/1/20, 12:05 AM
chickelit said...: Nancy and Joe are going to torment Trump with exactly the sort of questions that they -- not we -- should be asking the Chinese government about COVID-19. It is so fucking predictable.; 4/1/20, 12:48 AM
friscoda said...: elkh1 said...
When Trump eats him alive on the debate stage, Pelosi will impeach Trump on his cannibalism.

3/31/20, 3:23 PM

Thread Winner by a mile; 4/1/20, 1:42 PM