March 12, 2024

There’s a general consensus on the Right. Biden’s State of the Union address was a nasty campaign speech. Among establishment shills, though, comes predictable silliness. Bill Scher at the Washington Monthly claimed that Joe’s rant was the “fiercest” such speech in history. Biden is at peak warrior, suggested Scher. Joe proved that “age is nothing but a number.”

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Never mind all the contrary public evidence. Joe is a shuffling ditz who on Thursday night benefited from a cocktail of meds that would put umph! into a sloth. In fact, Joe came across like a hophead much of the night.

Biden’s speech? It was undoubtedly penned by radicalized, 20-something Harvard alumni who regard war talk as, well, a chance to show that Joe’s testosterone hasn’t frittered away like Mars’ atmosphere. Oh, and war talk it was.

Joe opened his remarks firing shots across Putin’s bow and the bows of homegrown deplorables — you know, the rabble of rural Whites who dare own bibles and guns, and Christian “nationalists,” who share the founders’ awful conviction that our rights derive from God, not man. Flippin’ insurrectionists, man!

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Biden’s rhetoric was part — but only part — gamesmanship. His handlers need to rev-up chunks of the party’s base, including spouseless females, while luring back menopausal suburban women. After eight years of hysterics and hate, rank-in-file hysterics and haters are a tad exhausted. They aren’t showing enough intensity about old Joe’s reelection bid. So, time to fearmonger and rattle sabers.

For the establishment — which Democrat, Inc., is a subsidiary — enemies are foreign and domestic, Putin and flyover denizens. Put those together and Joe sounded like elites hanker for more than war. They hanker for Armageddon — if all else fails.

Watching our 46th president, I fondly recalled Dr. Strangelove’s General Buck Turgidson. I wondered: “Is this guy really suggesting world war and civil war at the same time? Isn’t one or the other terrible enough?”

Here’s the transcript of Biden’s address, per USA Today, March 8. The salient points from Joe’s opener have been excerpted. If Joe doesn’t come across as unhinged to you, triple scoops of your favorite flavors at one of Joe’s Delaware haunts are on me. Declared Joe:

In January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation.

He said, “I address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union.”