JOE BIDEN - SENILE! - I collect Bidenisms. A "Bidenism" is any dumb thing Joe Biden says. It can be a mispronunciation, malapropism, factual misstatement, stutter, or plain lie.

 

Biden can’t even do brief remarks welcoming an ally without reading notecards

By Thomas Lifson

A friend emailed me the less than 5 minute video below of President Biden seated next to the President of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, welcoming him to the White House.

She writes:

Does anyone remember a time where the POTUS needed to read his brief remarks?  Even Rivlin, who doesn’t speak English as his native language, was able to give his remarks off of the top of his head

 While Biden did look up from his notes from time to time, he must have been worried that he’d “get into trouble” with the people whose wishes he carries out, because he kept lookkng down and reading most of the time. This was not glancing at notes to refresh his mind about key points. This weas reading his script. Notice the note card on his knee:

Even -- somewhat weirdly -- when he used hand gestures:

Here is the complete 4 minutes and 46 seconds.

Photos: YouTube screengrabs

The Top Ten Pending Eruptions

By Deanna Chadwell

It’s shaping up to be a long, hot summer, one filled -- like Yellowstone Park -- with geysers and hot springs ready to blow at any moment. But these are political eruptions, not nature's fury.  If I didn’t know that God has things under control I’d be terrified, but in the interest of keeping track of the truth let’s list the top 10 political eruptions we can expect to blow sometime soon.

10.  Hunter Biden. He’s at the end of the list because what happens with him is not likely to directly impact any of us, but he’s such a shocking collection of immoralities and corruptions that we all know deep in our bones that such nastiness cannot be condoned in a reasonable, prosperous, free society. Hardly a week goes by without some new scandal surfacing, and each seems worse than the last. Now he’s selling “paintings” as a money-laundering scheme. He and his slimy doings are bad enough by themselves, but he’s the president’s son. Sooner or later something has to be done about him and about the part his father has played in all of it.

9. Speaking of whom, something is also going to have to be done about Joe’s mental state, but that is complicated by the fact that Kamala’s mental acuity is not much better. She’s not suffering from dementia per se, but I suspect that she’s never been all that bright. And Pelosi is next in line and her mental problems border on insanity. So, what we will do about this mortifying state of affairs is going to require some divine intervention -- and soon -- have you heard him whisper/hiss his way through a press briefing? Yikes.

8. Critical Race Theory and the communist infiltration in our schools make up my #8. I’m thrilled to see angry parents accosting school boards. We need a lot more of that. I’m also thrilled to see parents pulling their kids from public schools and educating their children at home.  Will we be able to rectify the damage that’s been done? It will be hard because we have a couple of generations of teachers who have succumbed to the propaganda, so who do we find to teach the kids the truth?  It will be interesting to see how this shapes up this summer. It’s a desperate issue because our 1st Amendment is at stake here.

7. Not only is our 1st Amendment being challenged, so is the 2nd Amendment. These are lines we cannot cross and yet every time there’s a shooting the ante ratchets up another notch and we all know that if the 2nd Amendment goes, the 1st disintegrates and without those we have no freedoms of any kind. This assault on our freedoms of speech is made worse by the power of the mega-media and its desire to shut us up. It’s a relief to see some states staking out their ground on this issue. Sooner or later we’ll see a three-way face-off amongst states’ rights, federal overreach, and Big Tech.

6. Which makes me think of the McClusky’s in St. Louis, which gets us to our Number 6 – inner city violence.  Portland’s riot squad -- all 50 of them -- have resigned and no sane person can blame them. The murder rate there is up over 500%. Baltimore’s murder rate has hit a new high and Chicago is now the shooting capital of the country. Police are being sued, shot at, and defunded, so I doubt there’ll be much help from that quarter and here we are in riot season. The temperature in Portland and Seattle is stuck at triple digits -- will that shut down the rioting or heat it up? We’ll see.

5. Government spending and the national debt is resulting in inflation. The last year’s lockdowns are still stifling the economy. People who are harvesting government stay-at-home subsidies are weakening businesses that can’t find enough labor. Confusingly, the jobless numbers don’t look good, either. We’re financially walking a very shaky tightrope.

4. At number 4 I’ve put the border crises/invasion. Of course all will be well now that Kamala has visited El Paso, but we don’t see a lot of hope here. I’m thrilled that Texas has taken this bull by its horns and pledged to finish its part of the wall. I’m pleased to see that both Florida and Nebraska are sending troops down there to help out. But the solution we were well on way to has vanished.  The situation is deadly with summer scorching the deserts; cartels attacking ranch owners on the border; and drugs, disease, and criminals flooding in.

3. Number 3 on my list is the whole mess with COVID-19 origins, treatment suppression, Fauci/Wuhan/Google/Gates and the vaccine side effects. I can’t even imagine how all of that is going to get untangled because every day a new piece of damning information rises to the surface and raises even more concerns. Something needs to be done about Cuomo and his malfeasance with the nursing home deaths. Something needs to be done to atone for all the people who could have been treated with either Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine but were denied those medications. How do we relieve the paralyzing fear so many are stuck in? How do we help children who were adversely affected by school closures? How do we resurrect our small businesses? Most important of all, how do we prevent this from happening again?

2. It’s hard to decide between my 1st and 2nd concerns. But let’s go with the election audit efforts as Number 2. I’d put it at Number 1 if I thought there was much of a chance that Trump could be reinstated, but right now that seems like a pipe dream. But whether the recounts show the massive fraud most of us expect or not, the distrust this has engendered is monumental, the 2022 midterms are barreling down on us, and this needs sorting out now. I am so grateful for all the people who are fighting this battle, for all who are working hard in the audits. I just can’t picture what the outcome will be, but it better be soon.

1. I’ve put in first place China for several reasons. Trump always said they were our biggest problem and he’s been right about everything else. It’s also becoming obvious that China was behind the pandemic -- accidently or otherwise -- and we’re starting to see that China has been infiltrating our universities, fomenting racial hatred, and generally chipping away at our most sacred institutions. It also looks like they played an important part in rigging the 2020 election.  Now they’re threatening our ally Taiwan and making trouble in Hong Kong. They’re imprisoning their own people on religious grounds -- torture and slavery a big part of their anti-Islam program. They’re building a huge navy and messing around in the South China Sea. They’re up to something, and none of it is good.

These aren’t the only problems facing America right now, but they are the biggest volcanoes threatening our nation. We don’t know when each one will blow, but blow they will; they must. The pressure has to be released. Let’s each make our own list, or use this one as a prayer agenda, and get down on our knees. If these all go off at once, only God can help us.

Deana Chadwell blogs at www.ASingleWindow.com. She is also an adjunct professor and department head at Pacific Bible College in southern Oregon. She teaches writing, logic, and literature.

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The top 100 79 Bidenisms of all time

By James Nollet

I collect Bidenisms.  A "Bidenism" is any dumb thing Joe Biden says.  It can be a mispronunciation, malapropism, factual misstatement, stutter, or plain lie.

I have around 1,000 Bidenisms in my collection.  I have already self-published one book with over 400 Bidenisms and have three more in various stages of completion, all from 2021.  If anyone knows Bidenisms, it is I.

For the readers' edification and entertainment, I now present my list of the Top 100 79 Bidenisms of All Time.  This list wasn't easy!  I had a Casanova problem.  Just as Casanova's problem was too many women and not enough time, my problem is too many Bidenisms and not enough word count.  I'd wanted to reach 100 Bidenisms, but I ran out of room.

I'll not be able here to state the date or source of these Bidenisms, but believe me: I can and will be happy to do so on request.

Here goes!

1. "Everywhere I been hearing all around the country. You're trying your BREAST, but it never FEELS like enough."

A VERY COMMON COMPLAINT, indeed!

2. "...kinds of things that have to be done, um, you know, there's a, ah, during World War, Two, uh, you know, what Roosevelt came up with a thing, uh, you know, that was, uh, totally different than a, than the, the ah, he called it, ah, you know, the World War II, he had the war, the the War Production Board."
3. "I am a gaffe machine."
4. "Ahh, successful dump. I dropped everything at the dump; it all worked out, and by the way, I got a second load, guys; anyone who wants to help me unload..."
5. , "The pandemic is that the president has no INTERCOURSE whatsoever with the rest of the country — uh, the world."
6. "We choose truth over facts!"
7. "3-letter word: 'Jobs.' J - O - B - S, jobs"
8. "You're you're a lying dog-faced pony soldier. "
9. "If I'm your president, I'm gonna fight like hell to see your strength goes. I promise."
10. "I moved a little steel town."
11. "HARRIS / BIDEN Administration"
12. "I don't count drunk driving as a felony."
13. "Let's clap for that, you stupid blackguards!" (or: "bastards")
14. "It's a right, for people to have badakathcare."
15. "You know, the r-rapidly rising, ah, ahm, in with, ah, with ah, I don't know, with ah – "
16. "I'M GOING TO BEAT JOE BIDEN."
17. "An independent analysis found that my plan will slash the cost of prescription jugs by 60%."
18. "to create good-paying union jobs, to litter the promise of America"
19. "put millions of citizens on a path to citizenship."
20. Biden accused the president of telling a "ball-faced lie."
21. veterans of "Wool War II."
22. "we can prisclaim the Palmist, what the Palmist ..."
23. Tim Alberta asked Biden about being the oldest president ever, and Biden asked, "What about WINSTON CHURCHILL? "
24. "I'm a Democratic candidate for United States Senate — vote for the other Biden " (said in 2020).
25. "We'll make sure it's not quality; we'll make sure it's only affordable."
26. "Doug Emhoff, uh, Kamala's WIFE,"
27. "Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as White kids."
28. "my deceased wife is a teacher."
29. "I mean, shylocks who took advantage"
30. "I'm Joe Biden's husband, Joe Biden."
31. "Trump won significantly the last two times,"
32. "that should be a mistermeanor"
33. "He's elected to the next election."
34. "I'll lead an effective strategy to mobilize trunalimunumaprzure."
35. "WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE ABOUT VERMONT...I like Keene (NH) a lot."
36. "Visit Iowal.com slash Ohio!"
37. "I got to the Senate 180 YEARS AGO."
38. "We hold these truths to be self-full evident, all men and women created, by the, go, you know the, you know the thing."
39. the "Obama O'Biden" administration.
40. "...a lifelong Democrat, a proud Democrat, an O'Biden-Bama Democrat."
41. "I'm ready on Day 1 after more than three years in office"
42. "to get our kids to market safely."
43. " ...White supremacists — Nazi sympathizers — carrin' Nazi fags — flags..."
44. "President-Elect Harris took it" (a vaccine)
45. "you're a 1-horse pony."
46. "Everybody, everybody is entritled to be teated with decency and dignity."
47. "And I, aw, wanna share the message directly with the Department of FENCE — Defense staff. "
48. "DoDY China task force"
49. "for the proud Tuskegee — Tuskejee — Airmen"
50. "I don't know what I'm signing huh. "
51. Signing then handing over an Executive Order to VP Harris, Biden said, "Take this to the President."
52. "These are BRILLS that receive votes"
53. "I came to the United States Senate 120 years ago."
54. "these MILLSTONES no more — no longer mark our national mourning — these milestone, I should say"
55. "Our girl goal is to do everything..."
56. "Wildfires burned more than 5,000 acres in the West — an area, roughly the size of the entire State of New Jersey."
57. "I'm either here I'm eager to hear, NIGGER'd here next, by my good friends,..."
58. "Uhh, I wanna make sure we thank, the Secretary, for all he's done."  Once again, Biden had forgotten the name of his own Secretary of DoD.
59. Climate change is a "SEXessential threat to the planet."
60. "development of transformendale and transformidible technologies."
61. "...A moaner of peril... "
62. "it's undeniable, undebilex"
63. "catastrophic failures with titragic results."
64. "manufracturing manufracturing workers"
65. "And Sydney, you're 14 years old."
66. "I, uh, love those barrettes in your hair, man. I tell you what, I look at her; she looks like she's 19 years old, sittin' there with her, like a little lady with her legs crossed."  The LITTLE girl in question is around NINE years old.
67. "Indition, I'd like to point out"...
68. "Mamerica's vaccine supply secured"...
69. "I know this gonna sound PROZAIC, but, I think we're in a contest, not with China per se, but a CONTEXT with autocrats"
70. "urgent need to preserve and reopen humanitarian CARTERS in Syria" (He meant, CORRIDORS.)
71. "By HARASSING the full potential of uh, those who are HARASSING..."
72. "Jake (Sullivan) is my NASA security advisor" (He meant "NATIONAL.")
73. "Visit vaccines dot GUM, dot gov, vaccines dot GUM"
74. "By the way! The SAME STABLE JESUS said the biggest problem we had in the, in the Revolutionary War, is WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH AIRPORTS!"
75. "Governor Lujan Grisham of MEXICO." 
76. "This can be among mong most important things you do"
77. "I'm always worried...(cheers)...I'm always worried, when I come back to North Clayana" (North Carolina).
78. "put a million shots in the arms of my first 100 days as President"
79. "We need more MARRIAGE to follow" — Biden wanted to say "MAYORS."

Th-th-th-th-that's all, folks!  I'm out of word count!

Image: Gage Skidmore.

The incredible shrinking Kamala Harris

By Charles Turot

Kamala Harris is creating a problem. That comes as a surprise. I figured she’d be President by now. The cognitive decline of the Elected Official Formerly Known as Joe Biden is plain to see. The old Joe was a glib glad-hander who played the game as well as anyone. He could explain without missing a beat his devout Catholicism and his simultaneous support for abortion on demand. He was also quite electable, to a point. SNL’s Woody Harrelson mocked him gently: “I’m like plastic straws. I’ve been around forever. I’ve always worked. And now you’re mad at me?”

The frail, wandering Biden who emerged from his basement for a mini-campaign sometimes resembled an audio-animatronic replica of the veteran pol. But few other candidates developed even momentary traction -- certainly not Kamala Harris, the oddly off-putting junior senator from California, who checked several boxes but never contested a primary. When she was tapped as VP, the outline of a scheme began to emerge. The mainstream media, propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, would haul Joe across the finish line by praising manufactured virtues and burying ugly truths. The loyal or clueless would pull the Biden lever. Dead people and photocopies would provide the winning margin. Then, after a dignified interval, he could “develop some disease and say he’d have to resign,” as he told us plainly, on camera with Harris. That card could be played whenever needed. Let the con run too long, and the public would get wise. Joe was certainly not up to the task of his new office. When he repeated aloud the whispered directive from his earpiece to “salute the Marines” upon entering the White House on inauguration day, we knew it wouldn’t get better. Six months of word salads and vacant stares from the leader of the free world have removed any doubt.

The problem? VP Harris is not ready for prime time.

California is a foreign country. They do things differently there. Who knows how one gets elected senator? Harris has already proved it wasn’t by putting in long days solving complex problems with her vast intellectual resources and leadership ability. She has no intention of doing the heavy lifting. Even if she did, she couldn’t pull it off.

Peddling Marxist snake oil isn’t easy work. When the proposed solution will obviously make things worse, you’ve got to be Harold Hill from The Music Man to talk people into it. When it actually does make things worse, only the most talented magician can convince the public not to believe their lyin’ eyes. Bill Clinton could do it. He was the master. He could hand you a flower to distract you while he stole your wallet, and you’d press that flower in the family Bible and treasure it forever. Barack Obama, radical leftist dressed as a benevolent high-school principal, could do it. Kamala Harris can’t. Her go-to strategy is to cackle at the sad souls who are just too dumb to get it on their own.

Her big audition for the Presidential tag-in was her selection as Border Czar. “Stem the migration” was her assigned task -- a canard, of course. This administration’s goal is to erase the border altogether, creating an unending stream of fresh leftist voters who will ensure perpetual Democrat rule. The inevitable by-products of that open-border policy are a tsunami of deadly narcotics, an abomination of human trafficking, a notable increase in violent crime, and untold personal misery among the illegal immigrants themselves, all visible already. Harris’s real task is to divert attention and buy time by justifying the unjustifiable cost of the left’s lust for power. She’s failing. Why?

She lacks the necessary patience and humility. Like many powerful people deluded by sycophants into imagining their every utterance is sheer brilliance, she can hardly believe she has to make a better case to the American people.

She doesn’t appreciate her friends. The media stand ready to push any narrative she concocts. Her one job is to give them something they can work with. It would sound like this: Sentence 1: “Here I am, handling the problem.” Sentence 2: “It’s all Donald Trump’s fault.” Sentence 3: Anything remotely usable. Harris is letting her friends down. She didn’t even travel to the border for three-plus months, then went nowhere near the epicenter of the crisis. She snapped at reporters for pointing out her failings, then failed afresh by giving them nothing worth printing. Even a Democrat congressman felt obliged to chide her.

Harris has neither the energy nor the artistry to pull this off. Also, she openly despises half the American public. In politics, that’s a real obstacle to effectiveness.

I am reminded of two things: a photo, and an old joke.

When First Lady Hillary Clinton left the White House, she charted a course to the Presidency, which she believed she deserved all along. She bought an estate in a posh New York town and was soon elected to the Senate. Among the memorable photos of her in office is a telling portrait of a tired, haggard-looking Senator Clinton attending some hearing about which she clearly cares not one bit. She is leaning chin in hand, eyes heavy-lidded, wrapped in a pashmina. Serving in the Senate turned out to be a lot of work.

The old joke is so old it’s not even searchable online. Decades ago, in the former Soviet Union, a series of races was held between two cars: an American Ford and a Russian Moscvich. The Ford won them all. A Pravda reporter had to spin the result. “The Moscvich never placed lower than second,” he wrote, “but the Ford was always next to last.”

That, comrades, is the sort of cleverness and chutzpah it takes to defend the indefensible. The heir-apparent to the Oval Office demonstrates neither. Joe Biden’s handlers, whoever they are, have a problem. It’s already time to pull their starting pitcher -- but the reliever in the bullpen isn’t major-league material.

Image: Gage Skidmore