The following article, Captain Demento and the Lame Duck Chronicles, was first published on The Black Sphere.
You ever watch someone try to pass off a cheap knockoff as the real thing?
Like the guy hawking “Rolexes” with ticking second hands? That’s Joe Biden in politics.
He was supposed to be the Left’s ultimate weapon — the 81-million-vote man who would crush Trump like a Coke can. But fast-forward, and Biden is now the flat club soda Democrats found in the back of their fridge.
The Daily Beast wrote:
Disaffected Democrats , including some from within his own administration, are furious with President Joe Biden for shrinking into a political non-entity since his party was walloped in last month’s election , according to multiple reports.
“He’s been so cavalier and selfish about how he approaches the final weeks of the job,” a former White House official told Politico.
The outlet — which spoke to nearly two dozen officials, including current and former White House staffers— reported that, since the Nov. 5 vote, Biden has mostly avoided unscripted events and press questions while neglecting to address policy matters on Capitol Hill and Democratic Party.
Many party officials, Politico reported, no longer even bother to monitor Biden’s daily activities.
His interactions with media have been similarly muted: In two weeks of foreign traveling since the election, Biden uttered a mere seven words to the press pack traveling with him, the outlet said.
The president is yet to hold — or schedule — a post-election press conference, something his predecessors George W. Bush and Barack Obama did before leaving office.
“This is one of the lamest of lame ducks we’ve seen with a Democratic administration,” Usamah Andrabi, a spokesman for the progressive Justice Democrats PAC, told the Wall Street Journal . “A massive missed opportunity.”
But let’s not act like this was unpredictable, okay? Democrats handpicked the guy who needed a GPS to find his way off stage. Biden mistook reporters for lawn ornaments and fell asleep in NATO meetings. Now they want him to lead? That’s like handing a drowning man a bowling ball.
And Democrats act surprised? Come on! They spent four years hiding Biden’s mental fumbles behind teleprompters and careful choreography. Now the jig’s up, and they’re mad the Wizard of Delaware turned out to be all curtain, no magic.
Captain Demento Goes AWOL
Now, the question on everyone’s mind: “Where’s Joe?” Democrats wanted Biden to disappear during the campaign, and now they’ve got their wish. In a recent interview, Victor Davis Hanson nailed it. Hansen declared that Donald Trump is stepping in as the de facto president.
Trump visited Paris for the reopening of Notre Dame. While there, Trump arm-wrestled Macron into submission, and Prince Harry proved to be a Trump fanboy. Trump’s out here shaking hands with foreign leaders, fixing global crises, and looking more presidential than the guy who actually lives in the White House. Biden, meanwhile, is probably still trying to figure out which button calls the nurse.
Syria, Ukraine, and That One Time Biden Tried to Blink
As Hanson pointed out in his interview, Assad’s regime is collapsing, Hamas is imploding, and Russia’s war effort is more embarrassing than Biden trying to spell Mika Brzezinski’s last name. Yet here’s Biden, sitting this one out like a college kid with “senioritis.” The man has yet to make a statement about turmoil in the Middle East that has caused a world-shattering vacuum.
Meanwhile, Trump’s strides comfortably back onto the global stage like he’s hosting The Apprentice: Global Edition. And as with all Leftist messes, it will take a Trumpian effort for the “cleanup on aisle 45”.
Democrats knew what they were getting — a man whose elevator stopped going to the top floor around 1988. Three-plus years of feckless leadership culminating with 3 months of no leadership.
Frankly, nobody really misses Biden. However, they still wonder where he is. Thankfully, Trump has stepped in and stepped up. For him, this is business as usual.
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