Biden v. Trump - Where do we stand right now?
Ep 99
Imagine if President Joseph Biden was to quit his shuffling about in public and, instead, abruptly shuffled off this mortal coil of ours.
Well, someone may have already prepared a vignette about Corn Pop’s toughest adversary as part of a larger obituary…
He was always… finding new victims to loot and new followers to reward, flouting common sense, and boldly denying its existence, demonstrating by his anti-logic that two and two made five, promising larger and larger slices of the moon. His career will greatly engage historians, if any good ones ever appear in America, but it will be of even more interest to psychologists. He was the first American to penetrate to the real depths of vulgar stupidity. He never made the mistake of overestimating the intelligence of the American mob. He was its unparalleled professor.
Furthermore…
He had every quality that morons esteem in their heroes. It will be to the interest of all his heirs and assigns to whoop him up, and they will probably succeed in swamping his critics.
Good one, right? And accurate.
Except these words were written — 8 decades ago — by H. L. Mencken. When the Sage of Baltimore scribed this passage, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt — Mencken’s chief political target, sickly and diseased for a generation — had ultimately succumbed to a condition that was inconsistent with life.
Biden, like this warmongering predecessor of his, ain’t backing down from the fight in front of him come November, no matter how infirmed.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Though it does raise at least one question…
Will Kamala Harris become our generation’s Harry S Truman, the VP who waits in the wings, biding time in an office — one that John Nance Garner, an earlier FDR VP, said was “not worth a bucket of warm spit” — in order to eventually harness the presidency’s humanity-destroying power in the most “democratic” way possible?
“What can be. Unburdened by what has been…”
“Cactus Jack” Garner, perhaps, did not have the foresight that Truman and his Democratic descendants had. For the real benefit of the VP job is that you are one dead president away from the ability, authority, and whimsy to carpet bomb foreign lands.
Consider. Foreign policy is the thing at play here this November, since the domestic depredations continuing to crush the souls of Americans and wipe away their bank balances are nothing but “bi-partisan.”
However, as we move closer to convention season and midsummer’s passage, the winds of change are once again blustering. Even a mere week and a half ago — when the first, and perhaps only, Trump vs. Biden debate took place — we were in a much different political climate than exists today.
We analyzed the debate and its potential repercussions in real-time…
The first and perhaps only presidential debate happened on June 27. Adam Haman and Brian O’Leary have the definitive smackdown of the whole thing.
The fellows awarded a winner and offered some commentary. Hilarity ensues (though not necessarily intentional – it’s a factor of who was “debating.”)
Adam Haman – https://hamannature.substack.com/
Brian O’Leary – https://briandoleary.com/
O’Leary’s FREE e-book Run at Thunder, Vol. 1 – https://runatthunder.com/
Natural Order – https://naturalorderpodcast.com/
