25 May “The Biden Crime Family”
“I still can’t believe the senile old man pardoned his son,” the first man said, as he sipped on his Kool-Aid. “I hate to pick on Sleepy Joe since he has cancer and all, but, nevertheless, Hunter Biden is nothing but a drug-addicted, shiftless, whoring wretch who made millions for himself selling the family name.”
“Joe was in on it in a big way—although my thoughts and prayers go out to his prostate,” added the other guy, taking a swig of the sweet red stuff in his own glass.
“Yeah, the poor, old man never had a real job in his life, and now he’s going to die rich, God rest his soul. All of it was ill-gotten gains. He’s the leader of the Biden Crime Family, you know.”
They went on like this for quite some time, all the while chugging cups of ruby-hued juice. Then it really got weird.
Mistaken Identity
“The Democrats always have been the party of waste, fraud, and abuse!” the first guy declared, noting that it was an amazing thing that Elon Musk’s DOGE boys were able to overcome the Deep State and stop it.
“Don’t forget corruption!” his colleague added.
“Yep. Now I hear that when Hunter was running around peddling influence, he was riding on a big, fancy airplane provided by some country called Quarter or something – I don’t even know where that is. Yes sir, the Biden Crime Family accepted an airplane bribe,” one of them sputtered in disgust.
“The free jet from Qatar was bad, but the Biden Corrupt Crypto Bucks were worse,” said the other. “They even held a dinner for the rich rats who lined Old Joe’s pockets by buying the stuff. You can’t get more corrupt than that!”
They were on a roll now. “He even put Fake Doctor Jill’s name on a crypto coin,” one expectorated.
“You know why Biden did that,” his buddy said, taking another sip. “He admitted he’s not sure he has a duty to follow the Constitution! Unbelievable!! How could this guy even have gotten elected!!! Didn’t he put his hand on the Bible and swear to uphold it?”
“Doesn’t even believe in due process,” his cohort elaborated.
“Speaking of waste, did you hear that the Biden Crime Family wanted to put on a military parade for his birthday, at a cost of, like, $45 mill?” asserted the one. “At least he wasn’t using that government money to fund his golf habit!” noted the other, sarcastically.
“Bad enough that he pardoned Hunter, but then he even used the feds to go after his enemies, like Harvard. That’s what I call lawfare!” decried that first (and most up on the news) of the two Kool-Aid drinkers.
“Well, he had his own cronies from CNN and MSNBC running all the departments,” the second guy guffawed. “You expect him to be getting good advice?”
“Worst of all was the Defense Department!” exclaimed the first. “When you put a fake news guy who never led anything in charge of our USA military, no surprise, pretty soon you got war plans discussed on chat apps. With emojis!”
“And, on the subject of fraud and abuse, don’t forget, Biden personally was snooping around in IRS and Social Security records, looking for dirt on us,” he declared. “Good thing President Trump came in and put Musk in charge of stopping that corruption, by golly.”
Then I Butted In
Finally, I could not take this cardinal-colored mutual sharing of misinformation any longer. “Excuse me,” I said, “but I couldn’t help overhearing your conversation.”
“Who are you?” they asked me in unison.
“Well, I’m the writer of the Principle Based Politics blog, so your discussion of politics – particularly waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption – was of great interest to me. And, I feel compelled to inform you that it wasn’t Joe Biden who did any of the things you mentioned after the part about pardoning his son Hunter. It was the current president and his administration.”
They looked at me in a way that morphed quickly from incomprehension to suspicion to anger. “If you are saying Donald Trump did any of these things, you must be a Republican in Name Only, and you clearly have Trump Derangement Syndrome,” the first guy responded.
“That’s RHINO and STD,” in case you can’t spell,” clarified the second.
The more Kool-Aid one drinks, the harder it is to see facts clearly, apparently.
Written by Quentin R. Wittrock, founder of Principle Based Politics.
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DKnight
Posted at 18:48h, 27 MayYou continue to appear to believe “news” from mainstream media. Although some of your complaints against Trump may be legitimate in some respects–they are overstated in other respects. Your posts continually read like headlines from propagandists: CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS or MSNBC–or other pro-dem–anti-republican media–which is the vast majority of them. There seems to be an almost unhealthy fixation on Orange Man’s “bad” actions. In a past post, you mentioned that you wanted a leader that is Christlike. We have never had a leader like that–I doubt that such a person exists. What is the alternative? Biden? Harris? The dems? It is important to be cynical when analyzing all politicians and their actions–and constructive criticism is helpful. Yet, the past administration was an unmitigated disaster–even dems admit that now. In this post, you seem to gloss over Biden’s faults in order to emphasize how bad Trump is. Trump won. Let him be president and we will see where it goes.
Rich Shirk
Posted at 19:35h, 27 MayBravo, Quentin. It is certainly true that Biden was an imperfect vessel. He demonstrated that on more than one occasion. And many of his predecessors have been, as well.
The one big difference between all of the predecessor presidents, of my lifetime, and the current administration is that with none of those predecessors did I, for a minute, believe that they did not have the best interests of the nation at heart. I may have disagreed with their policies, and I may have disagreed with actions that they took, but I never thought that they might dismantle our Constitutional order. That they might intentionally shred our social fabric. That they would actually intend to destroy the basic institutions of education and healthcare and jurisprudence. The basic institutions of government and society.
Actually searching out waste, fraud and abuse would be a welcome change within our government. Using pedantic jargon, anti-science rationale, ideological arguments that are made up out of whole cloth is not “searching”.
Yes. We have seen presidents make lists of their enemies. We have seen presidents misuse the power of their office for political gain. We have seen presidents who were cads and scoundrels and imperfect moral exemplars.
We have never had a president who has embraced all of these imperfections so openly, publicly and unashamedly as our current president.
Cindy Wittrock
Posted at 22:09h, 27 MayBravo, Rich!
Raymond J Lynch
Posted at 00:35h, 28 MayQuentin I couldn’t help but comment on your current take while everything you said in today’s post is quite accurate I think it must be said that the last 9 years in our country can be summed up in one word is CHAOS. The base of the republican party blames Joe Biden for everything they don’t like and the democratic base blames Donald Trump. The fact is both have acted in a manner that we would say is not presidential. Unfairly blaming each other and taking credit when they have little to do with success shows what is good for the country is not important any more. We the people need to demand more of our leaders than we are currently receiving. Holding a civil discussion in Congress should be the expected norm not the exception. We as Americans shouldn’t expect compromise with our leaders but demand it in the voting booth. Time to look in the mirror and do what is best for all americans