Since Democrats never give up on a bad thing, and since the Republicans will run twenty candidates against Trump (which will split the vote and assure Trump the nomination), it looks like a Biden v. Trump showdown in 2024.
We know this because Biden leaned into the microphone this week and declared he is running for president. Unfortunately, it was the microphone at the McDonald’s drive-thru as he was ordering a McRib.
Some of us look forward to some good old octogenarian-on-octogenarian action for the next year and a half, even though both parties really do not want either candidate to run. Let’s just all agree: We have taken this “Anyone can grow up to be president” thing way too far.
Biden is like the grandfather you would not leave alone at the mall and who would buy anything a sleazy telemarketer would sell. Trump is the guy who owns the telemarketing company.
Jill Biden propped up Joe, saying it is good that he will run (this about a guy who can barely walk). In the fall of 2024, Joe Biden could face his biggest nemesis, not a flight of stairs but Donald J. Trump, freshly tanned (orange spray tan-style) and fighting off contrived charges like the Road Runner to the Dems’ Wile E. Coyote.
All the stars are aligning. Many never-went-to-college stars have already endorsed Biden. You’ve got your Leonardo DiCaprio, LeBron James and, of course, Taylor Swift, who made her fortune writing songs about the many bad choices in men she has made. She endorsed Joe Biden. These endorsements of this one candidate in a Democrat Party with no bench is like calling Joe Biden the best dressed man at Wal-Mart.
Joe Biden says he wants to run on his record, so let’s examine it:
The Economy: Inflation is high because he is limiting U.S. oil production and is printing so much money to pay for his idiotic spending. Instead of a recession, which we technically have been through with Joe Biden, he tells the media to call it “an economy in transition.” “Transitioning” is all the rage these days.
He acts like he inherited a troubled economy and is some sort of FDR because he gave away COVID money well after the virus was all but gone.
Biden wants to raise taxes. He tried to hire 87,000 more IRS agents to fleece us for more tax dollars. We do not have a revenue problem there, “Plugs,” we have a spending problem. The IRS is now scouring our bank accounts for $600 or more and asking for it; they say it is a red flag. Between Biden and the IRS, if they check your bank account and you have money in it after paying your taxes, that is a “red flag.”
The Border: Our border is flowing more openly than RuPaul in a ball gown. Fentanyl and criminals are coming to America almost unchecked by this administration. The Dems have to replace voters who have wised up with new voters whom they can bribe with your tax dollars to be Democrats — for a while.
War in Ukraine: This has been a sneaky war, foisted upon a war-weary America by a maudlin press which has lied to us about Ukraine. There is nothing scarier than an 80-year-old-man who, all of a sudden, is willing to die for his country. Biden did visit the region by going to Poland, a place where Biden and Polish jokes are interchangeable.
Second Amendment: There have been a lot of mass shootings by transgendered males, and each time Dems take to the microphone and make some idiotic statement that if we did not have guns, this would not happen. Biden knows full well that we will never not have guns in America. He wants to ban assault rifles like the Soviet Union’s famed Kalashnikov machine gun. Am I the only one who sees the irony of liberal Democrats wanting to ban the only product that communism ever produced that works well?
Neither Trump nor Biden has the gravitas to lead. Let’s face it, they will have to do “rock, paper, scissors” to see who gets to occupy the moral high ground.
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