Former President Joe Biden has finally crawled out from under his rock to make an appearance on liberal-friendly daytime talk show The View.
Biden addressed questions about the election, Kamala Harris' loss, and yes, rumors of his mental decline, and it was all rather entertaining, to say the least.
One of the first topics discussed was the tell-all books about the Biden administration now emerging on the scene, all discussing how members of his administration covered up Joe’s mental decline over the last year of his tenure in the White House.
Biden tried to address this scuttlebutt, stating, "They are wrong. There’s nothing to sustain that, number one. Number two, you know, think of what we left with. We left with a circumstance where we had an insurrection when I started, not since the Civil War. We had a circumstance where we were in a position that we -- well, the pandemic, because of the incompetence of the last outfit, end up over a million people dying, a million people dying."
He continued, “And we’re also in a situation where we found ourselves unable to deal with a lot of just basic issues, which I won’t go into in the interest of time. And so we went to work, and we got it done and, you know, one of the things that — well, I’m—"
As Joe trailed off, Jill Biden stepped in and saved him, just like she often did during the administration, adding, "Alyssa, one of the things I think is that the people who wrote those books were not in the White House with us. And they didn’t see how hard Joe worked every single day. I mean, he’d get up. He’d put in a full day, and then at night he would — I’d be in bed, you know, reading my book, and he was still on the phone, reading his briefings. Working with staff. I mean, it was nonstop."
Other than the blatant lies told by Biden in the previous segment, the part I found the most outrageous was when he blamed the United States electorate for Harris' loss rather than the fact that she was a bad candidate.
Biden stated, "I wasn’t surprised, not because I didn’t think the vice president was the most qualified person to be president. She is. She’s qualified to be president of the United States of America. I was surprised, I was surprised because they went the route of, the sexist route, the whole route."
He continued, “I mean, this is a woman, she’s this, she’s that. I mean, it really, I’ve never seen quite as successful and a consistent campaign undercutting the notion that a woman couldn’t lead the country, and a woman of mixed race.”
So, what Biden is doing is calling everyone that did not vote for Harris a racist and sexist. Once again, Democrats blame everyone but the people responsible. And by the way, Biden also claimed that Harris had six months to run her campaign, giving her plenty of time, but he was wrong again. Biden dropped out in late July, giving Harris little more than three months to get traction. But again, that had nothing to do with it, because Harris was spotted a significant lead once the Democrats' candidate changed, but she blew it down the stretch.
Seeing Biden struggle on TV once again brings up the question of moving the fossils out of office and bringing in the next generation of politicians. While Biden leans into his experience, younger members of the party are sick and tired of these forever seats staying in place, as are most Americans.
For example, during a recent interview, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushed back on not going for the top spot on the House Oversight Committee after Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) reportedly submarined her, endorsing Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) for the position (who, by the way, recently announced he was retiring). AOC stated, "It’s actually clear to me that the underlying dynamics in the caucus have not shifted with respect to seniority as much as I think would be necessary, and so I believe I’ll be staying put at Energy and Commerce.”
David Hogg’s position as the co-chair of the DNC has been threatened over his desire to primary older Democrats. My dark horse candidate for the Democratic Party in 2028, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) has also voiced a desire to see the party move away from the old guard, stating, "We have to have a whole rebrand of the Democratic Party with a coherent platform and a future-oriented platform, and many leaders need to do that, new leaders, not the old guard. And I hope to be part of that."
I believe the old timers in both parties are holding the parties back, but people, while complaining about fossils in office, continue to pull the handle for them. That actually works in our favor right now, as the GOP has been a bit more receptive to new blood than the Democratic Party, but we still have far too many people aged 70+ in office for my liking. The dangerous aspect of this is that once the Democratic Party moves forward, it will be filled with a bunch of leftist radicals. That is why we need our next generation in place first to get the jump and solidify our positions before people like AOC try to turn this into a socialist country.
