Fight club
Oh honestly. Men.
First, Joe Biden.
Mr. Biden, speaking at a University of Miami rally to combat sexual assault, said, “A guy who ended up becoming our national leader said, ‘I can grab a woman anywhere and she likes it,’ ” according to an Associated Press report.
That’s not what Trump said though. He said he can grab them by the pussy and he did not say she likes it. He said “they let you do it.” Big, huge difference there. It’s not at all about what she likes, it’s about what he can force on her. It’s weird and depressing that even Biden doesn’t know that. Trump is bragging about being so famous that women are afraid to slap his hand away. He’s bragging about being able to do things to women that they didn’t invite and don’t want.
But that’s not even it.
Mr. Biden was referring to an Access Hollywood audio recording in which Mr. Trump is heard boasting about kissing and groping women without their consent. Mr. Biden continued, “If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.”
Oh shut up. One, nobody needs more stupid boasting and chest-beating. Two, really? You sure about that? Three, what would that even prove? Four, you know that will just set him off. Five, shut up, it’s not about you, nobody asked you to make ludicrous historical-fiction woulda coulda ex post facto threats, that’s not what women need.
Oh, and seven – Anita Hill. You left Anita Hill to twist in the wind, so shut up shut up shut up.
Second, Donnie TwoScoops.
Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Joe!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 22, 2018
Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a tough guy. Actually, he is weak, both mentally and physically, and yet he threatens me, for the second time, with physical assault. He doesn’t know me, but he would go down fast and hard, crying all the way. Don’t threaten people Joe!
The sitting president, everybody.
The dignity of office, eh? Anyway, the art of trash talk as almost-poetry died with Muhammed Ali.
I roll my eyes hard every time someone mentions Biden as a serious 2020 candidate. I mean, I’m sure if he runs he’ll instantly be in the top 3 in the polls by virtue of name recognition alone, but I can’t imagine him winning.
Wacky “Uncle Joe” was fine when we had a young(ish), healthy president, and Joe’s job was to win a debate with noted intellectual heavyweight Sarah Palin, call bullshit on Paul Ryan’s nonsense, backslap with his former Senate colleagues, and cheerlead for Obama. But if he runs for President again, all of the flaws that caused his prior campaigns to fizzle into nothingness will become obvious to those who seem to have forgotten.
The fact that he’s touted as a serious candidate I can only ascribe to this persistent belief that the One True Path to Victory for the Democrats is to woo back those midwestern white working class voters; you know, the ones being profiled in diners by one reporter after another, who defected to Trump because he promised to stick it to the Mexicans and Chinese and reopen the steel mills and make the uppity black men stand for the anthem and give them all a pony.
Polling shows that Democrats have a massive edge right now among women 20-30 — an age group that doesn’t traditionally vote in large numbers. What do you think is an easier task: getting young women fired up to vote out the Pussygrabber-In-Chief who positively drips with contempt for women, or trying to out-Trump Trump at promising the shit that angry old white men want?
In one corner we have brave Captain Heel Spurs chomping at the bit to do geriatric battle against valiant Mr Asthma himself. Who will emerge victorious in this epic clash of the medically deferred Draft Dodgers? Stay tuned…
It’s also the desperate, stubborn, essentially delusional belief that HRC was a world-historically awful candidate and that either Biden or Sanders would’ve fared better against Donald Trump (or any generic Republican). Despite the fact that she got more votes than Donny Two Scoops, despite the fact that the Russians had their fingers in the jar and on the scale for Trump *and* Sanders *and* Stein, and that they may well have hacked the fucking voting machines in Pennsylvania (which was the tipping point state). For far too many people, the idea that the American body politic is deeply broken and vulnerable both to domestic demagoguery and foreign meddling is much more frightening than the fantasy that a lifelong public servant wanted to make the world a better place.
(…that last should read something like ‘was both nefarious and inept instead of simply wanting to make the world a better place.’)
Seth,
I don’t doubt that there’s probably a lot of overlap between people who argue “we need a candidate like Biden” and those who argue “Hillary was uniquely awful as a candidate.” But those sure seem like contradictory claims to me. If Trump won in 2016 because Hillary was just that awful, then all you should need in 2020 is someone who isn’t historically awful, which should mean pretty much any credible candidate will do. Conversely, if only the Joe the Magic Blue Collar White Male Whisperer can beat Trump, then Hillary’s popular vote victory/ EC loss seems like a helluva good showing.
Biden and Trump in their dreams.