Biden’s Folly

Stop Saying It’s So, Joe

August 23, 2021

While Joe Biden struggles to explain and recover from the inexcusably sloppy exit from Afghanistan, the repercussions of which will not be fully known for some time, he still has to keep his eye on the domestic policy ball. With any luck, all Americans will be safely evacuated, and hopefully our Afghan allies wishing to escape the Taliban will be rescued. While Ratpublicans will unsurprisingly exercise their hypocrisy, pretending that Joe Biden was the only president to shit himself in Afghanistan, Biden must still keep them close in order to keep things like infrastructure rescue, the resumption of voting rights, and economic survival on track. Biden must keep one eye on the ball and the other eye on the knife Mitch McConnell is waiting to plunge into Biden’s back at first opportunity.

“With Trump gone, you’re going to see things change. Because these folks know better. They know this isn’t what they’re supposed to be doing.”
                                   President Joseph R. Biden

No, Mr. Biden, they do not know better, and whatever concessions they may appear to have made with the bipartisan infrastructure bill, you can be sure that there is something other than concern for roads, bridges, life or limb hidden within their apparent acquiescence, or at best an abject desperation that they will be exposed for the hateful partisans who are so vehemently and perpetually opposed to helping anyone but the ultra-rich. They are, as a group, not good people. The narcissism and insanity of Donald Turmp over truth and/or country. They have chosen cynicism over reality. They still grovel in spineless, shameless fealty to the Big Liar. Meaning they themselves are – not simply in effect, but in absolute truth – inveterate liars.

Mitch McConnell, beholden to Russia, his wife Elaine Chou, in bed with China,

and Joe Biden, long-time corporate lackey, trying to change his spots, but

still willing to pal around with domestic terrorists (i.e., Ratpublicans)

As Rep. Adam Schiff warned in his closing argument during Turmp’s first impeachment, where Ratpublicans had an exit strategy from Turmp handed to them on a silver platter, “You can’t trust this president will do what’s right for this country. He will do what's right for Donald Trump. The American people deserve a president they can count on to put their interests first.” The very same thing can be said of the Ratpublican Party writ large. You cannot trust them to do the right thing. Rather than take the exit ramp from the sink-hole-ridden Turmp highway-to-nowhere, McConnell and his malignant minions epoxied themselves to the soon-to-be-re-impeached Bloated Orange Lizard. They decided of their own free will, to go full Stockholm Syndrome. Ratpublicans unflinchingly became the Patty Hearst to Turmp’s Symbionese Liberation Army.

In his first Turmp impeachment closing Schiff also said, “If you find him guilty you must find that he must be removed because right matters, the truth matters, otherwise we are lost.” So, now we know, especially as people like Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Biden continue to fantasize about reaching across the aisle and still having a hand at the end of their wrist when they finish reaching, and much of America continues to side with Turmp and the Ratpublicans, we are lost.

I. Mangrey, really.