By DEXTER DUGGAN
Both the stock market and Democrat Joe Biden were in the volatility business.
The Dow, which too often seems to move on emotion rather than cool statistical analysis, was down 1,000 points one day, up 1,000 the next, then down again.
Biden, whose candidacy had been written off as hopeless, quickly was way up and declared to be the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee by those who had an interest in boosting the attractiveness of his portfolio.
Talk about phony money. What was worthless one day is good as gold two days later? Talk about volatile. Biden’s bounces make a loaded roulette ball and Wall Street seem as stable as granite.
Biden appeared as uncontrolled as a stock market afflicted by 50,000 jumpy brokers, even though he needed to show some personal discipline.
And while the saying on Wall Street is that the market always makes a return from the depths even if it takes a while, the aging Biden won’t become more youthful and mentally spry four or eight years from now, given his declining condition.
Even previous Dem President Bill Clinton, known for his undisciplined urges, at least hadn’t allowed himself to go down the line in campaign-trail meetings with factory workers by making lewd remarks to women right there.
However, the aging Biden, already bearing a shaky image about his mental acuity — not simply due to a wandering attention span but to a deterioration of his gray matter — unnecessarily jumped in to a tense faceoff with a Michigan automobile worker on the very day of the important Democratic primary there on March 10.
Was it that Biden actually was losing the ability to control his reactions?
If he does this now to an ordinary citizen whose vote Biden could use, how about a year or two down the road when Biden, as the president of the U.S., has to deal with some wily foreign dictator out to best him and the U.S. that Biden represents?
If an ordinary citizen quickly is declared to be full of, ahem, excrement and in need of a slap by Biden, how much good sense will a shakily confrontational Biden muster with a menacing pol whose nuclear weapons are at the ready?
As soon as the young Detroit auto worker finished his question, the very first words out of allegedly exemplary civil Biden’s elderly mouth were, “You’re full of s—t.”
Some Democrats’ desperate hopes to beat President Trump this November may have made them hop aboard a cruise ship toward November that looked attractive a few weeks ago, but soon turned out to have a sickened load aboard.
The Democrat establishment concluded that proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders had to be pushed aside, even though he had many fervent followers, because the general electorate wouldn’t buy a politician with a career weakness for admiring real, not merely theoretical, Communist dictators.
Then this establishment’s choice of Biden was undermined by Biden underlining his own vulnerabilities and dismaying disabilities while routinely insulting voters daring to question him as “liars” and forgetting where he was or what political office he was running for.
Biden, 77, well ahead in the delegate count, was scheduled to debate Sanders, 78, on television from Phoenix on March 15. Although Sanders is a year older than Biden and recently had a heart attack, the socialist shows more energy and speaking ability. The debate was to occur after this hard copy issue of The Wanderer went to press, on March 12.
President Trump, who appears to have endless energy, is 73.
It’s no shame to grow old or develop the disabilities of aging. It is wrong, in the interests of expediency, to try to save the party of abortion with a candidate way out of his league, and plainly not about to try to reform it.
For what it’s worth, suggestions floated around that maybe New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo should be hustled in to replace Biden. Ah yes, Cuomo, the radical abortion-loving New Yorker who doesn’t even think that live birth should guarantee protection of a baby’s existence.
Or, some said, is it worth giving fiercely politically hungry Hillary Clinton yet another chance at the White House that she craves beyond reason? If New York Catholic Timothy Cardinal Dolan could stomach yukking it up with Hillary at the Al Smith dinner in 2016, maybe Catholic voters can be played for suckers for Hillary again in 2020.
There’s probably no end of aspiring Democrat pro-abortionists who, after Biden may collapse, would like to be handed the presidential nomination without the trouble of campaigning and primaries.
Regardless of how many Dem voters knew what Biden did to the auto worker on the very day of “mini-Super Tuesday,” Republican Donald Trump’s advertising campaign for the general election seems unlikely to leave them, and all the rest of the electorate, unacquainted with this part of Biden’s disturbing pattern.
Many votes are cast these days even before potential ballot-day bad publicity. And many voters may not check their social media before finalizing their choice at the polling place.
Trump himself has a well-known history of barking his thoughts, but he’s usually spouting on behalf of voters scorned by muscular establishments like the lying dominant media. Biden, on the other hand, has shown an astounding proclivity to rip into his own less-powerful potential or actual supporters among the sidewalk citizenry.
There’s the additional factor that bad Catholic Biden’s troubled conscience may be distracting him from the immediate moment with worries about his soul’s potential eternal fate.
His family and clergy do Biden no favor if they encourage him to laugh off what’s no laughing matter. In fact, they implicate themselves. Doing this duty includes you, Jill Biden.
Analyzing physical or mental problems is best left to medical workers in immediate contact with a troubled person, not by speculation from afar.
Conservatives themselves in recent decades know this all too well, having seen guys on their side from Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater to Trump be pronounced from a distance to be the victim of some serious debility by other guys who simply don’t like these public figures politically.
However, if your neighbor regularly jumps atop his roof at midnight to howl at the moon, you’re justified at wondering what’s his trouble without your unfairly holding uncharitable thoughts.
But some of Biden’s influential political and media supporters seemed to go out of their way to ignore why that fellow was up on the roof, rousing the neighborhood.
Either that or else Biden shakily clambering over the shingles beneath the moon was attributed by them to be proof of his courage or crowd-pleasing abilities. Whatever. In this case, they may have bought into him like an individual bad stock that they didn’t want to see crater, even though they could have paid for a wiser choice.
The tale of the emperor with no clothes, like many such stories peering into human nature, provides a cautionary lesson. A gullible king was persuaded that crafty, deceptive weavers had fashioned him some finery that only fools couldn’t see, so none of the folks around him dared admit they were fools — until a little voice from the peanut gallery piped up simply that the emperor wore no clothes.
Biden made so many stumbles that it rang all too true when the satirical Babylon Bee posted a mocking item on March 11 claiming that at a campaign stop, Biden couldn’t remember his own name or the office he was running for. Hmm, couldn’t be the papacy, huh? Then he beat up a protester before staffers rushed Biden away, explaining that he’d used up his allotted seven seconds of contact with the public.
However, the satire added, The New York Times “quickly praised Biden as ‘poised’ and ‘full of grace and quiet dignity’.”
A Washington Examiner item on March 12 noted that the “civility and dignity” bunch who always seem to bemoan Trump’s lack of them were quick to be awed by Biden calling one voter on election day full of excrement, needing to be slapped around, and was the, um, rear end of a horse, while Biden showed serious lack of knowledge about firearms, a powerful issue.
When Biden thus embarrassed himself once again, the Examiner item noted, anti-Trump commentators were delighted that Biden supposedly showed he can speak right up and be “genuine” and believable.
On March 10 CNN editor-at-large Chris Cillizza defensively said: “Look. I’m not sure this one incident changes many — or any — voters’ minds. But to the extent it does have an impact, it’s hard for me to see this as anything but good for Biden as he seeks to put away Sanders in the primary and pivot to taking on Trump in the general.”
The CNN headline for Cillizza was, “Why Joe Biden’s confrontation with an auto worker in Detroit is probably a good thing for him.”
A Common Symptom
Ordinary people commenting online, who may have a better grasp of what’s being said in the electorate, didn’t seem to be on the same page as pundits running their usual defense for a liberal Democrat.
One long public comment thread on March 11 for network TV included these notes:
“Hillary has eyes for Alzheimer Joe’s V.P. spot. Once Alzheimer Joe swears into office, Hillary will pull the 25th Amendment on him.”
“Biden gets aggressive too easily. Just ask him about his son and Ukraine and he is about to start a fistfight with you.”
“Temper tantrums are a common symptom of people with dementia or Alzheimer’s.”
“Dangerous? Biden cannot even give a speech for more than a few minutes before his dementia starts showing.”
“Just wish that somebody would take him up on the recurring threats/invites to a fistfight or push-up competition.”
“Quid pro Joe with dementia.”
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