I wanted to call out Pat Lang’s recent remark re: Joe Biden’s mental condition. From a comment at his blog:
Take my word for it. He was a mean spirited screamer when I knew him 20 years ago. Does he not seem demented to you?
That’s sort of a two-bagger, calling into question both VP Biden’s public persona and his present state of health. I’m not testifying to the veracity of Pat’s observations just noting that those are his observations and he has firsthand knowledge.
I think I would characterize Pat’s view of Trump as “complicated”. I think he has a sort of disdain for Trump as a know-nothing blowhard and no patience for the prism through which he thinks Trump views things. But on the other hand he’s furious about the treatment that Trump has received at the hands of the intelligence establishment and FBI which, without trying to put words in his mouth, I read as thinking has crossed the line into sedition.
I’ve taken a dim view of the Joe as senile old man attack from the start. I’m not sure he ever had much going for him in the first place, so who knows now.
My bigger fear is that he has no principles whatsoever and will blow whichever way seems expedient, which is ever more left.
Well, he’s too old for the job IMO which is why I supported younger candidates. His speech last night (the only thing I watched for the convention) was actually quite good and cogent though we’ll have to see if he can sustain that.
It’s kind of funny to hear those on right worry that he will tack to the hard left while those on the left constantly fret that he will be too moderate.
“It’s kind of funny to hear those on right worry that he will tack to the hard left while those on the left constantly fret that he will be too moderate.”
Because the left is clearly calling the shots right now. That’s not funny, its scary. You cannot be left enough for the far left. Camel’s noses under tents and such…..
“My bigger fear is that he has no principles whatsoever and will blow whichever way seems expedient”
Pretty funny coming from a Trump supporter.
Lang’s site has devolved into a conspiracy site. You can criticize, sort of, Trump’s foreign policy but nothing else about Trump and you certainly can say anything positive about any Democrat now. I only read it occasionally now to catch up on the latest conspiracies. Sometimes they have different ones than Drew and jan.
Steve
Biden may have dementia but what seems more likely to me is that he’s got the garden variety cognitive dulling of many people his age, and frankly his cognitive skills were never that great. He’s always covered for his lapses with a few tricks, either trailing off mid sentence and saying something like “Aw but you don’t want to hear me go on about that,†or by laughing (his debate with Paul Ryan), or by going off on weird tangents and anecdotes.
Now he’s slow and less adept at these so he just seems really off.
“Because the left is clearly calling the shots right now.”
That’s no shit.
I just received an E mail from my pharmacy, (Walgreens), lecturing me about the evils of systemic racism. They advised me how to correct it, (put more AA’s into leadership positions.) I’m not in charge of that.
And wanted me to know that if an AA has high BP, I’m the reason for it.
I didn’t know until now that they collected racial data on customers.
This really can’t be anything but pandering to the BLM by a major corporation and it pisses me off.