My family is an refugee; she speaks five language smoothly. However, one of those language is English, which is why we often argue.
We met way back in 1999 when we were also school boys in our early 20s. Obviously, we’ve gotta get at least somewhat agreeable, since we’re however happily married. She’s the love of my life ( according to her ).
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But I also know that if we had met just a few years before, I definitely had ’ve blown it: When your interests are smashing Natty Light bottles over your head, bar-hopping with your friend, and drinking ‘til sun, you’re not simply “husband material. ”
In career, timing issues. Often, it matters more than anything else.
And this takes us to Old Man Winter, Mr. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
He came to office as a blank — a man whose main role was keeping his chair in the Oval Office hot for four years ( and trying not to kill ). Instead, he decided the chair was his inheritance — his only compensation for 50 years of eye measuring, prefer hawking, and partisan politics.
Four years later, he has overhauled the Democrat Party: It’s not more the celebration of the Clintons, Obamas, Pelosis, or Schumers. Then, it ’s the celebration of the Salient.
In all their withered brilliance.
Well, the Democrats have an image trouble. Yes, they’re progressively seen as arrogant, arrogant, corrupt, elite. And obviously, the last-minute burst of Biden pardons may only add to the belief that the Democratic Party is an isolated team of fat cats, cab liberals, and wealthy party bosses.
However, the Democrats will almost certainly handle the situation like it was only an image problem: They’ll get a fresh flagbearer. They’ll develop new talking points. They’ll popularize new catchphrases.
A new coat of paint and four new tires.
And a new flagbearer will emerge. That’s inevitable. The mainstream media is like the WWE: They can manufacture “stars ” incredibly fast. All it takes is the right gimmick and a calculated, well-planned PR push. They’ve done it before with Obama and AOC; it ’s absolutely, 100 % in their wheelhouse to identify and elevate another fresh face in 2025.
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But after four years of Biden bumbling, stumbling, and fumbling through his presidency, it ’s not just an image problem.
It’s a reality problem.
The trouble with flagbearers is that you don’t only inherit their strengths — you also inherit their weaknesses. All of them.
No exceptions.
At its height, the “Biden brand ” was predicated on normalcy: Ol’ Joe is a normal, grounded American dude (unlike that crazy Orange Meanie ). Ol’ Joe rode trains and knows how Washington works. He’s not a hothead or a revolutionary; he’s a stable, reliable D. C. wonk who’ll make sure ALL the trains run on time!
At its heart, the Biden brand was built on competency.
Here we are, four years later, and the Democratic Party has been rebranded as the Party of Incompetence: It can’t control the border. It can’t withdraw from Afghanistan without a bloodbath. It can’t get inflation under control. It can’t stop the wildfires in California or the drone invasions in New Jersey. It can’t do much of anything except look after its own.
And today, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, and the Jan. 6 committee members are ALL Hunter Biden. They’re ALL in the same big club.
Ask George Carlin how the American people feel about big clubs:
Meanwhile, former fresh face AOC declared that she’ll no-show at Trump’s inauguration. “ I don’t celebrate rapists, ” she snarked.
( At least, not American rapists. Hamas rapists are a different story. )
If the timing were different, AOC’s snarkiness would deliver a wallop. Just a few years ago, the same “mean girl Tweets ” would ’ve landed on the chin — and her liberal minions would have instantly celebrated them as “righteous indignation. ”
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As GOP strategist Morton Blackwell has noted, “Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics. ” When it works, it works extremely well.
But today, the Democrats ’ snark, hate, and nastiness no longer feel like moral outrage. Instead, it feels like a corrupt, incompetent club looking out for its own — and that the same people who tried and failed for four long years are now trying to kneecap their successor.
It’s petty and vapid. It’s corrupt and self-serving. It’s unfocused, unserious, and meanspirited.
The Bidenization of the Democratic Party is now complete.
