Last month, Steven Nelson at The New York Post detailed the alarming number of Big Tech executives who are staffing the Biden transition and White House.
At least 14 current and former senior executives at major tech firms are in positions of tremendous influence and minimal oversight with access to the highest levels of our federal bureaucracy. That includes at least four from Facebook and the head of Amazon Web Services, best known for shutting down Parler.
It reminds me a bit of the Grant Administration — called the “Carnival of Corruption” in its day. Although everyone around Grant was taking bribes (including his VP, members of Congress, and nearly the entire cabinet) even Grant wasn’t corrupt enough to bring the likes of James Fiske and Jay Gould onto the government payroll!
Now, I’m not suggesting that anyone is bribing our leaders. Why would they have to? They’re getting all the power without spending a dime. The fusion of government and big tech is happening before our eyes. Are you scared? I am.
I’ll say much more about this in future posts.
Joe Biden – Annoyer of Teenage Girls
Wouldn’t this be considered “sexual assault” on most college campuses? Did Joe Biden ask permission before trying to put his lips on the young lady, as is required by law in California?
Nope. pic.twitter.com/ldSAtoUn6u
— Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) January 6, 2015
While the online feminist community is fighting the scourge of men who don’t cross their ankles on the subway with all it’s got, the Vice President of the United States is making teenage girls actively uncomfortable by nuzzling and touching them on national TV.
The rules are different for powerful Democrats.
VP Biden thinks Africa Is a Country
More proof the Joe Biden is Obama’s impeachment insurance. A recent quote from a speech the VP gave at Obama’s Africa Summit.
”There’s no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world’s most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead,” the vice president of the United States of America said.
I am willing to bet that about 47% of the Democrat base is similarly ignorant of geography, but I bet they know for damn sure that inclusiveness and tolerance are very, very important.
Maybe he meant ‘nations of Africa’ but if George W. Bush had said it, no explanation would suffice.
Update: Apparently, Nancy Pelosi also thinks Africa is a country.
Joe Biden Says Something Mind-Numbingly Stupid
I know, dog bites man.
Less than a minute into his speech at the Boston marathon bombing memorial on Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden went tragically off script and told the crowd of Boston bombing survivors that “it was worth it.”
After expressing how impressed he was with the tribute, he said somberly, “let me say to those ‘quote survivors,’ my God, you have survived and you have soared. It was worth it. I mean this sincerely – just to hear each of you speak. You’re truly, truly inspiring.”
Let’s see. An eight-year old boy was blown to pieces. Other people will spend the rest of their lives with prosthetic limbs (because the massive NSA surveillance state couldn’t keep tabs on two radical Muslim immigrants the Russian Government warned us about). But it was worth it because Joe Biden Got to Hear a Speech.
And the $100,000 in welfare benefits the Boston Bombers received… also, totally worth it.
Sochi-lism
They had years to plan, and billions of dollars to spend. They knew when the project had to be finished and how many prople were counting on everything being ready for them. Instead, they delivered a typical effed up socialist debacle. Nothing works properly, and Twitter is filled with stories of the nightmarish ordeals people are going through. Yet, the regime keeps insisting that everything is great, and instead of addressing the problems, attacks critics as anti-patriotic malcontents. They claimed they had embraced capitalism, but this botched project just shows that they are still socialists, and produce typical socialist results.
But enough about Obamacare, how about those Sochi hotel accommodations?
Also, Mr. Vice President Biden was off complaining about how NYC’s LaGuardia looks all shabby and third worldy. You mean it smells bad, the government is hopelessly corrupt, and there’s an appalling gap between the wealthy elite and the poor masses? Have you never been to New York City, Mr Biden? Anyway, didn’t you guys spend very close to a Trillion dollars on “Stimulus” spending your first term? Why the heck didn’t you fix the airport then instead of shelling out half a bil to Solyndra to build defective solar panels with whistling robots?
10 Biden Gaffes at Sharon’s Funeral
So, President Selfie isn’t going to be embarrassing the United States amateurishly at the funeral of Ariel Sharon, but sent profesional embarrassment Vice President Biden instead, accompanied by the result of genetic experiment that cross-bred Chelsea Clinton with a cocker spaniel. It set me to wondering how Biden was going to humiliate us, and these are some possibilities:
1. Is offered tour of Wailing Wall. Asks where the whales are.
2. Asks his host “Where can a guy get a good cheeseburger around here?”
3. “So, you guys are basically ‘European’ when it comes to groping women, right?”
4. During Eulogy, invites Sharon to “Stand up and let ’em see ya.”
5. “Thank you, thank you. I gotta tell ya’ it’s really great to be in Indiana again…”
6. Asks to see the Tomb of Baby Jesus.
7. “So, I hear that Sharon fella was a Tank Commander. Did he know Mike Dukakis?”
8. “Hey, what’s with the black beanies?”
9. “So, when can I meet that ‘Don’t Mess with the Zohan Guy?'”
10. “Some of my best friends are you people.”
Bottom news story of the day
Actually, Democrats would be having a field day with this gaffe had a Republican politician uttered it. But, we’ve come to expect eyebrow-raising comments from the Democratic Vice President. So, it’s not really news any more.
But, hey, in this case, there’s not a Missouri Senate seat at stake here, so the comment is just eyebrow-raising and not insensitive.
Why, Oh why, Oh why, Oh, Why doesn’t Biden know he’s in Ohio?
“Vice President Joe Biden“, reports Joel Gehrke,
once again misstated the state in which he was campaigning, this time addressing an Ohio crowd as if he is in Iowa.
“Literally, ladies and gentleman, this is a guy who is running all the ads here in Iowa saying that he is going to get tough on China,” Biden said during a campaign speech in Ohio.
UPDATE: You really can’t blame the guy. Stacy McCain reminds us that “All these darned Midwestern states look alike!”
FROM THE (FACEBOOK) COMMENTS: Alan Ocu quips, “It’s one of Obama’s 57 states at least.” Must be the state of Iowio. Or Oiho.
Joe Biden’s boorish behavior rallies the left
“It was a weird debate,” began Jim Geraghty reflecting on last night’s Ryan-Biden match-up, “in that one candidate’s personality so totally dominated the proceedings, that your reaction to the debate will be decided almost entirely by what you think of Joe Biden when unplugged.” Read the whole thing.
And while Joe Biden may have appeared (particularly to independent women and witty conservatives) to have lost his marbles, liberals were ecstatic, causing Hugh Hewitt to quip (as I noted previously), “The left is cheering Joe Biden’s meltdown, which is itself an indication of how far it has lost its bearings.” He builds on this point by excerpting The Wall Street Journal’s debate summary:
But this 90 minutes wasn’t about an exchange of ideas or a debate over policies. It was a Democratic show of contempt for the opposition, an attempt to claim by repetitive assertion that Messrs. Ryan and Romney are radicals who want to destroy “the middle class.” Mr. Ryan’s cool under assault was a visual rebuttal of that claim, and we certainly know who looked more presidential.
Echoing the Journal, Jonathan S. Tobin believes Democrats were “delighted” with “Vice President Joe Biden’s obnoxious display” in large part because “the liberal base of the president’s party is so filled with anger and contempt for Republicans that they can’t abide even a show of civility from their champions.” (Read the whole thing.)
This manic contempt was Biden’s apparently successful strategy to “throw the Obama base a lifeline” (via Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit). What does it say about a political party that it rallies on the boorish behavior of an angry old man?
And this “from the administration that promised to bring back civility to American politics” (via Instapundit).
UPDATE: Jennifer Rubin has a similar perspective: “That lefty bloggers and pundits ate up Biden’s antics is a telling commentary on how vitriolic the left in general has become.”
UP-UPDATE: Neoneocon asks, “what does it say about the Democratic base if this is the sort of thing that gets its members’ juices flowing?“
Joe Biden’s rude strategy
“It’s clear“, writes Stacy McCain scoring Ryan the winner in last night’s debate, that Vice President Joe “Biden was advised to be aggressive, to bulldoze, interrupt and filibuster, to treat Ryan with contempt.” “No doubt”, Fred Barnes concurs, “Biden was told to be aggressive. No doubt he was told not to let Ryan get away with anything. No doubt he was told not to let the moderator, ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz, restrain him.”
Seems the Obama team thought rude Joe would help the Democratic ticket, but it sure didn’t help them with one group which leans slightly toward the president’s party. Women were particularly put off by the Vice President’s behavior. Note that the three participants in this focus group who responded to Frank Luntz’s point about Biden’s interruption and occasional laughter were all women:
“Even“, notes Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, CNN’s Gloria Borger admits, “He was condescending at times to Paul Ryan. I think I could have done with a lot less eye-rolling and chuckling on the part of Joe Biden.”
That said, this does seem to have played quite well with the Democrats’ face. My liberal Facebook friends are beside themselves with glee; one offered, “Ok so maybe Biden shouldn’t have laughed and snickered so much…but how could you not when your debating Eddie Munster?” FWIW, haven’t caught any of them praising Biden for defending Obama, instead they’re hailing him for attacking Ryan.
Maybe they decided to make a test of the angry, rude Joe to see how it plays as a possible strategy for Obama next week. This strategy looks like a winner if the goal is to fire up the base, but, it ends up, as David French puts it, making the Democratic “ticket less likable, thus continuing to squander a key favorability advantage.” [Read more…]