By Ray Cardello for January 10, 2024, Season 24 / Post 13

I can turn the other cheek without thoughts of retaliation. I have tough skin and can handle your insults without comebacks. But I have lost patience when a man has focused the entirety of his energy on destroying our great country and continues to denigrate Donald Trump and the MAGA movement as being on the same level as the KKK and Nazi Germany. That is beyond insulting and equates those of us who want to Make America Great Again with two of the most horrific groups of bigoted and racist individuals in history. Joe Biden cannot back these statements with facts but knows they get applause when preaching to his small groups of blind followers. These people are blind because they refuse to acknowledge the reality of the damage heaped on America by Biden. And instead, they are stimulated by the rhetoric and lies that emanate from his lips.

Biden gave the second speech of his re-election campaign in the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the site of one of the most horrific hate crimes of recent years. In a speech filled with hate, anger, and accusations about the MAGA Republicans and their attack on Democracy, Joe Biden tries in vain to paint a picture of America hating Radical Right-Wingers as a genuine danger to our Democracy. This speech was patronizing vitriol, and it is obvious that Biden is hoping lightning can strike twice and South Carolina will be the slingshot to blast him into the White House for a second term. The only thing I could think of during Biden’s speech was how he was going to bow out of this race. Biden is obviously more mentally diminished with every public appearance, and at every event, Jill has to come to Joe’s rescue and guide him offstage. It is sad, and it is cruel. Jill and Joe’s keepers must know how old, feeble, and inadequate he looks every time he opens his mouth. What are they hoping for? That one day, Joe will emerge as a sixty-year-old seasoned statesman. Joe never was one, which makes this charade all the more difficult. At some point, Joe’s keepers and the real people in power must act. Joe Biden will never see a second term. It is one and done for Scranton Joe.

MAGA and Trump were mentioned nearly 50 times by Biden. Some with a whisper and some with fingers pointing and fists shaking emphatically. It was boring and obvious, but what we have come to expect. In contrast, Bidenomics, Immigration, Fentanyl, Energy, Defense, or Education were not mentioned once. How can he? There is nothing positive that Biden can run on from his first term, and the next ten months will be filled with anti-MAGA rhetoric and fear.

The Democrat mayors of sanctuary cities are getting no sympathy from their attacks on Governors Abbott or DeSantis bussing illegals to their cities. They are now turning their angst toward Biden. The Border situation that has divided the Left and Right may now be the issue that fractures the Left.

Biden is losing to Trump in the polls and even worse to Nikki Haley. This trend has to be striking fear in Democrats, and now Barack and Michelle Obama are taking a more active role in the campaign.