So the Facebook Police have chosen to “CENSOR” Yours Truly for 3 months for trying to post the aforementioned Meme – no opportunity to possibly Appeal the Decision, or even get some type of back-and-forth dialogue to talk about the situation. Why shouldn’t something like that surprise me?
Gee, I wonder if I had referred to Donald Trump as a “Dictator”, or maybe another “Adolf Hitler”, if Facebook would’ve Censored something like that for a couple months? Somehow, I seriously doubt it.
By Charles C. W. Cooke
July 11, 2023 11:46 AM
Joe Biden is an Asshole
Always has been, always will be.
There is a moment in Back to the Future Part III in which Marty McFly steps outside of the unfamiliar mores of the 19th-century American West and says of Buford Tannen, the man who has challenged him to a duel, “He’s an asshole!”
That line is just three words long, but it contains a universe within its delivery. McFly is incredulous. He is impatient. He has lost his desire to play along with the customs of the age. “We can all see this, right?” he seems to be asking the assembled crowd. We all know that Tannen’s an asshole?
I feel the same about President Joe Biden. He’s an asshole. Can we not all see it? For those who cannot conceive of truth without triangulation, I will freely stipulate that Donald Trump is an asshole, too — and that, in some ways, he’s an even worse one. But that does not let Biden off the hook. President or not, Biden is a decrepit, dishonest, unpleasant blowhard. He’s a nasty, corrupt, partisan fraud. He is, as Shakespeare had it, “a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.” Biden is twice as irritating as he believes himself to be, and half as intelligent into the bargain. From the moment he arrived on the scene — nearly 50 years ago, Lord help us — he has represented all that is wrong with our politics. A century hence, his name will be set into aspic and memorialized under “Hack.”
We don’t need Axios to tell us about it. In 1987, during his first run for president, Biden was in spiffing form. Asked by a voter in New Hampshire about his academic record, Biden grew unhinged. “I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do,” he said, before rattling off a sequence of falsehoods that ought by rights to have ended his career. He said that he graduated in the top half of his law-school class. He did not. He said that he went to that law school on a “full academic scholarship.” He did not. He said that he “won the international moot-court competition,” “was the outstanding student in the political science department,” and “graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school.” None of that was true. In closing, Biden betrayed what the exchange was really about. “I’d be delighted to sit back and compare my IQ to yours if you’d like,” he jabbed. Mr. Dunning-Kruger, your table is ready.
Character matters. Biden has none. As president, the man spends his days considering how he can mislead voters about his record, how he can get around the Constitution, and how he can demagogue the other branches. All that talk in 2020 about “the soul of America”? That was guff. Flotsam. Malarkey. There is nothing the man won’t lie about. He lies about inflation. He lies about gas prices. He lies about the deficit. He lies about the border. He lies about having been arrested for his civil-rights activism, and about having been raised by Puerto Ricans and Greeks and Jews, and about having traveled to Afghanistan to pin a Silver Star on a Navy hero, and about his son’s death, and about the crash that killed his first wife and baby daughter, and about the small kitchen fire that he had 15 years ago, which, in his inimitable style, he has managed to transmute into “having had a house burn down with my wife in it.” In 1987, he plagiarized a speech by the British politician Neil Kinnock that contained a completely different backstory from his own. In 2012, he accused Mitt Romney of wanting to put African Americans “back in chains.” Push a pin into a history book, and you’ll find Joe Biden lying about something.
There are many ugly consequences of our present bout of negative partisanship, but by far the worst is that it leads otherwise sensible people to pretend that up is down. That a person might prefer the Democrats to the Republicans or tax hikes to tax cuts or anyone to Donald Trump is comprehensible to me. That, in pursuit of that aim, they might feign admiration for the grotesque is not comprehensible at all. Joe Biden is an asshole. Always has been, always will be — until the last tawdry whopper leaves his lips.
While I was visiting my parents’ grave site recently, I couldn’t help but notice this nearby tombstone. It’s a very fascinating epitaph, to say the least. Looking on the opposite side of this monument, it’s dedicated to a man who succumbed before his 55th birthday. The guy’s facial likeness is even etched on the front side of that tombstone – it’s just amazing what some of these gravestone artists can do these days.
First and foremost, I’m sure this individual in question was viewed as a great man, at least in his circle of friends and relatives – I wouldn’t even attempt to argue otherwise in this case. After seeing his name, I’m fairly sure this individual was not a public figure or a public official around the area of this cemetery – and even if this guy was a public figure, I wouldn’t mention his real name in this particular blog post. On the same token, I have no desire whatsoever to do a Google search on this guy in some weird, vain attempt to discredit the epitaph stated on this tombstone. Having said all that, I’m fairly sure there were a number of people who were deeply hurt by this man’s passing. I’m also fairly sure that the people who attended this guy’s funeral service, probably heard the clergy who did the eulogy, say many of the same things written here on his monument.
Also, to be perfectly honest, I would rather someone shower me with compliments than rip me apart with insults. I’m only human (especially after I’m dead and gone), and my ego is probably not that much different than the guy buried underneath this monument. I hope and pray, that my friends and relatives will make similar type of bold, favorable comments about me after I pass away, as this guy’s inner circle stated about him on this tombstone. To claim otherwise, would make me a liar but there is another perspective here to consider.
My question here is, in the grand scheme of things, are any of the character traits mentioned here about this guy as important as, let’s say, accepting Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, or maybe, doing God’s Will (the Bible) to the best of his ability? Specifically, I’ve got a real problem with the last paragraph of this epitaph from a Christian viewpoint:
“…God speed you. May you watch over us and pray for us that we may model your demeanor as a man.”
I would much rather pray for my sons, for example, to model Jesus Christ’s demeanor as a man versus somebody spiritually flawed like myself. If my relatives, friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc., have any desire whatsoever for eternal life in Heaven, they’ve got to make Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior in their lives, and further strive to have Him as their own personal role model and standard bearer – please read, Romans 10:9-10.
If I were to have a tombstone, and sort of set it up before my passing, I think I would just go with the great verse of scripture from 2 Timothy 4:7 —
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Besides that, how many people – whether they visit my grave site, or visit someone else’s nearby tombstone – would be further interested in studying Bible scriptures after reading my epitaph? Even if it’s just one person, it would still be worth it.
As far as Jesus himself goes, His last words on the cross were, “It is Finished”, to indicate that He accomplished everything He needed to accomplish from then to the Second Coming of Christ.
Personally, I would just assume trade-in all possible epitaphs on my tombstone, and maybe be Cremated with my ashes poured in the Atlantic Ocean or perhaps be buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave to hear Jesus say to me, just before my Judgement Day, “Well done, my good and faithful servant”. Everything else is just superfluous and trivial as far as I’m concerned.
Believe it or not, the late Telly Savalas’ rendition of the song “If” serves as my very own, karaoke role model. After this rather pathetic debacle of a performance, I can honestly understand why Mr. Savalas soon returned to acting and never attempted another doing another song afterwards. For my money, David Gates and his group, Bread, are really the only ones who can do this song any justice.
Donald Trump (left), and Bill Cosby
A couple months back, a news reporter asked then-incumbent candidate Kelly Ayotte if she would tell her kids to use Donald Trump — who was then, the Republican nominee for President — as a, “Role Model”. The question was part of a televised debate for U.S. Senator in New Hampshire.
Senator Ayotte initially said that she hoped that the Reporter would ask her opponent in that particular Debate, then-Governor Maggie Hassan, a similar type question about if HER kids ought to view the Democrat Presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton as a “Role Model”. Needless to say, the Reporter never bothered to ask then-Governor Hassan that question.
But Senator Ayotte, at that time, said she had no qualms about Mr. Trump serving as a “Role Model” for her kids. Then a week or two after this debate, an audio tape emerged from a popular show of about 11 years ago, which Trump said — unknowing that a microphone was ‘on’ during his conversation — some disparaging things about women, which Trump later publicly apologized for and referred to as, “locker room talk”. Ayotte would soon recant her statement from that debate and said she could no longer support Trump in the Presidential race and publicly said she would Write-in vice presidential candidate Mike Pence for President during the Election.
But in fairness to Mr. Trump, do even Parents qualify as ideal “Role Models” for our children? I don’t think so.
About 10-15 years ago, I used to have my two sons over my apartment every weekend and one of the things they would want to watch was, The David Chappelle Show on the Comedy Central network. Needless to say, I was absolutely stunned when I heard Chappelle’s rather frequently referring to other Black men and women by, “the ‘N’ word”. I immediately thought to myself, how many Caucasian public figures have been literally destroyed over referring to Blacks by the ‘N’ word, YET, here we’ve got this seemingly popular Black comedian blatantly spewing this out in reference to other Black people with no adverse consequences whatsoever. Un-BLEEPIN-believable!!!
I did tell my sons — whether you find David Chappelle funny or not — DON’T EVER LET ME HEAR ABOUT YOU REFERRING TO A BLACK PERSON BY, THE ‘N’ WORD. I remember bringing up at the time, what a tremendous “Role Model” Bill Cosby was to the American Black community. Cosby, who was obviously old enough to be Chappelle’s dad, had a situation comedy TV show, which he played the role of a Doctor, the actress portraying his wife played the role of an Attorney, and his kids mostly faced situations common in most affluent American communities. Needless to say, “The Cosby Show” basically put Black people in a very unusual and positive spotlight.
But as the old cliche goes, Looks Can Be Deceiving, as it would be proven several years later, that Bill Cosby certainly more Demons “in his closet” and could aptly make David Chappelle look like an Altar Boy.
Apparently, Cosby had been drugging numerous women over the years to make them physically helpless so he could proceed to have sexual relations with them — and then claim afterwards it was all “concentual”.
In other words, I was obviously 180 degrees off-base on assuming that Bill Cosby served as some type of “great Role Model” for the American Black community. So do I view myself as a great “Role Model” for my own sons? Not really — there are a lot of things I’ve done in my life which I’m not too proud of and I would hate to see my boys go down that exact same path.
Personally, Jesus Christ is the ONLY role model I would hope my sons someday will choose to follow. Could they possibly go through their whole lives without any sin — heck no, nobody’s perfect. But in the end, Jesus is the only way we can ever attain Salvation — with everything (and everybody) else, we just consistently miss the mark on ever possibly getting it right.
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