Biden bits

Neither of these articles is reassuring:

1. "The MSM is No Longer Covering Up Biden's Cognitive Decline"

On the eve of [Biden's] inauguration, Politico published an article that contains an anecdote that is actually quite disturbing.

For higher-profile remarks, [Biden would] obsessively rehearse portions until he committed them to memory. And at times through the various iterations of outlining remarks, Biden could grow downright ornery.

“I would never say this,” Biden once snapped at an aide, aghast over the prepared remarks he was reviewing, according to a person in the room during a speech prep session last year. “Where did you get this from?’”

The aide explained that Biden had just said it in a public speech a couple of weeks earlier.

2. "Words of Division" (Heather Mac Donald)

It’s an odd way to seek national unity: call a significant portion of the American public white supremacists, racists, and nativists. Welcome to the Biden presidency.

Joe Biden’s inaugural speech as 46th president is predictably being hailed for its “unifying” message. And just as predictably, his invocations of the divisive bromides of the identitarian Left are being swept under the rug.

According to Biden, we are a “great nation” and a “good people.” But we also oppress minorities with an ever-rising fervor. “Growing inequity” is among the greatest challenges facing the country, according to Biden, along with the “sting of systemic racism” and encroaching “white supremacy.” Only now are we confronting “a cry for racial justice, some four hundred years in the making.”

One might have thought that more than 50 years of civil rights legislation; the banishing of Jim Crow segregation; the ubiquity of racial preferences throughout corporate America, higher education, and government; [trillions of tax dollars] attempting to close the academic achievement gap; and the election of black politicians by white voting districts would have reduced inequity, not increased it. But to Biden’s speechwriters, steeped in academic victimology, racial inequity is always with us, requiring constant remediation from government.

Congratulations, President Biden, on your inauguration.  I look forward to a wonderful couple of years before you keel over.  Do what you can to get back in the good graces of China and Iran, both of which are sacred bastions of human rights.  Try hard to undo Trump's tax reforms for the middle class, and please pass an economy-killing minimum-wage law even as you attempt to resurrect Obamacare.  While you're at it, please hamstring the economy by trying to implement some version of the harebrained Green New Deal so that no one will travel by airplane ever again, the country will lose its energy independence, today's cars will be outlawed, and America's cows will have their assholes firmly corked.  I'll be curious to see how you deal with race relations as you rain fire upon white people (but not upon yourself or your crooked family) in a move that should never be considered racist because racism is bad.  We do, alas, live in a racist, fascist hellhole of a country, which is why everyone is trying to immigrate to it.  For the past four years, we've been so scarily fascist and repressive that leftists and the leftie news media have been shouting about fascism at the top of their lungs—which is of course what happens in a fascist country.  Or maybe that's not a joke:  proponents of free speech have been routinely repressed and canceled by Big Tech organizations that are eagerly doing the left's bidding.  Maybe there is fascism, just not from where you think.  Anyway, it's good to know that you're preaching the ideal of "unity" from behind concertina wire, walls, and twenty-some-thousand National Guardsmen.  This is an excellent way to begin your administration, and I can only hope that we'll see much more of this.