Posted on 05/23/2019 6:02:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
Joe Biden may give Donald Trump a run for his money in the race for irreverence. Trump slaughters sacred cows of propriety like a walleyed abattoir worker with a bolt gun. But gaffe-prone Biden once again proved that savoir-faire isn't his strong suit, and it may cost him a key Democratic Party demographic.
No, I'm not referring to his blue joke about being a politically apathetic college jock, when he and his rakish peers had only two concerns: "jobs and panty raids." That comment may leave #MeToo adherents miffed, but it's endearing enough to make the Scranton-born V.P. competitive in Pennsylvania.
The quip in question is Biden's depiction of Millennials. Tired of the endless tirades about toxic Boomerism, Biden took America's self-pitying young adults to task for their woe-is-me fatalism. "The younger generation now tells me how tough things are. Give me a break. No, no, I have no empathy for it," he insisted in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, lifting his approval rating a tick or two in Sumter County, Fla.
File photo, 2017.
Ordinarily, it's wise to pay lip service to the grievances of an audience you're wooing. It's what Democrats learn at their party-sponsored junkets: do like Bill Clinton and profess to feel voters' pain, no matter how incongruent the circumstances. You're an aging white male being told by a young black man that he's tired of being racially profiled by police? Good! Claim to have a half-minority cousin, or better yet, a "good friend," who grouses frequently about the same thing. Say you grok him, then ask for a donation to end the morally depraved practice. Rinse, repeat, cash the check.
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“The younger generation now tells me how tough things are. Give me a break. No, no, I have no empathy for it,”
Biden had a rare moment of lucidity.
is referring to the baby boomers?
Let’s see Biden gets nominated and Trump kicks his ass. The hard left will say moderation is a losing proposition. More whacko?
That’s the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.
Actually this is all part of the triangulation strategy. Joe is going for “the voice of reason centrist Dem” tag. MSM and the DNC are bending over backwards to help him. It’s all BS of course he is a left a-hole like the rest of em.
One sentence Biden can’t over come. Why would you give control of all the nukes to someone with a < 60 IQ.
If you believe Biden actually believes this about Millenials, I have a bridge to sell you. He’s trying to play Mister Moderate.
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