My apologies for voting in ‘Old Scranton Joe;’ gas pump tells all
Today, the new 2021 president has run the country for about 15 months — and I am reflecting on the reason I voted for Joe Biden.
That reason is very simple. I voted for Joe Biden because of his ability to do “push-ups.†You read me right.
When, during a campaign stop in Iowa on Dec. 5, 2019, Joe Biden responded to a big, I assume Iowa farmer, “You want to check my shape, let’s do push-ups together. Let’s run. Let’s do whatever you want to do.†Biden also called the man “a damn liar.â€
This guy looked huge compared to “Scranton Joe.â€
Joe reminded me of the movie scene from “Cold Mountain,†where the rooster attacks Nicole Kidman. I thought this is the man we need to provide for the national defense. I thought our adversaries are not going to “try him on.†They would be scared of him.
If they crossed him, they would know the next thing coming would be a push-up challenge from “Old Scranton Joe,†winner-take-all.
Publicly, for a tyrant, an “iron man,†a tough foreign leader, not to accept a challenge, a personal challenge to a man’s ego… well, that would be so humiliating, that a despot just couldn’t turn it down.
Nobody in their right mind was going to cross “Old Scranton Joe.†The refusal of the challenge would be humiliating.
To lose the challenge would be devastating. I thought the reason Joe stayed in his basement was not because he was afraid of “the COVID,†as has been said, but because he was in training — constant training for that big push-up contest that might or might not come along.
I now have to admit upon reflection events have proven me wrong.
This Ukraine “thing†war was (some say the biggest war since WWII) the perfect time for “Old Scranton Joe†to step up to home plate and deliver. All he had to do was make the challenge to Putin.Joe had the opportunity to deliver for the Ukrainian people, America, N.A.T.O., Europe, our allies across the world, the free-market system, and to show his strength to our adversaries throughout the planet, and... he failed. It was his “Babe Ruth†moment and he failed.
The killed, the injured, the property damage, the refugees, lives and families destroyed and, he failed.
He missed his “time in the sun,†his fame. “Scranton Joe†looks like that rooster after Renee Zellweger picked it up.In a democracy you get what you vote for. The voter is responsible for the choices he makes at the ballot box. You get the kind of government you vote for.
To me, using the words of Lyndon B. Johnson, “fellow Americans†I apologize. I let you down. I want to “man-up†for my decision, to “own-it.†I am sorry.
Now for the rest of you, who didn’t like his “tweets,†who hated the man, but never met him, never knew anybody who personally new him, … Can you read a gas pump?
ROGER BUCKNER
Asheville
GOP = Greedy OldPerverts, reader says
In case y’all haven’t heard yet, today’s hilariously hypocritical Republican Party of Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) and her convicted sex offender husband Jayson Boebert (R-Colo. Jail) are some seriously sick sex freak fascists who love to snort cocaine and attend orgies.
Or so said the photogenic, paraplegic 26-year-old Republican Congressman from North Carolina, Madison Cawthorn, on March 24, 2022:
“The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington… Being kind of a young guy in Washington when the average age is probably 60 or 70… you look at all these people, a lot of them that I’ve looked up to through my life, then all of a sudden you get invited: ‘Hey, we’re going to have a sexual get together at one of our homes. You should come.’ I’m like, What did you just ask me to come to?’ Then you realized they asked you to come to an orgy… Some of the people that are leading on the movement to try to remove addiction in our country, then you watch them do a key bump of cocaine in front of you…†https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/madison-cawthorn-will-get-away-with-his-orgy-claims.html
Religious Right founder and full-blown bigot Jerry Falwell’s so-called Moral Majority of the 1980s, which was politically triumphant in its time, has since then devolved into Jerry Falwell Junior’s Immoral Minority of putrid perverts who misuse Jesus’ name to financially fleece their foolish flock.
And you thought partisan political gridlock was the cause of the GOP’s long-standing inability to get anything done in Congress, but no — as it turns ou — the real reason is these days the GOP stands for nothing more than Greedy Old Perverts.
And if you actually need additional proof of the randy Republican Party’s prevalent perversions, I have but just two dirty words for you that sum up the GOP’s hypocrisy on this issue perfectly: DONALD TRUMP.
Need I say more?
I do?
OK then, speaking of snorting cocaine, how about DONALD TRUMP JR.?
JAKE PICKERING
Arcata, Calif.
