Joe Biden was, on some level, wrapping up his political career during his DNC speech on Monday night. He had expected to give the keynote address on Thursday. That was before the coup, when he was shoved aside and replaced by Kamala Harris as the nominee. So, you can imagine he’s not a happy camper when it comes to that.
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It was perhaps appropriate that the day was a mess with protesters breaching the security fence, attacking the police, and getting arrested. Then, Biden made weird comments about former President Donald Trump, claiming his “stability” was still a question.
Um, Joe? It isn’t Trump whose stability is in question — it was and is you. He can’t even do a pre-speech comment without saying something bizarre.
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Now Democrats were saying they “love” him and how “consequential” he is. This is the DNC Chair Jaime Harrison.
So consequential they had to shove him aside to try to help their chances and guard against losing the election. And even on the night that was supposed to be about Joe Biden, they spent most of their time talking about Donald Trump and lying their heads off about him. He was completely living rent-free in their heads.
It also sounded like the turnout was lacking — there were many empty seats reportedly at 9;20 p.m. So it didn’t sound like the audience thought Biden was “consequential.”
How the Democrats really felt is revealed in the actions they took. They gave Biden the keynote on Monday, making it for 10:50 p.m. Eastern, which makes it seem like they didn’t want people to really hear it. It’s also way past Biden’s regular bed time, so not an ideal time for him. It sounds like they were trying to bury it in case he said anything embarrassing.
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They were, of course, late. Jill preceded Joe, making cringeworthy comments about him. But this must be pretty humiliating. She’s a horrible speaker for a teacher. Interestingly, she didn’t introduce Joe; Ashley did, telling a story about hugging him when she was eight years old on her birthday. She called him a “girl dad.” She said he was the “love of our lives and the life of our loves.” She claimed he was her “best friend.”
Finally came Joe, forty minutes late. “That was my daughter,” he said, as though people didn’t know. He claimed he loves Jill more than she loves him, which is a pretty sad thing to say.
He asked the crowd if they were ready to vote for Harris and Walz. He, of course, spoke about the Jan. 6 riot. He claimed “Democracy must be preserved” even as they circumvented the will of the voters in the coup to push him aside. He raised the Charlottesville lie yet again about very fine people, he said with the admonition of his dead son. And it was a complete lie that never happened. Perhaps it’s fitting that he closes out his career with a lie.
He said he also ran to rebuild the middle class. He’s crushed the middle class with inflation and the crisis at the border. As he said that, I heard yelling in the background, it was probably protesters. He lied, claiming he’d created 60 million new jobs.
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He acknowledged that Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote for the Inflation Reduction Act (which helped make inflation worse). Yet he claimed he was saving Americans money. He had a brain break right in the middle there, slurring badly as his speech continued. It was far too long for him. He was having trouble just talking and tripping all over his teleprompter.
He lied about him and Kamala bringing down the murder rate and said it would keep coming down if they “put a prosecutor” in the office rather than a “convicted felon.”
Biden then lied about the border, blaming Trump when Biden was responsible for the border failures because he undid all the security from the first day he came in.
Biden started screaming and lying about Trump, claiming he said “suckers and losers” about the military — another lie that has been thoroughly debunked, just like Charlottesville, yet he keeps saying it.
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He lied about Trump refusing to accept the election results and promising a “bloodbath” if he lost.
It was an incredibly bad speech. It could have been about his legacy, such as it is. Instead, it became an angry, ranting speech full of lies and unhappiness. Every lie he regularly tells about Trump, he threw in here. He didn’t seem to understand that this is it. It was as though he never scaled his acceptance speech back.
Now he’s off to California for vacation for a week. So much for campaigning for Kamala Harris.