Joe Biden Arrested by PC Police

At this time four years ago, exactly zero candidates had officially announced their Presidential runs on either side of the aisle. What a difference four years makes.  Already, a dozen candidates have announced their intentions to run for the Democratic nomination for President.  So far, the list includes New Jersey Senator Cory “Spartacus” Booker, the little known Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg; former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro; Maryland Congressman and gerrymandering beneficiary John Delaney; Hawaii Congresswoman and neoconservative Tulsi Gabbard; New York Senator and Clinton backstabber Kirsten Gillibrand; California Senator and marijuana enthusiast Kamala Harris; former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper; Washington Governor and Al Gore apprentice Jay Inslee; Minnesota Senator and “comb fork” inventor Amy Klobuchar, Vermont Senator and self-professed Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders; and last but not least; Massachusetts Senator and faux Native American “Goofy” Elizabeth Warren.  New York City-based entrepreneur Andrew Yang and author Marianne Williamson have also entered the race but their low name ID will likely keep their campaigns from gaining traction.  Considering the fact that Republicans had 17 candidates last time around, it seems like the Democrats have assembled more than enough candidates to make debate season interesting.  But one man who has not officially entered the race has already ruffled some feathers.  

Former Vice President Joe Biden began representing Delaware in the Senate in 1973.  He had mounted two unsuccessful presidential campaigns before; first in 1988 and then in 2008.  Following his unsuccessful 2008 bid, President Obama “took him off the trash heap,” as President Trump said, and made him his running mate. Even though Biden had to run for re-election in 2008, Obama probably thought that a Democrat would replace Biden.  America elected Obama-Biden over McCain-Palin in 2008 while a majority of Delaware voters decided to give Biden a seventh term in the Senate.  At the same time, Delaware elected Democrat Jack Markell governor; meaning that a Democrat would get to appoint Biden’s replacement.  Markell appointed Ted Kaufman to serve until a special election would take place simultaneously with the 2010 general election.  Following moderate Republican Congressman Mike Castle’s entry into the race, it looked like Delaware would elect a Republican Senator for the first time in a decade.  However, tea party challenger Christine O’Donnell emerged victorious in the Republican primary, leading to Democrat Chris Coons keeping the seat in the blue column; where it has remained ever since. 

Taking one look at Biden’s voting record, he hardly comes across as conservative but may come across as a moderate based on today’s socialist Democratic Party.  A 1980s fact sheet on Senators’ voting records on abortion found that he voted against the Hatch-Eagleton Amendment, a Constitutional amendment to ban abortion; voted against the Respect Human Life Act; voted to fund abortions in DC; and voted in favor of tax exemptions for abortion providers.  Biden also voted against most of the Supreme Court nominees selected by Republicans, including John Roberts, who nearly half of Senate Democrats voted to confirm.  Biden only voted to confirm Republican-nominated Justices who ended up receiving unanimous or near-unanimous support from the Senate; Stevens, O’Connor, Scalia, and Souter.  All but one of the aforementioned justices deviated from originalism some, most, or all of the time.  

Before and during his Vice Presidency, Biden developed a reputation as a gaffe machine.  He said that ”you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” More than a year before Biden joined Obama’s ticket, he described the junior Illinois Senator as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” thus implying that the previous African-American presidential candidates, or even African-Americans in general do not fit that description.  He once asked a man to stand up at a rally, not realizing that his wheelchair prevented him from doing so.  Love or hate Biden, he definitely fails the political correctness litmus test; at least he has in the past. But as the past four years have made perfectly clear, nobody can beat President Trump when it comes to smashing political correctness. 

Since leaving the Vice Presidency, Biden has not hesitated to trash Trump’s America overseas.  At the same time, he has offered praise to a handful of Republicans; much to the chagrin of liberal Democrats who want to take a wrecking ball to the grand old party.  Biden did the unthinkable and said some nice words about Michigan Republican Congressman Fred Upton; praising him for working on legislation back when they both served in Congress.  This angered Democrats, who wanted to oust Upton in favor of his Democratic challenger Matt Longjohn.  As Democrats salivated over the prospects of taking back the House, they wanted to flip every seat they possibly could.  As it turns out, Democrats had enough seats to take over the House without winning Upton’s seat.  For the record, liberals should like Upton; he has voted against border wall funding and sided with Nancy Pelosi when it came to President Trump’s national emergency. 

But nothing has gotten Biden in more trouble with the PC police than comments he recently made about his successor.  Speaking in Omaha, Nebraska, Biden described Vice President Mike Pence as a “decent guy.”  This horrified actress Cynthia Nixon, who ran against New York’s abortion cheerleading Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic Primary last year.  She sent out a tweet scolding Biden for calling “America’s most anti-LBGT elected leader a ‘decent guy.’” Quickly realizing that his presidential bid would require the unequivocal support of the PC police, Biden sent out a tweet arguing that “there is nothing decent about being anti-LGBTQ rights and that includes the Vice President.” 

Nixon appears to have taken a page out of Ellen Page’s playbook.  Page appeared on “Late Night With Stephen Colbert” recently and blamed Vice President Pence for the “hate crime” against gay actor Jussie Smollett, later exposed as a hoax.  According to Page, “when you are in a position of power and you hate people and you want to cause suffering to them…what do you think is going to happen?” 

For the record, Pence’s position on traditional marriage does not mean that he hates LGBTQ people or wants to cause suffering to them.  Anyone who knows anything about Christianity should know that the religion calls on its followers to “hate the sin, love the sinner.”  Today’s liberals seem to see loving the sin as a prerequisite for loving the sinner. 

If the PC police does not hesitate to go after a liberal like Joe Biden, then that means big trouble for all those who do not have the same standing with the “in” crowd that The PC police have infiltrated Congress, for instance, Congressman Ted Lieu has indicated his desire to crack down on hate speech while begrudgingly admitting the First Amendment to the Constitution prevents his dream from becoming a reality. Maybe Lieu will hold the position of “hate speech czar” in the next Democratic administration.

The PC police will have ultimate veto power over what constitutes “hate speech.”  Based on events that have happened over the past week or so, it looks like #MAGA hats and gear fall under the umbrella of hate speech.  California high school student Maddie Mueller and a group of students in Arizona found themselves facing disciplinary action for showing support for the President.  School officials told Mueller she couldn’t wear a MAGA hat to class because it “wasn’t a school hat or a hat from a school club or activity.”  Mueller called BS on that argument, telling Fox News’s Laura Ingraham that “she has seen multiple students wearing hats supporting Bernie Sanders and several others with the LGBTQ flag.”  Meanwhile, a group of Arizona students decided to wear MAGA apparel in honor of a spirit day with a “party in the USA” theme.  When one student refused to remove her MAGA gear, school officials suspended her for ten days.  A conservative student gets kicked out of school for wearing pro-Trump apparel yet an Obama-era discipline policy would limit a school’s ability to suspend a student who punched a teacher in the face if that student belonged to a minority group that social justice warriors felt faced unfair rates of discipline.  It sounds like American schools desperately need some “K-12 Criminal Justice Reform”

Going back to Biden, the Vice President also finds himself at another disadvantage in the 2020 Democratic primary: he does not fare well in the intersectionality Olympics.  The Democratic Party appears to award points to its candidates based on race, gender, and religion; with “marginalized” people receiving higher scores.  As a straight, white, Catholic male, Biden does not come out on top in the intersectionality Olympics.  Of all the declared candidates, Kamala Harris wins the gold medal in the intersectionality Olympics, followed by silver medal winner Tulsi Gabbard, bronze medal winner Julian Castro, Andrew Yang, “Goofy” Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Kirsten Gillibrand, Marianne Williamson, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, John Hickenlooper, Jay Inslee, and John Delaney.

Based on the polling so far, Biden performs better than any other Democrat in the swing states that will determine who will sit at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the next four years.  Polling in Arizona shows Biden tied with Trump while all of the other candidates lose.  For example, Biden actually leads Trump in Iowa while the rest of the candidates come up short.  Keep in mind that the polls also showed Hillary Clinton doing better than most of her hypothetical Democratic challengers (who ultimately decided not to run) back in 2016.  Biden may end up facing many of the challenges faced by Jeb Bush in the 2016 Republican primary and Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary.  Both individuals thought they “next in line” for the Presidency but many Americans disagreed.  Justifying his likely entrance into the Democratic primary, Martin O’Malley said that he did not want the Presidency to become “some crown to be passed between two families.” 

While Biden has indicated his desire to fight President Trump, he also told Chris Cuomo that Democrats should give President Trump the wall even if it means giving a “victory” to their mortal enemy as part of a larger deal on immigration. Such an approach, as well as his previously mentioned kind words for Fred Upton and Mike Pence, may come back to haunt him in the Democratic primary.  

Joe Biden’s arrest by the PC police should frighten every American.  Should he or any other Democrat win the Presidency, the PC police will view the Democratic victory as an endorsement of their totalitarian war on free speech.  Keep that in mind when heading out to vote in 2020.