Biden is what used to be disparaged as a blowhard. He's the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn brought to life, or maybe he's an evil version of Walter Mitty.
Frankly, I think he's psychotic. He's a nasty, insecure, little man who needs to constantly fabricate stories about his phony heroic self to stoke his ego. He repeats ad nauseam his stupid stories of derring-do: scaring off Corn Pop and getting arrested with Mandela are just two that come to mind. Then there's his tough guy schtick: threatening to take Trump behind the school house to beat him up, or aggressively getting in someone's face to recount his supposed exalted IQ, advanced degrees, etc.
The guy would be laughable if he wasn't in a position to do so much harm to the Country and to us individually. It's truly remarkable that such a mediocre, corrupt person holds the very same office as did George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.
He's certainly been lying about himself since 1988, and probably since (more like) 1958. So I doubt that the lie he told to Hur is the product of recent cognitive decline. He's just a liar. A pathological liar.
Don't get me wrong. He's just as certainly suffering from some type of mental senility that is increasingly obvious. He has no business running anything anymore. But that's no explanation for a lifetime of lies.
No doubt if you had penned this excellent piece one week later, you would have mentioned #FJB's most recent lie about crossing Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge by rail.
In first year dental school we had a similar scenario in gross anatomy. You studied dissections and video and written materials in an area with a green carpet. There were 13 sections of material. When you thought you were ready, you signed up for an oral conference. The professor started asking questions and once he could tell you knew the material he left you alone. If not sure, he would probe deeper and sometimes if you clearly didn't know something he would lead you down a rabbit trail of bad answers. The rest of us would be trying not to laugh. Eventually, or sometimes very suddenly, a student would get thrown out of the conference with "Hit the green carpet!"
You can carp and wail all you want, but Biden was chosen by TPTB. Americans didn't place him in office, so Americans cannot remove him from office. Complaining about Biden is like complaining about Nero. What, exactly, does it buy you?
The most laughable part is a standing ovation from other students. If some student should have ever crushed it in class, the other students would have just hated him for being a brown noser.
And the first day? Can't fake what you've never seen. Faking it would require some understanding of what a prepared student would say or do. He'd have to have heard other students perform in class.
Also -- in a first year class on first day, the professor would have left him thinking he'd screwed up even if he had absolutely nailed it. That's the way it is. It's a game of hide the ball. Students read the assignment and are confident they understand it. First kid called on gives the same answers they all would give. The legal principle involved seems pretty straight forward. Professor casts serious doubt on the initial answers. Everyone else starts leafing back through the book to see what the hell they could have missed. It's all Hide the Ball.
It's like the law professor's contract requires that first year classes cause the students to question whether they get it. The notion that any law professor on the first day of a first year class would praise any student ever is beyond bizarre. Biden's Walter Mitty schtick isn't just ridiculous fantasy. It's stupid fantasy. It's about as bad as claiming he flew with Armstrong to the moon. His word as a Biden!
Speaking as someone who has known a chronic "pathological" liar, I can attest: if a person lies often enough, for long enough, he will lose the ability to distinguish lies from reality. It's horrible to watch, tragic beyond words. It leads to despair, ruin, and isolation (imagine the isolation of being surrounded 24x7 by teams of fake "helpers" who pretend they care about you but really don't, in reality are using you, and on some level you know it -- who control everything you do: what shoes you wear, what notes get shoved into your hands before you shuffle into meetings, what drugs you're fed and how often).
It has something to do, I think, with our ability as humans to think abstractly, and with the dire necessity of grounding our abstractions in the truth to keep them (and ourselves) from drifting irretrievably into fantasy.
There's also an argument in there for the existence of evil: first Pride, then the need to defend Pride with Lies, then the loss of the everything that really matters. We're seeing it play out and we're seeing what it's doing to our country. Pray.
You assume the law school story is false and as a 1981 graduate of the University of Florida law school i tend to agree with you. But do you have a witness to corroborate your conclusion. That would be equally ridiculed by my Torts professor, Joe Little, who frequently asked us: Mr. So and so, what is your analysis? The answer was, among us, “Professor that’s when you pee in a cup for your doctor!” None of us ever had the balls to say it. Now some whatbaoutism. How many times has Mr. Trump lied about dozens or hundreds of things? Let’s start with heel spurs. Discuss.
My discussion is what a sad state of affairs we have sunk into where, as Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. once said, “I’d rather be governed by 535 people chosen at random from the NYC phone book tah the present members of Congress.” And that was probably a pretty librhul crowd.
I can recall a couple of 1L profs from my law school years long ago. One of them was just generally a nasty person; the other was brilliant but intolerant. Pull a stunt like Joe describes and either one of them would have climbed so far up his backside that they could wind up stepping out of his mouth. Joe's story simply didn't happen.
As a teen, drawn to politics from late 60's-early 70's MAD Magazine, I recognized Biden early on as an idiot, dolt, and numerous other apt descriptors.
I thought 0bama picking Biden would sink his ticket. I guess the media hype combined w/McCain's desire to be...McCain enabled Chicago Jesus to win.
Our society has so many distortions built into it these days through policy, and media cover, reality hits hard & mean but then, there's institutional racism, 12 years of Reagan/Bush or, corporate greed to use as blame.
i disagree with "has lost touch with reality". that implies that he was in touch with it at some point. that monster officiated at a parody of a wedding ceremony involving two men.
Is it possible there is a kernel of truth in J.B.'s story? Take out the exaggerations of time and student response and focus on professor's comment as sarcasm instead of praise. In other words, he took an embarrassing episode and changed it to a self aggrandizing event. Still a lie but makes more sense than a total fabrication.
Why is everyone assuming Biden is running anything? It’s not possible. The smart people writing these articles should be exposing the people who are running things.
Biden is what used to be disparaged as a blowhard. He's the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn brought to life, or maybe he's an evil version of Walter Mitty.
Frankly, I think he's psychotic. He's a nasty, insecure, little man who needs to constantly fabricate stories about his phony heroic self to stoke his ego. He repeats ad nauseam his stupid stories of derring-do: scaring off Corn Pop and getting arrested with Mandela are just two that come to mind. Then there's his tough guy schtick: threatening to take Trump behind the school house to beat him up, or aggressively getting in someone's face to recount his supposed exalted IQ, advanced degrees, etc.
The guy would be laughable if he wasn't in a position to do so much harm to the Country and to us individually. It's truly remarkable that such a mediocre, corrupt person holds the very same office as did George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.
He's certainly been lying about himself since 1988, and probably since (more like) 1958. So I doubt that the lie he told to Hur is the product of recent cognitive decline. He's just a liar. A pathological liar.
Don't get me wrong. He's just as certainly suffering from some type of mental senility that is increasingly obvious. He has no business running anything anymore. But that's no explanation for a lifetime of lies.
No doubt if you had penned this excellent piece one week later, you would have mentioned #FJB's most recent lie about crossing Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge by rail.
In first year dental school we had a similar scenario in gross anatomy. You studied dissections and video and written materials in an area with a green carpet. There were 13 sections of material. When you thought you were ready, you signed up for an oral conference. The professor started asking questions and once he could tell you knew the material he left you alone. If not sure, he would probe deeper and sometimes if you clearly didn't know something he would lead you down a rabbit trail of bad answers. The rest of us would be trying not to laugh. Eventually, or sometimes very suddenly, a student would get thrown out of the conference with "Hit the green carpet!"
Nobody cares.
You can carp and wail all you want, but Biden was chosen by TPTB. Americans didn't place him in office, so Americans cannot remove him from office. Complaining about Biden is like complaining about Nero. What, exactly, does it buy you?
Biden would have made an excellent topic for one chapter of the book "Get It Together," an insight into the behavior of troubled Leftists
The most laughable part is a standing ovation from other students. If some student should have ever crushed it in class, the other students would have just hated him for being a brown noser.
And the first day? Can't fake what you've never seen. Faking it would require some understanding of what a prepared student would say or do. He'd have to have heard other students perform in class.
Also -- in a first year class on first day, the professor would have left him thinking he'd screwed up even if he had absolutely nailed it. That's the way it is. It's a game of hide the ball. Students read the assignment and are confident they understand it. First kid called on gives the same answers they all would give. The legal principle involved seems pretty straight forward. Professor casts serious doubt on the initial answers. Everyone else starts leafing back through the book to see what the hell they could have missed. It's all Hide the Ball.
It's like the law professor's contract requires that first year classes cause the students to question whether they get it. The notion that any law professor on the first day of a first year class would praise any student ever is beyond bizarre. Biden's Walter Mitty schtick isn't just ridiculous fantasy. It's stupid fantasy. It's about as bad as claiming he flew with Armstrong to the moon. His word as a Biden!
Speaking as someone who has known a chronic "pathological" liar, I can attest: if a person lies often enough, for long enough, he will lose the ability to distinguish lies from reality. It's horrible to watch, tragic beyond words. It leads to despair, ruin, and isolation (imagine the isolation of being surrounded 24x7 by teams of fake "helpers" who pretend they care about you but really don't, in reality are using you, and on some level you know it -- who control everything you do: what shoes you wear, what notes get shoved into your hands before you shuffle into meetings, what drugs you're fed and how often).
It has something to do, I think, with our ability as humans to think abstractly, and with the dire necessity of grounding our abstractions in the truth to keep them (and ourselves) from drifting irretrievably into fantasy.
There's also an argument in there for the existence of evil: first Pride, then the need to defend Pride with Lies, then the loss of the everything that really matters. We're seeing it play out and we're seeing what it's doing to our country. Pray.
Wow! Memories of first year law at UT law school, John! Another laughable Biden's lyin' episode.
You assume the law school story is false and as a 1981 graduate of the University of Florida law school i tend to agree with you. But do you have a witness to corroborate your conclusion. That would be equally ridiculed by my Torts professor, Joe Little, who frequently asked us: Mr. So and so, what is your analysis? The answer was, among us, “Professor that’s when you pee in a cup for your doctor!” None of us ever had the balls to say it. Now some whatbaoutism. How many times has Mr. Trump lied about dozens or hundreds of things? Let’s start with heel spurs. Discuss.
My discussion is what a sad state of affairs we have sunk into where, as Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. once said, “I’d rather be governed by 535 people chosen at random from the NYC phone book tah the present members of Congress.” And that was probably a pretty librhul crowd.
I can recall a couple of 1L profs from my law school years long ago. One of them was just generally a nasty person; the other was brilliant but intolerant. Pull a stunt like Joe describes and either one of them would have climbed so far up his backside that they could wind up stepping out of his mouth. Joe's story simply didn't happen.
As a teen, drawn to politics from late 60's-early 70's MAD Magazine, I recognized Biden early on as an idiot, dolt, and numerous other apt descriptors.
I thought 0bama picking Biden would sink his ticket. I guess the media hype combined w/McCain's desire to be...McCain enabled Chicago Jesus to win.
Our society has so many distortions built into it these days through policy, and media cover, reality hits hard & mean but then, there's institutional racism, 12 years of Reagan/Bush or, corporate greed to use as blame.
i disagree with "has lost touch with reality". that implies that he was in touch with it at some point. that monster officiated at a parody of a wedding ceremony involving two men.
Is it possible there is a kernel of truth in J.B.'s story? Take out the exaggerations of time and student response and focus on professor's comment as sarcasm instead of praise. In other words, he took an embarrassing episode and changed it to a self aggrandizing event. Still a lie but makes more sense than a total fabrication.
Why is everyone assuming Biden is running anything? It’s not possible. The smart people writing these articles should be exposing the people who are running things.
1. What law school did Pres. Biden attend?
2. Who was the "really difficult professor" teaching his tort class?
3. Did he actually take a tort class his first year?
4. Who were his classmates in that class?
5. Do any of his classmates recall this happening?
These seem to be simple questions that not a single reporter is asking.