When the God-awful 1962 New York Mets got to spring training that first year, their manager, Casey Stengel, surveyed his new team and asked, “Can’t anybody here play this game?”  We might well ask the same thing of the Biden Administration.  When Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden conducted his presidential campaign from his basement, and every utterance he issued turned out to be incomprehensible word salad, we kind of got the idea that someone other than Old Joe would be pulling the strings behind the scenes at the White House.  And with drooling stunad Joe Biden sitting in the big boy chair, most people thought that was a good thing.  And it could have worked, if only the people pulling the strings had any idea what the F they were doing.  We’ve all heard the old saw, “elections have consequences.”  That’s very true, of course, but there’s a limit.  The winning Party might want to spend more here, rather than there.  The nub of the problem is that Joe Biden’s victory in 2020 represented nothing more than the electorate’s decision to replace Donald Trump with someone else.  The Democrats understood this in the 2020 campaign.  Biden was sold as a moderate, who would unify the country, and calm the nation after Raging Bull Trump.  The Democrats knew they were lying, but enough voters believed them.  Remember the Democrat Party line just after Biden’s inauguration?  “Our national nightmare is over.  The adults are back in control.”  This bolstered their campaign lies.  How many times have you heard, “It’s not Trump’s policies, it’s his personality I object to.  Too many tweets.”  Democrats promised a return to normalcy.  The Mad Tweeter gone, and just good solid government.  Nobody signed up for Biden’s “beautiful transition” of America from the envy of the world to a Third World hellhole.  If Biden had said, “If elected, I’ll throw open the southern border and admit millions of illegal aliens to take your jobs,” would he have won?  If he’d said, “Once in office, I’m going to more than double the cost of gasoline, destroy the oil industry, ban gasoline cars, and drive the price of heating fuel so high some of you will have to decide whether to starve or freeze,” would he have won?  If he’d said, “I promise runaway inflation, high interest rates that will collapse the housing market, and shortages of everything including baby formula,” would anyone have voted for the senile SOB?  Yet Biden’s handlers have stumbled and bumbled themselves into all these plus many more.  Biden’s approval ratings are in the toilet, and the mid-term elections are fast approaching, with the prospect of the Democrats losing one or both Houses of Congress.  It’s crunch time.  The Democrat brand is mud, and Biden has to rally his troops.  So, last week, Biden decided to remedy his problem by giving what has become known as “The Speech From Hell.”   Biden stood in Independence Hall against a blood-red background that looked hellish, backed up by U.S. Marines.

Fresh from his speech calling half the country semi-fascists, Biden doubled down, “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.”  “As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault.  MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards.”  He added a classic Biden self-contradiction saying, “The Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.  And that is a threat to this country.”  Then adding,  “Not even a majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans. ”  Biden called on Americans “to stop the assault on American democracy.”  How?  By voting for his Party, or by voting for candidates with no connection to President Trump?  No.  Strangely, Biden didn’t suggest meeting this imaginary threat by exercising our right to vote.  He said, “We are all called by duty and conscience to confront extremists who put their own pursuit of power above all else.”  Then after exhorting the populace to rise up and confront the semi-fascist, extremist, MAGA enemies of the State, Biden threw in a joke, “But I’m an American president.  Not a president of red America, blue America.”  The speech was so bad even two CNN commentators panned it, and it spawned editorials questioning Biden’s mental health.  But roll back to the beginning of this piece.  Biden’s not really the one in charge.  He didn’t write the speech, he just read it.  Which leads us to the conclusion that it’s not just Biden who’s nuts, it’s all his handlers too.  But maybe there’s a method to their madness.  Why outrage and antagonize 50% of the voters weeks before a mid-term election?  Quite possibly for two reasons.  Biden’s making Trump the enemy even though Trump’s not on any ballot in November because the Democrats have to run against Trump.  Trump hatred put them in power.  If they can’t run against Trump, what can they do, run on their records?  Democrat turnout in mid-terms is always lower than in presidential years.  Two thirds of the country wants change, and Republicans were already motivated to vote.  So Biden’s speech was a call to arms for Democrats to rise up and slay their enemies.  That’s why “From Hell” was the best title for this piece.  If you’ve ever seen the movie Omen III – The Final Conflict, Biden’s call to destroy MAGA was reminiscent of Damian’s, “Slay the Nazarene” speech.  But I digress.  The bottom line is that the Dems have concluded they have nothing good to sell to voters in 2022.  Republicans have to be the great evil so they can be the lesser evil.  Not a very inspiring message.  The speech is also for 2024.  Democrats have spent seven years painting Trump as the Great Satan.  If they can’t run against Trump they’re toast in 2024, and they know it.  Second reason – Biden is desperate to keep control of Congress because if Republicans win, their investigations will uncover the crimes of the Biden Crime Family.  So Joe Biden the Unifier was sent out to call half the electorate extremist scum who are threats to democracy.  It was a dirty and dangerous political ploy, which reeks of desperation.  It was low, even for Democrats.  And it displayed kindly old Uncle Joe in a new, creepy red-tinged light.

But is he Il Duce, or just an old douchebag?   You decide.