Joey, We Hardly Knew Ye: My Favorite Joe Biden Moments

Joe Biden is a fairly random American man who, due to his bulletproof self-confidence and the luck of being raised in a tiny state where he could get elected to the U.S. Senate at age 29, has found himself near the center of world power for over half a century.

The one time Joe did the modest, self-abnegating thing — letting Hillary have the 2016 Democratic nomination — was probably the biggest mistake of his life. Joe isn’t a great candidate but he’d have likely done better than Hillary, a bad candidate, by enough to beat Trump eight years ago. Joe probably thinks that if he hadn’t stepped back like an old-fashioned gentleman letting a lady go through the door first, he’d right now be enjoying a pleasant last year in office like Reagan in 1988 or Clinton in 2000.

One weird thing about Biden is that even though he says a lot of objectively entertaining things, almost nobody in the general public seems to find him entertaining. While Trump can recount his golf handicap (2.8) and have his fans in stitches and his enemies in hysterics, Biden’s supporters think he is the exemplification of personal decency and his opponents think that he is a personality-free zero.

Here are a few of my favorite Joe Biden moments:

And my uncle, they called him – Ambrose, they called him Bosie… and he became an Army Air Corps, before the Air Force came along, he flew those single engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones. And he got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals – for real – in that part of the New Guinea.

In 2006:

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.

In 2021:

“Indian-of-descent Americans [sic] are taking over the country. You [Swati Mohan], my Vice President [Kamala Harris], my speech writer [Vinay Reddy].

Also in 2021:

I’m going to say something that’s going to get me in trouble … think about it, if you want to know where the American public is, look at the money being spent on advertising. Did you ever 5 years ago think every second or third ad out of 5 or 6 would be biracial couples?

In 2013, Joe announced that Jews do indeed control the media but that’s a good thing because otherwise we wouldn’t have gay marriage:

“I believe what affects the [success of liberal social] movements in America [like civil rights, feminism, and gay marriage], what affects our attitudes in America are as much the culture and the arts as anything else,” he said. That’s why he spoke out on gay marriage “apparently a little ahead of time.”

“It wasn’t anything we legislatively did. It was ‘Will and Grace,’ it was the social media. Literally. That’s what changed peoples’ attitudes. That’s why I was so certain that the vast majority of people would embrace and rapidly embrace” gay marriage, Biden said.

“Think behind of all that, I bet you 85 percent of those changes, whether it’s in Hollywood or social media are a consequence of Jewish leaders in the industry. The influence is immense, the influence is immense.”

But, Joe saved his career by concluding, in effect, that I, for one, welcome our old Jewish media overlords:

“And, I might add, it is all to the good.”

Then there were Joe’s various plagiarism scandals in law school and on the 1988 campaign trail. And of course Corn Pop.

My favorite is probably Joe getting Hotep-Pilled on the Light Bulb Question. In 2020, candidate Biden goes to Kenosha after the riots and meets with the Hotep father of Jacob Blake, who got shot by a cop while waving a knife around. He comes out and announces:

A black man invented the light bulb, not a white guy named Edison.

And, as I cited yesterday, “I have a much higher IQ than you:”