The Biden dog-face and pony-soldier show
Bizarro Biden strikes again:
Have you noticed that almost all the MSM coverage explains this as a joke? And believe me, I’m not saying it wasn’t. But if it was a joke, it was the most obscure one humanly possible, unless Biden were to have spoken in tongues.
Was he quoting a John Wayne movie, as Biden and his spokespeople have claimed? Apparently he’s used the phrase before. But (a) so far, no one has been able to find the quote in any John Wayne movie, and (b) to use a quote properly in that fashion, it has to be something with which a fairly large number of people would be familiar. This most definitely is not.
So why on earth does Biden say it? Because he’s bizarre. Not only is he bizarre now, possibly because of his advancing age, but I have always felt there’s something “off” about him. That feeling goes back to when I was a Democrat, by the way. I could not understand why he thought he could become president way back when (see this and also this), or why anyone would support him. Fortunately, not many did then, and as it’s shaping up at the moment, not many do now.
[NOTE: I think part of Biden’s fondness for the phrase is its resemblance to “dog and pony show“:
“Dog and pony show” is a colloquial term which has come to mean a highly promoted, often over-staged performance, presentation, or event designed to sway or convince opinion for political, or less often, commercial ends. Typically, the term is used in a pejorative sense to connote disdain, jocular lack of appreciation, or distrust of the message being presented or the efforts undertaken to present it.
Rather fitting, don’t you think?]
So it is now acceptable, in Democrat presidential-candidate circles, to call a woman a ‘dog-face’ and a liar. Noted.
I eagerly await the next Biden rally, when I expect people to show up wearing LDFPS sweatshirts.
Alternatively, a nice slogan for such an event might be: “Mr. Biden: I am a big f**king deal. You aren’t.”
Steve Hayward suggests we refer to “AUTHENTIC FRONTIER GIBBERISH” for a proper context. But then he says a reader thinks anime may fit.
Not a joke.
He’s off his rocker.
Or maybe it WAS a joke: certainly, his “No Malarkey” slogan is one of the funniest in living memory. (Though not quite as funny as the “We suck!” ad engineered by the geniuses at Electrolux—and which graced billboards across the land, even if it was fairly quickly removed…. Hey! Maybe Joe can recycle that one! Recycle, Reuse, Reduce, Rewind! The only true Green candidate!)
Well, you do have to take his word as a Biden.
Andrea Widburg claims the phrase is a combination from two movies. The dog-soldier reference is from the John Wayne movie She Wore a Yellow ribbon and the pony-soldier reference is from a Tyrone Power movie entitled Pony Soldier. Apparently, neither film includes the “lying” part.
At least the thought that Old Joe is really losing it now may help ease the shock of being called a liar and dog-faced on national TV. She wasn’t gorgeous, but dog-face was pretty bad. He did seem to treat it as a joke in the video.
Funny.
His Senility Joe Biden seems to have conflated lines from two early 1950s westerns.
As a child I watched a fair number of old movies (especially to be relished on sick, conference or semester break days back when there were both morning and afternoon locally hosted movies; and if you were lucky they featured cowboys or gangsters or war) and seemed to recall something about pony soldiers.
Others obviously did as well. And they got to YouTube well before me.
Some of the comments are classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RyyxaPb45o
Ann Althouse is posting the averages of a mess of tracking polls. Klobberherworkers has caught up with Bribem in New Hampshire, per the purveors of public opinion research. It would appear his Maginot line is in South Carolina.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2020/02/10/the-biden-dog-face-and-pony-soldier-show/
Saw a lot of speculation at CTH last night, which I have greatly condensed, by consolidating like comments and removing noms. Plus, breaking this up into separate sections based on the theory proposed.
Maybe one of them nails the source. They have certainly spiked Mr. Biden.
The presumed source was a John Wayne movie, title unspecified, and no one seems to have found it yet.
I kind of favor the Tyrone Power suggestion, but there are other more, um, innovative ones put forth.
And then there’s this GIF
https://twitter.com/216Cat/status/1226593951639011333
She wasn’t gorgeous, but dog-face was pretty bad.
Her looks appear normal range. It’s her clothes and her grooming, which suggest a women who does not mind if she’s taken for a dyke.
WHERE DID THAT COME FROM?!?! — INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/09/candidate-biden-to-new-hampshire-woman-youre-a-lying-dog-faced-pony-soldier/comment-page-2/#comments
Look fat: just more drooling gibberish from an addle-pated, ol’ hair sniffin’ sonovabitch !
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TommyJay on February 10, 2020 at 4:01 pm said:
Andrea Widburg claims the phrase is a combination from two movies. The dog-soldier reference is from the John Wayne movie She Wore a Yellow ribbon and the pony-soldier reference is from a Tyrone Power movie entitled Pony Soldier. Apparently, neither film includes the “lying” part.
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Sounds like the best bet.
A bit off-topic, but not that far: in the Friday debate Warren said that we need “race-conscious laws.” Since reading about that on Saturday I’ve been watching for some further information, something to explain more specifically what she has in mind. But I haven’t seen anything. On the face of it that seems a pretty horrendous suggestion, and one that would be rejected vehemently by some very large number of voters. So I’m wondering if she really meant exactly what she seems to be saying.
Widburg also said this, which I think is quite persuasive.
I have seen the theory before, which is that stories like these play to our confirmation bias about people, especially politicians. One example was the incident where President Ford stumbled on the airplane steps, and was never able to shake the perception — deliberately cultivated by the media, of course — that he was not only clumsy in movement, but also in policy and performance.
Ford was one of the most athletic presidents we’ve ever had, but that made no difference.
There would have been lots of viral blooper-reel stories about Obama, but the MSM quashed them.
Yes, Mac, I agree that “race-conscious laws” is a much worse thing to wish for than whatever Biden’s word salad meant.
Fetchez la Vache!
“You don’t frighten us English pigdogs. Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! Ah blow my nose at you so-called “Arthur King”, you and all your silly English Knnnnnnnnniggits. Pfthhhhhhhh. Pfthhh. Pfthhh . . . Ahh donn wanna talk to you no more you empty-headed animal food trough whopper. Ahh fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries . . Now go away or Ah shall taunt you a second time.”
The only defense for AOC is that there is a town in the UK called “Milton Keynes” — about 30 miles from London and literally right next to Bletchley (of “Park” fame).
Of course, as an economics major she should still have gotten the names of the famous economists correct. One should ask if she had ever heard of the town, and then point and laugh if she hadn’t.
Of course, as an economics major she should still have gotten the names of the famous economists correct. One should ask if she had ever heard of the town, and then point and laugh if she hadn’t.
She wasn’t an economics major. She majored in IR and was allowed to declare a minor in economics. IR programs commonly require some economics courses – principles, intermediate micro and macro, international trade, and international monetary economics. I’d wager she fulfilled the IR requirements and then took one extra course.
John Maynard Keynes is a name she should recognize. Again, though, intermediate macro is taught out of textbooks where his theories would be discussed, but you seldom see his actual texts unless you take a class in the history of economic thought. She indubitably saw the character string ‘Keynesian’ a great deal more than the man’s actual name.
What’s gonna be interesting, when the wash is all finally done and hung out to dry, will be when we learn exactly what Biden’s role and purpose in the DNC structure has been for all these years.
That dood is 100% pure political liability as an office holder and/or candidate.
Why did they keep him around?
On the face of it that seems a pretty horrendous suggestion, and one that would be rejected vehemently by some very large number of voters. So I’m wondering if she really meant exactly what she seems to be saying.
Waal, a random Democrat I encountered in a forum like this said “One reason Kavanaugh is such a lightning rod is that beyond his particular conservatism he represents the prototype of the white privileged frat boy so not representative of most Americans”. This is an indicator of how partisan Democrats think, if thinking is what it can be called. This sort of thing animates official policy in higher education (see the ‘Dear Colleague’ letter, instituting an investigatory regime that the purveyors of higher education are content with). Where’s Warren been working all these years?
Other than MOAR unfunded entitlements, the policy mix favored by partisan Democrats is a series of harassment gestures against various social segments they despise – Brett Kavanaugh, Nick Sandmann, the Little Sisters of the Poor, small town working-class whites, &c. Ultimately it’s about manufacturing orders in society atop which is a rancid little clerisy defining the strata. Warren’s part of the clerisy.
Why did they keep him around?
Half of life is showing up. Here’s a hypothesis: the major vector in Delaware politics is inertia. See the career of one Michael N. Castle, who held public office therein on-and-off from 1967 to 2011. Along one day comes a hopeless person named Christine O’Donnell who knocks him off in a primary. Consider the possibility that the culture of Delaware is such that insiders seldom encounter vigorous opposition, so the electorate is largely apathetic and unmobilized. Biden kept getting re-elected because the opposition was generally pro forma.
Now, why does Obama put him on the ticket in 2008? Steve Sailer points out that Obama generally did not socialize with professional peers. There’s a small social circle in Chicago revolving around Valerie Jarrett. These people are the Obama’s personal friends. Sailer’s contention is that during his time in office they all appeared round robin for week-end visits. BO would play basketball with visiting sports dignitaries. His favorite golf partner was a pro shop manager introduced to him by John Kerry. He didn’t use golf to break the ice with members of Congress (or meet with members at all, for the most part). Here’s a suggestion: Obama avoids the company of people who might make him feel at a disadvantage. Biden’s a mediocrity and everyone knows it, which is why his presence was passably welcome.
“Steve Sailer points out that Obama generally did not socialize with professional peers.”
Sailer’s a bright enough guy but his racial preoccupations make be a bit dubious about anything he writes.
Mike
Try filling in the blanks.
Lying Dumb F### Piece of S### isn’t suitable for “mixed company,” so it is converted to Lying Dog Faced Pony Soldier.
Sure, the “of” is missing but abbreviations in text messages often drop prepositions. Anyway, that’s my guess. He saw it in a text message perhaps.
This is his third run for the nomination. I don’t believe he has won a single caucus or primary in any of those attempts and if he gets shellacked in NH as it seems he will, he’s unlikely to hold on to his lead in SC. He’s simply a bad candidate.
Art Deco: “… the policy mix favored by partisan Democrats is a series of harassment gestures against various social segments they despise…”
Sure, I know that. But she’s talking about actual laws, not junk regulatory bullying. What the hell does she have in mind? I’m surprised that there hasn’t been more discussion. I know you can’t expect much from the msm but I haven’t seen much from the right, either.
Biden’s dead meat, almost literally a Dead Man Walking.
“Ford was one of the most athletic presidents we’ve ever had,” While it’s true Gerald Ford had been a college football center, I recall NOT liking many pictures of him standing on a desk, bent over a ball ready to snap it. Very undignified, tho displaying a certain comfort with normal sports folk. I think today I wouldn’t dislike it as much, even if a Dem did it. Ford stumbling off of planes was at least a couple of times, I was embarrassed about it.
I’ll always regret my vote for Jimmy Carter, first and only Dem vote. Ford’s pardon of Nixon was the deal breaker for me. And the culture war hadn’t really started up much in 1976, even tho Roe v Wade had already been decided.
Are YOU a lying dog-faced pony soldier?
You ARE if you vote Democrat!
And there are so many of them. 🙁
I feel sorry for the poor old guy.
He shouldn’t have run, and I think his heart wasn’t entirely in it to begin with, but somehow he got talked into it, or talked himself into it, or both.
Now he’s stuck with a race that’s just too exhausting and prolonged for a guy his age, and it’s showing daily (or would be, if they let him campaign every day, which they increasingly don’t). The guy ought to be living out his golden retirement spoiling his grandchildren, praying for his wayward son, and giving a thought or two to the state of his own soul. Instead, he’s being set up for being a gigantic disappointment, a failure, and a laughingstock.
He almost certainly has a creeping awareness that he’s falling apart and saying dumb things, and that folk are beginning to notice. I’m sure the awkward silences are getting more and more frequent. I would guess that Biden’s more the “unwarranted bravado” type than the “collapse into self-pity” type…but at this point there are very few remaining scenarios where he doesn’t, eventually, do that.
Al Gore grew up the son of a senator in the literal shadow of the capitol dome, and always thought he’d be president one day. When he lost, he collapsed in on himself, ballooning in weight and showing up with a beard, sitting in a hot tub with other guys. He had to restyle himself as a prophet on the environment to get back any mojo. His personal narrative — the movie in which he’s the hero — had fallen apart, and he didn’t know who he was any more.
Now it’s Biden’s turn, and he’s too old to start predicting ManBearPig and begging to have his chakras released for a living. (Even if that gig weren’t taken.) So what’s Biden going to do, to be able to wake up in the morning and NOT have to avoid his own reflection in the mirror?
Honestly, the best thing that could happen to the guy would be a mild stroke or something. Something that doesn’t seem like it’s his fault, but which would allow him to gracefully step down to look after his health.
If this were Hillary, in all her obnoxious arrogance and venality, I’d be happy for the tragi-comedy to unfold with maximum shock-value. That’s probably the only realistic hope for turning a soul such as hers towards repentance. (I claim no insight into her soul, of course; but sometimes one can make a reliable guess, judging “by the fruits.”)
But Biden, I think, isn’t on that level. He’s been dumbass now and again, and been totally wrong on important topics, and been promoted beyond his level of competence, and used his connections to provide sinecure for his kids, and allowed himself to make others uncomfortable for his own convenience…but I think his closest brushes with real evil were more through negligence than willful wickedness.
So I feel pity for him. Not enough to contemplate voting for him, but enough to wish he could escape with some of his dignity intact.
I dunno. Maybe it’s really that, as I get older, the phrase “There but for the grace of God…” looms larger in my imagination.
Sure, I know that. But she’s talking about actual laws, not junk regulatory bullying. What the hell does she have in mind?
They get away with a great deal (with the aid of our odious judiciary) by (1) ignoring extant laws and (2) ‘interpreting’ them to allow that junk regulatory bullying.
See her specific complaint. Both Sanders and Warren are promoting the notion that we have so and so many blacks in prison because ‘the criminal justice system’ is ‘racist’. Just a map of where the murders occur in an ordinary metropolitan region discredit the idea. Their objection is that police officers (i.e. deplorables) enforce laws contra the clerisy’s designated clientele (blacks). Such violates the social order, where the peasantry and the burgesses are not permitted to give evidence against the nobility and clergy.
I haven’t figured out whether these two are stupid or malevolent.
R.C., I consider what Biden did to Robert Bork, and tried to do to Clarence Thomas, were “willful wickedness.” He and Ted Kennedy launched the really vicious partisanship we’ve been seeing more and more of.
Biden does have a habit of opening his mouth and something stupid falls out.
I almost wish he would be the Democrat’s nominee just so we could see what Trump does with him.
Now, THAT would be an entertaining show!
Dogface is a soldier. Jarhead is a marine. This could be the source of Biden’s insult.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-DNSUSm61E
Hereogar on February 10, 2020 at 5:59 pm said:
What’s gonna be interesting, when the wash is all finally done and hung out to dry, will be when we learn exactly what Biden’s role and purpose in the DNC structure has been for all these years.
That dood is 100% pure political liability as an office holder and/or candidate.
Why did they keep him around?
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Perhaps he shared some of the largesse accumulated by his son.
R C – your pity does you credit, but Biden could have just said no.
However, the people who egged him on should have known better, and must bear some of the responsibility for his looming train wreck.
Bob on February 10, 2020 at 6:47 pm said:
Try filling in the blanks.
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That was one of the suggestion at CTH as well, not too surprisingly.
I’m still going with the conflation of the two Westerns, especially if he and his brother tossed the line around between them as a family joke.
Photo-shop for the Democrats.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2020-02-10/thats-right-pony-soldiers
Old Man Biden is worn out and tired, when I heard the question and the reply I do think he was trying to say something light hearted about his falling face down in the dirt experience in Iowa. Words started coming out of his mouth and he probably had no idea where he was going with his train of thought as he cobbled together his sentence. I have no sympathy for him whatsoever and I would not be surprised if he does not step back within the next month or two and as much as he nuzzles women and small women he might come down with the some strain of the flu.
MBunge: I agree with you about Sailer but in this case he hit on something that many others have concluded independently, namely that Obama tends to surround himself with people who aren’t that brilliant for fear of exposing that his own intelligence has been overrated.
ICYMI
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/02/video-the-authentic-frontier-gibberish-of-joe-biden.php
Biden has now proven that his being a lech is not his greatest failing.
Invariably he responds to a challenge or criticism with an underlying and revealing meanness of spirit. Like most conmen, when his camouflage is pierced, his fear of exposure results in an angry overreaction.
He’s not a nice person, not at all. He’s a conniver and putting on an amiable persona is fundamental to his deceit.
Good people never pretend to be bad people. As it’s entirely foreign to their nature.
Bad people often pretend to be good people. It’s part and parcel of how they manipulate.
What Geoffrey said.
And this. … this … & this …
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/357849/
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/357899/
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/357912/
Waay too much energy being spent trying to decipher dementia + mean SOB + years of boozin’.
Biden can string words together & sometimes sentences…and sometimes he makes sense. But Q & A him & turn up the heat & he reverts to meltdown. His mouth starts making noise without any direction from his brain.
“Also it is obvious Biden is having memory issues…. Biden has no business running for any political office.”
Just a short while ago, I would have agreed with that sentiment; but I think he’s succeeded in changing my mind. Given the general Democratic gesundheitgeist, it may be precisely the reason why he SHOULD run for political office.
Run, Joe, run!
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“Ultimately it’s about manufacturing orders in society atop which is a rancid little clerisy defining the strata.”
Oh, it’s a lot simpler than that. It’s about destroying people. And societies. And countries. Because…well, because “We’re better and smarter and wiser than you. Oh, and more moral, too.”
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“…repentence.”
Careful, there. You might find yourself being accused of being a Russian agent.
(Though personally, I would save any feelings of pity and/or empathy until after November.)
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“They get away with a great deal…”
Clearly, the judiciary has been—in tune with “the times”—perverted (i.e., politicized); and the Democrats are resisting with all they’ve got any and all efforts to correct that perversion and get things back on keel.
Cf. Amy Wax (herself a victim of the perversion of the academy):
https://www.lawliberty.org/liberty-forum/woke-lawyering-and-the-rule-of-law-dont-mix/
H/T Powerline blog
And the humorous tidbit of the day (actually, this is good for the whole month—a real classic):
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6131398148001#sp=show-clips
Don’t much care for the structure of these comments. I don’t see a way to respond to a particular comment but only to comment in general. In any case it was well known that Gerald Ford had very bad knees as a result of his years of playing football so he did stumble occasionally and was mocked mercilessly for it. A better example would be the way It was falsely reported that the First Pres. Bush did not know what a supermarket scanner was. That played into the smear that he was out of touch with the common man. Binders full of women is another example, but in that case we might truly have been fortunate to avoid Moral Mitt!
“…well known…”
Nor were the helmets in those days anything to write home about…
Ford was a good man and a very decent legislator; but he’ll always be known as the guy who took over from a corrupt VP, pardoned Nixon and lost to Jimmy Carter. (There is a connection.)
He also treated the travails of his wife with dignity; and her misfortune was transformed into providing opportunities, and healing, for others.
Life isn’t always fair.
Sailer’s a bright enough guy but his racial preoccupations make be a bit dubious about anything he writes.
I agree with you, except that many of his observations don’t intersect with those pre-occupations and a great many of them have a “hmmm, I hadn’t thought of that” quality.
The Obamas as people are something of a puzzle. I don’t run across writing about them which parses them more plausibly than does Sailer’s, though he is in the course of it addled by his various shticks (the obsession with psychometrics and the conspirazoid tendencies).
Fearing an unresolvable fissure in his party, Biden pushes boldly for a compromise candidate:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/joe-biden-democrats-mickey-mouse-donald-trump
Claims it is in the interest of the Democratic Party and the American people as a whole that “we all climb down from this awful cellar in which we currently find ourselves”.
(Not such a bad idea, actually, considering the alternatives.)
@FOAF:
“A level people hire level A people, B level people hire C level people.”
Speaking of massive campaign gaffes, have people seen this one? The Bre Kidman for Senate campaign in Maine is using an image of a guillotine as her campaign logo. No, no. We don’t mean it literally, she says. I’m so relieved.
Biff:
To address a particular commenter, just do what I did – put the person’s name in a salutation.
I don’t have nested comments because I want people to be able to immediately see which comments are new and which are old, so they can read the new ones without wading through the whole lot.
TommyJay: there’s some context for that. I’m able to sort of eavesdrop on some zealous leftist conversations on Facebook, and have noticed that the guillotine seems to be a sort of theme for some. And while the ones I know personally do not propose literally beheading people, and claim to advocate non-violence, they are pretty clear that they want to destroy said enemies in the sense of eliminating them from power and influence entirely. “We don’t mean it literally” is not reassuring.
Neo,
“I don’t have nested comments because I want people to be able to immediately see which comments are new and which are old, so they can read the new ones without wading through the whole lot.”
ThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYou…
Biff on February 11, 2020 at 7:47 am said:
Don’t much care for the structure of these comments. I don’t see a way to respond to a particular comment but only to comment in general.
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You can do what Neo said, or copy/paste the entire byline.
If a reply only references someone’s name, I use the CTRL-f function to search for their comments in the thread.
And Neo: ThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYou…
Nested comments work best for groups that know each other well and go off on multiple looonnngg tangents.
TommyJay on February 11, 2020 at 12:32 pm said:
Speaking of massive campaign gaffes, have people seen this one? The Bre Kidman for Senate campaign in Maine is using an image of a guillotine as her campaign logo. No, no. We don’t mean it literally, she says. I’m so relieved.
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As I recall, the guillotine meme did not end well for most of its originators.
And there are some folks who were very close to taking it literally.
https://www.redstate.com/bradslager/2020/01/24/how-are-things-down-on-puerto-rico-well-citizens-have-erected-a-guillotine-at-the-governor%e2%80%99s-mansion%e2%80%a6/
Mac on February 11, 2020 at 1:11 pm said:
TommyJay: there’s some context for that. I’m able to sort of eavesdrop on some zealous leftist conversations on Facebook, and have noticed that the guillotine seems to be a sort of theme for some.
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If you don’t have a guillotine handy, you can always use a car.
https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/02/11/man-behind-gop-tent-attack-reveals-why-he-did-it-and-its-not-good/
I won’t rehearse the history of Democrats’ leaders’ incendiary remarks and their followers’ actions, as that is too well known on this site.
Thanks for the feedback. I was dealing with a minor emergency today.
AesopFan, I can’t believe that Dem leader in Duval county, Jacksonville. Don’t politicize violence. We only tolerate that when we do it.
Back to the subject of the post.
https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-your-mother-was-a-hamster-and-your-father-smelt-of-elderberries
Remember those bullies in high school that, when called out, always pouted pugnaciously, “It was just a joke!”?
Yeah, so do I.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/10/college-student-felt-humiliated-when-joe-biden-called-her-lying-dog-faced-pony-soldier/
Not a good look for someone trying to appeal to the Perpetually Offended Cancel Culture Kids.
Although in this case, she was right: he was bullying and demeaning.