Weird Grandpa Joe mistakes little girl for snack
An error like that could happen to anyone, right? See this.
Joe has never been much of a respecter of boundaries, has he? Even back when he was supposedly of sound mind.
This latest episode reminds me of something I haven’t thought about in many many years: the phenomenon of political baby-kissing. But if that’s what Joe was trying to do here, he seems to have forgotten that it’s something the parent requests, it’s not a spontaneous act on the part of the candidate. Nor was Joe campaigning here, except in the sense that all politicians are always campaigning.
[NOTE: If you’ve never read this 1974 interview with the young and ambitious Joe Biden, it’s also an eye-opener about how creepy he was even back then.]
Let’s hope that the poor kid isn’t spooked into transgenderism after being slobbered on by Pedo Joe.
Brandon may be a serial pedo, but (as far as we know) he’s not a serial killer. Sorry to go OT so soon on this thread, but it looks as if the Long Island serial killer case is solved and a suspect is in custody. A 59-year-old architect named Rex Heuermann has been arrested in Massapequa. Details here:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/07/long-island-gilgo-beach-murders-suspect-arrested-updates.html
There exists an overwhelming amount of evidence for a pattern of inappropriate behavior, in public, by the now-senile buffoon over decades, yet an awareness of this fact would seem to be held by perhaps only half the citizenry, those who are inevitably castigated as being open to “conspiracy theories” being far more cognizant of actual facts and far more aligned with reality than those who are easily propagandized and indoctrinated by the most powerful elements of the government and of the media.
I don’t know, I watch all these videos even though I shouldn’t, and honestly I’m not sure these are any worse than all the times the MSM showed short clips of Trump claiming he was suffering dementia or whatever. (Remember all that talk of invoking the 25th Amendment and declaring Trump incapacitated? Good times.) The media specializes in 5 second clips that make people look really bad and they did it to our people often enough.
Really old people, out and about doing things that they should have long ago given up, are unsettling, even when much nicer than Joe Biden. At minimum you worry about their safety. The videos are unpleasant, but a hostile journalist could easily collect that kind of footage from any elderly politician who’s on camera that much…
I prefer the 1988 campaign stop video with Biden reciting all his (imaginary) accomplishments.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaign-tantrums-bidens-1988-white-house-bid-derailed-after-he-unloaded-on-new-hampshire-voter
That 1974 interview opened my eyes about Smilin’ Joe when I read it a couple of years ago. . He wasn’t just a goofy, stupid parody of a drinking uncle–he was a creep. The low-rent, leering praise of his late wife (flashes photo of Neilia in a bikini: “She had the best body of any woman I ever saw. She looks better than a Playboy bunny, doesn’t she.”) shows the real man–no gentleman, he. The ridiculous self-praise, the utter lack of modesty or self-deprecation–this is the Joe we know so well and see every day. Ugh.
Of course, this never grows old, even if it was created by the despicable Rick Wilson back in 2015:
https://instapundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Screen-Shot-2015-04-24-at-9.04.03-AM.png
“Biden tells him a joke with an antisemitic punchline and asks that it be off the record”
What a guy!
Pedophile, liar, corrupt treasonous bribe taker, head of a crime family, and seriously demented, but the best POTUS ever according to over 50% of our fellow citizens who never see any of this.
The interview from almost fifty years ago reveals some next-level slime, even for those days.
Joe Biden was never on my radar until 1991, when I was mostly apolitical, and only a very occasional (Democratic) voter. If I thought of Biden at all, I saw him as a blowhard with hair plugs.
But in that 1974 photo there’s something else I recognize in the eyes and overall expression, apart from his quoted words. Too bad the term “sociopath” has been largely decommissioned among mental health professionals. It captures so much more than the clinical language in use today.
Another day ending in “y” for Gropey Joe.
I am honestly surprise the Mother did not slap the s out of him. That was gross.
All great comments.
Where Joe got the inflated opinion of himself and the idea he could lie and bluff his way through the world is a mystery. He’s a jerk in just about every way possible. I’m embarrassed that he is the President.
SHIREHOME…put me down for “knock the grubby ol’ bugger to his knees” if that had been my daughter.
I suspect that once you buy today’s left’s narrative… you’ve given away the human part of your soul to the god of this world and nothing sets off your alarm anymore.
Yes, what the hell is wrong with that mother??? As I mentioned in the open thread, if it was me holding the girl. Biden would have been flat on his ass with my foot on his chest. Are the parents of all these kids so intimidated that they won’t protect their own from such a pervert?? I just can’t fathom it.
I certainly would have backed up and turned to protect my child. And if he came up behind me to nuzzle my hair, he’d get a sharp elbow in his abdomen.
Maybe the mother was just frozen in shock. I think it happened in Finland, so she might not have known much beforehand about Joe’s habits.
Calling what Biden was doing there baby-kissing, is to be so modest as to change the reality of the matter.
So several things:
First, there is no doubt Slo Joe is creepy, inappropriate and unnerving at times. Many, many times. That said, Frederick has a point in that these really short clips can appear worse than the incident actually was. Not saying the behavior was acceptable but it is important to stay measured, something Democrats never do regarding Trump
Second, the mom. Whoever she was, she was likely carefully screened to be at the front row with her child. That she didn’t seem to object to Joe’s nibbling is likely due to the fact that she most definitely wanted to meet him.
Or maybe she did object but was caught off guard and deferential to the man who is (officially anyway) the most powerful person in the world. Most of us are more likely to give deference when in the presence of powerful people.
In the end, the incident should be considered in the broader context of Slo Joe’s European tour; it’s been pathetic, with one cringe worthy incident after another. Regardless of party, we should want a President who projects strength, confidence and competence when on an international tour. Brandon projects the precise opposite. Democrats should be embarrassed and clamoring to put him out to pasture.
And, clamoring or not, I am increasingly confident, such is in thecworks. Newsom is the most likely replacement and when it happens (likely late fall), it’ll happen quickly and seamlessly.
Does such inappropriate behavior happen with dementia?
Yeah, his little boys needed their father at home after their mother and sister were killed and both boys were seriously injured. But Biden didn’t stay home, did he? Instead he put his own ambition first.
Oh, and he also publicly and repeatedly blamed the truck driver involved in the fatal accident, even calling him a drunk driver. The driver wasn’t drunk, and Biden’s wife, tragically, is the one who pulled out in front of him and caused the accident.
I first learned to loathe Joe Biden during Clarence Thomas’ supreme court nomination hearing. I have since read that ’74 interview. No surprise. Once a self-centered ignoramus, always a self-centered ignoramus.
huxley asks, “Does such inappropriate behavior happen with dementia?”
Sadly, yes, and it can get even worse. One of my aunts had a friend whose husband went outside to take a walk, took off all his clothes, and was found wandering down a nearby road “without so much as a hairnet,” as my grandmother used to say. Other people with dementia expose themselves or masturbate in public. The general term for these behaviors is disinhibition– you can read more about it here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8563511/
From the article: “This behavior can be broken down into five domains: inability to inhibit, oversharing, inappropriate comments, inappropriate exposure, and overly flirtatious. Three commonly cited types of sexually inappropriate behavior include 1) sexual language that is different from the patient’s premorbid personality; 2) implied sexual acts including reading pornographic material or requesting genital care in the absence of need; and 3) overt sexual acts including groping, grabbing, public masturbating, or exposing oneself to caretakers or family members.”
So if Joe starts dropping trou in public or doing a Toobin, his retirement dinner will be on the WH calendar in short order.
Wonder if the Secret Service has a drill for getting between Joe and an outraged father.
But, after all this time, it would take a special type to, in effect, offer up your kid. Can’t be a matter of not knowing.
I am not now, nor never have been, a person of violence. But like many here on this thread and other sites, if this old %#$&@ had done that to my granddaughter, I would have decked him.
Joe’s been doing this kind of thing for years. There’s a video floating around of many, many incidents. He’s never been good about boundaries. The dementia may be making it worse, but the cause is pure Joe.
Perhaps the mother in question was worried that if she did, indeed, slap Biden one of his Secret Service goons would shoot her.
P.S. The mythology surrounding the FBI (I can still remember listening, after I came home from grade school in the mid 50s, to “The FBI in Peace and War” on the old radio we kept in the kitchen and, in later years, when TV came in there was the uncorruptable Eliot Ness), Secret Service, and so many other government agencies has worn pretty thin, if not worn completely away.
As for the Secret Service–which these days seems more like a rolling frat party rather than a serious organization—according to reports there was the 2011 strippers and prostitution incident in El Salvador, ** the major 2012 Columbian hookers incident a year after that, another 2014 incident where an agent was found passed out in an Amsterdam hotel hallway and he and three other of his drinker buddy agents were sent home, in 2015 an agent was caught in a child predator sting, another reported prostitute problem in 2017.*
Most recently, there was the Secret Service’s supposed inability to find out who left his dime bag behind in the White House.
Seriously, are we supposed to believe this crap?
I guess they think we are all morons or, perhaps, they think their positions are unassailable, and they just don’t care.
* See https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/timeline-secret-service-misconduct/index.html
** See https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/04/26/151437652/new-allegations-surface-of-secret-service-misbehavior-in-el-salvador
It seems to me that rather than ol’ Joe’s many gaffs, his almost constant lies, and his obviously increasing decrepitude, inability to climb steps, and disorientation, what might finally lead to his exit from the stage may be his increasingly blatant creeping on little girls.
Nobody, I’d imagine, Left or Right, likes this behavior.
One line from the 1974 interview seems to sum up Joe Biden’s career.
“He has immense self-confidence.”
His own ridiculous evaluations of his supreme intelligence as well as his frequent exaggerations and outright lies have created an unflattering portrait of mediocrity shot through with petty malice.
The truth is, nobody in that line would be surprised about this happening – they’re favored insiders of some kind, and they’ve already been interviewed and thoroughly vetted.
Anybody in those receiving lines is willing to let Crazy Uncle Joe do just about anything to their kid, with the cameras rolling. That’s why they’re there; it’s not in their system of beliefs to think that anything bad could happen under those circumstances. “He’s the President!”
Thanks, neo, for the link to the 1974 Kitty Kelley article about her interviews of Biden and some of his relatives and associates.
We can grumble all we want about the corrupt guy. Yet, in 1974 he was candidly talking about his expecting to become POTUS, and, dammit, he did.
This is what caught my eye in the article:
Hell, for 50 years Biden has believed (perhaps correctly) that he is part of a government cabal that can take away our liberty.