From yours truly in The Spectator two decades ago - February 10th 2001:
I have been on a short vacation. Well, not that short as it turned out. Apparently, I was away so long I missed the entire duration of Jesse Jackson's withdrawal from public life. Citing his need to 'revive my spirit and reconnect with my family', the Reverend Jackson withdrew from public life on Thursday, 18 January. He returned to public life on Saturday, 20 January. I missed the whole thing. Two complete days without the Rev Jackson on TV! No fewer than forty-eight — count 'em! — hours without the Reverend standing in the street shouting lamebrain anti-Dubya jingles like 'Stay out the Bushes!'
On that latter point, the nation's spiritual leader had failed to heed his own exhortation and had fathered a love-child, as they say in Fleet Street, or, as the Rev Jesse preferred to refer to his unwanted visit from the stork, an "indiscretion". So for two days he "withdrew from public life" - by which he meant his non-stop 24/7 denunciation of Bush as an "illegitimate president". A day or two before the election, the Reverend had noted that the Republican had "stopped drinking at age 40. He drank longer than Dr King lived". After the news of his "indiscretion", Bush, as is characteristic of the GOP, called Jesse to offer his support and very decently forbore to mention that, with rumors of other hoarier "indiscretions" multiplying, it was now entirely possible that Rev Jackson screwed around longer than Bush drank.
I digress. My main point is His Holiness The Most Reverend Jesse's 48-hour withdrawal from public life. I haven't checked the clock, but twenty years later President Trump may just have pipped that record. Late on Friday afternoon he was helicoptered to Walter Reed hospital; by Sunday he was taking excursions from his quarantine to wave to his supporters from the back seat of a touring SUV. So the weekend began with intimations of mortality, including supposedly from the President himself:
Trump has wondered aloud if he could defeat the disease. "Am I going out like Stan Chera?" Trump has asked aides, referring to his friend, New York real-estate developer Stan Chera, who died of COVID in April.
But, within two days, everything's back to normal - the President heartening his hardcore supporters, and the media excoriating him for his recklessness, putting at risk the health of all those Secret Service agents non-socially-distanced into the motor with him. Their concern is touching: One of the slogans of the summer, scrawled on two out of every three empty plinths in America and the walls of various burnt-out precinct houses and looted electronics stores, is #ACAB - All Cops Are Bastards. But it seems we must append an asterisk - *Unless Trump Gives You The Covid.
I want a landslide re-election by 9.47pm Eastern on November 3rd, and, unlike many of Conservative Inc's johnnies-come-lately, I got Trump from the moment he came down that escalator and, in contrast to Jeb and Marco, talked about stuff that actually matters. But, as I said to Tucker on Friday night, I think of this in theatrical terms: Conservative commentators compare the President's "energy", even when hospitalized, with Sleepy Joe's handlers putting a "lid" on the day right after breakfast. So what? For a start, Biden's lid is, as the minders see it, working for him, and ever more so: Don't forget, the other side believes the polls.
More importantly, running around or Tweeting up a storm is not a serious definition of "energy". The late Broadway director Hal Prince was once talking to me about his mentor, the long-lived George Abbott, the master of American farce and peppy musical comedy, and he said Mr Abbott's productions always had "energy", by which he didn't mean running around slamming doors; you could have a man standing perfectly still on stage and, if you did it right, the moment would crackle with energy. Where's the energy in the Jack Benny money-or-your-life gag? In the silence.
That would have been better here - silence for a week; no Tweets, no videos, no misfired spin from inadequate aides. It would have been different, a necessary plot variation. Great stars understand the power of absence; they don't rush back on stage after being shot at the end of Act One: they make the crowd wait. The Covid diagnosis was a major plot development, and the President - and more especially his campaign - would have benefited from a proper timeout. If you want to contrast Trump's energy with Biden's, let Sleepy Joe try to fill the void by himself - as some of us tried to advise the President last week.
[UPDATE: I was, on balance, wrong on this. See the start of today's Rush Limbaugh Show.]
~Among other things, the SUV ride distracted from the emergence of this video from five years ago. Then Vice President Biden is at the Capitol swearing in Steve Daines as a US senator. These are rather tedious events, especially when you've attended half-a-century's worth as Joe has. Fortunately, the organizers have provided him with an eight-year-old girl's nipple to tweak:
Sleepy Joe is, in fact, Creepy Joe - as poor eight-year-old Maria certainly recognizes. The "energy" issue - Sleepy vs Tweety - was won long ago. How about the real trouble with Biden? He's a corrupt man who has enriched himself and his family, and he's a sex predator who thinks "my body, my choice" extends only to your ovaries. The President's car ride stepped all over the toes of Joe's nipple-tweaking.
~I became kinda sorta aware of Mark Gauvreau Judge, as he then styled himself, about twenty years ago when he was kind enough occasionally to cite me in The Washington Post and elsewhere, and my assistant would put it in the morning news round-up to cheer me up amid the libel threats and denunciations of my racism and homophobia. He was a sharp and incisive cultural commentator, albeit one somewhat in search of a bankable theme. Then came the Kavanaugh hearings, when he became casually slandered across the networks as a crazed gang-rapist drug-fiend judge's sick enabler. I doubt that did anything for his writer's income, but I'd vaguely assumed that, as a school chum of Kavanaugh's at "tony" Georgetown Prep, he belonged to that select comfortable stratum of American life for whom downturns never turn that far down.
I was wrong about that:
Of course they hired me on the spot. Nobody else wanted to spend seven hours a day suffocating in Vietnamese-level heat, gagging on a stupid COVID mask, getting soaking wet and wearing your muscles to exhaustion by scraping eggs, chocolate, bread dough and other muck off of trays, plates, soup bowls, assorted cutlery and Tupperware that piled from floor to ceiling.
But there was no choice. I'd become a dishwasher.
Large parts of this society are evil: Comey & Co plot a coup and get book deals and CNN gigs; others get smeared and vaporized and are never seen again. Mark Judge continues:
That night a friend called, and when he heard I was a dishwasher, he said he found my situation "poignant." I'd been a book author, a contributor to places like The Washington Post and The New York Times, and the target of an explosive and well-publicized 2018 political hit. My friend reminded me of something I hadn't thought about since my time at Catholic University in the 1980s. At the end of the Inferno, Dante and Virgil can only escape hell by climbing up Satan's asshole. "You're stuck in Satan's anus," he said. "You just gotta keep climbing."
The Queen famously described her fortieth year on the throne - twelve months of tabloid scandal culminating in the Windsor Castle fire - as an "annus horribilis". It is no surprise, in our faster, cruder times, to find that 2020 has dispensed with that second "n".
~It was a busy weekend at SteynOnline, starting with the weekend edition of The Mark Steyn Show offering my take on the presidential Covid, old-school corrupt Philly Democrats back in the saddle, and a bipartisan commission on who gets to run for election - plus me on NPR, turnout models then and now ...and a jolly song, because we all need one. On Friday night, I joined Tucker as the President settled in at Walter Reed, and on Saturday Kathy Shaidle's movie date walked The Thin Blue Line. Tal Bachman's weekend column saluted a rock colossus, and my Sunday song selection had the blues. If you were too busy Tweeting death wishes this weekend, I hope you'll want to check out one or three of the foregoing as a new week begins.
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The video of Joe made me cringe and want to have him arrested (or worse "Cornpop" him). A PAC should use it in an ad.
Had Trump stayed out of the public eye, the Left would have moved to invoke the 25th amendment and then run on his inability physically to lead making him out to be sicker than a visibly diminished Biden. He came back at the right moment given the surrounding circumstances and can now lead as he's doing by telling people to stop living in fear because he's been through it and came out fine.
Joe Biden should be washing dishes and Mark Judge should be running for public office.
How morally bankrupt does a person have to be to exploit a disturbed 15 year old girl for political gain? How sick and diseased do you have to be to do such a thing? The garbage exploiting Conway's daughter right now aren't even worthy of spending eternity in Satan's anus.
Great writing - past and present - by Mark Judge, especially on Real Letters. Brett Kavanaugh prevailing despite the hideous public spectacle they had to endure must be a bitter pill to swallow. Such extraordinary equanimity.
Please, Mark. Our 74 year old leader beats the virus to a pulp in a weekend, comes out declaring that the time for fear has passed, faces yet another round of hysterical media propaganda -- and you decide it's time to criticize the man for not staying in bed? Oh well, Babe Ruth and Mighty Casey had their share of strike outs too. You are in good company on this one.
Steyn in for Rush today (Tuesday)? Rush said it at the end of the show. I'm looking forward to it, as always.
Be well, everyone!
Good pickup re Mark Judge- v interesting writer and clearly a man with an immense amount of grit!!
Okay, now I can laugh at Biden again--a cringing laugh, a wincing laugh, a laugh forced out of shock and disbelief. For not five years ago--but yesterday--he perved-out again! On video!! Again!!! Campaigning in Florida, he watched a group of Haitian girls dance for him. He praised them, and then added he wanted to see them dance again "when they're four years older." Oh really, Joe, whyzzat? Why would girls be any different in four years' time? You didn't seem to have a problem with the underripe flesh of the eight-year-old girl in the original video. Maybe the White House would be the safest place for Pervy Joe (Heaven forfend); any female interns would be too old for him. Exit question: if he's this brazenly degenerate in public, and long has been, how can anyone doubt Tara Reade's accusations against him of outright sexual assault?
I am so impressed with the President. We all (and I mean all) badly need someone in the public realm to behave like a bold leader, rather than a hand-wringer in thrall to grossly risk-averse modellers. The Dems know this and will be panicking over it; their media amanuenses will throw it all at him: recklessness, unnecessary display of macho bravado, insulting those who have lost loved ones, etc etc. I get Mark's chess move suggestion that he should have stayed quiet for a few days and let Biden handle the spotlight alone, but I disagree. What Trump has just done speaks volumes. He leads from the front. And God bless the President for it.
" to thine own self be true "
The Donald is the Donald.
As Jurgen Klopp said recently , " we'll see."
Personally , don't think it matters who wins. It's all headed the same way.
Been wrong before. Cheers.
Don't overlook the possibility that Trump's brush with COVID-19 will work in his favour. First, so many progressives have wished him dead that they have succeeded in making one thing quite clear: No one will peaceably hold dissenting opinions if they win. And the more they win, the more they can make their wishes reality.
Progressivism always ends in mass murder when it gains enough power. At least some people will see that who did not see it before.
Second, Trump got COVID and recovered quickly, which is NOT according to the mass panic script. True, many people panic because they want to - they enjoy it and they derive advantages from it. They just love screaming at people in public over some minor infraction of the Rules. We didn't know so many of them existed. We are wiser now.
But many others genuinely long for a return to sanity and normality. By just recovering and going back to work, Trump gives hope to those who do not wish to be ruled by the tinpot fascists of fear.
About the polls: After all the riots, arson, looting, and death wishes, it might be unwise for an American to admit to supporting the incumbent. Something like that happened last time, without nearly the incentive Americans have now to just keep quiet now and proceed to the polls in silence on election day...
Spot on, Mark. He's his own worst enemy. Turns what could be a heroic moment into a total controversy!
Sad!
The Abbot Labs ChiCom-19 test is fast, cheap and crappy. The Cleveland Clinic says that the test has a 15% false positive rate and that people without symptoms but contagious can only be detected about half the time. With this low a success rate the test is guaranteed to fail to protect the President when you use it to screen thousands of people. This is referred to as security theater. ChiCom-10 is very contagious so once the security perimeter is pierced a bunch of the inner circle will test positive and come down with symptoms.
Math is hard said Talking Barbie.
It's the PCR test sensitivity rather than specificity that's been the problem - compounded by mass testing - ever since the (intentional) amplification of non-infectious viral loads to create "positive" results, and so-called "casedemics".
But a test that's "hyper-sensitive" could be justified around the POTUS (to err on the side of caution) and the cycle threshold would be set accordingly. The system obviously worked well for over 6 months - the number of individuals and interactions would have been substantial - so it wasn't security theatre until it was breached. A Covid dog would have been a good addition; more integrity than the PCR tests. Thankfully, "it's all good"!
By the time Biden got around to groping Maria Daines, his reputation must have been well established on Capitol Hill and, presumably, in Delaware. That image is sickening in every way, not least in the way Biden's manoeuvre is so practised. There is nothing remotely subconscious about his action. He distracts Maria's parents while molesting their daughter. It's the technique of the pickpocket through the ages, which says a huge amount about the kind of character Biden has.
When the New York Times gets around to producing a politically correct version of the Bible, with Alyssa Milano as editor-in-chief, King Herod should be assured of a better press than he has had so far. After all, his massacre of the innocents probably had fewer victims than Kermit Gosnell and definitely far fewer than the Orwellian Planned Parenthood has in any given month. Milano twisted her brain, such as it is, into something resembling a bowl of noodles, by claiming to believe Tara Reade's allegations against Biden, while, nevertheless, expressing her continuing support for Biden, ermm...because stuff.
Biden, however, has always been able to rely on that combination of "see no evil" (there was somebody operating the camera, whenever Biden was caught in the act) and "he's a D, so it's OK." Corruption can set into a society very fast and is then extraordinarily hard to eradicate. You have only to look at China to see that: every so-called anti-corruption drive is simply a mechanism for one corrupt faction to liquidate its rivals. Joseph Biden is the actual embodiment of corruption, but has a political party, academia, Hollywood, elements in numerous federal agencies and blatantly political judges supporting him, none of those worrying about the legality either of their champion's behaviour, or of their own methods to propel him into the White House.
Very astute analysis, Owen.
Joe Biden is Jimmy Savile (without the rose-coloured glasses).
The particular YouTube video was (re)posted in January: How is this man a contender for the presidency?
If your not called a racist homophobe before 10 in the morning then you're not doing your job right.
Another member of Trump's staff tested positive, the press secretary. It seems suspicious to me that this gathering of GOP big wigs infected so many. I know about the stories of church meetings, weddings,beach parties, etc. that resulted in many cases, but I still wonder who else was there at the event that had no connection to Trump's inner circle?
That was a disgusting video of Biden touching that little girl. The girl instinctively did the right thing, get away and fast. How disgraceful that this is the man the Democrats nominated to be their presidential candidate. Josh and Robert said it all. No more words for the filth the Democrats embody. Everyone who goes into the voting booth needs to see that video. That's what he does when eyes and camera are on him? What's his predator potential when alone with a woman or teen in a hallway. We already know.
Watching that video was absolutely disgusting. If... Never mind, I don't want to have a visit from the Secret Service either. Is he still swimming in the nude in front of his female Secret Service agents?
Very disturbing Fran but for 95% of the electorate none of this ever happened - ceding virtually the entire national media, print and broadcast over to the far left along with the country's educational system and the culture at large has consequences as we will soon learn. NBC is touting the last poll that supposedly shows Biden with a 53-39 edge. We'll see what Fox News reports this week with more reliable polls. Election results reported on Nov 3rd will have no meaning unless Biden is ahead. Here in Arizona the media has ramped up the level of vitriol and outright hatred toward our President to a degree I never thought possible in America. I truly do believe that Trump could still win a fair election but all of the power and the passion is on the left not to mention unlimited funds. The 'ends justify the means' isn't just a slogan - it's the mission statement of the Democratic party and they are locked and loaded for this election as never before.
Losing and/or conceding to that creep is not an option, RAC.
Gee, I'm beginning to sound like you know who shall not be named. I'm showing that video to everyone of my liberal friends. I know creeps are out there but to show him doing that in C-Span 2 and nobody mentions that in the media. If I were President Trump, it's time for the gloves to come off. Reveal Biden for what he really is, a disgusting old pervert and poor excuse for a human being.
Agreed, Lowell, the worst. It was one thing to see him cozy and dive into other women's hair and necks, warp his arms around them and kiss them on the lips, That was gross. This is a new level of sickness that Biden exposes to the world. He should be deleted from the ticket today. At the very least, President Trump should demand he explain his abhorrent behavior to the American people so they know, really know, who they are getting. People knew Bill Clinton preyed on women but I can't believe that Americans are aware of this child predatory behavior of Joe Biden. I don't know how I missed this video when it was first out. I'm astounded that I've could've been in a such a bubble that I didn't. No more!
Totally agree Fran but turn your first sentence around and that's how the left feels about Trump and they are not kidding around. Trump must not win no matter what it takes. I'm simply trying to describe reality as I see it. We're all preaching to the choir here Fran and I pay attention to what is happening outside of conservative bubbles such as Fox News and web-sites like this one and I don't like what I see taking place in 2020 America. In fact it terrifies me.
Unfortunately, the Left's brainwashed minions with the glassy-eyed stares, don't care if a video surfaced of Biden murdering someone. They don't care because they know he will be kicked to the curb after he takes the oath of office (if not before) on some fabricated medical/health issue. But I hope Fox replays it over and over and it's discussed on conservative media like the Daily Wire etc. until the election.
I posted a comment on another Steyn article where I cited a recent Cato Institute national poll where people were asked if they felt comfortable giving their opinions and views. 62% said they did not feel safe doing that and 77% of those who identified themselves as conservative said they self-censor their beliefs and opinions out of fear of reprisal.
I think Hillary was also leading in most, if not all, polls too a month before the 2016 election.
Conrad Black today on Rush was talking about this, how terrible they are on the other side, but my reception was bad with static and my husband said the same on his car radio, so I will have another listen on my Rush 24/7 app and see if somehow it corrected itself. The media has truly been our arch enemy. Yes, I realize that we are preaching to the choir but other commenters have insights I don't have and ears like you reporting on what's going on to the west of here, so I try to keep up best I can.
I know, but still it's good to pass this video around. If nothing else, the next time a neighbor offers up that Trump is such a racist now I can answer, "better that than a pedihole; hechhechhechhech, take that! Biden smoocher"!
"Losing and/or conceding to that creep is not an option." I can't put it any better, so by way of repetition I hope to underscore. Ditto R.'s observation that "the Democratic party [is] locked and loaded for this election as never before".
I still hope that there are enough self-respecting Americans to keep depraved scum out of elected office, but I don't know why, after the Kennedy and Clinton dynasties. Matter of degree, perhaps. All terribly sad.
Yes, terribly. We sure do seem to agree a lot lately, S. I do want to add, we're also locked and loaded. Just got off the phone with my RNC-for-Trump's re-election in NM. We get to work in the morning and we're working as many hours as possible until up to day before election.day. See ya at the other end of this;)
:-)
This is no doubt true AlyM but it's far more than merely disturbing that in 2020 America conservatives fear speaking out for 'fear of reprisal'.
There's a lot of competition for "shortest retirement from public view". My candidate is George Conway, who nobly vowed to remove himself from the airwaves for the good of his daughter's mental health, after successfully pile-driving his own wife out of the White House. His grand renunciation lasted about 2 weeks, whereas Kellyanne has not been seen in public since late August.
Ms. Sherratt: As an R who did not support Trump, I'm disgusted by the G.Conway fools who oppose Trump now. Either they put someone up in primary (that would have taken real work and fundraising, like, two years ago) or STFU. Conway et al have a very dim future- if Trump wins, nobody will hire them for "consulting", and if Biden wins, nobody will...hire...them.....for..........Dammit, how did George not see this?!?!
"Great stars understand the power of absence; they don't rush back on stage after being shot at the end of Act One: they make the crowd wait."
I am sorry to have to disagree, Mark. Unlike a regular play, this one has multiple directors, and if you don't personally chew up the scenery continuously, you are at risk of being written out of the story. Unrebutted "sources" become the accepted truth in a shockingly short period of time.
Besides, I am sure that Mr. Prince would agree that characters have to be consistent with their own established persona. Trump's extroversion, if absent, even for a week, would make someone as insightful as yourself wonder if he got a case of the Boris Johnson wobblies, or whether he really was dying.
No. When Superman "dies" on page 17 of Action Comics, he comes back to life by page 24, turning the tables on the enemy. Trump's dramatic model is Superman, NOT Harry Lime.
I think you're right. I was reading an article last night where a bunch of physicians had declared him unfit to lead; insane due to his Covid treatment. Alex Jones was simultaneously musing that he had been poisoned. Another article talked about whether there'd be time to get Pence's name on the ballots in the #1 spot. Probably not enough time to play a longer game, I reckon.
I was watching the Wolf Hall mini series the other day. I thought it quite well done. There is an episode which depicts the sham trial afforded Sir Thomas More during which he maintains the line that he has not ill spoken against the king and the common law regards this silence as assent (and therefore in his view he had not committed treason). After the delivery of the verdict More dispenses with the pretense of silence and airs his condemnation of Henry and his new office as head of the Church of England. More goes to his death a martyr for his beliefs. Watching that I am reminded of how far away we have gotten from freedom of conscience and belief. The price to be paid for speaking freely is not beheading but comfortable middle class life is not tenable without at least passive assent to the new illiberal state religion of America (which in somewhat Orwellian fashion is still described as "liberalism" despite now bearing no relation to the doctrines of that ideology). Like More I must say I find it highly dissatisfying to frame my dissent in the form of evasions like passive assent. Why is it in America that clearly offers preferential treatment to everyone except whites we must constantly denounce "white supremacy" the only kinds of supremacy on offer in the west in 2020 are female, brown and Muslim. Chris Wallace like Cromwell is a toady to a corrupt and increasingly authoritarian regime but without Cromwell's redeeming of features of intelligence and accomplishment. Chris Wallace simply had the good luck to have been born to the right name and with the unique ability to parrot talking points with a style of delivery that gives these vacuous slogans the affect of profundity. I hope there will be no mini series about Chris Wallace in 500 years he deserves to be forgotten.
First, Thomas More burned a few of my distant relatives at the stake for the heresy of being Protestant. Second, I like Cromwell. He executed Charles for being a corrupt, anti-Calvinist tyrant. Charles I execution was the beginning of the end of the divine right of kings and led to the American Revolution.
There is no such thing as white supremacy, it is only a straw man created by the left as part of their anti-white racism and Marxist push to gain power. Like the academic world created Critical Race Theory if you stoop to argue about it, it only means you are fighting on your enemy's ground.
There is a perhaps apocryphal story about a Ku Klux Klan meeting with 28 attendees. There were undercover agents and confidential informants from several Federal, State and local law enforcement agencies in attendance but no actual Klansman. We are in this situation now and no one will discuss affirmative action.
Good points Walter and indeed the portrayal in the mini series of More is not terribly flattering (unlike a man for all seasons) however as the later Cromwell would have said worts and all ... you do have to credit his conviction. Not many men would go to their death like that - so credit where credit is due. In fact the Cromwell character points out this inconsistency in More that he could dish it but not take it so to speak. The mini series is about Thomas Cromwell not the later one. I am also a great admirer of Oliver Cromwell less so Thomas but I'd imagine some Irish readers would take offense at that. Not being British by ancestry I have no skin in this fight though... All of the men of that era are giants to today's pygmies ... does any one truly admire Chuck Schumer even presently?
What about the extremely controversial book from the 1990's, "The Bell Curve"? I haven't thought about it for a long time. It was lambasted by the Left, of course, but why is it any different than their own outlandish racial theories they are trying to foist upon us all?
Funny how we preconceive these things . Always thought you were Jewish .
A Methodist.
"Watching that I am reminded of how far away we have gotten from freedom of conscience and belief. The price to be paid for speaking freely is not beheading but comfortable middle class life is not tenable without at least passive assent to the new illiberal state religion of America..."
Great observation, Adam - and so well articulated, as always.
I remember you mentioned Vaclav Havel's "greengrocer" a while ago, and you might be interested in Rod Dreher's new book, just out - "Live Not By Lies". He did an interview on Outsiders on the weekend that's worth seeing: "The west is not immune to soft totalitarianism"- on Sky News Australia.
He makes precisely the point you've made, and his conclusions about the choices individuals will face - based on interviews with Havel types - are dispiriting, to say the least. (Obviously it's already happening, and even some principled liberals - Bret Weinstein (CRT) and JK Rowling ("gender") - have a hill to die on when cancel culture comes calling.) Also - in common with the point Mark often makes about culture trumping politics - he emphasises that the phenomenon is all pervasive, and much bigger than casting a vote every few years.
PS. There's a tweet by James Woods on Chris Wallace you might enjoy.
Worse. Old school Presbyterian.
I like to think I have a sense of humor, that I can take or tell a joke as well as the next person. But I am as censurious as the SNL Church Lady on the subject of Joe Biden's wandering appendages. His nose, his fingers, his...whatever. Who twists the nipple of an eight year old girl? Who does so after pawing her prepubescent breast? Who does all of that in front of a crowd of people and still and video photographers? Call me old-fashioned, call me a fuddy-duddy, but that's not funny! That's sick. That's perverted and disgusting. That's so far beyond the beyond of execrable behavior, I've lost the language to describe it. Without risking a visit from the Secret Service to determine my intentions. Which are, to be plain, to vote for the guy who boasted about grabbing the pu...denda of consenting women over the Past-it Pedo who brazenly pinched the nipple of a girl too young to give consent--and to do so as many times as I can. And people like me that are what's wrong with this country? Get thee behind me, Satan's anus.
I don't understand the pathologies one develops such that it's quite a normal and natural impulse to do what that creep did to that defenseless child. But for those who surround and support the creep on a daily basis (Dr. Jill, campaign officials, members of the media, etc.) to give it a good leaving alone is undeniably evil. There are individuals who behave in an evil manner without regard to how wrong the behavior is. But that doesn't mean the rest of us ignore it. Trump is far from perfect but at least he seems to understand it's a sick thing to grope a child. Can you imagine if that had been Trump? Would the media have stayed silent about it?
Isn't there a video where a father rather angrily hustles his daughter away from the dirty old bird? Laura will know!
There is a youtube video of Jeff Sessions swatting Biden's hands away as Biden moves in on Sessions' granddaughter. There is a Real Clear Politics video of Biden leaning in on Sen. Chris Coons' daughter, and giving her a kiss on the cheek. She looks very uncomfortable.
i tried to watch the compilation of Creepy put together by Paul J Watson. I couldn't handle it and had to stop a couple of minutes in. He might have had that clip you seek. There was a mother who couldn't get away fast enough.
There is a five minute montage of Biden with various little girls. It is sickening. You might find it by googling: 247sports is Joe Biden a paedophile or not this is really bothering me. The video is further down the page, so you will need to scroll down to find it.
Svetlana Lokhova got caught up in the conspiracy to entrapped Michael Flynn when her colleagues at Cambridge University falsely outed her as the "honeytrap" used to compromise Flynn. The details were fabricated by Stefan Halper and included the fantasy that she accompanied Flynn on a visit to Moscow. She attempted to sue various parties for slander. Her court case, Case 1:19-cv-00632-LMB-JFA, filed on May 23, 2019 in the Alexandria Division of US District Court of Virginia, is illuminating. The filing was reviewed in October of 2019, and the judge gave her little hope that the case could be taken to trial. The problem, as near as I can figure out, was that the conspiracy Svetlana documented was aimed at Flynn, and she was just collateral damage and thus would have a difficult time showing they intended to harm her.
This is very much along the lines of what happened to Mr. Judge. He was just collateral damage. Sorry pal, we had to drop the bomb somewhere, and your house just happened to be convenient.