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Going Punchy
Tucker Carlson Tonight https://www.steynonline.com/9866/going-punchy
On Thursday's "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Mark and Tucker considered Joe Biden's increasingly odd debate performances - with a bonus observation on the contrasting treatments of Prince Andrew and Prince Hunter. Click below to watch: You can see the full hour with Tucker here. Mark will be back with Tucker next week. If you're a Mark Steyn Club member, please weigh in in the comments. © 2020 Mark Steyn Enterprises (US) Inc. All rights reserved. If you're a member of The Mark Steyn Club and you take issue with this article, then have at it in our comments section. receive the latest by email: subscribe to steynonline's free weekly mailing list 
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Poor York. If only his accusers were a swarm of 11- and 12-year-old English girls from the North (instead of a sole American girl of legal age) the media would strive mightily to bury the story.
They should have just had Joe Biden debating himself. It would have been more entertaining and Joe would have had a better chance at winning.
I can see Joe Biden going along for a surgeon's teaching "grand rounds"; with everyone gathered around a patient about to undergo heart surgery; and, just as the surgeon begins to describe the delicate process, Joe jumps in: "You punch the heart. Just keep punching until it beats correctly."
A degenerated Congress abdicating its normal responsibilities might as well hold a plenary session in Punchbowl Crater in Hawaii, where they can take a vacation and pound democracy into the ground.
Even in Joe's silly stories he winds up pulling his punches like the corn kernel that didn't pop. He doesn't mean it. But his party does, abusing the power of Congress by making the rare last resort of impeachment a routine Black Dahlia surgeon's tool.
I'm not feeling any pity for Joe Biden. Hubris is a bitch. And I love that Donald Trump congratulated Grandpa Biden on Twitter. Troll level: ninja.
But Queen Elizabeth, yikes yes. At least she has Wills and Kate behaving in a dignified manner. I believe Mark once affectionately called her majesty that wily Queen Elizabeth (long may she reign, etc), but she hasn't been able to reign in Prince Harry and his bride and this Prince Edward stuff-gah! Even kooky Charles looks sedate and dignified by comparison.
Absolutely, on all scores, L. Pity is not what you want to end up with when you're pursuing all that power.
I think, for the purpose of comparison, that Mr Trump would prefer loathing above pity every time. The very suggestion of pity must raise blisters.
"Poor, poor, pitiful Joe Biden." Isn't there a song about that? Or something?
Laura - Lets not overlook at what a truly ugly man is Joe Biden at his core. His claim that republicans want to put African Americans back in chains is perhaps the most reprehensible comment ever uttered by a vice president - at least in my lifetime. He is also very well liked by many members of the GOP in Congress. It's a very chummy club when the cameras are off.
Sure, S.! Linda Ronstadt did that song: "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me." "...he put me through some changes, boy, just like a Waring Blender."
Well put, R.
Left out the first part of the rhyme (which would be asterisked as sexist now), "... he was a credit to his gender." Unless it was rewritten with, "he had a gender bender."
We can work with that, for sure, F.
Hush now, or I'm gonna have to sick Corn Pops on ya.
As to Prince Biden, well said. As to Quondam vice-president Biden, and speaking as one senile neverwozzer about another - well said, too. Appreciated the tone of gentle pity. We elderly folk need all the compassion we can get, and special seating on public transport.
I agree that I am moved to pity... although, if he keeps declining, he'll never likely have to deal with any insight into his life as a farce.
An extremely rewarding farce I might add.
I'm sure Ray Rice has Biden's vote.
"Smash a grapefruit in the face of domestic violence." I'll definitely be using that one.
It took me a couple of seconds to remember the name of the first Afro-American woman Senator - Carol Moseley Braun - but then, it would have been fun if one of Biden's debate opponents had asked him to name her - I bet it would have taken more then a couple of seconds - in fact, they might still be standing there waiting. Her racial heritage and chromosome pairing may have made her a first in Senate history - but in other ways she was a typical hack - padding her salary in various ways, meeting with African dictators, playing the race card when George Will called her corrupt in one of his columns. Defeated after one term. Made a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004. Biden should pick her for his running mate if he gets the nomination.
Here's an amusing follow up to Braun's embezzling by having ghost employees on her payroll. A number of year after she left the Senate, DePaul University announced that she would be joining the faculty of its law school. A number of my fellow cynics and I joked that she would probably be teaching legal ethics. Well, many a truth is said in jest because that's exactly what the university's written announcement said. I later talked to a Dean who admitted alumni donations dropped 60% that year.
Sleepy Joe must have been unconscious when he suggested we "punch back" on domestic violence. I couldn't believe he actually said that.
That could be his campaign slogan. "Vote for Biden. You Won't Believe What He'll Say Next!"
Biden should leave the violence to our hero Spartacus.
Spartacus must come out of the closet and declare himself to be a classic Greek scholar, and offer Mayor Pete the sub role as his Veep running mate. If Sparky can get Pete to go full Mohammedan, then find a trannie for a throuple, we would get a first - an amoral, bi-racial tri-sexual ticket that all Dems can get behind.
Trump wins, of course, but these dudes are running for the virtual presidency participation prize.
So, if you and your son are totally corrupt, but you want to avoid an investigation into your corruption, just run for president as a Democrat. Then, any investigation can be called an impeachable offense. Easy.
Actually, if you listen closely (1:08), Biden says "the only Laffrican American elected to the US Senate." As far as I know, he's 100% correct!
Big fan of Meyerbeer is Joe. Probably had L'Africaine playing in his mind. Now I do too.
Hey BB, I listened again closely and I think Biden distinctly said: "Blafrican" which would be a new coinage. He could be the first rap prez with all his domestic violence-punch-punch banter; after all he comes out of the black community so no cultural appropriation here to see.
I also see some amusing chemistry going on with Biden, Booker. It could be Biden for Prez, Booker for Veep. BIden-Booker could be the flip side to Obama-Biden the Left is looking for. When Biden comes up with a great new Executive Order to punch the middle class down some more, Booker can grab Biden by the waist and whisper in his ear, "this is going to be effin great," and Joe will announce into the mike, "yeah, this is going to be effin great for America"! BB for '20!
Thought I heard "blafrican."
Poor Sleepy Joe forgot his best idea for defense against domestic abuse: "Get a shotgun". One of Taylor's & Co.'s side-by-side models beats a grapefruit any day.
My favorite Biden performance! Google Biden shotgun songify video. His goofy advice is truly lyrical...the team that puts these news parody music videos together is amazing. If you can hang on through the Rand Paul drones segment, it's worth the wait to hear Bill O'Reilly's "whoa oh".