{"id":82315,"date":"2022-05-31T07:31:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T12:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82315"},"modified":"2022-05-31T07:31:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T12:31:20","slug":"lets-not-put-too-fine-a-point-on-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82315","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Not Put Too Fine A Point On This"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Biden is a terrible president &#8211; he&#8217;s passed Jimmy Carter as the worst of my lifetime, and if his (or, let&#8217;s be honest, Obama&#8217;s) agenda follows through, could pass Woodrow Wilson as the worst ever.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But let&#8217;s talk a little compassion, here, first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My mom passed away at the end of April, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81887\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"81887\">wrote earlier this month<\/a>.  As I noted at the time, she had Alzheimers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We first started noticing her memory issues around the end of 2016.  It started out with little things &#8211; not being able to find her purse over and over, mistaking who she was talking with, that sort of thing.  It progressed, slowly and yet inexorably and all too fast at the same time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden reminds me of my mom in early 2017.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sinister element behind all this is that my mother was not simultaneously at the head of the world&#8217;s most powerful bureaucracy and military, and a talking head basically parroting the words put in front of her on a teleprompter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIke this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"828\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82316\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-5.png 828w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-5-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-5-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-5-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A .22 will lodge in your lung; a surgeon can fix it. A 9mm blows your lung out&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Biden is going off-script, he&#8217;s babbling.  If he&#8217;s repeating a chanting point fed to him by a Democrat messageer who can count of Democrat voters not being critical enough a bunch of thinkers to see through the BS, then he&#8217;s still babbling.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflation is off the charts.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crime is exploding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our debt is going to crush us, sooner than later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans hate each other, and are sorting themselves out ever more strictly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And we&#8217;re led by a muppet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden is a terrible president &#8211; he&#8217;s passed Jimmy Carter as the worst of my lifetime, and if his (or, let&#8217;s be honest, Obama&#8217;s) agenda follows through, could pass Woodrow Wilson as the worst ever. But let&#8217;s talk a little compassion, here, first. 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