{"id":82333,"date":"2022-06-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82333"},"modified":"2022-06-01T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T14:28:16","slug":"put-another-uh-what-is-it-called-dime-thats-it-in-the-jukebox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82333","title":{"rendered":"Put another uh, what is it called, dime, that’s it, in the jukebox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Biden is currently 79, and will be 80 in November. His slide into senescence continues untrammeled.

The latest ghost images coughed up by random firings of the remaining synapses in Biden’s cranium led him to claim he had been appointed to the Naval Academy. From the New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden told graduating midshipmen at the Naval Academy Friday that he applied to the school in 1965 \u2014 but a quick check of his biography shows problems with the story.<\/p>

Biden said he applied to Annapolis with a letter from then-Delaware Sen. J. Caleb Boggs, but the year he cited \u2014 1965 \u2014 is the same year he graduated from the University of Delaware. The academy doesn\u2019t offer graduate degrees.<\/p>

Biden has a habit of seeking to relate to his audiences by sharing questionable anecdotes about his personal experiences \u2014 as well as making false or exaggerated claims.<\/p>

In September, Biden told Jewish leaders that he remembered \u201cspending time at\u201d and \u201cgoing to\u201d the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after the mass murder of 11 people in 2018. The synagogue said he never visited and the White House later said he was thinking about a 2019 phone call to the synagogue\u2019s rabbi.<\/p>

About two weeks later, Biden told an Idaho audience that his \u201cfirst job offer\u201d came from local lumber and wood products business Boise Cascade. The company said it was news to them and Biden had not previously described an interest in moving to the state.<\/p>

In January, Biden told students of historically black colleges in Atlanta that he was arrested during civil rights protests \u2014 for which there also is no evidence.<\/p>

In perhaps the most infamous example, Biden in 2020 claimed he \u201chad the great honor of being arrested\u201d in South Africa when he was \u201ctrying to get to see [Nelson Mandela] on Robbens [sic] Island,\u201d where Mandela was in prison until 1990. He said Mandela thanked him for it. Later, Biden admitted that it was untrue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Biden’s Mouth of Sauron claims not to have heard<\/a> that part of the speech, and so couldn’t comment.

Ronald Reagan was just short of 78 when he left office after his second term.

In 1987 Don Henley wrote “The End of the Innocence” with Bruce Hornsby, and he included the line “they’re beating plowshares into swords, for this tired old man that we elected king,” a reference to Reagan.

I’m still waiting for Henley’s song about Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Biden is currently 79, and will be 80 in November. His slide into senescence continues untrammeled. The latest ghost images coughed up by random firings of the remaining synapses in Biden’s cranium led him to claim he had been appointed to the Naval Academy. From the New York Post. President Biden told graduating midshipmen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-of-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/273926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82350,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82333\/revisions\/82350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}