{"id":10744,"date":"2020-04-29T23:25:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=10744"},"modified":"2020-04-29T23:25:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:25:56","slug":"the-loyal-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/29\/the-loyal-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Loyal Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I intended to write something upbeat.\u00a0 I was tired of thinking about the mess our economy has been thrown into and of the human toll that the epidemic has exacted from us.\u00a0 I wanted to talk about changes that the Supreme Court could make that would roll back the restrictions that have been made against the Bill of Rights.\u00a0 But then I remembered that John Roberts had stabbed us in the back again and refused to defend the Second Amendment against the gun grabbers in New York City.\u00a0 And that got me thinking in general about the people who run our country.\u00a0 And as bad as a John Roberts or a George Bush is, I thought about the Democrats and that really depressed me.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s because the Democrats aren\u2019t just our ideological enemies.\u00a0 Many of the leaders of that party are truly horrific human beings.\u00a0 Look at Nancy Pelosi and former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.\u00a0 They used their positions as congressional leaders to funnel money to their family members and made themselves outrageously rich.\u00a0 Look at the Clintons and Obamas.\u00a0 They used the power of the presidency to set up non-profit foundations that launder billions of dollars that end up in their own pockets.\u00a0 And looking at the character of Bill and Hillary Clinton I am amazed that neither one of them is in prison.\u00a0 Look at cretins like Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley who routinely say things so completely moronic that it leaves you wondering if they are kidding us.<\/p>\n<p>And finally look at Joe Biden.\u00a0 There isn\u2019t a facet of Joe or a time in his life when he isn\u2019t an embarrassment to the whole human race.\u00a0 In each of his presidential runs he has distinguished himself with plagiarism, stunning ignorance and just outright lying about his record and the historical facts around him.\u00a0 Even before senile dementia descended on him Biden was a laughing stock.\u00a0 Calling his intelligence mediocre would be giving him the benefit of the doubt.\u00a0 And it really is hard to decide whether the shady deals that his son Hunter had going in the Ukraine and China, show that Joe is an out and out crook or just the stupidest man on the planet.\u00a0 I want to give him the benefit of the doubt again and says he\u2019s a crook.<\/p>\n<p>The weirdness of Joe\u2019s mind has been highlighted best by the campaign speech where he talked about his days as a lifeguard at a pool in a black neighborhood in Maryland when his epic confrontation with the infamous \u201cCorn Pop\u201d took place.\u00a0 The details about little kids playing with the hair on his legs is so weird that it\u2019s hard even to know what to think.<\/p>\n<p>And we already knew that Joe was this creepy weirdo who fondled women\u2019s shoulders and sniffed their hair from behind their backs.\u00a0 But now we find out he has sexually assaulted one of his own Senate staffers right on the streets of Washington, D.C.\u00a0 After all this, Joe Biden shouldn\u2019t be running for President.\u00a0 He should be in a lunatic asylum.<\/p>\n<p>So has it always been this way?\u00a0 Morally I think the people at the top have always been suspect.\u00a0 It must be the power going to their heads and the rewards that are available to those who are willing to work the system.\u00a0 But intellectually the people running the government have gotten demonstrably more stupid.<\/p>\n<p>I have to assume that the Democrat handlers won\u2019t let Biden debate the 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