Joe Biden seemed ‘normal’ in 2020,
but then came his nothing-normal presidency
New York Post,
by
Rich Lowry
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
3/14/2024 9:26:25 AM
Joe Biden won the normality test in 2020.
There wasn’t anything remarkable about him.
He just seemed like a steady hand who had been around for a while, who didn’t look or sound like a radical and who knew how Washington worked. He wasn’t the leader of a movement, wasn’t charismatic and wasn’t particularly witty or well-spoken. He was, in fact, completely uninteresting and utterly conventional. He was just the most normal guy in the room. He benefited from a favorable contrast with the magnetic, endlessly interesting, constantly outrageous, norm-busting President Donald Trump
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 3/14/2024 9:30:52 AM (No. 1677398)
Rich, an original Never Trumper, does not disappoint.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 3/14/2024 9:40:42 AM (No. 1677401)
Joe "Dementia" Biden
"Rapid-onset dementia, also known as rapidly progressive dementia or sudden onset dementia, is a kind of dementia where cognitive decline happens at an unusually fast pace compared to other types of dementia. Individuals experiencing rapid-onset dementia usually go through a sudden worsening of dementia symptoms, including significant functional and cognitive decline, within a relatively short period of time."
Ask Jill for details.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 3/14/2024 9:40:46 AM (No. 1677402)
In his otherwise well-reasoned article, the author missed the most essential point about Joe Biden, both as an individual and as a “Progressive,” that is, the point that he, and indeed all leftists, are not evil liars who are trying to destroy America but, fantastic as it may sound, they are people who sincerely believe their idiotic ideas and their insane ideology for the simple reason that they are M-E-N-T-A-L-L-Y I-L-L. Pluck any babbling homeless soul off the streets of San Francisco, give him a shower and a clean suit of clothes and you have yourself a new Progressive. Harsh perhaps but true.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
FJB 3/14/2024 9:46:49 AM (No. 1677410)
Sorry, Rich. Bidet was, is, and he will continue to be EVIL. But look at the bright side. He'll also be dead soon. MAGA Vet.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
SilkCity 3/14/2024 9:54:22 AM (No. 1677416)
Click on Lowry? No thanks.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 3/14/2024 9:58:19 AM (No. 1677420)
Normal? His dementia was obvious even then. Why else would his handlers have kept him away from public opportunities to demonstrate his mental decline?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
AGGW 3/14/2024 10:16:58 AM (No. 1677429)
Sorry, Rich, he was never normal. He was always an arrogant jerk, from the time he lied and falsely accused the truck driver in his wife's accident, ruining the man's life in order to get the sympathy vote, to his actions during the Clarence Thomas hearings, to all that has gone on behind the scenes that is now coming to light.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 3/14/2024 10:17:36 AM (No. 1677431)
Another Never Trumper trying to justify their 2020 actions.
Biden was NEVER a good choice. He was never very bright, just devious. He played political games his whole career. He has been and IS a crooked politician. He was exhibiting questionable behavior 4 years ago for any willing to see. The media successfully brushed it away then but it has become so bad that they are laughed at now when they try to say Biden is "OK". That is why media credibility is heading below zero.
Rich and his ilk are bitter idiots. Trump was an amazing president. The "chaos" surrounding his presidency was generated from the Left and by people like Rich. It is a miracle Trump survived it. Now that the Left and Never Trumpers are facing the undeniable results of their HORRIBLE choices, they are bemoaning the fact that Biden is blatantly senile and Trump will likely win.
Perhaps what they are terrified of is that Trump's second term will be so successful that they will be forever OUT of the political influence game. They inflicted Biden on us and we won't forget it. Their ineffectual bleating will be ignored.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Lucky5 3/14/2024 10:32:31 AM (No. 1677439)
He has been a dreadful grifter politician who has accomplish nothing. I guess if Rich finds that normal, than yes. He has always been a strange child sniffing, lying dog faced pony solider to me.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
felixcat 3/14/2024 10:36:56 AM (No. 1677443)
Poor Rich - dreaming of seeing all those photos of Jill in bathing suits or lingerie...
BTW - Biden's first wife and daughter died in the car crash that his late wife caused and which Joe still lies about and yet, he never mentions losing his daughter Naomi. I's always Beau. Something not right and never was right with Joe.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
formerNYer 3/14/2024 10:43:23 AM (No. 1677446)
Mr Lowery idf the lying corrupt Biden seemed normal to you, you need to have your common sense checked because you're just proving to people you are an idiot.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Lazyman 3/14/2024 10:45:43 AM (No. 1677447)
It was clear when 0 picked him as VP he was a patsy.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
chagrined 3/14/2024 10:52:33 AM (No. 1677453)
Bidet normal? HA! Bidet has always been a smug, condescending, schoolyard bully from Scranton who began his corrupt political career as a Senator from Maryland. His idiotic platitudes over the decades, treated with kid gloves by the dutiful enemedia for the most part, showed just how much of a low watt bulb he's always been. There were signs of dementia before the Deep State installed him in the White House, but power hungry fools know no bounds. Even Doc Jill, and his other handlers can't hide the fact this guy isn't fit to run a popsicle stand, much less the U.S. As far as Rich Lowry, what a low life Rino,
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
jalo1951 3/14/2024 10:53:59 AM (No. 1677455)
Both candidates have personality issues. I'll take Trump weirdness over FJB any day of the week. Trump policies are in our interest. FJB is just flushing America and Americans down his toilet with his "normal" destructive policies. I know how the dems like to give new meaning to perfectly good words. FJB is as far from normal as you can get.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 3/14/2024 11:16:32 AM (No. 1677466)
No he did not. It was obvious then that Joe was slipping into dementia.
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Using your family to sell influence with our enemies is "normal"? Only in Washington, D.C., the most corrupt place on the face of the earth.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
volksford 3/14/2024 11:28:51 AM (No. 1677476)
How in hell would Lowry know ? Biden hardly left his basement and when he showed up it was a "crowd" of 10 or so safely" Covid distanced."
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/14/2024 11:29:30 AM (No. 1677478)
Where was Rich Lowry --the author of this BS in 2020. Biden was already hiding in his basement wit the 2nd stages of dementia in 2020. Joe Biden was never smart and never made a decision on his own since he has been in office.
He was a load than and is even crazier now as his dementia progresses, and all of the BS in the world will not convince one person with a brain that he deserved to be President then or now.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 3/14/2024 11:48:07 AM (No. 1677492)
Rich, you obviously didn't observe biden the heater during the 2020 presidential debates with Trump. You could see it in biden's eyes. The lights were on but nobody was home.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
ironchefw 3/14/2024 11:54:12 AM (No. 1677499)
Biden a first class blowhard ever since I saw him run for president in 88. Never one to waste time learning the facts or understanding tradeoffs, he just goes into his predictable “tough guy” act.
I just never knew how corrupt he was.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Krause 3/14/2024 11:54:50 AM (No. 1677501)
Joe Scarborough thinks Biden is great. Better than ever!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 3/14/2024 11:55:00 AM (No. 1677502)
In response to #14, we all have quirks. Sadly, the media focuses more on Donald Trump's quirks and very little on his generosity. I look at how miserly Joe Biden is and won't hesitate to point out Donald Trump's giving nature. . .
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
edgar 3/14/2024 12:12:42 PM (No. 1677537)
Normal? Biden hid out in his basement and did not campaign. C'mon man.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
JimBob 3/14/2024 12:17:30 PM (No. 1677548)
If I recall correctly, Biden ran for president several times. #20 mentions that Biden ran in 1988.
Each time he was a miserable failure, garnering the nickname "One Percent Joe".
The 'Rats picked him as Zero's VP knowing that he was a worthless tool, then the Media and the Establishment went all-out (with the considerable help of Covid-induced panic and corrupt absentee voting) to install him as pResident in 2020.
Jimmah 'the Peanut man' is happy, as the 'booby prize' has been wrested from his shoulders and bestowed on The HairSniffer, who is clearly the
Worst. President. Ever.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
dwa 3/14/2024 12:17:36 PM (No. 1677549)
I don't know what world Rich Lowry was living in in 2020 or today, but is sure wasn't the real world.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Safari Man 3/14/2024 12:18:37 PM (No. 1677552)
National Review "normal" means demented hard leftist neocon.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
DVC 3/14/2024 12:30:44 PM (No. 1677575)
Lowry is never to be trusted. NEVER.
A load of NeverTrump lies, as usual.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
rochow 3/14/2024 2:22:49 PM (No. 1677681)
Lowry if you look carefully, you can see already way back then that he was a freak. Easy questions and the hermit replied normally, but when it was more difficult, he blew his stack and started yelling. Even when he was sworn in, he looked like the clown that he became.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/14/2024 2:25:40 PM (No. 1677683)
Re OP, as former editor of the National Review, Lowry produced an entirely anti-Trump issue of that supposedly conservative magazine.
Rich Lowry is now showing up (with a new toupee) on Fox and Fox Business. Lowry is never ever to be trusted.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/14/2024 2:39:18 PM (No. 1677693)
How on earth could anyone have evaluated Joe in 2020? In his basement, few tiny campaign "events" - at night in front of car headlights? Mostly in hiding due to Covid Or so they said, No one could have evaluated his cognition,
Lowry is as fake as Biden.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/14/2024 3:26:44 PM (No. 1677730)
Lowry's "well-reasoned" articles have always been anti-Trump screeds. The stuff on Biden is just another smoke screen.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
danu 3/14/2024 7:12:13 PM (No. 1677877)
fta: *Joe Biden won the normality test in 2020. There wasn’t anything remarkable about him. He just seemed like a steady hand who had been around for a while, who didn’t look or sound like a radical and who knew how Washington worked*
ask his children if they think this is true
ask any child he ever lusted after , how he looks sounds and acts.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
navybrat 3/14/2024 8:55:35 PM (No. 1677916)
Biden never seemed normal, the media and DNC just chose to ignore his racist statements and give him a pass.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 3/14/2024 9:33:47 PM (No. 1677932)
Anyone who thought biteme was a "steady hand" and "normal," in 2020 hadn't paid attention. Old Joe has always been a nasty, corrupt, self-serving liar for as long as he's been in politics. Even then, he was failing mentally, and it has only gotten worse. His presidency has turned out exactly as badly as I feared. Rich Lowry is stupid if he actually belived what he wrote.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/14/2024 11:59:50 PM (No. 1677997)
From Uhr's report, Joey Briben did the major head fake on him and HE FELL FOR IT, or was ordered to!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Italiano 3/15/2024 12:45:36 AM (No. 1678012)
Ditto #7.
Ann Coulter referred to Lowry as a "girly man" some time ago. She was being generous.
By my standards, showering naked with your daughter is not "normal." Just me, I guess. Then again, I'm not a Democrat.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
mifla 3/15/2024 7:29:22 AM (No. 1678143)
Biden seems to be content to do what his handlers tell him to do, while he enjoys the perks of office, weekly vacations, and the periodic ice cream cone.
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