Now you may have been in a news vacuum this weekend for Father’s Day and missed all the fun stuff. And who could blame you? But here’s a quick recap to start your week on the stupid, and then we turn to the former President opining negatively on Republican optimism.

Joe Biden spoke at the Safer Communities Summit in West Hartford, Connecticut, not now nor in the last 240-plus years an official or unofficial part of the realm across the pond, with this gem as his closing benediction.

The pool reporter from the Dallas Morning News put out a plea on Twitter to fellow journos to quit asking him what Biden meant, because not even God himself knows.

Before you write this off as just a flippant closing comment, here’s just a bit of meat from Biden’s big anti-gun speech.

Karen has the write-up of the sad joint appearance by the President and Senator John Fetterman, and the need for both of them to gracefully leave the stage. As an example of how uncomfortable it is to see Biden in action these days, here he is commenting on the live feed from the construction site at the scene of the collapse of the I-95 bridge. Except it wasn’t a live feed. It was B-roll video from three days ago.

Meanwhile, Maryland’s new governor, Wes Moore, sat down with Joe Biden’s former press secretary, MSNBC’s Jen Psaki. He addressed the controversy about the sexually explicit books being fought over in school libraries in a lot of states – Republicans wanting to remove them because they’re inappropriate content, and Democrats wanting to include them because they’re all in on the alphabet agenda. Here’s what he said.

Take yourself back to where you were in America ten years ago and ask yourself if you could ever have imagined a moment in the future where one of the two major political parties would argue that removing books illustrating graphic underage sexual activity is castration, and elective surgeries to perform the actual castration of kids is to be promoted and protected, even if it’s without parental consent.

Never mind the fact that Biden and radical Democrats are in power in too many levels of government. Whether at the federal or state level, today’s Democratic administrations are chock-full of incompetence and ideological zealotry wherever you look, and they have the ability to negatively impact your daily life with their radical policies. But lost in the mix over the last week was an hour-long interview former President Barack Obama gave to his former political guru and campaign manager, David Axelrod.

Enough time has passed that even some conservatives tend to forget how ponderously condescending, yet at the same time fatuous, POTUS 44 was, and he apparently hasn’t changed a bit with age. He was asked to weigh in on the optimistic conservative message being offered by South Carolina Senator Tim Scott on the presidential campaign trail. Here’s what Obama had to say.

I haven’t spent a lot of time studying Tim Scott speeches.

So naturally, he goes on for the next three minutes giving an impromptu exposition of why he believes Scott is not being honest about race relations, because he’s not saying everything is awful in this country. Keep in mind, Obama had eight years as president and was considered to be the chosen one, the person that would finally heal the nation’s racial wounds. What follows is something uttered by someone you’d think never was in office or had an opportunity to make a difference and improve things.

I think there is a long history of African-American or other minority candidates within the Republican Party who will validate America and say, everything’s great, and we can all make it. I mean, Nikki Haley, I think, has a similar approach.

DA:

She does, yeah.

BO:

Right. Look at me. I’m a Asian Indian-American woman. And my family came here and we worked hard. Clarence Thomas has probably gave the same speech at some point, I guarantee in some commencement, as did Alan Keyes, the first guy that I ran against.

DA:
Yeah.

BO:
I don’t think it’s a. And look, I’m not being cynical about Tim Scott individually. I am maybe suggesting that the rhetoric of can’t we all get along? And those quotes you made about, you know, from my speech in 2004 about there’s a United States of America, that has to be undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and our present. And so if a Republican, who may even be sincere in saying I want us all to live together, doesn’t have a plan for how do we address crippling generational poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism in the society, and we need to do something about that. If that candidate is not willing to acknowledge that, you know, again and again, we’ve seen discrimination in everything from job practice, you know, getting a job to buying a house to how the criminal justice system operates and so that somebody who does the exact same offense, the kind of sentencing, the likelihood that they do jail time is going to be different based on their race. If somebody is not proposing both acknowledging and proposing elements that say, no, we can’t just ignore all that and pretend as if everything’s equal and fair, we actually have to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. If they’re not doing that, then I think people are rightly skeptical. And, you know, maybe there will come a time in which, and this goes to the point I made earlier about within the Republican Party, people who are actually more conservative is in some fashion, but are serious about working class issues. There may come a time where there’s somebody in the Republican Party that is more serious about actually addressing some of the deep inequality that still exists in our society that tracks race and is a consequence of our racial history. And if that happens, I think that would be fantastic. I haven’t yet seen it.

He hasn’t studied Scott much, but he and Ambassador Haley are to be dismissed as not serious because they’re not admitting things are no better in this country on race relations than after Obama had his turn at the helm for 8 years. That’s the pith of Obama’s gist, right? His message seems to be that things are bad, they’re probably worse, and if you’re looking at Obama and asking why he didn’t do anything to help, it was because Republicans are racists and obstructionists, and people like Haley and Scott are too naïve to be taken seriously.

I’m very proud that this country elected a black president twice. Color should not be a consideration when weighing a candidate for office. I’m ashamed the first black president was someone with this kind of insidious message. It’s not that we’re back to the “You can’t drive your SUV’s and expect everyone’s going to be okay with it.” It’s not just “You didn’t build that.” To Obama and elites Democrats, that mentality has never gone away.

The only optimism within the Democratic Party is that they keep getting elected. They believe their future is secure with the importation of millions of future new voters streaming across the border illegally (for now). They’re way ahead of Republicans in ballot harvesting, and they have perfected weaponizing federal agencies to conduct surveillance, espionage and sabotage and now legal persecution on political opponents. Democrats have no message of hope and opportunity. It’s merely a recast every four years of the American version of Les Miserables. We’re all miserable. If Republicans are in power, it’s their fault we’re all miserable. If the Democrats are currently in power, it’s the Republicans’ fault we’re all miserable because they won’t just stand down and let us do what we want to reinvent the country to make everyone’s misery equitable.

Senator Scott took the comments by the former president as he should have – a badge of honor. Here he is reacting to the criticism on Fox News Sunday w/Shannon Bream.

Senator Scott also appeared on Mark Levin’s radio program to address the Obama critique, and noted quite rightly that the former president had his opportunity to improve race relations in this country and missed.

Three minutes of concentrated Obama was enough to convince me that he’s really no different than the current crop of Democrats. It’s the same tired mantra. What he does possess that Biden, Harris, et al do not is the ability to string a couple sentences together without looking like a moron. He’s simply a better sounding messenger for a pitiful message. That’s why the Democrats miss him.

And that’s why after Gavin Newsom’s performance last week with Sean Hannity, Democrats are quietly looking for someone to grab the mantle of the same miserable Democratic message they’ve always offered, but hopefully having it be delivered in 2024 by someone smooth and slick.