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Monday being Independence Day, the Leftist media is full of the expectedly ridiculous hot takes, but none are more overheated or ridiculous than that of Salon’s Matthew Rozsa, who on Sunday published an article with the headline “How Joe Biden is like America’s founding fathers,” and, as if aware of how hair-pullingly absurd this is, added: “— and no, I’m not kidding.” Rozsa, who is not just a Salon staff wonk but actually has an MA in History from Rutgers and is working on his Ph.D. in History at Lehigh University, should have been kidding, for if sanity ever returns to American academia (a big if, I know), his spin on Old Joe and the Founding Fathers could make Salon’s house historian an object of derision and ridicule for decades to come.
To be sure, there are similarities between Biden and the Founders, and we had some fun in the PJM lounge thinking about what they are. Matt Margolis said, “He’s as old as they would be…,” and Jeff Reynolds offered: “He’s like Mt. Rushmore, in that his head is filled with rock.” Now, come on, fellas, young Rozsa is deadly serious. He even leads off his article by fantasizing about his eventual vindication, long in the future, when people have forgotten just how much of a galloping disaster Joe Biden’s presidency really was. Rozsa tells the story of a young academic who “wrote a dissertation arguing that founding fathers like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson had taken economic positions that, by modern standards, were highly progressive.” Dismissed at first, this historian “retroactively vindicated” in his dotage, although Rozsa doesn’t say how, which is a shame, as it would have been nice to know how someone pulled off portraying these Founders as big-government socialists.
Even in sketching out the analogy of his eventual vindication, Rozsa slips on a banana peel, writing: “Far be it from me to imply that academics are just as inclined to stifle radical voices as everyone else in America with actual power.” Ah yes, as everyone knows, American academia is loaded with reactionaries who stifle “progressives” any way they can! But Rozsa is clearly given to fantasy, as when he finally gets to his point, he states it in all its bald and unapologetic ludicrousness. It turns out his analogy of the eventually vindicated academic was not about himself, but about Old Joe: “If Joe Biden’s presidency continues on its current track, he’ll be remembered…as a visionary, at least on certain domestic policy issues, who was largely ignored by his peers.”
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Andrew Blackadder says
I swear I am sure Planet Earth MUST have shifted slightly off its Axis when nobody was watching.
Infidel says
I hope it someday happens, and that the middle of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans become the opposite poles, and then Russia will be a country running from north to south instead of east to west, and same will be true of Europe, while the Americas will run from East to West. That would totally alter the climate equations, and lessen the need for people to flee lands that are too hot or too cold
gravenimage says
Infidel, I don’t think that Russia and Muslims in hot climates are being violent due to the climate at home.
After all, Sweden and Canada are not invading their neighbors, nor are Mexico or the Philippines…
Shyam Mehta says
Even Biden’s wife Kamala Harris ignores him, why not us?
maria says
His wife is Jill Biden, Harris is his VP and she is as disgusting as Biden
Pray Hard says
He’ll be remembered, alright.
somehistory says
I saw the headline on the news feed, but it was too stupid to actually take the time to read. Maybe they meant *old and dead. and decomposing*
Keith O says
This clown must be taking some awesome mind altering drugs.
gravenimage says
Salon Mag on the 4th of July: Hey, You Know What? Joe Biden Is Just Like the Founding Fathers
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Just ridiculous. No, none of the Founding Fathers were socialist.
The absurd Matthew Rozsa has also claimed that American patriots are all “nationalists” (by which he essentially means proponents of aggressive dominance).
He condemns out of hand anyone willing to die for a democratic nation and its values.
But he does assure us that “this does not mean there is anything wrong with celebrating the 4th of July with fireworks, good movies and learning about the founding fathers (even when it includes some ugly details).” Gee, that’s nice… sarc/off
He has also said that not wanting Jihadists to be able to launch another 9/11 is “Muslim bashing”.
Then, he was actually glad to see the Covid-19 pandemic, because he hoped it would destroy capitalism. He also wants to see a “strong centralized government” in the United States to “regulate the economy” for “climate change”.
All troubling stuff.
David M says
Were they senile old globalist twots like Joe too? The only thing Joe has in common with the founding fathers is he about the same age as them.
Walter Sieruk says
Comparing Joe Biden ti American Founding Fathers is absurd balderdash. For that corrupt abomination who is now sitting in the White House Oval Office masquerading as a genuine US President , that despicable subversive and fiend had proven in the national and international level that he is nothing but a national and international level a complete and total catastrophe .
First , on the national view Joe Biden is a claimity from the economy to having a porous US/Mexican with results in may different types of crime to an open invitation dangerous and murderous jihadists to the United States
Second, on the international level that horrible policy and directed action of that horrendously treasonous “president” Biden in Afghanistan does indeed have a galvanizing effect to stir and impel the jihadists of many different Islamic terror/murder organizations around the world to continue even stronger than before.
Especially since they have their useful idiot and stooge sitting and resting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a real, genuine, United States President.
That treacherous fiend old man Joe Biden asset and Inspiration to America’s enemies around the world.
Kenn Goodwin says
At least he is the same age of the founding fathers
James Lincoln says
I say, consider the source.
Even Leftist Wikipedia describes Salon as “…an American politically progressive/liberal news and opinion website…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon.com