Morning Jolt: Why Joe Biden Gets Away with Making Offensive Statements

On the menu today: Joe Biden tells you where to find the best basketball in Delaware along with another serving of cringe-inducing stereotypes, while historians grapple with the legacy of the late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev — one that is more complicated than the common heroic narrative would suggest. Also, one reader offers a particularly satisfying assessment of Gathering Five Storms.

'You Could Always Tell Where the Best Basketball in the State Is'

President Biden, speaking in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., yesterday:

My deceased son, Beau, he was the Attorney General of the State of Delaware. And what he used to do is go down, in the east side, the — called the "Bucket" — highest crime rate in the country. It's a place where I used to — I was the only white guy that worked as a lifeguard down in that area, on the east side.

And you know where the — you could always tell where the best basketball in the state is or the best basketball in the ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY August 31 2022 WITH JIM GERAGHTY August 31 2022 Why Joe Biden Gets Away with Making Offensive Statements On the menu today: Joe Biden tells you where to find the best basketball in Delaware along with another serving of cringe-inducing stereotypes, while historians grapple with the legacy of the late Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev — one that is more complicated than the common heroic narrative would suggest. Also, one reader offers a particularly satisfying assessment of Gathering Five Storms. 'You Could Always Tell Where the Best Basketball in the State Is' President Biden, speaking in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., yesterday: My deceased son, Beau, he was the Attorney General of the State of Delaware. And what he used to do is go down, in the east side, the — called the "Bucket" — highest crime rate in the country. It's a place where I used to — I was the only white guy that worked as a lifeguard down in that area, on the east side. And you know where the — you could always tell where the best basketball in the state is or the best basketball in the ...   READ MORE

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