Joe Biden, who doubtless wants to run for President yet again in 2020, manages to gaffe his way back into the news:
“In the 1900s so many women were dying at the hands of their husbands because they were chattel, just like the cattle, or the sheep, that the court of Common Law decided they had to do something about the extent of the deaths. You know what they said? No man has a right to chastise his woman with a rod thicker than the circumference of his thumb. This is English Jurisprudential culture, a white man’s culture. It’s got to change. It’s got to change,” Biden demanded.
Umm…. what?
Leaving aside for the moment the smearing of an entire race (fortunately for Biden, it’s the one race a politician can slander with virtual immunity), the history is laughably wrong and the message is confoundingly muddled. Assume that he wasn’t wrong and that in the 1900s the English legal system actually proscribed a thumb-thick whackin’ stick for beating the missus. Even if such a thing was the law of the land a hundred years ago (it wasn’t),
Correction: that’s what I get for not going directly to the source material. Biden didn’t say “1900s” but instead “late 1300’s.” He’s still wrong about the history, but 600 years is 600 years…
… it’s not the law *now.* So if he wants the law and the culture to change… wouldn’t it mean he wants it to change *back* to some fantastical era when women were chattel who could be legally beaten to death so long as the stick was below a certain size? Or is he so far gone that he thinks that this is actually the law *now?*
President Biden: Not Even Once.
If Trump wants to win re-election, then the thing to do isn’t to collude with Russians, but to collude with *Democrats.* Specifically the rather large contingent of crazy ones, the ones who go out of their way to insult white people and those who want to pass laws forcing Americans out of the sky and meat off of their plates. Make sure that *those* Dems are the face of the party, not the sane ones. Trump will win in a landslide.