To quote the reviewer:
Enumerating the wins is easy. The true test of a book like this is whether its author will own his losses, too. Biden, for his part, does not. Why, then, did Trump win? Biden has his ideas. His own policies, he argues, couldn’t have had anything to do with it. Biden’s voice gets passive; he portrays himself as the helpless victim of events. You have to marvel at such formidable powers of compartmentalization: Biden still wants us to know that he could have won.
Are those the words of a right-wing lunatic or a conservative spin doctor? Nah. That is the review in the New York Times.
Remembering some of the comments about his debate performance:
Otherwise known as the night Trump won the election.
- Biden shit the bed so bad that the Secret Service changed his code name to “Amber Heard.”
- Joe Biden loves trains, but apparently not the kind “of thought.”
- Biden needs to be replaced by somebody sharper. Jimmy Carter is still eligible.
- He screwed the pooch so hard they had to check him for distemper.
- Joe blew it so badly they called in Pam Anderson as his new debate coach.
- His brain was so vacant that the homeless tried to move in.
- Joe Biden’s mind is like a browser: 19 tabs are open, 3 of them are frozen, and he has no idea where the music is coming from
- I’ve seen better answers in beauty pageants.
“If I knew I had cancer, I would’ve resigned.”
Just curious. What if you knew you were senile?
Oh, Joe, Joe, Joe… I read that same review and also rolled my eyes at the “I did everything right, no mistakes on my watch” sentiments he expressed. Denial being more than a river in Egypt.
I mean, I get it, you waited SO LONG to be president and you didn’t want to leave. But Joe, your ego helped put trump back in the White House, so I’m gonna lay a heaping helping of blame at your feet.
This book was literally Biden’s last chance to take some responsibility, and he whiffed it.
You know he’s not going to read this, right? You’re just making yourself sound like an intolerably pretentious twat.
Pretty cocky for a pornhound who didn’t even read the book.
I read the review so I wouldn’t HAVE to read the book. Nobody’s going to read this book who isn’t paid to do so.
Don’t get me wrong; I liked Joe Biden. I voted for him in 2020 and would’ve voted for him in 2024, the same way I would’ve voted for cold toast for breakfast as opposed to warm poison.
And, unlike you, I’ve had my pretentious twattery scientifically measured and it falls well inside the “tolerable” range.
I’d want to read the book myself since I wouldn’t take the New York Times word on anything.
You’re going to read 400-500 pages written by Joe Biden? I don’t have that kind of endurance. I don’t think I could handle that unless his ghostwriter was a literal ghost – of Hunter Thompson.
Are you going to put up reviews of it from multiple sources, or was this post just an excuse to be smug and trot out some sub-par attempts at humour? Seriously, after this, you don’t get to accuse anybody else of losing it.
Those jokes made me embarrassed on your behalf.
Virtually every politician, celebrity, or public figure with a “book” is pointless to read. They didn’t write it, they had some ghost writer write it, after sitting down with a recorder chronologically asking them questions and dressing up the answers into some sort of structure with an editor with whatever tone they decide.
Then the PR firm of whatever publisher they go with gives them spots on various media to market it. It’s about as inauthentic slop as it gets.