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Tom Hagen: When I meet with the Tattaglia’s people, should I insist all their drug middlemen have clean records?

Don Corleone: Mention it, don’t insist. Barzini a man who will know that without being told.

Tom Hagen: You mean Tattaglia…

Don Corleone: Tattaglia’s a pimp. He never could have outfought Santino. But I didn’t know until this day that it was, Barzini all along.

The Godfather 1972

I was looking at some old posts trying to find a reference for something I was going to write today (not as easy as you might think since many died when my domain did and I spotted something I wrote as part of an “under the fedora” piece two days before Biden was sworn in that really looks bright in retrospect:

A while back I pointed out that this was going to be Obama’s third term and that the idea that Joe Biden was in any sense in charge was a joke.

As I look at the people this incoming administration is choosing for positions I have yet to see any names that are deeply associated with Joe Biden which is a tad odd when you consider he has been in Washington since 1972 but all are associated with Barack Obama.

Back when LBJ took over from JFK after his assassination he make it a point that the people he would be appointing to positions were Johnson men, not Kennedy men but then again I remember the days when there was no doubt that the sitting President was the man in charge, although in fairness that façade will be kept up until Jan 21 2022 comes around, because as of that date the usefulness of that idiot will disappear.

Now in retrospect they have continued to find a use for old Joe after the midterms, mostly I suspect because Kamila is even more useless and unpopular than he is but the bottom line remains that while Joe Biden is the name associated with all of these disasters every single bit of it was came from the Obama team who have been in charge since day one.

I also want to point out that the question I asked of Jonah Goldberg the day I re-endorsed Trump after the Billy Bush tape came out in 2016 applies even better to Biden then it did to Clinton:

If we concede that Donald Trump’s character is bad, Would it be better for the country to have a President of poor character who will be under intense scrutiny by the press, pols and law enforcement agencies or to have a President of poor character who will be given a pass and or defended by the press, the pols and apparently the FBI regardless of what they say or do?

And that’s why I think the likelihood of another steal, particularly in a “revenge” election is larger than normal.

The crew of the 73 stood, their skipper gave the toast.

“To Ensign Charles Parker who survived Capture, interrogation and being smuggled out of Germany to make his way back to Volta Fiore & PT 73 that he’s served so well.”

The Ensign blushed as Mama Giovani refilled the glasses. Gruber stood up.

“And the best part, he came back without old Leadbottom!”

The crew drank again as a Jeep pulled into the town square, bearing the Captain his face wearing all he had been through.

The crew moaned as McHale smirked, “Oh well you can’t win ’em all.”

Previously: Generally Brilliant