“You can see that I’m mentally incompetent, I can’t walk,” he wisecracks. “And I could beat the hell out of both of them,” he says — about Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, the co-authors of that book about Biden’s decline.
Another addition to the list of quotes of Biden threatening to or bragging about beating somebody up — “If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him,” etc.
By the way, I’m seeing reports that Tapper’s book — despite the onslaught of publicity — isn’t doing very well. I know I won’t buy it. I think he shouldn’t be rewarded for sitting on the information, apparently in the hope of helping Democrats win the election, and now trying to profit from revealing it. And it’s absurd the way he’s been going around acting as though he has just learned that journalists ought to do journalism and report events as they happen without toadying to the powerful.
AND: Why does Biden lean into the faces of female reporters? I think it’s a grandpa move that has worked to delight little girls. The femaleness of the reporters makes them more like little girls to him than like what they are, adults engaged in professional work. He can’t help it, just like he can’t help threatening to “beat the hell out of” male antagonists.