Dudes and dudettes, gather around.
Contributor Eugene Robinson has a new piece at WaPo that is sure to boggle the mind! Take a gander at these impressive mental gymnastics, where Putin invading Ukraine while Joe Biden was both Vice President and President is somehow proof of ORANGE MAN BAD:
If Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to gobble up another chunk of Ukraine at little or no cost to his own interests, he should have done it while Donald Trump was still president. With President Biden leading the response, Putin's potential costs are rising — while his hoped-for benefits have evaporated.
Ah, yes. Look at this attempt to drag a feeble, incompetent old man over the finish line.
Biden is "leading the response." He's the Hero of the Republic – nay! – the WORLD!
And obviously, Robinson knows what he's talking about. He's an expert. It's not like Putin can merely shrug off sanctions and starve woke Western Europe for fuel until they cry "Uncle."
This is actually about Trump, you see, because Trump was orange and very bad and LITERALLY HITLER. If Trump were president, NATO would have crumbled and the West would have fallen.
Instead, Joe had the amazing insight to send Kamala Harris to stop WW3 once and for all!
To be clear, Putin can send his tanks across the border whenever he wants, and nobody can stop him. His recognition of the "independence" of two separatist regions in Ukraine, which call themselves the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic, is an ominous development. But his threat to invade has not divided and weakened the Western alliance. Thanks largely to Biden, it has had the opposite effect.
Ah, yes, I very clearly remember how super-duper afraid of Joe Biden the Kremlin seems. That's why he took Crimea without a blink in 2014 when Joe Biden was the Veep.
Let's cut over to tactical-genius, raging-testosterone Joe to see how he might comment on this story:
Uh... anyway.
Yeah, that would about sum this up.
Wait, wait, wait – here's one more line.
I gotta share this with you.
Make sure you're in a place where you can freely laugh out loud, cuz this is a real thing WaPo published:
The most common GOP criticism is the most amorphous: Putin is supposedly emboldened because he sees Biden as weak.
The precise opposite appears to be true.
