Joe Biden and Karma for the Democratic Party

My first job was as a dishwasher at a truck stop right after I graduated from the eighth grade. I learned about it from my dad one day after I came home from fishing, and he told me that my sister, who worked there as a waitress, was driving me in for my first day. I had about 15 minutes to clean up and go. No chance to protest. No opportunity to stall. No time to be scared.

Anyway, washing dishes was at the bottom of the totem pole. There were the cooks. Then the waitresses. And finally...you. If you've ever had the same job, there's no need to explain. On one memorable shift, the cooks were running low on salt. Next to fat, salt is most valuable to a trucker's diet, so it was stored in 100lb bags over at the "station." The station was a warehouse about 60 yards away from the restaurant itself at the other end of the gravel lot where the customers parked their rigs. I was ordered to go over and fetch one. Leaving behind a backlog of filthy dishware from the dinner rush, I ran over to the station and up a flight of stairs to stand before a pyramid of these imposing bags, each one weighing slightly more than myself.

I grabbed a sack that looked lonely next to the pile and wrestled it over to the stairs I had just run up. Then, crabbing it down each step to the landing below, I squatted down, put it over my shoulder, and stood up with it. Sort of. It took a few attempts, but I managed and started to carry the thing back across the parking lot, leaving behind a trail of drunken footsteps in the dust. I kind of had to snake my way through the maze of parked trucks, which were lazily grumbling in Diesel because truckers never shut them down when they went in for chicken fried steaks, hamburgers, and coffee. Generally, one assumed that they were unoccupied, but not always, and sometimes a driver might give you a blast of air horn as you walked in front of his grille because he was a sadist who wanted to watch you jump out of your skin.

Fortunately, the bag didn't break when it hit the ground. I got it up again and staggered over to the back door of the kitchen. One step inside and my foot slipped on the greasy floor. It went out from under me. I landed on my back. Oooof. Thank God my head didn't crack because it plopped onto a dune of salt that had quickly spread everywhere. The cook who sent me over cussed and yelled.

Get this sh*t cleaned up. I'll go get the salt, A**hole.

It took me five minutes with a snow shovel and a broom to clear it, and right afterwards came the hulking chef with 100 lbs of salt straddled comfortably over his shoulder. One step inside and his foot slipped on the greasy floor. It went out from under him. He landed on his back. Oooof.

G*dd****t! cried the truckstop owner's wife as she magically appeared right behind him. Her husband was normally present at that time of day instead, but he was busy racing sprint cars across the highway at the Missouri State Fair. She wasn't happy filling in, and she said:

Get this sh*t cleaned up. And go get another bag from the station, A**hole.

I didn't know the word for it at the time, but I just had my first experience with Karma.

Lately, the Democrats have gotten their own dose of karma as Joe Biden has seen fit to rise from his grave like Peter Cushing and return to television, first with an interview on the BBC, followed by another on "The View." Fans of Joe Biden cringed. Fans of TV's Golden Age of Sitcoms revelled. It seems that the man who got coup de tat'ed out of his own campaign by his own people just won't go away. And according to his former administration insiders, they really wish he would.

“It’s time for Joe Biden to go away with all due respect and let the next generation of Democrats take the mantle,” said Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha. “Every time he appears on a show or says something, it’s just another week or a month that we have to defend him and remind everybody that we got beat by Donald Trump, again...For those of us trying to rebuild the brand, it does no good when you’re constantly reminded about the old brand that won’t go away,” Rocha said, adding that the only good thing about the interview is that it was quickly overtaken by news of the selection of a new pope.

And Anthony Coley, one of Biden's former strategists, had this to say after "The View":

“Elections are about the future. Every time Joe Biden emerges, we fight an old war,...Every interview he does provides a contrast to Trump that’s just not helpful for the Democratic brand, which needs trusted messengers and fighters who can reach independents and moderates and inspire the base. Joe Biden ain’t that.”

[and]

“Honestly, what good does that do now? Many Democrats — from elected leaders to the party faithful — are just ready to turn the page. I just don’t think he understands how wide and deep this sentiment is.”

Brand, brand, brand. Everybody's talking about the Brand, which is newspeak for the same old Krazee Kar with a different coat of paint. Or wait...maybe not. Maybe the New Brand is sort of the Old Brand only on steroids because that Brand didn't turn left hard enough. It only turned left hard enough to put them in the ditch last November. So I don't know what they're thinking now about Brand. I think the Democrats are confused. I know I'm confused. Everybody's confused. And I still don't know what a Cis-Man is.

Anyway, even S.E. Cupp slammed old Joe for popping up again.

"Democratic voters are over him, Democratic lawmakers are angry at him, and Democratic donors are over him — they're past him, they're done with him,...They don't want him around. And, just practically, it's a very bad time for Joe Biden to pop up. Voters are just now starting to blame the economy on Donald Trump and less on Joe Biden. For him to pop up and remind people of the bad old days, it's bad timing."

Rumor has it that the Biden bank account is running on fumes now that he's out of office and his "brand" no longer has monetary value. A good litmus test for this is the fact that his main source of income, Hunter Biden's paintings, are no longer selling for half a million dollars on eBay. The seller pegs this one at $899, but also notes he'll take "best offer" in a desperate bid to get rid of it. Even Hunter admits that his art's value had bottomed out since Dad left office. Per the article:

Biden said he’s shocked — shocked — that interest in his work has evaporated when his dad’s political fortunes turned.

Democrats Freaking Out Over Biden's Reemergence As Disastrous Appearances Remind Us of How They Lied

And apparently, he's the only one who is. So. The tell-all books are due out this week describing Biden's demential struggles while in office, his own advisors are lamenting his return to the airwaves, and so are political analysts in the progressive media. But old Joe won't go away. For the Democratic Party, he's an open sore that just won't scab over, and it looks like they're going to be dealing with him for some time to come. Like poison ivy. But they brought him in, and now that the aviators are back, baby, they're stuck with him.

And that's Karma.

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