President Joe Biden looks down as he takes part in the first presidential debate of the 2024 presidential election with former US president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. (Photo by Andrew Caballero Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
Joe Biden has once again sent me on a nonsense search, a word only Joe would use.
This is an outdated phrase not typically uttered by modern politicians.
It could be of ancient Greek origin, or it could come from Old English, or maybe it’s just old American, like Joe Biden. No one really knows.
Politicians today may accuse their opponents of talking nonsense and bullshit, but they never call their own bullshit bullshit. Only Joe would say that.
During his disastrous debate with Donald Trump on Thursday night, Biden again brought up absurd theories and, among other things, accused Trump of lying.
Joe Biden is so confused and out of his mind that he should give America a Fourth of July gift by announcing that he will step down next Thursday and not seek reelection.
There is no way Biden will appear at the next debate with Trump and be helped off the stage by his wife, Jill, or Barack Obama.
The Democrats need to intervene politically against Biden and field another candidate.
The whole world, including our enemies like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, watched Joe Biden collapse. It was a pitiful sight.
Biden’s weak and pathetic performance is effectively an invitation for Communist China to invade Taiwan and for Iran to attack Israel.
The country has been in trouble since Biden took office, and that is no joke.
Shortly after he uttered those words at the debate, I received an email from Joe repeating what he said about Trump and asking for a $25 campaign contribution.
“Peter, I have to tell you this,” Joe’s email read, “I have never heard such a stupid story in my life.
“This is no joke. Everything Donald Trump has said is a lie. Everything.”
His remarks reminded me of the last time Biden used the term, which was during his winning 2020 Democratic presidential nomination campaign.
Campaigning in Iowa in 2020, Biden crisscrossed the state in a “No Malarkey” bus, assuring voters that he would always treat them fairly. Voters are still waiting. And so are we.
He also used the term during his reelection bid as Vice President to President Barack Obama in 2012, calling the Benghazi cover-up a “load of bullshit.” The corrupt mainstream media went along with him.
When Biden rode the “No Malachy” bus in Iowa before facing off against President Trump in 2020, he was only up against fellow Democrats Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg.
And when Biden, lambasted by the left-wing media, defeated Trump in the November 2020 election, he successfully campaigned from the basement of his Wilmington, Delaware, home as a semi-hidden candidate because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The coronavirus has gone away, Trump has come back stronger than ever, while Biden is stumbling and talking trash and looking weaker and more confused than ever. And he has nowhere to hide.
So I revisited my previous research into the origin and meaning of “malarkey” and discovered that while some people know it as a name, very few know what the word means.
One man I spoke to said he thought malarkey was something you ordered at a Greek restaurant; another said it was Hungarian cabbage soup; one young man said it was code for a strong variety of Bolivian marijuana; his friend said malarkey was an Irish town; a woman at the bar said it was a vodka cocktail.
They are all wrong. I found that nonsense.
Sadly, Joe Biden and his presidency have been bullshit. And it isn’t bullshit.
Peter Lucas is a veteran political reporter. Email him at peter.lucas@bostonherald.com.
