In 1980 Robert De Niro starred in the box office hit and critically acclaimed Raging Bull.  In 1998 the film critic website Rotten Tomatoes reviewed the movie.

The review’s first sentence proclaims “The film is a complex portrait of a man consumed by his rage, jealousy, and paranoia.”

The film grossed 23.4 million box office bucks.  That’s roughly the same cost of taking a family to the cinema today, but we digress.

It’s odd that a movie is reviewed 18 years after it debuted.   It’s also odd that the now 80-year-old actor took his unfettered rage, perhaps jealousy, and certain paranoia to the streets of New York yesterday.

He arrived wearing an N95 mask, but quickly dispatched it as he must have sensed everyone within social distance guidelines was as healthy as he is.  We digress again.

With the cameras rolling across the street from the latest Trump trial, De Niro stuck to his script until he didn’t.

After calling Trump a clown, he bellowed, “I love this city. I don’t want to destroy it. Donald Trump wants to destroy not only the city but the country, and eventually he can destroy the world.”

“I don’t mean to scare you. No, no, wait — maybe I do mean to scare you,” De Niro continued. “If Trump returns to the White House, you can kiss these freedoms goodbye that we all take for granted. And elections — forget about it. That’s over; that’s done. If he gets in, I can tell you right now, he will never leave.”

Sounds ominous.

This was a planned event by the Biden campaign who previously ensured that they were keeping their distance from Trump’s trials to avoid the appearance that they were in any way politically motivated.

This ended that.

A top Biden adviser said they weren’t there to talk about the trial but rather to exploit the large media focus on the legal proceedings.

Isn’t the omnipresent media available for any president to “exploit?”  All Biden needs to do is call for a presser anytime and anywhere and the exploitation can begin.

“We’re not here today because of what’s going on over there,” Biden campaign communication director Michael Tyler told reporters, gesturing toward the courthouse. “We’re here today because you all are here.”

Truer words were always spoken.

Trump may be a clown, but the Biden/De Niro move was a circus outside a court filled with jesters.

And the Trump campaign shot back.  Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s press secretary, called the Biden campaign “desperate and failing” and “pathetic” and said its event outside the trial was “a full-blown concession that this trial is a witch hunt that comes from the top.”

This “witch hunt” trial goes to the jury deliberation phase today.  Can Trump “the Clown” avert a verdict that will stop the show before the next three rings are placed under the tent? That one is the Mar A Lago classified documents case.  Or, will Fani and her lover boy try to get the tour to stop back in Atlanta?

A guilty verdict could put the man with orange hair in an orange jumpsuit.

It could also ensure his return to the White House.

If that happens De Niro said he was moving to Mars.

That’s better than Uranus.

As Donald Trump tries to stay out of jail, Prez Biden is burning up the campaign trail.

Monday, the White House issued nine corrections to his speech to the NAACP delivered Sunday.  This was only a day after he lit up like Sherman and nearly burned down Atlanta while speaking at HBCU Morehouse College.

“When I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic and what happened was, Barack said to me, ‘Go to Detroit! Help fix it,’” Biden said in the first minute he was at the podium.

We have questions. Did someone write this for him?  Doubtful.  Did he decide to ad-lib this?  Probable.

We have more questions.  Does he believe what he said?  Does he know what he said?  If you asked him today, would he remember what he said?

There was no COVID until years after Biden left the VP position.  And, Barack didn’t ask him to go to Detroit to fix COVID, though the way Biden spit out the two consecutive sentences you could infer that.

In the middle of COVID Biden would have been teaching at the University of Pennsylvania.  Or, at least he would tell you that he was.

He was likely bragging about a trip there to address the struggling auto industry way back when.

Speaking of way back when, are you old enough to remember when the fair and balanced press referred to Biden’s consistent foot-in-the-mouth problems as an “occasional gaffe?”

These lies are now coming faster than the climate crisis.  So is everything else for that matter, but we digress.

Whether Joe is in charge or is a prop isn’t worth the debate.  And, with the way they’re watered down the Presidential Debate makes it not worth it either.  But, you can see why they will as this circus now performs daily.

Meanwhile.

Yesterday, Biden asked for bids on 100 million barrels of US strategic oil by May 28 to be released by June 15th.  It’s time to hold down the price of July 4th car travel.  Capitalism meets government manipulation.  Buying a few votes never hurts.

Also yesterday we learned that the US will spend 9k this year per illegal alien to house, transport, and feed him.  This is the same that the US spends per Medicare patient per year from your previously taxed income.  From your pocket to theirs, national debt be dammed.   Buying a few future votes never hurts.

Only Biden’s doctor knows how doctored up he will be to continue this farce.

Close your eyes and picture Biden’s mental and physical health in, say 2027.

Trump should be finished with his court cases by then.

Back then the hits kept on coming for Brittney Spears.  One of her smashes was “Oops! I Did it Again!”

Back then plagiarism turned lies kept on coming for Joe Biden.  One of his smashes was when told us he conducted an Amtrak train on numerous trips.  Oops!

Brittney stopped making new music years ago.  Biden continues to cook up one whopper after another.  You’d think he works for 20$ minimum wage at Burger King.

But Wednesday’s falsehood has to be his Billboard no. 1 greatest hit.

On the campaign trail in Pittsburgh across the state from Scranton where he grew up in an Irish, Italian, Puerto Rican neighborhood and attended black churches, Biden addressed some more staged enthusiasts.

“And my uncle, they called him – Ambrose, they called him Bosie… and he became an Army Air Corps before the Air Force came along, he flew those single-engine planes as reconnaissance over war zones,” Biden remarked.  “And he got shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be a lot of cannibals – for real – in that part of the New Guinea.”

They call his “for real” squeal a tell at the poker table.   I have nothing in my hand.

US official investigations concluded old Ambrose, er, Bosie was shot down well out in the ocean.

Karine Pepe Jean Claude Le Pew Van Dame Eiffel Pierre, the first ever female black lesbian press secretary, tried to deflect on Thursday.  She said Biden “simply expressed how ‘incredibly proud’ he was of his uncle’s service in uniform.”

We wonder if he was equally proud of his service out of uniform.  We digress.

Do cannibals eat at Burger King?  No one else does.  We digress again.

There’s a bit of humor in all of this.

There’s more than a bit of sadness too.

And, most of all, this 81-year-old serial liar is our President.  And, he might be again.

It’s would hard to watch Brittney warbling her golden oldies in some smoke-filled room near the slot machines in a Minot, ND casino when she’s 81.

One is reminded of Jeb Bush’s request, “Please clap.”

President Biden was multitasking yesterday.

That unto itself is a rarity.   After all, there’s only so much time in his four-day workweek.

He was taking a victory lap on student debt loan forgiveness that he calls cancellation.  At the same time, he was stumping in Wisconsin for votes in the critical 2024 swing state.

He likes to personalize things.  While addressing debt and college, Biden said, “I, like an awful lot of people in this audience, was the first in my family to go to college, and watch my dad struggle to help me get there.”

Let’s unpack this pack of falsehoods.

First student loan debt isn’t cancelled.  Its obligation for repayment is transferred from the borrower who agreed to repay(the student) to the citizens of the US who now have to repay.    Instead of cancellation, we should call it more of the same- another pile of debt to stack on top of a mounting debt obligation.

Also, Biden wasn’t the first in his family to attend college.  How do we know?   One of the reasons we know it’s a lie is because Biden has bragged several times in the recent past about how his grandfather played college football.

Another reason why we know is because he told the same fib way back in 1987.   That is when The New York Times caught Biden making the same two contrary claims.

He was making his first run for president that year.  Yes, the “big guy” first ran for the big job nearly 40 years ago.   The NYT employed actual journalists back then.

The nearly 40-year-old article stated, “Mr. Biden had said he was the ‘first in his family ever to go to university.’ Mr. Biden said today, ‘There are Finnegans, my mother’s family, that went to college.’”  It goes on to intimate that several falsehoods drove him out of that failed campaign.

You know that old saying, “If, at first, you don’t succeed, lie, lie again.”

How about when the supposed youthful Amtrack conductor aged to the point of reminding us, “We’ve reduced the deficit by 40 million, trillion, 80 billion, pick a number, come on man, you know, no joke.”

It is a joke, except it isn’t funny.

The oldest President has at least a 50/50 chance of adding to his age record with a second term as President.

And, with yesterday’s CPI number, is it safe to assume inflation isn’t under control?  And, therefore, is it safe to assume that interest rates aren’t coming down anytime soon?  Bidenomics.

That leads us to sharply increased borrowing costs, which leads us deeper into debt.  Bidenomics.

What would George Washington have said through his wooden teeth about all of this?  It might have started with “Father, I cannot tell a lie…”

Maybe we should ask Biden what Washington said.

Surely met George during the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

No joke.