Reason: Joe Biden has chosen an opponent for the 2020 general election—and it’s not Donald Trump, but instead, of all people, an economics professor who died in 2006.
“Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore,” Biden declared in a half-hour exclusive interview with Michael Grunwald of Politico, published over the weekend.
For a guy not “running the show,” Milton Friedman sure appears to be occupying substantial space in Biden’s mind and presidential campaign. For the Democratic presidential candidate, this is a recurring theme. During a September 7, 2019, fundraiser in Wayland, Massachusetts, according to a pool report from Sarah Mucha of CNN, Biden asked rhetorically, “When did Milton Friedman die and become king?”
It’s amusing on a variety of levels. Biden doesn’t yet seem cured of his habit of peppering his speech with references to individuals—Mike Mansfield, Jesse Helms, Milton Friedman—who, like Biden himself, seem like they belong to some bygone era. If Milton Friedman is just a general-purpose stand-in for a free-market-oriented economist, political thinker, or philosopher, it’s strange that Biden has chosen to single out and take on Friedman rather than, say, Adam Smith, or Friedrich Hayek, or Robert Nozick, or Ayn Rand. read more
Bring it on! Any of Friedman’s videos will beat Sleepy Joe every time!
I love watching Milton Friedman videos. Joe Biden videos? Not so much.
Joe Hiden could not hold M Friedman’s PENCIL.
Milton Friedman is just a name that says in his head. As far as he is concerned anyone and everyone is Milton Friedman. Dementia works is mysterious ways.
Stick to Corn Pop Joe, he’s more your style.
IMHO the Greatest American economist EVER! Leader of the Chicago Boys when I was in high school. (I was a conservative “D”; why I loved another such RONNY!) One of his famous students was an exJarhead (not as famous as GWB’s Mueller; but more so than I) Thomas Sowell – now an Emeritus Prof at “The Farm”.
Won the Nobel for work related to “There is No Free Lunch”. when I was getting my BA in Econ(before most here were born) he was know for his opposition to the Fed Res!
Disclosure: I am, and have been since 1948 (read Ronny’s HUAC interrogation), conservative.
No question why the rich kid does not like him; the rich kid is dumb. But not su dumb that he does not know how to eep knuckle dragon deplorable from advancing.
Ronny listened to Drs. Friedmann and Sowell but no President has since. Duck Duck says Dr. Friedann died 14 years ago. Maybe its his ghost Joe is after!
…Adam Smith WOULD be more of a contemporary to him, but I doubt they ran in the same circles…
“When did Milton Friedman die and become king?” ~ Hidin’ Joe Biden (2017)
… a demented idiot on several levels
MF would make mincemeat of JB in any debate.
@ Billy Fuster APRIL 29, 2020 AT 2:33 PM
Same could be said about Gabby Johnson
https://youtu.be/pus6XF_qh38
Joe – a guy becomes King first, then he dies.
This is like talking to a first grader.
Poll; Joe Biden 44% Trump 38%
Joe is confused again. He meant Milton BERLE. He misses those Sunday evenings with Uncle Milty
A favorite reply from the late great Californian Andrew Breitbart was “So?”..
In this case, it means “What’s your plan, Joe?”
Joe: Crickets.
The man is a vacuous, corrupt fool.
Can you hear see ME now?
Anyone who truly believes that Biden leads Trump in any legitimate poll is a fool.
Remember George Stephanopoulos stating to a Trump son just before the 2016 election that Hillary was leading by “double digits”?
I love it when the left does this to themselves. Soon it will be Biden at 50%, Trump at 30%. LOL.
There are people in this country that are so stupid they wouldn’t know who Joe Biden was if he wasn’t the front stumbler for the DNC.
I base this on the fact that some people don’t know who the vice president is today. They are disconnected from most any political situation. So take your poll and pound sand.
what did jill have to say?
joe don’t talk much anymore
Anonymous APRIL 29, 2020 AT 2:43 PM
Poll; Joe Biden 44% Trump 38%
I’m ROTFL on those polls having Biden so far ahead. Just like Hillary was SOOOO for ahead.
She was so far ahead that she went on tv and complained, “Why aren’t I 50 points ahead?”
LOL
Probably upset from losing games from Milton Bradley. Candy Land broke him.
Wait a second. Milton Friedman isn’t a goldilocked prepubescent girl in an Easter dress.
Why would Biden be going after him?
I was in line to get into Costco yesterday and a discussion commenced behind me and half the people Involved in the discussion didn’t know Biden was the presumptive Democrat nominee. The ones who did know were pissed off about it but didn’t have a consensus opinion on who would be any better. The outcome of the discussion was… we’re screwed. I Shit you not.
Biden then said, “George Washington was a phony! He was named after a northwestern state! Twerk Joe1Adam12 to your InstaTweety Bird!”
Biden +eleventy hundred thousand and four.
Trump -forty billion gigabytes
Biden projected to win big in Canada.