HOWIE CARR ON “JOE BIDEN’S BASEMENT TAPES:”

In the tradition of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes, what follows are Joe Biden’s Basement Tapes.

As usual, all dialogue guaranteed verbatim.

This first quote, about Uncle Joe’s house arrest in the basement, comes from his recent teleconference of sorts with union leaders. Incidentally, one of those pinky-ring bosses on the line was apparently Richard Trumpka of the AFL-CIO.

You can imagine how confusing that was for Sleepy Joe –  Trumpka, Trump…. Perhaps that was why in another online chat this week, he referred to “President Strump,” which is not to be confused (although Biden was, as usual) with his earlier reference to “President Hump.”

But back to the AFL-CIO. Sleepy Joe thanked the “essential” workers, who, he said “literally are carrying our nation on their backs.”

Literally.

“I promise you,” Sleepy Joe told the union caporegimes, “I’ll do whatever I can. I know, I’m locked in a basement like a lot of you are but again, I wanna thank you.”

I miss the Onion’s 2009-era parody of Joe Biden as an aging lunch-bucket guy with a bitchin’ ’81 Pontiac Firebird. Geezer Joe Biden is quite painful to watch: