{"id":11996,"date":"2019-09-23T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11996"},"modified":"2019-09-23T11:54:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:54:47","slug":"the-madcap-adventures-of-buckaroo-banzai-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-madcap-adventures-of-buckaroo-banzai-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"The Madcap Adventures of \u2018Buckaroo Banzai\u2019 Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometime-Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden was at it again, voicing his brand of tough-guy boasts that he can \u201cbeat Trump like a drum.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 1980s sci-fi cult film about a weirdo,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0086856\/\">Buckaroo Banzai<\/a>, who travels through time dimensions in many manifestations battling evil and saving good guys reminds us of the latest incarnation of Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden sees himself as something similar, as Americans are reacquainting themselves with the three-time presidential candidate, who for years has been regaling audiences as the swashbuckling hero of an amazing repertoire of his own larger than life stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the bard Buckaroo Biden entertains crowds as the self-sacrificing tribal white knight who physically stood down punks who threatened his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/09\/22\/the-madcap-adventures-of-buckaroo-banzai-biden\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Sometime-Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden was at it again, voicing his brand of tough-guy boasts that he can \u201cbeat Trump like a drum.\u201d A 1980s sci-fi cult film about a weirdo,&nbsp;Buckaroo Banzai, who travels through time dimensions in many manifestations battling evil and saving good guys reminds us of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-37u","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11662,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-mythologies-of-joe-being-joe-biden\/","url_meta":{"origin":11996,"position":0},"title":"The Mythologies of \u2018Joe Being Joe\u2019 Biden","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 15, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Some polls put 76-year-old Joe Biden as the Democratic front-runner for the 2020 presidential election. 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