Warns Country About Rock Climbing

Pheasant Joe Biden spoke at the Sportrock Climbing Centers on Friday, May 28, 2021, in Alexandria, Va.

“This is why,” he said in his opening remarks, without preamble, “I’m sending . . . sending the underserviced and the udder-paid, the unnerve-privileged, from dessert communities, uh, door-to-door, street by street, in this — here’s the thing — there are those who are unprepared and unexpecting this visit.”

“To stop rock claiming,” he added with a whisper. After a momentary pause, he collected his thought: ” . . . climbing.”

“Those who would accidentally fall through the cracks of the systemic — mountain passes,” he addled, “Need a hand up, not a hand . . . Whoops! That’s gonna be one,” he said to himself.

With a friendly-looking wave, he shuffled his note cards and his feet, but not his knees, and was offstage before the crowd arrived.