If Joe Biden ever read The Art of War, he didn’t take notes.

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night,” said Sun Tzu, “and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

Now let’s consider Biden’s secret plan — here we specify “secret” because the Democrats’ massive ballot-stuffing initiative in the swing states is no longer a secret — for overtaking Donald Trump between now and November, which he and his surrogates artlessly revealed to the friendlies at Axios: going for “Donald Trump’s jugular” by “rattling him daily.” That’s the “aggressive approach” that Biden is “privately pushing for.”

Axios continues: “Biden has told friends he thinks Trump is wobbly, both intellectually and emotionally, and will explode if Biden mercilessly gigs and goads him — ‘go haywire in public,’ as one adviser put it. Other sources tell us that Biden is looking for a fight. Biden’s instincts tell him to let it fly when warning about the consequences of Trump winning the presidency again. Biden told The New Yorker that Trump would refuse to admit losing, again.”

So the cognitively addled 81-year-old Scranton Joe is looking for a fight; the guy who routinely rants and rages and hurls F-bombs at his staff is going to get the other guy’s goat by teasing him mercilessly. Yep, that’s Joe Biden’s top-secret plan for vanquishing The Existential Threat to Our Democracy™.

So much for darkness and impenetrability. As Matt Vespa writes at Townhall:

Trump is wobbly, says the man who can’t remember when his son died. You need to be cogent to pull this off, and Biden has mixed up the presidents of Mexico and Egypt, along with a host of other European leaders, some of whom are dead. All Biden needs to do is stop being creepy, not fall asleep in the Oval Office during photo opportunities, and not mumble at the podium.

These are interesting times for the guy whose ostensible supporters have already cast more than 354,000 votes for “uncommitted” instead of him. Far be it from us to dispense unsolicited advice to Joe Biden, but it seems that he needs to shore up his vile, despicable, Jew-hating flank before he trains his focus on Trump.

Perhaps Biden should just bring out the heavy artillery. Perhaps he should tell Trump that his mother was a hamster and his father smelled of elderberries. And that he farts in Trump’s general direction. That sort of thing.

More likely, though, we can expect Dark Brandon to deploy his campaign’s new Chinese spyware TikTok account to roll out one taunt after another. “Trump has no courage,” said the enfeebled oldster. “All Trump does is bow down to Putin.”

Ooooh. That’ll teach him.

This is all fun and games, of course, but the far more serious threat to Trump and the Republicans between now and November 5 is an avalanche of Democrat cash. As Politico reports: “An estimated $2.7 billion is expected to be spent just on presidential campaign advertising this cycle. Pro-Biden super PACs Future Forward and American Bridge already have committed to a blizzard of ads, with $250 million and $200 million in spending respectively, as Democrats prepare an onslaught of ads to turn voters’ attention away from Biden’s age and remind them of Trump’s chaotic first term. In a memo released Wednesday morning, the Biden campaign said that groups allied with it had committed to spending more than $700 million to help defeat Trump.”

Last we checked, Biden and the Democratic National Committee had $80 million in campaign funds, while Trump and the RNC had just $39 million.

That’s the threat — that’s the real jugular.