You remember Joe Biden, don’t you? You haven’t heard from him too much lately, because vice presidents do not have a lot to do, and lame duck vice presidents have about as much going on as a designated hitter in the National League.

“I was known as Mr. Middle Class,” Biden said of his time in the Senate.

And so Biden is trying desperately to continue playing in the big leagues. But now more than ever, Biden is striking out — in the minors, where the king of non sequiturs and dumb policies has always belonged.

In January, President Obama threw his VP a bone by putting him in charge of curing cancer. That was the perfect job for Biden, since little progress can be made against cancer in a year and Biden can’t be accused of screwing it up.

But this shouldn’t be too surprising, as Biden’s last major assignment was to be in charge of the 2009 economic stimulus. That worked out great. For the past six months, the economy has been growing at an average rate of about 1 percent.

But that was then. And this is now. Biden is on to something big. At taxpayer expense, he flew Wednesday from Washington to Columbus, Ohio, to get some ice cream. And that, for Biden, is a big f***ing deal.

Biden showed up at the headquarters of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream to talk about the new Obama administration overtime fiat that threatens to set businesses back another $10-20 billion.

Upon arrival, Biden got right to the point.

“My name is Joe Biden, and I love ice cream,” he said. “You all think I’m kidding. I’m not.”

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Much of the rest of his speech suggested that the vice president indeed has a bad case of brain freeze.

“I was known as Mr. Middle Class,” he said of his time in the Senate. Turns out that in 2008, Mr. Middle Class’s last year in the Senate, he and his wife had an adjusted gross income of nearly $270,000.

Biden noted that Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream had been splendid enough to already implement the administration rules before it even had to. Addressing the woman who runs the company, Biden remarked, “Love you, kiddo, I mean it. You did this before the rule.”

Now, if Donald Trump called a professional woman “kiddo,” The New York Times might do an entire article about it. Would Biden say that to a man? No!

He spoke of a headline he saw just as he and Obama took office stating that only 49 percent of Americans could be considered middle-class. Today, after seven years of Obama and Biden, according to the Pew Research Center, the number of American in the middle class is … 49 percent.

The middle class has “been under siege so long,” Biden lamented, as if he hadn’t been vice president for so long. Could he, perhaps, tell his boss that things in the flyover country are not so good?

“Jeni, thank you, your husband, your CEO, for having the foresight to know this isn’t only the right thing to do — it’s good for business,” he said, neglecting to mention that just about every business trade association has released a statement about how the new rules are actually very bad for business.

Biden’s performance was not unexpected, given that it had been preceded earlier by a warm-up act during which he rambled incoherently with the press while holding up traffic.

“Are you concerned about Bernie Sanders’ supporters?” he was asked, a reference to their frightening behavior over the weekend in Nevada.

“No, I’m not. Bernie Sanders is a good guy. Let Bernie run the race. There’s nothing wrong with that.”

“But did you see the video of his supporters from the Nevada convention?”

In eight months, he and Obama will be out of power. The future looks bright.

“That’s not Bernie, and what Bernie’s going to have to do if that happens again — he’s going to have to be more aggressive in speaking out about it. But here we are in May, as was pointed out — Hillary was still in this in May, in June [of 2008]. I’m confident that Bernie will be supportive if Hillary wins, which the numbers indicate will happen. So I’m not worried. There’s no fundamental split in the Democratic Party.”

Got that? He’s not concerned about Bernie’s supporters — but Bernie should say something.

He started asking reporters if they’d like to run China or the European Union.

“You want to trade places, you wanna run China now? You wanna run the EU now? I mean, come on, man.”

“I’ve been saying this for eight years. [And people who say] ‘Well, you know I heard about how China’s gonna eat our lunch.’ Come on, give me a break. Give me a break. ‘The EU’s gonna dominate us.’ You want to make any bets on that one? We want EU, we want China, we want to do better.”

We want China? And who said the EU is going to dominate us?

It all fits together. Biden is the vice president who said “God rest her soul” about the mother of the Irish prime minister, a woman who was still very much alive. He’s the man who opined, “You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.” The man who said Franklin Roosevelt “got on the television” after the stock market crashed, even though Roosevelt wasn’t president in 1929 and there was no TV. A man who introduced his running mate in 2008 as “Barack America.” Who called “jobs” a “three-letter word.” Who told an audience member in a wheelchair to “stand up” and be recognized.

Biden ended his remarks at the ice cream shop with a note of accidental candor, saying workers were now, after seven-and-a-half years of his leadership, “on track” to earn more, and the United States economy was “on the verge” of a “resurgence.”

That could be true. In eight months, he and Obama will be out of power. The future looks bright.

Keith Koffler is the editor of the website White House Dossier.