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| Joe Biden Is an Asshole |
| 2023-07-12 |
| [NationalReview] Always has been, always will be. There is a moment in Back to the Future Part III in which Marty McFly steps outside of the unfamiliar mores of the 19th-century American West and says of Buford Tannen, the man who has challenged him to a duel, "He’s an asshole!" That line is just three words long, but it contains a universe within its delivery. McFly is incredulous. He is impatient. He has lost his desire to play along with the customs of the age. "We can all see this, right?" he seems to be asking the assembled crowd. We all know that Tannen’s an asshole? I feel the same about President Joe Biden. He’s an asshole. Can we not all see it? For those who cannot conceive of truth without triangulation, I will freely stipulate that Donald Trump is an asshole, too — and that, in some ways, he’s an even worse one. But that does not let Biden off the hook. President or not, Biden is a decrepit, dishonest, unpleasant blowhard. He’s a nasty, corrupt, partisan fraud. He is, as Shakespeare had, it, "a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality." Biden is twice as irritating as he believes himself to be, and half as intelligent into the bargain. From the moment he arrived on the scene — nearly 50 years ago, Lord help us — he has represented all that is wrong with our politics. A century hence, his name will be set into aspic and memorialized under "Hack." At Axios, Alex Thompson reports the apparently surprising news that Biden "has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him." Among the president’s favorite admonitions are: "God dammit, how the f**k don’t you know this?!," "Don’t f**king bullsh*t me!," and "Get the f**k out of here!" Per Thompson, these revelations are important because, like his refusal to acknowledge his own granddaughter, they threaten to damage Biden’s "carefully cultivated image as a kindly uncle." But that image is for cretins and sycophants. Joe Biden has never been a "kindly uncle" — or anything approaching one. For his whole life, Joe Biden has been a plodding mediocrity with a Delaware-sized chip on his shoulder. What about him, I wonder, would not lead him to shout stupidly at people? He’s a bully. Check. He’s insecure. Check. He’s senile. Check. He is hostage to his precarious record of lies. Check. His anger is as inevitable as the sunset. We don’t need Axios to tell us about it. In 1988, during his first run for president, Biden was in spiffing form. Asked by a voter in New Hampshire about his academic record, Biden grew unhinged. "I think I probably have a much higher IQ than you do," he said, before rattling off a sequence of falsehoods that ought by rights to have ended his career. He said that he graduated in the top half of his law-school class. He did not. He said that he went to that law school on a "full academic scholarship." He did not. He said that he "won the international moot-court competition," "was the outstanding student in the political science department," and "graduated with three degrees from undergraduate school." None of that was true. In closing, Biden betrayed what the exchange was really about. "I’d be delighted to sit back and compare my IQ to yours if you’d like," he jabbed. Mr. Dunning-Kruger, your table is ready. Character matters. Biden has none. As president, the man spends his days considering how he can mislead voters about his record, how he can get around the Constitution, and how he can demagogue the other branches. All that talk in 2020 about the "the soul of America"? That was guff. Flotsam. Malarkey. There is nothing the man won’t lie about. He lies about inflation. He lies about gas prices. He lies about the deficit. He lies about the border. He lies about having been arrested for his civil-rights activism, and about having been raised by Puerto Ricans and Greeks and Jews, and about having traveled to Afghanistan to pin a Silver Star on a Navy hero, and about his son’s death, and about the crash that killed his first wife and baby daughter, and about the small kitchen fire that he had 15 years ago, which, in his inimitable style, he has managed to transmute into "having had a house burn down with my wife in it." In 1987, he plagiarized a speech by the British politician Neil Kinnock that contained a completely different backstory than his own. In 2012, he accused Mitt Romney of wanting to put African Americans "back in chains." Push a pin into a history book, and you’ll find Joe Biden lying about something. There are many ugly consequences of our present bout of negative partisanship, but by far the worst is that it leads otherwise sensible people to pretend that up is down. That a person might prefer the Democrats to the Republicans or tax hikes to tax cuts or anyone to Donald Trump is comprehensible to me. That, in pursuit of that aim, they might feign admiration for the grotesque is not comprehensible at all. Joe Biden is an asshole. Always has been, always will be — until the last tawdry whopper leaves his lips. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #15 #12 - Oh, that was precious, Beavis. LOL. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-07-12 19:16 |
| #14 #11 - True. He's for very stable government. Willing to compromise whatever it takes, including "principles". |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-07-12 18:40 |
| #13 'And we didn't give up when the Japanese bombed Iraq.' I just read that Joy Behar is turned on by Joe’s angry outbursts. She must miss Rosie. 'Makes me feel like a 10 year old in a shower.' |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-07-12 17:49 |
| #12 walk like a Joe Biden |
| Posted by: Beavis 2023-07-12 17:49 |
| #11 I'm sure Paul Ryan is Notional Review's idea of a "nice guy." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-12 15:25 |
| #10 When the article said Trump is also an asshole Jones it was those National Review assholes |
| Posted by: Regular joe 2023-07-12 15:07 |
| #9 A very recent example of Problems communicating or finding words: ‘Putin’ Your Foot in it! Biden Stumbles Over His Words as He Calls Zelensky ‘Vladimir’ at NATO |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-07-12 13:22 |
| #8 I just read that Joy Behar is turned on by Joe’s angry outbursts. She must miss Rosie. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-07-12 13:00 |
| #7 |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-12 12:46 |
| #6 About that quick-trigger temper, I read somewhere recently where some writer alleged this proves he is manly, forceful and in charge. But note that agitation is one of many symptoms of dementia that Joe routinely exhibits: Cognitive changes Memory loss, which is usually noticed by someone else. Problems communicating or finding words. Trouble with visual and spatial abilities, such as getting lost while driving. Problems with reasoning or problem-solving. Trouble performing complex tasks. Trouble with planning and organizing. Poor coordination and control of movements. Confusion and disorientation. Psychological changes Personality changes. Depression. Anxiety. Agitation. Inappropriate behavior. Being suspicious, known as paranoia. Seeing things that aren't there, known as hallucinations. We've all seen the videos where he appears to be confused and disoriented and somebody has to show him to his place, most recently at the NATO summit in Vilnius where Finnish President Gitanas Nauseda helps him to a table where is supposed to sign some document. Certainly King Charles and President Nauseda were briefed beforehand about Joe's condition and how to help him. They can be trusted not to talk about it but the bemused looks on their faces speak volumes. We've seen the slow and wobbly way he walks, the way he trips on stairs and the way he fell when he tried to ride a bicycle - Poor coordination and control of movements. We've heard him lose his train of thought in mid-sentence and garble the words he's trying to read from his teleprompter - Problems communicating or finding words. Sniffing women's hair is Inappropriate behavior. If he tries to drive a car just get out of his way. I recommend watching for signs of injury to the frail and brittle bones of his hands after he tries to hit somebody. But, of course, he was an asshole long before he got dementia. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-07-12 12:42 |
| #5 81million: Uh huh, yeah, sure; and Grizzly Adams had a beard. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-07-12 12:02 |
| #4 Joe is the type of guy who would have been fired repeatedly for cause had he chosen any worthwhile occupation. Instead, in the field of government, Biden has risen to hold the most powerful civic position in the world. Joe remains unlikeable and serially incompetent. If he were a tree, Biden’s notorious level of corruption would make him a favorite of woodpeckers and a public nuisance. Unfortunately Joe is also preferred by 40% of American voters and is several months into his re-election campaign. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-07-12 09:45 |
| #3 ^ That's Dr. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-07-12 07:22 |
| #2 Unlike Biden, that portion of the human anatomy serves a vital function. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-07-12 07:22 |
| #1 BIGGER QUESTION Does Biden even still know he has an A$$ Hole. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-07-12 07:13 |