Joe Biden, a mumbling, shuffling, confused and, at times, incoherent old man, has gone in a few months from personal failure at home to causing a political catastrophe of global dimensions, the consequences of which will soon be unleashed upon us in the form of renewed terrorist attacks on the West.
Biden lied about his undergraduate degree and his majors, lied about his rank in law school, lied aboutscholarships and educational aid he had received, lied about his stance toward the Vietnam war while in college, lied about his plagiarism of other politician's writings and speeches, lied about the circumstances around his first wife's fatal accident, lied about how he met his second and current wife, and lied about the affair they were having when they were both married. MARK CHRISTIAN
Most recently and dramatically, Biden lied about his knowledge of his son's shady dealings, lied about his own involvement in corruption and ribery, and lied about his current presidential agenda and what he wants to implement in regards to energy, fracking, court-packing, health care, education, and COVID among other issues.
MARK CHRISTIAN
Sick Man of Scranton: Americans Deeply Concerned About Joe Biden’s Health, Poll Finds
Roughly half of American voters are concerned about President Joe Biden's physical and mental health, according to a recent POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
Just 40 percent of survey respondents said they agreed with the statement that Biden "is in good health," compared with 50 percent who disagreed. The 10 percentage-point gap represents a swing of nearly 30 points since October 2020, the last time Morning Consult included the question in a poll, when respondents said Biden was in good health by a 19-point margin.
Voters are only slightly more confident in the state of Biden's mental health, with 46 percent of poll respondents agreeing that the president is mentally fit and 48 percent disagreeing. That's a 21-point swing compared with the results of the October 2020 survey.
This lack of confidence in Biden's fitness to serve must be extremely distressing for millions of Americans, given the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris is a heartbeat away from the presidency. She has an approval rating of just 28 percent, and even her former staffers are terrified at the thought of her becoming president.
Though Biden is significantly more popular than Harris, his approval rating has been in steady decline since his inauguration and has plummeted in recent months. According to the RealClearPolitics polling average, Biden's approval rating was around 52 percent in late July. It currently sits at an all-time low of 41.5 percent.
While both Democrats have humiliated themselves and their country on numerous occasions, Biden's gaffes have raised serious questions about his mental fitness. Earlier this year, for example, Rep. Mondaire Jones (D., N.Y.) described how Biden "just sort of stared at me" and said nothing after the congressman urged him to get more involved in the party's push for so-called voting rights.
According to the Mayo Clinic website, "difficulty communicating or finding words" is a common symptom of dementia.
Joe Biden Exaggerates Details of 2004 Fire: My House Burned Down ‘With My Wife In It’
President Joe Biden exaggerated Tuesday details of a fire that burned his home in 2004 while emphasizing the importance of infrastructure.
Speaking on a bridge in New Hampshire, Biden said:
And I know, having had a house burn down with my wife in it — she got out safely, God willing — that having a significant portion of it burn, I can tell: ten minutes makes a hell of a difference.
Biden has cited this story before, particularly while talking about the importance of firefighters.
According to reports, Biden’s Delaware house did not “burn down,” and a “significant portion” of his home did not burn.
The Associated Press reported at the time that lightning struck Biden’s home, but the fire was “small,” and firefighters responded quickly to a call from his wife, Jill Biden. Cranston Heights Fire Company Chief George Lamborn said they were able to keep flames from spreading beyond the kitchen.
Biden’s telling of the story demonstrates his repeated willingness to stretch the truth to demonstrate a point.
Previous versions of Biden’s house fire story have been more accurate, such as his retelling of the event at a wildfire center in Sacramento in September.
He said:
I got a phone call: Lightning strike hit — I live on a little pond — a 10-acre pond that borders my property. Hit a conduit in the side of the hill. It went up underneath and set on fire the internal part of my house, so the air conditioning just was billowing out smoke. When the fire company came, the smoke was so thick — not a joke. And the firefighters — I mean, you could not see in the house, from the basement floor all the way to the third floor. Not a single thing. And my fire service went and they saved my wife, and, as she says, saved the cat and my ‘67 Corvette.
Joe Biden sits in his 1967 Corvette Stingray on July 16, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. (Adam Schultz/Biden for President/Flikr)
Biden also told the story in 2013 during the 25th Annual National Fire and Emergency Services Dinner of the Congressional Fire Services Institute.
He said:
I was down here doing a Sunday program, and lightning struck my home and destroyed a significant portion of it, and you got my wife out. …And in addition to my wife, you got my second-best love out of the house: my ‘67 Corvette. So thank you all. So I owe you. When I say I owe you, I mean I owe you.
Biden’s remarks about the fire on Tuesday sparked a response from Glenn Kessler, a fact-checker for the Washington Post.
Biden throws a tantrum
Our hapless president’s speech on Tuesday was not a speech at all. It was a full-blown childish tantrum. While he was ostensibly celebrating his massive “airlift” of thousands of mostly-Afghan refugees, from the beginning it was clear he is extremely angry. He almost shouted his claim that his catastrophic misadventure in Afghanistan has been a smashing success. This is a huge lie and everyone knows it, even those trying to spin this debacle as a win.
In fact, Biden’s surrender has probably set a genocide in motion just as our betrayal of the South Vietnamese gave birth to the killing fields. Women and girls are sure to be brutalized.
Biden had promised for days that no American would be left behind but of course hundreds, perhaps even thousands, have been left behind. Some even made it to the airport and were then denied flights home by US forces on the ground there. Thousands of those who escaped were rescued not by Biden’s forces but by retired vets and private organizations who set out to do what the government would not.
Biden is, and has always been, a pathological liar of the worst kind, the kind who lies to boost his own ego no matter how easy it is to prove his dishonesty. His seething, wretched defense of this massive failure will haunt this nation for decades to come. He has single-handedly created a fully-armed terrorist state, a state surrounded by enemies of the US – China, Iran and Pakistan. Those countries now have access to the $90b worth of American weapons, military vehicles and aircraft, not to mention Bagram Air Base.
Our NATO allies will no longer trust us. Biden will be forever known as the most destructive, the weakest and most gullible president in US history. A better man would resign but Biden is not even a decent man. As his mad rant on Tuesday proved, he will never take responsibility for his fatal errors in judgment.
Biden blamed President Trump, whose actual plan had stabilized the country and would have worked if implemented, and he blamed the Afghan army whom he betrayed by withdrawing their air support and their financial support. Of course, they fled. Biden betrayed them as cruelly as any leader in history has abandoned his troops and allies. He can claim his decision to withdraw as he did was successful from now to kingdom come, but it was the most egregious foreign policy error in American history.
The deaths of those thirteen young soldiers who died last Thursday is entirely his responsibility and yet he could not even bring himself to salute at their dignified transfer as their coffins passed by; he just kept checking his watch as if he had somewhere more important to be. The man is without heart and soul. The few parents who spoke with him were shocked that he only talked about his deceased son Beau. That’s his go-to default reply to anyone else’s loss; he makes it all about him.
As the months of his administration slip by, it becomes clearer and clearer that he is something of a sociopath. Nick Arama agrees. He is congenitally unable to care. As for Americans still stranded in Afghanistan, he blamed them – for not getting to the airport, for being “dual citizens” as if that makes them less worthy of rescue.
Of course, it is not just Biden that is to blame. Those military clowns, the ones who just weeks ago were telling us that Covid was the gravest threat we face (Austin) or that ‘white rage” is worth investigating (Milley) are to blame as well. Whoever was giving the orders on the ground in Kabul should also be fired.
Who thought it was a good idea to have those young soldiers do crowd control in a sea of panicked Afghans? Who decided those busloads of Americans had to be turned back in favor of unvetted refugees? Whose decision was it to let the highly trained military dogs who were brought safely to the airport be left behind, turned loose to face certain death on the streets of that benighted city?
Every leader who participated in this ill-timed, fateful attempt at withdrawal should resign or be fired. As many observers have noted, a high schooler could have managed it all better. But then maybe it was all by design, engineered by Biden’s paymaster, China. Biden has been bought and paid by a long list of influence purchasers for nearly all his years in Congress. “Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.” (Bill Watterson). Biden sold us out long ago.
Nancy Pelosi, a horrid woman equally as without heart and soul, on Tuesday refused to have the names of the thirteen soldiers killed in Kabul read out on the floor of the House. That should permanently indict her for being the wicked witch she is. She is more devious, more calculating than the irresponsible Biden but every bit as beyond redemption as he is. She will do anything to try to convince the American people, for whom she has only contempt, that whatever she and her party do is righteous no matter how loathsome and totalitarian.
Like the schoolyard thug he is, Biden will defend to the death the treacherous plan he put into motion so he could make a grand speech on the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. He ignored the advice of some advisers, wanted Ghani to lie about the Taliban’s success in July (transcript here), all to mount a bit of theater with him in the starring role. No matter what he says, things did not go as he envisioned so like a spoiled child, he threw a tantrum from the podium at the White House. Shame on him a thousand times.
Joe Biden: From hero to zero in just seven months
By Wen Wryte
Imagine a celebrated running quarterback playing the last -- and most significant -- game of his career. At a critical moment he fumbles and drops the ball. Suddenly it’s all over for him and his team. Well, that’s what Joe Biden now seems to have achieved in his political career. And we are all going to suffer for it.
The composite president of the U.S. known as Joe Biden has managed to do what most people in the Western world formerly thought impossible.
In his first few months in office he has destroyed America's global reputation as leader of the free world. The fiasco of the sudden unilateral U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan has made this much clear. In so doing, he has turned personal failure at home into a political catastrophe of global dimensions.
The catastrophe now unfolding in Kabul is being shown on T.V. screens the world over, and the implications are unavoidable. The rest of the world no longer sees America as the world's leading superpower, protecting freedom and democracy and keeping a lid on the putrefying cesspool of international terrorism. U.S. forces have been shown on the defensive, penned in by an undisciplined rabble wielding AK-47s and grenade-launchers, but -- because of political weakness at the highest levels in Washington D.C. -- are unable to act assertively to extract all the American citizens under threat from these same terrorists. Will America's collaborators in the fight against global terrorism now see it as a weak and unreliable ally, lacking the resolve to stand up and protect even its own interests? If they do, one can hardly blame them.
In the U.K. -- until now America’s staunchest foreign ally -- the House of Commons has already condemned Biden’s actions.
Even the New York Times -- normally an uncritical cheerleader for Biden -- felt compelled to report that Biden’s Afghanistan policy was upsetting America’s closest ally.
And now that the disaster he has precipitated is too obvious for even him to ignore, Joe Biden’s demeanor is slowly unravelling before our eyes.
His face has gone puffy of late, but in all other respects he appears to be shrinking, physically, mentally, and morally. The latest manifestation of this regression was his obvious failed attempt to deal with his own inability to cope with the enormity of the tragic events he has unleashed. At a recent White House press conference he suddenly went silent, closed his eyes, bowed his head, and shrunk his shoulders whilst raising both hands as if to assume a fetal position whilst still standing at the podium. It was a gesture that can only be interpreted as one of abject humiliation and total defeat. This is a president who is in office but not actually in control of anything.
The video clip was soon transmitted all over the world, showing the man occupying the most powerful political position in the world apparently lost for words, crumbling under the burden of responsibility on his shoulders, closing his eyes to reality and losing his dignity as a result.
Joe Biden has disappointed almost everyone in America -- except, in a certain way, his political opponents. He promised to bring Americans together, and in a way, he certainly has. He's now the best recruiting sergeant his political opponents could hope for, alienating many of those who voted for him. And in the rest of the free world there can only be sadness that this man who claimed to be so much better than Donald Trump has turned out to be so much worse. Biden is rapidly becoming a serious contender for the title of America's worst president.
In his first months in office he focused mainly on undoing the good that Trump had done in the previous four years. This destructive urge appears to have been motivated by spite accompanied by a lack of commitment to doing what is best for America instead of himself.
Whatever Joe Biden does now, his presidency will be marked by his bad judgment over Afghanistan, an unforced error that cannot be blamed on Trump's deal with the Taliban. Trump's deal had pre-conditions and the Taliban had already broke them. And in any case, Obama started the drawdown of U.S. forces on his watch, leaving Trump a poisoned chalice.
In 2016, Trump campaigned on lowering America’s military presence overseas, and threatened the Taliban with terrible consequences if they broke their peace agreement with him. But when Biden entered the White House, he simply shrugged his shoulders and in effect said to them: game over, you won, winner take all. This one’s all down to Biden.
Comparisons between the US pull-out from Afghanistan and the abandonment of the U.S. embassy in Saigon in 1975 do not capture the full enormity of what has just happened.
A serving U.S. president suddenly walked away from a war, with a shambolic pullout, catching his allies in the field by surprise. The result has been chaos and tragedy, leaving the enemy with a moral victory and many tens of billions of dollars of the most modern military hardware, supplied to them for free by America via the defeated Afghan military. There are indications that some of this hardware has already been re-activated by the Taliban. And 13 brave servicemen lie dead.
What happens next in Afghanistan will, I suspect, be far worse than what happened in Vietnam in the years after 1975. What the terrorists in Afghanistan now do to harm U.S. interests around the world should come as no surprise.
Joe Biden, a mumbling, shuffling, confused and, at times, incoherent old man, has gone in a few months from personal failure at home to causing a political catastrophe of global dimensions, the consequences of which will soon be unleashed upon us in the form of renewed terrorist attacks on the West.
Wen Wryte is the pseudonym of a retired teacher of philosophy.
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