Joe Biden is an asshole

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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 1987, 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 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 from 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.

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[RobertELee]

nO tRuMpS tHe AsShOlE!!!!11!!1

[JakeL]

I'm not "Pro Biden" or anything, but this seems a bit too extreme to be believable. I'm sure he looses his temper from time to time but wouldn't that just make him human? Seems to me this is just someone exaggerating that a bit. 

[Del.]

Joes probably just having withdrawals from fondling young girls and women.

He needs one of those sex dolls with a wig as a crutch.

[MIL-TFP-41]

I can speak from personal experience - dementia causes erratic behavior like this. I've seen older women that were complete sweethearts all their lives turn into way mean bitches with a mouth that would make a sailor blush once dementia set in. Calling their granddaughters stupid cunts at the dinner table kinda mean.

Could be what we are seeing in Joe. I feel sorry for him.

[JakeL]

10bucks says it's a lot nearer the truth - there's quite a few clips of him in the last couple of years rearing up at people.

Fair enough. Seems like our presidents (Biden, Trump, Obama) tend to get the short of the the stick just because certain people don't like them. I try to give these guys the benefit of the doubt when I can. Sometimes they deserve what they get though.

I can speak from personal experience - dementia causes erratic behavior like this. I've seen older women that were complete sweethearts all their lives turn into way mean bitches with a mouth that would make a sailor blush once dementia set in. Calling their granddaughters stupid cunts at the dinner table kinda mean.

Could be what we are seeing in Joe. I feel sorry for him.

Maybe he'll sit down with Putin and have an outburst lol. Not sure if that would be good or bad. 

[JParis]

Fair enough. Seems like our presidents (Biden, Trump, Obama) tend to get the short of the the stick just because certain people don't like them. I try to give these guys the benefit of the doubt when I can. Sometimes they deserve what they get though.

To the best of my knowledge, this really ramped up going back to Reagan...

It has gone on, pretty much from the start, what we have seen in the past few decades though is a complete erosion of any semblance of decency, frankly, coming from both sides.

It's interesting to go back and look at some of the stuff Lincoln had to deal with....or Charles Sumner being nearly beaten to death with a cane on the floor of the US Senate...

[beej]

looking at the group he has working for him in the whitehouse, they probably need a lashing once in a while.

But I would wager that the article is true. Some of the aids mentioned that the reason they didn't bring up the conflict of interest problem with Hunter working at Burisma was that they were afraid of the lashing they'd get, but they referred to it as "He didn't have the bandwidth to handle it at the time."

[CNCAppsJames]

But at least #NoMoreMeanTweets

But #OrangeManBadBishes



Chronic TDS sufferers are idiots. 

[CNCAppsJames]

To the best of my recollection, Tip O'Neill and that generation of Congressional folks were the last to at least give the semblance they were not treacherous, treasonous pieces of shit. During Bush 1 things just started to go in the toiletand have been in massive decline since.

But @JParis to your point, treachery halls been going on since the beginning almost.

[mkd]

I've been searching the internet for a a pro-Biden video or article. One that really contrasts the how much of a better policy president he is... nothing yet.
 anyone wearing a Build Back Better hat, other than Mr, Smit?

[RobertELee]

This thread reminded me of this song

[mkd]

I LoL'd at this - Buyed-In was apparently "working hard"....
https://twitter.com/RyanAFournier/status/1678055543917760512

x 11 billion

[Rstewart]

I've pretty much given up on anything decent at this point.  Hell, let's just go 110% clown show Biden and half dead Fetterman for the running!  How much more Fucked can it get before something happens?  I know every generation is always like 'man everything is going to hell' but this world trips me out.

[mkd]

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2023/07/31/this-is-not-a-drill-they-arent-even-trying-to-hide-their-skullduggery-now-stand-up-my-fellow-americans-n1714773

they're not even hiding it, folks. Corrupt to the core. Arresting on the planned day of testimony.