The Biden façade

 John Green:

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The propaganda ministry also packaged him as the experienced, steady hand.  He was cast as the adult in the room who would return normalcy to our country.  No living politician had more foreign policy experience than Joe.  He would heal America's relationship with its allies and reset its position on the world stage.

But that image has always been a façade.  The real Joe Biden is something very different from what one sees from the outside.  He is not the kind old uncle.  He is short-tempered and nasty when confronted with anything other than fawning adoration.  Remember when voters dared to question him on the campaign trail?  He immediately lost his temper, calling them vile names.  He called one person fat and called numerous others liars ("lying dog-faced pony soldier"?).  He even challenged one prospective voter to a fight — and these were the people whose votes he was courting.

Joe's whole career has been an exercise in dishonesty.  We don't need to examine his 48 years on the government dole to get a sense of it.  We need only listen to what he's said in the past two weeks.  "No American will be left behind in Afghanistan."  But Americans were left behind — under his orders.  "The Taliban is in no position to overrun the country."  But they did — and he asked the Afghan president to lie about it.  "You're not going to see a Vietnam-type humiliation in Afghanistan."  I guess he was accidentally honest with that one — the humiliation is much worse than Vietnam.  But my personal favorite is, "The buck stops with me."  But none of this is my fault.

In addition to being a proven liar, Biden is perhaps the most corrupt politician to ever occupy the Oval Office.  While vice president, he had a Ukrainian prosecutor fired to stop an investigation of his son, Hunter — and bragged about it to an audience.  As revealed by Hunter's abandoned laptop, we now know that "the Big Guy" was getting a 10-percent cut of Hunter's ill-gotten proceeds.  The mob call that "wetting his beak."  Lunch Bucket Joe's net worth is estimated to be 9 million dollars.  Exactly how did someone who has spent his entire career on the government payroll acquire such wealth?

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As for the assertion that we now have an adult in the room, I have one thing to say: Afghanistan.  The utter incompetence of the operation not only snatched defeat from the jaws of victory but left our relationships with allies in tatters.  Robert Gates once said Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy issue of the last 40 years.  Make it 48 years now.

Joe Biden's entire career has been a smoke-and-mirrors show put on by himself and his patrons.  He's presented as the genuine, likable guy on the outside — but he's a corrupt, ruthless con man on the inside.   Those who facilitated his elevation to the presidency should be ashamed....

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There is more because the man is so thoroughly corrupt it is hard to boil all of it down.  For decades he used his family to monetize whatever office he held and did so with gusto while Vice President for Obama.  The Democrat party hacks who supported him had to know all of this stuff yet they pushed his candidacy anyway in hopes of picking up some of the spoils.