When Joe Biden was elected president in November 2020—an event that is still in dispute—I, like many conservatives and Republicans, was devastated. I had gone to bed the night before, thinking that the nation had once again proved that success and unity were valued more than vitriol and identity politics.
As we all know, however, those expectations were proven spectacularly wrong when the following morning, suddenly, the result was different, and Joe Biden, of all people, had collected 81 million votes. I generally try to avoid tinfoil hat conspiracies, but to this day, I still struggle to imagine that there were eighty-one million people who actually thought this guy was ready to be the leader of the most powerful nation in the history of mankind.
Although I wasn’t happy, I didn’t hit the panic alarm. Of course, I knew it was a serious setback for our nation, but I thought we’d get through this as we have before. I mean, we survived Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, two of the worst presidents ever to serve—we could certainly withstand “Plugs.”
You see, I had thought Joe Biden was a rather harmless buffoon who would soon fade into history. I had no idea he would transmogrify into the most radical and divisive president our nation has ever seen.
(Read: Biden Delivers One of the Most Divisive, Hate-Filled Speeches in the History of Our Presidency)
As a young man, I watched in horror as the senator from Delaware presided over the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee and current justice, Clarence Thomas. The hearings quickly devolved into a wild, racially tinged circus where completely unsupported and highly questionable alleged evidence of sexual harassment by Thomas was allowed to be introduced into the proceedings.
Despite failing to prove convincingly that Thomas was guilty of anything, to this day, leftists and Democrats imply (or say out loud) that he is a sexual predator.
As we all know, they used the same playbook against Brett Kavanaugh.
Still, I thought, this Biden guy would soon be forgotten—he was clearly not intellectually impressive and owed his place in the Senate to the fact that he was elected from a tiny state of only one million people. Would this known plagiarist and failed presidential candidate suddenly emerge onto the world scene? It didn’t seem likely back in the day.
We can thank Barack Obama for bizarrely pulling this (what should have been) relic of history from the dustbin. Biden was toast, having failed to generate much energy in his 2008 presidential campaign—and yet the victorious Obama chose him as his running mate, which leads us to the dreadful consequences of today.
For eight years, Joe seemed to play the buffooonish wingman to the much more polished Obama, famously crowing that this is a “big f***ing deal” when Obamacare was passed. He seemed inconsequential, a late-night TV product pitchman, an afterthought.
But now that he has assumed the mantle of power, he has proved not to be a harmless, gentle uncle—instead, he has proven to be unimaginably cruel. He presided over the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, where 13 U.S. servicemembers and hundreds of Afghan civilians were killed, yet has shown not an ounce of remorse. He reigns over a southern border where towns look like graveyards because so many people are dying trying to cross the Rio Grande.
But he doesn’t care.
His true mean streak was shown by his executive order, which forgave or lowered student loan payments for millions of Americans. How can that be mean-spirited, you might ask? Because he knew his executive order was illegal. He did it anyway before the midterm elections, knowing that he would garner plenty of progressive votes. He knew he would break the hearts of scores of young people, but he didn’t actually give a whit about them:
@POTUS this you?? https://t.co/lrFuTDzzVo
— RedKingdomAlpha (@JakeWoo41821792) July 1, 2023
As Chief Justice John Roberts noted in his opinion, even former House Speaker and current Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) knew this was a garbage plan:
“People think that the president of the United States has the power for [student loan] debt forgiveness. He does not.” — Nancy Pelosi (July 2021)pic.twitter.com/0iz8uQeKXG
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 30, 2023
“People think that the president of the United States has the power for [student loan] debt forgiveness. He does not,” Pelosi said—stating the obvious.
And yet, Biden went ahead with it anyway, knowing full well that the Supreme Court would block it. He knew it was unconstitutional but yelled, “full speed ahead” anyway, just like the captain of the Titanic.
What surprises me most about Joe Biden is not that he’s a bad president—I fully expected that—but just how utterly divisive and radical and cruel he has become.
(Read: Biden’s Pride Month Statement Has All the Woke Buzzwords—but Reveals Just How Radical He’s Become)
He held out hope for millions of young people hoping to get out of the burden of debt, fully aware that it was actually a ploy to get more votes and would never hold up in court. He’s now trying a workaround, but the fact remains that he played upon the hopes and dreams of our youth to garner a few more Democrat votes.
I was never a fan of Joe Biden, but his transformation into the most vicious, partisan, nasty president in our history has admittedly taken me by surprise.
