Hey, life’s a seaside, man.
President Biden lounged Sunday on Rehoboth Seaside whereas the city of Lahaina on the island of Maui was still smoking, with pictures of the once-idyllic paradise exhibiting a charred wasteland.
The grim photos, the unfathomable lack of life, the haunting, sickening data the information would solely worsen as the times handed: It might have introduced any stoic to tears.
However not seaside bum Biden.
Ol’ Joe was busy enjoyable in his lounge chair for hours getting some vitamin D and residing out a type of tacky “Seaside life” mottos you see painted on driftwood.
When requested in regards to the mounting demise toll from the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, he gave a cold, “No comment,” reported Bloomberg White Home correspondent Justin Sink, who tweeted a picture of Biden enjoyable on the sandy shore, looking like Chris Christie in his notorious 2017 Beachgate scandal.
At that time, a staggering 96 souls had been misplaced, with many extra nonetheless unaccounted for.
On Biden’s return to Washington Monday, he averted reporters altogether.
What sort of human doesn’t have a easy sympathetic sentiment to share? What sort of chief can’t spare a second to supply a message of hope, sorrow, and assist?
Joe Biden, that’s who. The identical man typically portrayed by our lapdog media because the patron saint of compassion: the Mom Teresa of the Beltway.
NBC News dubbed him our “consoler-in-chief,” Time said he is “unmatched as America’s grief counselor,” and the intellectual New York Review of Books called him “the designated mourner.”
A fawning 2021 opinion piece within the Washington Submit on his COVID response stated our “commander in grief” has a “superpower”: empathy.
Effectively, it appears he’s encountered some kind of kryptonite: his true self.
Contemplating his lifetime achievement of plagiarism and ridiculous lies together with the whole lot from claiming the opposite driver in his spouse and daughter’s deadly accident was drunk and he supported homosexual marriage way back to his high-school years, I don’t imagine he was ever the nice ol’ empathetic Uncle Joe offered to the nation.
Again in 2020, Biden ran on being a healer, a uniter, a salve to our cracked nation. What a farce.
At 80, he’s clearly too previous and too drained to maintain up the charade of being respectable.
As an alternative of addressing the traumatized folks of Maui, the president put out a statement on social media: “As residents of Hawai’i mourn the lack of life and devastation happening throughout their stunning house, we mourn with them. Like I’ve stated, not solely our prayers are with these impacted — however each asset we now have might be obtainable to them.”
Such a dismissive, callous habits is hardly remoted for Biden.
Households of the 13 US service members who have been killed in an ISIS suicide bombing in the course of the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan gathered at a California discussion board organized by Rep. Darrell Issa this month.
Cheryl Rex, whose son Marine Lance Cpl. Dylan Merola died Aug. 26, 2021, within the Kabul bombing, gave an excruciating account of her assembly with Biden, who flexed his distinctive capacity to upstage.
To steal sympathy.
“His phrases to me have been, ‘My spouse, Jill, and I understand how you’re feeling. We misplaced our son as nicely and introduced him house in a flag-draped coffin,’” Rex stated. “My coronary heart began beating quicker and I began shaking, understanding that their son died from most cancers and so they have been in a position to be by his aspect.”
That isn’t empathy or management. It’s unbridled narcissism.
Marine Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, who misplaced his proper arm and leg within the blast, recalled Biden trying to shake his nonexistent hand and instantly invoking his son Beau.
When the February practice derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, led to a poisonous spill and evacuation of the small city, Biden didn’t deem it essential sufficient to point out his face.
As an alternative, he hopped on over to Ukraine to visit President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“That was the most important slap within the face,” Mayor Trent Conaway informed Fox Information on the time, including, “That tells you proper now he doesn’t care about us.”
Empathy is Politics 101. Nobody can overlook George W. Bush standing atop the smoldering, twisted pile of the Twin Towers rubble within the aftermath of 9/11.
Holding a bullhorn, he addressed frightened and shell-shocked New Yorkers: “I can hear you. The remainder of the world hears you. And the individuals who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us quickly.”
Conversely, Bush’s Hurricane Katrina response broken his legacy.
Bear in mind the fake horror at Melania Trump sporting a jacket emblazoned with the message “I actually don’t care, do U?” as she visited the border? Although she stated the message was aimed on the media, the optics have been off and everybody from Vogue to CNN had a conniption.
Effectively, maybe Melania left the jacket within the White Home and Biden has packed it for his subsequent journey — to Lake Tahoe. Yep, as a substitute of going to Maui, he’s heading off to Nevada for extra enjoyable and solar later this week.
Screw the survivors of Lahaina, who’re frantically looking for family members and must be informed “I can hear you” greater than ever: Mr. Empathy has a trip deliberate.
