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We’re in the final days of the Biden administration and the time for President Joe Biden to leave the Oval Office can’t come soon enough.
When he ran for the presidency in 2020, Biden was portrayed as a fun and nice guy, good ol' Joe, by the media. He was deemed as “decent” and often talked about the concept of “restoring the soul of America.”
This, of course, was a myth. Many would say a lie.
Biden has never been decent and certainly has no ground to stand on when it comes to lecturing others about the concept.
He is, and always has been, a mean bully. This was magnified during his time at the White House, where he cruelly abused his power and harshly punished those who stood in the way of his agenda.
Who could forget when Biden took to the microphone and declared millions of Americans would be forced into the unemployment line if they refused to take an experimental, often harmful and untested COVID vaccine. Then, despite framing by his friends in the leftist media, more Americans died from the disease under Biden’s watch than the previous administration.
Or how about when he checked his watch at Dover Air Force Base as the remains of murdered Americans returned from Afghanistan, a result of his catastrophic and chaotic withdrawal from the country.
But the damage and callousness doesn’t stop there. In partnership with Democrats on Capitol Hill, Biden destroyed family finances with reckless government spending. This led to historic inflation and an affordability crisis not seen in 40 years. The savings accounts of families were raided, destroying goals for their futures and the American dream of owning a home.
"If a working-class mom who works as a paralegal can not buy a $2 bell pepper because it is now $5, imagine the mother living on food stamps. Imagine the mother making minimum wage trying to feed her children," a Pennsylvania woman told NBC News last year. "They're killing us without killing us, if you understand that. They're killing us without telling us they are killing us. They are hurting people in ways that they can't help themselves. It's either feed my children, and I don't eat, but I have to go work...It is hitting me hard."
"I blame the federal government at this point," she continued.
On the global stage, Biden’s weakness led to an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, where millions have been killed. His emboldening of Iran led to one of the worst Islamic terrorist attacks in history, the murder of Americans. Americans taken hostage in by Iranian-backed Hamas are still languishing in the dark tunnels of the Gaza Strip.
Back at home, Biden destroyed American sovereignty by deliberately allowing countless violent illegal aliens into the country, sacrificing the lives of young women like Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray – both murdered in heinous ways – for sick and treasonous political purposes.
And finally, Biden the "upstanding family man" was a facade. Biden ignored the existence of his seventh grandchild for four years. He instructed White House staff to pretend the girl didn’t exist and insisted his press secretary dodge questions about why the Biden family refused to acknowledge her. First Lady Jill Biden hung Christmas stockings at the White House for the accepted grandchildren and the dog, but not Navy Jones. Worse, Biden allowed his son Hunter to be a deadbeat father who refused to pay child support.
That isn’t decent. It’s despicable.