'Scranton Joe' or 'Lyin' Biden'? The President Is Probably Not Who You Think He Is.

On March 20th, 2020, Donald Trump and his staff held a press conference in the White House briefing room to address the COVID-19 crisis that was unfolding rapidly across the United States. Tensions were high, as most Americans had no idea what was coming our way, or how it was going to impact our day-to-day life. When Trump called on Peter Alexander, the White House Correspondent for ABC News, Alexander asked a simple, albeit snarkily delivered question; "What do you say to Americans who are scared right now?" He followed up by listing the figures regarding Coronavirus cases and deaths, which at that point in time were very low. "What I think," Trump shot back immediately, "Is that you are a terrible reporter."

Now, Peter Alexander is indeed a terrible journalist, a man who seems to fit the description of "activist" far better than that of "reporter". When one listens to a clip of the exchange, it is clear that the question posed by Alexander was framed in such a way as to increase the level of fear and hysteria already pervading the mediascape. Nevertheless, this sort of exchange had become a staple of the Trump Presidency. Articles such as David Smith's "'Enemy of the People: Trump’s war on the media is a page from Nixon’s playbook" published in 2020 were a dime a dozen during Trump's four years in office. The former President's notorious spats with Jim Acosta frequently grabbed headlines throughout the news week. After weathering a few direct and pressing questions from Megyn Kelly in a 2015 Fox News Republican primary debate, Trump soured his image in the minds of millions of Americans when he appeared to suggest that Kelly had only been tough on him because she had been on her period. Needless to say, a lot of this criticism was well deserved. America has had many rude and immoral presidents in her time, but all of them have done a much better job of concealing their flaws than Donald Trump. To this day, I remain unconvinced that the "what you see is what you get" routine coined by Trump is any worse than the alternative one adopted by others throughout history in the same position who, while maintaining polished exterior images, had closets that were so full of skeletons that they were forced to spend the majority of every day struggling to close the wardrobe door. Regardless, Trump's combative relationship with the Press was and remains to be, just part and parcel of a whole litany of charges levied against the former President's character.

In 1960, times were undoubtedly much different. Cursing, nudity on television, tattoos and piercings, divorce, and remarriage, are all things that were considered to be taboo. The rate at which American social standards have liberalized in the past fifty years is astonishing, and all of the aforementioned practices are widely accepted now in polite society. One might say that the bar is set pretty low, and it is unfortunate that Trump still failed to clear it during his time in office. Save for the tattoos and the piercings, Trump has taken the slack granted for better or worse by society in each previously mentioned category and stretched it tight, tight even for the taste of many of his supporters. Most Americans still look distrustfully at a man who has been married three times. Most Americans did not appreciate the insults that Trump regularly hurled at his critics. A good rule of thumb is that, if people wouldn't want to deal with it in line at a grocery store, then they probably don't want to deal with it from the podium of the White House briefing room. This is one rule that Trump never seemed able to wrap his head around.

This piece is now probably beginning to read like one long knock on Trump, which is not my intent whatsoever. I believe Trump is one of the best presidents in American history, and if he wins the primary I will vote for him happily in the 2024 election. I will not, however, gloss over or pretend to condone any of Trump's unsavory personal conduct. I say this to be fair because in a moment I will delve into and analyze who Biden is as a man (spoiler alert, he's not a good one). The point of this piece is not to condemn Trump or Biden; God is on his throne, and both will answer individually at their final judgment, as will all of us.

I will also not deny that one phenomenon which has always confused me is the fact that people tend to vote based on character, or perceived character, as opposed to focusing on policy and message. This makes sense only to a limited degree. The most conservative candidate in history could be one vote away from victory, needing only my own to secure the Oval Office; if his character was so poor that I needed to worry about him turning the White House into a brothel, or selling our nuclear codes to Iran, then clearly I would not be able to cast my vote for him in good faith. The fact of the matter is that those who seek power over others are generally not good people. They tend to be hyper-ambitious, egotistical, and machiavellian. Very few people in our history have served in our government, especially at the federal level, and ended their career in public service poorer than when they had begun it. Politicians somehow always seem to enrich themselves as they "serve" us, with very few exceptions. Yet, for some reason, people will fall for and support political candidates with cardboard personalities and deceptive serpentine smiles. Humans are social creatures, I suppose, and the value of the likeability factor must be unmatched. Trump offered a peek through the looking glass, so to speak; He was never a politician, so he did not need to spend an entire career crafting and molding a fictitious character of someone whom the average joe would want to grab a beer with at the local townie bar. The very first time he got involved in politics, he won the greatest office in the free world. Trump is cut from the same cloth as the ruling class in this country, the only difference between the two is that what you see with Trump is what you get. So, this begs the question, why did he lose? The answer is simple; Joe Biden comes across as a likable guy, for reasons we will soon explore. Despite his terrible policies, despite his radical and sudden move to the left shortly after being elected as a moderate, and despite a lifetime of fooling the American taxpayer, Biden still won the most votes for a presidential candidate in history (or so we're told).

The carefully crafted and expertly curated Biden Image™ took a critical blow after the botched pullout from Afghanistan, which resulted in the deaths of thirteen Americans, thousands of Afghans and the descent of the entire Afghani nation back into the depths of a sexually repressed and barbaric stone-age presided over by the Taliban. His recent approval ratings are down in the dumps, with some polls even showing him in the low thirties. After Afghanistan, many Americans saw Biden for what he was; a genuinely bad guy. Whether it was the reports of him being rude over the phone to family members of the Marines slain due to his incompetence, or him repeatedly checking his watch on national television as he tried and failed to feign interest in the ceremony marking the return home of our fallen service members. He undoubtedly lost a key element of his public persona amid that Saigon-level fiasco. Why did it take such an abject and indefensible disaster like the one that unfolded in Kabul for people to begin to wake up? Was Biden ever "Grandpa Joe from Scranton"? the answer is no. The goal of this piece is to break the image of "Grandpa Joe" that occupies the slot labeled "Joe Biden" in the minds of so many Americans. This image should be shattered because it is false, and merely the result of a carefully constructed media campaign that would have been impossible to effectuate without the full support and cooperation of the vast majority of the Press, who are at this point hopelessly corrupt. First, let us begin with president Biden's personal life.

Joseph R. Biden Jr. was born on the 20th of November 1942 in Scranton, PA, thus earning him the nickname "Scranton Joe". Scranton was and still is the picture of a middle-class American town, home mostly to working folk and blue-collar families. Despite Biden's successful attempt to brand himself later in life as a middle-class, down-to-earth guy who worked his way across the tracks and all the way to D.C., he only actually lived in Scranton for the first decade of his life. At age ten, The Biden's, including Joe and his brother James, moved to New Castle County, Deleware. Though still a middle-class area, New Castle County was and remains to be much nicer aesthetically than Scranton, with beautiful suburbs populated with two-story houses spread out between spacious lawns and patches of woods. Biden attended the University of Deleware at Newark, where he was a History major and a thoroughly lackluster student. He attended Syracuse Law School, where he famously plagiarized a paper and almost flunked out. He graduated by the skin of his teeth in 1968. His first wife, Nielia Hunter, was a Syracuse student; they were married on August 27th, 1966. He had his first son, Joseph "Beau" Biden III in 1969, followed by the birth of his second son Robert Hunter Biden in 1970, followed finally by the birth of his first and only daughter Amy in 1971. The same people who constantly to this day criticize the war in Vietnam were singing many songs in 2016 about the alleged draft dodging engaged in by Trump's father on Donald's behalf, yet few of those same pundits have questioned the three separate draft deferrals Biden received on account of "Asthma" he allegedly suffered from as a teenager. This claim seems dubious at best, particularly when one considers the fact that Biden was considered a gifted wide receiver on his high school football team and even played for a year in college.

On December 18th, 1972, President Biden suffered a tragedy that one would not wish upon his worst enemy; His wife and daughter were killed in a car crash involving a semi-truck while the family was pulling out of a gas station parking lot. Joe allegedly thought about resigning to take care of his family but was talked out of it by a colleague. Later on in his life, he would lose his son Beau to brain cancer. These two tragedies were major moments in Biden's personal life. They also likewise created a whole new element of his political persona. After all, likability wins elections, and people like politicians who are relatable. Sometimes politicians are so unrelatable, that when they try to pass as relatable, it backfires in spectacularly cringe-worthy and comical fashion. If you ever find yourself doubting this, or generally need something to laugh at, google "Elizabeth Warren drinks a beer".

There is one thing that every person on earth can relate to, and that is loss. especially the loss of loved ones. Grief is something of a universal language. When someone speaks of it, you can immediately feel what they feel. Even if someone is talking in a language that you do not know, one oftentimes can almost experience himself their trauma through the sorrow in their eyes and the pain in their voice. Biden's greatest personal tragedies would also become his greatest political asset. That is not to say that such assets were acquired intentionally, or that Biden would ever in a million years seek out the benefits of such costly tools. But the truth is that, when you ask people about Biden as a candidate or as an individual, one of the first three things they will mention is the personal loss that he has endured.

As for his other son Hunter, Biden has been doled a different kind of tribulation, one that comes from having a son addicted to drugs. Hunter stole headlines during the election as a result of his drug habits, as well as his influence-peddling. While many people knew of Hunter's substance abuse struggles and sympathized with the Biden clan, the news about the selling of the Biden family name was news to many. It should not have surprised anyone. Joe Biden has held virtually every single stance on every single issue in American politics. He has served a mind-boggling 50 years in government, and what he professes to stand for changes roughly every five years or so as he licks his finger occasionally and holds it up to see which way the politcal winds are blowing. One thing that never seems to change about Joe Biden's career, however, is the fact that he and his family are always making money, and a lot more of it than is afforded to him by the taxpayer. In Biden's brief four-year hiatus from Washington D.C., he made seventeen million dollars. His net worth is listed at $9 million currently. That's right, this means that Jill Biden, who earned a PH.d. from a community college dissertation and proudly presents herself as "Dr. Jill Biden" on Twitter, is together with her husband, a public servant who was making $40k annually now worth 9 million dollars. That's a lot more money than most real doctors in this country make, and certainly a large sum of money for a career educator and a Congressman. Hunter Biden, who possesses absolutely no credentials, was being paid a million dollars a year to sit on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian oil company that is well known for its corruption. In a New York Post article by Miranda Devine from May 26th, 2021, it is reported that a mere two months after Biden ceased holding vice-presidential powers, Burisma cut Hunter's salary in half. Hunter is now estimated to be worth between one and two million dollars. According to another New York Post article by Charles Gasparino, a friend of Biden's brother James estimated Hunter's uncle's net worth to be 7 million dollars. Just accounting for Biden's closest family, that's a sum of their known assets equating to a minimum of 17 million dollars. That's a lot of money lying around for a guy who calls himself Scranton Joe.

As previously stated, The New York Post and other right-wing outlets have extensively reported on a whole range of Biden family scandals. Deals for James Biden to be granted 1.5 billion dollars for a construction project in Iraq which was never completed, Joe Biden and Hunter allegedly peddling influence with Chinese energy firms that were directly tied to the highest levels of Chinese Espionage, etc. These are all well-known and documented abuses of the offices that Biden has held. Outlets like Fox News and the Daily wire might report on them, but when it comes to the rest of the media there was total silence. right-wing media in the United States has been so thoroughly discredited through the propagandistic campaigns of the left that, in many circles, bombshells dropped by the right land with a dud and are merely glossed over in the ever-rotating and self-sanitizing news cycle. Why? Why do these mainstream media outlets ignore the scandals of the Biden family? Why do so many people still see Biden as "Grandpa Joe", eating ice cream in his aviators and telling a group of happy children tales of his mythical conflict with Corn Pop? The simple answer is that Biden said what he needed to say, and supported who he needed to support throughout his political career, to make the friends he needed to maintain the Biden Image™.

That is the only logical answer to the question, as otherwise Biden would never have stood a chance in a 2020 election cycle dominated by left-wing delusions and hysteria surrounding race in this country. After all, Joe Biden's record when it comes to racial issues is worse than literally any sitting member of government today. He eulogized Robert Byrd, who was once an "exalted cyclops" of the Ku Klux Klan. A simple google search of the incident yields results such as an AP article titled "No, Biden did not eulogize former KKK "grand wizard", as though the distinction between two ranks of the nation's most infamous racist organization is the true heart of such a story. The media coverage that our current president is privileged to be unmatched. Biden has made several racist blunders throughout his career. He is famously quoted as saying "Poor kids are just as smart and just as talented as white kids". In leaked images of his son Hunter's communications, it is clear that the troubled young man frequently uses the N-word in casual conversation. Biden has stated on the record his admiration for segregationists with whom he served in Congress. James O. Eastland, who was considered his mentor in D.C., is infamously quoted advocating for the "abolition of the Negro race". A more racist statement has never been uttered, yet thanks to his alliance with the media Biden was able to brand himself as a race healer somehow in the election year which was defined by the death of George Floyd and the largest race riots in American history.

Besides his gross corruption and murky relationships with some of America's worst political actors and racists, there is also the simple fact that Biden himself is an empty suit, a completely soulless politician who no longer believes in anything, and can't even remember a time in which he did. A deeply vain man who is not particularly polite or decent. At the beginning of the piece, I laid out an interaction verbatim between Trump and Peter Alexander. A very similar interaction occurred roughly a week ago, although this one was more or less shrugged off by the media. It went something like this; Last Monday, as the press was being shepherded out of the briefing room, Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocey shouted out one last question to Biden; "Do you think inflation is a political liability for you?". The president responded by saying No, that’s a great asset. More inflation. What a stupid son of a bitch.” This was not the first outburst of its kind on the part of Biden, yet one rarely hears about them in the news. When Trump called Peter Alexander a "terrible reporter", the press wrote a dozen articles labeling the exchange an attack on the first amendment and the institution of the free press. When Biden called a reporter a "stupid son of a bitch", Christina Wilkie and Thomas Franck of CNBC immediately published an article describing the outburst as "A slip in verbiage". Several other articles were posted concerning the incident in which journalists used every rhetorical tool at their disposal to absolve the current President of any wrongdoing. Two different Presidents, two different Parties, two different Peters, and, as always, two different standards.

One would think that the media would not be so warm to Biden, considering his recent kinetic assault on the free press. James O'keefe, CEO of Project Veritas, a conservative media group dedicated to exposing the darker recesses of the American left, had his home in Mamaroneck, NY raided on November 6th, 2021 by federal agents armed with rifles. They initially failed to present a search warrant before confiscating all of his electronics. Their goal? To locate a dairy that allegedly had belonged to Ashley Biden, which had been obtained legally by O'keefe and his organization. As the Wall Street Journal's Editorial Board put it in an article published on November 28th titled "The FBI's Raid on James Okeefe", putting this incident in perspective is easy; Just "Imagine if the Trump Administration raided New York Times editors’ homes after the publication of the President’s tax records—or even for an investigation into documents they did not ultimately publish."

The bottom line: Trump and Biden, on a personal level and in terms of how they operate professionally, are very similar indeed. Trump has been accused of a plethora of conflicting business interests across the globe, and the Biden family has, at Hunter Biden's admission, sold their family name in many countries, not the least of which those of our enemies, and received massive payouts in the process. Trump had an affair with a porn star and has been accused of sexual assault, while Biden also has been credibly accused of digital rape by former aid Tara Reid. In another blatant act of media corruption, Tara Reid's interview on 60 minutes was canned at the last second in America, and aired instead on 60 Minutes Australia, garnering only a sliver of the audience it would have been treated to in the United States. Trump is considered to be a racist because of his comments about Hispanic immigrants and African nations, but Biden as previously noted has made remarks that are just as crude as anything Trump has ever said. Before he ran for office, Trump won awards from the NAACP and was idolized by rappers in the black community while Biden was busy hob-knobbing with segregationists and white supremacists. Trump dodged the draft in Vietnam, and so did Biden. Trump went to war with the media; Biden would too in a heartbeat if they ever stood in his way. Not only did his administration raid the house of a premiere journalist on grounds that are most likely not in keeping with the Consitution, but as Obama's Vice President, Biden was part of an administration that was known to have utilized the sweeping powers afforded by the Espionage Act to prosecute an unprecedented number of journalists who were critical of the former regime.

So, all things considered, why is Trump so hated, and Biden considered to be so likable? The answer now should be obvious. Trump was belligerent and left all his cards on the table. He had an ego large enough so that he could do so, and still function at a high level. Trump was also a Republican and was therefore automatically branded by the press as a sworn enemy. Biden has been protected by the media to such an extent that a completely artificial image of him has been molded in the mind of Americans, especially those on the younger side who don't remember his first forty-five years in power. Conservative podcaster and commentator Ben Shapiro began to make a very interesting comparison towards the end of the Trump Era, noting the key difference between Trump and Obama. "Trump is the used car salesman in the pinstripe suit," Shapiro would say. "And Obama is the same car salesman in a black blazer and tie." His point was that they were the same person with similarly stark and controversial agendas, and Obama simply just did a better job packaging himself as a genuinely good guy and a moderate. This same comparison fits with Biden just as well, if not better.

As sentient human beings with the capacity to reason, it doesn't take a very hard look at the facts for us to see that Biden's claim of being the "return to decency" candidate was a farce. He is no better than Trump, that is certain. Trump's skeletons are not confined to his closet. They wander the halls with him, they sup with him at his dinner table and follow him around to his rallies and on stage for his media appearances. Biden does his best to shove his skeletons in the closet. Thanks to the media, his closet is cavernous, yet oddly enough, he still barely seems to be able to close its door.

I'll leave you with this. One of the best metrics by which to measure the worth of a man is how well he cares for his family. Whatever one has to say about Trump, it is hard to deny he has built a beautiful family. it is clear, if one watches the videos on Instagram and looks at photos of the Trumps, that the family patriarch treats his entire flock with love and respect. If you find this hard to believe, go look at the images for yourself. The same can not be said for Biden. Earlier, we discussed the various formerly unspeakable activities that are now widely accepted in our modern liberal society. The word bastard and the mentality that surrounded children who were labeled as such liberalized long before the sentiment around tattoos and piercings. A child is a child and deserves the love and respect of his or her parents and grandparents if they should be so lucky as to have them. If Americans as a whole can one day agree on only one thing, it would be this point.

Well, once upon a time not too long ago, Hunter Biden had a child out of wedlock. Her mother is a stripper. Hunter Biden's child with this stripper is indeed lucky enough to have parents; unfortunately, her father is not interested in being a part of her life. That's a shame, but hey, she must think, at least her grandpa is the President of the United States, noted Catholic, avid church-goer, leader of the free world, Scranton Joe himself! Well, unfortunately, the child is mistaken. There is no Scranton Joe, there hasn't been for decades. There is no Grandpa Joe either, and there never has been. When one strips away the media image and political fallacy, all you're left with is Slow Joe, and Lyin' Biden. One only needs to look at the White House Christmas photo for proof; six stockings hang festively, one for each Biden grandchild in between two beautifully decorated Christmas trees; They rest pleasantly above a warm, inviting hearth and underneath an impressive and poignant painting depicting honest Abe Lincoln in the throes of reflection. It is a perfect illustration of the carefully crafted illusion that is Grandpa Joe. although the scene is gorgeous, and sweet to behold, its allure shatters the instant that an observant spectator, who knows Joe, counts the stockings on the mantle, and realizes that the Biden house is one stocking short.