{"id":83525,"date":"2023-07-12T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=83525"},"modified":"2023-07-11T11:37:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T15:37:46","slug":"folksy-joe-biden-has-always-been-a-nasty-piece-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/07\/12\/folksy-joe-biden-has-always-been-a-nasty-piece-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Folksy&#8221; Joe Biden has <em>always<\/em> been a nasty piece of work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most puzzling things about how Joe Biden has been represented in the legacy media is that &mdash; despite mountains of evidence that he&#8217;s a hot-tempered bully who has always been eager to belittle and demean other people &mdash; he still gets <a href=\"https:\/\/tomknighton.substack.com\/p\/mean-old-uncle-joe\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fawning coverage<\/a> of his supposed kindly personality:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Biden-Extremism-threatens-our-republic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Biden-Extremism-threatens-our-republic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"266\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-76146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Biden-Extremism-threatens-our-republic.png 474w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Biden-Extremism-threatens-our-republic-150x84.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Joe Biden likes to present himself as a folksy type, the kind you&#8217;d think of as a kindly old uncle or something. He tells stories about Corn Pop and virtually anything else and the press eats it up.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s a veneer, a mask Biden wears so the public will like him.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen it slip a time or two, but Axios has a story that hints that what we&#8217;ve seen is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/07\/10\/biden-temper-us-president\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">just the tip of the iceberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>In public, President Biden likes to whisper to make a point. In private, he&#8217;s prone to yelling.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Behind closed doors<\/strong>, Biden has such a quick-trigger temper that some aides try to avoid meeting alone with him. Some take a colleague, almost as a shield against a solo blast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The president&#8217;s admonitions include: &#8220;God dammit, how the f**k don&#8217;t you know this?!,&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t f**king bullsh*t me!&#8221; and &#8220;Get the f**k out of here!&#8221; \u2014 according to current and former Biden aides who have witnessed and been on the receiving end of such outbursts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<strong>There&#8217;s no question<\/strong> that the Biden temper is for real. It may not be as volcanic as Bill Clinton&#8217;s, but it&#8217;s definitely there,&#8221; said Chris Whipple, author of <strong>The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden&#8217;s White House<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Whipple&#8217;s book quotes former White House press secretary Jen Psaki as saying: &#8220;I said to [Biden] multiple times, &#8216;I&#8217;ll know we have a really good, trusting relationship when you yell at me the first time.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Whipple notes: &#8220;Psaki wouldn&#8217;t have to wait long.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Zoom out<\/strong>: Biden&#8217;s temper comes in the form of angry interrogations rather than erratic tantrums.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He&#8217;ll grill aides on topics until it&#8217;s clear they don&#8217;t know the answer to a question \u2014 a routine that some see as meticulous and others call &#8220;stump the chump&#8221; or &#8220;stump the dummy&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Being yelled at by the president has become an internal initiation ceremony in this White House, aides say \u2014 if Biden doesn&#8217;t yell at you, it could be a sign he doesn&#8217;t respect you.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Go and read the whole thing, because this is troubling, and not just because I dislike Biden.<\/p>\n<p>While Axios goes out of its way to paint this as just an impassioned politician who demands much of his staff, that&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m seeing here.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;m seeing an abusive man who is taking advantage of his powerful position to bully his subordinates.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t pretend I&#8217;ve never lost my temper before. Doing so would be a lie. However, my yelling at someone has never been a sign of respect. It&#8217;s been a sign that I lost control.<\/p>\n<p>And if Biden is doing it this often, there&#8217;s not much chance the man has any control over much of anything.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is a report from Axios. Maybe it&#8217;s not really a thing. Maybe I&#8217;m just reading too much into it because I can&#8217;t stand Biden.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most puzzling things about how Joe Biden has been represented in the legacy media is that &mdash; despite mountains of evidence that he&#8217;s a hot-tempered bully who has always been eager to belittle and demean other people &mdash; he still gets fawning coverage of his supposed kindly personality: Joe Biden likes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[828,1406,213,139,101],"class_list":["post-83525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-bullying","tag-joebiden","tag-newspapers","tag-psychology","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-lJb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83525"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83527,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83525\/revisions\/83527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}