Joe Biden’s farewell address last Wednesday ending four years in the White House and a half-century as a Washington political hack serves as a tone-deaf sour-note reminder of how very grateful we should be that he is leaving.
Biden opened and closed his 19-minute statement taking credit for the Israel-Hamas hostage deal that was "developed and negotiated" by his administration and which is tentatively scheduled to take effect on Sunday, the day before incoming President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
This is occurring a little over a week after Trump declared at a Jan. 7 Mar-a-Lago press conference that if Israeli hostages held by Hamas "are not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East.”
Trump’s designated Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff participated along with Biden administration negotiators and officials from Israel and Arab communities in bringing the agreement to fruition. All deserve due acknowledgment.
Nevertheless, responding to a shout-out reporter question following his address regarding who should take credit — himself or Trump — Biden appeared to Brush off the role of Trump’s warning in the settlement, cynically replying “Is that a joke?”
Biden then projected an ironically hypocritical admonition that America is under threat of control by ultra-wealthy modern-day robber barons.
Although not naming apparent central subjects of that warning, Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, Biden said, “Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead.”
Joe then glaringly failed to include and explain why he recently awarded a medal of honor to George Soros, a major patron of far-left Democrat politicos and causes.
Joe also voiced a spectacularly unappreciative warning about growing dangers presented to democracy through the influences of social media and tech companies which so recently promoted and covered for him.
We are left to assume that this blame falls on a growing Mar-a-Lago conga line of CEOs.
Included are Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg who personally spent nearly a half-billion dollars to get Democrats elected in 2020, Jeff Bezos whose blatantly biased Washington Post editorials have consistently favored Biden over Trump, and both of their organizations that have censored reporting of Biden family influence peddling first revealed on Hunter’s “laptop from Hell.”
Repeatedly stressing the importance of preserving democracy, by inference presumably protecting it from the incoming Trump administration, Biden said: “To you, the American people, after 50 years of public service, I give you my word. I still believe in the idea for which this nation stands.”
“A nation where the strength of our institutions and the character of our people matter and must endure,” he added.
This is the same Joe Biden whose administration presided over the destruction of America’s criminal justice system through weaponization of the DOJ and FBI and other alphabet organizations against his political opponent in combination with collaborative lawfare involving kindred activist prosecutors who worked incessantly to take Trump off state ballots, keep him off the campaign trail, bankrupt, and incarcerate him under felony charges.
Meanwhile, as the Biden family raked in more than $20 million from adversarial foreign sources through more than 20 shell companies in return for unexplained services, the IRS allowed the statute of limitations to lapse on $2.2 million of Hunter’s federal tax obligations on income made while serving as a no-show board member of a corrupt Ukraine energy company.
As for enumerating his achievements in office, that topic was notably thin on any welcome facts.
Not mentioning his Bidenomics-caused inflation; he took credit for creating 17 million new jobs, compensating for the 22 million jobs that had been lost when the deadly COVID pandemic shut down businesses and wreaked havoc on the economy.
Biden instead pointed to his administration’s campaign to modernize the nation’s roads, bridges and tunnels, and bring high-speed internet to rural Americans.
Not mentioned was a dearth of evidence of any notable transportation infrastructure improvements, or that the $42.5 billion spent on rural broadband internet has connected exactly zero people so far.
Biden touted foreign policy accomplishments without explanation regarding stated claims that he “strengthened NATO,” “kept Ukraine free,” “pulled ahead of our competition with China,” and “so much more.”
As pointed out by Trump, NATO has been lowballing their military self-protection commitments; Russia's invasion of Ukraine was arguably encouraged by weak Biden defense policies evidenced by the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle; and China controls many of our crucial medical, electronics, and rare earth material supply chains required to meet Democrat EV and green energy mandates necessary to end millions of years of climate change.
Biden’s discordant swan song has a broadly skeptical audience, coming when just about a third of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction.
Nevertheless, on his way out the door, Biden urged patience not to judge his performance too quickly.
During his thankfully final address, he said, “It will take time to feel the full impact of what we’ve done together. But the seeds are planted, and they’ll grow, and they’ll bloom for decades to come.”
And that’s Joe’s scariest exit warning of all.
Larry Bell is an endowed professor of space architecture at the University of Houston where he founded the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture and the graduate space architecture program. His latest of 12 books is "Architectures Beyond Boxes and Boundaries: My Life By Design" (2022). Read Larry Bell's Reports — More Here.
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