In case anyone ever had any questions about why Democrats kept Joe Biden in his basement with a press lid of 10 a.m. during the election cycle, they should have no doubt now.  

I just got done with my morning devotion and, as usual, its topic was dead on for what I was about to put into words: negativity. Problem is, negativity can’t be avoided with what I was pondering. But at least God put it on my heart to be less negative personally while still pointing out loving corrections on negative events and policies we all suffer from due to the actions of our president and the agenda of his party. 

Let me begin by saying what’s most obvious. Everything occurring in Washington since the president’s election isn’t the fault of Joe Biden. He simply doesn’t have the mental capacity to understand or realize what he’s doing. Don’t misunderstand. All of what’s being done are wrong and evil ideas Biden has believed his entire career. But these days, he’s just reading things off a teleprompter. 

For as dismal as his reading performances — with note cards on what to do every second — are with his limited press engagements, the fact is he’s been as bad or worse since his election to the Senate. Thankfully, few of his ideas were put into law or were effective in setting policy in any way. 

Joe’s most successful legislation was a crime bill subsequently repealed by Democrats that succeeded in putting more minorities in prisons  — more irony, in California by Vice President Kamala Harris in her previous role as attorney general — for petty crimes than at any time in history. Joe’s second greatest success was getting everyone on the left to hate Clarence Thomas using the most vile, racist tactics since before the Civil War in defining the character of black men.
Of course, some Supreme Court decisions lately show you why Joe did what he did. If he could do this to Justice Thomas live on television, imagine what Joe would do to you in private. 

That’s Joe’s career in the Senate in a nutshell. He’s had no other ideas no matter the “cry-baby-soup” rhetoric his wife-doctor puts out about the great plans Joe had for the country. Just to help folks out, overspending on improving infrastructure (which the government has proven time and again it can’t do) isn’t new. Spending trillions in waste, fraud and abuse while giving people table scraps has been perfected by both parties. Stopping cleaner oil drilling and production in the United States while increasing dirtier drilling and production around the world (with our enemies, no less) won’t reduce the carbon footprint. And the government taking over, addressing and solving the problems of every person at the expense of every other person has never worked or been the intention of our republic. Need I go on? 

It’s not that Joe didn’t know any of this in his blathering on about them for 50 years. Joe damned well knew it. The bigger problem today is Joe no longer knows he knows because his mental capacity won’t allow him to understand eternal truths. And when that happens, our president is now just a mouthpiece regurgitating lie after lie his handlers demand of him. Because that’s his job and there’s ice cream after his speech is over. The simple truth is that’s our president. 

Joe has always been bombastic and a “king” of rhetoric. That’s how his party and the press have always described him. Just this past week he was portrayed in the press as a politician who’s a storyteller with a flair for exaggeration. Finally, some accurate reporting. 

The rest of us simply call him a liar who lacks any original ideas. I can sum things up with one story about the sheriff. His greatest political speech was plagiarized from a politician from England, and it caused him to drop out of the presidential primaries the first time Joe ran decades ago. His second run gave us Barack Obama, a lesson in itself. 

Perhaps those losses instilled in Joe’s mind his political position is best served in corruption and access. And he got away with it for decades. That is, until he couldn’t resist the lust of absolute power a third time. Yet the moment he achieved it, it was snatched from him mentally in his diminished capacity and in the office by those who continue the elder abuse in trotting this man out to do their evil deeds. There’s a reason all of this is coming to light now. 

There’s a second Biblical lesson here. Many times, God’s will gets us get close to what we lust for only to take it away. 

Perhaps you feel I failed in using negativity to make a point. Fair enough. I think I put lust in perspective as Joe’s winning will have him go down as our worst president in history. 

There were negative lessons for the people in Joe running and losing twice. Sadly, lust ran his third campaign, and the negative lessons were forgotten. And we all suffer for it. 

Craig Hall is owner and publisher of the Business Times. Reach him at 424-5133 or publisher@thebusinesstimes.com.