McFly is incredulous. He is impatient. He has lost his desire to play along with the customs of the age. “We can all see this, right?” he seems to be asking the assembled crowd. We all know that Tannen’s an asshole?

I feel the same about President Joe Biden. He’s an asshole. Can we not all see it? For those who cannot conceive of truth without triangulation, I will freely stipulate that Donald Trump is an asshole, too — and that, in some ways, he’s an even worse one. But that does not let Biden off the hook. President or not, Biden is a decrepit, dishonest, unpleasant blowhard. He’s a nasty, corrupt, partisan fraud. He is, as Shakespeare had it, “a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality.” Biden is twice as irritating as he believes himself to be, and half as intelligent into the bargain. From the moment he arrived on the scene — nearly 50 years ago, Lord help us — he has represented all that is wrong with our politics. A century hence, his name will be set into aspic and memorialized under “Hack.” …

Character matters. Biden has none.

[Don’t hold back, Charles — tell us what you really think! And he does, at length, so read it all. I’ve been watching Biden since at least his 1987 campaign, and I clearly recall the same incident Charles does, in which Biden revealed both his lack of character and lack of intellect in one fell swoop — even apart from the blatant plagiarism that ended his presidential aspirations for decades. My own assessment of Biden is just as colorful, one I have consistently used for years now: The man is 20 pounds of bull**** in a ten-pound bag. — Ed]