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Joe Biden Is a Narcissist, Not an Empath

Posted on Friday, August 25, 2023
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Joe Biden embracing black woman and showing empathy

President Joe Biden, we keep hearing, is a deeply empathetic man. It is that empathy that brought him to the presidency – his deep and abiding capacity to connect with others. In “What It Takes,” Richard Ben Cramer’s detailed blow-by-blow of the 1988 election cycle, Ben Cramer describes Biden’s ability to “connect” as his greatest supposed skill. This has been the pitch for Biden for decades: not much in the way of brains, not a tremendously resourceful politician, awkward on his feet – but he cares. In the words of Mark Gitenstein, Biden’s 1988 speechwriter and a four-decade adviser, “His ability to communicate with people in pain is maybe his most powerful strength.”

Or maybe, just maybe, Biden was never an empathetic man. Maybe he simply trafficked in ersatz empathy, all the while feeding his own narcissism.

That story certainly looks more plausible these days.

This week, Biden visited Maui. He did so nearly two weeks after the worst wildfire in modern American history killed hundreds of Americans. Meanwhile, Biden vacationed in Delaware on the beach, telling reporters he had “no comment” on the situation; he then jet-set off to Lake Tahoe before finally heading to Lahaina. Once he reached Hawaii, he proceeded to explain that he felt the pain of those whose family members had been incinerated. After all, he said, one time he experienced a small kitchen fire. “I don’t want to compare difficulties, but we have a little sense, Jill and I, of what it was like to lose a home,” he jabbered. “Years ago, now, 15 years, I was in Washington doing ‘Meet the press’… Lightning struck at home on a little lake outside the home, not a lake a big pond. It hit the wire and came up underneath our home, into the… air condition ducts. To make a long story short, I almost lost my wife, my ’67 Corvette and my cat.”

In reality, back in 2004, lightning caused a kitchen fire in Biden’s home that was put out in 20 minutes with no other damage.

If this were an isolated incident, we could chalk it up to Biden’s encroaching senility. But it isn’t. After presiding over the botched pullout from Afghanistan that resulted in the return of the Taliban, the murder of 13 American servicemembers, the abandonment of hundreds of American citizens and thousands of American green card holders, and the subjugation of some tens of millions of women, Biden essentially shrugged. Then, when faced with the families of wounded and killed American soldiers, he attempted to “feel their pain” by invoking the death of his son, Beau. According to Cheryl Rex, whose son died in the Abbey Gate bombing of Aug. 26, 2021, “His words to me were, ‘My wife, Jill, and I know how you feel. We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag-draped coffin.'”

Biden has cited Beau in similar instances multiple times.

In the Jewish community, death of a loved one is followed by shiva, a seven-day period of mourning. During shiva, mourners don’t leave their homes; they are instead cared for by the community, provided with food and communal prayer. Members of the community visit the shiva house to provide comfort.

The first rule of visiting a shiva house: Don’t talk about your own experiences with death or pain. It’s gauche and irrelevant and trivializing.

Yet this is Biden’s first move.

Empathy is the quality of putting yourself in the place of others. But Biden isn’t an empath. He’s someone who believes that everyone else’s pain is merely a reflection of his own.

Ben Shapiro, 39, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and co-founder of Daily Wire+. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author; his latest book is “The Authoritarian Moment: How The Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent.”

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Donna
Donna
1 year ago

“A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right, but a fool’s heart to the left” Ecclesiastes 10:2. We seem to have a shortage of wise men and women and a surplus of fools in our midst. Thank you for the article, Ben.

Rik
Rik
1 year ago

Jackass Joe is the BIGGEST LIAR to ever inhabit the White House! And I will NEVER BELIEVE that he “won” it legitimately! And someday, it will be proven!

Robert Zuccaro
Robert Zuccaro
1 year ago

A neighbor kid accidently flew an RC plane into the shed in my backyard, denting it, so I know how New Yorkers felt on 911. (Sarcasm) Joe Biden always has been a rich white, elitist, country club backslapping racist. Empathy? Only show to get votes.

Jeri
Jeri
1 year ago

Don’t you want to puke looking at that picture? Shame on that woman for allowing herself to be a slave to an ugly, hateful old white man.

David Millikan
David Millikan
1 year ago

Dictator Beijing biden is F.O.S. no matter how you cut it.

teresa
teresa
1 year ago

biden is more than that! i wouldn’t be allowed to put my words down in this comment but you know what they are.

David
David
1 year ago

Biden is a absolute narcissistic moron!!!

Sandy
Sandy
1 year ago

Right on, Ben…I have often thought exactly the same, especially when Biden is rubbing a woman’s shoulders, with so much empathy! Thank you.

Gerry
Gerry
1 year ago

I am watching and looking for his name in the obituary’s column!! At this time in my life, I would rather watch Harris’s buck tooth horrendous laugh than watch Joe walking around half dead and mumbling with eyes half closed.

Christine
Christine
1 year ago

I am baffled how anyone ever could have seen this self-absorbed grifter as anything other than despicable. What was sold as empathy was simply narcissism. Biden has to be the center of attention — always, and he uses tragedy to insure others defer to him. He is a dangerous man, corrupt and mean-spirited.

Fred Noel
Fred Noel
1 year ago

I felt so sorry for Joe and Jill when I found out their house in Delaware burnt to the ground and he almost lost his classic Corvette. Saying this while talking to the people of Maui that survived and who lost everything, their houses, their cars and the lives of loved ones. Joey, it was a small kitchen fire. How dare you even make a comparison like that.
I was happy to hear that the house was rebuilt in time for him to hide in basement to campaign. That should give the people of Maui inspiration and hope to move forward.

David Millikan
David Millikan
1 year ago

Dictator Beijing biden is fixing to have Alcohol Drinks LIMITED to 2 DRINKS A WEEK. NO BS.
Another Prime Example of Dictator Beijing biden being a DICTATOR who thinks he’s smarter and better than YOU.

Leslie Jones
Leslie Jones
1 year ago

As they say in Hollywood:
“It’s all about sincerity and once you can fake that you’ll be a star!”

ref
ref
1 year ago

I’m tired of hearing about old creepy senile Joe. He’s one of the most corrupt people on the planet. He’s a loser. Always has been. He a slug of a human. He’s immoral, irreverent, and sleazy. He’s an habitual liar who could care less about the American people. He should have been impeached by now.
No more talk about the dementia ridden old fool.
And I don’t care who the Republican nominee for President is I’ll vote for that person. I will NEVER EVER vote for a Democrat who hates the American people.

Mimi
Mimi
1 year ago

I watched the news when the coffins came home from Afghanistan. So sad, so heartbreaking. As each coffin was brought off the plane, Joe Biden pulled up his left wrist to check the time, while his right hand was held in a salute. So disrespectful! I knew then, that I would never have any respect for this horrible man.

Myrna
Myrna
1 year ago

Biden always was what he is now. Perhaps we are lucky that he doesn’t care who knows and that he has displayed what the globalists think they can ram through. We do not want it. We are the plain people of America and we are a majority. That still matters.

Jeanette
Jeanette
1 year ago

Biden has never cared for the citizens of this country…as senator he tried to end Social Security and recently we’ve heard that Medicare may be part of his agenda. This man only cares fir his financial well-being and comfort. Don’t be fooled by his feeble appearance.

B Davenport
B Davenport
1 year ago

In one moment, he is uttering unintelligible messages and appearing as a laughingstock to the world. In the next moment, he reveals the cynical, hateful, narcissist he has been for all the years of his political life (and maybe longer). In every moment, he is a disgrace to the citizens of the United Statest.

CLIFFORD F GERACI
CLIFFORD F GERACI
1 year ago

It doesn’t matter who is in the White House, what matters to the American public at this time in history is “WHAT CAN MY COUNTRY DO FOR ME”. Free education, you got my vote, increase in Welfare and EBT allowances, you got my vote, free health care, you got my vote, all regardless of how much damage it does to the country.

caseyp
caseyp
1 year ago

Joe Biden is neither and empath nor a narcissist. Joe is an empty shell. Joe is not mentally cognizant to think on his own and can’t string enough words together to form a coherent sentence on his own. Every word he mutters is written for him to read and every step he takes is choreographed. Joe is nothing but a figurehead and fall guy to take the blame for the multitude of mistakes and poor judgement from the incompetent. inexperienced and unqualified members of his administration who were appointed only because they fit an agenda and a diversity profile.

jjay
jjay
1 year ago

Mr. Ben Shapiro, I do appreciate your way of bringing us quickly to the Truth of the matter. Thank you! Well done.

Kim
Kim
1 year ago

I’ve known people like Biden, who take every opportunity to inject their own experiences into someone else’s difficult situation. It’s more out of self-centeredness than it is empathy. But his “No comment” response goes beyond that, into the realm of callous disregard for human suffering. His intellect is failing, his body is failing, and his emotions are lacking.

Kyle Buy you some guns,and learn how to shoot
Kyle Buy you some guns,and learn how to shoot
1 year ago

So ,is there anything new on numnut. Kyle L.

JoanOMGne 4 justice
JoanOMGne 4 justice
1 year ago

Joe Biden is a senile pseudo politician ! . He needs to retire and take daily bicycle rides in Delaware and eat tons of ice cream.!

Silver Belle
Silver Belle
1 year ago

My Facebook post description of the evil one who is constantly on vacation. “What a pathological, compulsive lying, evil, self-righteous, and lazy, middle-class destroying, apathetic, narcissist. Did I leave anything out? Beginning to believe we are in the end times.”

Won’t be the last
Won’t be the last
1 year ago

Empathy is wasted on the right. Hopefully when the time comes the bullets won’t.

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1 year ago

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Mickey Adams
Mickey Adams
1 year ago

wow I find this article to be totally offensive and inaccurate. I myself consider myself to be an empathetic person .I gained most of my empathy thru the trials I have endured in my life
It gave me insight to others feelings .I am in know way a narcissist. I also don’t FEEL Joe Biden is either

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