Ladies and gentlemen, we gather here tonight to mourn the state of our nation, because the state of our nation is pathetic.

And it is pathetic in the main because of the president of the United States.

As it turns out, we all should have listened to Barack Obama.

In 2020, former president Obama said something simple, yet profound about his former vice president, a man he had labeled his brother.

He said, don't underestimate Joe's ability to f-things up.

Barack Obama was right. Joe Biden came into the office on the wings of eagles.

He was handed a working vaccine and a distribution plan for that vaccine.

He was handed an economy that had been placed into an artificial coma in order to prevent the spread of COVID, but that was about to rebound to record growth rates.

He was handed a stable foreign policy, and he had been blessed with the unending bounty of sick-afantic media coverage welcoming him into the Oval Office within approval rating of nearly 56%.

What did he do with these advantages?

He presided over perhaps the worst first 14 months of any presidency since the Civil War.

And unlike Abraham Lincoln, our current crisis is entirely of Joe Biden's making.

On issue after issue, Joe Biden is not merely wrong, he is aggressively wrong.

He is not merely foolish, he is stubbornly foolish.

Joe Biden became president with one goal to enthrine himself in history as a great leader.

Today, we can safely say that he is one of the worst leaders in American history.

On foreign policy, Joe Biden has made America a laughing stock.

Our enemies don't respect us, they don't fear us, they laugh at us.

Biden promised stability. He promised he would be the adult in the room.

Instead, he has acted like a toddler, whining, muleing, throwing tantrums and then in the end, capitulating.

He precipitously withdrew from Afghanistan for no apparent reason and with no actual strategy, destroying a country for which America had expended thousands of lives and trillions of dollars by handing it over to a group of eighth century radical Islamist barbarians.

Those barbarians promptly blew up 13 American service members.

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