President Biden chose the world that his empathy is an act, with a blame-shifting, nasty,

vindictive, and bloviating speech championing his Afghanistan withdrawal, and fallout will be toxic.

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becoming increasingly clear because what true empathy is about just interpersonally is when you

don't agree with the person that you are empathizing with,

and when you have to take the brunt of what they are saying and just internalize it.

If all your empathy really is, is performative, if all your empathy really is,

is calling upon your own wellspring of personal grief in order to project it out to the world so that people will

sympathize with you? That is not you acting empathetically. That is you being an actor. And Joe Biden

is an actor. I don't know what else to tell you when it comes to his supposed compassion and his

supposed empathy. What we have watched over the past several weeks is the stripping away of the

veil of empathy from Joe Biden. It happened again last night. It's been happening consistently over the past several weeks is the stripping away of the veil of empathy from Joe Biden.

It happened again last night. It's been happening consistently over the past several weeks when

asked tough questions about the suffering of the people being left behind in Afghanistan.

When he has asked about the people who are going to be living under the Taliban and the people

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