Joe Biden tries to do his empathy routine in Hawaii, but fails dramatically.

Democratic officials try to blame the wildfires brutality on climate change, and Republicans

continue to prepare for Wednesday's GOP debate.

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Today is August 22nd.

The fires in Lahaina that actually wiped out the entire town,

it may have killed a thousand people.

Those wildfires, well, you know, they happened on August 8th.

So it is currently almost two weeks beyond the wildfires.

Maybe a thousand people dead.

Hundreds of people dead for sure, including possibly up to hundreds of children.

In fact, the mayor of Maui says he has no idea how many kids actually died in these wildfires in Lahaina.

Here he was.

I don't know. Yes wish I would say you do. How many children are missing?

You know. I knew the answer to that. I would be happy to answer that. You have no estimate

as to how many children are missing? I guess we can end this right now if you guys want.

This is one of the biggest questions that the people of Lah it have, but you don't want to answer. It always takes one or two to ruin it for everybody. At least. This is our first one. Well, we could say that about you. No idea how many kids are missing. The president of the United States, though, he was on vacation. He was in

Rahaboth Beach, Delaware. And here's how the rules of politics work, gang. If you're the president and a major natural disaster happens on your watch, and you are apparently not within eye shot of the thing, then we say that you don't have empathy and that you are very, very bad. This was true of George Dobie Bush when it came to Hurricane Katrina. It was true of Ted Cruz when it came to freezing temperatures in Texas. And apparently it is not true if you're a Democrat. If you're a Democrat, you can do whatever the hell you want. So Joe Biden went on vacation, Rahobah Beach Delaware. He was asked specifically about the death toll in Lahaina, and he said no comment. And then he rode around on his bike and he had some ice cream. And he sat on the beach for like a week, and then he went to Lake Tahoe in Nevada, and he sat there at the mansion of a major donor, and then he took the trouble to finally fly to Maui. Now you would imagine this is when the famed Joe Biden empathy would make its appearance. See, here's the thing about Joe Biden. He's not empathetic. Joe Biden is a very selfish creature. If you look at Joe Biden's entire life history, what you see is that Joe Biden cares chiefly about himself and also about people in his immediate familial circle. He has always been willing to use his power in order to corruptly enrich all of those people, including himself. He does not see political power as a way to, quote unquote, help the little guy as he pretends. He sees it a way to help him and his family and the people he is most close to. And if that means denying the family name to like a four-year-old, he'll do that too. But he's been able to get ahead because the media have been able to shield him based on this faux supposedly roguish charm that Joe Biden once had.

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