Joe Biden is an angry old man.

He addressed the nation yesterday afternoon by shouting at us about what an “extraordinary success” his retreat from Afghanistan had been.

None but the most loyal Biden poodles were fooled.

The president is so far gone that he seems unaware we watched his botched surrender to the Taliban in real time. We saw a reckless mission that left both Americans and Afghans stranded and desperate to get to an airport that was being guarded by a band of erratic, medieval terrorists. We saw our military blown to bits by suicide bombers. We saw a president checking his watch during what is usually referred to as a “dignified” transfer of the remains of slain American warriors.

The Washington Post, which helped elect this fool, was unable this week to find a Gold Star family that felt the president treated them with dignity and compassion in Dover.

They said Biden was shallow, distracted and that he blabbed endlessly about Beau Biden and his own personal grief. 

They know - and so do we - that Biden is nothing more than an unctuous huckster who’s unable to read a room.

The president refuses to take responsibility for this unprecedented disaster. He blamed his predecessor for the failure. He blamed Afghan security forces. Ever defiant, he even blamed the people trapped in Afghanistan for not getting out sooner.

Despicable.

Yes, this was such a successful “withdrawal” that special operators and veterans are risking their lives and spending their own money to extract the Americans and Afghans that Biden left behind.

If there was any doubt before yesterday, there is none now: Biden is a bitter, disrespectful and unintelligent politician. 

Worst of all, he is willing to pimp out his own dead son in relentless attempts to gin up sympathy. 

In doing so, Biden cheapens the memory of the only good son he managed to produce and turns Beau into a national punchline.

Who uses a dead son like this?

I’ll answer that: A crass, unprincipled politician who will read whatever his handlers or his  ambitious wife slap on the teleprompter.

Biden insisted yesterday that we should be celebrating the end of a war.

Someone tell this carnival barker that as a nation we’re not celebrating. 

We’re sick knowing that we left Americans behind in Afghanistan in a lawless nation governed by bloodthirsty cavemen who see women as chattel, Christians as infidels, and friends of our country as traitors deserving of public executions.