According To Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin Literally Does Not Have A Soul
He said it to his face.
Joe Biden’s deep, solemn commitment to the YOLO is known to even the most apolitical observer, but no one could have predicted how far the world’s best Vice-President takes his crazy-old-bastard game in private, let alone when he’s engaged in high-stakes political poker with one of the world’s most dangerous men.
In an in-depth feature with New Yorker magazine which came out last night, Biden casually recounted the time he told Russian Prime Minister and clichéd supervillain Vladimir Putin that he literally had no soul — while standing in the man’s own office.
“I had an interpreter, and when he was showing me his office I said, ‘It’s amazing what capitalism will do, won’t it? A magnificent office!’ And he laughed. As I turned, I was this close to him.” Biden held his hand a few inches from his nose. “I said, ‘Mr. Prime Minister, I’m looking into your eyes, and I don’t think you have a soul.’ ”
Holy crap, Joe. That’s some James Bond-type shit! What did Putin do?
“And he looked back at me, and he smiled, and he said, ‘We understand one another.’ ” Biden sat back, and said, “This is who this guy is!”
So basically, Biden accused the one of the most powerful people on Earth of not having a soul, and the guy straight-up admitted it.
While Putin undoubtedly won that insanely testosterone-fuelled exchange, the very fact that Biden is still alive and not at the bottom of a crevasse somewhere is proof enough that the Veep is a force to be reckoned with as well as being the coolest white person since LCD Soundsystem broke up.
Love you, Joe.