I remember when Traitor Joe called the withdrawal “an extraordinary success”
in a national TV address.
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Marxism paint your opponent up to be corrupt when in fact you are,
Worse Thing Biden Did When He Took Office Reverse Everything With E.O.s Trump Accomplished. Second Worse: Getting Trump disqualified with the 14th Amendment could be dangerous — here’s why (msn.com)
Story by Paul Withers • 40m Joe Biden and son Hunter hit with explosive corruption claims by ex-Ukrainian prosecutor (msn.com)
A Second American Civil War Is Coming? (msn.com)
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I hope not then they declare martial law and Obama is our King appointed by the WEF.
President Joe Biden says he will request more funding for a new coronavirus vaccine.
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They leave Illegals walk across the border then Nikki “Nutcase” Haley
claims 65 is “way too low” for retirement, and people are confused:
“We get 12 years of retirement, and they think that’s too much?”
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More Than Three-Quarters of Americans Say Biden Would Be Too Old to Be Effective If Re Elected (msn.com)
Trump presses Republicans to impeach Biden or ‘fade into oblivion’ (msn.com)
The left just can’t get over its love of (harmful) lockdowns (msn.com)
This Bullshit doesn’t work in America cuz first you got to get the guns and you ain’t getting ours bitch you can have them right after we kill you with them but I bet we can kill more of you than you’ll ever get rid of our guns have a nice day now and feel scared of somebody else really a punk and a bitch like your mama
Doesn’t work with me, which is why I am still unvaxxed. What manipulation can
be wrought when I do not base my view upon humanity but the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thereby my thoughts are inviolate, invincible based not upon mankind but God.
Phil 1:21: “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”
Both parties have completely forgotten who their bosses are! Time to replace all of it! Declaration of Independence 2! It starts with a Convention of States to dissolve the current Federal Government and then design a new one based on Constitutional principles plus everything this nation has learned in the last 250 years!
The America First movement is DOA unless patriots can find a way to
overcome the 2020 election fraud on steroids and new fake pandemic
that the uni=party will throw at them in 2024!
Throughout history, Tyranny has never been defeated by legal means!
Imagine if we tried to politely sue King George in 1776?
Patriots must stop fighting with both hands tied behind their backs
while the criminals do anything both legal and illegal to hold onto power!!
Time to unleash the Kraken. Stuff ballot boxes, flip votes, create your own pandemic (no one shows up to work),etc. It has to be bigger and more powerful, and they need to come up with a Patton style strategy to finish off this corrupt, criminal enemy once and for all or else this 250-year-old constitutional republic will perish!!
Social Security is paid by those who work and pay into social security, dumbass.
Oh, don’t tell me. You believe in Al Gore’s “lockbox” where the government took all the money you paid into Social Security and “invested” it for you, and you just get that paid back at a HUGE compounded interest, for the rest of your life. HAHAHA.
You paid for retirees before you. Your kids pay for you now. And then your grandkids. Unless they decide to stop, like Rick Scott and other prominent Republicans want, and have wanted, for decades. After all: Social Security IS Socialism. Wooo. Scary!
If this comes to pass and you need a cardboard box to live in, let me know.
I have a whole bunch saved up for my grandparents.
A “white” young man with a history of mental illness, a racially motivated manifesto,
using an AR-15 and wearing a swastika … .sounds like the FBI used the same script again. Facts to keep in mind: Jacksonville just went democrat. Democrats are desperately trying to flip Florida. Democrats are again trying to push gun control. Hate-mongering and false flags are their most used political weapons. ‘Biden omics Is Working,’ Says Joe Biden (msn.com)
Everything we thought about the Biden family is ‘true’: Rep. Lisa McClain.
Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., joins ‘Mornings with Maria’ to discuss the latest breakthrough in the GOP’s investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings.
Trump Tells Congressional Republicans Either Impeach ‘The BUM’ Biden 0r
‘Fade Into Oblivion’ (msn.com)
Here’s a List of Joe Biden’s Failures as His Approval Ratings Plummet
While President Joe Biden has accomplished several things during his first year in office, there’s a long list of failures, which shows in his falling approval ratings.
BY MOHIT OBEROI, CFA
JAN. 4 2022, PUBLISHED 9:16 A.M. ET
List: 100 Biden failures in 100 days, ‘America First’ to ‘America last’ | Washington Examiner
Joe Biden’s Growing List of Failures | Opinion (newsweek.com)
Biden’s biggest failure was how he handled the Afghanistan withdrawal.
The botched-up withdrawal from Afghanistan was Biden’s biggest failure. One graphic on Real Clear Politics that catches the eye is the intersection between Biden’s approval and disapproval ratings that happened somewhere towards the middle of August. That was the time when the U.S. left Afghanistan. Since then, the gap between his approval and disapproval ratings has widened.
Meanwhile, the blame for the Afghanistan blunder isn’t entirely on Biden. Former presidents, including Trump who signed a deal with the Taliban, must share the blame.
An opinion piece on The Hill by former national security adviser John Bolton, who fell out with Trump, best explains the debacle. The issue with the Afghanistan withdrawal would have likely occurred no matter who was in the White House.
Biden has had a series of foreign policy failures.
Bolton wrote, “America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan was a strategic debacle,
a national embarrassment, a rolling catastrophe for the Afghan people, a tonic
for our adversaries and a downer for our friends.”
While there have been some high points in Biden’s foreign policy, the handling of the migrant crisis at the Southern Border was another failure.
Biden’s energy policy is a failure in the short term.
Biden’s energy policy, where he has pivoted towards green energy and tightened the norms on fossil fuels, has been a failure at least in the short term. Biden tried reasoning with OPEC+ to increase the crude oil output and he wasn’t successful. While he has backed the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline by waiving the sanctions, the administration canceled the Keystone Pipeline.
The pivot towards green energy will be a long-term positive and lead to both job creation as well as energy security. However, it has also added to the increase in gasoline prices in the short term.
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By Ted Harvey – – Thursday, December 29, 2022
OPINION:
Looking back on 2022, the Biden presidency was a mixed bag — a mixed bag of lies, failures and nothing else. President Biden has been a resounding dud as commander in chief, with his words and actions (or lack thereof) ranging from the comical to the ineffectual and downright embarrassing.
On the eve of 2023, there is perhaps no greater Biden failure than the U.S. economy, which is headed for a recession. Seventy percent of economists expect one, warning Americans that inflation will remain sky-high while economic growth continues to be virtually nonexistent. In states like California and Pennsylvania, gas prices still hover around or exceed $4 per gallon, while food prices continue to rise. The price of lettuce, for example, has increased by nearly 10% since October alone.
Americans across the socioeconomic spectrum are struggling, with pocketbook issues still top of mind. In fact, almost two-thirds of Americans now live from paycheck to paycheck — up from 60% in October. The high cost of living is understandably the greatest concern among voters and taxpayers, and most Americans blame Mr. Biden for their financial woes.
Don’t just take my word for it.
Mr. Biden’s approval rating remains below the woeful 40% mark, weighed down by anger and frustration pertaining to the economy. There’s a reason that Republicans won the popular vote by about 5 percentage points in the 2022 midterms.
And that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Issue after issue, Mr. Biden receives failing marks. Take illegal immigration, which is essentially at its highest level ever. In fiscal 2022, Border Patrol encounters with those who entered the U.S. illegally reached nearly 2.8 million — up from under 650,000 in former President Donald Trump’s last year of office.
Even CNN admits “the U.S. has a border crisis,” which tells you how critical the issue has become. The Washington Post, unable to ignore reality, now regularly uses the phrase “border surge.” Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat and Biden ally, concedes that the White House’s immigration agenda — if there even is one — “hasn’t worked” in Texas or anywhere else.
Only Biden officials live in fantasyland, with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claiming that the border isn’t “open.” Mr. Biden himself refuses to visit the U.S.-Mexico border, hoping for illegal immigrants to go away by themselves. The president recently met with Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso to discuss non-immigration-related issues, suggesting that “we’ve made historic strides on migration.” He’s right: Mr. Biden has indeed made history, but for all the wrong reasons.
And even that’s not the whole iceberg. Lest we forget the Biden administration’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal, which has now drawn a congressional investigation into the 13 Americans left dead and hundreds more left behind. White House officials are now in the business of obstructing investigators who are seeking accountability and transparency over the Afghanistan debacle.
Cue more lies:
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby recently claimed that the likes of China can only “marvel” at the “efficiency” and “effectiveness” of the withdrawal, despite the fact that the Chinese Communist Party has leveraged that same withdrawal to paint the United States as an unreliable global partner and a nation in decline.
Mr. Biden’s failures and lies are so egregious that our enemies are using them as national rallying cries. It’s all right, though: According to Mr. Biden, his presidency has been a whopping success. The administration is “celebrating” its supposed accomplishments this holiday season, regardless of the countless problems that remain unsolved. Here’s how the liberal media looks at it: “Biden plans to seize the opportunity to showcase that he, in the White House’s view, has gotten more done in two years than any president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”
To that end, the Biden administration has created the “Biden-Harris Record” website, highlighting the policy “wins” of this White House. Leading the website? This line: “Lowering costs of families’ everyday expenses.”
Oh, to live in Mr. Biden’s fantasyland. You at least have to give him credit for the confidence. Irrational it may be, but Americans can only hope to love themselves
the way that Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris love their time in power.
While Democrats pat themselves on the back, everyday Americans are left picking up the pieces from their policies, hoping for better days ahead. Those days won’t come in 2023, but 2024 will bring the change of leadership that Americans so desperately need.
Inflation has risen to a multi-decade high under Biden.
The U.S. inflation rate is running at multi-year highs under Biden. While the administration isn’t entirely to blame and has tried to address the situation through multiple actions, the actions have fallen short.
On the social front, Biden has failed to unite the country as he vowed.
If anything, he hasn’t even been able to keep the Democratic flock together,
which was visible in Joe Manchin’s opposition to the BBB (Build Back Better).
Critics would argue that under Biden, there have been more deaths due to the COVID-19 pandemic than there were under Trump. However, that wouldn’t be a fair comparison since the delta wave under Biden has been far more lethal. Also, the administration didn’t impose the kind of lockdowns that we saw in the initial days of the COVID-19 pandemic under Trump.
How’s the economy under Biden?
In regards to the economy, Biden has handled the situation reasonably well even though we could see it as a failure or a success based on the political ideology. However, 2022 will be a tough year for Biden. The U.S. faces slowing economic growth and possibly a flurry of rate hikes from the Federal Reserve.
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The rising cases of the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus also complicate the scenario. On the geopolitical front, Biden faces an assertive Russia and China. Balancing the domestic and international situation won’t be an easy task for the president. There are also midterm elections in 2022 and Democrats will expect Biden to deliver a surprise.
Can Biden do that? We’ll have to wait and see.
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The first year of Joe Biden’s presidency prolifically delivered examples of corruption
and incompetence, and his second year in office — which drew to a close on Thursday —
has been no different.
Last year, The Federalist collected “A Scandal For Every Month: The Biggest Botches, Failures, And Mess-Ups Of Joe Biden’s First 12 Months In Office.” At the end of that piece, I expressed hope that 2022 would see fewer disasters flow from the White House. Unfortunately for the country, the roundup from year No. 2 is just as grim.
January: Biden Compared Filibuster Defenders to Historical Racists
Last year’s list concluded with a bonus item for January 2022: Biden comparing his agenda’s critics — which include Democrat Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona — to former Alabama Gov. George Wallace and Confederate leader Jefferson Davis.
In a Jan. 11 speech urging the U.S. Senate to ditch filibuster rules in order to pass his radical and unconstitutional federalization of election laws, Biden asked, “Do you want to be the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?”
February: Incompetent Response to Russia-Ukraine War
Before, during, and since Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine in February, the Biden administration’s response has been marked by incompetence. Biden waived sanctions on the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline before the war in 2021, crippled American energy production, and turned to Russian ally Venezuela for oil after the conflict erupted.
In January 2022, right before Russia’s invasion, Biden signaled a green light to Russian President Vladimir Putin, responding to a question about potential plans to impose sanctions on Russia with the comments, “It’s one thing if it’s also a minor incursion
[into Ukraine],” and “My guess is [Putin] will move in. He has to do something.”
“Are you effectively giving Putin permission to make a small incursion into the country?”
a reporter asked. Biden’s answer: “That’s how it did sound like, didn’t it?”
A month into the Russia-Ukraine war, Biden recklessly called for regime change in Russia, before reversing course and insisting he did no such thing. By November 2022, the United States had shipped out a whopping $68 billion in aid to Ukraine, with Biden requesting another $37.7 billion to put total aid in the 12-figure range.
March: Hunter Biden Scandal Resurfaces as NYT Admits Laptop’s Legitimacy
Eighteen months after the New York Post reported on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden that contained incriminating emails about his shady foreign business deals — a bombshell that was censored in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election — The New York Times finally, quietly admitted in March that the laptop was legitimate. As The Federalist’s Senior Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland noted at the time, conceding the laptop’s authenticity also meant conceding that the numerous scandals contained in the laptop’s trove of documents were real.
Those scandals include an apparent pay-to-play in Ukraine, where Hunter was receiving $50,000 a month to sit on the board of corrupt energy company Burisma while his V.P.
dad oversaw American foreign policy toward the country. During that time, Joe Biden leveraged U.S. aid to Ukraine to pressure the firing of the state prosecutor who was investigating Burisma. Hunter Biden’s scandalous transactions also indicate a deal with a Chinese company in which 10 percent was “held by H for the big guy,” presumed to be Joe Biden.
April: Biden Admin Debuts Thought Police Board
In a congressional hearing on April 27, Biden’s Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced the creation of a “Disinformation Governance Board” to crack down on the “threat” (his word) of speech that challenges the Biden administration’s narrative on social media. The administration tapped Hunter Biden laptop truther, Christopher Steele fangirl, and censorship aficionado Nina Jankowicz to helm the project, before “pausing” the project after three weeks of outrage. Make no mistake, though — DHS assures us it’s still “continuing” to “address” speech it doesn’t like.
May: White House ‘Encourages’ Intimidation of SCOTUS Justices
After a leaker funneled a draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade to Politico in early May, furious abortion supporters swarmed the private homes of the Republican-appointed justices. One left-wing group offered money to activists in return for descending on justices’ residences, even publishing their alleged addresses online. When asked about the intimidation tactics levied against the court, then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki refused to condemn the demonstrations, telling reporters that the Biden administration “certainly continue[s] to encourage that outside of judges’ homes.”
In June, the threats culminated in an assassination attempt on Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s life, when a California man was arrested near Kavanaugh’s home with “a Glock handgun, ammunition, a knife, pepper spray, and various tools for forced entry.”
June: Gas Prices Surpass $5 in Record High
After the Biden administration cracked down on domestic gas production, canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, and spurred nationwide inflation, gas prices climbed. June saw several regrettable milestones.
On June 3, The Federalist recorded that the country had seen 18 records for high gas prices in just 19 days. On June 6, gas prices officially doubled what they were when Biden took office. On June 11, the national average price of a gallon of gas hit $5.00 for the first time ever. On June 14, the price of gas hit its all-time high of $5.016, and on June 19, diesel topped e charts at $5.816.
July: The Joe Biden Recession Becomes Official
As rampant inflation continued to reach and break 40-year records — exacerbated by packages dumping trillions of dollars into the economy under Biden’s watch, while the president touted his “transition” of the economy to a green pipe dream — the nation officially hit the criteria for a recession at the end of July. Gross domestic product fell by 0.9 percent in 2022’s second quarter, hitting the benchmark of back-to-back quarters of negative growth that has traditionally signaled recession.
As Federalist CEO Sean Davis noted at the time, “Private investment dropped by double digits, its worst showing since the COVID shutdown,” while “disposable personal income has now fallen for five straight quarters.”
August: Biden’s FBI Raids a Former President
Under the leadership of partisan Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Biden administration’s FBI conducted an unprecedented raid on Biden’s predecessor, 2020 presidential opponent, and potential 2024 rival Donald Trump. The stated reason for the raid was a documents dispute with the National Archives under the Presidential Records Act — but executive branch staffers and appointees (who, unlike the president, don’t have the power to declassify documents) have mishandled memos before and received wrist slaps.
The politicized nature of the raid — and of the DOJ’s attempt to turn the documents dispute into a scandal ahead of Trump’s candidacy in the 2024 election — became even more obvious after President Biden was discovered to have withheld multiple troves of classified documents from his time as vice president in multiple locations, including his garage. His own DOJ’s deference to Biden’s lawyers in that documents scandal makes their hubbub over the Trump case all the more absurd.
September: Biden’s FBI Raids Pro-Life Dad
Discontent to stop at Biden’s predecessor, the FBI executed a raid on pro-life Catholic
and father of seven Mark Houck the following month. Houck’s wife described north of
20 agents with more than a dozen vehicles descending on their family home, with “big,
huge rifles pointed at Mark and pointed at me and kind of pointed throughout the house,” before dragging Mark away.
What was his crime? The Justice Department accused Houck of “attacking a patient escort” at a Planned Parenthood facility, but Mark’s wife says he simply pushed away a pro-abortion man who was verbally and physically antagonizing Mark’s 12-year-old son. The man had previously had a lawsuit against Mark thrown out of district court, but the DOJ picked it up in its war on pro-life demonstrators post-Dobbs. By October, the DOJ had announced indictments of 22 pro-lifers.
October: Illegal Immigration Closes Worst Fiscal Year in History
The year 2022 was full of new records for out-of-control illegal immigration under
Biden’s watch, but by the time the fiscal year closed out and the 2023 fiscal year started in October, migrant apprehensions had smashed the previous annual record. In FY 2022, Customs and Border Protection recorded nearly 2.4 million apprehensions of illegal immigrants at the southern border, compared to 1.7 million in 2021 and not even 460,000 in 2020. The totals for every month but July and August eclipsed previous years (totals for July and August 2021, also under the Biden administration, were higher than in 2022). May of 2022 saw the highest monthly number of migrant encounters ever recorded.
November: Biden Buys Votes with Unconstitutional Student Loan Bailout
Biden’s plan to put taxpayers on the hook for roughly $300 billion to cover student loan debts for affluent college graduates found itself smacked down by the judiciary several times in November — but not before the president had used the illegal scheme to win over young voters for his political allies in the midterm election. Announced in August, the plan constituted an unconstitutional usurpation of the legislative branch’s authority to expend government (i.e., taxpayer) funds.
A survey from Intelligent in the summer of 2022 found that 23 percent of voters said they wouldn’t vote for Biden in 2024 unless he made “some or all” student loan debt disappear. The ploy did what it was designed to do in November, with Gen Z and millennials turning out in high numbers for Democrats.
December: ‘Twitter Files’ Show Biden Asked Big Tech for Censorship
A cache of internal Twitter documents revealed in December showed the Biden administration had pressured Twitter to censor and “de-platform” accounts that challenged the regime’s narrative about Covid shots. Other “Twitter Files” released the same month revealed that even before Biden won the White House, his campaign team was sending similar censorship requests to the Big Tech company, this time about embarrassing images of his scandal-embroiled son, Hunter.
The Biden team’s penchant for colluding with Big Tech to censor unflattering information or dissenting opinions is consistent with the administration’s 2021 admission that it was “flagging” social media posts it deemed “misinformation” for its allies at Facebook.
Are you better off than you were two years ago?
A number of reports on Saturday suggested that White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain will step down after the State of the Union address next month. So, it’s a good time to look back on the Biden presidency so far.
Last year, just before President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address, I wrote about seven failures of his administration.
From COVID-19 tyranny to a foolhardy retreat from energy independence to a vicious war on parents, the 46th president has proved to be far from the healing uniter he was promised to be.
Though it seems many Americans have already forgotten about it, the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal remains one of the most humiliating foreign policy fiascos
in American history. Even worse, following that disaster, there was no reckoning,
no accountability for what happened.
In Biden’s second year, we saw many ongoing problems, some of which have only escalated. So, to mark the second anniversary of Biden’s presidency, I’ve updated
my analysis of some of his biggest failures that are affecting Americans today.
1.) Immigration Chaos
Biden said that the border crisis didn’t begin “overnight.” Actually, it pretty much did begin overnight—the moment he took office. Since he was sworn in as president, there have been an estimated 5.5 million illegal border crossings.
In December alone, there were 251,487 illegal immigrant encounters at the border, according to Customs and Border Patrol. That’s the highest number ever recorded.
Border towns are besieged, but the whole country is now experiencing the effects of the illegal immigration crisis.
Not only are millions of people crossing the border illegally, the border situation has created additional problems beyond the humanitarian issue. Huge quantities of illicit drugs such as fentanyl are coming across the border, too, brought here by drug and human traffickers who thrive in the chaos.
In 2021, 70,601 people died from a fentanyl overdose in the US. That figure is up 25% from 2020 and is nearly double the amount of fentanyl overdose deaths in 2019. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. Like other opioids, fentanyl use can lead to dependency and addiction.
Pharmaceutical fentanyl was approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a pain reliever in 1998 and is typically prescribed to patients with severe or chronic pain. Although pharmaceutical fentanyl can be abused and or sold illegally, the most recent cases of overdoses and deaths are from illegally made fentanyl.
Drug dealers may mix fentanyl with illicit drugs such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and MDMA to increase the drugs’ effects — sometimes without the user’s knowledge. Because fentanyl is significantly stronger than other opioids, doses as small as two milligrams can be lethal. And with users unaware of how much fentanyl they are using, it’s an especially dangerous combination. The Drug Enforcement Administration recently found that 6 out of 10 fentanyl-laced fake prescription pills contain a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl.
It’s not a stretch to say that Biden has created the worst border crisis in U.S. history.
We’ve set records for border crossings in each of his first two years as president,
and at the current rate, we will set an illegal border-crossing record again this year.
This is all while Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas again and again assures us that the border is “secure.” Does this look secure?
Of course, when the president arrived at the border, in El Paso, Texas, on Jan. 8, for his first-ever visit, everything was cleaned up to make things look orderly and normal.
The White House and its media apologists first attempted to write off this crisis as a “seasonal” phenomenon. Nope, it wasn’t that. Now, they’ve gone with the more usual excuse for the president’s failures. He’s a victim of circumstances.
The ongoing, shambolic nature of the illegal immigration crisis is an inevitable product of the administration’s policies and ethos. From the moment Biden became president, he has stripped and chipped away at border enforcement and signaled to would-be border crossers that if they can make their way into this country, there’s a good chance they will be able to stay, whether they are detained or not.
It’s hard not to conclude at this point that what’s happening at the Southern border isn’t just incompetence, it’s intentional.
2.) Ballooning Debt
Pretty much every modern president and Congress has failed on the national debt issue. But Biden has ratcheted it up to a whole new level.
The United States started the 2023 fiscal year with a national debt of more than $31 trillion, which is 120% of the entire U.S. economy at this point. That debt increased by about $4 trillion since Biden arrived in office. And the administration is eager to pile up more debt, with a student-loan forgiveness program that will cost half a trillion dollars if it survives court challenges.
What’s the administration’s plan to deal with the debt that’s quickly reaching its congressionally authorized ceiling and flirting with a big Capitol Hill showdown? Well, some of the administration’s backers suggest that the Federal Reserve create a $1 trillion coin.
Yes, a coin.
The proposal is of dubious legality. When questioned on this, the leading proponents of this “solution” suggested that the White House ignore the courts—creating a constitutional crisis—and march troops on the Federal Reserve if it doesn’t comply.
Sounds like a real plan for economic stability.
But don’t expect help from Congress anytime soon. The massive omnibus spending bill passed late last month in the lame-duck Congress locked in spending until September. A debt apocalypse isn’t here yet, but the consequence of limitless spending is starting to catch up with us.
That leads to the next failure of the Biden presidency.
3.) Inflation
Inflation may be slowing down a bit—while food prices soar—but for the most part, the U.S. economy under Biden has suffered its highest levels of inflation since the Jimmy Carter administration in the late 1970s.
The result is that while the U.S. economy has low unemployment, for now, inflation and the cost of living are wiping out the wealth of the average American.
In fact, according to E.J. Antoni, an economist at The Heritage Foundation, the average American family has lost $7,100 in purchasing power under Biden due to inflation and high interest rates. So, while the Biden administration has celebrated a rise in take-home pay, the reality is that inflation during his presidency has more than nullified those gains.
Antoni also took issue with Biden’s spin on the slowing inflation. Slightly lower inflation is hardly a major victory.
“[Biden] is right to say inflation is going down, but that is not the same as prices going down. Inflation going down means that prices are still rising, just not quite as fast as before. A 7.1% inflation rate is still horrific. It means prices will double in about a decade,” Antoni said in a December interview with The Daily Signal, the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.
Put another way, the house is burning down, but the good news is, we might save a few chairs.
4.) Woke Administrative State
The federal bureaucracy is being transformed into an apparatus more wholly devoted to the cult of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Following Biden’s 2021 executive order to establish a “government-wide initiative to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in all parts of the federal workforce,” the bureaucracy has been hard at work injecting every college campus-style inanity into its everyday operations.
Yes, NASA and the Pentagon are now discussing microaggressions and other woke nonsense. That’s comforting to know.
Moreover, all of this extends beyond the bureaucracy’s day-to-day operations.
In April, the Biden administration issued guidance through the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that “transgender youth receive the care they need.”
What does that mean? This is from a Justice Department memo released at the same time:
Intentionally erecting discriminatory barriers to prevent individuals from receiving gender-affirming care implicates a number of federal legal guarantees. State laws and policies that prevent parents or guardians from following the advice of a health care professional regarding what may be medically necessary or otherwise appropriate care for transgender minors may infringe on rights protected by both the Equal Protection and the Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The bottom line is that Biden, with the power of the federal government, wants to ensure that your child will be gender-transitioned, whether you like it or not.
The Biden administration also redefined Title IX protections for women to include sexual orientation and gender identity. Among other things, that could mean that gendered facilities in schools that receive federal funding could be eliminated or opened to the opposite sex.
The order means that the Department of Education will now go after, for instance, public school libraries that try to remove books with sexually explicit content that deals with LGBT identities.
5.) Specter of Scandal
A more recent development in the Biden presidency has been the discovery that he had classified documents from when he was the vice president under President Barack Obama.
Of course, when the FBI seized documents from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida, the media treated it as the scandal of the century. At the time, Biden said he couldn’t believe how “anyone could be that irresponsible” to keep classified documents.
The media are working overtime to draw a distinction here to soften the blow for Biden, but the reality is that this looks bad for the president. It also undermines their arguments about Trump and Republicans being some kind of unique threat to the country.
Before Biden was elected, there were questions about scandal in his family. Was his son, Hunter Biden, using his father’s name and influence to enrich himself? Was the now president in on this corruption?
Of course, Big Tech and the media infamously quashed this story in the days before the 2020 election. It’s not going away now.
The Republican-controlled House will almost certainly be digging deep into potential corruption in the Biden family in the next two years. Even left-wing media and Democrats are acknowledging this is becoming a serious problem for Biden’s presidency.
Even Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said that the recent discovery of classified materials in Biden’s Delaware home and the Penn Biden Center “diminishes the stature of any person who is in possession of it” and that Biden “bears ultimate responsibility.”
6.) No Return to Normalcy
Not only did things generally seem broken and dysfunctional in the past year, but Biden and his administration frequently took opportunities to portray half the country as evil, anti-democratic monsters.
That’s a real winning combination.
In Biden’s now infamous speech with a blood-red backdrop where he ranted and raved at length about the wickedness of “MAGA Republicans,” the president effectively defined his opponents as an existential threat to the country.
“As I stand here tonight, equality and democracy are under assault,” Biden said. “We do ourselves no favors to pretend otherwise.”
He kept doubling down.
“MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live not in the light of truth, but in the shadow of lies,” Biden said. That’s quite ironic given images like this, from his Sept. 1 speech in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, which one news account headlined this way: “Biden shocks viewers with ‘hellish red background’ for polarizing speech.”
Now, Biden might not have genuinely believed what he was saying. After all, his 50-year career in politics seems to be mostly a long practice in opportunistic cynicism.
Biden’s primary strength as a politician has been in carefully triangulating to remain with the current of the Democrat Party, whatever direction that may take him.
One way or another, the speech most certainly represents what people in his administration believe. Many influential people on the Left in America apparently think that anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton—or who takes positions on social issues endorsed by Obama in 2008—should be ostracized, lose their job, and possibly have a powerful federal agency unleashed on them.
Ever the wily character, Biden tried to soften his position a bit after the speech. But the fact remains that that’s now a common view on the Left. To a certain extent, Biden might have been right. What we are dealing with now truly is a battle for the soul of the nation.
The problem is, Biden is on the wrong side of that battle. He promotes extremist gender ideology, obliterates the wealth of the average American, empowers fanatical bureaucrats in Washington, and demonizes his fellow Americans, all while failing to uphold his constitutional duty to carry out the laws of this country and allowing millions of people to flood into this country illegally.
Biden’s presidency has been a failure. He’s the tottering, corrupt, intellectually bankrupt face of a radical, broken regime.
This piece originally appeared in The Daily Signal
Here’s what Biden and Democrats have gotten done over the last 2 years : NPR
POLITICS / AUGUST 24, 2023
In Brief: All Biden’s ‘Objectives’ Were Failures
Here’s a list of things that Joe Biden should actually apologize for.
First Thing Going Out to Maui and Showing Americans How Big a Jerk He IS!
“Name me a single objective we’ve ever set out to accomplish that we’ve failed on.
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Name me one, in all of our history. Not one!” —Enter President Joe Biden, August 16, 2023
Our Douglas Andrews rebutted Lying Joe here.
The great historian Victor Davis Hanson also takes a crack
at it since the Left media shrugged and shrank away.
Biden in late summer 2021 sought a 20th anniversary celebration of 9/11 and the 2001 subsequent invasion of Afghanistan. He wished to be the landmark president that yanked everyone out of Afghanistan after 20 years in country. But the result was the greatest military humiliation of the United States since the flight from Vietnam in 1975.
Consider the ripples of Biden’s disaster. U.S. deterrence was crippled worldwide. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea almost immediately began to bluster or return to their chronic harassment of U.S. and allied ships and planes. We left thousands of allied Afghans to face Taliban retribution, along with some Western contractors.
Not only that, but Biden left vast amounts of money and equipment to the Taliban, and left Americans & the people of Afghanistan at their mercy.
Vladimir Putin sized up the skedaddle. He collated it with Biden’s unhinged quip that he would not get too excited if Putin just staged a “minor” invasion of Ukraine. He remembered Biden’s earlier request to Putin to modulate Russian hacking to exempt a few humanitarian American institutions. Then Russia concluded of our shaky Commander-in-Chief that he either did not care or could do nothing about another Russian invasion.
The result so far is more than 500,000 dead and wounded in the war, a Verdun-stand-off along with fortified lines, the steady depletion of our munitions and weapon stocks, and a new China/Russia/Iran/North Korean axis, with wink and nod assistance from NATO Turkey.
Biden’s policy not just with Iran but with the Middle East undid some of Donald Trump’s best achievements. Then there was the Chinese spy balloon and other tests and provocations, perhaps best explained by his family’s ChiCom graft.
Yet another Biden’s legacy will be erasing the southern border and with it, U.S. immigration law. Over seven million aliens simply crossed into the U.S. illegally with Biden’s tacit sanction — without audits, background checks, vaccinations, and COVID testing, much less English fluency, skills, or high-school diplomas.
Biden’s only immigration accomplishment was to render the entire illegal sanctuary city movement a cruel joke. Given the flood, mostly rich urban and vacation home dwellers made it very clear that while they fully support millions swarming into poor Latino communities of southern Texas and Arizona, they do not want any illegal aliens fouling their carefully cultivated nests.
Biden is mum about the 100,000 fentanyl deaths from cartel-imported and Chinese-supplied drugs across his open border. He seems to like the idea that Mexican President Obrador periodically mouths off, ordering his vast expatriate community to vote Democratic and against Trump.
So foreign policy and national security are a mess.
What about economics?
Bidenomics is a synonym for printing up to $6 billion dollars at precisely the time post-Covid consumer demand was soaring, while previously dormant supply chains were months behind rebooting production and transportation. Biden is on track to increase the national debt more than any one-term president.
In Biden’s weird logic, if he raised the price of energy, gasoline, and key food staples 20-30 percent since his inauguration without a commensurate rise in wages, and then saw the worst inflation in 40 years occasionally decline from record highs one month to the next, then he “beat inflation.”
But the reason why more than 60 percent of the nation has no confidence in Bidenomics is because it destroyed their household budgets. Gas is nearly twice what it was in January 2021. Interest rates have about tripled. Key staple foods are often twice as costly — meat, vegetables, and fruits especially.
Then Hanson recounts Biden’s weaponization of government against the free speech of Americans and against his primary political opponent, Trump, all while Biden and his family get away with peddling influence for big bucks.
Finally, Biden’s most glaring failure was simply being unpresidential. He snaps at reporters, and shouts at importune times. He can no longer read off a big-print teleprompter. Even before a global audience, he cannot kick his lifelong creepy habit of turkey-gobbling on children necks, blowing into their ears and hair of young girls, and squeezing women far too long and far too hard.
Hanson also notes the reduction of the presidency to a “5-hour, 3-day a week job” and the plethora of autobiographical lies before concluding:
So, yes, Biden’s initiatives have succeeded only in the sense of becoming successfully enacted — and therefore nearly destroying the country. Biden 2023 agenda – Bing video
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