THESE FILTHY LAWYER POLITICIANS ARE BRAZEN IN THEIR CORRUPTION. THEY KNOW THE SYSTEM IS SO CORRUPT NOTHING WILL EVER HAPPEN TO THEM WHEN THEIR GRAFT IS EXPOSED.
WE ONLY HAVE TO LOOK AT THE TRUMP-KUSHNER CRIME DUAL FOR FURTHER EVIDENCE OF HOW GREAT IT IS TO BE A WHITE COLLAR CRIMINAL LOOTING AMERICA.
Need a reason not to vote for Biden/Harris? Here are 50
The modern left must be stopped and thoroughly discredited before it destroys America. Is it too late?
Consider that the modern left and the godless Marxists stand for, actively promote, and/or have accomplished the following:
1. Legalized murder in the womb, AKA abortion
2. Legalized many street drugs
3. Encourage releasing prisoners into the cities
4. Renaming streets and places in the name of cancel culture
5. Renamed sports teams
6. Tearing down monuments and memorials
7. Rioting
8. Looting
9. Arson
10. Murder
11. Mayhem
12. Revisionist history
13. Atheism
14. Marxism
15. Communism
16. Socialism
17. Activist judges
18. Spying on American citizens
19. Race-baiting
20. War on cops and disrespect for rule of law
21. Spying on a presidential candidate
22. Spying on a sitting president
23. Weaponizing intelligence agencies
24. Weaponizing the IRS
25. Sanctuary cities
26. Sanctuary states
27. Leaking of classified information
28. Co-opting the media for partisan propaganda purposes
29. Ballot-harvesting
30. Entitlement programs for illegals
31. Open borders
32. No cash bail
33. Usurping the presidency in 2008 and 2012
34. Green New Deal
35. AOC and the squad
36. Shredding the Constitution
37. Redefining marriage
38. Destruction of the family unit
39. Embrace of BLM and Antifa
40. Disrespecting the flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the National Anthem
41. Boys participating in girls' activities and vice versa
42. Destruction of the Boy Scouts
43. Bogus and destructive climate change policies
44. Climate Change fear-mongering based on lies and bogus scientific claims
45. Clinton pay-for-play corruption
46. Biden pay-for-play corruption
47. Destruction of evidence
48. Russia collusion hoax
49. Phony impeachment
50. Barack Hussein Obama and Joe Biden: the most corrupt administration in American history
This list was amazingly easy to compile and nowhere near dispositive. I can come up with many, many more items to add to this list of shame. But this list should be persuasive enough to give anyone pause and provide a clear indication of the threat the modern left poses to the American way of life and our future as a free, secure, and prosperous society.
The unprincipled progressive politicians, the Marxist academics, the race-baiters, the anti-Trumpers, and the despicable media propagandists who constitute the modern left are selfishly pursuing a radical agenda intent on destroying America and its founding principles. This anti-American leftist agenda must be stopped and thoroughly discredited before real and irrevocable harm is done.
Left unchecked, the modern radical left is an existential threat to our safety, our prosperity, and our freedom. That means that the Wicked Witch of the West, Kamala Harris, and Swampy Joe, running as a "proud Democrat," must be defeated on November 3. Anything less and America as we know it is finished.
The Great Pretender
Who’s really running the show? Just imagine the following scenario: President Joe spends an evening – actually, more like an afternoon -- watching old classic films, one of which, perhaps, is a Cold War-era action movie about a Russian invasion. When not dozing off he thoroughly enjoys the film. He has his early-bird supper and shuffles off to bed. Later that night, about 3:00 am, Joe wakes up and locks himself in the bathroom with the nuclear football.
Jill suddenly wakes up and tries to check on Joe, but the bathroom door is locked. While she calls his name and tries to get him to open the door, Joe is busy typing in the nuclear codes he has scrawled on the palm of his hand. In his confusion, he blends reality with fiction and believes the movie was real life.
By the time Jill gets a Secret Service agent to help break down the door, old Joe has already started the launch sequences to annihilate Russia, and North Korea for good measure. Once entered, these codes can’t be canceled. Russia and North Korea are alerted to the strike and launch retaliatory nuclear missiles. World War Three has started or perhaps the end of the world as we know it.
Don’t think this could happen? Some Democrats are not so sure. Why else do they want to wrestle these codes away from this senile old man? They didn’t even try this with their nemesis, President Trump, but they’re doing it for their own man. They know the reality of his condition. He’s a danger to everyone, even the world. Shame on all those who put him in this position, including wife Jill and former boss Obama.
These two of all people should have known Joe was not capable of fulfilling the duties of this office. But their greed and lust for power and, in Jill’s case, status, drove them to ignore that obvious and nuclear disaster could be the result or any number of other terrible things damaging to the world or country.
All evidence points to Obama pulling the strings behind the curtain. In a circumstance such as the one played out above, though, even Obama can’t predict what a man in mental decline might do. It’s apparent that Joe won’t be in office much longer judging by his recent gaffs and infrequent appearances, but it only takes one time for something like this to happen. Is tomorrow that day?
I believe the idea to take the codes from Joe and give them to a committee will also benefit control over his successor, Harris. Obama and his time don’t trust her with the codes, and they won’t trust any who follow her either. However, one knows a committee rarely agrees on anything so, by the time the codes would actually be entered, it probably would be too late for response or surprise.
The more likely setting would be for Obama to have the football again, even if the Democrat operatives put out smoke and mirrors about a team making the decision to launch. Because in truth, what we actually have is a behind-the-scenes dictatorship and that dictator is Barrack Hussein Obama. Joe is just a cover, using his phony affable charm and well-practiced wide smile to gain office for the sham by hook or crook and slip Obama’s real choice of Harris through the back door.
I’m reminded of a children’s fable “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen, written in 1837. In it, all the vain Emperor’s supporters admire his alleged new clothing while the rest of the populace (like certain female Secret Service agents poolside) see only a naked old man. In truth, his supporters see the same but they are pretending otherwise. For the moment, anyway.
Joe is what is called in the business world a hatchet man, someone who is brought in to do unpopular things, change procedures, fire people, cut salaries and, when his task is done, he is usually fired himself. Joe’s good at it because this nasty-by-nature man has no empathy for the thousands he puts out of work.
Soon Joe’s time will be up, the Executive Orders all filed, and the leftist congressional crap signed on the dotted line. He'll then be moved out to pasture. He may not even be aware it happened and might believe he’s still the man.
The only opposition to his removal will be from Jill and the rest of the Biden family that is used to the money train Joe engineered over the years. They know, as Hillary Clinton has discovered, that once the power and influence are gone, so is the money tree.
So, when Joe is removed and Harris is elevated, who will be the vice president? Schumer, Pelosi, Sanders, Michelle Obama? How about Adam Schiff or Gretchen Whitmer, maybe Newsom? Is your stomach churning yet? What if they reach across the aisle “in the spirit of unity” and get a “Republican” like Romney or Collins? How about Kasich? Does that make you feel better?
It’s quite frightening how much damage has been done in just a few months. What horrors await us in the next few years? We are flooded with people across the southern border, bringing all manner of problems with them, the least of which is COVID, all at this old man’s invitation. They even get a Tee Shirt.
We are now the second-class citizens who are not supposed to exist in our country, with no hope, only devastating change on the horizon. We remain for the most part under lockdown, unemployed, without insurance or welfare. Is this what the Obama/Biden campaign slogan of “hope and change” really meant?
However, the new people (read: population) are greeted with everything under the sun, even a free ticket to wherever they care to go, much to the chagrin of the Greyhound Bus Lines CEO. No COVID passport needed (not even a test); no ID needed to vote or seek medical treatment; food and lodging and, of course, money are provided, all on the taxpayer’s dime.
What a paradise, the USA! Who wouldn’t come to such a place? The land of the freebie? It’s similar to what happened centuries ago, when marauders would reach a distant shore and the locals thought they were gods of some sort, usually to their ultimate demise.
Another slice of the American pie gobbled up is when a business hires a replacement (usually a foreigner on an HB visa working for less money) for your job and you are instructed to train him before you are let go. And make no mistake about it, you are being let go. Our country and our population are being replaced through this leftist osmosis right before our very eyes. But don’t worry: Joe is Building Back Better.
AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA, KAMALA HARRIS WATCHES AS THE LAWYER-BANISTER REGIME OF LAWYER OBARACK OBAMA, LAWYER JOE BIDEN AND LAWYER ERIC HOLDER ENABLED AND ABETTED THE GREATEST TRANSFER OF WEALTH TO THE RICH IN U.S. HISTORY. THIS TROIKA OF CORRUPTION MADE SURE OBAMA'S CRONY BANKSTERS NEVER WENT TO PRISON FOR THE ECONOMIC CRIMES THEY PERPETRATED.
THE OBOMB WENT ON TO COLLECT HIS BRIBES IN THE FORM OF BANK SPEECHES AND MADE A MASSIVE FORTUNE DOING SO. MEANWHILE, JOE BIDEN WAS SUCKING OFF BRIBES FROM RED CHINA ALONG WITH KAMALA HARRIS CA COLLEAGUE, SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN.
THESE ARE SOME OF THE MOST EVIL AND DANGEROUS POLITICANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. AS SOCIOPATH LAWYERS, THEY WILL GAME ANY AND ALL LAWS FOR MONEY AND MORE POWER.
KAMALA HARRIS IS ONLY A STEPPING STONE TO OBAMA'S LONG TERM AGENDA OF A THIRD TERM FOR LIFE... A MUSLM-STYLE DICTATORSHIP FOR THE RICH AND OPEN BORDERS. THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS WILL BE FINISHES OFF COMPELETE AND THE RICH SERVED BY MEXICANS AS IT IS IN CALIFORNIA NOW.
Crazy Old Biden and the Countdown to Kamala
President Joe Biden is a shadow of his former self. Long gone is the aggressive, pugnacious, and partisan Democrat who mistreated Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas in the latter's confirmation hearings. Today, Americans see a president who is clearly mentally diminished and is getting worse on a daily basis.
During the campaign, Biden refused to submit to a cognitive test. When asked by CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett if he would take a test, Biden snapped, "No, I haven't taken a test. Why the hell would I take a test? Come on, man, that's like saying, before you got in this program, if you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not. What do you think? Huh? Are you a junkie?"
Biden refused to take a test because it would show he is in mental decline. His last medical report was issued in December of 2019. While his doctor, Kevin O'Connor of George Washington University, labeled Biden "vigorous" and fit to successfully perform as president, other experts did not share that view.
Dr. David Scheiner, the former personal physician for Barack Obama, claimed that Biden is "not a healthy guy." In fact, U.S. congressman Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), the former White House physician for President Obama and President Donald Trump, said Biden "does not have the mental capacity, the cognitive ability to serve as our commander-in-chief and head of state." He also reiterated a concern shared by many Americans: "I really think that he needs some type of cognitive testing before he takes over the reins as our commander-in-chief."
Unfortunately, no such testing has been conducted in recent months. Americans have no idea when Biden took his last cognitive test. Biden is now president, and Americans are being subjected to the uncertainty of a person with serious mental issues serving in the most important position in the world.
Ever since his inauguration, President Biden has been making frequent misstatements and obvious gaffes. The most recent episodes occurred on Friday. Earlier in the day, he forgot to put on a mask after finishing a speech. Then, after a trip to Houston, Texas, Biden made a series of troubling statements. He referred to high-profile U.S. congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) as "Shirley." Also, he mispronounced the name of Congresswoman Lizzie Pannill Fletcher (D-Texas) twice. After the mistakes, he asked, "What am I doing here?"
Ironically, Biden stumbled upon the ultimate question that needs to be answered. In his first two presidential campaigns, Biden was a stunning failure. In 1988, he was forced out of the race after his repeated plagiarism was discovered. In 2008, he bombed again as a presidential candidate, barely registering 1% support.
Biden was rescued politically when Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama chose him for the vice presidential slot. This selection was made not because of any great chemistry between the two men. Obama chose Biden even though Biden had made a stunningly racist comment. Biden referred to Obama as "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
Clearly, Biden was chosen because he was born in Pennsylvania and could theoretically appeal to white, working-class voters in the Rust Belt. During eight years on the same ticket, President Obama did not value Biden as a vice president and never invited him to his personal quarters in the White House for a visit. Biden admitted this embarrassing fact in a recent CNN town hall meeting.
Obama held Biden in such low regard that he did not encourage him to run for president in 2016. Instead, he endorsed Hillary Clinton. In the 2020 election, Obama endorsed Biden only when it was apparent to everyone that Biden would be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee.
Obama's reluctance about Biden extended to many leaders in the Democratic Party. It was only after the surge of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the presidential primaries that leading Democrats decided to rally around Biden. Top Democrats knew that a socialist like Sanders could not win the presidency, and they reluctantly backed a mentally compromised Biden as their choice.
In the presidential campaign against Trump, Biden barely left the basement of his home. He held few events and news conferences so he would have few opportunities to stumble. Although he performed adequately during the two presidential debates, he made plenty of other verbal blunders and curious comments during the race.
After the election, his mental decline has become obvious. To cover for his cerebral issues, he has not held a formal press conference and has been interviewed only a few times by friendly reporters. His one town hall meeting was broadcast on CNN, a pro-Biden network that supports his agenda and uses most of its airtime to fume about President Donald Trump and his supporters.
On a typical day, Biden will make a statement or issue an executive order. He will give a speech filled with bumbled or contorted language and then immediately exit the room as reporters are ushered out shouting questions. This is in contrast to President Trump, who gave impromptu press conferences constantly.
Sadly, the liberal mainstream press is covering for Biden. If Trump had acted in such a manner during his first five weeks, there would have been a press uproar. Eventually, these mental problems will be too severe to hide, and even the liberal media will have to report on them.
Biden is mentally deteriorating, as most astute observers knew he would. His condition has become so worrisome that 31 House Democrats are demanding the control of the "nuclear football" be removed from the sole authority of the president.
In the background, smiling and patiently waiting, is Vice President Kamala Harris, a socialist with radical views on a range of issues. To bolster her position, she has the full support of former President Obama and his political entourage.
She knows that her ascendancy will come sooner rather than later.
Harris is biding her time, as the countdown has begun.
Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian, and his award-winning program, Ringside Politics, airs nationally on Real America's Voice Network, AmericasVoice.News weekdays at 7 A.M. C.T. and from 7 to 11 A.M. weekdays on WGSO 990-AM and Wgso.com. He is a political columnist and the author of America's Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on Crouere.net. For more information, email him at jeff@ringsidepolitics.com.
Biden gets lost again giving a speech: ‘What am I doing here?’
A sad spectacle of elder abuse, done in the name of power for left-wing Democrats, is unfolding almost daily, as the cognitive impairment of Joseph Robinette Biden, the 46th President of the United States, becomes impossible to hide. Yesterday, in a belated visit to Texas, he stumbled through a script written for him, butchering names of prominent local politicians, unable to speak coherently, and finally asking, “What am I doing here?” in frustration.
Twitter video screengrab
Yikes. pic.twitter.com/WpJl3095Fl
— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) February 27, 2021
Former Secret Service Agent Dan Bongino laid out four nights ago the “worst-kept secret in the White House” – that after less than 2 months in office, Biden’s cognitive decline is real.
Democrats already are asking Biden to give up the sole power to order a nuclear strike. This illustrates the grave peril for America and the world of a POTUS not in full possession of his faculties. It also demonstrates what a grave, irresponsible move it was for a conspiracy of Democrats and media/social media figures to normalize hiding Biden in his basement during the presidential campaign, so that he could serve as a reassuring front man for a leftist cabal that is really running the show, and has the option of installing Kamala Harris as president via the 25th Amendment.
Joe Biden says 'America is back.' Back to what?
I wonder if I am the only one confused by Joe Biden's repeated use of the phrase "America is back" when he talks to foreign leaders.
First, where did America go?
Second, does use of this phrase mean that "America is back" to
(a) kissing up to bad actors like China and Iran?
(b) lax border enforcement?
(c) committing U.S. taxpayers to pay for the defense of countries in NATO, while taxpayers in many of those countries get virtually a free ride as they take their two months of vacation a year?
(d) providing the U.N. 22% of its funding, which is far greater than any country, even though it routinely bashes the U.S. and Israel?
(e) entering into climate deals that require little from other countries but much sacrifice from the U.S.?
(f) negotiating trade deals that allow other countries to take advantage of us?
(g) restoring aid to Palestinians without any conditions that it will not be used to fund terror activities?
Any assistance that readers could provide in helping me figure this out would be appreciated.
Josh Kantrow is a cyber-security attorney who lives in Chicago.
Image: Gage Skidmore via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Embarrassing excuse offered for Biden’s vanishing State of the Union Address
All of a sudden, here it is the end of February, and there is no State of the Union (SOTU) address scheduled for President Biden. That's odd because last month, Biden promised what sounds exactly like a SOTU:
"Next month, in my first appearance before a joint session of Congress, I will lay out my 'Build Back Better' recovery plan," he said. "It will make historic investments in infrastructure, manufacturing, innovation, and research and development in clean energy."
The AP and PBS both got wind that the address was to be given on February 23 in and said so in posts that are now deep-sixed:
But on February 16, Jen Psaki denied such a plan in a press conference:
[W]hen asked about the timing, his press secretary Jen Psaki said there had never been a plan for him to address a joint session this month.
"We don't know where the Feb. 23 date came from. It's a great mystery," she said during the regular daily briefing.
"I've not Nancy Drewed that one out today, but it was never planned to be in February, and we don't have a date for a joint session at this point," Psaki said, comparing herself to the popular character in a series of children's books who solves mysteries.
It is only tradition that a president address a joint session of Congress early in the year to fulfill the constitutional requirement (Article II, Section 3) that a POTUS "shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient[.]"
Jimmy Carter, a failed one-term president, actually skipped his in the year of his inauguration, missing an opportunity to lay out his plan for the presidency and the nation, with blanket television coverage, plus plenty of pomp and circumstance. And look what happened to him.
Yet Biden's handlers seem to have pulled the plug on the man the late Rush Limbaugh mocked as "Plugs" because of his hair transplants to forestall a receding hairline. The lickspittle media are rushing in with "fact checks" to assure the nation that there is no requirement or deadline for a SOTU speech. But it is awkward, especially considering the rising doubts about Biden's mental and physical state. Nick Arama of RedState expressed the view of many:
Let's face it. There's a big problem with having Joe try to deliver a ninety-minute speech at 9:00 p.m. at night without a teleprompter in front of Congress. He has trouble just making it through basic remarks before media for a few minutes, much less a speech of that length. They must be wracking their brains to figure out how they're going to pull it off.
As we previously reported, Biden hasn't even had a solo press conference with the media yet. By this time, both Barack Obama and Donald Trump had done solo pressers.
The excuse dredged up yesterday for missing SOTU is...you guessed it...the January 6 Capitol incursion, which the left wants to make the defining moment of the century:
The Capitol Police is keeping its security posture high in response to intelligence that indicates some extremists who joined the Jan. 6 insurrection have discussed plans to attack the building during the State of the Union, Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman revealed Thursday.
The chatter among extremists about trying to blow up the Capitol during the still-unscheduled presidential address, Pittman said, has prompted the Capitol Police to maintain the elevated presence it has kept since last month's riot. Any decrease in the police's posture, she said, would come after the threat passes and other gaps identified in the aftermath of the Capitol siege are resolved.
While she didn't precisely blame the de-scheduling of the SOTU on "chatter among extremists," that is the logical conclusion, and it is an embarrassing one, especially considering the thousands of National Guard troops still occupying the nation's capital.
Democrats know that Biden is not all there. That's why a bunch of them want to take away the power for him to launch a nuclear strike. Just yesterday, he had to be reminded by Kamala, at a COVID event, not to go wandering up to people without wearing a mask:
Kamala reminds Biden to put on his mask
— Jewish Deplorable (@TrumpJew2) February 25, 2021
Weekend at Joey’s pic.twitter.com/YBhYO7euls
Check out the look he gets from Fauci for going off-script on mask.
Twitter video s
The Democrats Are Not Governing
Let’s just state this unequivocally right up front: The Democrats have no interest in governing the country with the aim of enhancing the country’s fortunes for the benefit of the entire population. Instead, the Democrats have two aims and they’re quite clear to anyone who is paying even the most casual attention:
- Pander to their selected special-interest groups with over-the-top rulings and executive orders for the express purpose of buying their votes and hopefully cementing future electoral victories.
- Undo every possible policy put in place by President Trump for the purpose of eradicating any vestige of his presence on the American political scene.
Most of Biden’s executive orders accomplish both goals at the same time -- they pay debt service to the voting blocs that are key to future Democratic victories, while simultaneously dismantling President Trump’s America First accomplishments.
Personal communications style controversies aside, no president has ever been more focused on the overall good of the American people than President Trump. From promoting the expanded energy production that led us -- finally! -- to true energy independence and seemingly permanent low petroleum prices to rebuilding our military and greatly enhancing America’s security and influence on the global stage to building the border wall and straightening out our ridiculously haphazard, costly and disruptive immigration system to promoting a business environment where private businesses felt confident and supported -- instead of vilified and demonized by the federal government -- leading to the best unemployment numbers among minority groups in history, everything President Trump did redounded directly to the good of the American people.
That was his intent: make life better for all Americans. And he did it, as a matter of verifiable, indisputable record. However, he made two big mistakes:
- He thought his political enemies (the Democrats and the liberal media) would eventually come around and see the good that the citizenry was enjoying as a result of his policies and thus back off from being unrelentingly hostile to being merely the loyal opposition.
- He misjudged the personal hatred his caustic style, his defeat of Hillary, and his intent to rip the cover off D.C. corruption and “drain the swamp” would engender among his opponents. (Opponents in both parties, by the way.) For over four years, the unfounded witch hunts never ceased.
So, after unprecedented, undeniable, documented fraud, we are left with Joe Biden as the country’s “President.” (Note to the Fraud Deniers: Liberal Media reporting dishonesty along with judicial cowardice in not taking up the cases does not constitute “debunking” of voting fraud.)
Now we have Biden being propped up to do the far Left’s bidding and remake America into something they desire. Joe is simply a puppet. One look at his vacuous blank stare, the robotic, wooden manner in which he speaks to the camera -- painfully struggling to read the 20/200-sized teleprompter words -- his badly mangled syntax when, despite his handlers’ best efforts to control his every utterance, he manages to say something spontaneous, it’s quite clear that the Hair-Sniffer-in-Chief is not exactly operating as a fully-functioning president. No, he’s operating exactly as everyone expected him to.
His puppet masters are pulling all the strings, molding America into something unrecognizable, a distorted, mutant caricature of the country we once lived in. The street names and physical landmarks are familiar, but everything else around us is changing. And it’s changing for the worse, very quickly.
Here are just a few negative developments:
We’ve rejoined the Paris Climate Accords. It’s a sham of a so-called international climate agreement that even John Kerry admits is all for show and will accomplish absolutely nothing. In words spoken on December 9, 2015 , Kerry commits the worst sin a politician can commit: He tells the truth --
…The fact is that even if every American citizen biked to work, carpooled to school, used only solar panels to power their homes, if we each planted a dozen trees, if we somehow eliminated all of our domestic greenhouse gas emissions, guess what -- that still wouldn’t be enough to offset the carbon pollution coming from the rest of the world.
If all the industrial nations went down to zero emissions -- remember what I just said, all the industrial emissions went down to zero emissions -- it wouldn’t be enough, not when more than 65% of the world’s carbon pollution comes from the developing world.
- We’ve opened the southern border and relaxed our immigration standards. Unrestricted, job-
- '
- stealing, taxpayer-funded refugees are once again flooding into the country.
- The Keystone pipeline has been canceled and exploration/production leases on Federal lands have been rescinded. With the world oil market reacting instantly to what it correctly sees as a marked reduction in supply coming from the U.S., crude oil prices have shot up from the low $40’s to the mid-$60’s/bbl in no time, and gasoline has risen from around $2.10/gal to $2.70/gal. Summer 2021 promises to be fun.
- We’re trying desperately to find a way to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal, remove the economic sanctions on them and help them threaten Israel with nuclear annihilation.
- Finally, landmark social changes like the Equality Act (allowing men to compete against women in sports and shower in their locker rooms) and reparations for slavery are being enacted or garnering serious support.
The question is, how do these actions benefit the country as a whole? How does unrestricted illegal immigration benefit society? How do higher gasoline and heating costs help the typical middle-class working family? When a 17-year-old girl is cheated out of a college athletic scholarship because she lost her race to a biological male, the good that comes from that is what, exactly?
Nothing that the “Biden” administration is doing helps the country as a whole. That is not their intent. All they are doing is feeding the insatiable appetites of their special-interest voting blocs in hopes of securing future electoral victories. The best that normal people can hope for is an anti-Democratic voter backlash in upcoming elections -- assuming the country isn’t too far gone by then and that those upcoming elections are actually on the up and up.
This is a critically important juncture in America’s journey. There are no guarantees that this is going to end well.
Blue State Blues: Will the Politburo Let Joe Biden Address Congress?
President Joe Biden has not delivered an address to a joint session of Congress yet.
Traditionally, the annual address — known as the “State of the Union” in every year of a presidency except the first — happens in the first two months of the year.
Occasionally, presidents will deliver written reports, or radio addresses, rather than (or in addition to) the speech to the House and the Senate that Americans have come to expect. But rarely do they happen after February.
The Constitution does not require that the president address Congress, only that he provide a report. Article II, Section 3 provides: “He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
From Thomas Jefferson through William Taft, presidents gave written reports; speeches resumed with President Woodrow Wilson in 1913.
Thus far, we have heard nothing from the Biden White House about what Biden plans to do.
At a press briefing Feb. 23, Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked if there had been “conversations about a joint address to Congress,” and if he would be willing to deliver an address “virtually.”
Psaki’s response: “[H]e’s clearly willing to hold events virtually … And we’re certainly open to a range of formats. I don’t have any update on a date or a timeline for joint address.”
It was an odd response for a White House that had dozens of executive orders ready for Biden’s signature on Day One. Surely they had considered the possibility of a virtual address? Or the basic obligation of a written report?
Perhaps the delay is due to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who considers herself equal in rank, if not superior, to the President of the United States. She has not extended Biden an invitation to speak.
“We won’t be doing any of that until we pass our COVID bill. That’s the first order of business,” she told Capitol Hill reporters on Feb. 11.
She has tried such tactics before.
In 2019, after inviting then-President Donald Trump to give the State of the Union, she delayed the address because of a government shutdown over a budget impasse relating to the border wall. She only renewed the invitation once President Trump caved and agreed to a temporary deal to open the government.
If Pelosi is allowed to block the president from addressing Congress — even a president from her own party — it would mark a shift in the delicate balance of power between the three branches of government.
The executive has expanded its power in recent decades, and critics (including myself) have called for Congress to be more assertive.
But there are a few things for which the president is solely responsible, and the State of the Union is one of them.
Biden’s delay is troubling for reasons other than the separation of powers.
It also reinforces suspicions that Biden is not actually in charge of his own administration. His Inaugural Address was about “unity,” but the far-left runs his policies. When Psaki is asked about what the president thinks about a particular issue, she often answers that she has not spoken to him, or to the “team.” There is a sense the country is being governed by a committee or politburo.
When there’s a leader, things get done. There is no leader.
Whether Biden delivers a speech or not, he must still discharge his constitutional obligations. There is really no excuse for a report that is not delivered by the end of February.
Before Roosevelt, presidents typically spoke at year’s end, rather than at the beginning. Is that how long we will have to wait for Biden to set an agenda?
Or is there some reason he is unwilling to confront the American people?
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Obama reveals ‘white resistance’ stopped him from pushing for reparations
‘What I saw during my presidency was the talk of welfare queens and the talk of the undeserving poor and the backlash against affirmative action’
Throughout his presidential terms, it appeared that Barack Obama was opposed to reparations in America. Now, the former president is clarifying that he does believe reparations for Black Americans are ‘justified’ but that overt resistance from white people in power stopped him from pushing for it during his presidency.
This week, Obama and Bruce Springsteen launched a special eight-episode podcast series called Renegades: Born in the USA through Spotify’s partnership with the Obama’s Higher Ground production company.
Read More: Barack Obama, Bruce Springsteen open up about ‘unlikely friendship’ on new podcast Renegades
In the second episode, released on Monday, the duo spoke about race relations in the United States, and that’s when the country’s first Black president finally explained why he believed reparations were a “non-starter.”
V.S. His Black boomer politician 🧠pic.twitter.com/PKmqv1jUIB
— One Terrible Pot 🇺🇸 (@MS_Neg) February 24, 2021
The discussion kicked off with Springsteen – perhaps rhetorically – asking Obama how the same country that sent a man to the moon also be responsible for abhorrent Jim Crow laws.
“We never went through a true reckoning and so we just buried one huge part of our experience and our citizenry in our minds,” Obama responds.
“So if you ask me theoretically: ‘Are reparations justified?’ The answer is yes,” he admitted to the 71-year-old rock legend. “There’s not much question that the wealth of this country, the power of this country was built in significant part — not exclusively, maybe not even the majority of it — but a large portion of it was built on the backs of slaves.”
“What I saw during my presidency was the politics of white resistance and resentment, the talk of welfare queens and the talk of the undeserving poor and the backlash against affirmative action,” the 59-year-old continued. “All that made the prospect of actually proposing any kind of coherent, meaningful reparations program struck me as, politically, not only a non-starter but potentially counter-productive.”
While the racial climate may have dissuaded Obama during his presidency, the Biden administration appears to be more optimistic on the topic of reparations.
As we previously reported, sources claim President Joe Biden favors the idea behind a reparations bill that Vice President Kamala Harris endorsed while in the Senate. But despite this support, the president has yet to explicitly endorse the legislation itself.
Read More: Biden marks milestone COVID-19 vaccinations, zeros in on Black communities
Back in January, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee submitted H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans Act to uncover the lasting impact of slavery in the United States and to provide a monetary payout.
“Today there are more people at the table — more activists, more scholars, more CEOs, more state and local officials, and more Members of Congress,” she stated in a press release obtained by theGrio. “However, despite this progress and the election of the first American President of African descent, the legacy of slavery lingers heavily in this nation.”
The statement continued:
“While we have focused on the social effects of slavery and segregation, its continuing economic implications remain largely ignored by mainstream analysis. These economic issues are the root cause of many critical issues in the African American community today, such as education, healthcare, and criminal justice policy, including policing practices. The call for reparations represents a commitment to entering a constructive dialogue on the role of slavery and racism in shaping present-day conditions in our community and American society.”
No comments:
Post a Comment