Biden's approval ratings are in a free fall, with good reason. Pluralities disapprove of the president's performance, based on the RealClearPolitics and FiveThirtyEight polling averages. His approval rating is in the mid-40s, a drop of about 10 percentage points from just five weeks ago. Here are a few reasons, in no particular order:
(1) The Afghanistan fiasco and the terrorist attack at the Kabul airport, killing 13 American soldiers and at least 90 Afghans.
(2) Failure to end the COVID crisis despite the gift of safe and effective vaccines former President Trump provided him through Operation Warp Speed.
(3) The crisis on the southern border, which Biden brought upon us due to his reversal of Trump administration policies.
(4) High levels of crime in major cities across the U.S. while at the same time his progressive allies promote far-left ideas like defunding the police and Critical Race Theory.
(5) A disappointing August jobs report due to the administration encouraging welfare over work — only 235,000 jobs were added to the economy in August, far off the estimates of 728,000 or more.
(6) Inflation and record debt due to out-of-control spending, which is getting pushback from even some in his own party. For example, Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin stated in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal recently that not only will he not support a spending bill approaching $3.5 trillion, but any further spending should be put on pause because of inflation risks and so we have ammunition to deal with future crises. (Make no mistake: if Manchin follows through, this puts much of Biden's progressive agenda in jeopardy.)
So what does Biden do when he's under pressure? He lashes out and lies, just as he's done his entire career. A few days ago, he condemned the Supreme Court after it allowed Texas's pro-life law to take effect. (Thanks to President Trump and his three appointees.) On September 3, he falsely claimed he had visited the Pittsburgh synagogue where a shooter killed 11 people. Nope, didn't happen, as the White House had to later admit. It was President Trump and several members of his administration who visited.
Biden has a reputation for making false or embellished claims. He dropped out of his first presidential campaign in 1988 due to plagiarizing speeches by a British politician. He also admitted to plagiarizing a law school paper. He also recently acknowledged he was not arrested while visiting Nelson Mandela in prison, as he falsely claimed.
In light of Biden's failed presidency, it's no wonder that a recent poll has former President Trump beating Biden in a hypothetical 2024 race.
To the extent there is a Trump/Biden rematch, you may find this thought experiment useful to share with your independent/moderate/suburban friends. Ask them to assume they had the opportunity to pick one of two bus drivers to drive their child to school. One of them is a good driver, knows where he is going, lays on the horn if somebody crosses his lane, yells an occasional "sit the f--- down" and makes one or two unruly kids cry a time or two. But he consistently picks them up and drops them off safely and on time.
The other guy has to beg the kids to ride and offers them ice cream before sniffing each one as he climbs aboard, needs to be told how to start the bus, doesn't know where he is or where he's going, constantly looks at his watch, rolls indecisively through red lights and railroad crossings and thinks the bus won't get hit because "c'mon man!"
Yep, we got the second guy driving the bus, unfortunately. For the sake of the country, this cannot happen again in 2024.
Josh Kantrow is a cyber-security attorney in Chicago.
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Joe Biden should not be allowed to resign to escape punishment for he has committed high crimes and misdemeanors. He must be impeached.
Even American allies agree.
In the British Parliament, Tom Tugendhat, MP and decorated former British officer who fought in Afghanistan, said, “This week has torn open old wounds. We have demonstrated that we, the West, abandoned our allies.” Hinting at Biden, he added, “We cannot rely on a single leader.”
Colonel Richard Kemp, former Commander of UK Forces in Afghanistan alongside local Afghan forces, insists that Biden, as Commander in Chief, should be court-marshaled, the military version of an indictment.
Add treason to the charges of a necessary impeachment.
Biden threatened, in the depth of his self-induced chaos, “Any attack on our forces or disruption of our operations at the airport will be met with a swift and forceful response.”
When his warning was answered with a suicide bombing outside the gates of the airport that left 13 US servicemen and women, and an estimated 170 Afghanis, dead, plus tens of other American soldiers badly maimed, Biden abandoned his commitment to remain until every American in Afghanistan was home.
Instead, he cut and ran, keeping to a self-imposed arbitrary deadline. The American President deserted his countrymen and women, leaving them to their fate in enemy territory.
The death of those outside the Kabul Airport’s perimeter was preventable. The Taliban had offered America full control over Kabul until August 31. Biden refused. This negligent act gave Kabul to the Taliban and, with it, full control of the city including all the access roads to the perimeter fence of the commercial airport.
As Commander in Chief, Biden is solely responsible for this asinine decision and everything that resulted from it.
Biden claims his military commanders told him to abandon Bagram Airport. General Mark Milley denied this, stating from the Pentagon that his instructions were to protect the US Embassy in Kabul and control the capital airport for imminent troop withdrawal. The limited forces at his disposal did not allow him to protect the embassy, the airport, and Bagram.
Biden said nobody predicted the chaos. Not true. A State Department memo in mid-July warned of Kabul’s collapse. Additionally, the transcript of Biden’s conversation with Afghan President Ghani shows Ghani warning Biden that Afghanistan’s collapse was imminent collapse if US forces made a hurried, unconditional exit.
Biden told the American people and the world that Kabul and its airport were safe, and Americans and their allies would be protected. In the end, none of that was true.
On August 18, Biden appeared on the “Good Morning America” TV show and said, in a clear voice, “If there are American citizens left, we’re going to stay and get them all out.”
That was another lie.
Any doubts that the Biden Administration had utterly deserted Americans were removed when Ron Klain, Biden’s White House Chief of Staff, said on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ program in early September that the administration was “hopeful” that Americans may be able to get seats on departing Qatari flights out of Kabul. “We’re obviously going to look to see if Americans can be part of those flights.”
Now, trapped Americans must depend on other countries such as Qatar, to get them out of Afghanistan. That is unless the Taliban, Al Qaeda, or ISIS, don’t get to them first. After all, the Biden State Department, led by the feckless Anthony Blinken, admits giving the Taliban the biometric details of all Americans and their allies left behind in the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan.
On TV, Blinken begged the Taliban to accept his ransom money and allow Americans to leave. He knows they are in danger. On August 31, this was the travel advisory that Blinken’s State Department gave to trapped American citizens: “Make contingency plans to leave when it is safe to do so that do not rely on US government assistance.”
This is the ultimate US Government betrayal of American citizens abroad. This is treason by the Commander in Chief who once admitted that the buck stops with him.
Instead of taking responsibility, Biden became a Taliban spokesman when he spoke to the nation on August 31, the last day, saying, “The Taliban made a public commitment broadcast on television and radio across Afghanistan on safe passage for anyone wanting to leave including those who worked alongside Americans.”
That was a lie. We already know some of the things the Taliban is doing.
Human Rights Watch reported that the Taliban had taken 44 people from their homes in the towns of Spin Boldak, Kandahar, and executed them. All 44 had received amnesty from the Taliban. How many others have been exposed and murdered?
The most sacred American promise is to leave no one behind. Biden broke that oath and that is the ultimate reason to impeach, indict, and sentence him.
Biden must also be impeached for threatening American national security.
Former Defense Secretary under President Obama, Leon Panetta, said “There is no question that our national security has been threatened by what has happened. Afghanistan will become a safe haven for Al Qaeda, ISIS and for other terrorists to be able to reorganize and strengthen themselves again and potentially use Afghanistan as a base for attacking not just the United States but other countries as well.”
As Steve Hilton said on his ‘Next Revolution’ program, “Biden has betrayed his allies, broken his sacred trust, brought shame and humiliation on the presidency and on America. But our contempt for this despicable man is not enough. He must be held accountable. Biden must be impeached.”
If impeached, Biden can bring evidence implicating others, Generals Milley and Austin in particular.
Perhaps in a Special Counsel investigation, we’ll learn that Susan Rice and her West Exec Advisor executives, Anthony Blinken and Avril Haines dictated Biden’s decisions. They were intimately involved in the Benghazi disaster when an ambassador was brutally murdered and his security team members killed.
Finally, if it was legitimate to impeach President Trump over a phone call to the Ukrainian President, it is equally legitimate to impeach President Biden over his phone call to President Ghani in which, according to the official transcript, Biden pressured Ghani to lie about the dangerous circumstances that Afghan was in at the time of his July call. That was a clearly impeachable offense.
There are increasing calls for a 9/11-type Commission on the Afghan withdrawal. This may precede a formal Special Counsel investigation but, whether impeachment comes first or later, the Commander in Chief should step down pending the outcome of such a tribunal.
Biden has left the world more dangerous, which is not an American-only issue. America’s allies demand legal clarity as a prelude to effective action preventing Afghanistan from exploding in our capitals and America’s major cities.
The man who didn’t want to target Osama Bin Laden in 2011 sacrificed US soldiers in 2021. Biden surrendered Americans and an air force base with $83B of the finest military equipment to the terrorists who protected Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, the ones who flew planes into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in 2001.
The next generation of jihadi terrorists may now be in America, rushed there on planes that should have carried the American citizens who were frantically waving their passports through the closed gates of Kabul Airport, with the State Department ordering we ignore them. Unverified single, Afghan men took their places.
It is vital that we act against Biden now and get the truth before the next 9/11.
Barry Shaw is the Senior Associate at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
Widespread ‘F*ck Joe Biden’ chants are a warning to politicians and the media
Over the weekend, at least four college football stadia echoed with chants of “F*ck Joe Biden,” and the practice already has spread to concerts and other mass gatherings. Twitchy has collected a number of tweets demonstrating this trend that should worry Democrats and the media that does its best to pretend that the Republic is in peril with a senile old corruptocrat in charge:
Not just at the games:
This phenomenon is likely to escalate, as people fed up with the media ignoring their passionately held feelings and beliefs (rage over abandoning Americans in Afghanistan, vaccine mandates, and many other issues) and elites treating them like ignorant rubes. It all has a Cold War Soviet Bloc feel to it – masses alienated from their political leadership, their grievances either ignored or ridiculed, resisting in places and ways where they cannot be retaliated against.
"FJB" grafitti appearing all over the place would be a logical next step.
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The administration seems to be acting with malice aforethought
A legal term, malice aforethought identifies intentional murder or malicious bodily harm. From the election to COVID policy, to how we left Afghanistan, to inflation and the budget, to energy policy, to our lawless border, there is no way our entire U.S. government is stupid enough to make so many grievous policy decisions without malice and planning. They’re throwing ingredients into the stew pot to create socialism and it’s a very unsavory dish.
I am not a ‘conspiracy theorist,’ because what I see is real—although leftists use the term against anyone sounding the alarm on any alarming event. From Hunter’s laptop to the election, to the border crisis, to the Delta variant and vaccination, anyone who has questioned the integrity of our government is a “conspiracy theorist.” We have bent over backward to avoid these labels. No longer! Our country is being destroyed, and yes, it is a conspiracy or a series of them. There is simply no other explanation.
The entire COVID fiasco was cooked up in a lab Anthony Fauci fund with taxpayer dollars in China, our number one political, financial, and social enemy. What better way to eliminate freedom and privacy in our country? The “curve” wasn’t meant to be flattened. Easy, effective treatments for COVID were banned. The death count rose in a satisfactorily alarming manner. Hospitals filled; everyone stayed home, losing a year-and-a-half of life, livelihood, and school; and we hid our shameful faces behind masks. Ask yourself, who loses and who benefits?
If we used early treatment with repurposed, cheap drugs, which would have helped people under 70 without co-morbidities survive, we wouldn’t need the vaccine, except for the elderly and those with other health risks. There wouldn’t have been a blanket emergency use permit. These are untested drugs, with unknown long-term effects
but stories like this one, although anecdotal, are disturbing. Look at the alarming VAERS data. It shows nearly 14,000 vaccine deaths, and 18,000 people “permanently disabled.” The CDC stopped tracking whether COVID cases were among the vaccinated or unvaccinated in May. Yesterday’s American Thinker article by Brian Joondeph outlines clearly the ramifications of having done so. Another ignored issue, head in the sand government, media complicit, abetted by tech.
Two interviews with Dr. Robert Malone, who was an initial developer of the mRNA vaccine, sound alarm bells, as well. The most salient takeaway? Vaccinating during an epidemic causing the virus to evolve rapidly and dangerously. Watch the interviews.
Add in the border mess. A rapid influx of poor people with myriad third-world health problems, no education, no skills, and yes, plenty of COVID infections. All disbursed willy-nilly around the country. They focus government resources on the people who don’t pay taxes.
Then inflate the currency by printing boatloads of money, and what each of us has or earns or saves, becomes far less. Then, up the budget to unheard of levels, and tax us all more! We lost autonomy and, soon (if they get their way), all will become more beholden to the largesse of government. Just like Venezuela, that dimming star of South America.
Add Afghanistan to the stew pot. First, we abandon our secure airbase in the dead of night, leaving all our ordnance and equipment behind and free a couple of prison-loads of radical jihadists. Then, we say “no thanks” when the Taliban offers to let us control all of Kabul, not just the airport, temporarily. We hand them all the biometrics on our people still in-country, and neglect to arrange for any of our citizens or the people who helped them over the last 20 years, to be transported out. Now, they’re all hostages. Imagine life inside those 6 airplanes, sitting for days on the field.
Yet we grab a hundred thousand older, random, low IQ, non-English speaking inbred men, and their forced child brides, and give them a golden ticket. These are the kind of men who gang-raped a disabled woman in Sweden. The type of men who have been torturing women in Afghanistan since we left. Why bring them here?
Then there’s Biden begging OPEC to increase oil production after closing our hard-won Keystone pipeline. I don’t know about where you live, but here in California, if you have to commute, the cost just rose astronomically, squeezing families even more.
There’s somebody in charge or a bunch of somebodies. I doubt they are the members of Biden’s cabinet. Ric Grenell just mentioned on air (on Stuart Varney’s FOX show) that the President doesn’t even remember the names of his cabinet members. Ric thinks Susan Rice is formulating our foreign policy. She, of the erstwhile “Fundamentally Transform America” crew, the Obama administration.
If we don’t want to fundamentally transform our country into a hell hole, it’s time to loudly badger our elected representatives, making them take action. Speak the truth, so they can’t help but hear us. Hold them accountable, along long with the fake news media and the technocrats who allow the Taliban to have a voice on Twitter but cancel patriots.
Image: Scary Fairytale by The Neutered Satirist.
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