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January 16 - January 20, 2023
By the way, if Biden had any standards, he would have resigned already based on his own criteria.
Because more people died of COVID in 2021 under Biden (with vaccines and therapeutics available, mind you) than they did the previous year under Trump (without vaccines and therapeutics available, mind you).
Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America, after a...
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Biden’s own testing experts warned a surge was coming. I’m no doctor, but I can read. And anyone who has been alive and is literate knows that every virus has mutations and variants.
The lesson here is that no one person, especially someone as inept as Joe Biden has proven to be throughout his entire existence as a lawmaker and candidate, should ever promise to control a virus. To stop a virus.
By every metric, America has arguably the worst president of the television era residing in the Oval Office (at least when he isn’t in Delaware).
Inflation at a forty-year high. Gas prices are at their highest point ever. Murders at a twenty-five-year high. Illegal border crossings at an all-time high. Parents are furious over an increasingly extremist “education” agenda for our kids. The world is increasingly unstable with our enemies more brazen, more emboldened, more dangerous.
Democrats and the media insisted up and down for five years before Joe Biden became President Biden that Trump would lie like a person breathes. They told us his kids were corrupt. They said he didn’t care about immigrants despite being married to one. They said he spit on our soldiers’ graves. They claimed he was a cognitive mess, that his rhetoric would cause World War III. He would start a worldwide recession (here’s looking at you, Paul Krugman), and that he would only talk to “state-run media.” And he would embarrass us abroad while keeping a light schedule.
Except they don’t apply to Trump, but to his successor.
Is Joe Biden allowing his presidency to be run by other people, his chief of staff Ron Klain, his Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice, his former boss Barack Obama, his wife Jill Biden, because he’s mentally checked out? Or is he your typical DC swamp creature who “evolves” (the media’s term for Democrats who flip-flop) on issues as polling on said issue shifts?
Is Joe Biden really this liberal by insisting on expanding government to unprecedented levels, spending our way out of inflation, opening our borders, and teaching kids more about race and sex than reading, writing, science, and math?
According to the president, everything that has gone wrong in this country is everyone else’s fault. Inflation is on Putin. Gas prices? Also Putin, along with evil U.S. oil companies. The border? Trump left it wide open, according to his successor. It’s enough to make your hair hurt.
And when it comes to Joe Biden, there was and is plenty to scrutinize . . .
Or maybe, I don’t know, they simply heard Biden’s invitation, along with calls from most Democrats, to come to this country illegally. These poor folks were told they will be not only welcomed, but provided free health care and housing! And they may have also heard Democrats describe the border itself as immoral and racist.
Yup. Biden accused Trump of starving children to death at the border, which obviously did not happen.
When all was said and done, in Biden’s first year, at least more than 2.1 million people crossed into this country illegally (those are the ones we know about, hence “at least”).
Yup, to avoid raising any eyebrows among most of the press and general population, the White House devised a communications strategy to deny the existence of an out-of-control surge at the border.
Ah, Okay. It’s a challenge. Not a crisis. Which completely explains why the administration was forced to open the very migrant facilities that candidate Biden once called during the Trump era “horrifying scenes at the border of kids being kept in cages” and candidate Kamala Harris described as “babies in cages,” which constituted “a human rights abuse being committed by the United States government.”
How can that be? Here you have a drug that killed more than 100,000 Americans in 2021 alone and hospitalized hundreds of thousands more. Families are being torn apart. Rich, poor, middle class, doesn’t matter. And the emergence of counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl is fueling more deaths.
According to the CDC, fentanyl is a potentially fatal synthetic opioid that, in some cases, can be fifty times more potent than another opioid, heroin. Fifty times.
In 2022, there’s been too much talk about spending trillions to build back better and federalizing voting rights. Because why outline a comprehensive fentanyl and drug overdose strategy to save countless lives when apparently “voting rights” and democracy are in peril and will die unless the filibuster is blown up?
And there it is! The White House press secretary again blamed Trump for the current crisis.
Yep, that’s right. China is the primary supplier of the number one death drug in America. China, inadvertently or not, sent COVID all over the world, killing millions, including more than one million Americans. We shut down the country—schools, businesses, sports, sanity—because of it.
The media—especially the big boys like 60 Minutes—needs to cover this gigantic story more and shine a floodlight on the current fentanyl crisis more instead of the Washington insider crap we get to ingest on a daily basis.
It would also be nice if a president, who has seen firsthand what drug abuse and addiction look like courtesy of his son Hunter, would make this crisis a top priority.
The reason? Fixing the problem would require taking responsibility for making it infinitely worse by his opening of the border. To help slow the flow and arrest those dealing this stuff, it would take a complete 180 on border and crime policy.
Speaking of wrong, our commander in chief couldn’t be any more wrong than he was on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Its execution, or lack thereof, would mark the turning point in his presidency.
This is Biden at his craptastic finest. It’s difficult to fully illustrate just how wrong he’s been on almost every foreign and defense policy.
But most notably, it was Vice President Mush/Biden who opposed the raid by U.S. special forces to kill Osama bin Laden at a compound where he was hiding out in the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan.
The world would be a very different place if Obama hadn’t put in the order to whack Osama, especially politically here at home.
Those Americans likely felt that way, at least in retrospect, because the president assured them the transition would be without cost. Without thirteen U.S. service members being murdered. Without Americans being left behind. Without us looking weak and incompetent to our adversaries in China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
Everyone was asking the same questions: Why did Biden announce the departure of U.S. military personnel at the onset of the fighting season instead of completing the process in the dead of winter, when the Taliban retreat to their bases in neighboring Pakistan?
Why did the U.S. leave Bagram Air Base six weeks before its final withdrawal?
The Bagram decision would lead directly to those thirteen American service members going home in caskets.
“I think the Taliban demanded [the closure of Bagram],” Jim Hanson, told the paper in August 2021. “I think that was part of the deal that Biden made. The Taliban threatened to start fighting again and then Biden got scared.”
Well, it turns out that Biden was lying. Again. Two of his top military leaders—General Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie Jr., head of U.S. Central Command, and General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified before Congress that they had recommended to the president that the U.S. keep 2,500 troops in Afghanistan after the August 31 withdrawal deadline.
They were undoubtedly thinking, if a ragtag Taliban military could push around the mighty U.S., and American leadership was this inept in handling this withdrawal, this may be our opportunity, too. Especially with Mush running the show.
Robert Gates, who served as Defense Secretary in the Obama-Biden administration, saw it up close and personal: Biden’s instincts on foreign policy are always wrong. The problem now: He’s the one in charge.
A Harvard-Harris poll taken shortly thereafter found that 62 percent of Americans believed Russian president Vladimir Putin would not be moving against Ukraine if Trump had been president. Logic agrees. Putin could have moved on Ukraine anytime between 2017 and 2021, when Trump was in office. He didn’t. Why is that?
In March 2022, when Biden went to Belgium and Poland to meet with NATO and U.S. troops, he set off several alarms, to the point that his own staff had to quickly issue clarifications and cleanups on Aisle 5.
Here’s Biden (without the help of a teleprompter) on March 25 addressing U.S. troops in Poland: You’re going to see when you’re there [in Ukraine], and some of you have been there, you’re gonna see—you’re gonna see women, young people standing in the middle in front of a damned tank just saying, “I’m not leaving, I’m holding my ground.”
Come again? Did Biden say that at some point U.S. ground troops would be going into Ukraine to battle the Russians? Wouldn’t that possib...
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A response in kind? The U.S. would use chemical weapons against Russia if the Russians used chemical weapons against Ukraine?
Biden read part of his answers directly from a note card helpfully titled “Tough Putin Q&A Talking Points,” according to the European Pressphoto Agency. Talk about inspiring confidence.
An NBC News poll released after Biden’s remarks found an overwhelming number of Americans, 82 percent, were concerned that Russia-Ukraine would result in the use of nuclear weapons, while nearly three in four said they feared the U.S. military would end up fighting in Ukraine.
Biden’s telling U.S. troops that they will be in Ukraine one day, his saying that we’ll use chemical weapons, and his appearing to argue for Russian regime change only intensified those fears.
The same poll also found that 7 in 10 Americans didn’t have confidence in the president’s “ability to deal wit...
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He opposed virtually every element of President Reagan’s defense buildup. He voted against the B-1, the B-2, the MX, and so on. He voted against the first Gulf War. So on a number of these major issues, I just frankly, over a long period of time, felt that he had been wrong.”
On domestic policy, as it pertains to the economy and inflation, Joe Biden was also showing the American people that his brain was mush on these two fronts, too.
The U.S. president. Triple-vaxxed. And yet wearing a mask. Apparently the president was confused regarding the difference between a computer virus and coronavirus, because the latter can’t travel through high-speed internet.

