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On 12/15/24 09:47, pothead wrote:
On 2024-12-15, John Smyth <smythlejon2@hotmail.com> wrote:
Was anything right with Biden's time in office?
'Biden’s final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for
everything that was wrong with his tenure'
<https://nypost.com/2024/12/14/opinion/michael-goodwin-joe-biden-is-going-out-as-a-hollow-man-in-his-final-days-in-the-oval-office/>
'‘This is the way the world ends,” T.S. Eliot famously wrote.
“Not with a bang but a whimper.”
He might have been talking about Joe Biden’s presidency.
As he prepares to slink out the door, Biden’s final days in the Oval
Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his
tenure.
He pardoned his convicted-criminal son after vowing not to and his mass
commutations included one for a judge convicted of taking kickbacks to
send juveniles to for-profit detention facilities.
The judge was in Scranton, Pa., meaning Biden even betrayed distraught
parents in his hometown.
Joe Biden’s predictable pardon of Hunter didn’t threaten his reputation >> – it cemented an already corrupt legacy
How’s that for a legacy?
His most recent dereliction fits another pattern.
Just as he paid no attention to raging inflation, the open border and
the decline of America’s global standing, Biden has gone missing as
swarms of drones spark fears among millions of Americans on the East
Coast.
Biden has said nothing, Vice President Kamala Harris has disappeared
since losing the election and the White House offers only bland
assurances that there’s nothing to worry about.
But asked who is behind the noisy, bright and large drone presence
expanding night after night, the administration says it doesn’t know.
In other words, we don’t know and we don’t really care, but trust us
anyway.
Sorry, it’s too late in the game for that, especially when drones forced >> the White Plains airport to close runways Friday night.
Even the usually somnolent Gov. Hochul stirred to demand answers.
Contrast of leadership
Only a fool would deny that something unprecedented is happening, and
it’s doubly worrisome when the blanket assurances come from Alejandro
Mayorkas, head of Homeland Security.
Recall it was Mayorkas who insisted repeatedly, under oath, that “the
border is secure” even as more than 10 million unvetted migrants poured
across.
So when he says “don’t worry,” we should worry.
The incident also illustrates why there is so much excitement about
Donald Trump’s return.
Politics is ultimately about contrasts, and there is an extraordinarily
stark contrast between the current and next president.
It goes far beyond the usual changing of the guard.
Although Biden is just four years older than Trump, it feels as if the
torch is being passed to a new generation.
And that joy has switched sides.
Action at ‘MAGA Largo’
That’s certainly the vibe at Mar-a-Lago, or, as reader John Peter Zavez
calls it, MAGA Largo.
With a steady stream of well-wishers, tech moguls, captains of industry,
donors and media arriving daily, the historic estate is living up to its
designation as the Winter White House.
The impression of a president ready to hit the ground running is
underscored by Trump’s business-like approach to shaping his
administration.
His lightning-speed rollout of his Cabinet and other top picks is
supplanting the usual thumb-sucking post-mortems about the campaign.
There’s little point in dwelling on the past when the future is taking
shape so quickly.
The announcement by FBI chief Christopher Wray that he will resign
reflects the momentum.
He could have fought to finish his 10-year term, but it would have been
futile.
And for what purpose?
Wray was a deeply flawed leader of the troubled FBI, but he at least got
the point — there’s a new sheriff in Washington.
Trump, with a landslide win in the Electoral College and victory in the
popular vote, expressed the futility of looking backwards.
In an interview with Time magazine for its issue naming him Person of
the Year, he was asked what he thought were Harris’ worst mistakes.
Without hesitation, he answered: “Taking the assignment. Number one,
because you have to know what you’re good at.”
Next question!
His answer could be applied to the entire Democratic Party.
It proved to be terrible at governing, with the so-called moderates
signing on to the most radical agenda in US history.
The tail wagged the dog right out of power.
Here they go again
And here they go again.
Many congressional Dems are saying they will boycott Trump’s
inauguration.
That’s a repeat of 2017, when more than 50 of them failed to show up for >> the transfer of power.
Some even made threats to impeach him, a promise they kept when they won
the House majority two years later.
Axios reports that 13 Dems have pledged to stay away this time, and 20
others are undecided.
My hope is that sanity will prevail and the movement will fizzle.
Again, what’s the argument for staying away?
The public spoke with a clear voice, so those who boycott are proving
they haven’t learned their lesson and are giving voters another reason
to consign the party to a long sentence on the sidelines.
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Look to France
Dems should take a cue from the foreign leaders who embraced Trump in
Paris.
French President Emanuel Macron invited him to the reopening of the
Notre-Dame Cathedral while Biden stayed in Washington.
Trump had a friendly chat there with Jill Biden and upbeat meetings with
European leaders, especially Italy’s Giorgia Meloni.
Newsweek said of Trump’s meeting with Great Britain’s Prince William
that the prince “turned into a fanboy.”
All those encounters were a far cry from the cold shoulders Trump often
got in his first term, so his domestic critics would be wise to knock
off the juvenile antics.
They could also take a lesson from Eric Adams.
The decision by Gotham’s Dem mayor to meet with Tom Homan, the incoming
tough-as-nails border czar, about the plan for mass deportations of
illegal immigrants was wise and instructive.
Although Adams’ motive is somewhat suspect given that he was indicted by >> the Department of Justice, the move also reflects his desperation to fix
the terrible mess created by the Biden-Harris open border.
New York taxpayers have shelled out billions of dollars for a problem
the White House created, and Adams claims he was targeted by prosecutors
because he complained the president hadn’t done enough to help pay for
an invasion of over 200,000 illegal crossers to New York, not a few of
whom committed crimes here.
As Adams put it in a TV interview, “We now have an administration we can >> work with.”
There is also a political lesson for Dems in J.D. Vance’s invitation for >> Daniel Penny to join him and Trump at Saturday’s Army-Navy game.
Penny was acquitted after being unfairly prosecuted in the death of
Jordan Neely, the psychotic subway rider who threatened to kill other
passengers.
A former Marine like Vance, Penny has become a folk hero for his
selfless courage in protecting himself and other riders and for
prevailing in the disgraceful race-based case.
It’s also not a small point that he and Trump have a common foe in Alvin >> Bragg, who prosecuted them.
Good one!
Both cases brought by the Manhattan DA were devoid of fairness and
displayed how Bragg corrupts his office to target people who don’t fit
his far-left politics.
For now, he’s the face of the Democrats’ brand.
Good luck defending that
This is the best synopsis of the Biden presidency I have read to date.
The libbys should take off their pink hats and read this to see what they have been
supporting for 4 years and then rethink their own party alliance.
They might be better off starting/supporting a 3rd party rather than trying to breathe life
into a completely lifeless, decimated democrat party.
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