Strange – The world needs him – because of DEMOCRACY – HOW MANY OF THESE COUNTRIES SUBSCRIBE TO DEMOCRACY – this is a riot indeed!
The only democracy that Biden/Obama have destroyed is the U.S.’s CONSTITUTION. They are using the Koran/Obama – no police protection – crime is out the window/no bonds, etc.
Warren Distinguished Professor of Law and Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy, University of San Diego
For many, electing Joe Biden represented a return to normality, moderation, unity and competence. Unfortunately, his presidency has only ushered in hyper-divisiveness, immoderate policy, venality and staggering incompetence. The list of Biden’s failures is long, and it grows daily. But here are the highlights of that list.
First, of course, is the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden pulled out our troops before getting out our civilians, green card holders and allies, then had to send troops back in to help them get out. Yet even then, Biden failed to get everyone out, despite promising to do so. And in addition to stranding people, the evacuation left billions of dollars’ worth of arms, vehicles and equipment in the hands of the Taliban, abandoned a strategic base in the fight against terrorism and allowed the release of imprisoned hard-core terrorists.
Another Biden disaster happened at the southern border. The number of illegal immigrants that streamed into the country this year, all because of Biden’s refusal to enforce our immigration laws, is stunning. That number includes thousands of so-called amnesty seekers, who are generally released into the country with an order that they show up for a hearing in the distant future—an order that often goes ignored. It also includes people who are unvaccinated or infected with COVID-19, as well as gang members, drug traffickers, sex traffickers and even individuals on terrorism watchlists. The president’s primary duty is to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Biden has willfully failed to do so. That is an impeachable offense.
Right up with these two disasters is that of inflation. Prices are rising steeply, with no end in sight. On top of what already amounts to a cruel tax on the poor and those on fixed incomes, Biden wants to spend trillions more, which will just make inflation even worse. Moreover, the economy is suffering from massive supply chain bottlenecks, with ships waiting weeks to get into ports, and a shortage of workers and truck drivers to deal with them once they get in.
A principal cause of the current inflation is high energy prices—the product of Biden’s energy policies. Upon assuming office, Biden immediately canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have employed some 11,000 people. The oil that would have come through the pipeline will still come in, though by costlier and more polluting means (trucks and rail). At the same time, Biden gave his approval for the Nord Stream pipeline from Russia to Germany. At the same time he was restricting domestic oil and gas production, leading to higher gas and heating prices, Biden called on OPEC and Russia to supply more oil and gas in order to reduce those prices.
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Biden has fully embraced identity politics in the federal bureaucracy. Many of his appointees have been selected based on their race, sex, LGBT status and so on, and not because they were the most qualified persons available. Biden has also reinstated critical race theory training for federal employees. His administration thus reinforces rather than rebuts the poisonous lies now spread throughout our educational system and in the body politic.
Another Biden failure has been his mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden inherited the enormous benefit of coronavirus vaccines produced by the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed. His response to the COVID pandemic thereafter has been characterized by frequent policy reversals. The most recent of which is the unconstitutional ordering of vaccine mandates—a move that, previously, the president said he would never make. As a result, the country is faced with the resignation and firing of police officers, firefighters, health care workers and armed forces personnel. Even worse is that, despite the availability of vaccines, more people have died of COVID-19 during Biden’s presidency than during Trump’s.
Biden has thoroughly politicized the enforcement of federal law. His Justice Department fails to treat equal offenders equally. It meted out harsh punishments and lengthy pre-trial detentions to those who on January 6 broke into the Capitol, few of whom engaged in any violence or destruction of property. They were, at most, guilty of trespass and obstructing a governmental proceeding, offenses which have been frequently committed by left-wing groups (recall, for example, the Kavanaugh hearings). Contrast the treatment of the January 6 defendants with, for example, the DOJ’s treatment of Antifa and BLM rioters who tried to burn down a federal courthouse in Portland, a much more serious federal crime. And now the DOJ has turned its attention to parents complaining about schools’ racializing and sexualizing their children.
The sense of turmoil was captured in a new CNN/SSRS poll released Thursday that showed waning faith in US elections and found that most of the nearly 60% of Americans who disapprove of how Biden is handling his presidency were unable to name one single thing they like that he has done. “He’s not Donald Trump. That’s pretty much it,” one despondent respondent said. Another answered: “I really like his new cat, Willow Biden.”
Also on Thursday there was news that a key measure of inflation had climbed to a near-40-year high last month. Rising prices have a kind of strange magic that not only spooks voters, but also seeds the kind of political derangement in which extremists like former President Donald Trump can prosper. His assault on facts – aided by pliant right-wing media – has his fans yearning for his authoritarian return to power 13 months after he incited the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol. The country no longer has a common understanding of the truth, with 37% of Americans saying Biden did not legitimately win enough votes to be president, according to CNN’s new poll.
This foul national mood is primarily a disaster in the making for Democrats in November’s midterm elections, but it’s been a long time coming.
GLENN GREENWALD: Donald Trump, whether they like it or not is the leading candidate for president in the United States in 2024. And NBC, which claims to be a news outlet, is explicitly apologizing because they hired somebody minimally associated with that campaign, even though they’re surrounded by people who came right from the Democratic National Committee and the Biden White House. They see no contradiction in that at all.
GLENN GREENWALD: How is that not the same for so many of the people that they have employed on their staff? On their staff they have a former Joe Biden and Kamala Harris aide named Simone Sanders — she has her own show on MSNBC on the weekend. She came right, working from Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and then got put in MSNBC.
Jen Psaki went as the official spokesperson for the Biden White House, whose job was to lie if necessary to defend Joe Biden to having a show on MSNBC and constantly being on MSNBC, including “Meet the Press.”
They have the former head of the CIA John Brennan and a former senior FBI official and former associate director Frank Figliuzzi who is on their air all the time. These are trained liars of the US security state, and you would never see Chuck Todd ask this question.
“Well, how do we know whether, because before they said they were speaking on behalf of the Biden White House or the DNC, or the CIA or the FBI?”
What you’re seeing here is the liberal ethos that I think is so important to understand, the reason Democrats never objected to the hiring of obviously Democratic Party spokespeople, but even the heads of the CIA, the head of the FBI, the head of the NSA, all kinds of former Pentagon officials is because they don’t regard those us security state agencies as menacing or dishonest. They regard those as their benevolent allies.
Of course, they see nothing wrong with hiring the CIA director. They consider that person, a benign ally.
The CIA is who spread Russiagate, the FBI, who spread Russiagate and tried to put Donald Trump in prison. They love those agencies.
There’s only one entity, one institution in the eyes of news corporations that is a bridge too far. And that is people who are associated with the Trump-led Republican Party.
That’s it. That’s the only prism through which they understand the world.
You can put neo-cons on NBC — and they do constantly — who lied the country into war, who defended torture, and kidnapping people off the streets of Europe and sent them to Syria and Egypt to be tortured, as Nicole Wallace, the former Bush-Cheney White House spokesperson did. She has a show on MSNBC and is constantly on MSNBC.
There is no bridge too far for liberal viewers of NBC and MSNBC news and for their personalities except for the Republican Party.
GLENN GREENWALD: [Chuck Todd says], “We’re giving Ronna NBC News’ credibility.” What is NBC’s credibility at this point? Every poll shows there are few institutions held I lower esteem than large media corporations like NBC. The public despises these people, they don’t have any credibility in the eyes of the American people. Axios reported in 2023 that something like 12% of the public trust the American media — American television news and newspapers in particular, and believes that they lie on purpose for political ends. But in their world, they still do have credibility, they’re unaware of how much the public hates them — or they pretend it is not true.
So they’re concerned that Ronna McDaniel is going to be bequeathed with the sterling credibility that Joy Reid and Rachel Maddow and Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell have. People who spent the last 7 years spreading the most insane conspiracy theories that Russia was on the verge of cutting off our heat during the winter, that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to hack into the DNC emails, and that Hunter Biden’s laptop documents were Russian disinformation.
Lie after lie after lie, he still believes NBC News has some kind of credibility that Ronna McDaniel is now going to contaminate. These people live in a dream world where they are respected and loved and trusted by the public.