Not so with Biden. The 46th
president is trotted out before cameras often enough. Almost
inevitably, some aspect of his meager performances proves his
dysfunction. He fluffs lines, forgets, wanders off message, and, last
Friday, stumbled so badly up the stairs to Air Force One that he was within an inch of serious injury.
Yet,
however obvious Biden’s fumbles and stumbles, his performances are
gaslighted by administration flaks and the mainstream media. Nothing to
see, so move on. The establishment damn well knows better, and should
have the nation’s welfare at heart, but plays along. Congressional
Democrats play along, while congressional Republicans (many, not all)
acquiesce. Pelosi and Schumer are full conspirators. McConnell plays
dumb. Kevin McCarthy is mum.
Biden
was a functionally incapable candidate last year, of course. Voters
knew it. Kids, cats, and dogs knew it. But Democrats were unfazed.
Joe was a longtime familiar face. Irascible, cheatin’, influence-peddlin’
old Joe. He was kinda centrist, kinda liberal. Voters weren’t
threatened by him, so party powerbrokers settled on him from a woeful
field of Democrat presidential contenders.
Biden’s
decline didn’t matter. Democrats had aces up their sleeves. Why labor
much to dupe Americans about Biden’s fitness? A little gaslighting was
plenty. Election chicanery in five battleground states would fix the
results. The fixes worked.
The
Biden formula hasn’t changed since his inauguration. A pinch of
gaslighting, a pound of audacity, and another pound of flagrant
disregard for the people’s will remains the recipe. The agenda is all
that matters, and the cabal -- comprised of Democrats, leftists, and
plutocrats, chiefly -- are driving it hard. They aim to cement Democrat
control of politics, embed aspects of authoritarianism, and impose
leftist policies on Americans.
But disaster is in the making. The cabal-manufactured border crisis and its drive to end America’s energy independence are “destroying our country,”
asserts our former -- and perhaps future -- president Donald J. Trump.
But open borders and ending energy independence are merely opening
salvos in the cabal’s go at “transforming” America.
We
ain’t seen nothin’ yet. H.R. 1 (institutionalizing elections fraud),
backdooring the Green New Deal, trillions in profligate spending,
packing SCOTUS, gun control, and statehood for D.C. are in the offing. Democrats aim to muscle through these terrible initiatives.
The
big question is, can the people thwart the cabal’s designs? Can
America avoid an outright debacle? Can grassroots patriots, courts, red
states, alternative conservative media, clashes of interests, and the
general institutional drag built into the Constitution slam the brakes
on Democrats’ power grab and lurch leftward?
Will GOP-driven election reform in key states
be enacted, thereby providing fairer playing fields for the 2022
midterm congressional elections, which are necessary to install a GOP
House majority, at least?
A
GOP House -- preferably a Republican Congress -- holds the power of the
purse. Depriving the Biden administration of funds would tamp down the
cabal’s ability to govern by fiat (executive order).
Now
until January 2025, the game is to throw as many wrenches into the
Democrats’ machine as possible… grind it to a halt. Gridlock never
looked so good.
Yet, accomplishing gridlock won’t solve all the problems that the cabal is making.
There
are matters domestic, and then there are matters foreign. The
Constitution grants presidents significant leeway in conducting foreign
affairs and national security. A president in charge isn’t a luxury.
The nation’s enemies -- with plenty of help from the Biden administration -- perceive weakness.
Biden, frail and practically checked out, is regarded as an open
invitation to China, Russia, and Iran to push for advantages.
The administration’s paper-tiger approach to China -- secretary of state Tony Blinken had his head handed to him last week by PRC representatives Yang Jiechi and Wang Yi -- only emboldens Xi Jinping.
Publicly
moralizing about the Uighurs and Hong Kongers, and foot-stomping about
Taiwan, cyberattacks and violations of “rules-based order,” means little
to Xi and his cronies. Xi is a tyrant; power is his language. The
pushback that Blinken and the U.S. contingent received from Xi’s envoys
was an unhesitating show of contempt. That’s a harbinger and should
worry Americans. In the days ahead, how will Xi test U.S. resolve?
Not only that, the real bone of contention with the PRC concerns the South and East China Seas
-- international waters and the airspace above -- which the Chinese are
attempting to seize. Xi controlling those seas has enormous economic
and national security implications for the U.S. (and other nations, most
directly those in Asia Pacific).
Countering
China means not only continuing the revitalization of our armed forces
begun by President Trump, but projecting that might routinely into those
disputed waters. Actions, not words, will command Xi’s attention and
compel caution.
Resuming appeasement
of Iran signals the Biden administration’s unseriousness in dealing
with a sworn enemy of the U.S. Iran is a habitual violator of the
international “rules-based order” so prized by the establishment.
Buying them off didn’t work for Obama and won’t work again.
Paying
tribute to the Iranians spells weakness to Xi and another bad player,
Vladimir Putin. But bluster, symbolism, and servility are what
“progressives” trade in. Hard actions, driven by clearly defined
national self-interest, aren’t much factored.
Speaking of Putin, he recalled Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. last week. Biden, in a softball interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, slammed Putin as a “killer.”
Biden’s
mouthiness can’t entirely be attributed to his senility. Biden, in
fitter days, was prone to strut and bully. Yet with Biden’s mind
misfiring, his restraint is going, too. Remember Biden’s outbursts during the elections?
About being called a killer, Putin, in a well-aimed jab at Biden, said, “It takes one to know one,” and promptly challenged Biden to a debate. Wiley Vlad is very predatory.
America
effectively has no president. It has a cabal running things from the
White House. It has a very vindictive, narrowly ideological president-in-training, Kamala Harris, who, when she assumes the presidency well before January 2025 offers no remedies but more trouble.
Backlashes
are building to the folly unfolding at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This
misbegotten administration needs to be hamstrung. The nation’s safety,
prosperity, and liberty are on the line.
