Undoing The Disaster That Is Joe Biden
Just when you thought everything related to the Biden administration could not get any worse, Joe Biden finds a new way to be destructive to the country. Aside from the incoherent babble that comes out of his mouth, nothing he does can be chalked up to anything other than seeking to be as damaging to the economy and the country going forward – long after he’s gone, so Donald Trump can be blamed. Undoing these malicious mistakes needs to be a priority for President Trump.
The pardons won’t be able to be undone, nor will the commutations. Everything else should be.
The first thing the Trump administration needs to prepare for is the fallout from Biden’s “recognition” of the Equal Rights Amendment. He tweeted, “Today I'm affirming what I have long believed and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: The 28th Amendment is the law of the land, guaranteeing all Americans equal rights and protections under the law regardless of their sex.”
It was not ratified; the window Congress gave to be having expired decades ago. Joe knows this, and he knows the President has no role in amending the Constitution, as do all the Democrats pretending it is now the law of the land. They’re only lending their names and positions to it to spur lawsuits by various left-wing groups across the country to distract the Trump administration from anything it wants to do and the tie up pro-life laws in conservative states.
They will lose in the end, but they can cause a lot of damage and stir up a lot of anger and resentment in the meantime, which is what they intend to do. Sowing confusion and animosity is fertilizer for the progressive mind.
Trump should also reverse Biden’s disastrous blocking of the deal for Nippon Steel to buy US Steel. Blocking it never made sense, even though it made electoral sense – playing the nationalist card works, especially in times of economic turmoil. That doesn’t make it good policy.
I was watching the TV the other day and Lourenco Goncalves, the CEO of Cleveland-Cliffs, the competitor for the purchase, was on talking about nationalism and the importance of US Steel remaining a “US company.” It was hard to understand because he has an accent. Turns out, he’s from Brazil.
I don’t care where he’s from – he became a citizen, for the record – and it did make me wonder if it matters more the citizenship of someone who runs a company or where the company’s headquarters are physically located? Personally, I think saving the jobs of the Americans working for US Steel should matter most of all, but I’m old fashioned that way. I didn’t complain when Chrysler was absorbed by a German company, all that mattered was the jobs in American remained. Only reason I can tell this is viewed any differently is it was an election year and Pennsylvania was a key swing state.
More than that, shouldn’t the money matter more? Nippon not only offered more, it planned to invest billions more than C-C has to get US Steel up to speed, yet this CEO is complaining about American “weakness” for not putting the final nail in the coffin of Nippon’s bid, according to Fox Business. Seems like simply offering a better deal would’ve handled that, not cozying up to a decrepit lame duck President.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, steel’s hometown newspaper, wrote just this week that a press conference meant to spur support for Cleveland-Cliffs actually “further underscored the imprudence of President Joe Biden’s move to nix Tokyo-based Nippon Steel’s acquisition of U.S. Steel. Peppered with awkward jingoism and brazenly offensive statements about the nation of Japan — including a reference to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — Mr. Goncalves’ comments demonstrated the lack of seriousness of alternative proposals to save steel manufacturing” in the area. He reportedly shouted, “China is evil! But Japan is worse!” and “Japan, be aware! You did not learn anything since 1945!”
What the hell? The paper titled their editorial, “Off the Cliffs: Bizarre CEO rant shows why Trump should reverse Biden's Nippon block.”
Unsurprisingly, Goncalves said in 2016, “I’m a Republican, but I cannot support a guy like Trump.”
The whole thing is a mess. I say let the best company win, but the scales are out of whack when the federal government and a senile outgoing President is playing politics in the hope of making things worse for his successor.
Terrifyingly, the President Biden, according to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, had no memory of banning liquid natural gas exports, enriching Putin and Russia because if we weren’t going to sell them energy, someone sure would.
Now, Joe’s offshore drilling ban, which was celebrated by the usual left-wing suspects, has to go. Sooner rather than later. Oil prices operate on the futures market, meaning they are based on how what is happening now will impact production or consumption in the months and years to come. Blocking off huge swaths of land from all future oil exploration for no other reason than to screw over your predecessor’s “all of the above” energy plan is the height of pettiness. But Biden has been a petty, vindictive man his whole political career.
In 1988, while campaigning for president for the first time, Biden snapped at a man for asking a basic question, so unused to being challenged was he. His whole career he has been that way, snapping at anyone who dare defy him. Axios labeled him “Old Yeller.” You don’t get that name from a press that routinely provides you with a tongue bath unless it is earned.
When Biden started to rush the sale of border wall pieces to make it more difficult and expensive for Trump to restart building the wall, it was becoming clear what kind of man he was. He extended temporary legal status for almost a million immigrants from Ukraine, El Salvador, Venezuela and Sudan for the sole purpose of making more difficult the implementation of one of the main reasons Donald Trump was reelected is, honestly, anti-American.
Joe Biden is a small, spite-filled man and always has been. All the talk of a “smooth transition of power” was always a lie – he never had any intention of helping the incoming President get anything done because he, personally, does not approve of the man. He overturned the death sentence of 37 out of 40 federal death row prisoners, not because he has a moral objection to the death penalty – if he really thought it was wrong, the motivations of the killer or who their victims were would not matter, it’s the concept he allegedly has a principled objection to. But principles, true principles, do not have caveats or carve-outs for people who your radical base would be upset over sparing.
But that’s Joe Biden’s whole career, not so much double standards as standards for everyone else and absolutely no standards for himself; whatever suits his needs at any given moment. Whatever does not serve him is swept aside, whatever does not please him is ignored. There will be so much damage he will have done that will not be able to be undone (as I write this his pardons were likely still in the offing), but everything that can be, should. Not only because they would be the best things to do – like brushing your teeth after a night of drinking and smoking – but also because it would serve as a warning to anyone else lucky enough to serve as president that their base instincts and destructive pettiness will not only be wiped clean from the books, it will permanently tarnish their legacy.
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