It is NO wonder that he was unable to implement any positive changes for the American people – while he had no problem executing his shady deals to pad his own pockets.
That staggering tally includes R&R 43 of the 70 days — or 61% — after being pressured by fellow Dems in July 21 to drop his re-election bid.
Biden’s relaxation ratio outstripped the previous Vacationer-in Chief, George H.W. Bush, who spent 37% of his presidency — 543 of 1,461 days – away from the White House. Biden’s out-of-office ratio far surpasses time off taken by Trump — who spent 26% of his first term away from Washington, D.C. — 381 of his 1,461 days in office, records show.
This just plainly illustrates, (yet again), how much everyone was being gas lit the past several years. And likely reflects the ever growing disgust with the elite Democrats who tried to insult everyone’s intelligence and claim that this wasn’t the case when it was plainly obvious to anyone (with intact and functioning brain cells) that it most definitely was!.
Personally, I never thought he had a chance for a positive legacy. Especially now that all of the machinations behind the scenes to protect his image are being exposed and prompting the public to ask what is really going on?
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.’s obituary will be stalked by the counterfactual: What if he hadn’t made the selfish decision to run for reelection? What if he had passed the torch a year or even six months earlier?
That makes for a grim parlor game.
The way that events unfolded—his catastrophic debate performance, the stark clarity with which the nation came to understand his geriatric state–-beggars belief. Why didn’t Democrats stage an intervention earlier? Why didn’t his aides stop him from running?
The absurd premise of the Biden reelection campaign, that it made sense for the nation to trust itself to a president who would finish his term at the age of 86, invites conspiratorial explanations.
There’s no need to go searching for hidden scandals, however, because the visible one is sufficiently terrible. Democrats ignored a cascade of warning signs.
The evidence that Biden wasn’t fit for a second term was abundantly clear in his public appearances—and in the public appearances that he studiously avoided. Advisers knew that Biden’s instinct was always to invest faith in his own capacities, but they never made a concerted effort to talk him back from his decision to run, until it was far too late.
Donald Trump is now THEIR legacy too.
This seems to be another of a long string of admissions from progressive media and appears to indicate they finally recognize the damage they’ve inflicted on the nation and are looking for redemption. I can’t imagine The Atlantic ever making such statements as little as 6 months ago.
That’s great for The Atlantic. They’ve recognized their problem. BUT,… that’s the first step of their redemption path. However, I won’t be rushing out for a subscription.
As my father used to say (paraphrasing):
It only takes a minute to lose someone’s trust but it will take a long time to gain that trust back.
At least, they are making an attempt. Maybe too little too late, but they’re trying. Sadly, there remains too many more who steadfastly refuse to acknowledge what has happened and continue to repeat what has been thoroughly debunked.
Not that you’ll see this reported in the MSM since they’ve moved on to newer scams to subvert our elections and ruin our Republic.
WASHINGTON – Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic concluded its two-year investigation into the COVID-19 pandemic and released a final report titled “After Action Review of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Lessons Learned and a Path Forward.” The final report will serve as a road map for Congress, the Executive Branch, and the private sector to prepare for and respond to future pandemics. Since February 2023, the Select Subcommittee has sent more than 100 investigative letters, conducted more than 30 transcribed interviews and depositions, held 25 hearings and meetings, and reviewed more than one million pages of documents. Members and staff have exposed high-level corruption in America’s public health system, confirmed the most likely origin of the pandemic, held COVID-19 bad actors publicly accountable, fostered bipartisan consensus on consequential pandemic-era issues, and more. This 520-page final report details all findings of the Select Subcommittee’s investigation.Learn more.
Although I ‘m not through all 520 pages, it appears to be worse than originally thought.
Many voices are now questioning and challenging DEI policies, as well as the inevitable tragic results of their failures. I’ll let Misha summarize the logic.
The exposé by the Wall Street Journal in December revealed how the White House had meticulously managed Biden’s public appearances and shielded his cognitive decline from the public. Under the guise of COVID precautions, his team created an impenetrable bubble around him, controlling his schedule and keeping him in a largely ceremonial role. His staff reportedly handles most of the administrative duties, ensuring Biden avoids unscripted moments that could expose his limitations. This manufactured image has allowed Democrats to maintain the illusion of competence while the president has become a figurehead in his own administration.
CBS News legal correspondent Jan Crawford acknowledged that major media outlets significantly downplayed Biden’s cognitive decline:
“We should have much more forcefully questioned whether he was fit for office for another four years, which could have led to a primary for the Democrats,” Crawford lamented. “It could have changed the scope of the entire election. Yet still, incredibly, we read in The Washington Post that his advisers are saying that he regrets that he dropped out of the race, that he thinks he could have beaten Trump. And I think that is either delusional or they’re gaslighting the American people.”
My glaring question is who exactly did that illusion of competence work on? I know some of the faithful who will diligently echo every approved narrative – even when they don’t believe it but I would like to think that a vast majority of adults (with working senses) were able to see through that smokescreen.
It might be that the competence they were referring to related to their voters and supporters and they wished to make them still appear to be sane. It didn’t work.
All the while, gaslighting was maxed well into meltdown stage. It’s just astounding that they thought this would actually work. It’s even more astounding that their supporters went along with it. Who (with any remaining dignity) would actually believe this fairy tale?
One of the gaslighting leaders was senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, who spent the entire campaign telling anyone who would listen how sharp as a tack Biden was and he regularly ran circles around everyone while working late into the evening. Never mind that many reports were emerging at the time that he had spent over 40% of his term on vacation.
For most working stiffs, 2 or 3 weeks/year is about the most vacation time anyone can expect. So, it should not be a surprise that honest working people rejected someone who demands full loyalty and compliance while taking 20+ weeks off while in the process of decimating our republic.
But, the worst of that was what was actually happening behind the scenes as Schumer disclosed:
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), has now revealed to The New York Times that he pointedly urged Biden to drop out of the race during a private meeting July 13.
“If you run and you lose to Trump, and we lose the Senate, and we don’t get back the House, that 50 years of amazing, beautiful work goes out the window,” Schumer told Biden bluntly, according to the Times, which reported the “tense” encounter from the New York lawmaker’s point of view.
“But worse — you go down in American history as one of the darkest figures,” Schumer admonished Biden.
At least he got that final part right.
For a simple example of the obvious decline that everyone saw, examine this exchange below between Biden and house speaker Mike Johnson that occurred back a full YEAR ago.
The speaker recalled, “I said, Mr. President, why did you pause LNG exports to Europe? You understand you’re fueling Vladimir Putin’s war machine because they’ve got to get their gas from him.”
“I didn’t do that,” Biden insisted.
But, in fact, the executive order had been signed just weeks earlier.
Johnson recounts the surreal moment when he offered to have Biden’s staff print out the executive order so they could read it together. It was only then that Biden vaguely acknowledged it.
But when Johnson pressed further, it became evident that the President had no grasp of the executive action, and Johnson was left “with fear and loathing.”
“I thought we’re in serious trouble. Who is running the country?” Johnson questioned. “Like, I don’t know who put the paper in front of him, but he didn’t know.”
This exchange underscores a chilling reality — a president who not only is struggling to remember critical decisions, but is also unable to engage fully in high-stakes discussions with national security implications. The fact that Biden, despite his decades of experience, was so out of the loop on an issue as fundamental as energy exports points to a worrying trend that many have long suspected: Biden is not (and likely never was) fully in charge.
Actually, the debate results ushered in the era where most DID see through this BS and is why we saw the electoral college results as well as the popular vote, the Senate, the House, and many state level victories.
The only thing that hasn’t occurred yet is for all those who have been proven wrong to fess up and admit it. I see that some are now admitting it but it will be quite a while before they are believed again.
I stumbled on this commentary during my morning rounds. Being heavily impacted by the Y2K crisis, I believe this opinion hits the nail on the head with recent talk now surfacing about bird flu lockdowns, as they work diligently to get the strain to jump to humans – just in time for another Trump presidency.
“Flatten the curve”—did no one using this phrase take a single upper-level maths class in high school? The area under a curve (the number infected) cannot be changed. If you flatten that curve, the only thing you achieve is to make the duration of that sine-wave much much MUCH longer. The best thing to do would have been to get every child, teen, and healthy 20- or 30-something out and about, catching and spreading the WuFlu. WuFlu killed/hospitalised fewer in these demographics than lightning strikes, and the “vaccines” killed and maimed far more.
I’m not suggesting that the elderly or immunocompromised abandon all precautions. Your health is your bloody business, not mine, not your neighbors, and not Anthony Fauci or Andy Cuomo.
The problem with “flatten” the curve (and thereby LENGTHEN the curve) is that colds, coughs, cancer, diabetes, parasites, food poisoning, organ failure, terminal halitosis and all the other medical problems go on….with that flattened, extended “pandemic” now added atop all the other things that keep coming. Even worse, the longer you extend the WuFlu by “flattening” the curve, the more chance/time it gets to mutate.
Computer companies and software programmers did exactly the right thing: they got out ahead of the potential problem, coded their arses off, and found updates and work-arounds that avoided the potential catastrophe. Fauci and the other fraudsters in “Public Health” did the exact opposite and caused problems rather than avoid a possible problem.
I decided to have a little fun today. Fun for me anyway, since it doesn’t involve politics, chickens, dogs, kittens, haybales, rain or wind. I am dying to go see my new granddaughter but that has to wait a few weeks.
A few days back a friend posted a video of a bluegrass band performing the Christmas song “Angels We Have Heard on High“. My reply was that they can bluegrass almost any song and I am liking and appreciating those performers skills the more I listen with a preset in my truck to the Sirius Bluegrass channel.
The musicianship of some of these folk is astounding!
And since we are now living smack dab in the middle of hillbilly territory, I’ll leave it to the masters of the genre to tell that story – which is the reverse of our story.
But, did you know a vast number of popular songs have also been bluegrassed?
Below, I’ve compiled a list of some popular songs you very likely have heard played on the radio over the past 40 years in a way you’ve never heard them before. In listing them, I’ll include the song title as well as the artists who performed the original hits. You’ll see the artists performing them now as you view each one. Sit back and give them a listen and let me know what you think.
Sorted by (original) Artist/Song. Also noted are “live” performances where you can watch them play, as well as just “audio” w/lyrics, plus a few “instrumentals” as well w/no lyrics.
Wildwood Flower (Jim Stafford) – live OK, this wasn’t the classic about ganja we remember but the song is correctly titled. But I wouldn’t put it past the Amish to have a sense of humor – some do. However, since we are surrounded by Amish, I included it here as well. They have a huge playlist of mostly gospel music (surprised?) and they do it very well.
Here are a few more that aren’t really much different in their bluegrass outfits than they were originally.
There are many more if you just look. Some of the links above are compilations where you can discover additional songs. Now, after compiling this list I feel obligated to go make myself a playlist.
I close with one of my favorite renditions of one of the most famous bluegrass songs of all time – that is a hit on its own standing. This star-studded lineup performs it with the master who started it all.
Banjo: Earl Scruggs 2nd banjo solo: Steve Martin 1st electric guitar solo: Vince Gill 2nd electric guitar solo: Albert Lee Acoustic guitar: Randy Scruggs Dobro: Jerry Douglas Fiddle: Glen Duncan Mandolin: Marty Stuart Bass: Glenn Worf Drums: Harry Stinson Harmonica: Gary Scruggs Piano: Paul Shaffer Organ: Leon Russell
Just a few notes about this piece. Steve Martin disclosed he was petrified with performing with this group. But, he actually did quite well and you could see his immense relief when he made it through his solo. Marty Stuart got his start as a 15 year old musician with Flatt and Scruggs before he launched his own career years later so he was more than familiar with all of them. Paul Shaffer is,… well,… Paul Shaffer. I just hope he has a good chiropractor.
Although I was disgusted, it was totally expected and am really only annoyed at those who continue to be OK with the daily BS we are fed and expect the rest of us to also happily swallow it without question.
From there it turned to alarm
as we learned mid morning that our daughter was being rushed to the hospital with late term pregnancy complications. We were somewhat prepared for such news but still set off a desperate scramble for Sherry to rush north to MN (a 10+ hour drive) around noon, while the roads in northern MO were still covered in snow. I had to remain behind to stay with the animals – which is the worst feeling ever.
Feeling that helplessness, I asked many for prayers today for all 3 souls involved (mother, baby and grandmother). My sibs, our other 2 kids, our church, a few local friends were all asked to pray hard today. They ALL came through!
At last, it was time for some joy and gratitude.
After an afternoon on pins and needles, about 3:30, I received a text from our daughter announcing our newest granddaughter had entered the world at a whopping 4 lbs/1 oz. She is tiny but she is a fighter. Both mother and baby are doing pretty well now, although they aren’t out of the woods quite yet.
I was still concerned with Sherry meandering her way north. Luckily, she had a “go bag” already packed and was ready to leap when needed but it was still a sudden departure for such a long journey. Add to that, she’s not a comfortable night time driver and half of this trip would be in the dark. I had calculated that she could make Ottumwa (half way) by sundown and the roads are considerably better the rest of the way but just wasn’t sure how much the snow may have slowed down her progress in Missouri.
And finally, some relief.
Finally, she called at about 7:45pm to let me know she just cleared Des Moines and was on I-35 heading north. That was a HUGE relief as that final leg is easy lighted freeway AND she sounded upbeat and excited to see the baby so I hoped the adrenalin will keep her going and all the prayers would keep her safe for about 4 more hours.
I only needed to wait for her text that she arrived safely around midnight and looked forward to some good sleep. That text never arrived so it was a bit of a restless night but woke up to her email explaining her phone died and she safely arrived at 11:15 last night after a smooth trip. Other than needing to replace her phone, which was garbage anyway, everything went off without a hitch. God is good!
The “Rule of Law” doesn’t apply because this is (D)ifferent!
When MAGA cultists complain about a “weaponized justice system,” remind them that President Biden has refused to show favoritism towards his son because he has a commitment to the rule of law and our judicial system, regardless of who is involved.https://t.co/uDXcsOjYXf – The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 7, 2024
Ummm, not quite. Is anyone still surprised at this point?
Now that the pardon has been announced, let’s just look forward to when Hunter and any others to follow start singing like canaries.
Democrats are corrupt to the core and the voters who supported them are exposed as being out of touch with reality more with each passing day.
Try to make it through this menagerie of hypocrisy (below) to the end and count how many times they reaffirm how superior they are over Trump, Republicans and their voters because they are so truthful and always follow the rule of law:
In the clip, I counted 19 instances where they brought up the contrast (key word of the day) between the noble, rule-of-law adherence of Saint Biden, compared to the disgruntled threats to democracy of Trump. I can understand Biden’s change of heart – except that he always intended to do so and continued to lie about it.
But, what I find completely nauseating is the media’s constant, holier-than-thou superiority complex on any topic before them – that always crashes in flames. Yet they keep it up thinking people still listen to them.
Of course, their solution is to simply deny that Biden lied and all of their faithful unthinking drones will eagerly nod along in agreement – while once again belittling anyone who does not follow along. It is getting exceedingly tiresome.
Charlamagne tha God explains from his recent appearance on The View:
“I think all of the criticism is valid because Democrats stand on this moral high ground all the time and, you know, they act so self-righteous, with their holier-than-thou rhetoric. They’re the ones that go out there and they stand on moral high ground. They don’t have to do that.”
Actually, I’ve changed my mind, Trump should go after and jail each and every one of these admitted hypocrites.
Tone deaf headline of the year:
Hurt Obama Bros Whine About Biden’s Pardon of Hunter – ‘Now Everyone Looks Stupid’
NOW??? Again, this is not a surprise to those of us paying attention, but once again exposes the incomprehension of the terminally misinformed mentioned above. To them, we’ve just come full circle and this will just evolve from the laptop that didn’t exist to a newer revised crimes that don’t exist, as they plod along into oblivion.
“When you become president, your role is to put the nation first, and here we have a president who is putting his family first. It also shows a degree of contempt for the American people,… He didn’t just simply lie about not ever speaking to his son’s business associates, of never being in meetings with them. He lied repeatedly to the American people when he was a candidate for reelection.”– Jonathon Turley
More on that…
The president has discussed pardoning his son with some of his closest aides at least since Hunter Biden’s conviction in June, said two people with direct knowledge of the discussions about the matter. They said it was decided at the time that he would publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table. – NBC
SO, it was a conscious decision to BS the public and even those “in the know” are admitting it. He knew it could hurt his reelection chances, so they decided he would simply lie rather than admit what was happening behind the scenes.
With that, let’s recall this tasty quote from 2018 that will soon be buried – because that’s what they do:
“The Congress ought to know whether the president is using the pardon power to obstruct justice. The American people have a right to know. This legislation is clearly constitutional. It doesn’t prohibit him from granting a pardon, even a pardon he shouldn’t grant, but it does say we will be able to at least find out whether the president is using this power to shield himself from liability and offers transparency, at the very least.” – Adam Schiff
1/22: And now, after preemptively pardoning the rest of his crime syndicate, the flaming hypocrisy reappears. Review, what these same deranged experts were saying 4 years ago, when Trump DIDN’T pardon his family and individuals as they are projecting – while Biden clearly had no such reservations.
Hypocrisy and dishonesty are the only constants with liberals. If they didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all. Regardless of their flaming hypocrisy, this action prompts 2 concerns:
The pardon covers a wide sweeping smorgasbord of criminal activity going back 11 years – crimes already charged and convicted, but also anything not yet discovered. What else are they hiding besides sloppy Joe’s involvement in the schemes?
Why now? We all knew it was coming but I would have expected it to happen in January – much closer to the end of his term. Was this a trial balloon for dozens of other deep state offenders who are staring down well deserved justice under the new administration? Will we see a daily deluge of additional sweeping pardons for all of those bad actors who got off scot free? In doing so, he’ll blame Trump for having to do it. He’ll claim that because Trump wants “retribution,” he has to pardon people (and himself) to protect them and the country from such evil. It’ll be for our own good, he’ll tell us, for the good of the nation, to stop Trump and protect democracy.
I guess executing it now stops Hunters sentencing coming up in a week or so, but it also exposes a flaw in their plan.
With the pardon end date of 12/1, anything that happens from now on is fully chargeable and with the expected inquiries and congressional investigations of their misdeeds not even starting yet, they may have miscalculated. As Mike Davis mentions above, any of those pardoned will still be obligated to appear and testify. They may not be charged for the crimes they committed previously, but those crimes will still be investigated and they can be convicted for contempt, perjury, and numerous other offenses they commit during those proceedings. After seeing grandmas sentenced to prison for touring the capital, you can be damn sure each and every offense will be rung all the way through the wringer. And sloppy Joe will be out of office and powerless to stop them by then.
This will greatly assist in the real truth being exposed once and for all.
– Babylon Bee
Can you imagine how that scenario will play out? All those pardoned will be mandated to appear and testify. They cannot plead the 5th. They can’t be charged for their crimes but they will need to reveal the truth or face the consequences, which will surely be imprisonment – just like it was for Bannon and Navarro and wasn’t for Hunter and others with a (D) by their name who committed the exact same offenses.
In the end, this is just the icing on the cake. The best takeaway?
Joe Biden is leaving office making the strongest possible case for Donald Trump that anybody could possibly make it, and that’s that our government and our justice system is of, by, and for the elites and nobody else. He ran to banish Trumpism from our political system in this country and he has left it politically and now institutionally the strongest possible political force in this country. It is a complete and utter failure by the President of the United States, the Democratic party and those that continue to support them.
Isn’t it absolutely amazing that now, after the election, we see these statements:
We never saw any sort of message prior to RFK Jr. being nominated as head of HHS but now, those in charge of making you sick and dependent on the pharmaceutical industry are attempting to save their butts.
I am amazed at how reality is now snowballing back into the mainstream. The pace that these revelations are surfacing is refreshing to those of us that have been beating that drum for years.
Once again, I’ll let my favorite doc fill in the details. I am not even bothering to try to hide this from the woke and triggered crowd.
Today was the annual springtime plumbing day. With an extensive above ground PVC plumbing network, periodic repairs are a necessity.… Read more: On The Job Training
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