{"id":1478366,"date":"2024-07-21T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1478366"},"modified":"2024-07-21T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T07:20:00","slug":"the-biden-titanic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-biden-titanic\/1478366\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biden Titanic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Biden Titanic<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Joe Biden\u2019s escalating dementia and the long media-political conspiracy to hide his senility from the public are the least of the Democrats\u2019 current problems.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Biden\u2019s track record as president may be more concerning than his cognitive decline. <\/strong>He has literally destroyed the U.S. border, deliberately allowing the entry of more than\u00a010 million illegal aliens. His callous handlers\u2019 agenda was to import abjectly poor constituencies in need of vast government services without regard for the current struggles of a battered American middle class and poor.<\/p>\n

The widespread poverty of a vast new cohort of illegal immigrants could serve as indictments of a \u201cracist,\u201d \u201cunequal,\u201d and \u201cunfair\u201d America\u2014as if the residents of East Palestine, Ohio or inner-city Chicago had anything to do with the centuries-long corruption and oppression of Mexico and Latin America that daily drives thousands of their own poorest citizens northwards to a society founded on very different ideas than those of their homelands.<\/p>\n

Note that the left, neither in Mexico nor in America, never asks why millions of these impoverished people prefer to break into a supposedly racist America. Much less do they even distinguish those principles and values that once made America prosperous, free, and secure from their antitheses that have sadly made much of Latin America mostly poor, without freedom, and insecure.<\/p>\n

Biden inherited near-zero real interest rates and inflation at 1.4 percent. Almost immediately, in nihilistic fashion, Biden did to a sound economy what he had done to a secure border. So, he recklessly printed money at a time of spiraling, quarantine-ending demand and supply chain disruption. Middle-class wages never caught up with Biden\u2019s inflation, as prices for key staples are nearly 30 percent higher than when he took office.<\/p>\n

The cost of servicing the ballooning national debt at high interest is now nearly $1 trillion per year. The world abroad is aflame, lit by Biden\u2019s inexplicable withdrawal from Kabul, his mixed signals to Vladimir Putin on the eve of his invasion of Ukraine, his deliberate alienation of Israel, his appeasement of Iran and China, and his cuts in the defense budget, coupled with his woke war on mythical \u201cracists\u201d in the military.<\/p>\n

Energy prices soared, even as Biden\u2019s green agenda proved unworkable and prompted draining the strategic petroleum reserve and begging foreign oil despots before key elections. The \u201cunifier\u201d Biden by design needlessly alienated nearly half the country, and in his debate, he reiterated why Trump supporters do not deserve his concern. And more ominously and recently, Biden grossly told hundreds of his donors that \u201cit\u2019s time to put Trump in a bullseye\u201d\u2014just days before the attempt on Trump\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

The greatest absurdity of the Biden White House is the gaslighting talk of Biden\u2019s \u201cachievements.\u201d<\/strong> Biden\u2019s actions over the last four years are not offsets for his senility that warrant his continuance in office, but again, sadly, they serve as force multipliers, furthering claims of his dementia and for his removal.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden is not just non compos mentis and in a sane world, he would be subject to 25th\u00a0Amendment removal. He also increasingly seems unpleasant and obnoxious, if not sometimes simply weird. To achieve momentary clarity, Biden either shouts at his audience or stoops over and whispers in an eerie fashion.<\/p>\n

He insults reporters and his own staff. Every few sentences, without warning, he begins screaming. His face is fixed in a permanent, angry contortion. As a result, the public sees their president as an off-putting, angry old man\u2014and in his selfish dotage, an increasingly unsympathetic one. Even after more than 40 months of media hagiography, Joe Biden still cannot poll over a 40 percent approval rating, given that his rudeness is fueled further by the day due to escalating mental confusion.<\/p>\n

Biden is, to be candid, a serial prevaricator. It is not just his ad nauseam repetition of Trump\u2019s supposed slurs<\/strong>\u2014the Charlottesville \u201cboth sides\u201d lie, the \u201csuckers\u201d lie, or the \u201cbloodbath\u201d lie. He continues to peddle absolute falsehoods<\/strong> like the mythical nine-percent inflation he inherited and Trump\u2019s supposed intention to ban all abortions, or his whopper that after welcoming in 10 million illegal aliens, Biden would have had a closed, secure border if not for those selfish Republicans who, for some reason, did not trust his ridiculous eleventh-hour, election-timed immigration proposal.<\/p>\n

When he hammers Trump as a \u201cconvicted felon,\u201d Biden has no clue that a majority of Americans equate that charge with Biden\u2019s own warped lawfare assault on ancient customs, as well as a reminder that his now closest advisor is likewise a \u201cconvicted felon.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Biden rants near daily about the rich \u201cpaying their fair share,\u201d he reminds us that his son is also facing federal tax evasion charges for unreported foreign income in the millions of dollars and that as soon as Biden himself leaves office, as a recipient of the same foreign cash, he may find himself in the same legal jeopardy. So, to use a Bidenism, \u201chow dare he\u201d accuse affluent Americans of the very crimes that his own family is knee deep in?<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s prefaces of \u201cno lie,\u201d \u201chere\u2019s the deal,\u201d \u201cno kidding,\u201d and \u201cno joke\u201d are little more than tics that forewarn us of complete fabrications about to follow, from the ridiculous story of an uncle supposedly eaten by New Guinea cannibals to his supposed heroics during the Civil Rights movement and his near childhood adoption by various minority communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this regard, senility served oddly as a crutch for Biden. In the past, he paid dearly for his plagiarism, cheating, racist rants, and prevarications, losing three presidential bids and earning a reputation as the empty-suit blowhard of the Senate. Now his press handlers conveniently chalk up his long-standing habitual untruth as momentary mental \u201cconfusion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given all the above, remember that Biden was to be the \u201csavior\u201d of the Democratic Party. To this day, celebrities demanding his withdrawal from the race throw him the bone that \u201che saved the country by stopping Trump\u201d\u2014as if no wars, stability abroad, no inflation, low interest, and low energy costs were something to fear.<\/p>\n

Yet Biden\u2019s four years pale in comparison to what in 2016 might have been a Harris, Buttigieg, Warren, Booker, or Sanders candidacy or presidency. No wonder Democrats concluded that there were no viable alternatives to a cognitively challenged Biden, precisely because Biden was the only available fig leaf to the new Democratic Party and its neo-socialist agenda\u2014that, if transparent, would have terrified the country that it was soon to nearly destroy.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s Democratic critics have it all wrong: removing Biden is wise and needed for the country\u2019s sake, but it will not solve the growing public anger at the left.<\/strong> Without the veneer of even a tottering old Joe from Scranton, there will be no camouflage. And then, the true leftist agenda will be served raw to the American people\u2014open borders, woke\/DEI racial polarization, transgendered obsessions, inflation\/stagflation, wars a plenty abroad, an inert Pentagon, unaffordable energy, partial-birth abortions, and crazy ideas like packing the court and making Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, states.<\/p>\n

So, what is the Democratic strategy to win the 2024 election? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Certainly, an \u201copen\u201d convention would not produce a moderate Democratic nominee or even a suitable replacement fa\u00e7ade. There are no moderates in contention. If there were any hale candidates to offer cover, the party would be in permanent war with its shrill and angry woke base. Joe is the last of his generation to offer a credible front. There are no more Diane Feinsteins or Bill Clintons to package the hard-left agenda. If Harris cannot serve as Biden\u2019s replacement, someone like her or further to the left would appear on spec.<\/p>\n

The Democrats have no plans to run on their record. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Their tripartite strategy is as simple as it is tired and worn.<\/p>\n

First, expect a third chapter to follow the 2016 Russian collusion caper and the 2020 laptop disinformation ruse<\/strong> – likely some October revelation from the administrative state\u2019s \u201cexperts\u201d and \u201cauthorities\u201d that Trump is a criminal, a traitor, or a spy or plans a coup, to destroy NATO or nuke something. Perhaps there is another Access Hollywood tape, a porn star on ice, anything to avoid discussing the damage done since 2017.<\/p>\n

Second, there is still a last gasp to a dying lawfare.<\/strong> Never underestimate the last-gasp judicial effort to inactivate, gag, bankrupt, or jail Trump, however counterproductive such attempts so far have proved.<\/p>\n

Third, when all else fails, remember that in many of the swing states, 70 percent of the electorate will not be voting on Election Day and will not be presenting IDs<\/strong>. Millions of their ballots will be harvested or cured by third-party activists. Last time around, the leftist journalist Molly Ball bragged about their \u201ccabal\u201d and \u201cconspiracy\u201d of big money and big tech that had \u201csaved\u201d Americans from Trump.<\/p>\n

Those post-election confessions were not just high-fiving but also a confident forewarning of what is to come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 07\/20\/2024 – 23:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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