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He was so bad we could only stand four years of him.
The world wasn’t necessarily stunned when we “elected” Joe Biden in 2020: after all, Donald Trump had the hurricane-force headwinds of COVID and a government-crashed economy, not to mention an unfriendly Congress and media continually trying to impeach him for Russia Russia Russia. Yet Trump only “lost” by 4.4 percentage points to a candidate whose experience could be summed up as follows: thirty-six years as the “senator from MBNA” followed by eight years as Barack Obama’s insurance policy against assassination. Sure enough, with a little “fortifying” of the election we woke up the next day with the headlines declaring Biden was in.
Biden was sold to voters as the moderate voice of reason after four years of Trump (media-induced) chaos and a bridge to the next generation of Democrat leaders. At one juncture he speculated about being a one-term president and handing off the reins, but at some point after 2021 decided he was going to try for an eight-year tenure like his former boss Obama. It also took him only nanoseconds after taking office to toss out the “moderate” label, as a plethora of executive orders he signed rooted out much of the good Trump had done for the country and replaced it with a bigger, less accountable government.
Joe’s first few months in office were spent dealing with the aftermath of the COVID outbreak: one, by pushing for vaccination with a barely-tested potion that often did more harm than good, and secondly, trying to restore the economy ruined by the overreaction to COVID - a mistake (or, perhaps, intentional Deep State decision) that killed the prosperity Trump was planning to run on. Instead, with Biden and a Democrat trifecta we got government funding bonanzas like the (misnamed) Inflation Reduction Act, American Rescue Plan, and INVEST in America Act to blow both the federal budget and deficit sky-high.
The chinks in the Biden armor started out showing even before the first midterm. A disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan timed so Biden could brag about being out by the 20th anniversary of 9/11 turned deadly as 13 soldiers died in the chaos. Moreover, billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment and a functional air force base were simply ceded to the Taliban thanks to the poor planning and execution.
Then, just like with Obama in his first term, the commonwealth of Virginia switched from a Democrat to a Republican governor in the 2021 offyear election, with Glenn Youngkin proving popular enough to be in the Presidential conversation for 2024 if Trump was forced out. It was a precursor to a 2022 midterm where the Republicans wrested back the House after losing it in Trump’s midterm election of 2018.
Yet Biden was confident he could win a second term, particularly when the Republicans re-nominated Donald Trump in a GOP campaign that never got off the ground for the half-dozen or so wannabes who thought they could defeat the wounded (turns out, literally wounded) candidate. The mortal blow to Biden’s campaign, though, came in the June 27 debate with Trump. The debate was barely over when Democrats demanded a change, with Biden finally dropping out a week after Trump survived the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.
And if there ever really was a doubt that Trump would emerge triumphant after that, it was dispelled when Kamala Harris hit the campaign trail. Oh, the humanity! If you know the old joke about having to tie the pork chop to someone’s neck so the dog would play with them, you have a vision of the Harris campaign. People would walk out after the celebrity she hired to draw a crowd (at a million dollars or so a pop) was finished.
A billion and a half flushed down the drain in 2 1/2 months, only to lose all seven of those states considered swing states. Her campaign was such a rousing failure that over 6 million votes that went for Biden in 2020 failed to show up for Harris (wonder why?) and it’s doubtful that Trump convinced 3 million more to pull the lever for him unless they were really that pissed off about how Biden/Harris rolled over the previous four years. (Trump, however, did make inroads among a number of voter groups previously thought to be in the bag for Democrats, including Hispanics, black men, and youth.)
This is the legacy of Joe Biden: a house of cards economy fueled by government spending on the brink of collapse, a foreign policy where our enemies were emboldened and our border less than secure for just anyone to walk across or claim “asylum,” and multiple attempts to subvert the Constitution, such as the student loan forgiveness giveaways, pressure on social media to combat “disinformation” that didn’t match the government narrative, and even a last-minute bid to declare the Equal Rights Amendment as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution despite the fact its ratification deadline had passed 43 years prior.
On the other hand, have you noticed the collective spring in America’s step and anticipation with bated breath for a new administration? It will be cold yet refreshing, sort of like the weather forcing the inauguration inside like Ronald Reagan’s 1985 inauguration was. (That cold spell occurred while I was in college, and it almost hurt walking from dorm to dining hall because it was so frigid. I think we got to 10 or 15 below in Oxford, Ohio. So I remember.)
All I have to say to Joe Biden: don’t let the door hit ya. It’s a shame that a nice little place like Delaware has this shitstain on its legacy as the first President to hail from the state. Maybe we can blame Pennsylvania since he was actually born there.
He really was so bad that we could only stand four years of him, and I can guarantee you that NO ONE will want to drag his carcass back into the Oval Office in four years like they did for Donald Trump. Rest assured Trump and Grover Cleveland won’t have Joe Biden for company in their two non-consecutive term club.
In the meantime, though, you can Buy Me a Coffee, since I have a page there now.
Great summation. Some other facts about Joe Biden that were somehow white washed:
Stole the words from a British politician. The media actually called him out and he quit running for president
In 1965 while a student at Syracuse Law School, Biden plagiarized five pages from a law review journal.
In 2000, Biden plagerized in an article for Harvard Journal on Legislation. (Harvard covered it up when discovered.)
A pathological liar:
Grew up with Puerto Ricans, blacks, martians,
Uncle Bosie got eaten by cannibals.
Lied during Trump debate about laptop saying 51 security yahoos said it was fake.
I think his most despicable lie was a drunk truck driver killed his wife and daughter in 1972. The actual report said his wife ran a stop sign as was broadsided. The truck driver, Curtis Dunn, WAS NOT even drinking! Killing his wife and daughter through no fault of his own haunted the poor guy the rest of his life. He died in 1999. In 2008, his daughter retold the story and demanded an apology on behalf of the family. Maybe lawsuit was threatened? Anyway, IT TOOK BIDEN TILL 2009 TO APOLOGIZE!