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Dance of the Duplicitous Dorks
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You can fool some of the people some of the time — and that’s enough to make a decent living.” ―W.C. Fields
Of the many traditions that accompany a Democrat administration into the White House, few have been as dependable as a progressive president’s promise to have an administration that “looks like America.” They may think like the Kremlin and govern like the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, but they make up for that by looking like the most kaleidoscopic assemblage of misfits and screwballs this side of the bar scene in Star Wars.
From the little two-legged lightbulb with perpetually surprised eyebrows who held the nation’s borders open with one hand while raising the other to solemnly swear that the border was secure, to the guy placed in charge of the disposition of America’s nuclear fuel and waste but who turned out to also be a cross-dressing kleptomaniac with a penchant for stealing ladies suitcases from airports (while traveling on the taxpayers’ dime), Joe Biden and his Administration looked and acted less like America and more like a traveling nursing home with a mental health annex.
Anyone in the White House Press Corps who had the momentary audacity to suggest to Press Apparatchik Karine Jean-Pierre that the level of mediocrity and abnormality on display neither looked nor acted like America, was treated to a tongue lashing that was, well, ….mediocre. Sometimes the Big Guy himself would gird his glossary and then use up all the insults he could think of on his critics and political opponents. Then, when he couldn’t think of any more crooked and venal words to use on us, he’d flip his vocabulary over and start fresh before turning around to shake hands with the flag and shuffle away while the media’s stenographers and pundits purred approvingly. Yes, it’s good to see the lot of them lawyer up as they head for the exit.
The next few weeks before President-Elect Trump’s inauguration, however, will be bristling with mischief. As J. T. Young writes in the American Spectator, “Joe Biden is now the most dangerous man in America. He has nothing left to lose and no support remaining but that of America’s far Left.” From pardoning and commuting the sentences of some of the most violent barbarians in the country to attempting to sell off portions of the very wall that was intended to secure America’s borders, Biden and his underlings are giving the finger to the majority of American voters, underscoring the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished.
Theirs is a legacy of stunning contempt, unending ineptitude and catastrophic failures, all carried out with unbridled ideological blindness. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Communications Dork John Kirby got off to a stupendous start in Afghanistan, where they performed a perfect ass-backward retreat, pulling military forces out and leaving billions in US weaponry behind along with American civilians before declaring victory and going home. The Keystone Cops couldn’t have done a better job of screwing things up and announcing America’s unprecedented weakness to the world than this hapless America-Last administration.
So it naturally follows that bad actors, from Iran to China and Russia, would see the irresistible allure of a superpower in decline and act accordingly. Everything from the deaths of 13 American servicemen and women in Afghanistan to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the savage and wholesale slaughter of Jews on October 7th, 2023, by Hamas barbarians funded by Iran, Chinese mischief, and the use of American naval forces as sitting ducks in the Mediterranean Sea, all flow from the singular and awful decrepitude of Joe Biden and his national defense apparatus which was more interested in pronouns and DEI than in projecting American strength and deterrence.
The cancerous ideological suicide pact known as DEI infected nearly every aspect of American life, culture and professions as major corporations stepped all over themselves in a rush to alienate their customers base, while public safety took a back seat to the release of violent criminals to prey on American communities. Even one’s political affiliation could determine whether or not FEMA assistance was rendered following a natural disaster. Then, for reasons known only to God, Joe Biden and Director of Homeland Security Elmer Fudd thought it would be a smashing good idea to throw open the border for every malcontent, terrorist, gang member and violent criminal in the world to storm into the country and unleash fresh hell on American cities and citizens. Next, as icing on the cake, they first lied and said the border was secure before recalibrating the lie so as to tell us that the situation wasn’t as bad as our own eyes could see.
Finally, following the election, Biden nearly disappeared from the stage before he resurfaced to pardon his son, breaking his promise to the Americans yet again. From bringing inflation up to a 40-year high, to presiding over the decline of American, sovereignty, security and prestige, Joe Biden’s legacy will go down as one of utter failure matched only by his administration’s disdain for the American people themselves.
Again, from J. T. Young, in the American Spectator:
Biden is playing to an audience of one. What can he still do to retain the backing of the far left?
Shoveling more money out the door? Doing it. Burrowing in partisans to undermine Trump? Doing it. Try once more to forgive student debt? Doing it. Just recently we saw his commutations of heinous criminals.
What comes next? Aiding state and local efforts in their fights to oppose Trump?
We’ve watched Joe Biden epitomize Winston Churchill’s observation of another man who, before doing something, had no idea what he was going to do; when engaged in the activity, didn’t know what he was doing; and when he finally sat down, didn’t know what he had done. The next few weeks will be perilous as this conga line of duplicitous dorks makes their way off the stage to prepare a legal defense, where necessary, and recede into the warm comfort of the faculty lounge where nothing is too ludicrous as long as it doesn’t come into contact with reality. In the meantime, we can take solace that the end of the madness is in sight.
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I’m beginning to wonder if we are ever going to get there. Mark Steyn has said on numerous occasions when subbing for Rush, the time between turnover is too long.
Biden has always been a hateful man. I will be glad to see him finally leave the stage for good.
It’s going to be a loooong two weeks.
Joe Biden better watch his health in retirement. My hunch is that Dr. Jill will be looking for an opportunity to euthanize him.
I’ve already said I’ll be surprised if he’s around this time next year. I don’t think Dr. Jill will have to lend a hand.
I sure hope so. But with a whisper-thin majority in the House, it only takes a handful of Republicans to muck things up . . .
I just hope the damage is minimal as they stumble their way out the door…
Dave, I don’t see it yet. They’re nowhere near done. Never say we’re at the bottom – the bottom is a Polish village that’s been burnt and slaughtered by Nazis then enslaved by Communists. There’s plenty of room left for them to work.
Sandra, the first political figure I learned to despise was Joe Biden. He’d attached himself to Ted Kennedy at the time, doing his so-fake-its-real impersonation of a principled man of the people, as they trashed Robert Bork. He was a caricature of a cheap phony with a tinge of something disgusting. I had difficulty accepting that someone like that could actually become a Senator; that’s how cartoonish he was then.
I never understood how he rose to proximity to power and stayed there. It still doesn’t square with my understanding. I say “proximity” because FJB never had any real authority of his own. He was always some else’s tool, first Kennedy’s then Obama’s.
I’ll believe he’s gone when Barack Obama is gone.
I remember thinking the same thing about Clinton’s cabinet, giant women Reno, tiny men Reich, it looked like a circus freak show.
That’s Hillary’s influence. Bill would have preferred bro’s like Rubin and Epstein.
Maybe if they see some in their number sink in the primaries they’ll get the hint. Just hoping….
Me too, but I’m not holding my breath.
Good points all around, sir. Thanks!
As a retired elder care worker, I still laughed at some of Biden’s more outrageous mis-steps and kerfluffles.
“It is my intent that this Administration will make all Americans eligible to receive COVID.”
But a lot of times I felt sad. An elderly man at a podium, clearly confused about where he is and what is going on, but aware that he must say something. And he was put there by his wife.
If he had been elected to be the judge at a major dog show, Dr Jill might have had her hand forced so she’d do the right thing and offer his resignation. But somehow or other, no one made her do that. Finally this past summer forces outside of Dr Jill’s control kept Biden from running against Trump.
I’ve thought the same thing many times. Then again, there are times when I wonder if the Biden family’s hand was forced by deals made with foreign entities that precluded Joe from stepping down until he finished his end of whatever agreement resulted in millions of dollars paid to his son, brother, et al.
And the Republicans have always had more than their fair share of mucker-uppers.
<sarcasm off >
< cynicism always on>
I set this gem aside in a tab so that I could come back to it at a time of better focus and concentration, and I am very glad I did. Excellent job, Mr. Carter, sir.
DC has more lawyers per capita than any other jurisdiction, but I wonder how many are qualified to prosecute the categories of rampant civil rights offenses we have seen perpetrated in the last four years. Perhaps Hillsdale could add a law school?
Perhaps if we bribed Biden’s staff to not wake him from his nap this week, the republic might survive six days.