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Expansive Government Risks Expansive Incompetence

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Over the weekend, the Biden Administration Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm proposed the utterly idiotic idea that lower- and middle-income families who are having trouble paying for groceries, utilities, and gasoline should saddle themselves with thousands of dollars of debt to possibly be able to claim a tax credit in the future.

Reacting to this latest idiotic idea from the Biden Administration, I started to think about the many examples of basic incompetence that populate the highest levels of the Biden Administration. I review these examples of basic incompetence not so much because I’m a masochist, but because we have relatives, friends, and acquaintances who advocate for an expansive government to run many areas of people’s lives. We should remind them how easy it is for an expansive government to become populated with idiots and incompetents. Even someone who agrees with stated Biden Administration objectives must be starting to see how much incompetence is present at the highest level of that administration. And I think it is valuable to remind them when they want to concentrate power in the government that power may be exercised by incompetents.

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Returning to Ricochet

Anthony L. DeWitt
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I have not been on here since October of 2020.

That should tell you all you need to know about how profoundly distressed I was by the actions of the corporate world in installing a demented president and Giggles, the vice president. I do not believe Biden won the election. I will never believe that. You can call me a conspiracy theorist. That’s fine.

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Biden Administration Problems

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Sorry for the language but I don’t know whether to laugh or cry about the incompetence of these fools. Thank you NTers for electing these dangerous clowns. You cancel pipelines and drilling rights and the cost of energy increases. It’s almost as if the Russia hoax was true but was delayed by one administration.

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Biden, Jew-hating Left, Enable Putin and Iranian Theocracy

Clifford A. Brown
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red green jump pointIran is not the problem, nor is Russia, per se, rather, the ruling elites in each country hold aggressive, expansionist views. AND. pResident Biden and the Jew-hating left have common cause with these two petro-dollar fueled powers. That is, sadly, nothing new. What is new is the open linkage of Russian and Iranian regimes in a triangle with the secular left in the Swamp. These two malign actors are allies of convenience, forming a new and much more formidable “axis of evil” with the imperial Chinese leadership. So it is that the Russian regime uses the computer skills of Iranians to attack the West, perhaps in place of former Warsaw Pact hackers whose governments are no longer cozy with Moscow. The Swamp, including the congressional Republican’ts led by Mendacious McConnell and Misleading McCarthy, will do nothing real about this, as they need Russia to deliver a new and even more dangerous nuclear deal with Iran.

The Swamp and the New Axis of Evil

I have posted a series of articles pointing to the red-green alliance of convenience between the secular left and Islamists, each headed by this base graphic, modified with the particular focus of the article. It illustrates a political leap forward powered by the red and green forces together. I have also pointed to the collusion between McConnell, McCarthy, their congressional enablers, and the Democrats against us. We also all know that the Republican establishment sold out Americans for the benefit of economic elites through trade deals with China, deals disrupted by our champion, President Trump. If we tolerate, if we enable, Republican congressional candidates winning in 2022 primaries without pledging to actually deliver on campaign policy promises by first changing leadership personnel, we will get more planned failure and more damage to our land and our lives.

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Why Hasn’t Biden Endorsed Trudeau’s Actions?

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A potential half-accolade for the Biden administration. I have not heard it endorse the emergency powers and other anti-protest actions and declarations of Canada’s Trudeau administration as much as I would have expected. I am open to the possibility that I missed it if the Biden administration has endorsed the actions of the Trudeau administration. If so, please correct me. Yes, the Biden administration has used some indirect techniques such as leaning on social media companies to silence dissent, but I expected from the Biden administration more enthusiasm for direct heavy-handed tactics used by the Canadian government. Has any media person tried to get Ms. Psaki to say the U.S. President endorses the actions of the Trudeau administration? I assume many media types would consider doing so a good thing. 

Based on the actions and pronouncements of the Biden administration that strongly support government controls and oppose diverse thought, I expected the Biden administration to line up behind the actions and rhetoric of the Trudeau administration, up to and including the efforts to freeze the finances of people who support trucker protests. But other than getting Facebook to shut down some nascent U.S trucker protest groups, and demanding (so far unsuccessfully) that Spotify silence people who let people say things the government doesn’t like, I haven’t seen or heard the Biden administration on the subject. As far as I know, the Biden administration has not threatened the finances of any of the many Americans who have contributed to dissent.

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A ‘Condoleezza Moment’ Is Lost

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Being the most powerful person in the world doesn’t make your judgment infallible. In light of the aftermath of blame shifting by the Biden Administration over the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, I’m reminded of the situation after the 9/11 attack. It’s when Condoleezza Rice had to step up and protect President Bush from himself.

The story goes President Bush was in Florida when the first planes hit the World Trade Center. Bush then communicated to Rice his intent to immediately return to the White House.  Rice disagreed, correctly understood the risks, and told to President Bush stay put in Florida. The “stay put” portion was administered with a raised voice. 

In dire situations, sometimes you have impart the importance of risk with conviction. Even if it means yelling it at the President. In retrospect, Condoleezza Rice was correct. The White House was potentially on the UA 93 hijackers shortlist.

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The Era of Big Government is Back

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During the 1996 State of the Union Address President Clinton famously said, “The era of big government is over.” of course that was not true, it was not true for Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and is most certainly not true under Biden. Both the Republican and Democratic party leadership have not a clue what their party represents and what is in its future. Both parties are facing a populist revolt and neither know how to navigate it. The populists in politics all agree on one thing government needs a more active role in our lives. The GOP leadership seems to think they can boast about the accomplishments of the Trump presidency while simultaneously trying to get people to forget President Trump himself. The Democrats have begun to see the rumbling of the populist revolt in  their party through AOC and the moral bullies she considers her allies. However, if Joe Biden becomes a failed president in 2024 the front runners  for the Democrats will have major problems to their left. 

The conservative movement of the 2010’s one could argue was fueled by populism against President  Obama, but also a pushback against the Bush presidency. The second term of President Bush was an absolute mess and I believe most conservatives could forgive Katrina and the Iraq mess, but during the 2008 economic collapse it was hard to argue that we needed to look internally because tax cuts, massive spending, huge deficits, a quagmire, and Wall Street bailouts. All things that could be looked over ordinarily mattered now because of the failures of the Bush administration during the 2008 crisis. The GOP ran Romney in 2012 with the attitude that this would be a slam dunk win against President Obama and they lost. Why? Romney seemed completely out of touch and was focusing on the typical arguments of cutting taxes and growing GDP. That loss changed not the GOP establishments attitude, but the bases attitude. The conservative movement was growing more concerned over the social change while the GOP was talking about the weakness of the economy and the weak Obama foreign policy. The social unrest in 2014 I believe set the match for the populist uprising in both parties for the 2016 election due to the killing of Michael Brown, because the chaos  and tragedy in Ferguson, MO would spark a lot of the same debates we see on cable television today. During this period the Black Lives Matter organization gained steamed and became apart of our political discourse. In my personal memory that is the first time I can recall young students like myself discussing police brutality and racism in the classroom. It was discussed in class, but online is where I saw the first the over the top, nasty  debates among young people. The rise of dishonest and overly simplified discourse was rising and by  2015 would be in full swing. The way the media presented it  you were either team justice or team racist. 

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