Posted on 11/08/2022 1:26:19 PM PST by Red Badger
President Joe Biden is downright shocked that the country isn’t unified and politically healthy after he spent the last two years dividing it.
New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker detailed the president’s feelings, writing that “these are frustrating, even perplexing times for Mr. Biden, who according to confidants had expected the fever of polarizing politics to have broken by now and was surprised that it had not.”
Apparently, Biden thought that “if he could simply govern well, everything would work out,” but instead, “the presidency he envisioned, one where he presided over a moment of reconciliation, is not the presidency he has gotten.”
Of course, Biden has not governed well — he has left disasters in his wake, from Afghanistan to inflation, but that is beside the point. The unity and reconciliation Biden was envisioning is what he ran on. He ran as the great uniter, good old Uncle Joe, whose “empathy” and soft-spoken grandpa voice would bring down the national temperature. Then, he proceeded to do exactly the opposite — to demonize Republicans and conservatives at every turn, even going after Democrats who didn’t fall in line with his agenda, and to push his party as hard to the left as he could.
You may recall that it was Biden who went on ESPN and pressured Major League Baseball to move its All-Star Weekend out of Atlanta. He called Georgia’s voting law “Jim Crow on steroids” and said it “makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle” (whatever that means), in the process smearing all conservatives who supported the milquetoast law that strengthened election protections while making it easier to vote.
Biden then said of Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) that they could be on his side, the side of Abraham Lincoln and John Lewis, or the Republican side, the side of Bull Connor and George Wallace. Is it really any surprise that “all conservatives are segregationists” didn’t break the fever of our polarizing politics?
That does not include Biden’s other greatest hits. He has said that anyone who accepted loans to keep their businesses afloat during a pandemic in which governments shut down those businesses isn’t allowed to criticize his spending plans. He has demonized oil companies for not drilling more while simultaneously saying he would end all drilling. He has boasted about wanting to put coal workers out of work, even as he lies about what he said.
Stop me when you determine which of these things was supposed to help unify the country.
Biden’s whole unity act was always a fraud. This is the same guy who said Mitt Romney would put black people "back in chains," after all. But it appears Biden fooled even himself into thinking he was a beloved unifying figure rather than the lifelong partisan Democrat he always was. Biden expected the country just to do everything he wanted without him putting any effort into it. Unsurprisingly, his presidency has been a failure — and the voters will now have their chance to render judgment.
He could be a great unifier, he unified the country against him
Bidens people had a whacko agenda on day #1 in office. It had nothing to do with anything the American people needed or wanted. It was about what a screwy global bunch of one world government kooks paid off the most corrupt bunch to do for them in the history of the world. Joe himself has no clue about this except the money part.
Apparently, Biden thought that “if he could simply govern well, everything would work out,” but instead, “the presidency he envisioned, one where he presided over a moment of reconciliation, is not the presidency he has gotten.”
You don’t “get” a presidency, you create it, idjit.
unify the country by castrating peoples children?
*shocking* that wasn’t popular!
bttt
Headline sounds like it from Babylon Bee
No matter the outcome tonight, I fear what the communist party will do in a lame duck session.
Remember the old saying, “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”
Do they eliminate the filibuster for the lame duck session only to reinstate it on the way out the door?
Do they grant illegal freeloaders amnesty with voting rights?
Do they pack the Supreme Court and all but declare the Constitution null and void?
Do they stage the “elimination” of Biden and Harris, only to replace them with Gavin Newsome? And pelosi?
Yep.
I was gonna say......this ISN’T satire?
But he hasn’t governed well....he mess d the border up even worse.
Apparently, Biden thought that “if he could simply govern well, everything would work out,”
People with working synapses have known this all along.
Well said.
If Joey had a functioning brain you would think he would QUESTION all those EOs right out of the gate.
We ALL know he has No Brain, that’s exactly why all the EOs.
Probably all of what you list and more.
They’ll go scorched earth; they’ll burn and pillage that which doesn’t profit them. The rats would rather rule a miserable nation in decline than be bystanders in a wealthy and prosperous republic.
Let’s make this midterm a referendum on how well Biden united the country in harmony.
The Dems did every possible thing they could every minute after Trump was elected in 2016 to split apart and destroy the country. The dirty scumbags need to be punished.
Thanks. Two beers in to election night. By six beers in my wisdom will have no resemblance to my earlier post.
Yep. If Biden had wanted to “govern well’ all he had to do was basically nothing. Trump had it all in order for him.
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