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2024—America’s Year of Living Dangerously (10% For The Big Guy Biden As Likely Lame Duck President)
Confounded Interest ^ | 01/22/2024 | Anthony B. Sanders

Posted on 01/22/2024 4:28:35 PM PST by Kaiser8408a

Victor Davis Hansen says it best! 2024—America’s Year of Living Dangerously. With “10% For The Big Guy” Biden as likely lame duck President.

Lame-duck presidencies, especially in the last six months of their final term, in general can offer opportunities for America’s enemies to take advantage of a perceived vacuum as one government transitions to the next.

But these normal changeover months are especially dangerous when a perceived weak or appeasing lame-duck president is likely to be replaced by a strong deterrent successor that will likely serve as a corrective to his disastrous policies.

James Buchannan (1857-1861), a northern but pro-South president, was a particularly anemic chief executive. He had done little if anything to try to deal with the growing rift between North and South, especially the furor over the Dred Scott decision and Bloody Kansas. Even when warned, Buchannan did little to beef up the U.S. Army or increase its weapon stockpiles to deter any potential secessionist state.

After Buchannan declined to run for a second term, the South understood that the abolitionist and anti-slavery Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln might well be elected in 1860—given the North/South split within the Democratic Party. And they understood that President Lincoln might well use force to stop secession.

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1 posted on 01/22/2024 4:28:35 PM PST by Kaiser8408a
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To: Kaiser8408a
Abraham Lincoln was not an Abolitionist as the term was used at the time--he hated slavery but didn't see a legal way to end it. The Republican Party hoped that preventing the spread of slavery to the territories and preventing the creation of new slave states would eventually lead to the end of slavery. The Democrats were content with it existing forever.

After Buchanan and Biden, the country should learn that nobody born in Pennsylvania should be elected President. The two worst Presidents in US history.

2 posted on 01/22/2024 4:35:30 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaiser8408a

“...Biden As Likely Lame Duck President...”

He’s a lame POS.


3 posted on 01/22/2024 5:11:19 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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