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Brandon, Rotting in the (White) House
Kunstler.com ^ | 19 Feb, 2024 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 02/22/2024 8:16:02 AM PST by MtnClimber

“We are going to have the most diverse and inclusive civilizational collapse in history” — Oilfield Rando on “X”.

Hark! We are informed this Presidents’ Day by The New York Times that a poll out of the University of Houston, led by one prof of poly-sci named (get this name) Brandon Rottinghaus, ranks “Joe Biden” at No. 14, way above average among the forty-six demi-gods elected to run the US government since 1789. It’s a helluva good bit of news for a nation in need of reassurance in these dark days, don’t you agree? They’ve got him sandwiched between John Quincy Adams and Woodrow Wilson, beating out the likes of Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland, James Monroe, and Ronald Reagan. Mr. Trump is ranked dead last, of course.

“Biden’s most important achievements may be that he rescued the presidency from Trump, resumed a more traditional style of presidential leadership and is gearing up to keep the office out of his predecessor’s hands this fall,” the report states.

Gearing up? I’m sure. If gearing up means calling a lid on your life an hour after breakfast. And what do you suppose they mean by “a more traditional form of leadership.” Arranging serial overseas military humiliations? Selling favors to all comers from foreign lands? Inviting transsexuals to cavort on the White House lawn? Abolishing control of US borders? Running a $2-trillion annual deficit? Mandating unsafe and ineffective so-called “vaccine” shots on millions? Cancelling the First Amendment? Stealing elections? Conspiring to jail his political adversaries?

We’re also informed in recent days by the Department of Justice that “Joe Biden” is not mentally competent to answer for anything in a court of law, should someone inquire into the signal irregularities emerging from the fugitive annals of his long career. Of course, “Joe Biden” running for reelection is one of the greatest gags ever put over on the American public. But more astounding yet is that half the country persists in pretending to believe it. They are egged on in every possible way by persons in high places of government fearful of going to prison if the Democratic Party loses its grip on the levers of power.

Since “Joe Biden” is not actually calling the shots, one naturally wonders who is responsible for all the dubious achievements of the past three years. I guess we’ll find out when Mr. Trump wins that election in November, an outcome increasingly guaranteed unless “Joe Biden” (or, let’s face it, our Intel Community) takes the final decisive step of bumping off the Golden Golem of Greatness. What have they got left? AI-contrived photos of Mr. Trump having sex with a manatee in the intercoastal waterway off Mar-a-Lago?

In New York City, the Woke lunatics did a victory dance after Judge Arthur Engoron, beaming his Joker smile, laid a $350-million fine on Mr. Trump for conducting a set of normal real estate transactions with a bank that profited from doing business with him. Many are still trying to figure out how that amounts to a crime of any sort. Don’t suppose that the check is in the mail, though. There is an appeals process that leads, you may be sure, to a dismissal of that inane judgment and the puerile hypotheticals that the case derived from. And, by and by, you also might expect a countersuit for malicious prosecution when all that smoke clears. New York Attorney General Letitia James, lacking impulse control, is for the moment enjoying the fulfillment of her campaign promise to “get Trump.” Waiting to see how much she enjoys losing her law license in the days to come....


TOPICS: Government; Society
KEYWORDS: pedojoe

1 posted on 02/22/2024 8:16:02 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

And Brandon is out there bragging that he just got his butt wiped.


2 posted on 02/22/2024 8:16:27 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

I’m going to Venezuela.


3 posted on 02/22/2024 8:26:17 AM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Taxman

Ping


4 posted on 02/22/2024 8:32:08 AM PST by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: MtnClimber
This is a great line from the article

Gearing up? I’m sure. If gearing up means calling a lid on your life an hour after breakfast.

Lol

5 posted on 02/22/2024 8:37:09 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (The kernel of our firm's job is to go with lots. - tnlibertarian job offer letter)
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To: MtnClimber

Wrote a new song and video about it..out today..of course it’s free..
.my name is Joe Brandon !

https://rumble.com/v4f25z3-my-name-is-joe-brandon-.html

New easy jazz blues video of bidenski forgetting his last name and saying I’m Joe Brandon dammit !


6 posted on 02/22/2024 11:07:49 AM PST by aces (and )
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To: MtnClimber

“If gearing up means calling a lid on your life an hour after breakfast.”

To be fair Obama was just as lazy. I remember Mark Levin reading Obama’s schedules.

“10am. Meeting with Advisors.”
“10:15am. Board Air Force 1”
“7:45pm. Give speech at AFLCIO Headquarters Los Angeles”
“8pm. Fund Raiser at Beverly Hilton”


7 posted on 02/22/2024 11:17:17 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: MtnClimber
Absolute garbage on every level. Really it did not belong on FreeRepublic. However I will take the oppo to kick dirt on it, which is where these two 'scientists' belong...

Let's start with "online project", with a "29.3%" self-selecting confirmation bias, including people who apparently attempted to jam the ballot box by voting more than once, and also including undervotes. Sound familiar?

"The 2024 Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey was conducted online via Qualtrics from November 15 to December 31, 2023. Respondents included current and recent members of the Presidents & Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association, which is the foremost organization of social science experts in presidential politics, as well as scholars who had recently published peer-reviewed academic research in key related scholarly journals or academic presses. 525 respondents were invited to participate, and 154 usable responses were received, yielding a 29.3% response rate."¹
¹ Responses where respondent did not confirm they officially agreed to participate were dropped and are not included in the submission figure. Similarly, in the event a respondent completed the survey twice, the second submission was dropped, as was any submission where the respondent did complete the questionnaire through the initial presidential greatness rating sections. Incomplete submissions were otherwise included, with responses being analyzed for those questions where answers were provided.

8 posted on 02/22/2024 1:09:22 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: StAnDeliver
Literally had to devote a graf to explaining why they ad hoc violated polling rules by accepting incomplete submissions, and the explanation doesn't reflect well on either the 'pollsters' or the 'parolees' lofl. "Well gosh 'scientists' knowing presidents before FDR? That's kind of a steep ask.."

Missing Data

"There is variation in whether respondents answer each question or not. In Table 7 we include details about the number of missing observations missing a response, unique values, and the minimum and maximum value. Most respondents completed the full rating across presidents but responses for some presidents (Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Arthur) had more missing observations than later presidents likely due to more information about those presidents."


9 posted on 02/22/2024 1:15:23 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: StAnDeliver
Then there is this silly shit, specifically designed to push back on MAGA's assertion that Trump should be on Mt. Rushmore

"When it comes to which president should join Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt on Mt. Rushmore, Franklin Delano Roosevelt again comes in first, by a wide margin (65.4%). Barack Obama came in second (11%), followed by a three-way tie between Dwight Eisenhower, James Madison, and John F. Kennedy (4% each)"

Let me 'splain something since college educations seem to be hit or miss on FR: Coastal Carolina and Phi Slamma Jamma (aka the University of Houston), both of those PoliSci degrees and $8.50 will buy you a cup of nasty coffee at SBUX. That's it.

The next time either of these mfr's are mentioned in an article on Free Republic, it better be about how their Brokeback Mountain tent unfortunately caught fire...

10 posted on 02/22/2024 1:20:09 PM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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